Congratulations to Xin Zhen and Vasant Kearney on receiving Norm Baily Student Research Awards, and Hao Yan and Masoud Zarepisheh on receiving Norm Baily Postdoctoral/Resident Research Awards! Norm Baily Awards was established in 1993 by AAPM Southern California Chapter in memorial of Dr. Norm A. Baily. This year, 3 awards were given to students and 3 given to postdocs/residents, based on their research work.

Congratulations to Todd and Steve for being elected as Fellows of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 

Prof. Ed Chaney, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visited us on March 26. 

Prof. Yuriy Zinchenko, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, visited us on March 5-6, 2012.

NBC Tech Now interviewed Steve and AJ about the use of GPU cards for adaptive radiotherapy re-planning on March 1st. 

Prof. Harald Paganetti, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Harvard Medical School, and Director of Physics Research; Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, visited us on February 24, 2012. 

Xun's paper "Fast Monte Carlo simulation for patient-specific CT/CBCT imaging dose calculation" has been downloaded 500 times in 39 days from the date of publication in PMB. 

Prof. Wolfgang Birkfellner, the head of the Digital Image Processing Laboratory at the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the Medical University Vienna, visited us on February 7, 2012.