The AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition this month in Boston will showcase advances in technology, materials research, nanotechnology, alternative energy, and medicine.
Medical highlights of papers from among the 1,300 talks at the AVS 55th International Symposium next month in Boston are described below. Overall, the meeting showcases advances in technology, materials research, nanotechnology, alternative energy, and medicine.
Medical research is a cornerstone of Frontiers in Optics 2008 (FiO), the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Optical Society (OSA), being held Oct. 19-23 at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, N.Y. FiO 2008 will take place alongside Laser Science XXIV, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Laser Science.
Frontiers in Optics 2008 (FiO), the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Optical Society (OSA), will be held from Oct. 19-23 at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, N.Y. FiO 2008 will take place alongside Laser Science XXIV, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Laser Science.
The AVS 55th International Symposium next month in Boston will showcase research from across the spectrum of science and engineering devoted to research on such topics as nanotechnology, alternative energy, materials research, and medicine.
Next month in Boston, the AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition will showcase research from across the spectrum of science and engineering devoted to discoveries on the edge-in a vacuum, at interfaces, in plasmas, and in other controlled environments used to develop new materials and technologies.
Harry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, certain materials underneath an invisibility cloak would allow invisible objects to be seen again.
he 2008 U.S. Physics Team returns home triumphant this week, having earned four gold medals and a silver medal at the International Physics Olympiad held in Hanoi in Vietnam.
Whether X-rays for CT scans, sound waves for ultrasound, magnetic fields for MRI, or antimatter for PET scans, the "stuff" of physics has revolutionized the practice of medicine. In the last half century, the field of medical physics has emerged thanks to the efforts of scientists who develop these technologies and bring them to the clinic.
HALF OF ALL AMERICANS will be diagnosed at some point in their lives with cancer, the number two killer in the United States. One of the professions at the frontlines in the battle against cancer are medical physicists -- scientists who use the power and innovation of physics to study and solve the most pressing medical problems.
Next week in Houston, thousands of scientists and health professionals will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the largest association of medical physicists in the world. There, from July 27 to July 31, they will present the latest technologies for imaging and treating diseases like cancer and discuss the safety, ethical, and regulatory issues facing the field today.
Medical physicists at the University of Virginia have created a novel way to kill tumor cells using nanoparticles and light. The technique, devised by Wensha Yang, an instructor in radiation oncology at the University of Virginia, and colleagues Ke Sheng, Paul W. Read, James M. Larner, and Brian P. Helmke, employs quantum dots.
The legal and ethical issues facing medical physicists are numerous and complex -- perhaps more so than some other areas of medicine. Certain activities, such as handling radioactive materials, are highly regulated by the federal and state governments. Other activities, such as minimum education and training standards and licensure requirements vary from state to state.
An expert in science program management will guide the future of the educational, statistical, historical, media and public policy programs and services of the US' premier physics publisher, the American Institute of Physics, a nonprofit organization based in College Park, MD.
Later this month, thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Houston, Texas. There, from July 27 to July 31, they will present the latest technologies for imaging and treating diseases and discuss the ethical and regulatory issues facing the field today.
Reporters interested in the upcoming Acoustics '08 Paris meeting in France are invited to visit the ASA World Wide Press Room (http://www.acoustics.org/press). On this site are posted dozens of lay language papers selected from among the 3,500 talks and posters, which relate to fields as diverse as architecture, speech science, oceanography, meteorology, psychology, noise control, physics, marine biology, medicine, and music.
A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large areas in real time -- an application useful for aviation safety, weather forecasting and sports.
The following press conferences will take place at Acoustics '08 Paris -- the largest ever meeting devoted to the science of acoustics. The meeting will take place Monday June 30 through Friday July 4, 2008 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France. The press conferences will be held in Palais des Congrès Room 231M-232M.
Meek and mighty animal sounds are all around us. In a few weeks, some of the most interesting among them will be discussed and heard at the largest meeting ever devoted to acoustical science, the Acoustics '08 Paris meeting, to be held Monday June 30 through Friday July 4 at the Palais de Congrès in Paris, France.
Sound has a long history in medicine, from the stethoscopes doctors have used since the early 19th century to listen to the internal sounds of the human body to the obstetric ultrasound images so familiar to expectant parents. Now scientists are finding many more advanced applications of sound in medicine.
The largest ever meeting devoted to the science of acoustics will take place Monday June 30 through Friday July 4, 2008 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France. This news release highlights just a few of the 3,500 talks and posters at Acoustics '08.
There is only one place this summer where the tiger's roar will meet birdsongs; where the voice of the banjo and clarinet will be heard next door to advanced sonar systems; where the echoing din of the urban soundscape meets the smashing falls of Antarctic ice shelves.
