June 2003 SOCIETY NEWS

A Publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Number 2 • June 2003 SOCIETY NEWS

CONFERENCES

40th ANNUAL NUCLEAR AND SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS CONFERENCE NSREC 2003

Monterey, California, July 21-25, 2003 s General Chairman it is my, Allan John- results. Joe Srour (Northrop Grumman Space Tech- son’s, pleasure to invite you to attend the nology) is the editor of the special issue. A40th Annual International Conference on The DoubleTree Hotel is located in downtown Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects (NSREC) to Monterey, a few steps away from the pier in be held July 21-25, 2003 at the DoubleTree Hotel Monterey Bay where seals, otters and other marine and City of Monterey Conference Center in life abound. Monterey is one of the most popular va- Monterey, California. As with previous NSRE cation destinations in California. Nearby activities Conferences, 2003 will offer an outstanding tech- include kayaking, hiking, fishing, golf, wine tasting nical program, a one-day Short Course preceding and even auto racing. The Local Arrangements the technical program, a Radiation Effects Data Chairman, Mark Hopkins (Aerospace Corporation), Workshop, and an Industrial Exhibit. We welcome has planned several social events for attendees and attendance by engineers, scientists, managers and family members, including a shopping trip and lun- other interested persons from throughout the cheon in nearby Carmel and a visit to a local winery. world. Highlights of the conference are given be- The highlight of the social program is an evening at low. You can also access this information at the world-renowned Monterey Aquarium, which www.nsrec.com. will be open only to conference attendees and fami- To commemorate the 40th Anniversary, a special lies. This will provide a relaxing environment for so- issue of the Transactions on Nuclear Science will be cial interaction, as well as the opportunity to see the distributed to all attendees. The special issue will aquarium without the large crowds that are present contain 16 review papers that summarize key techni- during a typical day in peak season. cal findings presented at the conference over its history, with a contemporary interpretation of the continued on page 3

Allan Johnson Paul Dodd Joe Benedetto Mark Hopkins General Technical Program Short Course Local Arrangements Chairman Chairman Chairman Chairman

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 1 IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES TABLE OF CONTENTS SOCIETY NEWS is published three times per year by The Institute of Electrical and 40th Annual Nuclear and Space Radiation Electronics Engineers, Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855. Effects Conference NSREC 2003 ...... 1 NEWSLETTER EDITOR: W. Kenneth Dawson TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall 2003 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Vancouver, British Columbia Imaging Conference...... 5 Canada, V6T-2A3. Tel: +1 604 222 7455: Fax: +1 604 222 7307. E-mail: [email protected] Invitation to ICOPS 2004, Baltimore Maryland 10 ASSISTANT NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Alberta Dawson-Larsen President’s Report ...... 10 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center P.O. Box 4939, Standford, CA 94039 Tel: +1 650 926 2748 Secretary’s Report ...... 11 Fax: +1 650 926 5124 E-mail: [email protected] RITC Report ...... 18 EDITOR EMERITUS: John F. Osborn 507 Elmhurst Circle NIDCOM Report ...... 18 Sacramento, CA 95825 Tel: +1 916 641 1627 Fax: +1 916 641 2625 NMISTC Constitution & Bylaws Changes . . . . 19 IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS: Robert Smrek, Production Manager Constitution and Bylaws of the Nuclear Medical Paul Doto, Newsletters and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of Contributors to this issue include, in alphabetical order: Uwe Bratzler, Bruce Brown, Paul Chu, Peter Clout, Bruce Danly, Gracie the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 20 Davis, Teresa Farris, Jay Forster, Steve Gitomer, Ed Hoffman, Ron Keyser, Albe Larsen, Bill Moses, Gerd Muehllehner, Tadashi Nishimura, Pavel Rehak, Bob Reinovsky, Norm Roderick, Joe Report from the Communications Committee . . 23 Schumer, Alan Todd. Publicity releases for forthcoming meetings, items of interest from local chapters, committee reports, announcements, awards, or New IEEE Fellows other materials requiring society publicity or relevant to NPSS Paul K Chu ...... 24 should be submitted to the Newsletter Editor by August 1, 2003. Bruce G. Danly ...... 25 CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES Gracie E. Davis ...... 25 News articles are actively solicited from contributing editors, particularly related to important R&D activities, significant industrial Gerd Muehllehner ...... 26 applications, early reports on technical break-throughs, accom- Tadashi Nishimura ...... 26 plishments at the big laboratories and similar subjects. Pavel Rehak ...... 27 The various Transactions, of course, deal with formal treatment in depth of technical subjects. News articles should have an element Robert E. Reinovsky ...... 27 of general interest or contribute to a general understanding of Norman F. Roderick...... 28 technical problems or fields of technical interest or could be assessments of important ongoing technical endeavors. Advice on possible authors or offers of such articles are invited by Keith Symon and Stephen Miilton Win Particle the editor. Science and Technology Award for 2003 . . 29 Committee Chairpersons, Liaison Representatives, and other Ad Com members are particularly reminded that reports, award announcements, or observations on society interests are needed Particle Accelerator Articles ...... 30 and should be submitted where possible before the copy deadline of August 1, 2003.

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2 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y CONFERENCES (cont’d)

The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Nu- Technical Information clear and Plasma Sciences Society Radiation Ef- The Technical Program Chairman, Paul Dodd fects Committee and supported by the Defense (Sandia National Labs) and his program com- Threat Reduction Agency, Sandia National Lab- mittee have put together an outstanding set of oratories, Air Force Research Laboratory,and the contributed papers that have been organized NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging Program. into nine sessions of 50 oral and 47 poster presentations, along with a Radiation Effects Data Workshop. The Workshop consists of 25 pa- Short Course pers emphasizing radiation effects data on elec- Attendees will have the opportunity to attend a tronic devices and systems, and descriptions of new simulation and radiation test facilities. In one-day Short Course on Monday, July 21. A addition, there are three outstanding invited Short Course is offered each year and is in- talks that should be of general interest to atten- tended to provide newcomers with an over- dees and their companions. view and in-depth study of timely and Technical sessions include: significant issues in the radiation effects field • Devices and Integrated Circuits and also to update the knowledge of experi- • Basic Mechanisms enced workers. The 2003 Short Course, orga- • Photonic Devices and Integrated nized by Joe Benedetto, Mission Research Circuits Corporation, is entitled Radiation Effects in Ad- • Atmospheric and Terrestrial Radiation vanced Commercial Technologies: How Device Effects Scaling Has Affected the Selection of Spaceborne • Single-Event Effects, Devices and Electronics. Integrated Circuits The first session will begin with a descrip- • Single-Event Effects, Mechanisms and tion of advanced CMOS processes, including Modeling process history, scaling and proven design • Spacecraft Environments and Effects hardness techniques by Ron Lacoe, Aerospace • Hardness Assurance Corporation. There is a tremendous opportu- • Dosimetry and Facilities nity to use commercial fabrication facilities not The perils of only for the production of radiation tolerant Invited Talks components but also for the study of new basic On July 23, Dr. Marcia K. McNutt, Monterey power mechanisms and materials. The second session, Bay Aquarium Research Institute will present No one would presented by Alessandro Paccagnella, will focus Use of Technology in the Exploration of Monterey on the challenges and opportunities involved Bay. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research have doubted his with the new ultra-thin oxides from a radiation Institute (MBARI) was founded in 1987 by ability to reign and reliability viewpoint. David Packard. The institute’s main focus is on had he never After lunch the third presentation by Tim designing and building new tethered and au- Oldham, NASA GSFC, will discuss sin- tonomous underwater vehicles and in situ sen- been emperor. sor packages for increasing the spatial and gle-event effects in advanced CMOS technol- temporal sampling of the ocean and its inhabit- Tacitus ogy, which have been heavily influenced by ants. MBARI is located in Moss Landing, Cali- changes in device design and scaling. The final fornia, where its two research ships and session by John Cressler, Georgia Tech, will remotely operated vehicles are berthed, giving discuss total dose and single-event effects in ad- them immediate access to Monterey Bay. vanced bipolar devices, where scaling has also MBARI also maintains moorings offshore, had a major effect on the way that advanced de- equipped with ocean-monitoring instruments, vices are affected by radiation. as well as two moorings in the equatorial Pa- cific that are part of the NOAA Tropical Atmo- For those interested in Continuing Educa- sphere Ocean array. In this talk, Dr. McNutt tion Units (CEUs), there will be an open-book will describe the institute’s use of technological test at the end of the course. The course is val- innovation to explore Monterey Bay. ued at 0.6 CEUs and endorsed by the IEEE On Thursday, July 24, The Future of Elec- and the International Association for Educa- tronics: Micro, Nano, or Molecular? will be pre- tion and Training. sented by Prof. Mark S. Lundstrom, Purdue

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 3 University. As the recent report of silicon • NASA Applied Radiation MOSFETs with 6 nm channel lengths demon- • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center strates, progress in silicon technology contin- • NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Too true ues at a breath-taking pace. There is, however, • Northrop Grumman • The difference a growing consensus that the end of device Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation scaling is only a decade or so away. As silicon • Sandia National Laboratories between a team technology accelerates toward its limits, rapid • Seakr • and a committee progress in unconventional electronics is also Silvaco occurring. In this talk, Mark Lundstrom will • Synplicity is that a team is examine the limits of silicon technology, dis- • Texas A&M Cyclotron • made up of cuss some recent scientific breakthroughs in US Semiconductor molecular electronics, and explore the possibil- • Vanderbilt University people with ities of turning this exciting science into new • White Sands Missile Range technologies. • Xilinx, Inc. diverse views but OnFriday,July25,CarlWalz,U.S.Air a common goal, Force officer and career astronaut, will describe Living and Workingin Space, his experi- Social Program whereas a ences on four previous space missions and as Social events have been planned to give Con- committee is a member of the most recent International ference attendees and their guests opportuni- Space Station (ISS) crew. He will discuss his ties to informally discuss radiation effects and generally intensive training in Russia and the U.S., the to become better acquainted. Mark Hopkins, comprised of mission itself and the recovery process after (Aerospace Corporation), this year’s Local Ar- more than 5 months in space. We will have a rangements Chairman, has put together a ter- representatives unique opportunity to learn the latest status rific social program. The highlight of the social whose job is to of the Station and the growing understand- program is an evening at the world-renowned ing of man’s place in space. Monterey Aquarium, which will be open only make their voices to conference attendees and families. This will provide a relaxing environment for social inter- heard. Industrial Exhibit action, as well as the opportunity to see the Starting at noon on Tuesday,July 22, this year’s aquarium without the large crowds that are Margot Northey Industrial Exhibit, organized by Howard present during a typical day in peak season. Bogrow, Xilinix, will provide an opportunity We strongly encourage you to register as for conference attendees to discuss the latest ra- early as possible for the social events as we are diation-resistant electronics, radiation analysis limited in the numbers we can accommodate. and testing equipment and facilities, and hard- Please visit www.nsrec.com to view the activi- ware and software simulation products and ser- ties and obtain the registration forms. vices. An Industrial Exhibits Reception will Please call the DoubleTree Hotel at occur on Tuesday evening. Exhibitors include: 831-649-4511 and ask for the “IEEE • Actel • NSREC” block of rooms. Reservations must Aeroflex UTMC be guaranteed. The cut-off date for room res- • ATMEL • ervations is June 17, 2003. After that date, Babcock room accommodations will be confirmed on a • BAE Systems • space available basis and the conference room Boeing Radiation Effects Lab rate is not guaranteed. • Brookhaven National Lab • Crane Interpoint • Defense Microelectronic Activity Additional Information • DPA Components International For the latest NSREC information (technical • EMPC program, conference & social registration • Honeywell forms, hotel and travel information, etc.) • Integrated Systems Engineering, Inc. please visit our web site at www.nsrec.com. • International Rectifier You may contact the General Chairman, • Intersil Corporation Allan Johnston, JPL, at (818) 354-6425 or • J. D. Instruments Email: [email protected]. • J. L. Shepherd/ICS Radiation Or you can contact the Publicity Chair- Technology woman, Teresa Farris, Aeroflex UTMC, at (719) • Maxwell Technologies 594-8035; E-mail: [email protected], • Modular Devices who prepared this article.

