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We cordially invite
you to the 15th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference to be
held in Monterey, CA, June 13 to 17, 2005. The conference, held
at the Portola Plaza Hotel and the adjacent Monterey Convention
Center, is located at the very heart of the beautiful Monterey Peninsula
with a contrast of balmy, pristine beaches and dramatic, rugged
cliffs.
Modern pulsed power has its genesis in the pioneering work of the
late John Christopher Martin and his colleagues at the Atomic Weapons
Establishment in Aldermaston, England in the 1960s. “Charlie,”
as he was known to the community, was a hydrodynamicist who could
not purchase an adequate X-ray radiography source to image the dynamic
phenomena in which he was interested. As a result he pursued a new
generation of radiography sources that were based on high power
Marx generators coupled with low impedance transmission lines and
cold cathode single-stage accelerating gaps. Thus was modern pulsed
power born.
Pulsed power science and technology rapidly disseminated to the
USA, former Soviet Union and the present-day Russia, Europe and
Asia. Pulsed power refers to the technology whereby energy is accumulated
over a relatively long period of time, and then compressed in a
short period of time to deliver very large power pulses to a load.
Pulsed power has been an enabling technology for particle beam diodes,
imploding plasmas, and other primarily defense-related applications.
Today, Pulsed Power is used to drive biological experiments, purify
water from municipal drinking supplies and effluents from combustion
processes, etc, evolving to become an important technology in the
environmental and biomedical arenas.
This biennial conference is the principal forum for the exchange
of information on pulsed power science and technology and the conference
proceedings serve as the major archival source of papers published
in this field. PPC2005 registration is Monday, June 13th, with technical
sessions Tuesday through Friday. PPC2005 immediately precedes the
32nd IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2005),
repeating the successful teaming of the two conferences that first
took place in Monterey in 1999. ICOPS 2005 starts the following
Monday, June 20th at the same location to enhance the interaction
between these two communities. As shown in the calendar below, an
ICOPS minicourse “The Physics of Z Pinches” will unite
the two conferences.
We look forward to welcoming you to Monterey.
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