The world's first optical pacemaker is described in an article published today in Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan show that powerful, but very short, laser pulses can help control the beating of heart muscle cells.
Five US students have been chosen to travel to Hanoi in Vietnam July 20-30 for the International Physics Olympiad.
The US Physics Team met yesterday with the three members of Congress who are physicists.
Twenty-four students from across the U.S. have been chosen to train for the mentally grueling exams and lab tests they'll face at the International Physics Olympiad, held this year July 20-29 in Hanoi in Vietnam.
Nearly 6,000 researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, lasers and the application of light waves at the 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) May 4-9 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.
A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.
A team of researchers in Bedford, Mass. has developed a way of examining brain tissue with near-infrared light to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease.
The March Meeting of American Physical Society, the largest physics meeting of the year, will take place March 10-14, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 7,000 scientists are expected to be on hand. The principal topic areas will be condensed matter physics, industrial applications, new materials, chemical and biological physics, fluids, polymers, and computation.
Some of the greatest advances in medicine have been born at the intersection of biology and physics, and many of the most interesting discoveries of tomorrow are being investigated at this crossroads today. The latest research at the interface of physics and medicine will be presented at next month's March Meeting of American Physical Society (APS) in New Orleans, from March 10-14, 2008.
Take a new look at nature through the eyes of physicists at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in New Orleans, March 10-14. Many talks at the meeting will focus on animal locomotion: from the efficiencies of fruit flies in flight, to the knotty behavior of snakes, not to mention a robot that can run on sand, and finding out just how fast dolphins and Olympic medalists can swim.
These press events will take place at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society: 1) First Mixed Reality Experiment, Stock Market Physics, and Cell Phone Viruses; 2) Building Circuits and Materials One Molecule at a Time; 3) 3-D Optical Lattices, Tin Buckyballs, and Subwavelength Image Transmission; 4) Physicists Look at Climate Change; 5) Diamond Computers.
Many of the greatest inventions in modern medicine were developed by physicists. Now the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the premier scientific and professional association of medical physicists, is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is calling attention to the field of medical physics achievements.
A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, has shown that by sampling a person's breath with laser light they can detect molecules in the breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer.
Aiming to promote the best medical imaging practices nationwide and help ensure the health and safety of the millions of people who undergo computed tomography (CT) scans each year in the United States, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has issued a CT radiation dose management report this month recommending standardized ways of reporting doses and educating users on the latest dose reduction technology.
The world's largest international conference on optical communications begins later this month and continues from Feb. 24-28 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the winners of its 2007 Science Writing Awards today. The winners -- a scientist, a journalist, a children's book author, and three radio broadcasters -- will receive a prize of $3,000, an engraved Windsor chair, and certificates of recognition.
Physicist in China wins international physics prize for 40 years of working on condensed matter and for advancing physics scholarship and interaction.
X-ray astronomy innovator and developer of a chaos theory win physics prizes.
Presentations on radiation, CT scanners and other medical physics devices and research will be presented at the Health Physics Society meeting in Oakland.
The 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Winter Meeting begins tomorrow and lasts from January 19-23, at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Scientists, students, and all levels of physics educators from across the United States and Canada will convene to present some 400 talks and posters related to the theme of this year's meeting: "Enriching the Health of Physics Education."
The Second Annual Symposium on Physics Education will be held from 1:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 in Grand Ballroom VI of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel next week during the 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Winter Meeting, which takes place January 19 to 23.
A team of researchers from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have developed an optical device that allows them to peer through the eyes of a mouse and monitor the cells passing through its bloodstream.
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine says CT scans are a critical part of medical care and questions the statistical method used in the New England Journal of Medicine article linking CT scans to cancer.
Cancer detection, hemorrhage control, drug delivery, and bacterial biofilm disruption.
The Acoustical Society of America will meet Nov. 27 -Dec. 1 in New Orleans. Topics: the acoustics of everything from tiny practice rooms to massive stadiums; apartment building vibrations; and sound waves under water, in the atmosphere, and in soil; speech intelligibility; sound qualities of jazz instruments; and acoustical applications in medicine.
What we should be talking about when we talk about climate change, is no longer if it is occurring but how and where. Dr Philip Mote, a climatologist who is one of the lead authors of the recently released Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will deliver a public lecture at on this topic at the AVS 54th International Symposium & Exhibition in Seattle. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is awarding Dr. Larry J. Hornbeck of Texas Instruments the 2007-2008 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics "For his invention and pioneering innovations in both the design and manufacturing of Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) integrated into metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology."
AVS holds its annual International Symposium and Exhibition in Seattle October 14-19, 2007. AVS is a professional society devoted to scientific research in a number of technology fields, such as surface science, nanotechnology, and controlled environments, including the creation and manipulation of vacuum or plasmas.
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