4 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y 2003 NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE including SYMPOSIUM ON NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS and 13TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ROOM TEMPERATURE SEMICONDUCTOR X- AND GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS Doubletree Hotel Portland – Columbia River & Jantzen Beach Portland, Oregon, USA, October 19-25, 2003

INTRODUCTION panions that will provide an attractive shopping bag of alternative activities. The Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Im- This year we welcome a return of the Inter- aging Conference, 13th International Work- national Workshop on Room-Temperature shop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD). The con- Detectors, and Symposium on Nuclear Power ference organizers have chosen to hold the Systems will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA RTSD in conjunction with the IEEE NSS and on October 19–25, 2003. Outstanding natural MIC meetings for the purpose of encouraging beauty, dozens of urban parks, public art, and a greater information exchange between scien- world-class transportation system are just a few tists and engineers working to develop semi- of the many reasons to visit this jewel of the Pa- Do you?? conductor radiation detectors and imaging cific Northwest. Downtown Portland boasts arrays and to increase the overall number of A lot of very an amazing array of attractions, including an oral presentations and posters. Joint sessions outstanding collection of cast iron and terra intelligent people between the different groups are planned to cotta architecture, great shopping, the largest bring together people with common interests, are so new-and-used bookstore in the world, a na- build synergy, and hopefully offer the right specialized, they tionally acclaimed art museum, numerous beer environment for the creation of new and halls featuring local microbreweries, and a vi- don’t understand fruitful discussions. brant culinary community suitable for palates what they are of all. Come and join the 2003 IEEE meeting We are looking forward to a technically and consider staying a few extra days! The Pa- stimulating and socially invigorating experi- doing. ence in one of the most beautiful locations in cific shore to the west offers a spectacular, rug- W.E. “Bill” ged coastline, sport fishing, and great the Pacific Northwest. I urge you to participate opportunities for beachcombing. Wineries and and share your data, energy, experience and Coville tasting rooms dot the landscape. The Cascade knowledge with your colleagues, and to ex- Mountains provide extraordinary skiing plore new ways to cooperate and collaborate. (year-round at Mt. Hood), climbing, fishing, I look forward to seeing you and wish you a and picnicking. The Columbia River Gorge to memorable, enjoyable stay in Portland. the east of Portland offers stunning scenery of Ralph B. James waterfalls and numerous opportunities to sam- NSS-MIC General Chairman ple the fruits and wines produced in the region. Brookhaven National Laboratory You might consider seeing Mount St. Helens Building 460 and take notice of nature’s splendor and its Upton, NY11973, USA ability to recover from catastrophic volcanic Telephone: +1 (631) 344-8633 emissions, or visit Crater Lake to the south, Fax: +1 (631) 344-5584 Oregon’s brilliantly blue showpiece and na- Email: [email protected] tional park. The parks beckon visitors from around the world with hiking, photography, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM river rafting, camping, and a long list of other It is not possible in limited space to give full outdoor activities. The conference will arrange details of the extensive program, so the a selection of programs for you and your com- reader is directed to the conference web site

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 5 (http://www.nss-mic.org) for complete de- • Software and computing for detectors, tails of all the topics and sessions. We are ex- computing GRID pecting on the order of 700 paper • Synchrotron and Neutron contributions that will be presented in both Instrumentation an oral and poster format. The following are • Trigger and Front-End Systems descriptions of the individual programs. For information concerning the NSS Pro- The Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), gram, please contact: to be held October 21-24, offers an outstanding opportunity for scientists and engineers in- Uwe Bratzler terested or actively working in the fields of NSS Program Chairman nuclear science, radiation instrumentation, CERN and NTUA software and their applications to meet and CERN EP Division network with colleagues from around the 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland world. The program emphasizes the latest de- Telephone: +41-22-767-1309 Report card velopments in technology and instrumentation Fax: +41-22-767-8350 In the past 25 and their implementation in experiments in Email: [email protected] centuries, man space, accelerators and other radiation environ- The Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), ments. An educational aspect on specialized to be held October 22-25, provides a forum for has excelled in topics will also be available through the Short fundamental theoretical and applied contribu- two areas: the Course program. Authors are invited to submit tions to the physics, engineering, and mathe- papers describing original, previously unpub- matical aspects of medical imaging. This creation of rules lished work in the topics areas listed below: • conference will provide the opportunity for an for a “just Analog and Digital Circuits exchange of ideas and recent advances in medi- • society”, and the Astrophysics and Space cal imaging. Authors are invited to submit pa- Instrumentation pers describing original and innovative breaking of these • Beamline Instrumentation technical contributions to the general field of rules in the • Data Acquisition and On-Line Analysis medical imaging in the following list of topics: • pursuit of power. Systems Emission Tomography Instrumentation • Environmental Health and Safety Instru- and Techniques (PET and SPECT) The Observer mentation • New Nuclear Medicine and Multi-mo- • Extensive Air Shower and Cerenkov Ra- dality Imaging Geometries and Systems diation Detectors • Analytical and Monte Carlo Modeling of • Gas Detectors Medical Imaging Systems • GPS Time Synchronization Systems • Applications of New Detector • High-Density Detector Processing and Materials and Technologies to Medical Interconnect Technologies Imaging • High Energy Physics Instrumentation • High Resolution and Small Animal • Instrumentation for Biological Imaging Systems Research • Multi-dimensional Image • Instrumentation for Radiation Reconstruction Methods Medicine • Dynamic Data Acquisition and • New Radiation Detectors Processing Methods • Nuclear Measurements and Monitoring • Quantitative Image Processing Techniques Methods • Nuclear Physics Instrumentation • Evaluations of image systems and • Photo Detectors and Radiation reconstruction methods Imaging Detectors • Intra-operative Probes and Small • Radiation Damage Effects Imaging Systems • Reports from Large-Scale Physics • X-ray Computed Tomography and Projects and Experiments Digital Radiography • Scintillation Detectors • Other Imaging Modalities such as • Semiconductor Tracking and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spectroscopy Detectors and Spectroscopy, Ultrasound, • Sensor Network System and Homeland Synchrotron Radiation, Impedance and Security Biomagnetic/Bioelectric Imaging

6 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y For information concerning the MIC Pro- • Novel Detector Structures gram, please contact: • Radiation Damage, Aging, and Environmental Effects Michael A. King • MIC Program Chairman Impurity Doping and Defect Engineering Division of Nuclear Medicine • Department of Radiology Modeling of Detector Operation, University of Massachusetts Medical Growth Processes, and Material Properties Sure thing! School • Worcester, MA 01655, USA Novel Test and Characterization It is easy to be Methods Telephone: +1 (508) 856-4255 • Fax: +1 (508) 856-4572 Strip, Pixel, and Discrete certain. One has Semiconductor Arrays Email: [email protected] • only to be Scintillator/Semiconductor Array sufficiently th Hybrids The 13 International Workshop on • Semiconductor Neutron Detectors vague. Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and • Low-Noise Electronics and Software Gamma-Ray Detectors, to be held October • Spectrometer Systems for Nuclear Charles Sanders 20-24, is a continuation of a series of interna- Inspections, Safeguards, Portal tional meetings and will be held this year in Peirce Monitoring, and International Security conjunction with the NSS and MIC confer- • Imaging Systems for Medical, Digital ences. Registration at the workshop entitles Radiography, Astrophysics and Cargo admission to all NSS and MIC presentations, Monitoring Applications and those registered for the NSS/MIC confer- • Other Applications including, but not ences are invited to attend the workshop. All limited to: X-Ray Fluorescence, Envi- three conferences will be held in the same com- ronmental Remediation, Dosimetry, plex of buildings to facilitate cross-fertilization X-Ray Diffraction, and Tomography of ideas and information exchange between the participants. The registration fees and methods For questions concerning the International Go figure Workshop, please contact: of payment will be the same for both the work- If your shop and the NSS/MIC conferences. A special Ralph B. James banquet limited to the workshop attendees is International Workshop Chairman experiment tentatively scheduled. Room temperature Brookhaven National Laboratory needs statistic semiconductor radiation detectors are finding Building 460 you should have increasing application in such diverse fields as Upton, NY11973, USA astrophysics, nuclear medicine, national secu- Telephone: +1 (631) 344-8633 done a better rity, and environmental remediation. The ob- Fax: +1 (631) 344-5584 experiment. jective of this workshop is to provide a forum Email: [email protected] for discussion of the latest results to advance Ernest Rutherford the state-of-the-art of this technology. To provide a comprehensive review, oral and poster The 2003 Symposium on Nuclear Power presentations representing a broad spectrum of Systems (SNPS) will be held 21-22 October research activities emphasizing either device or 2003. The Sessions will again be held in con- materials understanding are sought. Authors junction with the Nuclear Science Symposium are encouraged to submit abstracts on original, and Medical Imaging Conference. The Techni- unpublished work in the following areas: cal paper sessions on nuclear power systems • Wide Band-gap Semiconductor cover subjects currently of major interest to the Materials, including CdZnTe, CdTe, Si, operation of nuclear power stations and sup- GaAs, Se, HgI2, PbI2, BiI3, TlBr, SiC, porting services and suppliers, including: InP, ZnSe, AlSb and diamond, of • Upgrading digital technology for reactor Interest for Radiation Detection protection, I&C, and other systems • Detector Performances • Reliability-based maintenance and • Properties of Electrical Contacts plant modernization • Crystal Growth and Materials • New aspects on equipment Characterization qualifications • Measurements of Crystal Surfaces and • Plant life extension with cost Interfaces effectiveness

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 7 • A special annual overview report of ma- • Detector Aging Workshop jor importance to nuclear power utilities (Maxim Titov, Univ. Freiburg, Markus • Risk Informed Regulation – Panel Hohlmann, Florida Inst. of Session Technology) • And more • Global Detector Network Workshop For information concerning the Symposium (Rick van Kooten, Indiana Univ., Hang in there on Nuclear Power Systems, please contact: Joachim Mnich, RWTH Aachen) • Hadron Therapy Workshop Keep an open Jay Forster (Patrick Le Du, CEA Saclay, Manjit SNPS Chairman Dosanjh, CERN) mind, but not so GE Nuclear Energy, M/C 801 • Human Computer Interfaces and 175 Curtner Ave. open your brains Virtual Interface Technology San Jose, CA 95125, USA (Suzanne Weghorst, Univ. of WA, fall out. Telephone: +1 (408) 925-5090 Seattle) Fax: +1 (408) 925-2923 • Micro-Pattern Detectors for Time Carl Sagan Email: [email protected] Projection Chambers Workshop CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM (Fabio Sauli, CERN, Craig Woody, BNL) The Continuing Education Program, this year, • consists of seven Short Courses covering topics Nanotechnology Workshop of interest common to all conference pro- (Klaus Sattler, Univ. of HI) grams. The following courses will be sched- • Problems with Detector Fabrication, uled for the first three days of the conference to Testing, Quality Control and Long limit conflicts with the technical sessions. Term Operation Workshop • Front-end electronics (Archana Sharma, CERN) (Chuck Britton, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.) The workshops are intended to broaden • Geant-4 the scope and interest of the conference, and (Marie Grazia Pia, CERN and INFN) have been organized to integrate into the Sci- • Nuclear Science for Homeland entific Program. Security Full details of their programs may be found on (Anthony Peurrung, Pacific NW Nat. Lab.) the conference web site (http://www.nss-mic.org). • Dynamic Imaging PUBLICATIONS (Anna Celler, Univ. of British The title and authors of accepted papers will I dunno! Columbia) • Medical Dosimetry appear in the Conference Program Handbook. Who was it who (Michael Ljungberg, Lund Univ.) A Book of Abstracts will be handed out to par- • ticipants on arrival at the conference. Full pa- suggested crime Medical Imaging Fundamentals (Neal Clinthorne, Univ. of Michigan) per texts will be published in the Conference Record, a non-refereed journal of the confer- wouldn’t pay if • Statistical methods for ence proceedings, available only on CD-ROM. the government Reconstruction (Freek Beekman, UMC Utrecht) In addition, authors may submit their pa- ran it? Descriptions of the short courses may be pers to the conference issue of the IEEE Trans- found on the conference web site actions on Nuclear Science (TNS). This is a Still Don’t Know (http://www.nss-mic.org). For questions, peer-reviewed journal with significant distribu- please contact: tion within the nuclear science and medical imaging communities. All IEEE/NPSS member Stephen Derenzo participants will receive a complimentary copy Short Course Coordinator of the conference issue of the TNS. Alterna- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory tively, relevant papers may be independently 1 Cyclotron Road submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Medi- Mail Stop 55-121 cal Imaging (TMI) - there is no special confer- Berkeley, CA 94720, USA ence issue. Telephone: +1 (510) 486-4097 Fax: +1 (510) 486-4768 INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS PROGRAM Email: [email protected] The NSS-MIC 2003 Industrial Exhibits will take place in an area central to the conference WORKSHOPS activities to ensure easy access to all the booths Eight workshops addressing topics important to with the maximum of comfort and visibility for all four conference programs will be presented: the exhibitor and visitor alike. The program of • Compton Camera Workshop technical seminars and product presentations (Gary Royle, University College associated with the exhibition will be held in London) seminar rooms adjacent to the exhibits area.

8 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y In addition to the exhibits, poster sessions River Cruise) – please visit the web site and general coffee breaks will also be held in http://www.nss-mic.org) for complete details. this central area to provide attendees with additional convenient access to the exhibits. REGISTRATION Up to date information on the Industrial This year, all registration formalities for partici- Program including the list of exhibitors, their pants are being handled electronically through the contact information and profiles, the exhibi- conference web site at http://www.nss-mic.org. tion floor plan, as well as details of the technical Participants can register for the conference, Short seminars and product presentations, will be Courses, Workshops, Tours and Companion Pro- made available on the conference web site gram, Technical Visits, as well as all social events (http://www.nss-mic.org). and request hotel accommodations. Payment may For all information concerning the exhibits be made in several convenient ways. program, please contact: DOUBLETREE HOTEL PORTLAND – Aren’t people Ron Keyser COLUMBIA RIVER & JANTZEN BEACH absurd? Exhibits Chairman Situated on the scenic Columbia River both ORTEC Doubletree Columbia River and Doubletree They never use 801 South Illinois Avenue Jantzen Beach are conveniently located just off the freedoms Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0895, USA I-5, only 10 minutes north of downtown Port- Telephone: +1 (865) 483-2146 land and 12 minutes west of the Portland Inter- they do have but Fax: +1 (865) 481-2438 national Airport via complimentary hotel demand those E-Mail: Ron [email protected] transportation. Guests can enjoy a first-class service and amenities in both sister hotels lo- they don’t have; Information is also on the Web site cated next door to each other. The hotels are lo- they have http://www.tainc.com/ cated right at the shore of Columbia River from where the cruise ships for the companion freedom of TOURS & COMPANION PROGRAM tour and MIC dinner will depart. Please visit thought, they The focus on the Tours & Companion Pro- the web site, http://www.nss-mic.org, for com- gram is to provide unusual experiences and ac- plete details and hotel information. demand freedom tivities not generally available to the public. The price of each day’s activities includes a CONTACT ADDRESSES of speech. lunch or snacks with drinks (except where noted), the services of a very knowledgeable Conference Soren tour guide, and all entrance fees. All tours de- Email: [email protected] Kierkegaard part from, and return to, the Conference Hotel Web: http://www.nss.mic.org (Doubletree Hotel). For those tours begining Conference Secretary in the morning, participants are invited to meet Bonnie Sherwood for a complimentary continental breakfast at Brookhaven National Laboratory the Doubletree Hotel. Building 460 The tours are subject to a minimum participa- Upton, NY11973, USA tion and the detailed itinerary of each tour may be Telephone: +1 (631) 344-7250 changed without prior notice. For your comfort Fax: +1 (631) 344-5584 and safety, “sensible” footwear is advised – please Email: [email protected] visit the web site (http://www.nss-mic.org) for complete details regarding restrictions and re- Conference Hotels quirements and the tour program. Doubletree Hotel Portland-Columbia River GENERAL CONFERENCE EVENTS 1401 N. Hayden Island Drive Portland, OR 97217, USA General conference events include an Exhibi- Tel: 1-503-283-2111 tion Reception (a cocktail reception hosted by Fax: 1-503-283-4718 the Exhibits Program), the NSS Luncheon (featuring a renowned speaker and personal- Doubletree Hotel Portland-Jantzen Beach ity), the Conference Reception (where all par- 909 N. Hayden Island Drive ticipants are invited to meet and communicate Portland, OR 97217, USA and network with their colleagues) and the Tel: 1-503-283-4466 MIC Banquet (this year in form of a Columbia Fax: 1-503-283-4743

