American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Southern California Chapter

We advance the science, education and professional practice of medical physics.

AAPM-SCC 2026 Norm Baily Awards,

MedPhys Slam, and Physics Research Retreat

Registration link: https://scc-aapm.square.site/

$40 for members

$25 for Residents/Postdocs/Students (refund after attending)

2026 Corporate Sponsors

The Southern California Chapter of AAPM wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions of our Commercial Affiliates who have underwritten this meeting.

DIAMOND

MedLever

PLATINUM

PACS Health

PTW North America Corporation

GOLD

Brainlab

The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (SCCAAPM) wishes to announce competitions for 2026: our annual Norm Baily Awards and the MedPhys Slam Event. The two competitions will be held LIVE at NRT LG503/4 - Harlyne Tower, Norris, University of Southern California (1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA) on Saturday, April 25, 2026. New this year, we will add an afternoon session for physicists to share their research (not a competition).

A virtual meeting option will also be available. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Members/Residents/Postdocs/Students who live more than 50 miles away from the conference center may present virtually (with limited spots).

Norm Baily Awards

The Norm Baily Award has two award categories: a graduate and a post-doc/resident category. Any graduate student in a medical physics program in Southern California is eligible for the Graduate Student Award and any medical physics resident or medical physics post-doctoral fellow is eligible for the Resident/Post-doctoral Award. Pre-qualified Norm Bailey participants will be invited to present a 6-minute talk describing their work and potential 2-minute questions. They will be scored during the Norm Baily Awards Ceremony by a panel of judges on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Award Certificates and cash prizes will be awarded to the winners in the Students and Residents/Postdoc Categories, respectively.

MedPhys Slam

Additionally, all students/residents/post-docs are invited to participate in the MedPhys Slam Event! This is a research communication competition that will be judged on LIVE on the day of the Norm Baily Award. Presenters have 3 minutes to give the what, how, and why of their research or clinical project and convince a panel of judges that their work is impactful and important. The first-place winner will be determined for the Slam event that day and will represent our chapter at the National MedPhys Slam Competition to be held at the 2026 AAPM Annual meeting in Vancouver, BC and will receive a travel grant of $1,000. The second-place winner will receive a cash prize of $100 and serve as a back-up.

To enter into the events: Norm Baily contestants must submit a 300-word abstract of their work with an optional 2 pages of supporting documents (up to 750 kBytes) no later than midnight on April 11, 2026. All submissions should be e-mailed to Steve Goetsch at: steven@sdradiotherapy.com

MedPhys Slam participants should e-mail Steve Goetsch at: steven@sdradiotherapy.com to indicate their participation.

We encourage all students, postdocs, and residents in Southern California to participate in these events. Note: you may enter one or both events as a contestant.

Physics Retreat

For physicists who want to participate in the Physics Retreat to share their research, please e-mail a 300-word abstract to Zhilei (Julie) Shen at zhilei.shen@med.usc.edu no later than midnight on April 11, 2026. Note that this is not a competition and first come first serve. Depending on the number of participants, each may have 7-10 minutes to present their work.