Lehigh ISE Chair has been elected Chair of Optimization at SIAM

Luis Nunes Vicente has been elected Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization for the upcoming 2023-2025 term. Luis is currently the Timothy J. Wilmott Endowed Chair Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University.
Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT), compared to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), along with its greatly extended capacity to deliver highly conformal 3D dose to the target tumor represents a number of unique challenges for treatment planning optimization.