The 11th Annual Meeting of MCNEG
Lucas House
University of Birmingham
7-8 April 2005
MCNEG is the UK forum for discussion of issues related to the use of Monte Carlo and other transport codes in radiation and medical physics
Presentations from MCNEG '05 are available here for download as pdf format files
Photos from MCNEG '05 are here
Topics of particular interest include:
Hardware configurations (e.g. clusters)
Current experience with particular codes
Examples of research problems and solutions using Monte Carlo methods
Invited Speakers for the 2005 Meeting:
Dr Matthias Fippel, University Hospital Tuebingen (Monte Carlo models for proton therapy and inverse IMRT treatment planning based on MC dose calculation)
Dr Jose Maria Fernandez-Varea, University of Barcelona (Developments in the PENELOPE codes)
Dr Neil Drummond of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Quantum computing for Monte Carlo simulations)
A competition is held to provide funds for student participants. These are provided by the MCNEG and by the IoP computational Physics group.
Winners of this years travel awards are:
Caroline Boudou - The IoP Computational Physics Group Travel Award
Mary Chin and Mohammed Hussien - Joint winners of the MCNEG annual travel award
Additional sponsorship has been provided by CMS Inc.
Contact Stuart Green (stuart.green@uhb.nhs.uk) for further information:
Dr Stuart Green
MCNEG '05
Department of Medical Physics
Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TH
United Kingdom
Rayleigh (yellow) and Compton (blue) scattering from a 10 micron wide linearly polarised monochromatic X-ray beam penetrating a tissue equivalent medium. Note variation in scattering intensity with azimuthal angle. The viewing angle shifts by 15 deg per frame. Calculated with the Monte Carlo code libraries EGS4/LSCAT and displayed using EGS_Windows.