Speakers

Invited speakers (confirmed):

Prof. Francesc Salvat
Departament de E.C.M., Facultat de Física 
Barcelona, Spain
"Modeling of inelastic collisions of charged particles in condensed matter"

Dr. Andrea Mairani
Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO)
Pavia, Italy
"Monte Carlo-based RBE investigations in hadrontherapy"

Prof. Bas Raaymakers
Department of Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
"The promise of the MRI linac: simultaneous MRI and irradiation"

Dr. Carmen Villagrasa
IRSN/PRP-HOM/SDE, Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

"First results on DNA clustered damage combining direct and indirect effects with Geant4-DNA"

Prof. Xun Jia
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA

"Recent updates in GPU-based Monte Carlo simulation for radiation therapy"

Dr. Hugo Palmans
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, Middlesex, UK
"Monte Carlo simulations for improved reference dosimetry"

Prof. Tony Popescu

B. C. Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Modern clinical applications of Monte Carlo simulations for in-vivo patient-specific QA"

Prof. Joao Seco
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) & University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
"Monte  Carlo study of Helium CT (HeCT) imaging"

Dr. G. A. Pablo Cirrone
INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy
"Review of Geant4 applications in radiation therapy"

Prof. David Rogers
Carleton University, Canada
"Fun with Monte Carlo: or how I keep learning radiation physics"

Prof. Alberto Del Guerra
University of Pisa, Italy
"The dawn of PET Monte Carlo: a personal experience"

Prof. Willi A. Kalender
University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
"Monte Carlo methods for diagnostic radiology"


Keynote speakers:

Prof. Frank Verhaegen
Maastro Clinic, Maastricht, the Netherlands
"The use of imaging information in Monte Carlo simulations"

Dr. Frederic Tessier
Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council, Canada
"EGSnrc update: new features and legacy code upgrade"


Prof. Luc Beaulieu
Université Laval, Québec, Canada:
"Monte Carlo dose calculations in brachytherapy"

Dr. Giuseppe Battistoni
INFN Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy
"The application of the FLUKA Monte Carlo code in medical physics"

Prof. Jan Seuntjens
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
"A Monte Carlo perspective on small beam radiation therapy"