PPST Committee Report

Jane Lehr,

Pulsed Power Science and Technology Technical Committee Chair

3 November 2012 NPSS AdCom Meeting

Conference Attendance Concerns and Committee

• PPPS Website will go live on Nov 12

• Making a contingency budget for reduced attendance

• For the PPC, it was estimated 20% of attendees are funded by DoE. At least this number (if not more) come from DoD.

• Proposing a Conference Information and Promotion (CIP) for PPPS2013 to promote attendance in the wake of reduced travel budgets (worldwide) and restrictions (USA)

• @ PPPS 2013, we will hold a IEEE SM event – with onsite electronic applications.

Previous AdCom motion to digitize BEAMS proceedings

• The original Omnipress proposal to digitize the BEAMS proceedings, for under $50k, was negotiated by Edl Schamiloglu, with Jane Lehr’s and Gerry Cooperstein’s involvement

• Motion 11.1.2 from the March 6, 2010 AdCom Monterey meeting: “Motion to digitize the proceedings of the High-Power Particle Beams conferences: It was moved, seconded and passed that NPSS provide up to $50,000 to digitize the Proceedings of the High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS) conferences held between 1975 and 2008. These proceedings will be made available to the community through IEEE Xplore.”

• We had understood that the key part of this request was to make a searchable master CD which could easily be added to by future BEAMS meetings just as we do for the Pulsed Power Conference.  AdCom wanted to make sure that the BEAMS proceedings would be put on IEEE Xplore.  Because the BEAMS meetings had several name changes over the years, it is not possible to search through all the previous BEAMS proceedings as a group on IEEE Xplore.

• Ron Keyser and Paul Dressendorfer suggested that it would be “cleaner” if we get a new motion authorizing the distribution of searchable BEAMS DVD to attendees of BEAMS 2012 and PPPS 2013 in order to cover Ron’s approving the payment of the second half of the Omnipress order.

Proposed Motion

AdCom approves making and distributing searchable DVD’s

of the High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS) conferences held

between 1975 and 2008 for distribution to attendees of

BEAMS 2012 and PPPS 2013.  The total cost will not exceed

the original $50,000 approved in AdCom Motion 11.1.2 to

make these BEAMS proceedings available to the community

through IEEE Xplore.  Further distribution of these DVDs to

future biennial BEAMS meetings, e.g. ICOPS-BEAMS 2014

will be covered in the conference budgets.

PPC 2011

• working on closing the conference• The treasurer sending documents to IEEE HQ for audit

(Erin Lyman)• In trying to figure out what the actual problems are, one

issue seemed to be that the (Bo Yu) software didn’t capture the data that IEEE needs to close. Did any other TC have this issue? I don’t understand how it happened ….?

• For PPPS2013, we will use MCM software.

MegaGauss XIV (Fully Sponsored)

• The 63 registrants are from 8 countries:1 Canada2 China1 France1 Germany1 South Korea 4 United Kingdom22 Russia31 United States

We lost 8 intended Chinese attendees due to visa problems.

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Germany 66Russia 38Japan 25USA 23France 23China 20UK 16Israel 11Switzerland 10Korea 7Sweden 7India 6Lithuania 6Netherlands 5Belarus 3Czech Republic 2Norway 2Portugal 2Taiwan 2Australia 1Belgium 1Canada 1Colombia 1Italy 1Singapore 1

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Country Participants AbstractsArmenia - 1Australia 1 2Belarus 3 3Belgium 1 1Canada 1 2China 20 47Colombia 1 1Czech Republic 2 1France 23 19Germany 66 44India 6 14Iran - 1Israel 11 14Italy 1 1Japan 25 27Korea 7 12Lithuania 6 16Netherlands 5 5Norway 2 -Portugal 2 2Russia 38 55Singapore 1 2Sweden 7 4Switzerland 10 7Taiwan 2 3UK 16 15USA 23 21Total 280 320

Abstract submitted: 320Abstract accepted: 304

Oral Presentations: 126Contributed Talks 97Invited Talks 25Plenary Talks 4

Poster Presentations: 163

Total Oral + Poster Presentations: 289

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