Scheduled Special Topic issues of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science are the following:

Feb. 2003
Special Issue on Plenary and
Invited papers from ICOPS-2002 Guest Editor: Professor Clarence E. Capjack (University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada), Already Published

Aug. 2003
Special Issue on the Modeling & Simulation of Collisional or Near-Collisionless Low Temperature Plasmas
Guest Editors: Professor Demetre Economou (University of Houston, Houston TX USA)
Dr. Meyya Meyyappan (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA USA),
Professor Toshiaki Makabe (Keio
University, Yokohama Japan)

Oct. 2003
Special Issue on Vacuum
Discharge Plasmas
Guest Editors: Dr. Kenneth W. Struve (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA)
Professor Raymond Boxman (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Dr. Ekkehard Schade (ABB Corporate Research Ltd. Baden
Switzerland)
Dr. Rene P.P. Smeets (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Dec. 2003
Special Issue on Space Plasmas Guest Editors: Dr. Anthony Peratt (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM USA)
Karl-Gunne Falthammar (The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden)

Dec. 2003
Special Issue on Pseudospark Physics andApplications
Guest Editors: Professor Martin Gundersen (University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA)
Dr. Werner Hartmann (SIEMENS AG - Corporate Technology - Erlangen GERMANY)

Feb. 2004
Special Issue on Plenary and Invited papers from ICOPS-2003 Guest Editor: Professor Sang Hee Hong (Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
Apr. 2004 Special Issue on Physics of Dusty Plasmas
Guest Editors: Dr. Alexei Ivlev (Max Planck Inst fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching-bei-Munchen
Germany)
Dr. André Melzer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany)
Professor Wayne A. Scales (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg VA USA)
Prof. Edward Thomas, Jr.
(Auburn University, Auburn AL USA)

Apr. 2004
Special Issue of Selected Contributed Oral Papers from ICOPS 2003
Guest Editors: Professor Shigeru Sudo (National Institute of Fusion Studies, Japan)
Professor Hiroshi Fujiyama (Nagasaki University,Nagasaki, Japan)
Professor Han-Sup Uhm (Ajou University, Ajou, South Korea)
Professor Jin Joo Choi (Kwangwoon University, Kwangwoon, South Korea)
Professor Yong Seok Hwang (Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea)
Professor Mark Kushner (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana IL USA)
Professor Wes Lawson (University of Maryland, College Park MD USA)
Dr. Frank Hegeler (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC USA)
Professor Paul K. Chu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dr. Ian Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA USA)
Jun. 2004 Special Issue on High Power Microwave Generation
Guest Editor: Dr. Monica Blank (CPI - Communications & Power Industries, Palo Alto CA USA)
Dr. David K. Abe (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC USA)

Aug. 2004
Special Issue on Effects of Space Weather on Technology
Infrastructure
Guest Editors: Dr. Ioannis A. Daglis (National Observatory of Athens, Athens Greece)
Professor Daniel N. Baker (University of Colorado, Boulder CO USA)
Dr. K. Koutroumbas (National Observatory of Athens, Athens Greece)

Aug. 2004
Special Issue on Non-thermal Medical/Biological Applications of Ionized Gases and
Electromagnetic Fields
Guest Editors: Professor Ravindra P. Joshi (Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA USA)
Dr. Walter R. Rogers (Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks AFB TX USA)
Dr. Andrei Pakhomov (Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks AFB TX USA)

Oct. 2004
Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology
Guest Editors: Dr. James Dickens (Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX USA)
Dr. John Mankowski (Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX USA)
Dr. Jane Lehr (Sandia National Laboratories).

If you have any questions about these special issues or about TPS in general please get in touch with Steven J. Gitomer, the editor of TPS. He can be reached at the Safeguards Systems Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop E541, Los Alamos, NM 87545; Phone: +1 505 667-4352; Fax: +1 505-667-0966; E-mail: sgitomer@lanl.gov