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 9 Invitation to ICOPS 2004, Baltimore, Maryland

Website: http://www.ieee.org/icops2004 e wish to cordially invite you to the room for interactions with colleagues. The hotel Revelation 31st IEEE International Confer- is walking distance from many attractions such Wence on Plasma Science to be held as the Baltimore Aquarium, the Maryland Sci- Miracles are in Baltimore, MD, between June 28 and July ence Center, Camden Yards, and many fine explainable; it is 1, 2004. The conference, shops and restaurants. The held at the Hyatt Regency on conference location is also only the explanations theinnerHarborinBalti- a30to40minutedrivefrom that are more, MD, will feature an ex- the nation’s capital, Washing- citing technical program ton, DC and Annapolis, the miraculous. with up-to-date reports on state capital of Maryland. As Tim Robinson new developments in plasma conference dates merge with science and engineering. the Independence Day week- Plasma science covers a broad end, a limited number of spectrum of topics and a wide rooms have been reserved at range of applications. This conference will offer a the conference rate for those wishing to take balanced technical program with representation part in the elaborate 4th of July festivities in Bal- from all of these research areas including basic timore, Annapolis, and Washington, DC. plasma physics, inertial- and magnetic-confine- The conference organizers, including comment fusion, high-energy-density plasmas, ther- mittee members, session organizers, and con- mal and non-equilibrium plasmas, plasma ference planners, encourage you to attend this processing, microwaves, lighting, and medical ap- meeting. We will work hard to ensure that the plications. Researchers from the world over will technical program will be rewarding and that be presenting results of their work. The confer- your stay in the Baltimore/Washington area ence will have seven plenary talks of general inter- will be especially enjoyable. est to the plasma physics community given by Bob Commisso, Chair ICOPS 2004, can be recognized leaders in their fields. reached at the Naval Research Laboratory, The Hyatt Regency-Baltimore overlooks the Code 6777, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW,Wash- Baltimore Inner Harbor and boasts meeting ington, DC 20375-5346; Phone: +1 202 spaces ideally suited for moving between poster 404-8984; Fax: +1 202 767-2012; E-mail: and oral talks, all the while providing ample [email protected]

NPSS GENERAL BUSINESS

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

he financial woes of the IEEE seem to be The projected shortfall is $6.5 M, which is getting significantly worse. I am pleased about $20 per member. We have gone though Tto report that this time, it is not because of a year of cost cutting, and we seem to be run- poor judgement at corporate headquarters, it is ning out of places to cut. I expect that there will due to problems external to the IEEE. The re- be increases in cost across the board. Even if cent problems with SARS has caused some con- the $20 per person shortfall is passed on to us, ferences to be cancelled and apparently caused for those of us, who are serious about our sci- attendance to be low at other conferences, espe- ence or engineering activities, the cost of IEEE cially among non-members. The concern that membership is a bargain and a good invest- the conflicts in the middle East would bring ment. If the IEEE remains true to form the in- Edward J. Hoffman about an increase in terrorism has compounded crease in dues will be significantly smaller than NPSS President the effect that terrorism had already caused in the $20. As individuals, we can assist by work- reducing the attendance at conferences. ing to increase the attendance at our confer-

10 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y ences. This can be as simple as talking to Transactions such as TNS is certainly not the colleagues about attending, or putting up post- $15 we pay each year. TMI, which is consid- Dirty business ers on your bulletin boards. Unfortunately, ered the best journal in its field costs us only convincing people to become new members is $24. If you attend one meeting per year and I used to be not helpful for the immediate future, because subscribe to one IEEE publication, the IEEE Snow White ... we lose money on each new member. membership would provide you with a signifi- but I drifted. Our dues amount to about 20% of the total cant savings and, to top this all off, you receive funding of the IEEE. The return from confer- our Society’s Newsletter, which is only avail- Mae West ences and sales of subscriptions of IEEE publi- able to NPSS members. cations to libraries and non-members Ed Hoffman can be reached at the UCLA School constitute the lion’s share of income. As a of Medicine, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, B2-096 member of IEEE, you receive journal subscrip- CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6948; Phone: +1 tions for on the order of 10% of the cost to a 310 825-8851; Fax: +1 310 825-4517; E-mail: non-member. The retail price of a 3400 page [email protected]

SECRETARY’S REPORT

he IEEE NPSS Administrative Commit- venues, that the problems with closing over- tee met on March 1, 2003, in St. Louis, seas conferences have been a challenge and ex- TMO. We were pleased to welcome the pensive. new elected AdCom members Joe Benedetto It was also asked why our journals are given (Radiation Effects), Grant Gullberg (NMIS), a financial “reward” when they stay within 5% Glenn Knoll (Radiation Instrumentation) and of the page budget set by the editors each year. Patrick O’Shea (Particle Accelerator Science When these goals are met, the Publications Of- and Technology). Tom Hussey is the new fice workload is predictable. When they are Plasma Sciences and Applications chair. Gerald not, it causes either extra work or too little that Jackson, the chair of the PAC Electronic Ar- then has to be caught up when the next chiving project, also joined us. over-page budget project arrives. This, too, Alberta Larsen Ed Lampo reported that more conferences are costs IEEE money.It was also noted that IEEE Dawson closing late and we have already incurred eight publication sales were down last year, and this NPSS Secretary fines. These are not a one-time deal. They repeat was not balanced by additional increases in the and increase in penalty size over time. Confer- IEL revenue. ence chairs and conference treasurers/financial Our new president, Ed Hoffman, reported chairs must pay special attention to closing their that we continue to have problems with publi- conferences on time. Remember that you can cations. Although the last two issues of TNS close a conference before the last bills have been were out on time, there were problems with paid. Close your books and authorize IEEE to theissues.Partoftheproblemisthatevery- make these final payments. Talk to Ed Lampo thing is a crisis for IEEE Publications, and ([email protected]) if you have any question there isn’t very good communication among about the procedure. Ed also noted that TAB, the editors, authors and Pubs. In some cases, Technical Activities Board, has recommended a Pubs editors change language in a way that 20% of the conference budget as the return to so- they change meaning, and these changes do cieties, up considerably,but in line with having to not get back to authors so that they can be re- pay for more services that were previously paid viewed over a reasonable time frame. There from IEEE general funds, now depleted due to have been problems, too, with graphics that mismanagement and poor financial practices, have been the result of poor communication. and an unrealistic dependency on the stock mar- The Panel of Editors meeting will discuss and ket. Hal Flesher commented that chasing people try to resolve some of these issues, and the is- to get conferences closed also costs money, and sues for the NPSS journals will also be dis- that when budget projections are not met, that cussed in our five-year society review that will also costs money because of having to deal, often be presented this June. at great expense, with lack of predictability. Hal Ed also talked about funding for Vernon also noted that while NPSS is trying hard to Price’s recruiting activities at our conferences. globalize and to hold conferences in non-US It has been suggested that the conference pol-

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 11 icy manual be amended to indicate that, with more voice in IEEE management than RAB, the conference requesting Vern’s presence, the which gets an allowance and which has not NPSS will pay his expenses, although the con- taken fiscal conservancy seriously yet. This ar- CNN or BBC? ferences are encouraged to provide him a rangement makes it very hard to make substan- room from their comped room block. Addi- tive changes in the overall management of The difference tional discussion is needed on the Distin- IEEE. During the 1990s the stock market was between an guished Lecturer program and on funding for providing IEEE large returns on its reserves and optimist and a chapters. These issues will be addressed at the general fund and the organization followed very July 26 meeting. pessimist is that poor business practices, including operating on The question was also raised of whether all deficit budgets for several years. It has only been the pessimist is our journals should be digitized and made since the big downturn in the stock market that better informed. available on-line. The issues of cost and who IEEE has started to look at how it does business pays for the work need to be addressed. and to institute some reforms. They now have a Hungarian saying The issue of TIP codes was also raised. What balanced budget, but have had to use society do we use them for? What needs to be main- money to balance their budgets. Because NPSS tained? Are they of value to NPSS? They are ex- has been fiscally responsible and had, for a rela- pensive to maintain and, according to Hal tively small society, healthy reserves, we have Flescher, only a few societies actually make much been severely penalized. Slowly,IEEE is moving use of them. Hal will discuss this with HQ and toward learning how to distribute costs as ap- come back to AdCom with more information. propriate and to live within its means. Because Ed asked Peter Winokur, our immediate past of these problems, NPSS is becoming even president, to present an overview of AdCom more fiscally conservative. Among other things, and where it fits into NPSS and IEEE. Peter we are working toward eliminating our subsidy first noted that this is a volunteer society. We of membership in NPSS, which amounts to don’t have any hired administrative people as about $60,000 per year. some societies do. We are about 3,000 mem- Hal Flescher, who was NPSS president in bers, a number that has grown slightly in the last 1990, is now our Division IV director has been few years, and are divided into eight technical heavily involved with TAB since the days of his committees that work to transmit information presidency. He has been TAB treasurer and There’s a to our membership. On the most basic level, now, as a Division Director, represents part of lesson here this is our charter. At one level this looks very TAB on the Board of Directors which, for simple and straightforward. However, because those not familiar with the structure, com- A hole in the ice we are part of a very large organization, there are prises the present, past and future presidents of offers peril only many complexities. These include our relation- IEEE, 11 representatives from TAB (vice presi- to those who go ships with IEEE management, with the Techni- dent plus 10 Division directors), 11 from cal Activities Board (TAB), Regional Activities RAB, one from IEEE-USA and one each from skating. Board (RAB) and Educational Activities Board Standards and Education. To change the con- Rex Stout (EAB) management, with IEEE Publications stitution and bylaws of IEEE requires a 2/3 who produce our journals and conference re- vote of the Board. Hence, TAB and RAB both cords, and those of 36 other societies and coun- have the power to block any changes. As RAB cils, and who manage the premier products gets a portion of the dues and does not earn or offered by IEEE, the All-Periodicals Package spend any money, it is highly unlikely that the (APP), and the Integrated Electronic Library RAB general mentality is apt to be changed by (IEL). The benefits in general outweigh the anything less than cataclysmic. When they do problems in being part of an organization that is spend money, they don’t necessarily spend it close to 400,000 strong, with broad and grow- wisely. Witness: a recent Region 3 meeting at a ing membership outside the US. However, Jamaican resort!! Why? there are problems within the organization As Division IV director, Hal represents 5 so- structure, one being that TAB, which has 37 societies. The Computer Society has two direc- cieties and councils in 10 divisions, generates tors, the Communications Society has one, and significant income for IEEE and yet has no the other 7 Division Directors represent several

