| We welcome
Eric Frey as the AdCom member at large from the NMISC community.
He attended the AdCom meeting in October in San Diego and will do
an outstanding job. We managed to get behind on electing the new
board members. The election results were not available during our
normal October business meeting at the 2006 NSS/MIC conference.
However, I am happy to announce that our new board members are:
M’Hamed Bentourkia, Zhenghong Lee, Robert Miyaoka, Lukas Pichl,
and Yiping Shao.
MIC 2006
Once again, the NSS/MIC meeting went very well indeed. The attendance
for MIC was on par with 2005 and the papers were excellent. Congratulations
to all who worked on the 2006 meeting. John Aarsvold (MIC chair)
and his team were particularly successful in attracting outside
funds to support the meeting and we hope those lines of support
can be continued. Certainly, the MIC dinner at Sea World will be
one many of us will remember for a long time (particularly those
who were soaked by Shamu during the killer whale show).
MIC 2007
This meeting will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu,
Oct. 26 -Nov. 3, 2007. The general chair, Ben Tsui (Johns Hopkins)
and his team are well along in preparations. They have had some
challenges since we expect the space to be a bit tight for the meeting
as it has evolved over the last two years. Eric Frey (Johns Hopkins)
is the MIC chair, and Magnus Dahlbom is deputy MIC chair. The web
site is up and we expect much more additional information to appear
on it in the near future.
MIC 2008
The general chair for this meeting is be Uwe Bratzler. The meeting
will be held at the conference center in Dresden, Germany. The contract
with the conference center has been signed and more information
on the meeting is presented elsewhere in this newsletter. The web
site is not yet on-line, but we should be seeing it in the near
future. The committee is planning on a large meeting based on the
European response to the meetings in Lyon and Rome.
MIC 2009
The contract for 2009 should be signed by the time this newsletter
is published. The site will be the Hilton at Walt Disney World.
We will take over the entire conference area at the hotel and expect
to have enough room for all of our functions (and avoid some of
the problems we have faced in recent years). The room rate will
be $175 (in 2009 dollars), but we also have commitments for a percentage
of our room block to be at federal per diem rates as well as a number
of student rate rooms (at $119/night). The general chair is Richard
Lanza and the committee is being formed. Keep an eye out on the
NSS/MIC web site (www.nss-mic.org)
for more information.
MIC 2010
The site selection committee is now working on the 2010 site. Too
early to report any details, but several sites on both the East
and West coast of the United States are under consideration.
Tom Lewellen, Chair of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences
Technical Committee, can be reached at Radiology, Nuclear Medicine,
NW-0040, University of Washington Medical Center, PO Box 357897,
Seattle, WA 98195; Phone: +1 206 543 2365; E-mail: tkldog@u.washington.edu.
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