SECRETARY’S REPORT

Our last AdCom meeting was held at the Town and Country Hotel and Resort, San Diego, California on November 4, 2006. This, our official Annual Meeting, was held, as is traditional, with the NSS/MIC meetings. And as usual, it was a time for goodbyes and a hearty thank you to each retiring AdCom member. These include Joe Benedetto (Radiation Effects); Grant Gullberg (Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences); Glenn Knoll (Radiation Instrumentation) and Sandra Biedron (Particle Accelerator Science and Technology) who completed Patrick O’Shea’s term when he had to step down. We do, however, welcome Sandra back as a new member with a full term. In addition, Richard Jacobsson, AdCom Class of 2009 stepped down because of unexpected demands on his time, and Dan Jobe completed his term as Chair of the Plasma Science and Applications TC. This was also an election year and we had two excellent candidates for Vice President/President-elect. We are delighted to welcome Craig Woody to this new position. We also change leadership with Jane Lehr taking over as President and Bill Moses, after a long haul in the presidency filling both his term and the remainder of the late Ed Hoffman’s, becomes past president and Nominations chair. I think both he and Peter Winokur, who remained as past president during this time, have both breathed deep sighs, despite their outstanding leadership over these several years. We welcome new AdCom members Eric Frey, Jim Schwank and Rick Van Berg whose brief biographies appear below. We also welcome Ron Gilgenbach, new chair of the Plasma Science and Applications TC and Christoph Ilgner as new Membership chair. In addition, this was Stuart Long, our Division IV Director’s last visit with us. Edward Della Torre of the Magnetics Society has taken over as Division IV Director. His biography also appears below.
In addition to election of a new Vice President/President-elect, the other actions at this meeting included:
• NPSS authorizes the Steering Committee of T-MI to allocate up to $2,000 for a one time expense to cover the costs of scanning in the text of the early issues of T_MI that are not currently available in digital form on IEEE Explore. The motion was replaced with that below.
• NPSS AdCom strongly supports the proposal to scan the text of the early issues of TMI that are not currently available in digital form on IEEE Explore.. The motion carried
• $10,000 of NPSS funds will be made available to each Technical Committee each year to fund travel grants to their annual or biennial conference held that year for graduate students who are IEEE NPSS members. Each Technical Committee participating in this program will appoint a committee to evaluate the applications and to administer the grants. Preference in granting the funds should be given to students who are planning to present a paper, and to students with no other visible means of support.. The motion was withdrawn.
An issue that received a lot of discussion was how to pay for infrastructure costs. Some are quite clear, such as ordering an awards plaque, but others are hard to pin down. Hal Flescher has worked diligently with a finance committee of the IEEE Board to address this and a proposal will be submitted to the entire board for consideration. Stuart Long, the Division IV director at the time of the meeting also discussed this, along with an overview of IEEE’s makeup and revenue streams
Again, we are urged to get conference books closed as rapidly as possible, preferably within the year the conference was held. More stringent reporting will be required between planning and closing at some set interval.
AdCom will have met on February 3, too late to make a report in this Newsletter. The next meeting will be on June 23 in Albuquerque, NM between the PPST and SFE conferences and PAC.
Albe Dawson Larsen, NPSS secretary and Newsletter Editor, can be reached at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS66, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Phone +1 650 926 2748; Fax: +1 650 926 5124; E-mail: amlarsen@slac.stanford.edu