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A Publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number 1 • March 2007 SOCIETY NEWS
CONFERENCES PULSED POWER AND PLASMA SCIENCE 2007; SYMPOSIUM on FUSION ENGINEERING; 2007 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE MEET IN ALBUQUERQUE June 17 – 29, 2007 PULSED POWER AND PLASMA SCIENCE 2007 June 17-22, 2007 Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
lbuquerque, New Mexico will achieve critical Convention Center. Registrants of either conference mass when attendees of the 34th IEEE will be able to attend sessions in both conferences. AInternational Conference on Plasma Science Albuquerque is the largest city in New Mexico (ICOPS) and the 16th IEEE International Pulsed with a metropolitan population of nearly 800,000 Power Conference (PPC) meet at the Albuquerque people and home to the University of New Mexico, Convention Center June 17-22, 2007 for “PPPS- Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National 2007.” This is the second time that these two con- Laboratories, and many high tech companies, both ferences are combining their activities, following the large and small. Los Alamos National Laboratory is initial joint event in Las Vegas in 2001. Extending only 90 minutes to the Northwest. The cotton- the concept, the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences wood-shaded Rio Grande River Valley and Society’s Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE Petroglyph National Monument lie to the west and Conference) will also be collocating with PPPS- the majestic Sandia Peak lies to the east. The Sangre 2007, using the west wing of the Albuquerque continued on page 3
Edl Schamiloglu Frank Peterkin John Gaudet Charles Reuben General Chair Technical Program Finance Chair Conference Chair Coordinator NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2007 1 NPS0307.qxd 2/8/07 8:49 AM Page 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY NEWS Pulsed Power and Plasma Science 2007 ...... 1 is published three times per year by The Institute of Electrical and 22nd Symposium on Fusion Engineering ...... 4 Electronics Engineers, Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855. 2007 Particle Accelerator Conference PAC2007 .5 NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Albe Dawson Larsen 15th Real Time Conference ...... 5 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center MS-66 2007 NSREC Set for Hawaii ...... 6 2575 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Tel: +1 650 926 2748 Fax: +1 650 926 5124 Imaging Conference ...... 8 E-mail: [email protected]
Summary Report: 2006 NSS/MIC/RTSD . . . .12 EDITOR EMERITUS: 2008 IEEE NPSS NSS/MIC/RTSD Status W. Kenneth Dawson TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall Update ...... 15 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, V6T-2A3. President’s Report ...... 16 Tel: +1 604 222 7455 Fax: +1 604 222 7307 Secretary’s Report ...... 17 E-mail: [email protected]
Division IV Director’s Report ...... 18 IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS: Robert Smrek, Production Manager Meet AdCom Class of 2010 ...... 18 Paul Doto, Newsletter Coordinator New Plasma Sciences TC Chair ...... 19 Contributors to March 2007 IEEE NPSS Newsletter in alphabetical order: A. Bertrand Brill; Peter Clout; Teresa Farris; Eric Frey; Albe New Membership Committee Chair ...... 20 Dawson Larsen; Edward Della Torre; Ronald Gilgenbach; Christoph Ilgner; Ronald J. Jaszczak; Jane Lehr; Jean-Pierre Martin; William Technical Committee Reports ...... 20 Moses; Randolph McKinley; Timothy Oldham; Xioachuan Pan; Ronald Pease; Ned Sauthoff; Edl Schamiloglu; Stan Schriber; James CANPS ...... 20 Schwank; Graham Smith; Michael Sullivan; Mark Tillack; Benjamin Tsui; Richard Van Berg; Margaret Votava; Peter Winokur; Dennis Fusion ...... 21 Youchison; Xing Zhao. Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences ...... 22 Publicity releases for forthcoming meetings, items of interest from Radiation Effects ...... 23 local chapters, committee reports, announcements, awards, or other materials requiring society publicity or relevant to NPSS should be Functional & Appointive Committees ...... 23 submitted to the Newsletter Editor by April 16, 2007.
Awards ...... 23 CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES News articles are actively solicited from contributing editors, particu- Communications ...... 25 larly related to important R&D activities, significant industrial applica- tions, early reports on technical breakthroughs, accomplishments at Nominations ...... 26 the big laboratories and similar subjects. Constitutions & Bylaws ...... 26 The various Transactions, of course, deal with formal treatment in depth of technical subjects. News articles should have an element of Awards ...... 33 general interest or contribute to a general understanding of technical problems or fields of technical interest or could be assessments of New Fellows ...... 33 important ongoing technical endeavors. Society Awards ...... 36 Advice on possible authors or offers of such articles are invited by the editor. Technical Committee Awards ...... 39 © 2007 IEEE. Information contained in this newsletter may be copied without per- Radiation Effects Awards Solicitation ...... 40 mission provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commer- cial advantage, and the title of the publication and date appear. Printed in U.S.A. Article ...... 40 Reaching Higher Luminosity ...... 40 TMI Editor in Chief Sought ...... 43
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de Cristo Mountains and Santa Fe are 50 miles Scientists and Engineers will be offered on June to the north. 23. Two Hollywood insiders who have experience The conference will be held within walking in virtually all aspects of motion pictures will teach distance of Central Avenue, also known as the short course, in addition to support from the Route 66, which is convenient to entertain- burgeoning New Mexico film industry. ment, shopping, and fine dining, especially New Peter Clout, a physicist and chairman of the Mexican cuisine. New Mexican food has a dis- NPSS communications committee, spoke tinct style, the most visible element being the excitedly about the combined conference. type of chile pepper used, either red or green. “It’s a very effective way of meeting col- The combined conference is expected to leagues, to sit and talk about what you’ve been attract over 1200 attendees. Information about doing. There is a lot of valuable information PPPS-2007, and a downloadable abstract which doesn’t appear in print that only comes brochure, can be found on its website located at out in one-on-one conversations.” http://www.ece.unm.edu/ppps2007/ . “It’s like browsing in a bookstore,” Clout con- Former NPSS President William Moses sees tinued. “You stumble into people you would not The world’s longest the upcoming conference as a golden oppor- have otherwise met or whose work you might not single-span aerial tunity for members to expand their horizons, have come across.” Regarding SOFE 2007 col- tramway rising to noting that ICOPS and PPC have not shared a locating with PPPS-2007, “They have come 10,378 ft. with an conference since 2001. together with a common registration, attendees 11,000 square mile “Most researchers don’t have the time or who are interested in one conference are free to panoramic view from money to attend a conference that is not direct- drop in on another: Cross fertilization.” the peak of Sandia ly related to what they’re doing in their work,” Conference Chairman Edl Schamiloglu, a Mountains. said Moses. “By having all these conferences at Professor at the University of New Mexico, the same place and at the same time provides a expects a large international participation unique opportunity to attend a related confer- because the conference is located in ence at no additional time or cost.” Albuquerque, New Mexico, “arguably the Frank Peterkin, Technical Program Chair of Mecca of Pulsed Power and Plasma Science PPPS-2007 agrees, “The practicalities of get- Research in the United States.” He notes that, ting financial backing to go to two conferences in addition to PPPS-2007, the IEEE Particle instead of one are significant to both students Accelerator Conference (PAC07) will take and professionals. This enables an attendee to place at the Convention Center the following socialize and learn from both their direct tech- week. “PPPS-2007 is coordinating closely nical peer community and their ‘near-peers,’ to with PAC07. We are working with both the Believe me walk down the hall and learn something new Governor’s and Mayor’s offices to plan out- about a topic they wouldn’t otherwise have reach activities to the community, and to K-12 the opportunity to explore.” students in particular, during the weekend in Appealing to The PPPS-2007 conference comprises the between our two conferences. We are also everything in following topics: looking forward to hosting the NPSS AdCom • Fundamental Research and Basic Processes meeting during this weekend as well.” general to • Microwave Generation and Plasma PPPS-2007 has budgeted generously to explain some- Interactions support student travel. In addition, we will be thing in particu- • Charged Particle Beams and Sources selecting “Best Student Papers” for the first • High Energy Density Plasmas time, an idea suggested by NPSS. Details can lar is really no • Pulsed Power Switches and Components be found in the Call for Abstracts brochure explanation at • Industrial, Commercial, and Medical Applications posted on the conference website. all. • Pulsed Power Sources Finally, PPPS-2007 will have a large • Pulsed Power Systems Exhibitor’s Program located in the hall hosting • Diagnostics the poster sessions. Also included in the same Paul Davies • Prime Power & Power Conditioning hall will be the Job Placement Center, con- In addition to these topics, a two-day mini- necting prospective employees with employers. course will be offered on June 22 and 23 entitled, Whether your preference is red, or green, or Diagnostics for High Density Plasmas and “Christmas” (a little of each), we look forward Pulsed Power Systems. Furthermore, a special to your participation in PPPS-2007 in workshop entitled Writing for and Working Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA in June with the Film Industry: An Introduction for 2007.
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22nd IEEE/NPSS SYMPOSIUM ON FUSION ENGINEERING 2007 (SOFE07) Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17-21, 2007 http://sofe22.sandia.gov/
he 22nd IEEE/NPSS Symposium on energy (MFE) and inertial fusion energy (IFE) Fusion Engineering (SOFE07) will take are sought, including: Tplace June 17-21, 2007 at the • Experimental devices and new device design • Reactor studies Dennis Youchison Albuquerque Convention Center in • Plasma facing components General chair Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Symposium is dedicated to the scientific, technological and • Plasma materials interactions for IFE, MFE engineering issues of fusion energy research and alternates and presents a mixture of oral presentations • Targets for IFE and alternates and poster sessions allowing for extensive • Chambers, vacuum vessels and pumping for interactions among the participants. The con- IFE, MFE and alternates ference is open to the public, and all individu- • Blankets, and shields for IFE, MFE and als with an interest in fusion energy are invited alternates to register and attend. This year the SOFE • Diagnostics, data acquisition, and plasma meeting is collocated with the combined 2007 control systems ICOPS and the 2007 International Pulsed • Safety and environmental engineering Power Conference (International Pulsed • Heating and current drive Power and Plasma Science 2007) that run • Plasma fueling • Tritium handling systems Michael Ulrickson through June 22. Attendees registered with • IFE drivers and related technologies Program chair SOFE can attend sessions of the other confer- ences and will receive a pocket program for all • Magnet engineering for IFE, MFE and alter- three as well as the program book for SOFE. nates A grand plenary including all three conferences • Materials assembly, fabrication, and mainte- is planned for the first day. The 2007 Particle nance Accelerator Conference is being held the fol- • Power systems lowing week at the Convention Center. • Electromagnetics and electromechanics. The meeting is being organized by Sandia The SOFE web site at http://sofe22.san- National Laboratories. The SOFE07 confer- dia.gov/ is available for more information. ence General Chair is Dennis Youchison. The Dennis Youchison, chair of the 2007 RSVP Technical Program Chair is Michael Ulrickson Symposium on Fusion Engineering, can be and Rena Yellowrobe is the conference coordi- reached at the Sandia National Laboratories, nator. The organization of the technical pro- P.O. Box 5800, MS-1129, Albuquerque, NM If human nature gram is similar to previous conferences in this 87185-1129 USA; Phone: +1 505 845 3138; never changes, series, with plenary sessions in the first part of Fax: +1 505 845-3130; E-mail: dlyouch@san- why is it that we each morning followed by late morning paral- dia.gov. lel sessions with oral invited and contributed Michael Ulrickson can be reached at the not only don’t presentations in selected technical areas. The Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, practice canni- oral presentations continue in the early after- MS-1129, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1129 USA; balism any noon, followed by poster sessions. Phone: +1 505 845 3020; Fax: +1 505 845-3130; Submissions in all areas of magnetic fusion E-mail: [email protected]. more, but don’t even want to.
George Orwell
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2007 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE PAC07 June 25-29, 2007 Albuquerque, NM
lans for PAC'07, the 22nd conference in ed adequate space (80 separate booths avail- this highly successful conference series able) for all of their interests and being well Pfor accelerator science engineering and located within the poster paper area for good technology, are going very well. See the web interactions with attendees. site http://pac07.org/ for more details and Plans are also underway for two special the invited speaker program. To date, 1813 events associated with the conference. The abstracts have been submitted to the on-line first is a science, engineering, and technology JACoW site. On the basis of historic ratios of expose for the residents of New Mexico at the abstract submissions to conference attendees, Albuquerque Convention Center Garden attendance at the conference in Albuquerque, Foyer on the Saturday prior to the conference, NM, June 25-29, 2007, could exceed 1400, June 23. Participants will be from Los Alamos making for the possibility of an extremely suc- National Laboratory, Sandia National Stan Schriber cessful conference both scientifically and finan- Laboratory, University of New Mexico and Chair, PAC 2007 cially. On-line registration for delegates and some of the industrial exhibitors that have for exhibitors began on January 10, 2007. booths and exhibits at PAC07. Also included Members of IEEE-NPSS and APS-DPB have a are the technical societies of IEEE and APS. 10% discount on the conference registration The second is a special Teachers Physics Day fee. We have tried to encourage individuals to on Wednesday, June 27, providing a full day of join a professional society by including the fol- professional development geared to physics lowing message in the opening registration teachers that includes hands-on workshops page “Volunteers, who are members of either presenting innovative, classroom-ready activi- IEEE-NPSS or APS-DPB, make it possible for ties for physics students; research talks on important information exchange with col- accelerator technology and their applications leagues at conferences such as the PAC series. for our daily life, a welcoming breakfast where Technical societies help our professional inter- they can network with fellow teachers and a ests in many ways other than just supporting luncheon where they can network with each conferences. Prizes for significant contribu- other and conference participants. tions in accelerator technology, recognition for A special student poster session will be held many years of contributions by awarding Sunday, June 24, to encourage the interaction senior and/or fellow levels, support of publi- of students with other students, colleagues and cation processes and student support are just a peers Students, whose attendance is being few of the activities provided by our technical partially sponsored by the conference, will be societies. Please consider joining if you are not included in this opportunity to interact with already a member. Help make us stronger.” others in the accelerator-related fields. We expect at least 50 industrial exhibitors Stan Schriber can be reached by E-mail at participating at the conference, having provid- [email protected]. 15th IEEE NPSS Real Time Conference 2007 April 29- May 4, 2007 Fermilab Batavia, IL USA http://computing.fnal.gov/cd/rt07/index.htm he 15th biennial IEEE NPSS Real during the week of April 29th. This is the Time Computing Conference, CANPS TC’s 2007 highlight. Topics Tchaired by Margaret Votava of Fermi include: • real time system architectures, National Accelerator Laboratory, will be Margaret Votava • front-end signal processing, held at the Laboratory in Batavia, IL USA Chair, RT 2007
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• high speed synchronous control, trigger and (ATCA). The workshop is planned to explore DAQ, the merits of the ATCA for use by the real-time Continuing Ed • event building and fast networks, science community. Our goal is to provide • online processing farms and databases, information that will assist attendees in making With full-span • controls and monitoring, design decisions about utilizing ATCA hard- • medical systems and data processing, ware and associated software to achieve high lives having • and emerging real time technologies including availability in large projects like the ILC. The become the the concept of reconfigurable computing. morning session consists of two tutorials on norm, people Several adaptations of this conference ATCA hardware and software offered by experts are foreseen for the 2007 edition. In addition in the telecommunications field. The afternoon may need to to the traditional Plasma, Particle and Nuclear will include example projects from the NPSS learn how to be Physics real time aspects, we want to promote community, a panel discussion of ATCA suit- aged as they new fields. For example, Biomedical imaging ability and alternatives, and a question and real time data acquisition and processing is answer period with informal demos. once had to becoming a real challenge for the future. A The ATCA workshop will be held on Sunday, learn how to be few presentations in this field were made at April 29th, with the regular program to follow adult. the RT2003 and RT2005 conferences, and on Monday April 30th through Friday, May the synergy with our traditional activities was 4th. The format of the program will primarily greatly appreciated. Also, the decision to build be the same as in previous conferences with Ronald Blythe ITER, the next generation of experimental strictly plenary talks and poster sessions, with fusion reactors, will generate new challenges poster presenters afforded the opportunity to in real time control systems. These two exam- “plug” their posters with a 5 minute talk. ples show how rich and exciting the Real Time Margaret Votava, Chair of Real Time 2007, field will be in the near future. can be reached at Fermilab, P.O. Box 500 MS An exciting component of this year’s confer- 369, Batavia, IL 605110-0500; Phone: +1 630 ence is a one-day workshop on the Advanced 840-2625; Fax: +11 630 840-6345; E-mail: Telecommunications Computing Architecture [email protected].
