Bob Reinovsky
PPC General Chair
ICOPS General Chair
PPC Program Chair
ICOPS Program Chair
We are pleased to announce Pulsed Power Plasma Science-2001 (PPPS-2001), a combination of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) and the 13th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (PPC). This joint Conference will be held June 17-22, 2001, at the Rio Suite Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Located a short walk from the vibrant Las Vegas Strip, it will showcase the many timely research breakthroughs and opportunities in the fields of pulsed power and plasma science. For detailed information on all aspects of PPPS-2001 please visit our website at www. ieee.org/ppps2001
Both ICOPS and PPC are highly successful NPSS Conferences with long-standing traditions, and each has a core of loyal attendees. The decision to combine them in 2001 was made several years ago as a one-time experiment to evaluate the merit of someday merging the two meetings. Given the significant overlap of participants between the two meetings, it was suggested that the majority of each conference’s topical areas would be of interest to the other conference’s attendees. More importantly, the trends toward shrinking travel budgets and burgeoning numbers of meetings would make joint meetings increasingly popular for our members and their institutions. We need your feedback regarding PPPS-2001, especially about the value of repeating this experiment or of considering other combinations for joint meetings.
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Bob Reinovsky |
Tom Hussey ICOPS General Chair |
Mark Newton PPC Program Chair |
Bob Barker ICOPS Program Chair |
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| Janet Neff-Shampine Conference Administrator |
Creating this blend of ICOPS and PPC required some modifications to the traditional procedures of both conferences. Last June, ICOPS- goers were surprised to receive a “First Call” for PPPS-2001, a PPC tradition, while PPC regulars were recently surprised to receive the color glossy brochure that is so familiar to ICOPS. Similarly, both ICOPSers and PPCers were both treated to a completely new technical topic list that combined and sharpened the traditional topics of each conference. In addition, with an expected combined attendance of about 1000 and nearly that many papers, the Conference will be extended to 4-1/2 days, compared to the 3-4 days familiar to both ICOPS and PPC.
The Rio Suite Hotel provides an ideal venue for a Conference with an attendance that could easily exceed 1000 registrants. We have exclusive use of over 100,000 square feet of convention space, contiguous with the hotel, for the entire week. The Rio’s other facilities are nothing short of amazing. It has a 120,000 square foot casino, an exciting nightclub, workout facilities, and a recently remodeled spa with steam rooms, whirlpools and massage. At the Rio’s famous Ipanema Beach - lounging upon real sand beaches at the edge of a tropical lagoon, you are surrounded by cascading waterfalls, four swimming pools and five Jacuzzi-style spas. Rio’s Masquerade Village with 18 restaurants over 20 specialty shops will hold your interest while you wait for the Rio’s spectacular Masquerade Show in the Sky, a Mardi Gras parade suspended from the hotel ceiling featuring live musical talent, flying circus and stiltwalkers. This free show starts on the even hours at 2pm daily (except Wednesdays) and goes through midnight. You may even catch Mardi Gras beads! The Rio offers countless other activities from “At the Copa,” the musical extravaganza starring David Cassidy, the Club Rio (dancing all night), the VooDoo Lounge on the 51st floor with a breathtaking view of Las Vegas and live music. Other lounges at the Rio offer live entertainment and the new auditorium houses extravagant musical productions changing periodically.
For further information see our website at www.ieee.org/ppps2001 or contact the following:
PPC General Chair: Bob Reinovsky,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
bobr@lanl.gov
ICOPS General Chair: Tom Hussey,
Air Force Research Laboratory
thomas.hussey@kirtland.af.mil
PPC Program Chair: Mark Newton,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
newton6@llnl.gov
ICOPS Program Chair: Bob Barker,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
robert.barker@afosr.af.mil
Conference Administrator:
Janet Neff- Shampine,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
neff@lanl.gov
Technical Program
PPPS-2001 will completely integrate papers submitted to ICOPS or PPC in those technical areas where such integration makes sense. We have adopted the ICOPS model for organizing the technical program with eight technical area coordinators responsible for the principal technology areas:
1.0, Fundamental Research & Diagnostics
Mark J. Kushner
mjk@uiuc.edu
2.0, Microwave Generation & Interactions
William Baker
william.baker@kirtland.af.mil
3.0, Charged Particle Sources & Beams
Gerald Cooperstein
cooperstein@nrl.navy.mil
4.0, High Energy Density Physics
Melissa Douglas
mrdougl@sandia.gov
5.0, Pulsed Power Switches & Components
Roger White
rogerw@maxwell.com
6.0, Commercial & Industrial Applications
Gerald Rogoff
g.rogoff@ieee.org
7.0, Pulsed Power Sources
Magne Kristiansen
krisk@coe.ttu.edu
8.0, Pulsed Power Systems
Kenneth Prestwich
kprestwich@compuserve.com
The only significant functional difference between the two conferences historically is that PPC has a published proceedings, while ICOPS does not. This distinction will be retained in the 2001 Conference. Attendees will have the option of registering for either ICOPS or the PPC, with the ONLY difference being that PPC registrants (for a higher fee) will have their paper published in and will receive a copy of the proceedings.
