This will be my last report to you as Chair of NMISTC since my term ends this month. We have accomplished a number of things during the past two years, including renaming the Young Investigator award in honor of Bruce Hasegawa, increasing the amounts of the Hasegawa and Hoffman awards, and revising our bylaws concerning the NSS/MIC Oversight Subcommittee. It has been an honor to serve on NMISC, and I hope I am leaving it at least as strong as I found it. Robert Miyaoka of the University of Washington will be taking over as Chair for the next two years. I wish Robert well and know he will do an excellent job.
NPSS AdCom approved the proposed changes to the NMISTC Bylaws, particularly Bylaw 3, at its July 2009 meeting, so they are now official. The revisions mainly concern the operation of the NSS/MIC Oversight Subcommittee, which does the long-term planning and site selection for the NSS and MIC. This is a joint Subcommittee of the RISC and NMISC, and consequently the RITC and NMISTC Bylaws must be consistent with respect to its operation. The revision accomplishes this by eliminating the two-year term limit of the Chair. Our Constitution requires the new Bylaw be published to the NMISTC membership, so you will find it reproduced below.
As I write this, the 2009 NSS/MIC is only three weeks away, and arrangements are nearly complete. I know that the General Chair Richard Lanza as well as the MIC Program Chair Ramsey Badawi and Deputy Chair Craig Levin, and many others, have worked hard to make it highly successful, and I hope you found it so.
Knoxville, Tennessee, will host the 2010 NSS/MIC. Ron Keyser is the General Chair and David Townsend will serve as the MIC Program Chair. The meeting will be held in the Knoxville Convention Center, with housing shared among several downtown hotels.
The 2011 NSS/MIC will be in Valencia, Spain. Valencia is Spain’s third largest city, beautifully situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast, with many cultural and recreational attractions. The meeting space will be in the Valencia Conference Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels. David Townsend will be the General Chair, and Alberto Del Guerra will be the MIC Program Chair.
The Disney Hotel in Anaheim, California will host the 2012 NSS/MIC meeting. Tom Lewellen will be General Chair of this meeting, and is currently putting together his organizing committee.
Planning for the 2013 meeting is underway. The NSS/MIC Oversight Subcommittee is currently reviewing three site location proposals: one for Beijing, China, one for Seoul, Korea, and one for Cairns, Australia. The growing interest from our Asia-Pacific community in hosting the meeting is a strong motivating factor for holding the 2013 NSS/MIC in that region.
You can find more information on the NMIS Technical Committee and Council, including current Council membership, information on NMISTC-sponsored awards, and a copy of our constitution and bylaws, at our web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nmisc/. Five new members are elected to NMISC each year, and we always welcome new candidates. If you are interested in standing for election, please contact George Kontaxakis, Secretary and Chair of the Nominations Sub-Committee, at g.kontaxakis@ieee.org.
Charles Watson can be reached at Siemens Molecular Imaging, 810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37932-2562 USA; Phone: +1 865-218-2419; Fax: +1 865-218-3000; E-mail: charles.c.watson@siemens.com.
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