ENLIGHT2018

Planning details for the 2018 ENLIGHT meeting and training day, hosted by UCL.

To-Do List

• Email Manjit Dosanjh/Cai Grau about meeting dates to confirm: SJ.
• Ask Manchester/Christie what topics they would like to contribute: GR.
• Find out whether Ran Mackay would be willing to be an agent provocateur for one of the panel discussions: GR.
• Book Cruciform Building Lecture Theatre for all 4 days: GR.
• Identify Local Organising Committee: SJ, GR.
• Discuss site visit with UCLH/Bouygues: RA.
• Arrange discussion session topics and speakers: RA, GR.
• Find out if we can publish contributed papers in peer-reviewed journal special edition: SJ.
• Find suitable location for formal dinner on Tuesday 26^th:
  • British Museum.
  • Thames riverboat.
  • Indian restaurant: Brick Lane, Tayyabs.

Provisional Dates: Monday 25^th–Thursday 28^th June 2018

Training Day

Monday 25^th

ENLIGHT Meeting

Tuesday 26^th–Wednesday 27^th

EPTN Meeting

Thursday 28^th

Local Organising Committee

Richard Amos, Simon Jolly, Gary Royle.

Training Day

Clinical Proton Delivery: How to design a PBT centre

Monday 25^th June, 09.30–18.00

• Commercial vendors: Varian, Hitachi (30 mins + 15 mins each for questions → 90 mins).
• History of accelerators: Hywel Owen, Jose Alonso (60 mins inc questions).
• UCLH build including BIM modelling: Tahir Ahmed, Paulina Zakrzewska, Bouygues (45 mins?).
• Clinical beam delivery: Richard Amos (45 mins?).
• How to write a Treatment Planning System: Uwe Oelfke, Antje Knopfe (45 mins?).
• Monte Carlo simulations, including shielding, planning verification and pre-commissioning: Frank Verhagen, Joao Seco (45 mins?).
• Commissioning a PBT centre: Håkan Nyström (45 mins?).
• Heidelberg facility design: TBA (45 mins?)

7 hours of talks, 1 hour for lunch, 15 minutes for 2 coffee breaks?

ENLIGHT Meeting

Tuesday 26^th–Wednesday 27^th June, 09.00–18.00

Each session approx. 2 hours with a 1 hour discussion session scheduled for before lunch.

Radiobiology

Organiser: GR.

• Chair: Rikky Sharma — if Rikky chairs he can sill get someone from his group to speak.
• Klaus Trott
• Bleddyn Jones
• Kevin Prise
• Marco Durante

Other Particles

Organiser: SJ

• Chair: Stuart Green?
• IBA (carbon cyclotron)
• CNAO (Marco Pullia?)
• Heidelberg
• MedAustron
• Japan
• Radhe Mohan

Patient Selection

Organiser: RA

• Chair: Ed Smith
• Adrian Crellin
• Holland
• Karen Kirkby (MALHTUS)

Dosimetry

Organiser: SJ

• Chair: Gary Royle
• Hugo Palmans
• Simon Jolly
• NPL (Russell Thomas/GiuseppeSchettino/Ana Lourenco)
• Brunel
• PRaVDA (Phil Allport/Tony Price/not Nigel Allinson...)
• Liverpool LHCb VELO+Clatterbridge (Carsten Welsch/Jacinta Yap)
• STFC/RAL

Paediatrics

Organiser: RA

• Chair: Mark Gaze
• Beate Timmerman/Germany
• Ed Smith
• Yen-Ch'ing Chang
• Anita Mahajan
• Case studies
• Jonathan Farr
• Tsukuba/Japan

Imaging

• Chair: David Hawkes
• Jamie McClelland
• Tracy Underwood
• Stacey Holloway
• Hugo Bouchard
• Xiao Ming (MGH)
• Phil Evans

Discussion Sessions

• Gantries/no gantries.
• One more self-interested topic needed...

EPTN Meeting

Thursday 28^th June, 10.00–16.30