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me start by summarizing the status of plans for future Medical Imaging
Conferences:
Dresden, October 19-25, 2008: Uwe Bratzler is the General Chair.
Wolfgang Enghardt and Sibylle Ziegler are the Program and Deputy
Program Chairs of the MIC, respectively. Look for details elsewhere
in this newsletter, or consult the web site http://www.nss-mic.org/2008/.
About 2000 participants are expected for the combined NSS, MIC and
RTSD, so it would be prudent to make your reservations as soon as
possible. Also, don’t forget the two-day satellite workshop
on Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET that is being organized by Hans Herzog
and Karl Ziemons at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (located near
Cologne) for October 27-28. Information about this workshop is available
at http://www.mr-pet-juelich.de
or via email at MR-PET@fz-juelich.de.
Orlando, 2009: The 2009 NSS/MIC will be in Orlando, Florida, in
the Hilton Hotel near Downtown Disney. Richard Lanza is the General
Chair and Ramsey Badawi is the MIC Program Chair.
Knoxville, 2010: Knoxville, Tennessee, will host the 2009 NSS/MIC.
Ron Keyser is the General Chair and David Townsend will serve as
the MIC Program Chair. The meeting itself will be held in the spacious
Knoxville Convention Center, but housing will distributed among
several downtown hotels, following the European model.
2011 and 2012: The leading candidates for 2011 are Madrid or Valencia,
Spain. Space and cost issues are being evaluated. The 2012 meeting
will likely be back in North America, although it is still possible
that the order may be switched with Spain. Candidate cities for
2012 are Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, and possibly
Anaheim, Reno or even San Diego again. There have also been some
expressions of interest to hold the meeting in China or Korea, although
this is still rather tentative.
In other business, nominations are due by July 15 for the Edward
J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award, and the IEEE Young Investigator
Medical Imaging Science Award. Please see the Awards solicitation
elsewhere in this newsletter for more information. At the March
meeting of the NPSS AdCom we were authorized to increase the value
of these awards by up to 50%, to bring them more into line with
similar awards given by other IEEE Societies. The NMISC has voted
to request such a 50% increase. Final approval for this change by
the IEEE Technical Activities Board is expected later this year.
Every year 5 new members-at-large are elected to the NMISC. I’d
like to urge you to consider standing for election to the Council.
One of its primary functions is to provide oversight of the process
that leads to the MIC each year, but we engage in other efforts
to promote the NMIS community as well. If you’d like to influence
the organization of the MIC or other aspects of our technical communications,
this is a good place to start. You are eligible if you are a member
of the IEEE NPSS with an interest in the MIC, i.e., a member of
the NMISTC. If you’re interested, please send Steve Meikle
an e-mail at smeikle@fhs.usyd.edu.au
before July 1. You can find more information on the NMIS Technical
Committee and Council, including current Council membership and
a copy of our constitution and bylaws, at our web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nmisc/
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Charles Watson can be reached at Siemens Molecular Imaging,
810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37932-2562 USA; Phone: +1 865-218-2419;
Fax: +1 865-218-3000; E-mail: charles.c.watson@siemens.com.
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