12 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y societies each. Hal is chair of the IEEE Nomi- versity of Montreal and Saclay are providing nations Committee, and also involved with the manpower support at the conference. Infrastructure Oversight Committee, and the Fusion Technology Standing Committee committee headed by former president chairman Phil Heitzenroeder reported that Winston that is involved with budget reporting the 2002 SFE was closed, with an excellent re- th simplification. IEEE does not do business in a turn to NPSS. The dates and hotel for the 20 clearly understandable way,and this committee SFE have been set. The meeting will be at the is addressing this problem. (Also, look at Peter Bahia Hotel in San Diego under the chair- Staecker’s reports in the 2001 and 2002 News- manship of Richard Callis, from October 14 letters!) There have been many other reports to 17. The first call for papers went out in Jan- Next excuse, on IEEE’s financial problems and the build-up uary, and abstracts are due in April. IEEE please Conference Services will handle registration and then loss of the General Fund Reserve. Hal and have reviewed the hotel contract. The sec- Make it possible reviewed that financial history. ond call for papers was in the process of being Hal noted that about 40% of IEEE mem- for programmers mailed. As of March 1 there were only 58 pre- bers are not affiliated with any society, and that to write programs registered attendees. A conference call with there are more industrial than scientific com- the Standing Committee was organized to in English and munity (universities, national research labs) urge abstract submittal. The web site has been you will quickly members. In early 2003, over 30% of IEEE’s updated and upgraded, and links to fusion in- discover that membership is from outside the USA. In 8 formation at other sites have been incorpo- years, at the same growth rate, the US and rated. Mark Tillack of UCSD has taken on the programmers do non-US membership will be equal. role of web master for the Fusion Technology not know how to Standing Committee. Technical Committee Reports write in English. Ron Keyser has just assumed chairmanship Christian Boulin, chair of the Computer Appli- of the Nuclear Instruments and Detectors Old programming cations in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences TC was committee. Their role is to enact, update and proverb unable to attend this meeting, so Patrick LeDû maintain our standards. It is probable that this reported for him. The RT2001 books are still committee will, in future, become a functional not closed, but they are trying to resolve this. committee of NPSS. The CANPS committee is being enlarged and Ron Jaszczak, chair of the Nuclear Medical is becoming more active in supervising the and Imaging TC presented the revised bylaws conferences. At present there are 10 members, for this elected TC. The biggest change is in and it is planned to increase that number to 15. providing for a two-year term for the The committee met on March 15 and will meet chair-elect, to allow a better learning opportu- again in Montreal in May, during the RT2003 nity before assuming leadership. conference. Patrick noted that the majority of Steve Mieckle has proposed a Pacific Rim RT conference attendees are from Europe. NSS/MIC. This is under consideration. Jean-Pierre Martin, chair of RT2003, reported Magnus Dahlbom, the NMIS vice chair and that the web site is active and has links for ab- webmasterisworkingwithRadiationIn- stracts, conference registration and hotel reser- strumentation to integrate the MIC and NSS vations. Registration is being handled by IEEE better, so that functions that don’t need du- Conference Services, and they will provide a plication are no longer duplicated in the con- registration manager at the conference itself. ference management. Obviously some As of March 1, 135 abstracts had been re- functions, such as choice of award winners, ceived. Conference attendance, based on prior cannot be integrated. The goal is more effi- history, is expected to be about 225, with 70% ciently run conferences. of the attendees coming from Europe. The Bruce Brown, chair of the Particle Accelera- program has been defined and Saclay is prepar- tor Science and Technology committee re- ing the program booklet. There will be a com- ported that PAC01 books are closing. They mercial exhibit with exhibitors being offered went to audit in February, and audit returns the choice of a booth and/or a sponsorship op- will be complete in March. PAC05 will be portunity. The Physics Department of the Uni-

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 13 chaired by Norbert Holtkamp of SNS and will line. IEEE has already given its permission for be held at the Knoxville Convention Center. this project, but will continue to hold all copy- The contract for PAC05 has been well vetted rights. Adobe scanning, which has very high Remember, I’m by the community and IEEE and is now going character recognition and which also allows not perfect to the Convention Center and the affiliated ho- full text search of digitized papers, is being I don’t need you tels for final tweaking. PAC07, to be chaired by used. To date papers through 1967 have been when I’m right, I Stan Schriber, formerly of LANL and now of scanned and about half those from 1969 are Michigan State, will be held at the Albuquer- complete. There is a critical need for funds to need you when que Convention Center. Although Stan has complete the project, which has a projected I’m wrong. moved from the area, LANL will continue to budget of $140K. So far $60K have been used. provide support for the conference. They are requesting $30K each from APS- Di- John A. Bob Siemann, chair of PAC03 was with us, vision of Physics of Beams, the Department of Macdonald and he reported that Ed Lee of LBNL has Energy, and NPSS to complete the project. taken over from Alan Jackson as program chair. There is $2500 in the PAC03 budget dedicated Alan has gone to Australia to work on the Aus- to this work tralian Light Source. There have been 1283 Vernon Price will attend the PAC03 in sup- poster submissions and there will be 80-90 in- port of IEEE recruiting activities. vited oral papers and about 190 contributed It was noted that the ASME is forming an oral papers. This year the registration fee is be- accelerator group and are looking for sites for low that offered in 2001 since the proceedings information. will be available on CD only. These are still There was discussion of how to pay for the handled as an IEEE Conference Record and Electronic Archiving. The simplest thing paper copies will be available through Book would be to include the funds in the conference Broker. Later, Bob asked how IEEE NPSS val- budget, but it is too late to do that for 2003 ues accrued to the Accelerator community. For and 2005 is pretty far down the line. It is hoped the APS DPB profit share, all money goes to that the work will be complete before then. It community activities. Their total budget is per- was suggested by Hal Flescher that, as the re- haps $60K a year. IEEE and NPSS function turn from PAC01 was expected to exceed the very differently. . Bruce also noted that NPSS projected return, the funds beyond the ex- and DPB hold different positions about money pected return be applied to paying for this pro- for awards, travel grants and so forth. NPSS is ject. See AdCom actions later in this report. fiscally conservative and believes that confer- Tom Hussey,of the Air Force Research Lab, Government ences should fund these activities. We feel that is our new Plasma Science and Applications work we must have adequate reserves to cover a chair. He reported that Christine Coverdale is The rest of the failed conference. APS DPB thinks surplus the newly elected vice chair. The 2003 meeting, money from conferences should be used to to be held on Cheju Island, South Korea has, as stuff was fund these other activities. (Perhaps they of February 8, received about 700 abstracts, of make-work should think about how they would handle a which 270 are from Korea, 120 from Japan, produced by the financial disaster, since they are liable for half of 110 from the USA and 70 are from China. The unwilling for the any loss and it is unlikely that APS will provide budget is based on an attendance of 350. There the funds – Secretary’s note.) There is, how- may be travel problems due to the situations in incompetent ever, a legitimate issue of whether the PAC Iraq and North Korea. There are also many about the awards are NPSS awards or NPSS/APS DPB more students registered than expected, which unnecessary. awards. The problem arises because PAC was may impact the budget. In addition, there are an NPSS conference for 30 years before APS other cultural differences in running a confer- Danny O. DPB became involved, and the problems arise ence in Korea. A major example is that ICOPS Coulson from joint sponsorship. has only published the invited talks in the past, Gerry Jackson, head of the PAC Electronic whereas the attendees at this meeting expect to Archiving Project talked about the proposed have the contributed papers published as well. digitization of all the PAC proceedings from Therefore, two issues of TPS will contain 1963 to 1988 so that they will be available on ICOPS papers – one with the invited papers

14 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y and another with any contributed papers that Barth has accepted the chairmanship of the are submitted. Of course, all papers will have to 2006 NSREC. pass the IEEE review process. This is the 40th anniversary of Radiation Ef- Future ICOPS meetings: 2004, in Balti- fects and there is a 40-year history on their web more, MD; 2005 in Monterey, CA, site http://www.nsrec.com/facts03.pdf. Check back-to-back with Pulsed Power; 2006- Tra- it out! Their web site also has a lot of other verse City,MI; 2007 – PPPS, in Albuquerque. valuable information on Radiation Effects. Personality test This year’s ICOPS award goes to Tom They have planned a special June 2003 issue of All the atoms we Antonsen of the University of Maryland. Con- TNS containing invited papers as part of the are made of are gratulations, Tom! 40th anniversary commemoration. forged from The PSAC is looking at strategies for hold- The 2002 conference books are closed, with ing other joint meetings, both with the Pulsed a return to NPSS slightly below that expected, hydrogen in stars Power community and possibly with SFE. even though the attendance was up by 12%. that died and Hutch Nielsen of PPPL made a presentation to An up-to-date archive of the NSREC short exploded before PSAC about collocation and both communi- courses has been published on CD-ROM. our solar system ties are evaluating this option. These are available through IEEE on-line Cata- Bob Reinovsky, chair of the Pulsed Power log and Store. was formed. So if Technical Committee reported that although The 2003 conference, under Alan Johnston of you are a the 2001 financial report was not officially JPL, will be held in Monterey from July 20-25. romantic, you can posted, NPSS has received a substantial return Abstract receipt indicates that attendance should from the conference. The 2003 conference, to be close to that in 2002. Future NSRECs: 2004- say we are be held in Dallas in June, under the leadership Atlanta, GA; 2005 – Seattle, WA. literally stardust. of Mike Giesselmann of Texas Tech, has re- Ron Keyser, chair of the Radiation Instru- If you’re less ceived 477 abstracts, up about 6% from 2001. mentation Steering Group, reported that the romantic, you can It is a strong program with about half of the pa- budget and room layouts have been com- pers from the US. They used a commercial ab- pleted for the 2003 NSS/MIC in Portland, say we’re the stract service this year that was highly OR. Ralph James of BNL is the general chair. nuclear waste successful. The costs were modest and the re- The 2004 conference, to be held in Rome from the fuel that duction in stress on volunteers noteworthy. with Alberto del Guerra as general chair, is makes the stars There were, on average, 2.4 reviews per ab- completing its budget. There are particular is- stract. There will be an industrial exhibit, job sues to be considered, such as potentially un- shine. placement center, and one minicourse. The fi- avoidable taxes, but Hal Flescher is looking Martin Rees nances seem in good shape, although the un- into this. The 2005 conference will be held in certainties in international affairs are also a San Juan, PR with Tom Lewellen as the gen- worry for this conference, with its large inter- eral chair, and 2006 will be held in San Diego. national attendance. There has also been an ex- A proposal has been received, as mentioned cellent pool of candidates for the three Pulsed above, from Steve Mieckle and Anatoly Power awards Rosenfeld for a Pacific Rim conference (read They also have been discussing the value of Australia) that is being evaluated by the joint IEEE affiliation with several independent con- NMIS/RI site selection committee. ferences including a Beams conference that will Patrick LeDû reported on the struggles in be collocated with the Dallas meeting, and the closing the 2000 conferences held in Lyon. High-density Z-pinch conference. What is clear is that the processes in the US and The committee has been discussing mem- in Europe are different. Some problems re- bership rotations and is moving toward be- sulted from the transition from the French coming an elected technical committee. franc to the euro in 2000. Others resulted from As Dale Platterer was unable to attend, the change in CEA Saclay’s accounting system Dennis Brown presented the Radiation Effects to SAP,meaning that there was a long period of report. On July 1, Tim Oldham will take over time over which account information was un- as committee vice chairman, as Ron Schrimpf available. There were other bureaucracy issues assumes the committee chairmanship. Janet and, because the conference was such a success,

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 15 it was noticed by France and the European by IEEE cover our interest areas. We could Community, so unexpected taxes were levied initiate one, but would also have to fund it against it at a rate of 20% on certain income. A unless we could find a corporate sponsor for negotiation is in process to reduce this to 5%, it. We might still have the problem of getting A laughing but at least some tax will be unavoidable, it a good pool of candidates after a few years! seems. In addition, the conference service com- Vernon Price, chair of the Members, Chap- matter pany, Carte Blanche, declared bankruptcy. Pat- ters and Distinguished Lecturers committee The only gracious rick feels that he finally has a good set of was at an IEEE meeting related to these sub- way to accept an numbers with which to work, which he now jects so several items were deferred to the July has to present and justify. He hopes that all is- insult is to ignore meeting, which we hope he’ll be able to attend. sues will be resolved shortly so that the confer- The Finance committee, chaired by Hal it; if you can’t ence can close. One important lesson for those Flescher, has had no formal meetings re- ignore it, top it; if organizing international conferences is to ex- cently, but are in constant telephone contact, you can’t top it, amine the methods of organization and the lo- which is one of the reasons our society is fis- gistics and to work closely with our financial laugh at it; if you cally very sound. people as well as with those of the host country NOW is the time, says Peter Winokur, chair can’t laugh at it, to try to prevent problems from happening. In of the Nominations committee comprised of it’s probably the case of European conferences, it may be all TC chairs, to submit to him names of candi- that the European Union would be a better deserved. dates to fill the four AdCom positions that will host than an individual country.This is an issue become vacant at year end. The areas to be re- Russell Lynes to be explored. placed include Pulsed Power, Fusion, Plasma It is clear that guidelines need to be written Science and Applications and Radiation Ef- for non-US meeting planning. fects. Most remarkably, the Pulsed Power com- It is hoped that, because of extenuating cir- munity already has two strong candidates! cumstances, the penalties levied against Good job, Bob Reinovsky and co! NSS/MIC 2000 will be waived. Our editor-in-chief, Paul Dressendorfer, re- As Erik Heijne was unable to attend this ported for all segments of the Publications meeting, Patrick LeDû reported for the Trans- committee. This is the year for our five-year national Committee that they are trying to de- journal review, which is companion to the so- fine their work and activities. ciety review. Paul noted that TNS and TPS They plan to promulgate the NPSS um- have both had significant publication delays brella for appropriate European independent over the years. TNS actually came back on conferences, and are working on the issue men- schedule with the December 2002 issue and tioned several times above, of how to manage TPS seems to be catching up. Delays are due non-US conferences appropriately. both to editors/guest editors and to IEEE Functional Committee Reports Publications. There are still quality issues re- The Meetings committee would like input on lated both to graphics and to text editing (see upcoming conferences. Please send information above, President’s Report). The first special to Ray Larsen ([email protected]) in- issue of ICOPS contributed papers will ap- cluding conference name, dates, venue and con- pear in TPS in 2004. tact person, when that information is available. The comment was made that TPS has not The Awards committee, chaired by Igor been out on time in several years, and that Alexeff, reviewed the NPSS awards that were quality is a major issue. For example, material also listed in the last Newsletter, and is seek- provided to IEEE Pubs for the August 2003 ing nominations, which will have been due special issue was not included, and no reason on May 15. It was noted by Hal Flescher that was given for this. the IEEE has trouble in getting nominees for The issue of lateness has been at a cost to the principal awards it offers. Maybe the NPSS. We were unable to get listed in Index community has become too blasé about Medicus, which is very important to the im- these. Peter Winokur also reminded us that aging community and to academics who rely none of the Technical Field Awards offered on timely publication and science citations

16 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y forpromotions.Thesourcesofdelaysarenot These are confusing and should be amended. always clear-cut. Suggestions for changes will be given to Hal Flescher and he’ll take them to the TAB Fi- Liaison Reports nance committee on our behalf. If our confer- Peter Winokur has asked to be replaced as li- ence organizers are finding these confusing, it Company policy aison to the R&D Policy committee. Igor is likely that others also are confused. If you are idle, be Alexeff is the new liaison to the IEEE Awards not solitary; if you committee. Gerry Rogoff, the liaison to the Actions Taken by AdCom Coalition on Plasma Science, has promised a The revisions to the NMIS Bylaws were ap- are solitary, be full report in July. Peter Winokur noted that proved. The new Bylaws are published else- not idle. their meeting for Congressional staff and where in this issue of the Newsletter. They will Congresspersons was very well attended and go into effect 60 days following publication Samuel Johnson had much valuable information available. date, barring a large number of objections. A Hal Flescher, the liaison to RADECS noted formal copy will be sent to IEEE. that the steering committee has been reorga- It was moved, seconded and passed that the nized and now has a number of new mem- NPSS AdCom approve funds to conduct a bers. The RADECS issue of TNS from the five-year survey of member areas of interest Grenoble conference contains 32 papers of It was moved, seconded and passed that the the 100 presented. The meeting in Padua, at NPSS AdCom authorize the PAC organizing which 40 papers were presented, (the alter- committee to employ up to $60,000 from nate year small meeting) will contribute 14 PAC01, beyond the return to APS DPB and to TNS. In 2003 the major meeting will be IEEE NPSS budgeted at $62,300, for the PAC held in the Netherlands; in 2004 the small Electronic Archiving Project. meeting is in Spain; and the 2005 large meet- The next meeting of the IEEE NPSS ing will be in Montpelier, France. There is an AdCom will take place at the DoubleTree Ho- effort to avoid duplications between the tel, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, CA on Sat- NSREC and RADECS programs. urday, July 26, 2003, following the 2003 Unfinished Business NSREC. The Annual Meeting of the AdCom Expenses for AdCom meetings held in con- will be held on Saturday, October 25, 2003 junction with NPSS conferences should not be BEFORE the NSS/MIC in Portland. OR. included in conference budgets. While AdCom Respectfully submitted, Albe Larsen asks the host conference to pay the bills, and Albe Larsen, the NPSS secretary, can be the conference gets credited with rooms and reached at the Stanford Linear Accelerator meals for AdCom, the expenses are transferred Center, P.O. Box 4939, Stanford, CA 94039; to AdCom. This discussion provoked discus- Phone: +1 650 926-2748; Fax: +1 650 sion of the Budget Sheets developed by IEEE. 926-5124; E-mail: [email protected]

Didn’t know that! Sir Humphrey: “I need to know everything! How else can I judge whether or not I need to know it?” Bernard Woolley: “So that means you need to know things even when you don’t need to know. You need to know them not because you need to know them, but because you need to know whether or not you need to know. And if you don’t need to know you still need to know, so that you know that there is no need to know.” Yes, Minister (BBC Program)

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 17 RITC REPORT

he Radiation Instrumentation Technical Forster. The deadlines for abstract submission Committee (RITC) is all the members are as follows: Tof NPSS who subscribe to the IEEE • NSS May 16, 2003 Transactions on Nuclear Science. The Radia- • MIC May 16, 2003 tion Instrumentation Steering Committee • SNPS June 1, 2003 (RISC) is an elected committee responsible for • RTSD June 27, 2003 the operation of RITC. RISC has the task of In addition to the sessions for these meet- acting on behalf of the full RITC membership ings, there will be several workshops and in organizational matters, the most important short courses before, during and after the of which is planning for future Nuclear Science main meeting. Symposia (NSS). Meetings of RISC are scheduled annually at the time of the NSS, For more information on the meeting with most other business conducted via email. times, hotels and any other details, see the website at http://www.nss-mic.org/2003/ Ronald Keyser Each summer, 5 members are elected to the nsshome2003.html Chair, RISC and RISC. If you have an interest in becoming a OneofthepleasuresoftheRISCistherecog- NIDCOM candidate for election to RISC or want to nominate someone else, please send me an nition of the contributions made by our col- email at [email protected] leagues. This year the award will be the Radiation It’s time once again to plan to attend the Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement 2003 NSS-MIC meeting on Oct 19 to Oct 26 Award. Please submit nominations to the at the Doubletree Hotels Portland - Columbia Awards Committee Chairman, David Wehe at River and Jantzen Island in Portland, OR. [email protected]. The nomination form is at Once again, we are able to have the Room http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm. Temperature Semiconductor Detector Work- See you in Portland. shop and the Symposium on Nuclear Power Ron Keyser, the Chair of the RISC as well as Systems at the same time and place. The NIDCOM (see below) can be reached at ORTEC, Inventive NSS-MIC General Chair is Ralph James; the 801 South Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN thought RTSD General Co-Chairs are Ralph James and 37831; Phone: +1 865 483-2146; Fax: +1 865 Paul Siffert; the SNPS Program Chair is Jay 481-2438; E-mail: [email protected] People think of the inventor as a NIDCOM REPORT screwball, but no one asks the s the new chairman of the Nuclear In- NPSS area are the result of work by this struments and Detectors Committee, I committee. inventor what he Awish to thank William Bugg, Mike Currently the committee is undergoing thinks of other Unterweger and Louis Costrell for all the work change and will increase the scope to include they have done in the past few years on the standards appropriate to all areas of NPSS, not people. Committee. The task of the NIDCOM is to co- just the nuclear radiation areas. Charles F. ordinate or oversee the writing of standards re- If you know of a need for an IEEE standard lating to nuclear instruments and detectors. in the NPSS area, please contact me at Kettering Many of the commonly used standards in the [email protected].

It’s all Greek to me! Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei

18 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y NMISTC Constitution & Bylaws Changes

very 5 years the NMISC is required to as Vice-Chairperson, two years as Chair- contemplate revisions to the NMISTC person, and two years as Most Recent Econstitution. The purpose is to “evaluate Chairperson. the effectiveness of this Constitution and By- • Added the Chairperson of the RISC to laws, to study the rules of governance required the list of ex-officio members of the by the activities of the Committee at that time, NMISC. This is a reciprocal relationship and to consider writing a new Constitution - the NMISC Chair is already an and Bylaws appropriate to the existing and an- ex-officio member of the RISC. ticipated needs of the NMISC.” Last year I • Allowed the Vice-Chairperson or the chaired a committee to do this, and am happy Most Recent Past Chairman to represent to say that the committee did not feel that ma- the NMISC at AdCom should the Chair- W.W. Moses jor changes were necessary. There were, how- person be unable to do so. This conforms NPSS Vice President ever, a few “housekeeping” changes that were to IEEE and NPSS rules. desired in order to simplify the Constitution • Changed the procedure for voting for and to improve the operation of the NMISC. Vice-Chairman, simplifying the nomina- We therefore created a revised NMISTC Con- tion procedure and the method for cast- stitution that has been approved by the ing ballots. NMISC and the NPSS AdCom, and will go • into effect unless 20 NPSS members send ob- Removed the requirement to hold an annual Open Business Meeting. jections to the NMISC Chairperson (Ron • Jaszczak, [email protected]) within 90 Simplified the procedure for removing or days of the mailing date of this Newsletter. replacing NMISC members. While the entire (revised) Constitution is • Removed a bylaw that prohibited a sin- printed below, I suspect that some of you may gle institution from having more than prefer the executive summary, so I list the more two members on the NMISC. “major” changes below. Bill Moses chaired the committee that prepared Upon a star • Made the NMISC Vice-Chairperson po- these proposed changes to the NMISTC Constitu- Anybody who sition a two year position (it previously tion and Bylaws. He is also the NPSS Vice Presi- was a one year position). As the dent and can be reached at the Lawrence Berkeley doesn’t believe in Vice-Chairperson is Chairperson-elect, National Laboratory, MS 55-121, 1 Cyclotron dreams isn’t a this change lengthens the training period Road, Berkeley, CA 94720; Phone +1 510 for the person who will become Chair- 486-4432; Fax: +1 510 486-4768; E-mail: realist. person. The succession is now two years [email protected]. Billy Wilder

Prescience The burden will grow worse and worse as science advances, for the improvement in the art of destruction will keep pace with its advance and every year more and more will have to be devoted to costly engines of war. Karl Marx (in 1879)

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 19 Constitution and Bylaws of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Constitution Section 2. The terms of office of the elected members-at-large shall be three years. Members-at-large elected to a full term may not succeed Article- I - Name and Object themselves, and at least one year must elapse before an individual may be Section 1. The organization shall be known as the Nuclear Medical and re-elected to the NMISC. Election of members-at-large shall be held annu- Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma ally to fill vacancies for the coming year. The terms of office of the ex-officio Sciences Society (NPSS), hereafter referred to as the Committee. members shall be specified in the Bylaws. Section 2. The Committee shall strive for the advancement of theories and applications of Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences and of its allied Section 3. arts and sciences and maintenance of high scientific and technical standards among its members. (a) The affairs of the Committee shall be managed by a Chairperson, as directed by the NMISC and in accordance with the powers and duties as Section 3. The Committee shall aid in promoting close cooperation and defined thereunder and in the Bylaws. In the event of the Chairperson’s exchange of technical information among its members and to this end absence or incapacity, his/her duties shall be performed by a shall hold meetings for the presentation and discussion of original contri- Vice-Chairperson. butions, shall assist in the publication of the Transactions on Nuclear Sci- ence (TNS) and other IEEE publications that the committee shall deem (b) The Chairperson shall appoint a Secretary for the NMISC. The Secre- appropriate, and shall otherwise provide for the needs of its members tary need not be chosen from among the elected members at large. Article- II - Field of Interest Section 4. Section 1. The field of interest of the Committee is Nuclear Medical and (a) On alternate years a Vice-Chairperson (who shall be the Chairperson Imaging Sciences, and their related technologies and applications. It shall elect) is elected by the voting members of the NMISC from the eligible foster publication or other dissemination of original contributions to the members-at-large of the NMISC. The term of office for the Vice-Chairper- theories, experiments, educational methods and applications of Nuclear son shall be two years as Vice-Chairperson, followed by two years as Medical and Imaging Sciences. Areas of technical activity will include, but Chairperson, and two years as the Most Recent Past Chairperson. not be limited to the following: (b) Only those members-at-large having one year or more of their term as Section 2. elected member-at-large remaining shall be eligible for election as 1) Radiation sources (including synchrotron radiation) Vice-Chairperson. In the event that a Vice-Chairperson is elected to take 2) Detectors used for imaging and radiotherapy office at the beginning of the second or third year of their term as mem- 3) Radiation standards and radiation monitoring for ber-at-large, said term shall automatically extend until he vacates the of- biomedical instrumentation and personnel fice of Most Recent Past Chairperson. During this extension, that individ- 4) Theory, physics and instrumentation of medical imaging modalities including, but not restricted to: ual shall be considered an ex officio member with voting rights. No individ- a. Planar Nuclear Medicine (NM) ual may serve two successive terms as Vice-Chairperson or two b. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography successive terms as Chairperson. (SPECT) c. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) (c) In the event that neither the Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson is d. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) able to take office as prescribed in the Bylaws, or if both are incapacitated e. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) or if both offices become vacant, the NMISC shall promptly elect an Acting f. Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) Chairperson from among the members-at-large to assume the duties of g. Functional MRI (fMRI) Chairperson until either a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson takes office or h. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) i. Digital Radiography (DR) resumes their duties. j. Related imaging systems and devices (d) The Vice-Chairperson will, except under circumstances deemed un- 5) Modeling and simulation of imaging detectors, devices, systems, and processes usual by a majority of the voting members of NMISC, become the sole 6) Image analysis techniques nominee for the succeeding Chairperson election. 7) Image reconstruction algorithms Section 5. The Chairperson shall be an ex-officio member of all sub-com- 8) Quantitative imaging methods mittees of the NMISC. Article- III - Membership Section 6. The Chairperson, as soon as expedient after their election, shall appoint the Chairpersons of the sub-committees provided for in the Section 1. Members of the Committee are members of the IEEE NPSS Bylaws. having an interest in Nuclear Medical Imaging. Article V - Nominations and Election of NMISC Members-at-Large Section 2. Affiliates may participate in the activities of the Society as provided by the IEEE Bylaws and subject to the applicable IEEE rules and Section 1. Nominating procedures shall be as prescribed in the Bylaws regulations and to any additional limitations imposed by the Society and shall include provision for nomination by NMISTC members. Bylaws. Section 2. Election of the members-at-large of the NMISC shall be as pre- Article- IV - Administration scribed in the Bylaws. Section 1. The Committee shall be managed by a Nuclear Medical and Section 3. If a member of the NMISC does not complete their term, the Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC) consisting of elected mem- NMISC Chairperson shall appoint a replacement to fill the unexpired por- bers-at-large, plus certain ex-officio members as specified herein and in tion of the term. When an NMISC member is appointed for a partial term, the Bylaws. The number of elected members-at-large shall be 15 that person is eligible to run for the next full-term election to the same members. position.

20 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y Article VI - Meetings 1.1 The voting members of the NMISC shall be the elected mem- Section 1. The Committee may hold meetings, conferences, symposia or bers-at-large, the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Most Recent Past conventions either alone or in cooperation with other organizations sub- Chairperson. ject to applicable IEEE and NPSS rules and regulations. 1.2 The NMISC shall meet at least once per year, upon dates determined Section 2. Eight voting members of the NMISC shall constitute a quorum. by the Chairperson at least three weeks in advance of the meeting. Addi- No member shall have more than one vote by reason of multiple offices or tional meetings may be called at the discretion of the Chairperson or upon Committee responsibilities. request of at least eight voting members of the NMISC with at least three weeks notice. Section 3. A majority of the legal votes cast by those members of the NMISC attending a meeting shall be necessary for the conduct of its busi- 1.3 The last regularly scheduled meeting in the calendar year shall be ness except as otherwise provided in this constitution. considered the Annual Meeting of the NMISC. Section 4. Business of the NMISC may be handled by any written means 1.4 The Annual Meeting of the NMISC will be open to all Committee members. which includes (but is not limited to) correspondence, fax or e-mail if, in the 2. Nomination and Election of NMISC Members: Articles IV & V of the opinion of the Chairperson, matters requiring prompt action can be ade- Constitution specify the number of NMISC members-at-large, as well as quately handled in that manner. A majority of the voting members of the term length and restrictions. One third of the NMISC mem- NMISC is required to take action in such a case. Such actions are to be bers-at-large posts are to be filled each year by election of the general promptly confirmed in writing by the Chairperson to NMISC. membership of the Committee. Section 5. The NMISC shall meet as required to conduct business and in 2.1 The Chairperson of the NMISC is responsible for ensuring that at least accordance with the Bylaws. one nomination is made for each vacant post. Nominations may be made Article VII - Amendments by any member of the NMISC or any member in good standing of the Committee. Self nominations are allowed. Section 1. Amendments to this Constitution may be initiated by petition submitted by a two-thirds vote of the NMISC, such petition being submit- 2.2 The Individual making a nomination must determine in advance that ted to the Ad Com of the NPSS for approval. After such approval, the pro- the nominee is willing to serve if elected. posed amendment shall be publicized in the IEEE TNS or Medical Imag- 2.3 If there are more nominations than posts to be filled, those nominees ing (TMI), and/or the NPSS Newsletter, with notice that it goes into effect receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to the vacant posts. unless 20 Committee members object within 90 days of the date of mailing of the notice. If such objections are received, a copy of the proposed 2.4 The Chairperson of the NMISC shall assure, before April 1, that a call amendment shall be mailed with a ballot to all members of the Committee for nominations is conveyed to the whole membership. Additional nomi- at least 30 days before the date set for the return of the ballots; the ballots nations may be submitted to the nominating committee by July 1 by mem- shall carry a statement of the deadline for their return to the IEEE office. bers of the Committee or by members of the NMISC. Such nominations When a mail vote of the entire Committee membership is made neces- must include an expression by the nominee of willingness to serve if sary, approval of the amendment by at least two-thirds of the ballots elected. returned shall be necessary for its enactment. 2.5 All nominees must be either members in any grade of IEEE and of the Section 2. As an alternative to the procedure outlined in Section 1 above, Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Technical Committee or must have 10 members of the Committee may submit a petition to the Ad Com of the submitted applications for membership at the time the nominations are NPSS. If approved by the NPSS Ad Com and after notification of the forwarded to IEEE Headquarters. NMISC, the proposed amendment shall be submitted to the membership 2.6 The Secretary shall annually arrange for the distribution to the mem- by mail ballot as described above. bers of the Committee on or about July 31, a ballot to elect the candidates Section 3. Committee Bylaws, and amendments thereto, may be adopted to fill vacancies on the NMISC. The ballot shall be accompanied by a short by two-thirds vote of the NMISC, provided that notice of the proposed By- biographical sketch of each nominee with an indication of their Nuclear law or amendment has been sent to each member of the NMISC at least a Medical and Imaging Science activities and former or present IEEE activi- week prior to such meeting. Alternatively, a Committee Bylaw or amend- ties. ment may be adopted by a two-thirds mail vote of the members of the 2.7 Sixty days after distribution of the ballots, the IEEE Headquarters NMISC, provided a 30-day period is provided for such responses. In either shall count and tabulate the votes received and report the results to the event, the proposed Bylaw or amendment shall be publicized in the NPSS NMISC. TNS or TMI, and/or the NPSS Newsletter. No Bylaw or amendment shall take effect until it has been approved by the Ad Com of the NPSS. 2.8 The NMISC shall submit to the Secretary of the NPSS Ad Com the Article VIII - Revision names of the candidates with the largest number of votes to fill the desig- nated vacancies. Section 1. The Chairperson of the NMISC shall appoint a five-person sub-committee no later than January 1, 2007, and every five years hence 3. Functional Committees: The NMISTC Chairperson, in concurrence to evaluate the effectiveness of this Constitution and Bylaws, to study the with the NMISC, shall appoint the Chairpersons of the following Func- rules of governance required by the activities of the Committee at that tional Sub-Committees: -The Medical Imaging Conference Oversight Committee. time, and to consider writing a new Constitution and Bylaws appropriate to -Award committee for the MIC award. the existing and anticipated needs of the NMISC. -Other Sub-Committees as shall be required for the operation of the NMISTC. Bylaws 3.1 The term of office of a Chairperson of a Functional Sub-Committee shall be one year, but a Functional Sub-Committee Chairperson may be 1. NMISC: Article IV of the Constitution provides that the NMISC shall re-appointed to the same position. consist of a number of elected members-at-large plus certain ex-officio members. The ex-officio members of the NMISC shall be (unless they are 3.2 The Chairpersons of Functional Sub-Committees must be members already elected members-at-large), the Chairpersons of the Functional of the NMISC. Sub-Committees, the Chairperson of the Radiation Instrumentation Tech- 3.3 The membership of the Functional Sub-Committees shall be ap- nical Committee, the Secretary, the Editors and Associate Editors of the pointed by the Chairperson of that Functional Sub-Committee. The mem- IEEE TNS and other publications as deemed appropriate by the NMISC bership and activities of the Functional Sub-Committees should be publi- and such other ex-officio members as are provided for in the Constitution cized to the membership of the Committee via the NPSS Newsletter, and and Bylaws of the NPSS.

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 21 suggestions for Sub-Committee membership should be invited from Com- attendance. If there is more than one candidate, a secret ballot will be taken mittee members. during the annual meeting and the Chairperson shall designate tellers to immediately count the ballots. Voting NMISC members-at-large who are not at- 3.4 Each of the Functional Sub-Committees shall submit a written report of tending the annual meeting of the NMISC may submit a ballot by notifying the its activities to the NMISC prior to or at the Annual Meeting. NMISC Secretary of their choice. The results of the vote shall be announced 4. Ballots: All ballots, whether for purposes of election or changes in the and the nominee receiving a majority of votes cast shall be declared elected. Constitution, shall be issued to the voting members by the Secretary pur- In the event that no candidate receives a majority of votes cast, runoff elec- suant to action by the NMISC. No ballot shall be counted unless unambig- tions shall be conducted by secret ballot at the Annual meeting of NMISC uously marked by a qualified voter to indicate their choice, and sent in a among the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes until one sealed envelope bearing the voter’s name on or before the specified dead- candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. For these runoff elections, line date. This specified deadline date shall be at least thirty days subse- only those NMISC members in attendance may cast a vote. quent to the date of the mailing of the ballots. The distribution and counting 7. Records: The secretary shall maintain a permanent record of all of the ballots shall be entrusted to IEEE Headquarters. The IEEE Head- non-routine motions passed by the NMISC, written minutes of the Annual quarters will report the results of the election to the Secretary of NMISC, in Meeting of the NMISC, a roster of all NMISC members, and a membership turn, shall report the results to the NMISC. roster of all NMISC sub-committees. The secretary must provide a tabula- 5. Beginning of Terms of Office: All terms of office of elected Mem- tion of the most recent five years of motions and a copy of the NMISTC bers-at-Large of the NMISC shall begin January 1 of the year immediately constitution and bylaws to each newly elected member-at-large to the following their election. NMISC. 6. Election of the Vice-Chairperson of NMISC: The Vice-Chairperson of 8. Alternates: NMISC shall be nominated and elected from among the eligible mem- 8.1 Members-at-Large: An elected Member-at-Large may designate any bers-at-large of the NMISC. A minimum of one month before the annual member in good standing of the NMISTC to represent the Mem- meeting of the NMISC, the NMISC Secretary will notify all current NMISC ber-at-Large at the NMISC meeting. The representative shall have the members of the upcoming election and solicit nominations (self-nominations privilege of the floor, but may not vote on any matters coming before the are allowed). The nominations will be closed two weeks before the annual NMISC. meeting of the NMISC, and the Chairperson of the NMISC is responsible for ensuring that at least one nomination for Vice-Chairperson is received by this 8.2 AdCom Representation: If the NMISC Chairperson is unable to repre- time. The Secretary of NMISC shall announce to all voting NMISC mem- sent the NMISC at the NPSS AdCom, the Chairperson may designate the bers-at-large the identities of the candidates at least one week before the an- Vice-Chairperson or the Most Recent Past Chairperson as his/her alter- nual meeting, and also inform them of the procedure for casting a ballot if they nate. This alternate has the privilege of the floor and may vote on all mat- are unable to attend the NMISC annual meeting. The vote will occur during ters coming before AdCom. the annual meeting of the NMISC. If there is only one candidate, then that November 5, 2002 candidate will be elected at the Annual Meeting by those NMISC members in

Ahead of the curve I believe most assuredly that the next science to find itself in moral difficulties with its applications is biology, and if the problems of physics relative to science seem difficult, the problems of biological knowledge will be fantastic. Richard P. Feynman (in 1964)

22 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y REPORT FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

very two years the NPSS has a new presi- particle accelerators. I believe that it can dent and as a result a new membership only be an advantage for the engineers Ebrochure. This brochure has now been and scientists of the field to be more in- printed and is being distributed to the confer- volved in the whole IEEE. ences for inclusion in the registration packages. The leaflet has been distributed at the May It will be sent out to the membership in Sep- PAC in Portland. Vern Price and the recruit- tember. If you could use some copies of the ment booth were there with the new bro- brochure for local distribution, please get in chure for those interested in exploring the contact with me, preferably by email and with a NPSS and IEEE. Subject line in the email that is distinct from We do need any help that you have for con- the ones used in junk mail! This helps avoid tent for the NPSS web site. How about a page Peter Clout deletion unread! explaining your neck of the NPSS woods? NPSS As a new initiative this year, we have pro- Some interesting professional and informa- Communications duced a single page leaflet addressed to the en- tional links? I doubt that we can link to any Committee Chair gineers and physicists in the charged particle commercial sites without looking carefully. accelerator field. We have done this because: As a result of the new initiatives with the • The people in this field have a relatively web site and the brochures along with the con- low representation on our membership tinuing excellent meetings and publications, lists while the meeting we initiated and the NPSS can boast of the second highest re- which is now jointly sponsored with the tention rate of the 37 technical societies of the American Physical Society, the PAC, is IEEE. We must be doing something right! one of our largest meetings. The repre- Again, my thanks go to all the members of sentation of the technical fields in the ad- the Committee and especially Dick Kouzes and ministration of the NPSS is based on the Ken Connor who maintain the web site and membership interest profile with the re- Vern Price who works so hard on the member- sult that the charged particle accelerator ship booth at meetings and steers the resulting field is underrepresented in the adminis- membership forms through the IEEE. tration of NPSS. This hurts both the field Peter Clout, the Communications Committee and NPSS. Chair, can be reached at Vista Control Systems • Many of the other societies in the IEEE Inc., 176 Central Park Square, Los Alamos, NM represent technologies that play a role in 87544-3012; Phone: +1 505 662-2484; Fax: +1 the complex machines that are charged 505 662-3956; E-mail: clout @vista-control.com

Amnesia Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that the symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 23 AWARDS

NEW IEEE FELLOWS

Each year the IEEE Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full members to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made by Senior Members or by Fellows and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society the nominations are passed on to the Fellows Committee of the Board who then recommend a list of candidates for the Board’s consideration. The NPSS is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board this year and extends its congratulations to all of them. Paul K Chu

rof. Paul K Chu was born in Hong Kong special issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma on October 19, 1956. He received his Science, coordinator of the International PBS in mathematics from the Ohio State Plasma Doping Users Group (PDUG), and University in 1977, and MS and PhD in chem- voting member of the International istry from Cornell University in 1979 and Plasma-Based Ion Implantation Executive 1982, respectively. He joined Charles Evans & Committee. Prof. Chu is Fellow of IEEE, Associates in Cali- Fellow of the Hong fornia in 1982 and Kong Institution of assumed various Engineers (HKIE), technical and mana- elected scientific Paul K. Chu gerial positions. Af- member of the ter working in the Bohmishe Physical United States for 8 Society (BPS), as years, he started his well as member of own company in the American Asia and later be- Paul Chu competing in a race. Chemical Society came a visiting fac- (ACS), American ulty member in the Vacuum Society City University of Hong Kong. He became a (AVS), Materials Research Society (MRS), full-time faculty member in 1996 and is pres- and Minerals, Metals & Materials Society ently Professor (Chair) of Materials Engineer- (TMS). He served on the International Advi- ing in the Department of Physics & Materials sory Board of the IEEE International Confer- Marketing Science in the City University of Hong Kong. ence on Plasma Science (ICOPS) from 1996 difficulty He holds concurrent professorships in four to 1998 and the International Organizing We’ve been Chinese universities: Department of Com- Committee of ICOPS 2003, and has been a puter Science in Peking University (Beijing, member of the International Executive Com- doubling sales China) since 1997, Department of Materials mittee of the International Plasma-Based Ion every 18 months. Science in Fudan University (Shanghai, China) Implantation Workshop since 1998. He was However, when since 1994, Department of Materials Engi- also co-chairman of a number of international neering in Southwest Jiaotong University conferences such as the International Confer- you start from (Chengdu, China) since 1998, and Southwest- ence on Materials and Process Characteriza- zero, it takes a ern Institute of Physics (Chengdu, China) tion and International Workshop on Junction since 1998. He founded his second company, Technology.Prof. Chu is a technical advisor to long time. Plasma Technology Ltd., in 1998 and the National 863 Materials & Surface Engi- Stephen Yeo (of co-founded Chengdu Pulsetech Electrical Co. neering R&D Center in Shenzhen, China. Ltd. with a Chinese partner in 2001. Prof. Chu was a member of the Technical Ad- Wyse) He is a member of the Hong Kong Re- visory Board of Silicon Genesis Corporation search Grants Council (RGC) Engineering in Campbell, California and is consultant with Panel, member of the Editorial Board of Nu- several companies in the US and Asia. clear Instruments and Methods in Physics His research activities focus on plasma sci- Research B: Beam Interactions with Materi- ence and engineering, ion implantation, thin als Atoms, guest editor of the ICOPS-2003 films, surface modification, materials charac-