2007 IEEE NSREC is Set for Honolulu, Hawaii July 23-27, 2007
he 2007 IEEE Nuclear and Space Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Radiation Effects Conference Sandia National Laboratories, Air Twill be held July 23-27, 2007 Force Research Laboratory, the Finicky in Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii NASA Electronic Parts and at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Packaging Program, NASA Living Resort. The conference features a With a Star Program, Jet Propulsion I preferred mar- technical program consisting of eight Laboratory, Micro-RDC, Aerospace rying a man who to ten sessions of contributed papers Corporation, ST Microelectronics, (both oral and poster) that describe the BAE Systems, Honeywell, and Aeroflex was too good latest observations and research results in radi- Colorado Springs. rather than one ation effects, an up-to-date short course who was not offered on July 23, a radiation effects data TECHNICAL PROGRAM workshop, and an industrial exhibit. Prof. John Cressler of Georgia Tech, Technical quite good The conference hotel is located on Waikiki Program Chairman, with the support of the enough. Beach in Honolulu on the south-western side technical committee, is assembling an out- of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Prof. Lloyd standing technical program. The session chairs Massengill of Vanderbilt University and his for 2007 include both highly experienced Mary Baird conference committee are planning a complete members of the radiation effects community, (Mrs. William technical and social program to maximize as well as emerging technical leaders. Three Jennings Bryan) opportunities for information exchange and exciting invited presentations, all with a networking in the area of radiation effects on Hawaiian-locale theme, have been arranged. microelectronic and photonic devices, circuits, The technical committee will meet in and systems. March 2007 for final paper selection. The oral Supporters of the conference include the presentations and posters will be selected
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based on a peer-review process in order to pre- “Hardened Electronics for Tomorrow’s sent the very latest and best information on Strategic and Space-Based Systems” and is being radiation effects findings. Although the dead- organized by Prof. Hugh Barnaby of Arizona Path of least line for submitting summaries has passed State University. Planned topics include: resistance (February 2007), a few late-news papers “Process Technologies and Hardening,” describing new, unpublished results will be “Radiation Effects and Mitigation Strategies in accepted and will be presented in the poster Digital ICs,” “Radiation Effects and Mitigation Men will always session. The deadline for submission of late- Strategies in Analog/Mixed Signal,” and prefer a worse news papers is June 1, 2007. Please submit “Hardening at the System Level.” The course way of knowing late-news summaries, using the 4-page sum- will be of interest both to radiation effects spe- mary and 35-word abstract format described at cialists and newcomers to the field. to a better way http:// www.nsrec.com . of learning. The technical committee is composed of the SOCIAL PROGRAM conference technical session chairs and the chairs Susan Crain of the Aerospace Corporation, for the Poster Session and the Radiation Effects Local Arrangements Chairperson, is planning Jean Jacques Data Workshop. Dale McMorrow, Naval an exciting social program to enhance the Rousseau Research Laboratory, is the chair of the Poster informal exchange of ideas and the networking Session, and Christian Poivey of NASA Goddard among attendees, and to provide engaging is the chair for the Radiation Effects Data events for companions and family members Workshop. The Technical Session chairs are: not attending the technical sessions. The com- Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects panion events include both cultural and geog- Andy Pineda raphy-themed excursions. On Wednesday SEE - Mechanisms and Modeling evening, the main conference social will be the Veronique Ferlet-Cavrois best luau on the island at Paradise Cove. SEE - Devices and ICs Younes Boulghassoul INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT Space Environments and Effects An Industrial Exhibit, coordinated by Barry Tom Jordon Templeton of ISDE, will be included as an integral Terr. and Atmos. Environ. and Effects part of the conference. The exhibit, held on Ken Rodbell Tuesday and Wednesday, will include exhibits from Hardness Assurance 35-40 exhibitors that represent companies or Steve McClure agencies involved in manufacturing electronic Dosimetry and Facilities devices or systems for applications in space or Anatoly Rosenfeld nuclear environments, modeling and analysis of Hardness By Design radiation effects at the device and system level, and Tim Holman radiation testing. If you wish to exhibit, please visit Thought Radiation Effects in Devices and ICs www.nsrec.com to obtain exhibitor information. mechanism Steve Bernacki Photonics 2007 HOTEL INFORMATION Cheryl Marshall The NSREC 2007 Conference Hotel “Block The limits of my of Rooms” is open at the Hilton Hawaiian language are the RADIATION EFFECTS DATA WORKSHOP Village for the July 23-27 conference. The The Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a “Room Block” extends from the nights of July limits of my forum for the presentation of radiation effects 21 through July 28. Corporate and govern- world. data on electronic devices and systems. ment rooms are available at special conference Workshop papers are intended to provide radi- rates. The conference committee has also nego- ation response data to scientists and engineers tiated room upgrades for those who desire Ludwig who use electronic devices in a radiation envi- them at significantly discounted prices. The Wittgenstein ronment, and for designers of radiation-hard- conference room rates are available until July ened or radiation-tolerant systems. Papers 31, subject to room availability. Government describing new simulation facilities are also rate reservations will require authorized travel welcomed. orders or equivalent documentation to be pre- sented at the time of check-in. SHORT COURSE The conference-negotiated room rates will be Attendees will have the opportunity to partici- available until June 20, 2007 or when the block pate in a one-day Short Course on Monday, July is sold out (whichever comes first). Early reserva- 23. The theme for the 2007 short course is: tions are strongly encouraged, especially if you
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plan to extend your stay longer than the confer- Publicity ence dates themselves, as we expect the room Teresa Farris More self- block to fill quickly. Please visit www.nsrec.com to Aeroflex Colorado Springs sufficiency obtain all the information for booking your 719-594-8035 NSREC reservation. Finance Congress’ CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Lew Cohn attempts to dis- General Chairman DTRA credit Farooq Lloyd Massengill 703-767-2886 Vanderbilt University Abdullah were in 615-343-6677 Awards vain. They were Clive Dyer also unneces- Technical Program QinetiQ John Cressler 44-1252-393774 sary because Georgia Tech Farooq was per- 404-894-5161 Industrial Exhibits fectly capable of Barry Templeton Local Arrangements Vanderbilt University/ISDE discrediting him- Susan Crain 615-322-3833 self. Aerospace Corporation 310-336-4457 Guest Editor Jim Felix Katherine Frank Short Course Sandia National Labs Hugh Barnaby 505-844-6132 Arizona State University 480-727-0289
2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM and MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERNENCE NSS/MIC Honolulu, Hawaii October 28 – November 3, 2007 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: May 11, 2007 Conference web site: www.nss-mic.org/2007
fter the successful 2006 joint confer- botanical gardens, and classic Hawaiian hospi- ence in San Diego, the organization of tality. A trolley conveniently connects the hotel Athe 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science to other locations in Waikiki. Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging This is the first time the NSS/MIC will be Conference (MIC) - which will be held in held at a site close to Asia. We would like to Honolulu, Hawaii, October 28 to November extend our warmest invitation to our col- 3, 2007 - is in full swing. The venue of the leagues in the Asia-Pacific region to attend the conference is the Hilton Hawaiian Beach joint conference. A special session organized Resort and Spa that is situated on 22 ocean- by our Asian members is being planned. front acres at the west end of Waikiki beach. It The Organizing Committee is planning on a provides an ideal setting for our annual meet- joint conference that offers state-of-the-art and Ben Tsui ing, with a great mix of ample conference up-to-date scientific information through the General Chair space, first class accommodations, over 20 regular oral and poster presentations. There will restaurants and lounges, several shopping be a number of usual topical short courses arcades with over 90 shops, exotic wildlife and before and new refresher courses during the
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joint conference to review current topics of spe- On behalf of the organizing committee, we cial interest. A commercial exhibit featuring encourage you to make plans now to attend Cause and the state-of-art products and services from a this exciting joint conference of the IEEE wide range of vendors will take place during Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. We look effect the main part of the meeting. Also, the forward to welcoming you to beautiful Organizing Committee is working hard on a Honolulu, Hawaii. England has fund-raising campaign to enhance the scien- tific and educational activities of the joint General Chair: traditionally conference. Benjamin M. W. Tsui relied on landfill A companion program will provide daily Johns Hopkins University because of the tours to the many attractions and activities in JHOC 4263, 601 N. Caroline Street and around Honolulu and Oahu Island during Baltimore, MD 21287-0859, USA country’s the joint conference. The main attractions Phone: 443-287-4025 / Fax: 410-614-1977 abundance of include Pearl Harbor, the Arizona Memorial, E-mail: [email protected] holes. Diamond Head State Park, Hanauma Bay Marine Preserve, Iolani Palace, the Bishop Deputy Chair: Museum, and the National Memorial Ronald J. Jaszczak British Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl). Also, Duke University Medical Center Government pre- and post-conference tours of the other DUMC-3949 Hawaiian Islands, including the Big Island of Durham, NC 27710, USA Strategy Unit Hawaii, Kauai and Maui are being planned. Phone: 919-684-7685 / Fax: 919-684-7122 Report NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
he Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) • Photodetectors & Radiation Imaging offers an outstanding opportunity for • Radiation Damage Effects Tscientists and engineers interested or • Scintillators and Scintillation Detectors actively working in the fields of nuclear sci- • Solid State Tracking Detectors ence, radiation instrumentation, software and • New Solid State Detectors their applications, to meet and discuss with • Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation colleagues from around the world. The pro- • Trigger and Front-End Systems gram emphasizes the latest developments in • Instrumentation for Medical and Biological technology and instrumentation and their Research implementation in experiments for space, • Accelerators and Beam Line Instrumentation accelerators, other radiation environments, • Computing and Software for Experiments and homeland security. Topical workshops • Neutron Imaging and Radiography cover areas of specific interest. Within the Trouble in the framework of an educational scientific pro- NSS Program Chair: fast lane gram, short courses are organized focusing on Ren-Yuan Zhu topics of interest for the scientific community. California Institute of Technology Authors are invited to submit papers describ- 256-48 CALTECH Democracy is ing original unpublished works in the topic Pasadena, CA 91125 areas listed below. Phone: 626-395-6661 only possible • Instrumentation for Homeland Security Fax: 626-795-3951 when no one • Analog and Digital Circuits E-mail: [email protected] travels faster • Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation • Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems NSS Deputy Program Chair: than the speed • Environmental Health and Safety Liyuan Zhang of a bicycle. Instrumentation California Institute of Technology • Gaseous Detectors 256-48 CALTECH • High Energy and Nuclear Physics Pasadena, CA 91125 Ivan Illich Instrumentation Phone: 626-395-6618 • Nuclear Measurements and Monitoring Fax: 626-795-3951 Techniques E-mail: [email protected]
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MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE But not all!
You must have he Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) • Image Processing, Evaluation and Quality is the longest standing and most Assessment been warned Trespected international scientific meet- • Scintillator-Based Detection/Imaging against letting ing on the physics, engineering and mathemat- Technologies the golden hours ical aspects of X-ray and nuclear medicine • Semiconductor Detection/Imaging based imaging. Each year significant innova- Technologies slip by. Yes, but tions in all forms of medical and biomedical • X-ray and CT Technologies and some of them imaging are presented at the MIC. The MIC Techniques are golden only offers a unique forum for specialists in detector • Nonionizing Imaging Technologies and technologies to interact and exchange ideas Techniques because we let with imaging scientists and experts in various • Clinical and Research Applications of them slip. biomedical technologies. The MIC is an excel- Biomedical Imaging lent venue for communication and discussion • Imaging in Drug Development and of novel medical and biomedical imaging tech- Biological Research J. M. Barrie nologies and uses. Authors are invited to sub- mit papers describing original and innovative MIC Program Chair: contributions to the field of biomedical imag- Eric C. Frey ing in the topic areas listed. Johns Hopkins University • PET and PET/CT Instrumentation 601 N. Caroline Street / JHOC 4263 • SPECT and SPECT/CT Instrumentation Baltimore, MD 21287-0859 • X-ray CT Instrumentation Phone: 443-287-2426 • PET and PET/CT Reconstruction Fax: 410-614-1977 • SPECT and SPECT/CT Reconstruction E-mail: [email protected] • X-ray CT Reconstruction • Small Animal Imagers and Imaging MIC Deputy Program Chair: • Multi-modality Imagers and Imaging Magnus Dahlbom • Application-Specific Imagers and Imaging David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA • Simulation Tools and Modeling 650 Charles Young Drive South • Acquisition and Processing of Dynamic Los Angeles, CA 90095 Data Phone: 310-206-8273 • Quantitative Imaging and Compensation Fax: 310-206-4899 Techniques E-mail: [email protected]
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James M. Gavin
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SUMMARY REPORT 2006 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE, AND ROOM TEMPERATURE SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTOR WORKSHOP October 29 - November 4, 2006 Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego Graham Smith http://www.nss-mic.org/2006/ General Chair
he Nuclear Science Symposium, Call for Papers, Web information, Program Medical Imaging Conference and the Booklet and so on, prominently displayed the T15th International Workshop on Room graphic illustrated in Figure 1, helping recipi- Temperature Semiconductor X-and Gamma- ents quickly make an association with this spe- ray Detectors were held on October 29 – cific meeting. November 4, 2006 at the Town and Country The number of submissions of Resort & Convention Center in San Diego, abstracts/summaries for the entire program California. The gathering also played host to was well over 1300, with which we were very a number of shorter workshops, providing satisfied. The breakdown between various sec- timely presentations on Micropattern tions of the program is shown in Table 1. Detectors, Compton Scatter Imaging, Dual- Table 1: Abstract/Summary Submissions modality PET/MRI, Hadron Therapy, GATE, Chuck Britton and the Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer NSS Program Chair (NRBC). Together with a comprehensive set of short courses, an intensive exhibits program and a varied companion program, there was never a dull moment, and over 1600 registrants made this the largest attendance at a North American Considerable effort was made in seeking location, second only to Rome in 2004. financial support for the meeting, to augment The 2006 conference committee consisted income from registration fees. To this end, the of twenty dedicated individuals, though in conference committee was able to raise close reality the execution of a meeting of this size to $100k, a result of the generous donations can only be accomplished with the input of from institutions and commercial companies; many additional volunteers; we were certainly the major part was put toward financial sup- blessed with a large number of the latter. The port for well over 100 students and postdoc- John Aarsvold conference committee made only one formal toral scientists. One of several ways we MIC Program visit to the Town and Country for preplan- acknowledged our sincere appreciation to Chairman ning, in late January 2006. We ensured that these contributors was via a poster showing all material for the meeting, such as Posters, the respective logos of the institutions and companies. The full list of contributors is:
US Defense Threat Reduction Agency US Department of Energy, Office of NonProliferation Research and Development Siemens Molecular Imaging and Siemens Medical Solutions Philips Medical Systems Hamamatsu ORTEC Merck & Co., Inc Ralph James GE Healthcare RTSD Program Figure 1 - Graphic of San Diego skyline and oversize giraffes that was used in all the advertising and publicity material. GlaxoSmithKline
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Digirad eV Products Agreed! The MathWorks
As noted earlier, the final registration num- The trouble bers exceeded those of any previous meeting with the world held in North America. The specific numbers by category are shown in Table 2, while the is that the geographic distribution is illustrated in the pie- stupid are chart of Figure 2. The high number of com- cocksure and plimentary registrations largely reflects the stu- dents and postdoctoral scientists (22 the intelligent NSS/RTSD and 104 MIC) for whom we were full of doubt. able to waive the registration fee, courtesy of the contributors noted above. Bertrand Table 2: Attendee categories talks. Three prominent speakers had been invited, Russell covering topics of extremely varied nature and of great national, and international, importance. Thom Mason, the director of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at ORNL spoke first, on the development and recent commissioning of this flagship DOE funded facility, and what will be the world’s most powerful spallation source. Then, Tony Tyson, University of California at Davis and director of the LSST, described the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a wide field telescope that will be capable of time-lapse digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky. Finally, Daniel Ingersoll, ORNL, discussed the science and technology requirements of the next generation of nuclear power reactors. The NSS contributed The entire meeting spanned eight days, papers were presented from Monday afternoon beginning on Sunday, October 29, with the first through the end of Thursday. Including posters, day of Short Courses (more formally known as there were 45 sessions, requiring significant num- Precocity the Continuing Education Program). Stephen bers of parallel presentations. The NSS program Derenzo and Jennifer Huber performed a mas- chairs, Chuck Britton and Vince Cianciolo, are to terful job in bringing together seven full-day, be congratulated on overseeing this large program Many men courses: it is unusual for none to be half-day. and minimizing the degree of subject overlap. would have The courses were very well attended, as shown Also on Monday afternoon, the 15th by the sign-up numbers in Table 3. International Workshop on Room- arrived at wis- Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma- dom had they Table 3: Sign-up for Continuing Ray Detectors began. Chaired admirably by not believed Education Program Ralph James (BNL) and Eugenio Perillo (INFN, Italy), this workshop, colloquially themselves to known as the RTSD, is held in conjunction have arrived with the NSS and MIC every other year, pro- there already. viding an environment for new and fruitful associations between the respective attendees. The third major meeting, the Medical Imaging Seneca the Conference, began in earnest on Wednesday Younger November 1st, although there were two joint NSS/MIC sessions on the previous afternoon. The Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) began John Aarsvold, Emory University, and Bruce on Monday, October 30. Following tradition, the Hasegawa, University of California at San first morning was given over entirely to plenary Francisco, put together an incredible program.
