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am pleased to assume my duties as the new PPS&T
Committee Chair. I thank Gerry Cooperstein, the outgoing Chair,
for his service and for his continued assistance with the transition.
I look forward to Gerry’s continuing contributions as a PPS&T
committee member.
I am also pleased to introduce the newest appointed PPST committee
members (a complete list of the committee members can be found on
the committee’s website: http://www.ece.unm.edu/ppst/ppst/index.htm):
Dr. Larry Altgilbers, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command;
Dr. Thomas Hussey, Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Prof.
Andreas Neuber, Texas Tech University; and Dr. Rick Spielman, Ktech
Corporation. In addition, our newest elected AdCom representative
is Dr. Dillon McDaniel, Sandia National Laboratories, who will be
serving together with Dr. Robert Reinovsky of Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Of course Dr. Jane Lehr of Sandia National Laboratories
and one of our PPS&T committee members is continuing in her
role as President of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
We are happy to report that the PPPS-2007 Conference, the 16th IEEE
International Pulsed Power Conference combined with the 34th IEEE
International Conference on Plasma Science was a huge success. The
conference is nearly closed out. All registrants to PPPS-2007 should
have received their conference DVD by now. If you were registered
for the conference but did not receive your DVD please send an e-mail
to ppps2007@ece.unm.edu
with your current postal mailing address. Two Special Issues of
the IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. will appear in 2008 derived from the
PPPS-2007 Conference: Special Issue on Plenary & Invited Talks
(Drs. Mounir Laroussi, Frank Hegeler, and Xinpei Lu, Guest Editors)
to appear April 2008; and a Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science
& Technology (Drs. Frank Peterkin, Bryan Oliver, Randy Curry,
and Ray Allen, Guest Editors) to appear October 2008.
The 17th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference will be held
June 29 to July 2, 2009 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington,
DC. Dr. Frank Peterkin of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren
VA, is the Chair of the conference and Dr. Randy Curry of the University
of Missouri is the Technical Program Chair. The Mayflower Hotel
is offering the conference attendees a room block with 100% of the
rooms available at the prevailing government rate. The conference
website is: http://www.ece.missouri.edu/ppc2009
and check back frequently for updates.
Planning for the 18th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference,
to be hosted by the University of Missouri at Columbia, is underway.
Dr. Randy Curry will be the Chair of the conference, which will
be held at the McCormick Place Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL from
June 19-23, 2011. This conference will be followed by the 38th IEEE
International Conference on Plasma Science, which will be held June
26-30 in the same venue, combined with the IEEE NPSS Symposium on
Fusion Engineering.
Finally, last year the Society inaugurated a Distinguished Lecturer
Program, whereby lecturers will be sponsored by NPSS to present
their talks at local IEEE Chapters. The three Distinguished Lecturers
from Pulsed Power Science and Technology are:
• Dr. Bryan V. Oliver, Advanced Radiographic Technologies
Department, Sandia National Laboratories, “Intense electron
beam diodes for X-ray generation.”
• Dr. Charles H. Stallings, Stallings & Associates, “Pulsed
Power - What Is It and Why Should You Care?”
• Dr. Peter J. Turchi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Plasma
and Megagauss Fields.”
Complete information on the NPSS Distinguished Lecturer Program
can be found at: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/NPSS_DLP.html.
Edl Schamiloglu, Chair of the Pulsed Power Science and Technology
Technical Committee, can be reached at the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, MSc01 1100,
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001; Phone: +1 505 277 4423; Fax: +1 505
277 1439; E-mail: edl@ece.unm.edu.
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