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IEEE Radiation Effects Committee (REC) held its annual Open Meeting
on July 26, 2007 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
during the 2007 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).
The meeting included reports from the chairmen of the 2006 through
2008 NSRECs. Tim Oldham serves as Chairman of the Radiation Effects
Steering Group, which oversees the NSREC Conference.
An election was held during the Open Meeting for Junior Member-at-Large
to the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG). The RESG welcomes
Philippe Paillet from CEA as its newly elected Junior Member-at-Large.
Philippe joins Wayne Abare from Harris Corporation and Marty Shaneyfelt,
Sandia, who are serving as Senior-Member-at-Large and Member-at-Large,
respectively.
During the Open Meeting, Tim Oldham mentioned the General Chairs
of the upcoming NSRECs. Paul Dodd of Sandia National Labs, Mark
Hopkins of the Aerospace Corporation, Joe Benedetto of Micro-RDC
are the General Chairs of the 2008-2010 NSRECs, respectively.
Janet Barth of NASA GSFC, 2006 Conference General Chairman, recognized
each member of her conference committee with an award plaque. Janet
and her team organized an outstanding conference in Ponte Vedra
Beach. Lloyd Massengill, 2007 Conference General Chair, summarized
some statistics from the 2007 conference. A total of 507 people
attended the technical sessions, the short course, or both. In addition,
47 were registered for the exhibits, for a grand total of 554 attendees.
The technical sessions were very strong, with 151 papers presented
during the four-day conference (56 oral presentations, 51 posters,
38 data workshop, and six late news) and four 90-minute presentations
during the short course.
Paul Dodd, 2008 Conference General Chairman, announced that the
Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference will be held on July
14-18, 2008, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort. The Technical
Program Chairman will be Nick van Vonno from Intersil. Jeff Black
from Vanderbilt University/ISDE is organizing the tutorial Short
Course. Once again, NSREC 2008 is planning a Poster Session (chaired
by Jeff Titus of NWSC), a Radiation Effects Data Workshop (chaired
by Jim Felix, Sandia) and an Industrial Exhibit (chaired by John
Jewell, Sandia). Bill Heidergott, GDIS, is handling local arrangements
and assembling the social program. This is the second time NSREC
has been held in Tucson! 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.
Tim Oldham, Chair of the Radiation Effects Technical Committee can
be reached at Code 561.4, Bldg. 22 Room 048 NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001; Phone: +1 301 286 5489; Fax: +1
301 286 4699; E-mail: toldham@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Teresa Farris, Radiation Effects Chairperson for Publicity can be
reached at Aeroflex Corporation; Phone +1 719594 8035; E-mail: teresa.farris@aeroflex.com.
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