Class of 2009
The Newly Elected Members of AdCom
Ed. note: In addition to the new AdCom members whose biographies appear below, Anthony Peratt was elected to represent Plasma Science and Applications. His biography appears on p. 38 of this Newsletter.

Sandra G. Biedron

Sandra Biedron Particle Accelerator Science and Technology

Sandra G. Biedron is an Applied Physicist and Project Manager in the Energy Systems Division of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), where she pursues novel beam source research as well as unique analytical tools for applications such as detection. She also serves as the National Security Section Lead for Laser and Beam Technologies. She has worked at Argonne National Laboratory for 12 years. For almost five years, she was Chief of Operations of Accelerator Research and Development and the Scientific Liaison between the Operations Group and the Accelerator and FEL Physics Group at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Before this, she had been a member of the Accelerator Physics Group at the APS and even earlier, a member of the Energy Systems Division at ANL. Her research interests include lasers, high-gain, single-pass, free-electron lasers; the combination of laser and electron-beam systems; the operation of user-driven accelerator facilities; applications of accelerators and lasers; the design, construction, upgrades and extensions to existing laser and accelerator facilities; coherence preservation in photon frequency upconversion; and analytical tool development. In addition, she started a successful international work group in 1998 (FEL Exotica) that searches to improve and develop viable, coherent, high-brightness, short-wavelength sources. This group of colleagues is continuously working on exotic, futuristic schemes. She obtained her Ph.D. in Accelerator Physics from the University of Lund in Sweden in conjunction with MAX-Laboratory. She is cross-trained in chemistry and biology at the Bachelor's level. Biedron has four invention disclosures to the United States Department of Energy; one patent; one patent pending; forty papers in refereed journals (fifteen as first author); thirty-five papers in conference or workshop proceedings (fourteen as first author); over seventy formal presentations (over forty as invited).
Sandra is an active member of the IEEE, SPIE, and APS. She has served on the board of the Chicago Section of the Magnetics and Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Societies (1997-1999). She recently sat on the IEEE–NPSS/APS co-sponsored Particle Accelerator Conference Committee for 2003. She is also a Senior Member of the IEEE. She is an Awards Committee Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (2003-present). Among other SPIE awards, this committee selects the recipient of the most elite SPIE award (Gold Award). She is Scholarship and Grant Awards Committee Member for the SPIE. She has served as a technical reviewer for a number of projects, the CRDF (U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation) that assists the Former Soviet States, and the National Science Foundation. She is also actively involved with the organization and programs of other conferences and workshops in beam science and technology and related fields and uses.
In her spare time she is the managing director of an aeronautical corporation, is a board member for a 25M USD not-for-profit that among other activities operates a retirement community, and is performing an historic rehabilitation to Department of Interior standards of a 1905 Chicago home.
Please ask Sandra if you require her publication list or CV.
Sandra Biedron can be reached at Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439-4803; Phone: +1 630 252 1162; Fax: +1 630 252 4886; E-mail: Biedron@anl.gov.

Daniel M. Fleetwood

Daniel Fleetwood Radiation Effects

Dan Fleetwood received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1980, 1981, and 1984. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1984 as a Member of the Technical Staff. In 1990, he was named a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Radiation Technology and Assurance Department at Sandia. Dan accepted a position as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in 1999. In 2001-2003 he served as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering. In 2003 he was named Chairman of Vanderbilt’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Dan is author or co-author of more than 270 papers on radiation effects and low frequency noise. He has served the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) as general chair (2004), short course chair and presenter, technical program chair, poster session chair, guest editor, and session chair; he has also been an invited speaker and short course presenter at the RADECS Conference. Dan was Vice-Chairman for Publications for the Radiation Effects Steering Group, 1994-1997, and Guest Editor of the April 1996 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science on single event effects and the space radiation environment. Dan has received seven outstanding paper awards from the IEEE NSREC, as well as several meritorious conference paper awards. In addition, Dan was local arrangements chair, technical program chair, and general chair of the IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference (1997-1999), is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Microelectronics Reliability, and presently serves as Chair of The American Physical Society’s Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (term expires March 2006). Dan is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the American Physical Society, and is also a Senior International Correspondence Chess Master.
Dan Fleetwood can be reached at Vanderbilt University, Station B, P.O. Box 92, Nashville, TN 37235; Phone: +1 615 322 2498; Fax: +1 615 343 6702; E-mail: dan.fleetwood@vanderbilt.edu.