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Two pre-eminent scientists were invited as plenary Suleman Suli, University of Pennsylvania, speakers. First, Jan Schnitzer, director of the received the 2006 Young Investigator Medical What a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in San Diego, pre- Imaging Science Award. difference! sented his thoughts on a systems biology approach The largest gathering was at the to cancer therapy, then Ron Nutt, Chairman and Conference Reception, held on Wednesday CEO of Advanced Biomarker Technologies in evening on the hotel grounds, beside the A rich man is Tennessee, spoke on the role of PET and SPECT palm trees and swimming pools, with well nothing but a in molecular medicine. The MIC consisted of over 1000 attendees thoroughly enjoying the poor man with twelve serial sessions of contributed papers, and ambiance. In addition, a string octet from the three substantial poster sessions, ending at the Holland-Moritz Ensembles in San Diego money. close of Saturday, November 4. played both classical and modern tunes inside All of the above three main meetings had their the Terrace Pavilion. W.C. Fields respective “banquets.” The NSS luncheon was A number of special focus workshops were held at noon on Monday. During this function, held throughout the week. These (short) Albe Dawson Larsen (SLAC) was presented with workshops were very well attended, with extra the 2006 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member space required at the last moment for two of Award, L. Eric Smith (PNNL) was presented with them. The workshops are detailed in Table 5. the 2006 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Recently, the NPSS instituted an award to be Award, and certificates were presented to Claudio given for the best student paper in both the NSS Piemonte, Ed McKigney, Werner Riegler and and MIC programs. The task of determining Gabriella Carini for contributions to the field of the awardees in this very worthy cause was taken Nuclear Radiation Measurements. The luncheon extremely seriously by both pairs of program speaker, Jerry Hastings from SLAC, gave a riveting chairs, with subcommittees formed to look care- talk on the use of X-rays in time-resolving studies fully at summaries, and then presentations, of below a picosecond, with specific reference to the those approximately 100 students who indicat- Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) now under ed their wish to be considered. We congratulate development at SLAC. The RTSD held its “ban- all who took part. In the end, the winners were quet” at Wednesday noon; this had a particularly as follows; NSS: best papers for Rafael Ballabriga nautical flavor, courtesy of Hornblower Cruises in (CERN) and Jonathan Britton (University of San Diego harbor. The MIC dinner, on Friday Tennessee), and runner-up Markus Stockner evening, was widely acknowledged as the most (CERN); MIC: best papers for Peter Olcott spectacular, the event being held at Sea World. (Stanford University), Martin Judenhofer Tours of part of the adventure park were followed (University of Tuebingen) and Mingwu Jin by dinner in the Nautilus Pavilion, the evening cul- (Illinois Institute of Technology), and runners- minating in a private showing of the Shamu Show, up Aarti Kriplani (SUNY, Stony Brook) and Marketing 101 a captivating and visually stunning performance Feng Qiao (Rice University). from the killer whale. All three banquets were Forty three companies were represented in the essentially sold-out, the numbers being shown in Exhibits Program, ably chaired by Ron Keyser We sell Table 4. (ORTEC). We carefully planned the location of everything that the exhibits close to the registration desk, and this nobody needs. Table 4: Banquet attendance seems to have maintained a high level of traffic for the exhibitors. The customer interaction was apparently high and of high quality. The Exhibitor Jack Guarnieri Technical Sessions were well attended with “stand- (pinball.com) ing room only” at some sessions. It is encourag- ing that a number of exhibitors have already con- The MIC awards ceremony took place on tracted for next year’s meeting in Hawaii. Friday during one of the oral sessions. Ronald The Companion Program held at least one Jaszczak, Duke University, received the Edward tour every day (none on Sunday November 5). J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award. It was well planned and organized through the Table 5: Special Focus Workshops
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diligent efforts of Anne Smith and Carolyn ing the meeting back to the Town and Country Hoffman. Merry Keyser and Lee Lampo pro- hotel. There is no doubt that the hotel’s very Outsourcing vided much appreciated assistance in the run- practical layout and its value for money warranted ning of the program. Day or half-day tours a return visit after the meeting was held there in were enjoyed by over 200 guests/attendees to 2001, and Tony seized the opportunity by nego- Faith is much Old Town San Diego (Sunday), South of the tiating a timely and favorable contract for 2006 better than Border (Monday), San Diego city (Tuesday), very early on. Much of the accounting is now the Aolani Catamaran (Tuesday), La Jolla being finalized, and it appears that a very healthy belief. Belief is (Wednesday), SeaWorld (Thursday), Palomar surplus will be generated. Bernard Phlips, the when someone Observatory (Thursday and Friday), San Diego Guest Editor, has one of the last duties, and we else does the Zoo (Friday), and Orfila Vineyards (Saturday). look forward to seeing the CD of the Conference The CIP committee was well represented by Record soon in the New Year. Finally, I owe a thinking. Uwe Bratzler; members of CIP continue to huge debt of gratitude to my BNL colleagues, play an invaluable role in many important Bonnie Sherwood (Conference Coordinator), Bo Buckminster facets, especially their help and participation Yu (Webmaster), and Jean-Francois Pratte during the meeting. Under the CIP’s delight- (Assistant to General Chair) for their unending Fuller ful oversight, over 100 new applications for efforts in our many weekly planning meetings. membership of IEEE and NPSS were received There are many volunteers who have gone at their desk. Dora Merelli looked after techni- unmentioned. However, if the main outcome cal support with her usual whirlwind efficiency. was a meeting of excellent and timely science Rounding off a most helpful and hard-working (which I believe is the case), with old and new conference committee, Christina Sanders chaired friendships made, then that is reward in itself the Registration process with great style, Local for all the hard work that everyone put in. Arrangements were in the steady and capable Graham Smith can be reached at the hands of Ed Lampo, aided by Maxim Titov. The Instrumentation Division, Brookhaven National Treasurer’s job was skillfully managed by Tony Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA; tel: 1 Lavietes, to whom credit should also go for bring- 631 344 4253; E-mail: [email protected] 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD: STATUS UPDATE he Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), ning of the scientific program as well as the Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), detailed local arrangements and conference and Tand 16th International Workshop on attendee services preparations. Research Center Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and Dresden Rossendorf (FZD), a German nation- Gamma-Ray Detectors (RTSD) will be held for al physics laboratory near Dresden, will serve as the first time in Germany, in the culturally rich the local organizing institution and has agreed city of Dresden, on October 19-25, 2008, at to provide substantial support to the the International Congress Center, Dresden. Conference and General Chair. This will be the third NSS/MIC outside As the 2008 NSS/MIC General Chair, North America. Attendance at the European- being also active in the NPSS Transnational Uwe Bratzler based NSS/MIC’s has been strong from the Committee (TNC), I would like to encourage General Chair beginning with about 1,300 participants in and welcome feedback and input from our Lyon (2000), and increasing strongly since world-wide community. I would like to with over 1,800 participants in Rome (2004). encourage and welcome sharing of any ideas, It is anticipated that the Dresden 2008 confer- suggestions, or any other comments you may ence will be the largest yet, with 2,000 partic- have, related to the preparation work and ipants or more. shaping of this major event for our world-wide Preparations for this major annual event for science community. our world-wide science community are on For additional information, and to share schedule and in full swing. The site and confer- feedback, ideas and suggestions, please contact the ence venue have been determined and con- 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC General Chair Dr. Uwe tracts are being secured, the extensive confer- Bratzler, who can be reached at CERN and TMU, ence budget has been worked out and is European Organization for Nuclear Research, approved, and the conference organizing com- Physics Department, 1211 Geneva 23, mittee is complete. Next steps include the plan- Switzerland; E-mail: [email protected].
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NPSS GENERAL BUSINESSS PRESIDENT’S REPORT s you read this, spring is approaching complexity of tasks they are willing to and it is a time of renewal and rebirth. engage in is simply amazing. Of course, we AAt NPSS, our renewal is underway and are always interested in “new blood,” and if as I take the reins as NPSS President, I would you are willing to participate, I encourage like to start by thanking our new Past you to contact either me or the chair of your President, Bill Moses, for a job well done. He technical committee to find out the way to has given me two gifts: a well run society and best use your talents. Contact information a fine example of integrity based leadership. I can be found on the IEEE NPSS website at would like to thank Igor Alexeff, who has fin- http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps. ished his duties as Past President after many Speaking of volunteering, if you have been years of service to NPSS. In the spirit of renew- at an NPSS sponsored conference this past Jane Lehr al, I would also like to welcome our new Vice year, you may have noticed some new faces at NPSS President President, Craig Woody, who has filled a wide the IEEE NPSS membership booth. variety of roles within the Radiation Christoph Ilgner has agreed to take on the Instrumentation community. role previously held by longtime volunteer As I start my term as President of NPSS, Vern Price. NPSS extends it heartfelt thanks I ponder how fortunate I am to be part of and a “Job well done!” to Dr. Price for his this organization. NPSS is in top shape, outstanding service and continuing assistance. with all of our conferences doing well, both We now recruit volunteers from the confer- technically and fiscally. The three publica- ence’s own technical community to man the tions NPSS sponsors - The Transactions on conference membership booth. Dr. Ilgner is Nuclear Science, the Transactions on Plasma soliciting and training volunteers for the Science and Transactions on Medical booth for several of our conferences. Please Imaging, are all doing well - with plans in contact him at [email protected] if you progress to make them even better. The are interested. After numerous years of the restructuring of TNS and TPS is near com- decline in membership in virtually all IEEE pletion, with most of the Senior Editors Societies, NPSS maintained its level of selected in the various subject areas. membership in 2006, thanks to Drs. Price In preparation for my term as President, and Ilgner. Boring! NPSS supported my attendance at the IEEE An increasing number of IEEE NPSS confer- Technical Activities Board (TAB) meetings for ences are being held outside the U.S. Business When it comes the past year. Although I did not have a vote, practices in various cultures vary greatly from I came to understand many of the issues that each other and from the U.S. The NPSS AdCom to sex - or histo- are most important to NPSS and IEEE and I feels strongly that holding conferences outside ry, or politics, or feel well prepared for my new role. As the the U.S. is valuable, but has struggled with the opera - science NPSS representative to TAB, I strongly believe details. However, to date, we have not had a that I best serve NPSS by being an active par- repository of information and “lessons learned” can answer all ticipant in TAB. To that end, I have been from our conferences held internationally. To questions, selected to serve on the IEEE TAB that end, Patrick Le Dû has been appointed as a except the Publications Committee. This is an area where Liaison to this newly created post. He brings a I have both interest and expertise. Moreover, vast amount of experience to this position. interesting ones. the dissemination of information, in the form In conclusion, we are widely considered to of publication, is our prime product. be one of the best run societies in IEEE. To Steve Jones Significant changes may be on the horizon, maintain this level of quality, we need good and I look forward to being part of that. people. Please consider getting involved. NPSS is prospering because of its many Jane Lehr, President of IEEE NPSS, can be talented, energetic and dedicated volun- reached at Sandia National Laboratories, teers. If NPSS had a motto, I would sug- MS1193, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM gest, “Many hands make for light work.” 87185-1193; Phone+1 505 844 8554; E-mail: The dedication of our volunteers and the [email protected].
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ur last AdCom meeting was held at in the text of the early issues of T_MI that the Town and Country Hotel and are not currently available in digital form on OResort, San Diego, California on IEEE Explore. The motion was replaced November 4, 2006. This, our official Annual with that below. Meeting, was held, as is traditional, with the • NPSS AdCom strongly supports the pro- NSS/MIC meetings. And as usual, it was a posal to scan the text of the early issues of time for goodbyes and a hearty thank you to TMI that are not currently available in dig- each retiring AdCom member. These include ital form on IEEE Explore.. The motion Joe Benedetto (Radiation Effects); Grant carried Gullberg (Nuclear Medical and Imaging • $10,000 of NPSS funds will be made avail- Sciences); Glenn Knoll (Radiation able to each Technical Committee each year Instrumentation) and Sandra Biedron (Particle to fund travel grants to their annual or bien- Albe Dawson Accelerator Science and Technology) who nial conference held that year for graduate Larsen completed Patrick O’Shea’s term when he had students who are IEEE NPSS members. NPSS Secretary and to step down. We do, however, welcome Each Technical Committee participating in Newsletter Editor Sandra back as a new member with a full term. this program will appoint a committee to In addition, Richard Jacobsson, AdCom Class evaluate the applications and to administer of 2009 stepped down because of unexpected the grants. Preference in granting the funds demands on his time, and Dan Jobe complet- should be given to students who are plan- ed his term as Chair of the Plasma Science and ning to present a paper, and to students Applications TC. This was also an election year with no other visible means of support.. and we had two excellent candidates for Vice The motion was withdrawn. President/President-elect. We are delighted to An issue that received a lot of discussion welcome Craig Woody to this new position. was how to pay for infrastructure costs. Some We also change leadership with Jane Lehr tak- are quite clear, such as ordering an awards ing over as President and Bill Moses, after a plaque, but others are hard to pin down. Hal long haul in the presidency filling both his Flescher has worked diligently with a finance term and the remainder of the late Ed committee of the IEEE Board to address this Hoffman’s, becomes past president and and a proposal will be submitted to the entire Steak but no Nominations chair. I think both he and Peter board for consideration. Stuart Long, the sizzle Winokur, who remained as past president dur- Division IV director at the time of the meet- ing this time, have both breathed deep sighs, ing also discussed this, along with an despite their outstanding leadership over these overview of IEEE’s makeup and revenue He knew every- several years. We welcome new AdCom mem- streams thing about bers Eric Frey, Jim Schwank and Rick Van Berg Again, we are urged to get conference literature except whose brief biographies appear below. We also books closed as rapidly as possible, preferably welcome Ron Gilgenbach, new chair of the within the year the conference was held. More how to enjoy it. Plasma Science and Applications TC and stringent reporting will be required between Christoph Ilgner as new Membership chair. In planning and closing at some set interval. Joseph Heller addition, this was Stuart Long, our Division AdCom will have met on February 3, too IV Director’s last visit with us. Edward Della late to make a report in this Newsletter. The Torre of the Magnetics Society has taken over next meeting will be on June 23 in as Division IV Director. His biography also Albuquerque, NM between the PPST and SFE appears below. conferences and PAC. In addition to election of a new Vice Albe Dawson Larsen, NPSS secretary and President/President-elect, the other actions at Newsletter Editor, can be reached at the this meeting included: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS66, • NPSS authorizes the Steering Committee of 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025; T-MI to allocate up to $2,000 for a one Phone +1 650 926 2748; Fax: +1 650 926 5124; time expense to cover the costs of scanning E-mail: [email protected]
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DIVISION IV DIRECTOR
Ed. Note: We welcome Ed Della Torre, our new Division IV Director, and thank Stuart Long for his service and for his visits with us.
dward Della Torre received the B.E.E. sentations, holds 18 patents, and is a regular from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, the reviewer for many technical journals. He has EM.Sc. in electrical engineering from chaired several IEEE Conferences. Princeton University, the M.Sc. in physics from IEEE Activities – (S’53-A’55-M’57-SM’65- Rutgers University, and the D.E.Sc. degree F’79-LF’97) COMMITTEES/BOARDS: from Columbia University. He has been a pro- Technical Activities Board, 2001-02. SOCI- fessor at George Washington University since ETIES: Magnetics Society: Conference 1982. He also taught at Rutgers, McMaster, Executive Committee, Member, 1990-03; Past and Wayne State Universities, and served as President, 2000-02; President, 1999-00; Vice Chairman of the Electrical and Computer President, 1986-87. CONFERENCES: Engineering Departments at the latter two uni- INTERMAG Conference: Chairman, 1996; Edward Della Torre versities. He performed research at the Bell U.S. Chairman, 1993; Local Chairman, 1989; Division IV Director Laboratories, the University of Toronto, and Program Co-Chairman, 1986; Publicity the National Institute of Standards and Chairman, 1975; Program Committee Technology during sabbatical years. Member for many conferences. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Edward Della Torre can be reached at the Fellow of the American Institute for Physics. Institute for Magnetics Research; The George He is the author or coauthor of over 250 tech- Washington University, Washington, DC nical papers in refereed publications and three 20052; Tel: +1 202 994-0410; Fax:+1 202 994- books. He has made over 200 conference pre- 0227; E-mail: [email protected].
CLASS OF 2010 The Newly Elected AdCom Members
Sandra Biedron
andra Biedron is the reelected member of she was featured in the March 2006 issue we are AdCom representing the Particle Accelerator not repeating her biography here, but welcome SScience and Technology community. Since her back to a full term on AdCom. Sandra Biedron Particle Accelerator Science and Eric Frey Technology ric C. Frey, Ph.D., is currently an Associate He is a regular reviewer of manuscripts for IEEE Professor in the Division of Medical TMI and TNS as well as other scientific journals. EImaging Physics in the Department of He has been a regular participant in the Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Johns NSS/MIC since 1989 and reviewed abstracts for Hopkins University. He has been a member of the meeting since 1993. His major research inter- IEEE and the NPSS since 1991 and a Senior ests are in SPECT image reconstruction with Member since 2005. He was the Deputy MIC compensation for image degrading factors, dual Chair for the 2001 IEEE Nuclear Science isotope imaging, quantitative imaging for target- Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference ed radionuclide therapy dosimetry, and recon- (NSS/MIC), a member of the Nuclear Medical struction and instrumentation for x-ray micro- Imaging and Sciences technical council computed tomography applications. He has been Eric Frey (NMISTC) in 2001-2002, and a member of the the advisor of 5 Ph.D. students, the P.I. of 4 Nuclear Medical and site selection committee for the 2005 NSS/MIC; NIH-funded grants, and an author of more than Imaging Science he will be the MIC Chair for the 2007 NSS/MIC. 64 refereed publications in scientific journals.
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James R. Schwank ames R. Schwank (S’78-M’78-SM’89- Short Course Chairman, Short Course F’94) received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Instructor, Liaison to RADECS, and Publicity Jdegrees in Electrical Engineering from the Chairman. In addition, he was a Technical University of California at Los Angeles. Jim Program and Short Course Chairman for the joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1979, Hardened Electronics and Radiation and is a Principal Member of the Technical Technology (HEART) Conference, Guest Staff in the Radiation Physics, Technology, and Editor for the Journal of Radiation Effects and Assurance Department. At Sandia, Jim has RADECS, and served on the RADECS Conseil been involved in programs investigating the d’Administration and the IEEE SOI mechanisms of radiation effects in semiconduc- Conference Technical Program Committees. tor devices (including the discovery of the Jim is the author of more than 150 publications, rebound effect), developing radiation-hardened encyclopedia articles, and short courses includ- James Schwank devices, and improving hardness assurance test ing papers that received ten NSREC and three Radiation Effects methods. He is currently investigating SOI HEART Conference Outstanding Paper technology for radiation-hardened applications Awards. He is also the recipient of an R&D and is the inventor of the BUSFET radiation- 100, an Industry Week Technology, and a hardened SOI transistor. Jim has participated Discover Magazine Technology Award, and is actively in numerous activities within the radia- on the ISI Highly Cited list of most highly tion effects community. For the NSREC, he cited researchers worldwide. Jim is a Fellow of has served as General Conference Chairman, the IEEE and a member of the NPSS. Rick Van Berg ick Van Berg (M’78) directs the ning and in a series of novel radiation and University of Pennsylvania High optical probes for medical use. REnergy Physics Instrumentation and Mr. Van Berg received his BA from Engineering group. This group specializes in Haverford College, Haverford Pa., in 1964 front end and data acquisition electronics for and his MS from the University of major HEP experiments with expertise rang- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1966. He has ing from front end ASIC development been on the technical staff at Penn since 1966. through DAQ code architecture. The group He is presently a member of the SNO, ATLAS, has designed and built whole experiments and LSST collaborations. He has authored or (the electronics and DAQ chain for co-authored numerous technical and physics Kamiokande II and the Sudbury Neutrino articles in refereed journals. He is active in pro- Observatory, SNO) and parts of larger exper- moting science for high school students as lead Rick Van Berg iments (the wire chamber front end and time for the Penn Quarknet project and as a teacher Radiation of flight system for CDF and the wire cham- in the Penn Summer Science Academy. He is Instrumentation ber front end for the ATLAS TRT). The an associate editor of Transactions on Nuclear group is also using its expertise in fast elec- Science and was Deputy Program Chair for the tronics to effect improvements in PET scan- NSS in 2002. New Technical Committee Chair
onald M. Gilgenbach is a professor in Naval Research Lab (NRL) and Oak Ridge the Nuclear Engineering and National Laboratory. Dr. Gilgenbach joined R Radiological Sciences Department and the faculty of the University of Michigan in also serves in the Applied Physics Program at 1980 and became Director of the Plasma, the University of Michigan. He received his Ph. Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory. In D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia 2002 he founded the Bioelectromagnetism University in 1978. His B.S. (1972) and M.S. Laboratory, which he also directs. His research (1973) degrees were earned at the University at Michigan has concentrated on the plasma of Wisconsin. In the early 1970's he spent sev- physics and applications of high-power electron Ronald Gilgenbach eral years as a Member of the Technical Staff at beams and microwaves, as well as laser plasmas, Chair, Plasma Science Bell Labs. From 1978-1980, he worked at the laser diagnostics, beam-materials processing, and Applications TC
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biological interactions of radio-frequency and Fellow of both the American Physical Society ultrawideband radiation, and plasma propul- and the IEEE. Prof. Gilgenbach is an Associate sion for space. He has had research interactions Editor of the Physics of Plasmas and is current- with scientists at Air Force Research Lab, ly the Chair Elect of the IEEE Plasma Science Sandia National Labs, NASA Glenn, L-3 and Applications Technical Committee. He Communications Corp., Northrop Grumman has published some 130 articles in refereed Corp., General Motors Research Labs, Los journals and has supervised 38 graduated Alamos National Lab, Fermilab, and the Naval Ph.D. students. Research Lab. Ron Gilgenbach can be reached at the Dr. Gilgenbach received the NSF University of Michigan, Dept. of Nuclear Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Engineering, Cooley Bldg, North Campus, Ann 1997 Plasma Sciences and Applications Arbor, MI 48109; Phone +1 734 763 1261; Fax: Committee Award from the IEEE. He is a +1 734 763 4540; E-mail: [email protected].
New Functional Committee Chair
am currently a scientific employee at the fellow, I then switched over to solid state University of Dortmund, Germany, where detector applications in high-energy physics, II run a solid-state detector development also using passive sensor techniques for the project for the LHCb experiment at CERN. dosimetry in test beam experiments, dealing Artificial diamond sensors are planned to pro- with the radiation hardness of sensor materials. tect the LHCb detector against possible So also the effects of ionizing radiation in gen- adverse beam conditions of CERN’s future eral caught my interest, including radiation Large Hadron Collider. protection. After my studies of physics at the University As an official CERN guide, I devote part of of Munich, Germany and Munich Technical my leisure time in explaining to an interested University, from which I graduated in 1996, I public what particle physics is about, and I Christoph Ilgner did some physics teaching for engineering stu- hope that skills I might have acquired in this Membership Chair dents at the Bundeswehr University, as part of activity will also help me to serve the IEEE the education of future officers in the German Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society as the Federal Armed Forces. new membership chair. I will try to be a help The first detector development project I to any member that needs assistance; thank became involved in was the large-scale produc- you for your trust. tion of straw drift tubes for the COMPASS Christoph J. Ilgner, European Organization experiment at CERN. For this I spent four for Nuclear Research (CERN) and University years at the Joint Institute for Nuclear of Dortmund, Germany, can be reached at Research in Dubna, Russia. Afterwards I did CERN, Dept. ULB-PH 1211 Geneva 23, some technical coordination for the COM- Switzerland; Phone: +41-22-76-72969 Fax: +41- PASS experimental collaboration. As a CERN 22-76-79080; E-mail: [email protected].
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
he main event of the CANPS this year chairperson of the conference (http://com- will be the 15th occurrence of the puting.fnal.gov/cd/rt07/). Several adapta- tions of this conference are foreseen for the Jean-Pierre Martin TIEEE NPSS Real Time Conference. It 2007 edition. In addition to the traditional Chair, Computer will be held at Fermilab, from April 29th to Plasma, Particle and Nuclear Physics real time Applications in May 4th, 2007. Margaret Votava, member of aspects, we want to promote new fields. For Nuclear and Plasma the FNAL computing division, is the general Sciences TC 20 March 2007 HTTP://WWW.IEEE-NPSS.ORG NPS0307.qxd 2/8/07 8:49 AM Page 21
example, biomedical imaging real time data high availability in large projects like the acquisition and processing is becoming a real ILC. The morning session consists of two challenge for the future. There were already a tutorials on ATCA hardware and software RIP few presentations in this field at the RT2003 offered by experts in the telecommunications and RT2005 conferences, and the synergy field. The afternoon will include example Nice guys finish with our traditional activities was greatly projects from the NPSS community, a panel appreciated. Also, the decision to build ITER, discussion of ATCA suitability and alterna- last, but we get the next generation of experimental fusion tives, and a questions and answer period with to sleep in. reactors, will generate new challenges in real informal demos. time control systems. These two examples Due to the small size of the conference show how rich and exciting the Real Time field (~200 participants), and the broad diversity of Evan Davis will be in the near future. Real Time applications covered, the RT con- At the opening of the conference, on ference is the ideal forum for studying the Sunday, April 29th, there will be a one-day impact of new industrial standards such as workshop on ATCA. The workshop is ATCA, just as it has been in the past for NIM, planned to explore the merits of the CAMAC, FASTBUS and VME. Advanced Telecommunications Computing Jean-Pierre Martin, chair of the Computer Architecture (ATCA) for use by the real-time Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science science community. Our goal is to provide Technical Committee, can be reached at the information that will assist attendees in mak- University of Montreal, RJA Lévesque Laboratory, ing design decisions about utilizing ATCA Montreal (QC), Canada H3C 3J7. Phone +1 514 hardware and associated software to achieve 343 7340; E-mail: [email protected]. Fusion Technology Technical Committee Annual Report his past year, 2006, was a relatively ship in the development of fusion technology quiet year for the Fusion Technology and the quest to build future fusion power TCommittee (FTC). plants, for his leadership of the US ITER fusion The 21st Symposium on Fusion Engineering efforts, and for his leadership of the US Virtual (SOFE) had already passed, and the 22nd was still in Laboratory for Technology,” and Bradley early planning. The finances for the 21st SOFE were Nelson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “for closed well in advance of the IEEE deadline, and the his innovative technical contributions to the final conference report was published in March: engineering of fusion experiments and his http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/ exceptional leadership in the design and con- newsletters/npss/0306/21st.html struction of experimental fusion facilities.” Two changes occurred in the membership of Award nominations for 2006 and 2007 are the FTC. Mark Tillack (UC San Diego) succeeded now being solicited. Instructions for nominating Mark Tillack Phil Heitzenroeder as the chair of the FTC in a candidate can be found at the FTC web site. Chair, Fusion January, and Wayne Meier (Lawrence Livermore Planning for the 22nd SOFE is underway. The Technology TC National Laboratory) replaced long-time commit- meeting is scheduled for June 17-22 of 2007, to tee member Dick Foley. As an appointive commit- be collocated at the Albuquerque Convention tee, changes in the FTC do not require elections. Center together with ICOPS and the Pulsed The chair is nominated by a vote of the committee Power Conference. The General Chair will be itself, and ratified by the NPSS President. Similarly, Dennis Youchison and the Technical Program new committee members are approved by vote of Chair will be Michael Ulrickson. Both are from the committee and ratified by the chair. Sandia National Laboratories. For more informa- The FTC committee maintains a web site at tion regarding the 22nd SOFE, please visit the http://aries.ucsd.edu/PUBLIC/NPSS-FT/. symposium website at http://sofe22.sandia.gov/ There you can find more information regard- Mark Tillack, chair of the Fusion Technology ing the membership, symposia and awards. Committee, can be reached at the University of The latest recipients of Fusion Technology California in San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La awards, delivered at the 21st SOFE, were Jolla, CA 92093-0417. Phone +1 858 534 7897; E- Charles Baker, UC San Diego, “for his leader- mail: [email protected].
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NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGING SCIENCES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (NMISTC) UPDATE
e welcome Eric Frey as the AdCom MIC 2008 member at large from the NMISC The general chair for this meeting is be Uwe Wcommunity. He attended the AdCom Bratzler. The meeting will be held at the con- meeting in October in San Diego and will do an ference center in Dresden, Germany. The con- outstanding job. We managed to get behind on tract with the conference center has been electing the new board members. The election signed and more information on the meeting is results were not available during our normal presented elsewhere in this newsletter. The web October business meeting at the 2006 site is not yet on-line, but we should be seeing NSS/MIC conference. However, I am happy to it in the near future. The committee is planning announce that our new board members are: on a large meeting based on the European M’Hamed Bentourkia, Zhenghong Lee, Robert response to the meetings in Lyon and Rome. Tom Lewellen Miyaoka, Lukas Pichl, and Yiping Shao. Chair, Nuclear Medical MIC 2009 MIC 2006 and Imaging TC The contract for 2009 should be signed by the Once again, the NSS/MIC meeting went very time this newsletter is published. The site will be well indeed. The attendance for MIC was on the Hilton at Walt Disney World. We will take par with 2005 and the papers were excellent. over the entire conference area at the hotel and Congratulations to all who worked on the expect to have enough room for all of our func- 2006 meeting. John Aarsvold (MIC chair) and tions (and avoid some of the problems we have his team were particularly successful in attracting faced in recent years). The room rate will be $175 outside funds to support the meeting and we (in 2009 dollars), but we also have commitments hope those lines of support can be continued. for a percentage of our room block to be at fed- Certainly, the MIC dinner at Sea World will be eral per diem rates as well as a number of student one many of us will remember for a long time rate rooms (at $119/night). The general chair is (particularly those who were soaked by Shamu Richard Lanza and the committee is being during the killer whale show). formed. Keep an eye out on the NSS/MIC web site (www.nss-mic.org) for more information. MIC 2007 This meeting will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian MIC 2010 Village, Honolulu, Oct. 26 -Nov. 3, 2007. The The site selection committee is now working on general chair, Ben Tsui (Johns Hopkins) and his the 2010 site. Too early to report any details, team are well along in preparations. They have but several sites on both the East and West coast had some challenges since we expect the space to of the United States are under consideration. be a bit tight for the meeting as it has evolved Tom Lewellen, Chair of the Nuclear Medical over the last two years. Eric Frey (Johns and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee, can Hopkins) is the MIC chair, and Magnus be reached at Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, NW- Dahlbom is deputy MIC chair. The web site is 0040, University of Washington Medical Center, up and we expect much more additional infor- PO Box 357897, Seattle, WA 98195; Phone: +1 mation to appear on it in the near future. 206 543 2365; E-mail: [email protected]. RADIATION EFFECTS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Future NSREC Conference Plans
he 2008 NSREC will be held in The 2009 NSREC will be held in Quebec, Tucson, AZ at the new Starr Pass J. W. Canada at the Quebec Hilton and the Quebec TMarriott Hotel, July 14-18. The con- Conference Center, July 20-24. The confer- ference site is a spectacular desert location in ence site overlooks the St. Lawrence River and the mountains above the city. The Conference the walled city of Quebec. The Conference Tim Oldham Chairman is Paul E. Dodd, of Sandia National Chairman is Mark A. Hopkins, of Aerospace Radiation Effects Laboratories, [email protected]. Corp., [email protected]. Chairman
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The 2010 NSREC is still in the site selec- Publications of the Radiation Effects Steering tion process with Conference Chairman Group. Marty is a Fellow of the IEEE and a mem- Joseph M. Benedetto, of RT-Micro, Inc., ber of the NPSS. [email protected] OUTSTANDING AND MERITORIOUS MEMBER-AT-LARGE ELECTED PAPERS AT THE 2006 NUCLEAR AND Marty Shaneyfelt was elected Junior-Member- SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS CONFERENCE at-Large of the Radiation Effects Steering 2006 NSREC Outstanding Conference Group during the annual Open Meeting at the Paper Award is: 2006 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Statistical Analysis of the Charge Collected in Conference (NSREC). SOI and Bulk Devices under Heavy Ion and Proton Irradiation—Implications for Marty R. Shaneyfelt received his B.S. degree in Teresa Farris Digital SETs, V. Ferlet-Cavrois, P. Paillet, Electrical Engineering from the University of Radiation Effects M. Gaillardin, D. Lambert, J. Baggio, J. R. Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1984, and his M.S. degree Publicity Chair in Electrical Engineering from the University of Schwank, G. Vizkelethy, M. R.. Shaneyfelt, New Mexico in 1990. From 1984 to 1990 he K. Hirose, E. W. Blackmore, O. Faynot, C. worked on technology development and manu- Jahan, and L. Tosti. facturing of radiation-hardened integrated circuits for Allied-Signal Microelectronics Operation, The winner of the 2006 Outstanding Albuquerque, NM. Marty joined Sandia National Student Paper Award is: Laboratories in 1990, where he is a Distinguished Single-Event Tolerant Latch Using Cascode- Member of the Technical Staff in the Radiation Voltage Switch Logic Gates, Megan C. Casey, Physics, Technology, and Assurance Department. Bharat L. Bhuva, Jeff D. Black, Lloyd W. At Sandia, he has been involved in numerous Massengill, Oluwole A. Amusan, and research activities associated with developing radi- Arthur F. Witulski. ation-hardened bulk and SOI CMOS technolo- gies, characterizing the physical mechanisms The winner of the 2006 Outstanding Data responsible for the radiation response of ICs, Workshop Presentation Award is: developing hardness assurance approaches, and Total Dose and Dose Rate Response of Low addressing the limitations of using commercial Dropout Voltage Regulators, R. L. Pease, G. Marty Shaneyfelt technologies in radiation environments. Marty Dunham, and J. Seiler. Junior Member-at- has authored or co-authored more than 130 pub- Large lications, including eight NSREC Outstanding Tim Oldham, Chair of the Radiation Effects Conference Papers and two Hardened Technical Committee, can be reached at NASA Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Conference Outstanding Papers. He has served as 27701-0001; Phone: +1 301286 5489; Fax: +1 General Conference Chairman, Publicity 301 286 4699. Chairman, Local Arrangements Chairman, Teresa Farris, Publicity Chair for the Session Chairman, and Finance Chairman for the Radiation Effects Steering Group, can be reached IEEE NSREC and Vice-Chairman of at Aeroflex Corp., Phone: +1 719 594-8035
FUNCTIONAL & APPOINTIVE COMMITTEES AWARDS COMMITTEE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NPSS AWARDS DUE MAY 15, 2007
he Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Sponsored Conferences that have Short gives three different categories of Courses solicit nominations for Paul Phelps Tawards each year. Some awards are Continuing Education Grants. These grants are intended either for tuition in NPSS given by the Society and others are given by its Peter Winokur Sponsored Short Courses, or for partial or Technical Committees. In addition to Society Awards Committee total travel expenses to attend NPSS Short and Technical Committee Awards, NPSS Chair
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Courses. These grants are available for out- e. Leadership and service within the fields of standing Student Members of NPSS and Nuclear and Plasma Sciences and related Call me mister unemployed members of NPSS who need disciplines. assistance in changing career directions. Presentation: One award presented annually Degrees are like The deadline for Society award nominations is at an NPSS sponsored meeting chosen by the May 15, 2007. All nomination forms and support- recepient. false teeth. ing materials must be received by the deadline to be You’d rather not considered. Nomination forms for the Society NPSS EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD be without them, Awards may be obtained on the NPSS web site at Description: To recognize outstanding contri- http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm butions to any of the fields making up Nuclear but you don’t or by contacting the awards chair. The Society and Plasma Sciences, within the first ten (10) flaunt the fact awards comprise the following: years of an individual’s career. you’ve got them Prize: $1,800, plaque, and certificate. to the world. RICHARD F. SHEA DISTINGUISHED MEMBER Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and AWARD Plasma Sciences Society. Description: To recognize outstanding contri- Eligibility: Member of the IEEE NPSS who at Godfrey Smith butions through leadership and service to the the time of nomination is within the first ten NPSS and to the fields of Nuclear and Plasma (10) years of his or her career within the field Sciences. of interest of NPSS. Prize: $2,000, plaque, and certificate. Basis for Judging: Three (3) letters of recom- Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and mendation, publications and/or reports, Plasma Sciences Society. patents, etc. which demonstrate outstanding Eligibility: Any member of the IEEE and contributions early in the nominee’s career. NPSS who has contributed to the fields of Presentation: At any major NPSS sponsored nuclear and plasma sciences through leadership conference chosen by the recipient. and service. Basis for Judging: Selection criteria are: NPSS GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD a. Leadership roles and leadership quality; Description: To recognize contributions to b. Innovative and important contributions to the fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences. Society activities; Prize: $500, certificate, and one-year paid c. Service and dedication to the NPSS; membership in the NPSS. d. Technical achievements. Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and Presentation: One award presented annually Plasma Sciences Society. at an NPSS sponsored meeting chosen by the Eligibility: Any graduate student in the fields recipient. of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences. Basis for Judging: Evidence of scholarship NPSS MERIT AWARD such as academic record, reports, presentations, Description: To recognize outstanding tech- publications, research plans, related projects nical contributions to the fields of Nuclear and and related work experience. Participation in Plasma Sciences. IEEE activities through presentations, publica- Prize: $2,000, plaque, and certificate. tions, student Chapter involvement, etc., will Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and also be considered. Plasma Sciences Society. Presentation: Up to four (4) awards present- Eligibility: Any individual who has made ed annually. Check and certificates sent to technical contributions to the fields of Nuclear nominator to be presented at a special occasion and Plasma Sciences. at the winner’s institution. Basis for Judging: Selection criteria, in order of importance are: PAUL L. PHELPS AWARD a. Importance of individual technical contribu- Description: The Paul L. Phelps provides trav- tions; el grants to attend short courses at IEEE NPSS b. Importance of technical contributions made meetings. by teams led by the candidate; Prize: Several travel grants per NPSS confer- c. Quality and significance of publications and ence. patents; Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and d. Years of technical distinction; Plasma Sciences Society.
