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SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 27, 2002 All speakers: please send 2-page abstract of your talk to
Dr. Jim Deye. The abstract will be posted on the workshop website.
- January 29, 2002 Primer speakers: please send your talk to Dr. Jim Deye, or ftp to the workshop ftp site (see below for ftp instructions).
- January 29, 2002 All speakers: if you prepare your talk in powerpoint and
would like it to be preloaded on the workshop PC harddrive,
please send your talk to Dr. Jim Deye,
or ftp to the workshop ftp site (see below for ftp instructions).
GROUND RULES FOR THE WORKSHOP (Ron Rardin, NSF)
The proposed workshop will include a diverse group of researchers representing a broad
sample of the modeling issues and computer-based methods being applied to optimize
external beam therapy, especially Intensity Modulated Radio Therapy (IMRT). Some
attendees will be highly expert in medical and/or physics issues, but relatively new to
optimization methods. Others from the operations research community will be expert in
modeling and analysis of optimization problems but novices at radiation therapy.
The goal of the workshop is to encourage research conversation and collaboration
between the various interests represented in order to speed the development of practical
and effective treatment planning tools. To that end it will be particularly important that
all participants bring a constructive attitude to the discussions, and a commitment to
presentations everyone can follow. The Program Committee has scheduled tutorial
sessions the first night of the meeting to present background and terminology everyone
needs to understand in order to properly address the topic of radiation therapy
optimization. Other common-sense guidelines include the following:
- All speakers and discussants should minimize the use of acronyms and similar jargon
that would be familiar to some in the audience, but not all.
- Mathematics may be the most concise way to state some issues, but as much as
possible, math should be accompanied by English language paraphrasing, figures
and/or examples to facilitate communication within the limited time available.
Technical mathematical details should be omitted.
- Figures and other illustrations are encouraged if they provide useful insight about
modeling issues or solution methods. However, extended graphics or video are not
appropriate unless they are integral to the issues addressed.
- It is essential that all speakers make clear the assumptions about the treatment
planning environment on which their presentation is based. This permits later
discussants to evaluate the impact those assumptions may have on results.
- Where empirical or analytic results and comparisons are available, speakers are
encouraged to include them in their presentations. As much as possible, however,
they should be reduced to summaries and plots that can be absorbed quickly.
- All presentations should use (Intel Windows) PowerPoint, 35mm slides, or overhead
transparencies. In the case of PowerPoint, materials should be emailed
to Jim Deye,
or ftp'd to the workshop site at Georgia Tech as detailed below. Please submit
PowerPoint presentations
by January 29, 2002.
If you are unable to submit by this deadline, bring floppy disks or 100M ZIPs to the workshop.
SUBMITTING POWER POINT PRESENTATION FILES
If you would like your PowerPoint presentation preloaded
on the workshop hard drives,
submit your presentation file(s) by Jan 29 2002
by either emailing your files
to Jim Deye,
or ftp'ing your files as outlined below.
FTP Site: ftp.isye.gatech.edu
Name: anonymous
Password: (your own email address)
Change directory to: incoming/evakylee
Place your file(s) in the above directory
Questions regarding ftp
should be sent to orart@isye.gatech.edu.
LIST OF SPEAKERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
-
Stephen C. Billups, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado at Denver.
- Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Northeast Proton Therapy Center,
Massachusetts General Hospital.
- Joseph O. Deasy, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor,
Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering,
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center,
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology,
Washington University of St Louis.
- Avraham Eisbruch, M.D.,
Associate Professor & Clinical Division Director,
Department of Radiation Oncology,
University of Michigan Medical Center.
- Benedick A. Fraass, Ph.D.,
Professor & Director of Radiation Physics,
Radiation Oncology,
University of Michigan Medical Center,
- Ellis L. Johnson, Ph.D.,
Coca-Cola Chaired Professor,
Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Mark Langer, M.D.
Professor,
Radiation Oncology,
Indiana University Medical Center.
- Eva K. Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & Director of
Center for Operations Research in Medicine,
Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology; and
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology,
Emory University School of Medicine.
- Clifford Ling, Ph.D.,
Medical Physics Department,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Larry Marks, M.D.,
Professor and Director of Residency Training Program,
Radiation Oncology,
Duke University.
- Ron Rardin, Ph.D., Program Director,
Operations Research and Production Systems
National Science Foundation; and
Professor, Industrial Engineering,
Purdue University.
- Julian G. Rosenman, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor, Radiation Oncology;
and Adjunct Professor, Computer Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel.
- Lei Xing, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor,
Radiation Oncology,
Stanford University School of Medicine.
- Michael J. Zelefsky, M.D.,
Associate Professor and Chief of Brachytherapy,
Radiation Oncology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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