Final preparations are underway for the 17th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, which 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 technical program, registration information, and lodging information can be found on the conference website: http://www.ece.missouri.edu/ppc2009. The organizers have assembled an exciting technical program of plenary talks, invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, and industrial exhibits. The Tuesday morning plenary session will have Dr. Chris Deeney (DOE) give a presentation entitled Coulombs to Pascals - Pulsed Power for High Energy Density Science. Other plenaries will include addresses by Tom Naff (Erwin Marx Award recipient) and John Maenchen (Peter Haas Award recipient). An outstanding social program and a full companions’ program have also been arranged (details can be found at: http://ppc.missouri.edu/events.html). Whether you will be coming from across the city or from around the world, we look forward to seeing you at our Nation’s Capital during this festive week!
Planning for the 18th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, to be hosted by the University of Missouri at Columbia, is well underway. Dr. Randy Curry is the Chair of the conference, which will be held at the McCormick Place Hyatt Regency in downtown 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.
We are pleased to announce that the 19th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference will be combined with the 40th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science as PPPS-2013. The conference chair will be Dr. Bryan Oliver of Sandia National Laboratories and Pat Corcoran of L3 Communications/Pulsed Sciences Div. will be the local arrangements chair. PPPS-2013 will be held in downtown San Francisco and the site selection committee expects to finalize the venue and the dates by Summer 2009.
Looking ahead to 2015, Dr. Mark Crawford of the Institute for Advanced Technology at The University of Texas at Austin has expressed an interest in possibly hosting the 20th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference in Austin.
The 15th Electromagnetic Launch Symposium is technically co-sponsored by IEEE NPSS and will be held May 17–20, 2010 at The Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. Select papers presented at this conference will be published as a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science in 2011.
Finally, as you may have noticed, the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (Dr. Steven J. Gitomer, Editor-in-Chief) is now a monthly publication. I am the Senior Editor for Pulsed Power Science and Technology and I encourage you to submit your technical articles in this discipline to the Transactions.
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; E-mail: edl@ece.unm.edu.
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