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Ben-Zvi (PAST Technical Committee Chair), Sandra Biedron (PAST Elected
AdCom Member) and Patrick O’Shea (former PAST Elected AdCom
Member) were recently selected by the National Academies of the
United States to participate in the Committee on the Scientific
Assessment of Free Electron Laser (FEL) Technology for Naval Applications.
The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the United States
Navy to prepare a study on FELs for use in naval applications. Nominations
were made and then the chair of the National Research Council selected
the final appointments regarding the membership of the Committee
on the Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for
Naval Applications (FEL Study Committee). The chair of the FEL Study
Committee is Thomas Katsouleas, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California and a Fellow of the IEEE, and
another member is IEEE Life Fellow Kumar Patel. The study will assess
the various states of the science and technology used in building
FEL devices. The committee will produce a report for the Navy. There
will also be a summary report that will be available for the public.
The target date for delivery is summer 2008.
Ilan Ben-Zvi is Associate Chair of the Collider-Accelerator Department
at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Sandra Biedron is the Director
of the Argonne Department of Defense Project Office. Patrick O’Shea
is Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Maryland. They have worked with the Office
of Naval Research (ONR) and other DOE national laboratories, and
universities to develop free electron lasers for eventual use by
the Navy.
Ilan Ben-Zvi can be reached at benzvi@bnl.gov,
Sandra Biedron can be reached at biedron@anl.gov,
and Patrick O’Shea can be reached at poshea@eng.umd.edu.
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