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Eligibility: Any graduate student in the fields 3. Radiation Instrumentation Early Career of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, as well NPSS Award; members who are presently unemployed and 4. Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Self-cure have trouble obtaining travel funds. Each Achievement Award; grantee must attend a short course. 5. Fusion Technology Award; I hate to Basis for Judging: Each conference shall have 6. Particle Accelerator Science and an appointed chairman to handle Phelps travel Technology Award; advocate drugs, grants. The amount of funding per conference 7. Plasma Science and Applications Award; alcohol, violence is determined by the short course attendance 8. Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging or insanity to at the previous conference. (Consult the IEEE Scientist Award; NPSS Treasurer.) This amount may then be 9. Young Investigator Medical Imaging anyone but they subdivided at the discretion of the appointed Science Award; always worked chairman to accommodate several recipients. 10.Erwin Marx Award; for me. Application for the grant is by a letter to the 11.Peter Haas Pulsed Power Award; appointed chairman and/or the conference 12.Outstanding Pulsed Power Student Award; chairman. The letter will convey the need for and Hunter S. the grant, as well as biographical and scientific 13.Best Student Paper Awards. Thompson information to demonstrate the scientific capa- bility of the potential grantee. Finally, there are an abundance of high-level Presentation: A check will be sent to each grantee, awards obtainable directly from the IEEE, preferably well before the conference, but as soon which can be found on the IEEE web site at as possible in the case of late application. http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/a wards/index.html. As the new Awards In addition to Society Awards, most of the Chairman, I need to learn more about these Technical Committees under the IEEE NPSS awards. I’m informed by the previous Awards umbrella have their own awards. These awards Chairman, Igor Alexeff, that only one member are in general funded out of conference bud- of NPSS has received one of these incredibly gets. Once again, details are available on the prestigious awards in NPSS’s 30 year history. NPSS web site. A listing of Technical Let’s see if we can win another! Committee Awards follows. Peter S. Winokur, Chair, NPSS Awards Committee, can be reached at the Defense 1. Computer Applications in Nuclear and Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Washington, Plasma Sciences Award; DC; Phone: +1 202 694-7090; E-mail: 2. Radiation Effects Award; [email protected].
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
he function of the NPSS is to serve its If the professionals in the field are not fully members and the fields of science and aware of the opportunities for communication Tengineering in its field of interest. It is with their peers and do not make use of these, fair to say that the NPSS actually serves sever- they and the community both suffer. It is the al fields of interest as defined by the journals job of the Communications Committee to pre- and the conferences. pare and provide the tools to ensure that peo- NPSS is a Society of all its members and with- ple are aware of these opportunities. This also out the active help of members, journals would has a spin-off of educating the public of the not be published and meetings would not be work we do and the importance of this work. organized. The profession relies on the volun- With a new President of the NPSS this year teerism of its members to ensure that communi- with a two-year term, we review and prepare cation is facilitated that stimulates innovation new material and by the time that this Peter Clout and accelerates progress. In addition, the printed newsletter is in print, this job will be well Chair, Communications record provides an archive of progress in our underway. In addition, the membership booth Committee fields and help, inspiration, and stimulation to that is used at meetings will be enhanced and those who do not attend meetings. extended this year.
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I encourage you to go to our web pages and We are always looking for volunteers to help review them with the question in your mind with the activities and so please do not hesitate that if you were a member of the public, what to contact me if you are interested! information would be useful there? Of course, Peter Clout, Chair of the NPSS I am extremely interested in receiving pro- Communications Committee, can be reached at posed new pages to add! In addition, what Vista Control Systems, Inc., 176 Central Park other promotional materials would be helpful Square, Los Alamos, NM 87544-4031; Phone: and what else could we do to promote the +1 505 662-2484; Fax: +1 505 662-3956; E- activities of the NPSS? mail: [email protected]. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE Candidates Sought for Elected AdCom Positions
re you interested in helping run the Applications position, which is a two-year term NPSS? The NPSS AdCom (Administrative as it fills a mid-term vacancy. In general, the ACommittee) is the body that “runs” the requirements are that you are a member of both NPSS, which includes setting the policies for all the IEEE and the NPSS (which basically of the conferences and publications that the includes everybody who receives this NPSS sponsors. Each year we hold elections for Newsletter) and that you have an interest in one approximately one quarter of the sixteen elected of those five technical areas. If you are interest- AdCom positions. This summer we will be hold- ed in running for one of these positions, you ing elections for AdCom members elected from must let me know ([email protected]) by June five NPSS communities: Plasma Science (the 1 of this year. You will be asked to submit a 200- community that puts on ICOPS), Radiation word biography plus a 200-word position state- Bill Moses Effects (the community that puts on NSREC), ment. Please feel free to contact me if you have Nominations Pulsed Power (the community that puts on the any questions or need more information. Committee Chair Pulsed Power Conference), Fusion Technology Bill Moses, NPSS Nominations Chair, can be (the community that puts on SOFE) and reached at the Lawrence Berkeley National Computer Applications (the community that Laboratory, MS 55-12, One Cyclotron Road, puts on the Real Time Conference). These are Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Phone: +1 510 486- four-year terms that begin on January 1, 2008, 4432; Fax: +1 510 496-4768; E-mail: with the exception of the Computer [email protected]. Tool for the job CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE Man invented Ed Note: Below is the new version of our Constitution and Bylaws, approved by AdCom at its Feb. 3 meeting held in San Antonio, TX. It will be presented to the IEEE Technical Activities Board for language to approval, barring dissent from the NPSS community at large. Any comments should be sent to satisfy his deep [email protected] to arrive prior to May 15, 2007. need to complain. The revision to the NPSS Constitution and Several modifications brought the practices of Bylaws has been completed. The revision NPSS into accordance with those of IEEE or Lily Tomlin includes updates to the documents by aligning wrote down practices we already follow. An the terminology and structure of the C&BL example is that the Constitution now mandates with changes that had occurred in AdCom. that NPSS use the same fiscal year as IEEE, This includes such changes as the restructuring which NPSS, in fact, has done for many years. of the Publications Functional Committee. The revision to the Constitution and Bylaws Other changes allow for the Vice Chair of the also established a policy of visitors to AdCom Transnational Technical Committee to have meeting, and if necessary, their removal, and a voting privileges when acting as alternate for proviso to remove AdCom members from the Chair. The rationale for this inclusion is office. IEEE has released a list of “Must that the likelihood of the Transnational Haves” for inclusion in every IEEE Societies Committee Chair missing AdCom meeting is Constitution and Bylaws with which NPSS is relatively high because of travel requirements. now compliant.
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IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Constitution and Bylaws January 2007 Constitution
ARTICLE I - NAME AND OBJECT for non-members of the IEEE shall normally be higher than for members. Section 3. The Society may raise revenues by other means such as, but Section 1. This organization shall be known as the IEEE Nuclear and not limited to, advertising, shows, requests for contributions, and charges Plasma Sciences Society. for sending out notices to non-Society members, provided such means are Section 2. The Society’s purpose shall be scientific and educational in consistent with applicable IEEE rules and regulations. character. The Society shall strive for the advancement of the theory and Section 4. The fiscal year of the society shall be the same as for the IEEE. practice of electrical and electronic engineering and of the allied arts and sciences and for the maintenance of high scientific and technical stan- dards among its members, all in consonance with the Constitution and ARTICLE V - ADMINISTRATION Bylaws of the IEEE and with special attention to such aims within the field Section 1. The Society shall be managed by an Administrative Committee of interest of the Society, as hereinafter defined. (AdCom) consisting of 16 directly elected members plus certain ex officio Section 3. The Society shall aid in promoting close cooperation and members as specified herein and in the Bylaws. The number of directly exchange of technical information among its members and affiliates, and elected members shall always exceed the number of ex officio members to this end shall hold meetings for the presentation and discussion of orig- with voting rights. inal contributions, shall publish transactions reporting advances within the Section 2. The terms of office of the directly elected members shall be four scope of the Society and through its committees shall study and otherwise years. Elections of members shall be held annually to fill vacancies for the provide for the needs of its members and affiliates. coming year. The terms of office of the ex officio members shall be spec- ified in the Bylaws. ARTICLE II - FIELD OF INTEREST Section 3. Section 1. The fields of interest of the Society are the nuclear and plasma (a) The affairs of the Society shall be managed by the President, as direct- sciences. The Society shall devote itself to publication or other dissemi- ed by the AdCom and in accordance with the powers and duties as nation of original contributions to the theory, experiments, educational defined hereunder and in the Bylaws. In the event of the President’s methods and applications of these fields, and to the development of stan- prolonged absence or incapacity, the Vice-President shall take over the dards. The process for modifying the Field of Interest shall be in accor- presidential duties until the President is able to resume his responsi- dance with the procedures in the TAB Operations Manual and the proce- bilities. In the event the Vice-President is unable, then the most recent dure defined in Article VIII of this Constitution. Past-President shall perform the presidential duties, until either the Section 2. Areas of technical activity shall include but not be limited to the President or the Vice-President is able to take the presidential duties. following: (b) The President shall appoint a Secretary and Treasurer for the Society. Nuclear science and engineering, and plasma science and engineering, Section 4. including computer applications in plasma and nuclear science, nuclear (a) The President and Vice-President shall be elected for coincident two- medical and imaging sciences, particle accelerator science and technolo- year terms by the voting members of the AdCom from among the eli- gy, pulsed power science and technology, radiation effects, and radiation gible members of the AdCom. These elections of President and Vice- instrumentation. These fields of interest include instrumentation for President shall be held as defined in the Bylaws. research; detection and measurement of radiation; nuclear biomedical (b) All directly elected AdCom members are eligible for election as applications; radiation monitoring and safety equipment; particle accelera- President or Vice-President. In addition, the Vice-President is eligible tors; magnetofluid dynamics and thermionics; plasma dynamics; gaseous for election as President. No individual may be elected to two succes- electronics and arc technology; controlled thermonuclear fusion; electron, sive terms as President. ion, and plasma sources; space plasmas; high-current relativistic electron (c) In the event the Vice-President is required to complete the term of the beams and accelerators; laser-plasma interactions; diagnostics; plasma President, the Vice-President will be eligible to run for President in the chemistry and colloidal and solid state plasmas, z pinch drivers, nuclear next full-term election. instrumentation development for reactor systems; effects of radiation on (d) In the event that neither the President nor Vice-President is able to take materials, components, and systems; and applications of radiation and office as prescribed in the Bylaws, or if both are incapacitated or if both nuclear energy to other than utility power generation. offices become vacant for a period greater than 60 days, the AdCom (under the direction of the most recent Past President) shall promptly elect an Acting President from among the eligible elected members to ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIP assume the duties of President until either the President or Vice- Section 1. Membership in the Society shall be available to all members of President takes or resumes office, or until the next election. the IEEE having an interest in the nuclear or plasma sciences. (e) The NPSS Vice-President will, except under circumstances deemed Section 2. Affiliates may participate in the activities of the Society as pro- unusual by a majority of the voting members of AdCom, become the vided by the IEEE Bylaws and subject to the applicable IEEE rules and sole nominee for the succeeding NPSS Presidential election. regulations and to any additional limitations imposed by the Society Section 5. The AdCom shall utilize the services of IEEE Headquarters as Bylaws. bursar for Society funds as provided by the IEEE Bylaws and rules and regulations. If any part of the Society funds are received and deposited ARTICLE IV – FINANCES separately, the terms and conditions shall be in accordance with IEEE poli- Section 1. The Society shall collect from each member and affiliate an cies and subject to the provisions of Society Bylaws and to any special lim- assessment or fee in accordance with IEEE Bylaws and applicable rules itations that may be imposed by the AdCom. and regulations. The amount of the fees shall be established by the Section 6. The President shall be an ex-officio member of all committees AdCom. of the Society. As a member of the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB), Section 2. The Society may make registration charges at its technical the President shall ensure appropriate representation of the Society at meetings, symposia, conferences, and conventions. The registration fee IEEE and TAB meetings by personal attendance, or by ensuring that one
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of the alternates defined in Section 3(a) attends. Failing this, the President accepted. Facsimiles or other copies of the original signature shall not be should designate a representative from the ExCom, as defined in the accepted. Bylaws. Section 2. Election of the members of the AdCom shall be as prescribed Section 7. The work of the Society shall be conducted through the AdCom in the Bylaws. and through both standing and ad hoc committees as provided herein and Section 3. If a member of the AdCom does not complete a term, the in the Bylaws. vacancy shall be filled at the next AdCom election if more than one year Section 8. The President, as soon as expedient after election, shall remains in the term. Otherwise, the President will appoint a replacement appoint the Chairs of the standing Functional Committees provided in the for the remainder of the term. When an AdCom member is elected or Bylaws. Other special or ad hoc committees may be authorized and appointed for a partial term, that person is eligible to run for the next full- appointed by the President. term election for the same position. Section 9. (a) Standing Technical Committees may be administered by either elected ARTICLE VII - MEETINGS or appointed committee officers as specified herein and in the Bylaws. Section 1. The Society may hold meetings, conferences, symposia or (b) Each Appointive Standing Technical Committee shall be directed by a conventions either alone, with other IEEE organizational units, or in coop- Chair who shall be appointed or reappointed annually by the President eration with other organizations subject to applicable IEEE rules and reg- of the Society as specified in the Bylaws. ulations. (c) Each Elective Standing Technical Committee shall consist of at least Section 2. Technical meetings, conferences, symposia, and conventions 15 members and shall be governed according to a written Constitution of the Society shall be open on an equal basis to all members of the IEEE. and Bylaws approved by the committee and by the AdCom which shall The Society may not sponsor or co-sponsor a meeting that is in any way include the following: subject to limitations on attendance by members for reasons other than (1) provision for periodic election of officers; availability of space. (2) provision for amendment of the rules of operation subject to the Section 3. A majority of the voting members of AdCom or any committee approval of the AdCom; and thereof shall constitute a quorum. No member shall be able to cast more (3) a statement of criteria for membership. than one vote for any reason. Section 10. Section 4. A majority vote of the members present and entitled to vote, at Any AdCom member who fails to perform their duties in a manner that is con- the time of a vote, provided a quorum is present, shall be the act of the sistent with the best interests of the IEEE and the NPSS may be removed AdCom or any committee hereof. from office. This prerogative of AdCom should be exercised after due cir- Section 5. The AdCom or any committee thereof may meet and act upon cumspection and only in extreme cases and always with great caution. the vote of its members by any means of telecommunication. The normal (a) Appointed AdCom Members: All Presidential appointees serve at the voting requirements, applicable at in-person meetings, shall apply when pleasure of the President, and as such can be removed from office by action is taken by any means of telecommunications equipment which the President. An appointed member of AdCom can be removed, with allows the participants to simultaneously hear one another. or without cause, by affirmative vote of two thirds of the voting mem- Section 6. The AdCom or any committee thereof may also take action by bers of AdCom present at the meeting, provided a quorum is present. e-mail. An affirmative vote of a majority of all the voting members of the (b) Elected AdCom members: A petition signed by a minimum of five vot- AdCom or any committee thereof shall be required to approve the action. ing AdCom members is necessary to instigate the removal process The results of the vote shall be confirmed promptly in writing or by elec- and the petition must include the name of the member to be removed, tronic transmission. The writings and/or electronic transmissions shall be the position in question, and a description of the grounds for removal. filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the AdCom or any committee Upon receipt of the petition, the Secretary will notify all AdCom mem- thereof. “Electronic transmission” means any form of electronic communi- bers that such a petition has been received, notify the member in cation, such as email, not directly involving the physical transmission of question, and give that member 30 days to provide a written response. paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed After this period, the Secretary will send a ballot that includes the by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form statement of the grounds for removal and its rebuttal to each voting by such a recipient. AdCom member. The ballots will be returned to the Secretary who will Section 7. The AdCom shall meet as required to conduct business and in tally the votes 30 days after the ballots were sent. Should a minimum accordance with the Bylaws. of two-thirds (2/3) of the eligible voting AdCom members vote in favor Section 8. Proxy voting is not allowed. of removal, then the member in question will be removed from office Section 9. Individuals holding more than one position on the AdCom or immediately. In the event that the Secretary is the member in ques- any committee thereof shall be limited to one vote on each matter being tion, the President will designate an alternate AdCom member to per- considered by the AdCom or committee. form the duties assigned to the Secretary in this Section. ARTICLE VIII - AMENDMENTS ARTICLE VI - NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF Section 1. Amendments to the Constitution may be initiated following ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS approval by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the AdCom at an AdCom meeting Section 1. Nominating procedures shall be as prescribed in the Bylaws provided that notice of the proposed amendment to the Constitution has and shall include provision for nomination by petition of Society members. been sent to each member of the AdCom at least three weeks prior to Nominations by petition shall be included on the ballot and shall be so such meeting;. After such approval, the proposed amendment shall be identified. To be considered as part of the slate of candidates for any posi- publicized in the Society Newsletter, with notice that it will be submitted to tion, a petition candidate must collect the original signatures of a minimum the Technical Activities Board and to the Executive Committee of the IEEE of 2% of the eligible Society members. The number of signatures required for final approval unless 25 Society members object within 60 days of the on a petition shall depend on the number of eligible society voters as list- date of mailing of the notice. If such objections are received, a copy of the ed in the official IEEE membership records at the end of the year. proposed amendment shall be mailed with a ballot to all members of the Signatures can be submitted by signing and mailing a paper petition or Society at least 45 days before the date set for the return of the ballots; electronically through the official IEEE annual election website. The name the ballots shall carry a statement of the postmark deadline for their return of each member signing the petition shall be clearly printed or typed. For to the IEEE office. When a vote, as prescribed by IEEE procedures, of the identification purposes of signatures on paper petitions, membership num- entire Society membership is made necessary, approval of the amend- bers or addresses as listed in the official IEEE membership records shall ment by at least two-thirds (2/3) of the ballots returned shall be necessary be included. Only signatures submitted electronically through the IEEE for its enactment. If approved by Society members, the proposed amend- annual elections website or original signatures on paper petitions shall be ment will be submitted to the Technical Activities Board and to the
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Executive Committee of the IEEE for final approval. The amendment shall Publications undertaken by the Society shall be subject to IEEE policies take effect immediately after approval by the IEEE Technical Activities and to further guidance and controls prescribed by the AdCom or its duly Board. If the amendment changes the membership of AdCom, the then appointed committees. The Society shall be responsible for the financial current AdCom members will continue to serve until their term expires. aspects of its publication program. Section 2. As an alternative to the procedure outlined in Section 1 above, Section 2. All publications of the Society shall have unrestricted circula- twenty-five members of the Society may submit a petition to the Technical tion, subject only to the payment of appropriate fees. Circulation of Activities Board and to the IEEE Executive Committee. If approved by TAB Society publications to non-members shall be subject only to the payment and after notification of the AdCom, the proposed amendment shall be of appropriate fees or charges. submitted to the membership by mail ballot as described above. Section 3. The President with the advice of the AdCom shall appoint a Section 3. Society Bylaws and amendments thereto may be adopted by a Publications Chair to oversee the publication program and to assure finan- two-thirds (2/3) vote of the AdCom, provided that notice of the proposed cial soundness and maintenance of schedules and format standards. The Bylaw or amendment has been sent to each member of the AdCom at responsibilities of the Publications Chair shall include the preparation of least three weeks prior to such meeting; or a Society Bylaw, or amend- the Society's Annual Directory. The responsibility for the technical content ment, may be adopted by a two-thirds written vote of the eligible voting of any Transactions shall be controlled by that Transactions’ Editor-in- members of the AdCom, provided a two week period is provided for such Chief, who shall be nominated by the Publication Committee Chair or by responses. In either event, the proposed Bylaw or amendment shall be the Society President and approved by the AdCom. published in the Society Newsletter. The revision to the bylaws will take effect following Society AdCom approval, publication in the Society ARTICLE X - PERIODIC REVIEW Newsletter and filing with the Secretary of the Technical Activities Board, Section 1. The President shall appoint 5 members of the AdCom every which must be acknowledged. five years beginning in 2005 to evaluate the effectiveness and currency of this Constitution and Bylaws, to study the rules and governance required ARTICLE IX - PUBLICATIONS by the activities of the Society at that time, and to define the changes Section 1. The Society shall support a program by which Transactions, appropriate to the existing and anticipated needs of the Society. The com- Conference Proceedings, newsletters, and other forms of publication mittee will be chaired by the Vice-President, and will issue its report for appropriate to the Society’s fields of interest are published and distributed. action at the final AdCom meeting of that year.
