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Novi Sad – the Centre of Medical Physics

In the Rectorate, University of Novi Sad, 8th Alpe-Adria Medical Physics Meeting was held from 25th May to 27th May 2017, organized by the Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbian Society of Medical Physics and the Society for Radiation Protection of Serbia and Montenegro. Novi Sad welcomed over 120 experts from 22 countries, and for the duration of three days, more than 50 scientific papers were presented, in the fields of medical physics in radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, diagnostics and radiation protection.

Lecturers were outstanding experts from the entire Europe: Dr Renato Padovani, the director of the Centre for Medical Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Dr Joanna Izewska, Chief of Dosimetry Laboratory, International Atomic Energy Agency from Vienna, Dr Carmel Caruana, Chairperson for Education and Training of the EFOMP.

New contacts were established, useful information and results of previous research were shared with the aim to achieve better treatment of patients and safer use of ionizing radiation. The central theme of the meeting was the introduction and the implementation of new techniques in the treatment of cancer patients and their treatment during radiotherapy.

The Conference was supported by the funds from the Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Faculty of Sciences and the University of Novi Sad. The next meeting will be held in Austria.

The Faculty of Sciences has a long tradition in educating medical physicists, as well as a successfully completed IPA project of cross-border cooperation in the field of education and training for medical physicists MEPHYSTE, which made it possible for the Faculty to purchase valuable equipment for training medical physicists students and to obtain accreditation for the doctoral studies in medical physics.

Meeting participants

10th International Culinary Competition of Southern Europe

Tenth International Culinary Competition of Southern Europe was held in Thessaloniki from March 3rd to 6th 2017 in the organisation of the Chefs Association of Northern Greece. The competition was supported by the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS) and the Greek Ministry of Tourism and the Government of Greece.

There were over 400 contestants from ten countries in the competition: Taiwan, Turkey, Cyprus, Montenegro, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia, and the jury featured the best world-known judges from Greece, Italy, France, Mexico, Slovenia, Montenegro, Cyprus, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, USA, Turkey, Latvia, together with the President of the World Association of Chefs Societies Tomas Gugler.

The Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad had its representatives in this prestigious competition, who returned home with the awards:

  • Goran Radivojevic, Gastronomy Skills Teacher – silver medal in the poultry category in the professional chefs competition,
  • Maja Banjac, PhD student and teaching assistant at the Chair of Gastronomy – silver medal in the pasta category in the professional chefs competition,
  • Jelena Jevtic – 4th year student of Gastronomy – a diploma in the restaurant dessert junior category and
  • Goran Gasparovski – silver medal in the risotto category in the junior competition.

Students Jelena and Goran competed in a team discipline ‘Two to Tango’ with 15 teams from higher vocational schools, faculties and hotels and they won a bronze medal.

Our team got rave reviews from the exceptional world-famous judges who are all respectable and renowned chefs in their countries, which represents a great acknowledgement for the quality of our students and their teachers and assistants.

Contacts were established in the competition with numerous universities from Greece and Taiwan, so we hope we will succeed in developing quality collaboration and contribute to the teaching process for our students.

Professors Velimir Popsavin and Slobodan Marković corresponding members of SASA

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts chose 35 new members yesterday: 15 full, 14 corresponding and six international members. The members of SASA had 58 candidates presented to the Election Assembly to choose from by a secret ballot. New members of SASA from the Novi Sad branch are Prof. Dr. Slobodan Marković from the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management and Prof. Dr. Velimir Popsavin from the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection.