Barry Berman Memorial Lecture Series

The goal of the Barry Berman Memorial Lecture Series is to inspire young people to study medical physics by inviting nationally and internationally prominent scientists to speak on the application of physics principles to medicine. The series was founded in 2011 through a generous gift from one of Berman’s close collaborators and colleagues, Cedric Yu, a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology. 

Professors Berman and Yu formerly worked together under a National Institutes of Health-funded project on radiation cancer therapy. 

Past Berman Lectures 

April 11th, 2024 
Lei Ren, University of Maryland
The Quantum Leap: Bridging AI, Physics, and Medicine for Revolutionary Innovations in Radiation Therapy

October 22nd, 2020
Dr. Xin Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Asymmetry from symmetry or symmetry from asymmetry?

April 11th, 2019
Dr. Thomas Bortfield, Harvard Medical School 
Proton Therapy 

April 19th, 2018
Dr. Taekjip Ha, Johns Hopkins University
Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix

April 20th, 2017
Dr. John Wong, Johns Hopkins University
Technology Advances in Radiation Oncology in the Age of Big Data

April 3rd, 2014
Dr. Arup Chakraborty, MIT
How to Hit HIV Where it Hurts

April 25th, 2013
Dr. John Boone, University of California, Davis
Medical Physics and the Development of a New Way to Detect Breast Cancer