Bylaws
1. Membership: There shall be two grades of Society membership: least three weeks in advance of the meetings. Additional meetings Student Members and Higher Grade Members. Student Members of the may be called at the discretion of the President or upon request of at IEEE may become Student Members in the Society upon payment of the least twelve (12) voting members of the AdCom with at least three fee specified in Bylaw 3. Student members shall have all the rights and weeks notice. privileges of Society membership with the exception of the right to vote 5.3. AdCom meetings are open to visitors. Visitors to AdCom meeting and to hold office. Members of the IEEE in all grades may become mem- may have the privilege of the floor at the discretion of the meeting’s bers of the Society upon payment of the fee specified in Bylaw 3. Life presiding officer. Visitors can be removed from AdCom meetings for members dues are waived as provided in IEEE Bylaws. any reason at the discretion of the meeting’s presiding officer. 5.4. The final regularly scheduled meeting in the calendar year is the 2. Affiliates: Non-members of the IEEE who are members of certain other meeting at which written reports of all committees shall be presented. organizations accredited by the IEEE as provided in IEEE Rules and 5.5. In the absence of extenuating circumstances (as approved by Regulations may become affiliates of the Society upon payment of the fees AdCom), directly elected members who miss three successive meet- specified in Bylaw 4. The rights of Affiliate members shall be as specified ings shall automatically be dropped from the AdCom. by IEEE. Representation by a designated alternate does not constitute atten- dance. 3. Membership Fees: The assessment or fee for membership in the Society shall be established by the AdCom. It will include the NPSS 6. Nomination and Election of the Administrative Committee: The Newsletter. Nominating Committee shall be chaired by the most recent Past President and shall nominate candidates for all elected positions on the AdCom. In 4. Affiliate Fees: Affiliates shall pay the fee or assessment specified in the event of the incapacity or conflict of interest of the Chair, the most IEEE rules and regulations. recent Past Chair of the Nomination Committee available shall be the Chair of the Nominating Committee. With extenuating circumstances, a 5. Administrative Committee: Article V of the Constitution provides that the different individual may be appointed to this position. The Chair shall not AdCom shall consist of 16 directly elected members plus certain ex-officio be eligible to be elected to the AdCom during their term of service. members. The ex-officio members of the AdCom shall be the President, 6.1. At least two thirds of the voting members of the Nominating Committee Vice-President, most recent Past President, the Chairs of the Standing shall be elected or appointed from among the AdCom’s voting mem- Technical Committees, the Chairs of Standing Functional Committees, bers. Apart from the Chair, the Nominating Committee shall include all Secretary, Treasurer, Liaison Representatives for Standards and IEEE- the Technical Committee Chairs. In exceptional circumstances a USA, Editors-in-Chief of the Transactions, Editor of the Newsletter, Technical Committee Chair may, in consultation with the relevant Publications Chair and other ex-officio members as provided for in the Technical Committee and the President, name a replacement to serve IEEE Constitution. on the Nominating Committee. A member of the Nominating 5.1. The voting members of the AdCom shall be the elected members, Committee may be nominated and run for a position for which such President, Vice-President, most recent Past-President, and the members respective Nomination Committee is responsible for making Chairs of the Technical Committees. The presiding officer of the nominations only on the following conditions: (i) the nomination is not AdCom meeting shall not cast a vote unless (1) the vote is by secret made by a member of the same Nominations Committee and (ii) the ballot or (2) his or her vote can change the outcome of the vote. member resigns from the Nominations Committee prior to its first 5.2. The AdCom shall meet at least three times per year, upon dates meeting of the year in which the nomination is made. determined by the President and agreed to by the committee, at 6.2. The number of vacancies for elected members to the AdCom shall
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be the difference between the number authorized in Article V, President, the election shall be carried out using an instant runoff Section 1, of the Constitution and the number with continuing terms. voting procedure, in which each voter shall rank the candidates The Transnational Functional Committee will be allocated one direct- numerically on the ballot, beginning with the number one for the first ly elected AdCom member. The vacancies shall be divided into cat- choice, and runoff counts of the candidates shall be conducted in egories corresponding to the appropriate Standing Technical rounds. If, in any round, no candidate receives a majority of the Committees with the number per category chosen to maintain rep- votes cast, the candidate (or candidates, if there is a tie) with the resentation of the entire AdCom in proportion to the NPSS member- fewest number of votes shall be eliminated and the remaining can- ship technical interests as determined by periodic surveys. The didates shall advance to the next round. In each round, a voter shall Nominating Committee shall submit a slate of at least two names for be considered to have cast one vote for the candidate the voter each vacancy to be filled. ranked highest on the ballot who has not been eliminated in a pre- 6.3. The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall assure that, before vious round. In the event that this procedure does not produce a April 1, a call for nominations is conveyed to the whole membership clear majority for any candidate, AdCom will choose the winner by a either through the Newsletter or through a separate mailing. majority vote at the AdCom meeting. Nominations must be submitted to the Chair of the Nominating 6.11. Executive Committee (ExCom): An executive committee consisting Committee on a nomination form that includes a statement of the of the President, Vice-President, Past President, Secretary, willingness and ability of the nominee to serve if elected, the mem- Treasurer and any other current members of AdCom, whether vot- bership status of the nominee in IEEE and NPSS, a short biography ing members or not, who have held the position of President, shall and a statement of the issues that the candidate wishes to address form the ExCom. as an AdCom member. Additional nominations for the available cat- 6.12. The ExCom shall advise the President on issues that the President egory vacancies may be submitted to the Society President using or other members of the ExCom choose to raise between meetings the same nomination form, between June 1 and July 1 upon petition of the AdCom. Business shall generally be conducted by telephone, signed by a minimum of 2% of the Society members in good stand- e-mail or similar means of communication. In exceptional circum- ing or by 5 members of the AdCom. Only written signatures can be stances, the President can call a meeting of the ExCom. ExCom accepted on the petition. meetings are closed to visitors and communications of the ExCom 6.4. The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall, with the aid of the are private. committee members, determine the slate of nominees by July 1. 6.5. Current elected members of the AdCom and current Nominating 7. Standing Technical Committees: The Standing Technical Committees of Committee members are ineligible for nomination. the Society shall be: 6.6. All nominees and petition candidates must be members in good The Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences standing of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the IEEE. Committee 6.7. The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall annually arrange for The Fusion Technology Committee the distribution (through IEEE Headquarters) to the members of the The Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Committee Society, on or about July 31, of a ballot to elect the candidates to fill The Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Committee vacancies on the AdCom. The names on the ballot shall be followed The Plasma Sciences and Applications Committee by an indication of the method of nomination, whether by committee The Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee nomination or by petition. The names of the nominees shall be The Radiation Effects Committee grouped and labeled by categories corresponding to the Standing The Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee Technical Committees. The ballot shall be accompanied by a short biographical sketch and position statement prepared by each nomi- 7.1. Standing Technical Committees may be of either of two forms, elec- nee or petition candidate. tive or appointive, in accordance with Article V, Section 9, of the 6.8. Sixty days after distribution of the ballots, the IEEE Headquarters Constitution of the Society. shall count and tabulate the votes received and report the results to 7.2. The Chairs of Standing Technical Committees shall be members in the AdCom. The candidate with the most votes shall be elected. good standing of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the 6.9. Election of the President of AdCom: An election for President will be IEEE. held by written ballot before the final AdCom meeting of the even- 7.3. The terms of office of the Chairs of elective Standing Technical numbered years. The ballot for election of the President will indicate Committees shall be in accordance with the rules of each committee two choices: 1) the current Vice-President and (2) an indication that except that no Chair shall serve consecutively for more than three an open election is desirable. The ballots shall be distributed by the years or for two conferences when the technical committee has con- Chair of the Nominating Committee to all voting members of AdCom ferences every two years. for return to the Secretary of AdCom 30 days prior to the final AdCom 7.4. The President of the Society shall appoint the Chairs of the meeting of the year. The Secretary of AdCom is responsible for appointive Standing Technical Committees for a term of one year. A counting the ballots and the Chair of the Nominating Committee will Chair may not serve consecutively for more than three years except independently count the ballots and verify the tally. The Secretary of in the case where a conference is held biennially and it is the wish the AdCom will announce the results of the election. Should the of the appointive Standing Technical Committee that runs the con- Vice-President fail to receive a majority of the votes on the returned ference to have their Chair serve for two of the conferences. ballots, then AdCom will itself determine a slate of candidates for 7.5. The Chairs and the Vice-Chairs of elective Standing Technical President and vote at the final AdCom meeting. Committees shall be elected by the respective committees. The 6.10. Nomination and Election of the Vice-President of AdCom: The name of the Chair and the Vice-Chair so elected shall be transmitted Nominating Committee shall determine a slate of candidates for along with a notification of the length of term of office to the Vice-President according to the guidelines set forth in Article V, Secretary of the AdCom by the outgoing Chair of each elective Section 4. In selecting candidates for the NPSS Vice-President, the Technical Committee as soon as is expedient after election. Nominating Committee will ensure that those candidates shall be 7.6. A Standing Technical Committee shall gain elective status by pre- eligible for and will, barring unforeseen circumstances, be willing to senting a petition requesting such status signed by at least 15 mem- serve for the full terms of all succeeding positions (two years as bers of the Committee which shall demonstrate that the require- Vice-President, two years as President, and two years as the most ments of Article V, Section 9 of the Constitution have been met. recent Past President). The slate of candidates for Vice-President Approval of the elective status of a Standing Technical Committee will appear on the same ballot as the election for President (speci- shall be processed as an amendment to the Bylaws in accordance fied in Bylaw 6.9) and will be subject to the same election schedule. with Article VIII of the Constitution. In the event that there are more than two candidates for Vice 7.7. Standing Technical Committees may be created or changed by
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amending the Bylaws in accordance with Article VIII of the shall be one year. Constitution. 8.3. The Chairs of Standing Functional Committees shall be members in 7.8. The Standing Technical Committee shall take the initiative in their good standing of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the respective fields of interest on behalf of the Society. IEEE. 7.9. Each of the Standing Technical Committees shall as a minimum sub- 8.4. Awards Committee: Solicits nominations for the various awards mit a written report of its activities to the AdCom prior to the final made by the Society, evaluates the nominees and selects those to meeting of each year. The membership and activities of the whom the awards will be made. The Chair of the Awards Committee Standing Technical Committees will be publicized to the membership serves as the NPSS liaison to the TAB Awards and Recognition of the Society via the Newsletter or Transactions, and suggestions Committee. for committee membership will be invited from Society members and 8.5. Chapter and Local Activities Committee: Provides organization and chapters. program assistance, especially with respect to conferences, educa- 7.10 Status and Fields of Interest of Standing Technical Committees: tional activities and the Speakers Bureau, to support and motivate 7.10.1.The field of interest of the Appointive Computer Applications in existing Chapters. Promotes and assists in the creation of new Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Committee shall include real-time Chapters in collaboration with the appropriate IEEE Section or and off-line computer systems, including hardware and software Council Chairs. aspects of data acquisition, data analysis, data storage, and con- 8.6 Communications Committee: Prepares and maintains promotional trol, in any and all of the technical disciplines covered by the material for membership recruitment and other purposes as required. Society. The Communications Committee is responsible for the maintenance 7.10.2 The field of interest of the Appointive Fusion Technology Committee of the web site for both membership promotion and to publicize shall include the engineering aspects of controlled fusion research NPSS activities either directly or through links to conference, publi- and fusion reactor technology. cation, and other web sites. 7.10.3. The field of interest of the Elective Nuclear Medical and Imaging 8.7. Fellow Committee: Evaluates the credentials of and ranks the IEEE Sciences Committee shall include radiation sources and detectors, Fellow Candidates referred to the NPSS for evaluation. The com- radiation standards and monitoring, scanning and imaging sys- mittee shall follow the procedures and guidelines established by the tems, including image reconstruction and analysis. IEEE Fellows Committee. 7.10.4. The field of interest of the Appointive Particle Accelerator Science and 8.8. Finance Committee: Monitors the financial status of the Society and Technology Committee shall include the theory, design, construction reports any developing trends along with recommended actions, and operation of nuclear particle accelerators, their beam diagnostics, conducts financial studies and analyses on any Society or IEEE and their applications in high energy particle physics, low energy issues having financial implications for the Society, and reports on nuclear physics, radiation sources and general technology. these matters regularly at AdCom meetings. 7.10.5. The field of interest of the Elective Plasma Science and 8.9. Conference Policy Committee: Responsible for recommending poli- Applications Committee shall include plasma science and engi- cies and procedures to AdCom for all conferences and symposia for neering, including: magnetofluid dynamics and thermionics; plas- which the NPSS takes full or partial responsibility and for ensuring ma dynamics; gaseous electronics and arc technology; controlled compliance with IEEE conference policies as stated in the IEEE thermonuclear fusion; electron, ion, and plasma sources; space Meetings Organizational Manual. Note that conference officers with plasmas; high current relativistic electron beams; laser-plasma fiduciary responsibility, such as the Conference General Chair and interactions; diagnostics; plasma chemistry, plasma processing Conference Treasurer, are to be members in good standing of the and colloidal and solid state plasmas. IEEE NPSS or of a co-sponsoring IEEE society of that conference. 7.10.6. The field of interest of the Appointive Pulsed Power Science and 8.10. Membership Committee: Responsible for encouraging and recruit- Technology Committee shall include the understanding, develop- ing new Society members and Society affiliation by inviting IEEE ment and applications of pulsed power to plasma physics, nuclear members who have an interest in NPSS activities, by generating science and related fields. interest among non-IEEE members, and by making application 7.10.7. The field of interest of the Elective Radiation Effects Committee forms available and soliciting memberships at appropriate meetings shall include the effects of radiation on materials, components and and symposia. systems. 8.11. The Nominating Committee: The Nominating Committee shall be 7.10.8. The fields of interest of the Elective Radiation Instrumentation formed and administered according to the Bylaws pertaining to nom- Steering Committee shall include sensors, electronic instrumenta- inations. The Nominating Committee develops a slate of nominees tion, and systems for the measurement of ionizing radiation and for the directly elected member positions on the AdCom that high-energy particles with the emphasis on the tools, not the become vacant each year and recommends candidates for Vice- results of experiments using these tools. President of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. 8.12. Publications Committee: Reports to AdCom on all publications 8. Functional Committees: The President of the Society shall appoint the activities sponsored by the NPSS. In particular, proposes an annu- Chairs of the following Standing Functional Committees: al budget for each publication and brings to AdCom's attention any Awards Committee proposed new initiatives for discussion and possible approval. Also Chapters and Local Activities Committee keeps AdCom apprized of IEEE publications policies and proce- Communications Committee dures and is responsible for ensuring that NPSS publications follow Fellow Committee these policies and procedures. The Publications Committee shall Finance Committee be chaired by the Publications Chair, and include the Editor-in-Chief Conference Policy Committee of the Transactions on Nuclear Science, the Editor-in-Chief of the Membership Committee Transactions on Plasma Science, the Editor of the Newsletter, and Standards Committee the Treasurer of the Society. The remaining Functional Committees have their Chairs defined else- 8.13. Standards Committee: Responsible for all activities related to stan- where in the Constitution or Bylaws: dards for the technical areas associated with this Society. This Nominating Committee includes proposing, developing, and maintaining standards for mea- Publications Committee surement techniques and tests of devices of general interest to Transnational Committee manufacturers, developers, and users. 8.1. Except where otherwise specified in the Bylaws, each committee 8.14. Transnational Committee: The purpose of this committee is to fos- Chair shall appoint the members of the committee. ter the involvement in NPSS activities of people from countries other 8.2. The terms of office of Chairs of Standing Functional Committees than the United States and Canada. The directly elected member
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representing the Transnational Committee is the Chair for this com- Headquarters. The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall report the mittee. Candidates for this position may not be from the United results to the AdCom. States or Canada. 11. Beginning of Terms of Office: All terms of office of elected members 9. Disbursements: Disbursement from Society funds shall be on the of the AdCom shall begin January 1 of the year immediately following their authority of the treasurer as directed by the AdCom, and in accordance election, except in the case where an elected member of AdCom does not with established procedures and policies of the IEEE. The President and complete a term of office. In this special case, the term of office of the AdCom may authorize the Treasurer to disburse funds to defray legitimate replacement will begin immediately after the results of the election are expenses incurred by the Chairs and members of the Standing Technical known. and Functional Committees and others in connection with required atten- dance at official Society, IEEE or other meetings and the costs of publica- 12. Meetings: The Society may not organize or sponsor a meeting, con- tions. Such expenditures must be approved by the President before being ference, symposium, or session thereof without consulting the Chair of the incurred. Conference Policy Committee. 9.1. The compensation and expense allowance of the Publications Chair and the Editors-in-Chief of the Transactions and Editor of the 13. Alternates: Newsletter shall be reviewed annually as a part of the preparation of 13.1. The Chair of a Standing Technical Committee may designate any the annual budget by the Treasurer and shall be approved by the member in good standing of the Society to represent the Standing AdCom as part of the budget approval. Technical Committee at AdCom meeting. The representative shall have the privilege of the floor, but may not vote on any matters 10. Ballots: All ballots, for purposes of election of members of AdCom or coming before AdCom. changes in the Constitution, shall be issued to all voting members of the 13.2. The Constitution and Bylaws of an Elective Standing Technical NPSS on instructions of the Chair of the Nominating Committee pursuant Committee may include a provision that a specified Committee offi- to action by the AdCom. Ballots for directly elected AdCom members will cer can, when needed, serve as an alternate for the Chair at direct Society members to only vote for candidates of Standing Technical AdCom meetings. This alternate has the privilege of the floor and Committees of which they are members or in which they are active. No may vote on all matters coming before AdCom. ballot shall be counted unless unambiguously marked by a qualified voter 13.3. The Transnational Committee Chair may nominate a Vice-Chair to to indicate a choice, sent in a sealed envelope bearing the voters name, be appointed by the President, and approved by AdCom. The Vice- and received on or before the specified deadline date. This specified Chair may serve as an alternate for the Chair at AdCom meetings. deadline date shall be at least sixty days subsequent to the date of mail- In the capacity of alternate, the Vice-Chair has the privilege of the ing of the ballots. The counting of the ballots shall be entrusted to IEEE floor and may vote on all matters coming before AdCom.