Richard Jacobsson

Richard Jacobsson Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences

Richard Jacobsson is a Staff Physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) and has been, since 2000, working for the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. In LHCb he is responsible for the development and commissioning of one of the three subsystems of the LHCb online system, the Timing and Fast Control system, as well as being involved in the implementation of the overall control and data acquisition systems. He is also a key member of the LHCb Commissioning Group.
Richard Jacobsson received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1996 and a B.Sc. in Physics in 1992 from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Between 1991 and 2000 he worked on the DELPHI experiment at CERN. His major achievements were in the area of the search for the Higgs boson, the measurement of the ZZ production cross section, the upgrade of the entire DELPHI online system in 1996-1998 and the on-site responsibility for the DELPHI barrel electromagnetic calorimeter. In the search for the Higgs boson he was pioneering in the deployment of Neural Networks as a physics analysis method.
Richard Jacobsson is very active in the area of education and public outreach. He has been responsible, since 1992, for annual further training at CERN for Swedish senior high school teachers and is often solicited by the CERN Press Office and Visit Service. He has developed and co-authored an education CD-ROM which has been used in senior high schools in more than 20 countries. He is the outreach representative for the LHCb experiment.
Richard Jacobsson is a member of IEEE and was the general chair of the 2005 14th IEEE-NPSS Real Time conference. He also chaired the program committee for RT2005. He is the member of AdCom representing the CANPS Technical Committee.
As an avocation Richard Jacobsson has a keen interest in environmental research and paralleled his studies in physics with studies in biology. Combining long experience in photography, diving and autonomous travel, he has undertaken a number of expeditions to document the natural environment.
Richard Jacobsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1969. He speaks fluent Swedish, English, French and Italian.
Richard Jacobsson can be reached at CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; Phone: +41 22 767 36 19; Fax: +41 22 767 94 25; E-mail: Richard.Jacobsson@cern.ch

Robert E. Reinovsky

Robert E. Reinovsky Pulse Power Science and Technology

Robert E. Reinovsky is Program Manager for Pulsed Power Hydrodynamics at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he focuses on applications of pulsed power to problems in hydrodynamics and material properties. At the same time Bob harbors a career- long, and not always well disguised, fascination with the physics and engineering of pulsed power systems that offer such enormous potential for manipulating and investigating the physical world in states ranging from condensed matter to plasmas.
Bob received his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971 and his Ph.D. in 1973, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Electrophysics Department where his dissertation work focused on ion beam diagnostics for magnetically confined fusion plasmas.
From 1974–1986, Bob worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (now the AF Research Laboratory) in the areas of plasma and pulsed power physics. At the AFWL, his principal interests were high-density plasma z-pinch implosions, radiation processes, plasma diagnostics, and pulsed power physics. Bob was programmatically responsible for developing and building four generations of the world-class SHIVA family of high-current, low-impedance pulsed power systems, and for developing and demonstrating world-record, fuse-opening switches using these systems.
Techniques in ultra-high-current high-explosive pulsed power developed in Los Alamos, starting in the 1950s, caught his imagination because they offer access to even more exciting conditions of high energy density. Bob joined the Shock Wave Physics Group (M-6) at Los Alamos in 1986 to continue applying these techniques to problems in national defense, plasmas and condensed matter; and to explore the engineering of compact pulsed power systems. Bob led the Group at Los Alamos from 1990 to 1993 and then joined the Los Alamos High Energy Density Physics Program as Project Leader for the Athena Pulsed Power Project and then as Chief Scientist and Deputy Program Manager. Since 1998 he has been the Program Manager for the Pulsed Power Hydrodynamics Program which sponsors the development and construction of the Atlas system and of the Atlas program of liner-driven hydrodynamics experiments.
The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 raised significant national security issues about the stability of the Russian nuclear weapons laboratories and about the future of the world-class scientific staff of those institutions. Bob joined with a few Los Alamos colleagues to establish an active program of unclassified, basic, joint scientific work with these scientists. These efforts, starting in 1992 with work in pulsed-power science, have grown into a vigorous DOE program of joint activities in the areas of pulsed power, material dynamics, and computational mathematics for the mutual benefit of both nations.
Bob is a Fellow of the IEEE, has been elected an Academician in the International Academy of Informatization, and has been awarded the Sakharov Medal by the All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics and the IEEE NPSS Peter Haas Award.
Bob Reinovsky can be reached at Los Alamos National Laboratory, HEHD Program Office MS D420, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA; Phone: +1 505 667 8214; Fax: +1 505 665 2828; E-mail: bobr@lanl.gov.

Craig L. Woody

Craig Woody Radiation Instrumentation

Craig L. Woody is a Senior Physicist and Group Leader of the PHENIX Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1973, 1974 and 1978, respectively, having carried out his thesis research in high energy particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. After one year as a postdoctoral Research Associate at Stanford University, he joined Brookhaven Lab in 1979, where he has remained ever since. During his first three years at Brookhaven, he worked at CERN building detectors and doing experiments at the ISR. Upon returning to Brookhaven, he worked on particle physics and heavy ion experiments at the AGS, was spokesman for experiment E855, and is currently working on the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). His interests are mainly in the development of particle detectors for nuclear and high energy physics, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work on scintillating crystals. He is also working on several projects in medical imaging, including imaging the awake animal. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and has been a regular attendee of the Nuclear Science Symposium (and more recently the Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference) for the past thirty years. He was General Chairman of the NSS/MIC conference in 1998 when the meeting was held in Toronto, Canada, and served as Deputy NSS Chair in 1997. He has also served many times on the program committee, paper selection and review committees, and as session organizer and session chair. He served on the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) from 1999 to 2001, and was Chairman of the RISC from 2004 through 2005. During his time on the RISC, he served on several Site Selection Committees for the NSS/MIC conference, chaired a RITC Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee, and served on the RISC Awards Subcommittee.
With his long-term involvement with the NSS/MIC conference, as well as having served recently on AdCom as a Technical Committee Chair, Craig has a good understanding of the issues and problems currently faced by the NPSS. He looks forward to serving on AdCom again as an elected member from the RITC to help work to resolve these issues during the coming years.
Craig Woody can be reached at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department Building, 510C, Upton, NY 11973; Phone+1 631 344 2752; Fax: +1 631 344 3253; E-mail: woody@bnl.gov.