Dan Fleetwood serves as Chairman of the Radiation Effects Steering Group, which oversees the NSREC Conference.
The IEEE Radiation Effects Committee (REC) held its annual Open Meeting on July 23, 2009, at the Québec City Convention Center, Québec City, Québec, Canada, during the 2009 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). The meeting included reports from the chairmen of the 2008 through 2010 NSRECs.
An election was held during the Open Meeting for Junior Member-at-Large to the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG). The RESG welcomes Pascale Gouker, MIT Lincoln Lab. as its newly elected Junior Member-at-Large. Pascale joins Philippe Paillet, CEA, and Mike Xapsos, NASA-GSFC, who are serving as Senior-Member-at-Large and Member-at-Large, respectively.
During the Open Meeting, Dan mentioned the General Chairs of the upcoming NSRECs: Joe Benedetto of Radiation Assured Devices, Kay Chesnut-Jobe, Boeing, Ken LaBel, NASA-GSFC, and Jeff Black, Vanderbilt University are the General Chairs of the 2010-2013 NSRECs, respectively.
Paul Dodd, Sandia National Labs, 2008 Conference General Chairman, recognized each member of his conference committee with an award plaque. Paul and his team organized an outstanding NSREC in Tucson, Arizona.
Mark Hopkins, Conference General Chair, summarized some statistics from the 2009 conference. A total of 504 people attended the technical sessions, the short course, or both. In addition, we registered 58 for the exhibits, for a grand total of 562 attendees. The technical sessions were very strong, with 131 papers presented during the four-day conference
(47 oral presentations, 54 posters, 30 data workshop) and six presentations during the short course.
Joe Benedetto, 2010 Conference General Chairman, announced that the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference will be held on July 19–23, 2010, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, Colorado. The Technical Program Chairman will be Jeff Black, Vanderbilt University; Ron Lacoe from The Aerospace Corporation is organizing the tutorial Short Course. Once again, NSREC 2010 is planning a Poster Session (chaired by Veronique Ferlet-Cravois, ESA), a Radiation Effects Data Workshop (chaired by Leif Scheick, JPL) and an Industrial Exhibit (chaired by Kirby Kruckmeyer, National Semiconductor). Hugh Barnaby, Arizona State University, is handling local arrangements and assembling the social program.
For the most current information on the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, including information on paper submission, please visit www.nsrec.com.
Dan Fleetwood, Chair of the Radiation Effects Steering Group, can be reached at Vanderbilt University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, P.O. Box 92, Station B, Nashville, TN 37325; Phone +1 615 322 2771; Fax: +1 215 343 6702; E-mail: Dan.Fleetwood@vanderbilt.edu.
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