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AWARDS
IEEE offers Institute Awards and the Societies and Society Technical Committees also offer awards. While not exactly an award, elevation to the member status of Fellow is extremely prestigious and we include these individuals elevated to Fellow in our Awards section. Each year the IEEE Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full membership to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made from among Senior Members and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations are forwarded to the Fellow Committee of the IEEE 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 congratula- tions to each of them. Richard T. Kouzes ichard T. Kouzes is a Laboratory Fellow nomic development programs in the physical at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) and biological sciences and engineering. RPacific Northwest National Laboratory Before moving to WVU, Dr. Kouzes was a (PNNL) working in the areas of computational staff scientist at PNNL. He was an initiator of, applications, nonproliferation, and homeland and a Principle Investigator for, the DOE's security. As Chief Scientist for the Computer and Collaboratory program. His research program Information Sciences Directorate he is responsi- at PNNL was in computer-assisted cooperative ble for creating focus and a global view of the work, advanced data acquisition system devel- future scientific directions of computation. His opment, neural network applications, and pre- work on homeland security has been for the cision atomic mass measurements. deployment of radioactive material interdiction Before moving to PNNL, Dr. Kouzes was a equipment at U.S. borders, and for three years he senior research physicist and lecturer at Richard Kouzes was the Principal Investigator and Technical Lead Princeton University, where for 15 years he for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s was a leading researcher in solar neutrino and Radiation Portal Monitor Project. He works on nuclear structure experimentation. issues related to the implementation of bilateral Dr. Kouzes earned his Ph.D. in physics from and trilateral programs, and was Principal Princeton University in 1974 and did postdoctoral Investigator for the DTRA Transparency work at Indiana University. He is a founder and Program in the authentication of monitoring sys- past chair of the Institute of Electrical and tems. He is the director of the Radiation Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee for Detection and Analysis Laboratory for PNNL as Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma part of the Homeland Security Initiative. His Sciences, and has been an elected member of the other research interests are in the field of collab- IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society orative computing for the enabling of scientific Administrative Committee. He is the author of research independent of geographical location, in over 300 papers. nuclear physics for disarmament verification, and Citation: For contributions to nuclear in neutrino research. He is an adjunct Professor radiation detection systems. of Physics at Washington State University. Dr. Kouzes can be reached at the Pacific Formerly, as the director of program devel- Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, opment for science and engineering and pro- MS K7-36, Richland, WA 99352; Phone: +1 fessor of physics at WVU, he was responsible 509 372-4858; Fax: 509-372-4969; E-mail: for facilitating the growth of research and eco- [email protected]. Wim P. Leemans
im Leemans obtained an electrical emphasis on plasma physics, in 1987 and 1991 engineering/applied physics degree respectively, from UCLA. He received the Wfrom the “Vrije Universiteit 1092 American Physical Society Simon Ramo Brussel,” Belgium in 1985, and the MS and award for outstanding doctoral thesis research Wim P. Leemans Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering with work in plasma physics. In 1991 he joined the
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Novel Accelerator, the corecipient of the (LBNL), as a Staff Scientist and, in 1994, start- 1996 Klaus Halbach Award for X-ray ed the LOASIS group in the Accelerator and Instrumentation, the recipient of the 2005 Fusion Research Division. He is also an United States Particle Accelerator School Prize for Adjunct Professor in physics at the University Achievement in Accelerator Physics and of Nevada, Reno. His current research interests Technology and the corecipient of Outstanding are in laser-based advanced accelerator concepts Performance Awards in 2005 and 2006 at LBNL. for electrons and ions, ultra-short X-ray pulse Citation: For contributions to the field and THz generation and the interaction of of advanced accelerators, in particular laser- electron beams with plasmas. He is a Fellow of plasma acceleration of electrons. the American Physical Society and the Institute Wim Leemans can be reached at the of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the cur- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One rent Chair of the International Committee for Cyclotron Road, MS 71-259, Berkeley, CA Future Accelerators (ICFA) Panel on Advanced 94720 USA;E-mail: [email protected].
Warren B. Mori arren B. Mori obtained his M.S. and was guest editor of an IEEE Transactions on Ph.D. from UCLA in 1984 and 1987 Plasma Science special issue on the Generation of Wrespectively. He is currently a full pro- Tunable Radiation Using Plasmas in February fessor in both the Physics and Astronomy and 1993. His current research interests are in high- Electrical Engineering departments at UCLA. He performance computing, plasma-based accelera- is also the Director of the UCLA Institute for tors, inertial confinement fusion, and high-energy- Digital Research and Education. Prof. Mori holds density science. He is a co-architect of the fully patents on novel methods for generating tunable parallelized particle-in-cell codes OSIRIS and radiation by upshifting the frequency of light by QuickPIC which are widely used throughout the rapid plasma creation and by the use of relativistic plasma-based accelerator, inertial confinement ionization fronts. He received the International fusion, and intense beam-plasma interactions com- Warren B. Mori Center for Theoretical Physics Medal for munities. He has coauthored 220 articles includ- Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a ing over 130 articles in refereed journals of which Young Researcher in 1995, in 1997 he was elect- four were in Nature, 12 were in IEEE ed a Fellow of the American Physical Society for Transactions on Plasma Science, and 42 in Physical his “outstanding contributions to particle simula- Review Letters. He has graduated six students of tions of complex laser-plasma phenomena and of whom two have received APS sponsored best the- plasma based light sources,” and he was recently sis prizes. Prof. Mori has also mentored 7 post- elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to doctoral scholars and he is currently advising six plasma science. He is currently a member of the graduate students. He is a referee for IEEE, NERSC Users Group, he is chair of the organiz- Physics of Plasmas, and Physical Review. He is cur- ing committee of the 2007 Anomalous rently on the editorial board of the Computational Absorption Conference, and was on the organiz- Science and Discovery Journal. ing committee for the 2006 SciDAC Conference. Citation: For contributions to plasma physics He has served on the executive committee of the Prof. Mori can be reached at the University of Division of Plasma Physics within APS and the California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Physics, PO best thesis prize committees for both the Division Box 951547, 4-913 PAB, Los Angeles, CA of Plasma Physics and the Division of Beams. He 90095 USA; Phone: Xiaochuan Pan iaochuan Pan received his B. S. in Physics College, the Committee on Medical Physics, and from Beijing University in 1982, his M. S. the Cancer Research Center at The University of Xin Physics from Institute of Physics of Chicago. Dr. Pan is also a fellow of SPIE. The Academia Sinica in 1985, his M. S. and Ph. D. in research interests of Dr. Pan’s laboratory center Physics from The University of Chicago in 1988 on imaging physics and mathematics, signal pro- Xiaochuan Pan and in 1991. He is currently a full Professor with cessing, image quality assessment, and their appli- tenure in the Department of Radiology, the cations to a wide range of medical imaging prob-
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lems. Dr. Pan has authored and co-authored and noninvasive imaging. more than 250 journal and proceeding papers on Xiaochuan Pan can be reached at The University a variety of tomographic imaging approaches, of Chicago, Department of Radiology, MC2026 including computed tomography, emission 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637- tomography, and diffraction tomography. 2026, USA; Phone: +1 773 702-1293; Fax: +1 Citation: For contributions to nuclear 773 702-3766; E-mail: [email protected]
Ronald Lee Pease
onald L. Pease is President and sole Research) he was the Manager of the employee of RLP Research, which he Microelectronics Division for several years Rformed in 1993. His recent work has before becoming the Chief Scientist for the focused on radiation effects in bipolar linear Division. His work at MRC included serving microcircuits and radiation hardness assurance as the principal investigator on many for his primary customer, the Defense Threat Department of Defense contracts on radiation Reduction Agency (DTRA). He has been the effects in microelectronics. Mr. Pease has principal investigator for the DTRA programs authored over a 100 refereed journal articles on enhanced low dose rate sensitivity and written several radiation hardness assur- (ELDRS) and analog single event transients ance guideline documents and test procedures. (ASETs) in bipolar linear circuits. After grad- He has served on the NPSS Radiation Effect uating with honors with a B.A. in physics from Steering Committee and in numerous posi- Ronald Lee Pease Indiana University (1965) and doing a year of tions on the Nuclear and Space Radiation graduate work in physics at the University of Effects Conference (NSREC) committee, Washington (Seattle) he went to work for the serving as the Conference Chairman for the U.S. Navy in 1966 as a civil servant at what is 2000 conference in Reno, NV. Mr. Pease is a now NAVSEA Crane, Indiana. While at Crane four time winner of the NSREC Outstanding he performed radiation effects testing on mis- Conference Paper Award and a four time win- sile electronic components and served as the ner of the Outstanding Radiation Effects Data Chairman of the Space Parts Working Group Workshop Presentation. Hardness Assurance Committee. In 1977 Mr. Citation: For contributions to radiation Pease left civil service and joined the BDM response of microelectronic devices, cir- Corporation in Albuquerque, NM. After two cuits, and systems years at BDM he joined Mission Research Ron Pease can be reached at 8 Songbird Corporation (Albuquerque) where he Lane, Los Lunas, NM 87031; Phone: +1 505 remained until forming his own company. At 565-0548; FAX, same but call first; E-mail Mission Research (now ATK Mission [email protected]
Ned R. Sauthoff
ed Sauthoff received his education at Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). In 2006, MIT and Princeton University. He he moved to the Oak Ridge National Ndeveloped X-ray instrumentation of Laboratory where he is Director of the US tokamak plasmas and studied MHD instabili- ITER Project Office. He is a fellow of APS and ties using these new tools. He was a co-discov- AAAS as well as IEEE. erer of internal MHD modes called “saw- Citation: For contributions to plasma teeth.” He managed design and operations of physics and fusion energy. the control and data systems for the Tokamak Dr. Ned Sauthoff can be reached at Oak Fusion Test Reactor. He was project manager Ridge National Laboratory, US ITER Project of the PBX-M tokamak, head of the PPPL Office, PO Box 2008, Bldg 1055COM, MS- Computer Division, head of Experimental 6483, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6483; Phone: +1 Projects, and head of the Plasma Science and 865 574-5955; Fax: +1 865 574-6018; E-mail: Ned R. Sauthoff Technology Department, all at Princeton [email protected].
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SOCIETY AWARDS MERIT AWARD Charles L. Melcher
he 2006 NPSS Merit Award was given When CTI merged with Siemens Medical to Chuck Melcher. Following a back- Solutions in 2005, Chuck organized a partner- Tground in luminescence physics and ship between the University of Tennessee and materials science as a graduate student at Siemens to form the Scintillation Materials Washington University and as a post-doc at Research Center (SMRC). He joined the fac- Caltech, Chuck began to focus on scintillation ulty of the Materials Science and Engineering materials while at Schlumberger-Doll Research. Department at the University of Tennessee As Program Leader of Advanced Detectors, he and became Director of the Center. The led a group that conducted fundamental inves- SMRC is a groundbreaking example of a coop- tigations of various scintillation materials for erative partnership between industry and acad- potential use as gamma-ray detectors in geo- emia, providing unique research opportunities Charles L. Melcher physical exploration. These investigations led for engineering students and an integrated Merit Award to the development of compact gamma-ray approach for the commercial realization of detectors for down-hole water saturation mea- innovations in scintillation materials. surements in producing oil wells, a technique LSO has become the standard against that continues to be a commercial standard in which new scintillator materials are often the industry. compared. During the 15 years since its intro- While at Schlumberger, Chuck invented a duction, no scintillator has yet equaled its new scintillator material known as LSO (cerium- combination of high light yield, fast decay
doped lutetium oxyorthosilicate, Lu2SiO5:Ce) time, high density and atomic number, and which has outstanding properties for gamma ray environmental stability. Chuck not only dis- detection. Its combination of high density and covered and patented LSO and carried out atomic number, high light output, and short much of the initial basic research on its prop- decay time gave it significant advantages over erties, but he also led its development to the High and dry previously known scintillators. LSO was quickly industrial production level and its widespread recognized as having particularly valuable prop- implementation in positron emission tomog- erties for use in Positron Emission Tomography raphy (PET). It is arguably the most com- And Noah he (PET), a molecular imaging technique for the mercially successful scintillator of the last 20 often said to his early detection of diseases such as cancer and years, now used in nearly half of the clinical wife as he sat Alzheimer’s. His first presentation about LSO PET scanners currently manufactured as well earned an award at the NSS-MIC conference in as in the vast majority of small animal PET down to dine, Santa Fe, and the corresponding paper is one the scanners. The discovery and commercializa- I don’t care most cited scintillator articles in the Transactions tion of LSO is often mentioned as one of the where the water on Nuclear Science. major developments in nuclear medical imag- In 1996 Chuck moved to CTI, Inc. to form ing of the last few decades. In addition, it is goes if it doesn’t a team that would continue to develop LSO now under consideration for the next genera- get into the for commercial PET applications. This team tion of high energy physics calorimeters. wine. collaborated with numerous researchers world Chuck has been an active member of the wide to further investigate fundamental prop- IEEE and the NPSS for many years. In addi- erties of LSO while also developing prototype tion to numerous program committees, he G. K. Chesterton growth systems to demonstrate large scale pro- has served on the Radiation Instrumentation duction feasibility. The successful development Steering Committee and the Constitution of a commercial scale growth process enabled and Bylaws Committee. He currently serves the team to design and construct of one of the as Vice Chair and Chair-elect of the Radiation largest crystal manufacturing factories in the Instrumentation Technical Committee. In world whose output now provides LSO crys- addition, he serves as Associate Editor of the tals for hundreds of Positron Emission Transactions on Nuclear Science. Tomography systems annually. The factory Citation: For outstanding contributions also produces large crystals for potential use in to the field of scintillation materials, partic- particle physics experiments. ularly for the invention, development, and
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commercialization of LSO scintillators and Scintillation Materials Research Center, the resulting impact on positron emission University of Tennessee,Knoxville, TN 37996- tomography and nuclear medicine. 2000; Phone: +1 865 974-0254: Fax: +1 865 Chuck Melcher can be reached at 974-4998: E-mail: [email protected].