24 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y terization, and semiconductor processing. than 100 medals in masters swimming competi- Two of his research projects have been tions, co-held a Hong Kong masters swimming 2 out of 3 awarded the “Excellent” rating by the City record, and has all the CityU staff swimming re- University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong cords in butterfly and breast stroke. He was also To do Research Grants Council. He is author or champion in CityU staff singles and teams bad- mathematics you co-author of 9 book chapters, over 250 jour- minton competitions. need paper, a nal papers, and over 300 conference papers. Dr. Chu's Fellow citation reads “For contri- He has 7 United States patents. butions to the understanding of plasma implanta- pen, and a Prof. Chu is Manager of the varsity badmin- tion and deposition.” wastebasket; to ton and swimming teams of the City University Paul Chu can be reached at the City University of of Hong Kong (CityU). The men’s badminton Hong Kong, Department of Physics and Material do philosophy, team from CityU has won the Hong Kong Science, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, the paper and inter-collegiate championship for nine straight China; Phone: +852-27887724; Fax: +852- pen are enough. years. As an amateur athlete, he has won more 27889549; E-mail: [email protected] Old saying Bruce G. Danly

r. Danly received the B.A. degree in Branch, in the Electronics Science and Tech- physics from Haverford College, and nology Division. Technologies under investi- Dthe Ph.D. degree in physics from the gation in this branch include gyrotron Massachusetts Institute of Technology,in 1978 amplifiers (gyroklystrons, gyrotwystrons, and 1983, respectively.From 1983 to 1995 Dr. gyro-TWTs), free-electron lasers, TWTs, and Danly was on the research staff at the MIT klystrons. He has also made contributions to Plasma Fusion Center, first as Research Scien- the development of high-power millimeter tist from 1983-1992, and then as Principal Sci- wave radar. Dr. Danly was named fellow of entist from 1992-1995. While at MIT, Dr. IEEE “for contributions to the development of Danly participated in research on gyrotrons, high-power millimeter-wave sources for fusion, ac- free-electron lasers, relativistic klystrons, and celerator, and defense applications.” Bruce G. Danly other high power RF source technologies for Bruce Danly can be reached at the US Naval use in plasma heating and high-gradient RF Research Laboratory, Electronics Science & Tech- linear accelerators. In 1995, he joined the Na- nology Division, Code 6843, 4555 Overlook Ave- val Research Laboratory as Head of the High nue SW,Washington,DC 20375; Phone +1 202 Power Devices Section, Vacuum Electronics 767-0032; E-mail; [email protected]. Gracie E. Davis

racie E. Davis received her B. S., M. S. of aboveground and underground radiation and Ph. D. (1979) in electrical engi- testing data for a Defense Satellite Communica- Gneering from the University of Califor- tions Systems (DSCS) III-like satellite, focal nia, Los Angeles. At the Naval Research plane arrays, materials, optics and electronics in Laboratory,her basic research on silicon-on-in- an interactive data driven analysis tool permit- sulator (SOI) technology lead to selecting ting effective/affordable system-level hardening SIMOX (Separation by IMplanted OXygen) as for future military systems. the government’s radiation hardened electron- Dr. Davis worked on the IEEE Silicon on ics technology. Her SIMOX work was the first Sapphire (SOS)/SOI Workshop Committee. to demonstrate the parasitic transistor action of She initiated best paper selection while confer- SOI devices and SOI’s inherent hardness to to- ence SOS/SOI Workshop chairperson and as- Gracie E. Davis tal dose, dose rate, single event upset and neu- sisted in the transition the SOS/SOI Workshop tron irradiation. to SOI Conference within IEEE Electron De- While at Defense Nuclear Agency, Dr. Davis vice (ED) Society. developed and managed the end-to-end sys- Dr. Davis' Fellow citation reads “For Contri- tem-level demonstration of optical target acqui- butions to the development of radiation-hard elec- sition and track file formulation, which tronics for military and space applications.” developed Operate Through (OT) technologies Gracie Davis can be reached at Phone: +1 760 for military systems. Dr. Davis lead the capture 360-5564; E-mail [email protected]

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 25 Gerd Muehllehner

erd Muehllehner was born in 1939 in oping a PET scanner at the University, he and Germany and came to the United States his wife started a small company in Philadel- Gat age 17. He attended Georgetown phia, which merged in 1999 with ADAC Lab- University (B.S.) and graduated from the Uni- oratories and more recently with Philips versity of Michigan (Ph.D.) in 1966. His doctor- Medical Systems. ate is in the field of Nuclear Physics. He continues to be active in research and de- After working for more than 10 years in in- velopment and continues his collaboration dustry in the field of Nuclear Medicine instru- with a team of researchers at the University of mentation at Searle Radiographics (now part Pennsylvania. of Siemens), he joined the Department of Ra- Gerd Muehllehner's Fellow citation reads Gerd Muehllehner diology at the University of Pennsylvania, Phil- “For contributions to positron emission tomogra- adelphia in 1979. During his tenure at the U. phy instrumentation and image reconstruction of Pennsylvania he was active in the develop- techniques.” ment of instrumentation and techniques for Gerd Muehllehner can be reached at Philips Positron Emission Tomography (PET) used Medical Systems, 3619 Market Street, Philadel- for imaging tumors and other metabolically ac- phia, PA 19104; Phone +1 215 243-2601; tive processes in vivo. After successfully devel- E-mail: [email protected].

Tadashi Nishimura

adashi Nishimura received his B.S., M.S. low power/high density SRAM and it was suc- and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineer- cessfully implemented in 4MSRAM and 8M Ting from Osaka University in 1972, SRAM that played an important role in the re- 1975, and 1978, respectively. In 1978, he cent mobile phone market. From 1996 he joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, LSI managed the advanced process and simula- Laboratory. tion technologies, such as ArF lithography, His research and development activities are Cu/low-k interconnect, BST high-k dielectric in the field of SOI, bulk Si CMOS devices and material for DRAM capacitors and TCAD. Dead right! memory devices, especially as to the SOI de- These technologies are used for 0.10um genera- vice/process technologies he has devoted him- tion CMOS logic and embedded devices. The only species self more than 20 years. Presently he is the managing officer and the that do not In 1978 he started the research and develop- deputy executive general manager of the LSI change are the ment of ion implantation technology for Manufacturing Technology Unit, Renesas CMOS device fabrication and he contributed to Technology Corporation. He was a visiting extinct species. develop 64k DRAM and 16k SRAM and to professor at Hiroshima University in 1990 and transfer them to the manufacturing site. In addi- also a visiting professor at Osaka University in Bob Truett tion from 1979, he started the research and de- 1996 and 1997. Dr. Nishimura is a member of velopment of SOI technology by using laser the Institute of Electronics and Communica- recrystallization technology to form a thin SOI tion Engineers of Japan, the Japan Society of layer and to fabricate CMOS transistors. From Applied Physics, and the IEEE Electron De- 1986 he added to the thin film SOI CMOS vices Society. technology development by using SIMOX in Tadfashi Nishimura's Fellow citation reads his SOI activity. From 1981 to 1990, he en- "for leadership in the development of advanced gaged in the National Project, Three Dimen- CMOS devices and process technologies." sional ICs, under the management of MITI Dr. Nishimura can be reached at the Renesas (Ministry of International Trade and Industry). Technology Corporation, LSI Manufacturing Unit, Atthesametimehemanagedthepolysilicon 4-1 Mizuhara Itami Hyogo, Hyogo 666-8641, Ja- TFT technology development for an advanced pan: E-mail [email protected]

26 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y Pavel Rehak

avel Rehak, a physicist at the U.S. De- tivistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the partment of Energy’s Brookhaven Na- future ALICE experiment at CERN – to detect Ptional Laboratory, has been named a charged particles. Silicon drift detectors are Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Elec- also used in electron microscopes to determine tronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE is a the nature of atoms in materials, and in astro- non-profit, technical professional association nomical projects such as the European Space that is a leading authority in technical areas Agency’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton (XMM ranging from computer engineering to bio- Newton) satellite, the most powerful x-ray medical technology to aerospace. telescope ever placed in orbit. “I am very honored to be elected as an IEEE Rehak’s silicon detectors won him a BNL Fellow of this prestigious institution,” Rehak Distinguished Research and Development Pavel Rehak said. “This nomination represents a very nice Award, the highest honor in the Laboratory’s recognition of my past technical and profes- employee awards program, in 1997, and an sional achievements, which would not have IEEE Region 1 Award for contributions to been possible without the support and help of particle physics research in 1999. my colleagues at Brookhaven, the Max Planck Rehak holds two Ph.D.s in physics: one Institute for Physics in Munich, CERN — the from Charles University in Czechoslovakia, European Laboratory for Particle Physics — and the other from the Scuola Normale and last but not least, the Polytechnic Institute Superiore in Pisa, Italy.After working as a visit- of Milan.” ing scientist in the Kernforschungcentrum The honor of being named a Fellow is re- (Center for Nuclear Physics) in Karlsruhe, served each year to no more than one-tenth Germany, from 1972 to 1973, and as an assis- percent of the total voting institute membership. IEEE offers Fellowships to members of tant professor at Yale University from 1973 to the organization with an “extraordinary record 1976, he joined Brookhaven Lab in 1976, first of accomplishments in any IEEE field of inter- in the Physics Department from 1976 to 1995, est,” as stated on the IEEE web site. Rehak, and then in the Instrumentation Division since who was one of 260 members of IEEE chosen 1995. Rehak holds three patents and has as Fellows for 2003, was cited for “contribu- authored more than 180 publications in refer- tions to the theory and development of particle and eed scientific journals. photon detectors.” Editor's note: This article originally appeared as Rehak invented a device called the silicon a Brookhaven National Laboratory news release. drift detector with Emilio Gatti, a physicist at Pavel Rehak can be reached at the Brookhaven the Polytechnic Institute in Milan, Italy. This National laboratory, Instrumentation Division, device has been used in many high-energy Bldg. 535B, Upton, NY 11973-5000; Phone: +1 physics experiments – the most recent ones be- 631 344-3964; Fax: +1 631 344-5773; E-mail: ing the STAR detector at Brookhaven’s Rela- [email protected]. Robert E. Reinovsky

obert E. Reinovsky received his masters sions, radiation processes, plasma diagnos- degree in electrical engineering in 1971 tics, and pulsed power physics. Bob was re- Rand his PhD in 1973 from Rensselaer sponsible for developing and building four Polytechnic Institute in the Electrophysics De- generations of the world-class SHIVA family partment where his dissertation work focused of high-current, low-impedance pulsed on diagnostics for magnetically confined fu- power systems, and for developing and dem- sion plasmas. onstrating world record fuse opening switch From 1974–1986, Bob worked at the AF performance using these systems. Weapons Laboratory (now the AF Research Techniques in ultra-high current, high ex- Laboratory) in plasma and pulsed power plosive pulsed power developed in Los physics. At the AFWL, his principal interests Alamos, starting in the 1950’s, caught his Robert E. Reinovsky were high-density plasma z-pinch implo- imagination. Bob joined Los Alamos National

N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 27 Laboratory in 1986 to continue work applying staff of those institutions. Bob joined with a Pointed these techniques to high energy density physics few Los Alamos colleagues to establish an ac- and high energy density hydrodynamic prob- tive program of unclassified, basic, joint scien- observation lems in plasmas and condensed matter; and to tific work with these scientists. These efforts, Mr. Ambassador, compact pulsed power systems for national de- starting in 1992 with pulsed power technol- my pappa always fense. Bob led the explosive pulsed power ogy,have grown into a vigorous DOE program group at Los Alamos from 1990 to 1993 and of joint activities in the areas of pulsed power, told me, never then joined the Los Alamos High Energy Den- material dynamics and computational mathe- play leapfrog with sity Physics program as Project Leader for the matics for the mutual benefit of both nations. Athena pulsed power project and then as Chief Bob is a Fellow of the IEEE, has been a unicorn. Scientist and Deputy Program Manager. Since elected an Academician in the International Lane Kirkland 1998 he has been the Program Manager for the Academy of Informatization, and has been Pulsed Power Hydrodynamics (PPH) pro- awarded the Sakharov Medal by the All Rus- gram, which sponsors the development and sian Scientific Research Institute of Experi- construction of the Atlas pulsed power system mental Physics. His IEEE Fellow citation reads and the Atlas program of liner driven hydrody- “For contributions to pulse power science and namics experiments. technology.” The end of the Cold War and the dissolution Bob Reinovsky can be reached at the Los Alamos of the Soviet Union in 1991 raised significant National Laboratory, Pulse Power Hydrodynam- national security issues about the stability of ics, MS D420, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM the Russian nuclear weapons laboratories and 87545; Phone: +1 505 667-8214; Fax: +1 505 about the future of the world-class scientific 665-2828; E-mail: [email protected]. Norman F. Roderick

orman F. Roderick is Professor in the ests are in theoretical and computational plasma Department of Chemical and Nuclear physics related to producing and understanding NEngineering at the University of New high energy density plasmas, and in the applica- Mexico. He received a B.S. in Engineering Sci- tion of plasmas for space power and propulsion. ence from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1962, Specific areas include the dynamics and stability and a M.S. and Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineer- of high power Z pinches; high power plasma ra- ing from The University of Michigan in 1964 diation sources and inertial confinement fusion; and 1971 respectively.He started teaching at the electromagnetically imploded solid liners and University of New Mexico as an Adjunct Profes- magnetized target fusion; and advanced space- sor in 1978 while assigned to the Air Force craft power and propulsion. Norman F. Roderick Weapons Laboratory,and joined the faculty on a Dr. Roderick's Fellow citation reads “For full time basis in 1982 after he retired from the contributions to the modeling and understanding Air Force. Prior to coming to UNM he was in- of high energy density plasmas.” volved in research and development in aero- Norman Roderick can be reached at the Uni- space engineering, rocket propulsion, plasma versity of New Mexico, Department of Chemical physics, and nuclear weapons effects simulation and Nuclear Engineering, Farris Engineering whileintheAirForce.Healsotaughtinthe Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001; Phone Aeronautics Department at the USAF Academy +1 505 277-2209; Fax: +1 505 277-5433; from 1971 to 1975. His present research inter- E-mail: [email protected].

