plasma science and applications committee report
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Plasma Science and Applications Committee Report. Rickey Faehl , PSAC Chair 2 March 2013 NPSS AdCom Meeting Savannah, Georgia USA. Fall ExCom Election Results. New PSAC ExCom Officers (2-yr term) Rickey Faehl , Chair Don Shiffler , Vice-Chair Brendan Godfrey, Past Chair - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Plasma Science and Applications Committee
Report
Rickey Faehl, PSAC Chair
2 March 2013 NPSS AdCom Meeting
Savannah, Georgia USA
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Fall ExCom Election Results
• New PSAC ExCom Officers (2-yr term)– Rickey Faehl, Chair– Don Shiffler, Vice-Chair– Brendan Godfrey, Past Chair
• New Members (3-yr term)– John Giuliani, Michael Kong, Mark Kushner, Mounir Laroussi, Tom
Mehlhorn, Peter Stoltz
• New AdCom rep (4-yr term)– John Luginsland
• All changes effective 1 January 2013• Contact information and subcommittee assignments
– http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-psac.html
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Teleconference Voting on PSAC Awards
• PSAC used a one-time By-law waiver to conduct Award votes by teleconference.
• PSAC Award for 2013 to Richard Temkin (MIT)• Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science
Award to Paul Schmit (Princeton Univ).
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Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science Award
• Igor a distinguished scientist, inventor, teacher• Founded PSAC, hosted first ICOPS, promoted plasma
engineering in many ways– Also contributed significantly to NPSS in its early years
• Died recently from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)• Action underway to rename PSAC Outstanding Student
Award in his honor– Proposed by PSAC– Endorsed by NPSS– Endorsed by TABARC– Passed by TAB
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Recent ICOPS
• ICOPS 2011 closed out*.• ICOPS 2012 several items yet to be submitted.
* ICOPS 2011 Conference Chair assures me conference is closed, but NPSS audit continuing.
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Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2013 is a Joint Conference Between ICOPS and PPS
• Conference Venue is the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California– June 16-21, 2013
• Conference Chair: Bryan Oliver, Sandia National Laboratories– Technical co-Chair: Mark Crawford, LANL– Technical co-Chair: John Verboncoeur, Michigan State Univ
• Conference website: http://www.ece.unm/ppps2013
Google Search: PPPS 2013
• Mini-course organized by John Giuliani on 15-16 June.
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Federal Budget Sequestration will significantly effect PPPS2013
• Past Joint ICOPS/PPS conferences indicated that 1100 attendees was reasonable expectation:– To date, 989 + 44 “draft” abstracts submitted.– Corresponding authors amount to 814 potential attendees.
• Grants from Federal Agencies/Institutions are being suspended or cancelled.
• Conference Income could fall well below expectations.• Conference Organizers are already taking Proactive
Steps:
Room Block at the Conference Hotel has been re-negotiated.
Social Functions (Night Out, Breakfasts, Banquet) to be scaled-back or cancelled.
Direct abstract solicitation being conducted.
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Future ICOPS
• ICOPS 2014 / Beams 2014– 25–30 May 2014, Washington, DC USA– Chair: Joseph Schumer (NRL)
• ICOPS 2015– Spring 2015 – Antalya, Turkey– Chair: Lutfi Oksuz (assistance from Edl Schamiloglu)
• ICOPS 2016– June 2016 – Banff, Alberta, Canada– Chair: Ying Tsui (University of Alberta)