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IEEE Radiation Effects Committee (REC) held its annual Open Meeting
on July 21, 2006 at the Sawgrass Marriott in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Florida, during the 2006 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference
(NSREC). The meeting included reports from the chairmen of the 2005
through 2009 NSRECs.
The members of the RESG who completed their terms were recognized
for their contributions. Dale Platteter of NSWC-Crane, Outgoing
Past Chairman, was also honored for his service as the founding
“Webmeister” for NSREC and his work on the NSREC Short
Course Notebook CD compilations. Ron Schrimpf of Vanderbilt University
served as RESG Chairman and will now become Past Chairman. Tim Oldham
of NASA Goddard, who completed his term as Executive Vice Chairman,
becomes the new Chairman. Taking Tim’s place as Executive
Vice Chairman, will be Dan Fleetwood of Vanderbilt University. Kay
Jobe of Boeing will be the new RESG Secretary, taking over from
Jeff Black of Vanderbilt University/ISDE. Steve Clark of the Air
Force Research Laboratory was honored for completing his three-year
term in the Member-at-Large positions.
An election was held during the Open Meeting for Junior Member-at-Large
to the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG). The RESG welcomes
Marty Shaneyfelt from Sandia National Laboratories as its newly
elected Junior Member-at-Large. Marty joins Veronique Ferlet-Cavrois
from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and Wayne
Abare from Harris Corporation, who are serving as Senior-Member-at-Large
and Member-at-Large, respectively.
During the Open Meeting, Ron Schrimpf mentioned the General Chairs
of the upcoming NSRECs. Lloyd Massengill of Vanderbilt University,
Paul Dodd of Sandia National Labs, Mark Hopkins of the Aerospace
Corporation and Joe Benedetto of ATK are the General Chairs of the
2006-2010 NSRECs, respectively.
Fred Sexton of Vanderbilt University, 2005 Conference General Chairman,
recognized each member of his conference committee with an award
plaque. Fred and his team organized an outstanding conference in
Seattle.
Janet Barth, 2006 Conference General Chair, summarized some statistics
from the 2006 conference. A total of 517 people attended the technical
sessions, the short course, or both. In addition, we registered
67 people for the exhibits, for a grand total of 584 attendees.
The technical sessions were very strong, with 144 papers presented
during the four-day conference (53 orals presentations, 57 posters,
34 data workshop) and four 90-minute presentations during the short
course. The international attendance totaled 82 people, led by France
with 26 and Japan with 11. U.S. attendance was 435, with the largest
numbers of attendees coming from California (107), New Mexico (50),
Tennessee (35), Virginia (34), Maryland (27), and Texas (24).
Lloyd Massengill, 2007 Conference General Chairman, announced that
the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference will be held
on July 23-27, 2007, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu.
The Technical Program Chairman will be John Cressler from Georgia
Tech. Hugh Barnaby of Arizona State University is organizing the
tutorial Short Course. Once again, NSREC 2007 is planning a Poster
Session (chaired by Dale McMorrow of NRL), a Radiation Effects Data
Workshop (chaired by Christian Poivey of NASA Goddard) and an Industrial
Exhibit (chaired by Barry Templeton of Vanderbilt University). Susan
Crain, Aerospace Corporation, is handling local arrangements and
assembling the social program for NSREC’s first conference
in Hawaii.
We continue to look for ways to encourage NPSS membership among
the members of our community. As we have in recent years, we distributed
a QuickTime video recording of the previous year’s Short Course
on CDROM (playable on your Mac or PC), and provided this CD to each
NPSS member who attended. We encouraged our NPSS members to show
this Short Course video to their non-NPSS colleagues. Tim Holman
of Vanderbilt University leads this effort and the videos from the
2005 NSREC Short Course will be mailed shortly.
Minutes from the REC Open Meeting are available at www.nsrec.com.
For the most current information on the Nuclear and Space Radiation
Effects Conference, including information on paper submission, please
visit this web site.
Ron Schrimpf completed his service as Chairman of the Radiation
Effects Steering Group, which oversees the NSREC Conference and
technical chairman of the NPSS Radiation Effects Committee in July.
Ron can be reached at Vanderbilt University, ISDE Elec. Eng. &
Comp. Sci. Dept., 5635 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235; Phone
+1 615-343-0507; Fax +1 615-343-0601, E-mail: ron.schrimpf@vanderbilt.edu.
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