Stan Schriber took over as Chair of the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Technical Committee (TC) from Ilan Ben-Zvi, BNL, on 2009 January 1. Stan hopes to continue the initiatives started by Ilan and interact more with the PAST membership.
Stan earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from McMaster University, Canada in 1967. From 1966 to 1984 he worked at CRNL where he was internationally recognized for linac expertise. He moved to LANL in 1984 as a senior manager including Technical Director of the SDI NPB and AOT Director (LANSCE operations and other R&D activities which led to APT and ATW). In 2001–2002, Stan spent several months at each of three European institutions. At Saclay he contributed to ESS, at CERN he contributed to the Neutrino Factory, and at FZ-Juelich he contributed to COSY and ESS. In 2003, Stan became a Michigan State University full professor, working on RIA design and teaching freshman physics courses. Now retired in Eagle, Idaho, he has ample opportunity to spend time with family and help various scientific institutions. Stan has 8 patents and more than 150 publications. He remains involved in IEEE and APS affairs, and chaired two PAC conferences (1995, 2007). Within APS-DPB he serves on the Executive Committee as the secretary-treasurer. Within IEEE-NPSS he serves as the Chair of the PAST TC. Among much recognition, he is a Fellow of the APS and a Fellow of IEEE.
ORGANIZATION:
The PAST TC has been organized with the following responsibilities. As the past PAST Chair, Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL) will be in charge of the Fellows and Awards subcommittee; responsible for nominating our PAST award candidates and fellows. As the former past PAST Chair, Bruce Brown (FNAL) will be in charge of our Web and Communications subcommittee; responsible in part for our PAST TC web site. Our elected PAST TC member for IEEE-NPSS AdCom, Sandra Biedron (ANL), is chair of our Nominating, Education and Outreach (includes our interests in Women in Science and Engineering) subcommittee; responsible in part for nominating members who could be elected to serve on the IEEE-NPSS AdCom. And finally, Paul Schmor (TRIUMF) is chair of our Conferences subcommittee.
CONFERENCES:
Activities continue in high gear for the 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC’09) being held in Vancouver, BC 2009 May 4 to 8. PAC’09 is jointly sponsored by IEEE-NPSS and APS-DPB, and is hosted by TRIUMF, Canada’s Particle and Nuclear Physics National Laboratory. Details for PAC’09 can be found at their web site: http://www.triumf.info/hosted/PAC09/. Everything is moving smoothly and the key conference organizers are busy with last minute preparations: Conference Chair Paul Schmor, Scientific Program Committee Chair Shane Koscielniak, Conference Treasurer Shirley Reeve and Local Organizing Committee Chair Yuri Bylinski. Expectations are that this conference will be a huge success with more than 1500 attendees worldwide and more than 1500 scientific/technical contributions.
Planning is underway for the next conference in the PAC series, PAC’11, which will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis in downtown New York, NY, 2011 March 28 – April 1. This conference will be the first PAC conference in North America being held between the three-year cycle IPAC conferences: the first, IPAC’10, being held in Kyoto, Japan 2010 May 24–28 and the second, IPAC’11, being held in Spain 2011 September. The chair of our PAC’11 conference is Thomas Roser, BNL, who is busy putting his conference team and budget together.
Planning is also underway for the first IPAC conference, IPAC’12, to be held in North America, the third in this new series and for us the 25th in the series of PAC conferences in North America. It will be held in New Orleans, LA, 2012 May 20–26 at the New Orleans Convention Center with Vic Suller, LSU, the conference chair. Vic is also busy putting his conference team and budget together.
Search subcommittees have been initiated for PAC’13 which will be held on the West Coast in the Fall of 2013 (Steve Gourlay, LBNL chairs this search subcommittee) and for IPAC’15 which will be held on the East Coast in the Spring of 2015 (Derek Lowenstein, BNL chairs this subcommittee).
AWARDS:
PAST awards presented at the PAC’09 conference in Vancouver, BC are listed below:
2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award
Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi, UCLA, “For his pioneering role, scientific contributions and leadership in the development of laser and particle driven plasma accelerators.”
2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award-Early Career
Dr. Kiyomi Seiya, FNAL, “For developing and successfully implementing ‘slip stacking’ of proton batches injected into the Fermilab Main Injector resulting in a significant increase beam intensity.”
2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award - Doctoral Student Award
Dr. Efthymios Kallos, Queen Mary University of London (University of Southern California for thesis), “For the demonstration of two-bunch high-gradient acceleration in a plasma wakefield accelerator and the development of novel multi-bunch concepts.”
Stan Schriber can be reached at his home in Eagle, ID 83616 USA; Phone: +1-208-631-8208, E-mail: schriber@nscl.msu.edu |
Kiyomi Seiya