Minicourses
In addition to the 4-1/2 day technical program, two minicourses will be offered:
Pulsed Power: The lectures given in this course will focus on some of the most exciting and promising research areas currently active in the pulsed power arena, including medical and environmental applications and requirements, explosive to pulsed electrical energy conversion and applications, ultrashort pulse generation and repetitive operation, and power conditioning and compact system design. The lecturers will include Kris Kristiansen, Jim Dickens, and Mike Giesselman of Texas Tech University and Karl Schoenbach of Old Dominion University. POC: Professor Magne Kristiansen, Texas Tech University, krisk@coe.ttu.edu.
Innovative Vacuum Electronics: This course will cover state-of-the-art issues relating to present-day advances in the field of microwave vacuum electronic devices (MVEDs). It will include presentations by leading US university research groups in the field of vacuum electronics. The lecturers will include Neville Luhmann of UC-Davis, John Booske of Wisconsin, Victor Granatstein of Maryland, Glenn Scheitrum of Stanford, Rick Temkin of MIT, and Ron Gilgenbach of Michigan. Their combined presentations will give a concise overview of the research underway throughout the DoD’s “Innovative Vacuum Electronics” MURI Program. Poster papers will also be available for participants to view the details. POC: John Booske, University of Wisconsin, booske@engr.wisc.edu.
For up-to-date information on all aspects of the technical program please visit our website at www.ieee.org/2001
Industrial Exhibit
Neither ICOPS nor PPC have included industrial exhibits in recent years, because each conference, by itself, was judged to be too small to attract and support a useful array of exhibitors. PPPS-2001 with its anticipated much larger attendance, should be very attractive to potential exhibitors, representing a unique opportunity for vendors to meet with the pulsed power and plasma science communities together. Initial response has been most encouraging; we anticipate that this will represent an attractive aspect of the PPPS-2001 experiment. For information on how to participate as an exhibitor in this one-time opportunity please visit our website (www.ieee.org/ppps2001).
Social Program
Not only is the Rio Hotel a renowned tourist destination in its own right, but it is only a short walk from the world-famous Las Vegas Strip. Within a half-hour, you can stroll from the Eiffel Tower of Paris to Saint Mark’s Tower in Venice to the streets of Ancient Rome to a pyrotechnic pirate battle to an erupting volcano. Furthermore, it’s only a short drive to either an Egyptian pyramid or the Starship Enterprise. There is something here for everyone.
As a means of getting folks together to renew old acquaintances and make new ones there will be receptions on the evenings of Sunday and Monday, June 17, in the Rio. In addition, on Tuesday evening there will be a special reception, hosted by Maxwell Laboratories, honoring our foreign participants, who represent a growing fraction of the attendance of both ICOPS and PPC. These receptions will all begin early enough to allow people to attend and still catch an evening show.
Formal award presentations, including the Plasma Science and Application Award as well as the Erwin Marx and Peter Haas Pulsed Power awards will be made at the Conference banquet at the Rio Convention Center on Wednesday evening. The Award lectures will be presented as plenary talks in the technical sessions.
Finally, we have arranged for a rich and varied companion program, which includes, for a modest fee, tickets to the Conference Reception on Sunday evening, to the Socials on Monday and Tuesday evenings, to light breakfasts every morning, and to the Awards Banquet on Wednesday night. In addition, we have arranged, on a first-come-first-served basis for an exciting series of tours as follows:
Monday: Tour of the Las Vegas Strip – Bus tour from the Luxor Pyramid in the south to the Stratosphere Tower in the north. Includes admission to the “Race to Atlantis” full-motion-simulator thrill ride at Caesar’s Palace as well as to the breathtaking observation deck at the Stratosphere. (4 hours)
Tuesday: Hoover Dam Tour – Includes comfortable round trip transportation and admission and guided tour into the depths of the spectacular Hoover Dam. After the dam, the tour will visit the Ethel M’s (Mars) Chocolate Factory and botanical cactus garden. (4 hours)
Wednesday: Bally’s Backstage Tour – Backstage tour of a working Las Vegas show (the long-playing, “Jubilee!”). The tour will conclude with a make-up demonstration as one of the showgirl/tour guides transforms herself into a beautiful and glamorous Las Vegas Showgirl – minimum age = 16. (3 hours)
The PPPS-2001 experiment represents a unique opportunity to bring the plasma science and pulsed power communities together, and we believe that our social program, together with the unique opportunities of Las Vegas, will make this conference an experience to be remembered. For further information, please visit our website (www.ieee.org/ppps2001).