Therapy & Oncology Accelerator Design Student Network (TOADS)
A small group of students from CERN, the John Adams Institute and the Cockcroft Institute, working on PhDs involving medical accelerators have recognised the need to increase international collaboration and cohesion between students who are researching or designing radiotherapy machines, or similar.Unlike many experiments which often have large collaborations and centralised locations around one facility, medical accelerators are spread throughout the world and have smaller research groups. Whilst normally these groups would meet and exchange ideas at conferences or in-person, the pandemic has meant that newer and more recent students are less able to connect to establish friendships, help each other out with coding/simulation problems and exchange research ideas. For this reason, a new Therapy…