RICHARD F. SHEA DISTINGUISHED MEMBER AWARD Paul V. Dressendorfer
aul V. Dressendorfer received the B.S. the Semiconductor Interface Specialists degree in Physics from the California Conference (SISC), short course instructor PInstitute of Technology in 1972, and and chair of the NSREC, technical program the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Solid chair of the SISC, IEEE Section Membership State Physics from Yale University in 1973, chair, IEEE Standards Committee member, 1974, and 1978, respectively. He recently and member of the NPSS AdCom, Radiation retired from Sandia National Laboratories as Effects Steering Group, and Radiation the manager of the Biomolecular Interfaces Instrumentation Steering Committee. He is a and Systems Department at Sandia National Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the Laboratories. This group focused on the sci- IEEE Third Millennium Award. He has been ence of integration of biomolecular processes, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions biological principles, biomimetic materials, on Nuclear Science since 1993, is currently the Paul V. and biomolecular function into nano- and Editor-in-Chief (Chair of the Publications Dressendorfer microscale systems. His earlier research activi- Committee) of the NPSS, and is the NPSS Richard F. Shea ties and publications have covered a wide Liaison to the TAB Transactions Committee. Distinguished range of areas including semiconductor device He recently reorganized the Editorial Board Member Award physics, basic radiation damage mechanisms, and review processes for the Transactions on characterization of radiation effects, hardened Nuclear Science; a similar structure is also technology development, hardness assurance, being implemented in the Transactions on optoelectronic devices, multichip modules, Plasma Science. advanced electronic and microsystem packag- Citation: In appreciation of 14 years as ing, thermal management, frequency devices, editor for NPSS. Special recognition as sensors and transducers, and microsystem elec- Editor-in–Chief for reorganizing and imple- tronics. He has been active in a variety of menting an effective operating structure for IEEE activities, including positions such as the Transactions on Nuclear Science. general chair of the Nuclear and Space Paul Dressendorfer can be reached at Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) and of [email protected]. EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD JOHN W. LUGINSLAND
ohn Luginsland received the B.S.E, Research Associate, and later as a staff member M.S.E, and Ph.D. degrees from in the Center for Plasma Theory and JDepartment of Nuclear Engineering at the Computation. In 2001, he moved to Science University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Applications International Corporation as a Michigan. His doctoral research involved the senior scientist and program manager. In theoretical and computational analysis of two- 2003, he joined NumerEx of Albuquerque, beam accelerators, field emission physics, and NM, at a satellite office in Ithaca, NY. coherent microwave generation. In 1996, he At AFRL, Dr. Luginsland performed John W. Luginsland joined the Air Force Research Laboratory at research advancing the state-of-the-art in both Early Achievement Kirtland AFB, NM – first as a National high power microwave (HPM) sources and Award Research Council Resident Postdoctoral high performance computational models of
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electromagnetic devices. He led a team in survivability systems, electrically enhanced basic research of multi-dimensional space- combustion, and quantum vacuum nanoelec- Power play charge limited flows that led to mitigation of tronics. His wider interests include the cou- pulse shortening in the magnetically insulated pling of parametric and first-principles Those who play line oscillator. He also participated in the physics software, high-performance comput- development of ICEPIC, a massively parallel ing and optimization algorithms, and appli- political chess electromagnetic particle-in-cell code, with cation of virtual prototyping to speed devel- should not forget application to HPM sources. He and his col- opment and deployment of electromagnetic that a pawn can leagues were honored with the Air Force’s high technology systems. Advanced Technology Development Award The award will be presented at the Pulsed secure a during this time. Power Plasma Science conference in checkmate. At SAIC, Dr. Luginsland developed para- Albuquerque, NM in June 2006. metric design tools for advanced armor and Citation: For contributions to the devel- survivability systems, which remain in use opment and application of theoretical and Robert Rhodes today. He was a program manager and test computational methods leading to James planner in integrating these systems into next enhanced understanding and improved generation platforms. experimental performance of high current At NumerEx, Dr. Luginsland has applied diodes and high power microwave sources. computational plasma physics to closely sup- John W. Luginsland has been a member of the port experimental technology development IEEE and NPSS since 1994, and can be reached at at various phases of maturity, in compact NumerEx, 401 E. State St., Suite 304, Ithaca, NY HPM sources, emission physics and cathode 14850; Phone: +1 607 277-4272; Fax: +1 607 697- designs, MHD effects in high power fuses for 0212; E-mail: [email protected] GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Xin Dai
in Dai was born in Hubei China in at Plasma Science Laboratory at the 1976. He received his B.E. degree in University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His X1996 and M.S. degree in 1999, both research interests include industrial plasma in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong research and application, especially at atmos- University of Science and technology, Wuhan, pheric pressure, pulsed power and high power China, and the Ph.D. degree from the electronics. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, in Dr. Xin Dai is a member of IEEE, AIAA 2006. He is currently a Postdoctoral affiliate and APS.
Xin Dai Carrie B. Hruska
arrie Hruska has been named a recipient ly working with a prototype CZT detector, and of the IEEE NPSS Graduate Scholarship the goal of her work is to advance MBI by exam- CAward given to recognize contributions ining the patient-related factors that limit tumor to the fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences. detection, optimizing the technical parameters of Hruska is a graduate student at Mayo Clinic the imaging system, and developing a method to College of Medicine in Rochester, MN and will localize tumors in the breast. The central hypoth- graduate with a Ph.D. in Biomedical esis is that recent advances in small detector tech- Engineering in May 2007. She received her nology combined with new radiopharmaceuticals undergraduate degree in electrical engineering will permit the development of an MBI system from South Dakota State University in 2002. that will provide reliable detection and localiza- Hruska’s doctoral thesis research is focused on tion of small breast tumors (< 10 mm). MBI is Carrie Hruska the use of small pixilated detectors for a nuclear currently under evaluation at Mayo as a screening medicine technique to image breast cancer, called technique for women with dense breast tissue Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI). She is current- who are at increased risk for breast cancer.
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Randolph McKinley
andolph McKinley recently received cone beam X-ray source that can move about his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering an object 3-dimensionally collecting transmis- Rfrom Duke University in Sept. 2006. sion data. In addition, he holds a Master of He currently works in the Multi-Modality Science in Electrical Engineering from Imaging Lab (MMIL) at Duke concentrating Columbia University and Bachelor of Science on X-ray computed mammotomography, a degrees in both Biology and Electrical dedicated 3D breast imaging technique, which Engineering from University of New includes a practicable quasi-monochromatic Brunswick. Randolph McKinley Xing Zhou
ing Zhou is in the process of complet- “Bias-temperature instabilities and radiation ing her PhD research in the interdisci- effects in MOS devices,” was one of 11 Xplinary graduate program in materials papers nominated for the Outstanding science at Vanderbilt University. She has Conference Paper Award at the 2005 IEEE made significant contributions to the under- Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects standing of the separate and combined effects Conference (IEEE NSREC) in Seattle, WA. of bias-temperature stress and ionizing radia- She also received a Paul Phelps Continuing tion exposure for MOS devices with high-K Education Grant for the 2006 IEEE NSREC dielectric materials. Xing has authored 11 in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. publications, and was first author on four of Xing Zhou can be reached by e-mail at: them. A paper on which Xing was first author, [email protected] Xing Zhou Technical Committee Awards 2006 Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award
onald Jaszczak, Professor of Radiology Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oak Ridge and Biomedical Engineering at Duke National Laboratory in 1968. He was recruit- RUniversity received the 2006 Edward J. ed to Duke University Medical Center in 1979 Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award for as an Associate Professor in the Department of his important and sustained lifetime contribu- Radiology. In 1989, he was promoted to tions to nuclear and medical imaging sciences, Professor of Radiology. He was promoted to particularly single-photon emission computed Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 1992. tomography. Dr. Jaszczak also received the Professor Jaszczak is a Fellow in the Institute 2000 Paul C. Aebersold Award from the of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Society of Nuclear Medicine for his outstand- and has served the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma ing contributions in basic science applied to Sciences Society (NPSS) in many administrative Nuclear Medicine, and, in 2004, he received capacities, including President (1997-98). He Ronald Jaszczak the Outstanding Alumni Award from the has authored or co-authored over 300 peer- Physics Department of the School of Liberal reviewed journal articles, conference proceed- Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. ings, book chapters and patents. His research Ronald Jaszczak received the Bachelor of interests are in the field of medical imaging sci- Science degree in Physics from the University ence. Dr. Jaszczak has made major contribu- of Florida. In 1968, he received the Doctor of tions to nuclear medicine, in particular to the Philosophy degree in Physics from the development, characterization and understand- University of Florida. During his career he ing of single photon emission computed has worked in academia, private industry, and tomography (SPECT); he is credited with coin- with the federal government. He was awarded ing the term SPECT, which is widely used in a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) referring to this imaging modality. He
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designed and built early prototype SPECT Hillsborough, NC, a leading manufacturer of imaging systems. His current research interests quality assurance and research phantoms for Happens rarely at Duke are directed toward investigating new the nuclear medical imaging community. too approaches for improving quantitative SPECT Ron Jaszczak can be reached at Duke imaging and toward the application of these University Medical Center, Department of improvements to specific clinical imaging tasks. Radiology/Nuclear Medicine, Durham, NC A statesman is a In 1981, he and his wife, Nancy, co-founded 27710-0001 USA; Phone +1 919 684 7685; Fax: +1 politician with Data Spectrum Corporation (DSC) in 919 684 7122; E-mail: [email protected] whom one hap- pens to agree. AWARD SOLICITATIONS Radiation Effects Award Lloyd George ominations are currently being accept- 27, 2007. Nomination forms are available elec- ed for the 2007 IEEE Nuclear and tronically at http://www.nsrec.com/nomi- NPlasma Sciences Society (NPSS) nate.htm. Nominations must be submitted by Radiation Effects Award. The purpose of the March 16, 2007. award is to recognize individuals who have had Additional information can be obtained a sustained history of outstanding and innova- from Veronique Ferlet-Cavrois, Senior tive technical and/or leadership contributions Member-at-Large for the Radiation Effects to the radiation effects community. The $2000 Steering Group. Dr. Ferlet-Cavrois can be cash award and plaque will be presented at the reached at 33 1 6926 4265 or at IEEE NSREC in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 23- [email protected].
Paul Phelps Student Award
niversity professors may nominate a NSREC Short Course in Honolulu, Hawaii, in graduate student for the prestigious July 2007. Submission deadline is May 15, 2007. UPaul Phelps Continuing Education Forms can be obtained at www.nsrec.com/steer- Grant for exceptional graduate students in the ingcommittee and be sent to Member-at-Large, NPSS fields. Nominees must be a member of Wayne Abare, at [email protected]. Wayne can NPSS. The award is for $500 to attend the 2007 be contacted at 321-729-7224.
ARTICLES Reaching for Higher Luminosity Michael Sullivan Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
he success of the B-Factories in finding deliver in a reasonable amount of time (years). CP violation in the B-meson system High luminosity is one of the two directions Twith the value expected from the for discovery (the other being higher energy) Standard Model has led to a search in rare B and with this in mind the PEP-II accelerator at meson decays for a process that might hint at SLAC has been pushing for higher luminosity physics beyond the Standard Model. The sig- records in both peak and integrated values. nal could be either an observed decay process Last summer, PEP-II attained a peak luminos- that should not happen or the absence of a ity of just over 1.2×1034 cm-2s-1 four times decay process that should happen or a decay higher than design and a 24-hr integrated rate for a certain process that does not match luminosity record of 911 pb-1 nearly 7 times prediction. This kind of search needs as much the design value of 135 pb-1. Michael Sullivan integrated luminosity as the accelerator can The PEP-II accelerator at SLAC is a 2.2 km
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circumference double storage ring that collides a 9 GeV electron beam with a 3.1 GeV positron beam in a Speedy head-on collision at the center of progress the BaBar detector. PEP-II has achieved beam currents of 1.9 A for the high-energy beam (HEB) America: a and just under 3.0 A for the low- nation that has energy beam (LEB) in 1722 beam gone “directly bunches. The positron beam cur- rent is a world record for an anti- from barbarism matter beam. The beam currents to degeneration are maintained by continuously without the injecting beam into the storage rings. The typical injection rate for usual interval of the low-energy ring (LER) is about civilization. 5 Hz while the rate for the high- Figure 1. The monthly integrated luminosity delivered to the BaBar detector. energy ring (HER) is about 2 Hz. The BaBar collaboration has devel- Georges oped a technique whereby they Clemenceau blank out data coming from the beam bunches that most recently received an injected pulse until the injected particles have a chance to damp down. This minimizes the data loss to the detector while keeping backgrounds in the detec- tor to a minimum. Figure 1 shows the monthly integrated luminosity totals for PEP-II since initial turn- on in 1999 and Figure 2 displays the integrated total. Figure 3 shows the peak luminosity achieved for each month of running. Figure 2. The total integrated luminosity delivered to the BaBar detector. HIGH-CURRENT RUNNING Running high current beams tends to reveal together are one of the largest source of local any weaknesses in several subsystems, in partic- SR power in the entire ring. They generate a Still waiting ular the vacuum chamber design, the RF sys- total of 120 kW when we have stored the beam tem and the fast feedback systems. The vacuum currents mentioned above. system is tested by synchrotron radiation (SR) The run in 2006 uncovered several issues One waits in that is generated by the beams as well as by from HOM power that we addressed either vain for psychol- higher-order-mode power (HOM) left behind during the run or during this last summer by the passing beam. The power from these shutdown. We list some of these issues here. ogists to declare sources has to be absorbed and controlled 1. A design flaw on an RF seal for the vacuum the limits of their without causing damage to local components. joint on a bellows section at the end of the knowledge. The beams share a common beam pipe around shared beam pipe in the BaBar detector that the interaction point (IP) for about 5 m. It is produced arcing. not too surprising that this region is one of the 2. RF seal failure probably due to more vacu- Noam Chomsky places in the accelerator where a large amount um chamber motion than the seal could of HOM power is generated. The total beam accommodate in several areas of the HER. current through the shared pipe is nearly 5 A. 3. Beam position monitor buttons that were In addition, two 0.5 m long strong bending press fit onto the vacuum feed-through pin magnets close to the IP bring the beams into that fell off due to overheating from too and out of collision and these two magnets much HOM power absorption.
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PEP-II has accumulated a total of 31,000 A-hrs in the HER and Scientific 48,000 A-hrs in the LER. This is objectivity? more stored beam current than any other accelerator has achieved. We have found that the photon It is remarkable desorption coefficient (the num- how often the ber of gas molecules that come out first interpreta- of the beam pipe wall per photon that strikes the wall) continuously tion of new evi- decreases at the beam amp-hours dence have increase. See Figure 4. This means confirmed the that the overall vacuum pressure gradually improves over time and preoccupations that the recovery time from having of its discoverer. to vent a section of the vacuum Figure 3. Plot of the peak luminosity achieved each month. chamber is relatively quick.
John Reader PLANS FOR FUTURE RUNNING During this last shutdown, we installed another RF station (1 klystron and 2 new cavities) in the HER and also split up a 4 cavity RF station into 2 two-cavity sta- tions by adding another klystron. This will let us attain a higher HER beam current of 2.2 A. We are also working on decreasing the beam spot size at the IP by lower- Blind date ing the emittance of the HER using a new lattice. We have added several new vac- To find a friend, uum components to the beam pipe Figure 4. The data in this plot was collected a couple of years ago when we on either side 9+/- 60 m) of the one must close had integrated only about 5000 A-h in the HER. As you can see the photon one eye. To keep desorption coefficient continues to decrease. The large green dot is the num- BaBar detector. These new ele- ber we used when PEP-II was designed. At that time no accelerator had ments are designed to shield the stored more than 100 A-h of beam current. him - two. stored beam from HOM absorbing We replaced the RF seal that had the design tiles and yet allow the very high Norman Douglas flaw with one having an improved design. We frequency HOM power to get through the have replaced the seals that appear to have shield and be absorbed. Figure 5 shows a failed due to too much vacuum chamber photograph of one of these components. motion and we have replaced all of the bpms The present run in 2007 is scheduled to go in 5 out of 6 arcs of the LER with a new until sometime this fall when we will shut improved design. down for 3 months. Then we will start up The RF system, which controls the klystron again in 2008 and run until October when we output power and accounts for the loading of will cease running the B-factory at SLAC. By the cavities from the beam through a series of that time we plan to have delivered a total of overlapping feedback loops must be kept in almost 1000 fb-1 to the BaBar detector. We good, reliable running condition in order to hope to have nearly doubled the peak lumi- correctly control the RF from very low cur- nosity from the present 1.2×1034 cm-2s-1 to rents, while we fill the beams from the acceler- 2.1×1034 cm-2s-1. In addition, encouraged by ator, up to full current. The LER system has to the discoveries of this last run, we hope to deliver 2.3 MW of precisely controlled power greatly improve the reliability of the accelera- to the LEB and the HER system has to deliver tor and thereby improve our uptime, leading 6.4 MW to the HEB. to greater integrated luminosity records for a
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given peak luminosity. The ultimate LER beam current we plan to achieve is 4.0 A. Even truer SUMMARY today PEP-II has achieved a peak luminosity of 1.2×1034cm-2sec-1, 4 times higher than the design luminosity. The record 24 hr lumi- We have long nosity is 911 pb-1 almost 7 times higher than since lost the the design value of 135 pb-1. In the coming true names of 2 years the PEP-II team plans to nearly dou- ble the peak luminosity yet again to things. It is pre- 2.1×1034cm-2sec-1 and to deliver nearly 600 cisely because fb-1 to the BaBar detector, more than dou- Figure 5. Picture of the RF shield for the upgraded bellows sec- tion at one end of the BaBar detector. Note the large gaps squandering the bling the present data set. between the fingers. The HOM absorbing tiles can be seen behind the shield fingers. goods of others is called gen- OTHER erosity, and recklessness in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging wrong-doing is APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF called courage, that the republic The Steering Committee of the IEEE employer support for this activity. Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) is Major responsibilities of the future EIC of is reduced to seeking applicants for the Editor-in-Chief TMI include: extremities. (EIC) of TMI starting January 2009. The new a) Identification and appointment of respected EIC will be selected in the fall of 2007, over- experts to his/her editorial board; lap with the current EIC in 2008 to permit a b) Solicitation of special issue proposals and Cato the smooth transition, and take office in 2009. manuscripts in specific areas; Younger c) Identification of emerging imaging modali- SCOPE OF IEEE TMI ties, devices, or analysis methods and active The IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging is solicitation of high quality manuscripts in an archival journal published monthly. The these areas; journal publishes original contributions on d) Timely management of a large number of medical imaging achieved by various modali- submissions and resolution of conflicts or ties, such as ultrasound, X-rays (including problems, as necessary. CT), nuclear magnetic resonance, radionu- clides, and light, as well as medical image data SEARCH PROCEDURE acquisition and retrieval, processing and analy- Prospective candidates are asked to provide a sis, and pattern recognition and related meth- condensed CV in summary form and a state- ods. The journal focuses on a unified common ment describing the candidate’s vision for the ground where instrumentation, systems, com- future of TMI by June 1, 2007. Following ini- ponents, hardware and software, mathematics, tial screening by the committee, a complete and physics contribute to the studies. CV will be requested. Nominations will also be accepted until May 1. QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF Applications and nominations should be CANDIDATES sent to the Chair of the Steering Committee: Applicants should have a broad and recog- nized expertise in the medical imaging com- Professor Benoit M. Dawant munity, have a scientific vision to expand one Box 1662-Station B of the leading journals in the field, possess edi- Vanderbilt University torial experience, be able to lead an active edi- Nashville, TN 37235 torial board and to work effectively with tech- Tel: 615-322-7923 nical and publishing professionals, and be a Fax: 615-343-6702 member of the IEEE. Applicants must have e-mail: [email protected]
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