“September” 2007 ... - the ACPSEM

Robert Stanford Award
AGM
The Robert Stanford Award winner this year is Ben Khoo for his principal authorship of the paper “A
cortical-bone structural geometry phantom: dental plaster as a convenient and radiologically similar
fabrication material”, published in the Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine
Volume earlier this year.
Congratulations to Ben, and thanks to the sponsors of the award, Nucletron.
The ACPSEM AGM will be held on Tuesday December 11 at the Department of Medical Engineering &
Physics at 5.15 pm.
Sandwiches and the sort of beverages that usually gets served with sandwiches will be provided.
The 2007 committee has nominated the following people for committee posts in 2008:
Chairperson: John Burrage
Vice-Chairperson: Nikki Caswell
Treasurer: Peter Rampant
Secretary: Simon Woodings
Spokesperson: Janette Atkinson
Ordinary Committee Members: Sean Geoghegan, Rob Day, David Causer, Roger Price
Other nominations are welcome. They must be seconded, must include the written consent of the
nominee, and must be submitted to the branch secretary by no later than 10 Dec 2007.
Ask the Leningrad Cowboys
As part of MQD’s long-time commitment to continuing education, we present
the Ask The Leningrad Cowboys segment, where members of the cult rock
band answer your questions.
If you have a question about health, engineering, physics, or anything really,
send it in and we’ll let the boys take a swing at it.
This time we have a letter from regular correspondent Peter Henson from Nedlands. He says:
Dear Editors 3
To update Your Editorships on my NHMRC funded project, Svetlana the tractor and I have met with
disaster. Things went well with the initial experiments and we were rewarded with significant and
valuable results (did you read the reports in the prestigious Joondalup Community journal, p10,
2007?). Incidentally, I can’t remember mentioning the actual field of study and now there seems to be
some sort of scurrilous rumour about ram raiding but, hey, sheep stealing!? As that great CONTROL
agent and sadly unrecognised philosopher, Maxwell Smart, may well have said; ‘would you believe -
potatoes?’ Well, we were on our way to a new experiment site but someone must have grassed on us.
The tractor had a bug in it and we were ambushed by the Anti Free Potato gang. Svety did an
amazing impression of a quantum superposition of states by trying to go in four directions at once
while I made a more mundane incoherent exit. I haven’t seen her since. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll show
up somewhere and, hopefully, not reveal all. However, the potato work has now gone pear shaped
and I must go inconspicuously where many others have gone before i.e. overseas. Oh dear, I think I
hear someone coming and if it’s Svety, I don’t want to become number 7 on her hit list, so, where the
hell’s my sombrero, adios amigos, felice Navidad.
Yoursinahurry
PHen
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