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past year, 2006, was a relatively quiet year for the Fusion Technology
Committee (FTC).
The 21st Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) had already passed,
and the 22nd was still in early planning. The finances for the 21st
SOFE were closed well in advance of the IEEE deadline, and the final
conference report was published in March:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/npss/0306/21st.html
Two changes occurred in the membership of the FTC. Mark Tillack
(UC San Diego) succeeded Phil Heitzenroeder as the chair of the
FTC in January, and Wayne Meier (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
replaced long-time committee member Dick Foley. As an appointive
committee, changes in the FTC do not require elections. The chair
is nominated by a vote of the committee itself, and ratified by
the NPSS President. Similarly, new committee members are approved
by vote of the committee and ratified by the chair.
The FTC committee maintains a web site at http://aries.ucsd.edu/PUBLIC/NPSS-FT/.
There you can find more information regarding the membership, symposia
and awards.
The latest recipients of Fusion Technology awards, delivered at
the 21st SOFE, were Charles Baker, UC San Diego, “for his
leadership in the development of fusion technology and the quest
to build future fusion power plants, for his leadership of the US
ITER fusion efforts, and for his leadership of the US Virtual Laboratory
for Technology,” and Bradley Nelson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
“for his innovative technical contributions to the engineering
of fusion experiments and his exceptional leadership in the design
and construction of experimental fusion facilities.”
Award nominations for 2006 and 2007 are now being solicited. Instructions
for nominating a candidate can be found at the FTC web site.
Planning for the 22nd SOFE is underway. The meeting is scheduled
for June 17-22 of 2007, to be collocated at the Albuquerque Convention
Center together with ICOPS and the Pulsed Power Conference. The
General Chair will be Dennis Youchison and the Technical Program
Chair will be Michael Ulrickson. Both are from Sandia National Laboratories.
For more information regarding the 22nd SOFE, please visit the symposium
website at http://sofe22.sandia.gov/
Mark Tillack, chair of the Fusion Technology Committee, can be reached
at the University of California in San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0417. Phone +1 858 534 7897; E-mail: mtillack@ucsd.edu.
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