Duck! The terror is in the anticipation, not the bang. Alfred Hitchcock

28 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y Keith Symon and Stephen Milton Win Particle Science and Technology Award for 2003

ince 1963, the IEEE Nuclear and for 20 graduate students gaining Ph.D.s from Plasma Sciences Society has sponsored the UW-Madison. He was author of Mechan- Sthe biannual Particle Accelerator Con- ics, a popular undergraduate textbook, Addi- ference. The 2003 PAC met in Portland, Ore- son-Wesley, 1953, 3rd Ed., 1971. gon from May 12-16. Since 1989, a Particle Dr. Symon is cited “For many fundamental Science and Technology Award has been pre- accelerator concepts which include invention sented at PAC to honor outstanding contribu- of Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelera- tions to particle accelerator technology. The tors (FFAG), most notably incorporated into 2003 winners are Dr. Keith Symon, Emeritus spiral sector cyclotrons; for defining a formal- Professor of Physics at the University of Wis- ism describing motion under the influence of consin, Madison and Dr. Stephen Milton, Se- RF as required for stacking and other particle Keith Symon nior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. manipulations; and for techniques for analyz- Dr. Symon obtained a Ph.D. in 1948 from ing collective instabilities.” Harvard University. After that he was on the Dr. Milton obtained a Ph.D. in 1990 from faculty in the Physics Department of Wayne Cornell University. After a post-doctoral posi- University, Detroit, MI, from 1947-1955. tion at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzer- Then he joined the faculty of the Physics De- land from 1990-92, he held various positions partment of the University of Wiscon- at Argonne National Laboratory. He currently sin-Madison. In 1990 he was made Emeritus serves as ANL LCLS Project Director. The Professor of Physics. Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project At the same time he was a staff member of will construct an x-ray free-electron laser at the the Midwestern Universities Research Associa- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). tion (MURA), 1956-67 and then technical di- At Argonne, Dr. Milton will direct efforts that rector, 1957-60. He was chairman Argonne will create the undulator and associated sys- Accelerator Users Group, 1961-62 and acting tems component of the LCLS. director Madison Academic Computing Cen- As part of the team that built and commis- ter, 1982-83 and acting director, UW-Madison sioned the Argonne Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron Radiation Center, 1983-85. (APS), Dr. Milton was manager for the Injec- He has been a most productive research tor Synchroton Ring. He then led the effort physicist working in the areas of the design of to create the Low_Energy Undulator Test particle accelerators and plasma physics. Be- Line (LEUTL) and simultaneously was group sides inventing FFAG accelerators he devel- leader of the APS Accelerator Physics Group. oped the smooth approximation method for Using the LEUTL facility, a Free Electron Stephen Milton approximating the solutions of differential Laser employing self-amplified spontaneous equations with periodically varying coeffi- emission (SASE) was created. At this facility cients, formalized the theory of radio-fre- they first demonstrated lasing to saturation quency acceleration in fixed field accelerators, of a visible and ultraviolet SASE FEL. This and contributed, greatly,to the development of FEL is now regularly operated and tunable colliding beam techniques. He was among the down to 130 nm. first to develop the theory of collective insta- Dr. Milton is cited “For contributions to co- bilities in accelerators. (A subject that herent radiation sources especially his leading spawned a thousand papers.) He also contrib- role in achieving saturated operation at visible uted to the linearized analysis of and ultraviolet wavelengths in a self-amplified inhomogeneous plasma equilibria and devel- spontaneous emission free-electron laser.” oped a method of bit pushing and distribution This article was prepared by Bruce Brown, the pushing techniques for the numerical solution Chair of the NPSS Particle Accelerator and Tech- of the equations employed in both plasma nology Committee. He can be reached at the Fermi physics and the study of collective instabilities National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 221, P.O. in accelerators (the Vlasov equation). Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510; Phone: +1 630 He was an outstanding supervisor of gradu- 840-4404; Fax: +1 630 840-6311; E-mail: ate students, having been the major professor [email protected].

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PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ARTICLES

n celebration of 20 years of the biennial IEEE sources including free-electron lasers, en- Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC) begin- ergy-recovery linear accelerators, and syn- Ining in 1963, Drs. Patrick O’Shea (University chrotron storage rings. In following issues, of Maryland), Alan Todd (Advanced Energy Sys- there will be features on high-energy and tems) and Sandra Biedron (MAX-Laboratory and nuclear physics machines, neutron sources Advanced Photon Source) will be preparing a and commercial accelerator applications. number of articles relating to particle accelerators. Alan Todd is a former elected member of The 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC) AdCom. He can be reached at Advanced Energy is being held in Portland, Oregon from 12-16 Systems, P.O. Box 7455, 501 Forrestal Road, Suite May. More information on PAC can be found at 316, Princeton, NJ 08543-7455: Phone: +1 609 Alan Todd http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/pac03/ 514-0316; Fax: +1 609 514-0318;E-mail: The first in the series of short informative [email protected] articles will be on accelerator-based light

SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUES FOR THE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

cheduled Special Topic issues of the Switzerland) IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science are Dr. Rene P.P. Smeets (Eindhoven Sthe following: University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Feb. 2003 Special Issue on Plenary and Invited papers from ICOPS-2002 Dec. 2003 Special Issue on Space Plasmas Guest Editor: Professor Clarence E. Guest Editors: Dr. Anthony Peratt Capjack (University of Alberta, (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Edmonton Alberta Canada), Al- Los Alamos NM USA) ready Published Karl-Gunne Falthammar (The Royal Institute of Technology, Aug. 2003 Special Issue on the Modeling & Stockholm Sweden) Simulation of Collisional or Near-Collisionless Low Tempera- Dec. 2003 Special Issue on Pseudospark Phys- ture Plasmas ics andApplications Guest Editors: Guest Editors: Professor Demetre Professor Martin Steven J. Gitomer Economou (University of Hous- Gundersen (University of Southern Editor, TPS ton, Houston TX USA) California, Los Angeles CA, USA) Dr. Meyya Meyyappan (NASA Dr. Werner Hartmann (SIEMENS Ames Research Center, Moffett AG - Corporate Technology - Field CA USA), Erlangen GERMANY) Professor Toshiaki Makabe (Keio Feb. 2004 Special Issue on Plenary and In- University, Yokohama Japan) vited papers from ICOPS-2003 Guest Editor: Professor Sang Hee Oct. 2003 Special Issue on Vacuum Hong (Seoul National University, Discharge Plasmas Seoul, South Korea) Guest Editors: Dr. Kenneth W. Struve (Sandia National Laborato- Apr. 2004 Special Issue on Physics of Dusty ries, Albuquerque, NM USA) Plasmas Professor Raymond Boxman (Tel Guest Editors: Dr. Alexei Ivlev (Max Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel) Planck Inst fur extraterrestrische Dr. Ekkehard Schade (ABB Cor- Physik, Garching-bei-Munchen porate Research Ltd. Baden Germany)

30 June 2003 N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y Dr. André Melzer (Chris- search Laboratory, Washington tian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, DC USA) Germany) Home on the Professor Wayne A. Scales (Virginia Aug. 2004 Special Issue on Effects of Space range Polytechnic Institute & State Univer- Weather on Technology sity, Blacksburg VA USA) Infrastructure In the United Prof. Edward Thomas, Jr. Guest Editors: Dr. Ioannis A. States there is Daglis (National Observatory of (Auburn University, Auburn AL more space USA) Athens, Athens Greece) Professor Daniel N. Baker (Uni- where nobody is Apr. 2004 Special Issue of Selected Contrib- versity of Colorado, Boulder CO than where uted Oral Papers from ICOPS USA) 2003 Dr. K. Koutroumbas (National anybody is. That is Guest Editors: Professor Shigeru Observatory of Athens, Athens what makes Sudo (National Institute of Fusion Greece) Studies, Japan) America what it is. Professor Hiroshi Fujiyama (Na- Aug. 2004 Special Issue on Non-thermal gasaki University,Nagasaki, Japan) Medical/Biological Applications of Gertrude Stein Professor Han-Sup Uhm (Ajou Ionized Gases and University, Ajou, South Korea) Electromagnetic Fields Professor Jin Joo Choi Guest Editors: Professor Ravindra (Kwangwoon University, P. Joshi (Old Dominion Univer- Kwangwoon, South Korea) sity, Norfolk VA USA) Professor Yong Seok Hwang (Se- Dr. Walter R. Rogers (Air Force oul National University Seoul, Research Laboratory, Brooks AFB South Korea) TX USA) Professor Mark Kushner (Univer- Dr. Andrei Pakhomov (Air Force sity of Illinois, Champaign-Ur- Research Laboratory, Brooks AFB bana IL USA) TX USA) Professor Wes Lawson (University Agreeing to of Maryland, College Park MD Oct. 2004 Special Issue on Pulsed Power Sci- disagree ence and Technology USA) We are of like Dr. Frank Hegeler (Naval Re- Guest Editors: Dr. James Dickens search Laboratory, Washington (Texas Tech University, Lubbock mind on a lot of DC USA) TX USA) things, we just Professor Paul K. Chu (City Uni- Dr. John Mankowski (Texas Tech versity of Hong Kong, Hong University, Lubbock TX USA) speak our minds Kong) Dr. Jane Lehr (Sandia National diferently. Dr. Ian Brown (Lawrence Berke- Laboratories). ley National Laboratory, Berkeley Jim Hart If you have any questions about these special CA USA) issues or about TPS in general please get in touch Jun. 2004 Special Issue on High Power Mi- with Steven J. Gitomer, the editor of TPS. He can crowave Generation be reached at the Safeguards Systems Group, Los Guest Editor: Dr. Monica Blank Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop E541, (CPI - Communications & Power Los Alamos, NM 87545; Phone: +1 505 Industries, Palo Alto CA USA) 667-4352; Fax: +1 505-667-0966; E-mail: Dr. David K. Abe (Naval Re- [email protected]

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N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y June 2003 31 2003 Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and Technology (PPST): Robert E.Reinovsky; Radiation Ef- Administrative Committee fects (RE): Dale Platteter. President Edward J. Hoffman Functional Committee Chairs Vice President William W. Moses Awards: Igor Alexeff; Chapter and Local Activities: Vernon G. Secretary Alberta M. Dawson Larsen Price; Communications: Peter N. Clout; Fellow Candidate Eval- Treasurer Edward J. Lampo uation: Osamu Ishihara; Finance: Harold Flescher; Conference Most Recent Past President Peter S. Winokur Policy: Raymond S. Larsen; Membership: Vernon G. Price; Division IV Director Harold L. Flescher Nominations: Peter S. Winokur; Publications: Paul V. Elected Administrative Committee Members Dressendorfer; Students & Careers: Edl Schamiloglu & Ken- neth A. Connor; Transnational: Erik H. M. Heijne. Terms expiring 2003: Richard W. Callis (FT), Kenneth F. Gallo- way (RE), Osamu Ishihara (PSA), Edl Schamiloglu (PPST); Publications Terms expiring 2004: Erik H.M. Heijne (Transnational), Tom K. Editor-in-Chief: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor, IEEE Transac- Lewellen (NMIS), Mark Rader (PSA), Michael P. Unterweger tions on Nuclear Science: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor, IEEE (NID). Transactions on Plasma Science: Steven J. Gitomer; Editor, Terms expiring 2005: Dennis B. Brown (RE), Mounir Laroussi IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging: Max A. Viergever; (PSAC), Patrick LeDû (CANPS), William W. Moses (RI) Conference Editors, Transactions on Nuclear Science: Ed- Terms expiring 2006: Joseph Benedetto (RE), Grant Gullberg ward J. Hoffman, John Valentine; Editor, Newsletter: W. Ken- (NMIS), Glenn F. Knoll (RI); Patrick O'Shea (PAST) neth Dawson; Newsletter Editor Emeritus: John F. Osborn. Technical Committee Chairs Liaison Representatives on other IEEE Committees Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science Coalition for Plasma Science: Gerald L. Rogoff; Distin- (CANPS): Christian Boulin; Radiation Instrumentation (RI): guished Lecturer Program: Energy Policy: Ronald M. Keyser; Fusion Technology (FT): Philip J. Vernon G. Price; Heitzenroeder; Nuclear Instruments and Detectors (NID): TBA; R&D Policy: Peter S. Winokur; PACE: Julian Forster; Ronald M. Keyser; Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences RADECS Liaison: Harold Flescher; Social Implications of Tech- (NMIS): Ronald J. Jaszczak; Particle Accelerator Science and nology: Raymond S. Larsen; Standards: Julian Forster; TAB Technology (PAST): Bruce C. Brown; Plasma Science and Ap- New Technology Directions: Edward J. Hoffman; TMI: A plications (PSA): Thomas W. Hussey; Pulsed Power Science Bertrand Brill and Ronald J. Jaszczak.

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