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Richard W. Callis |
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Richard W. Callis |
Richard W. Callis is currently the Director of the Technology and Projects Division within the Fusion Group at General Atomics, San Diego CA. This Division is responsible for the development and implementation of technologies to support fusion research, in particular the design and construction of high power RF systems for the DIII-D tokamak as well as specialized rf components for other world- wide fusion programs, and the design and construction of the components that are used to shield the fusion structures from the harsh environment of a plasma-material boundary. He joined the Fusion group of General Atomics in 1974 after getting his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has been involved in the design and construction of several fusion research devices, as well as twelve years experience of operating the Doublet III and the DIII-D tokamak.
Dr. Richard Callis has been active in the NPSS since 1976 when he joined the NPSS Fusion Technology Committee, and has served as chairman of this committee. He has also chaired or co-chaired the 1991 and 1997 Symposium on Fusion Technology.
Richard Callis may be reached at General Atomics, P O Box 85608, San Diego, CA, 92186-5608; Phone: (858) 455-3554; Fax: (858) 455-2838; E-mail callis@fusion.gat.com.
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Kenneth F. Galloway |
Kenneth F. Galloway was recently elected to the NPSS Administrative Committee (AdCom) to represent the radiation effects community for a four-year term beginning January 1, 2000. Dr. Galloway is currently serving as Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Galloway’s research interests include solid-state devices and semiconductor technology. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred and fifty technical publications and was elected to the grade of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1986 for “Contributions to the study of radiation effects in microelectronics.”
Dr. Galloway’s professional activities have included service as Technical Program Chairman of the 1982 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) and General Chairman of the 1985 NSREC. He served as Chairman of the IEEE NPSS Radiation Effects Committee from 1991 to 1994, and as General Chairman of the 1997 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). He is a member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society AdCom. Dr. Galloway received the B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1962 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of South Carolina in 1966.
Kenneth Galloway can be reached at the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Box 1826 Station Box, Nashville, TN 37235; Phone (615) 322-2070; Fax: (615) 343-8006; E-mail: kfg@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
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Osamu Ishihara |
Osamu Ishihara is Professor of Physics at Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. After the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yokohama National University, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1977. From 1977 to 1984, he was at the Plasma Physics Laboratory of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. In 1985 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University and four years later became a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Physics. In 1999, after 25 years of living outside Japan, he moved from Texas back to Japan to join the newly established Department of Physics in the Faculty of Engineering at Yokohama National University.
He has been involved in organizing the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and was a member of Plasma Science and Applications ExCom of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). His research interests include plasma waves, instabilities, turbulence, dusty plasmas, non-neutral plasmas, vortex physics, and high power microwave generation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE-NPSS Fellow Candidate Evaluation committee.
For Osamu Ishihara, who joined the plasma group of Professor Igor Alexeff in Knoxville in 1974 - the year the first ICOPS was organized by Professor Alexeff, it is an honor to represent the Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) constituency on the AdCom. He believes the strength of the PSAC lies in providing a forum for the diversified field of plasma science including basic science and its applications. He will make an effort to keep diversity in the field and to further develop the IEEE NPSS activities globally by encouraging international participation.
Professor Osamu Ishihara may be reached at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501 Japan; Phone/ fax: +81-45-339-4183; E-mail: oishihar@ynu.ac.jp.
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Edl Schamiloglu |
Edl Schamiloglu was born in the Bronx, NY in 1959. He attended the New York City public school system, graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1976. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1988 for a study of the interaction of energetic rotating ion rings with plasma.
He was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico in 1988 and cofounded the Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Laboratory, which he presently Directs. In the summer of 1990 he was a lecturer at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) at Harvard University, and in the summer of 1997 he lectured at the USPAS at MIT.
In 1991 he was a member of a research team (Delphi/Minerva) that received the Sandia National Laboratories Research Excellence Award and in 1992 he received the University of New Mexico College of Engineering Research Excellence Award. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 1994, and was recently awarded the title of University of New Mexico Regents’ Lecturer (1996-1999). His research interests are in the physics and technology of charged particle beam generation and propagation, high power narrow band and ultra wideband microwave sources, plasma physics and diagnostics, and electromagnetic wave propagation.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and a member of the ASEE. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and is an elected member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society’s Ad Com, as well as an elected member of the Plasma Science and Applications Committee’s Ex Com. He is Coeditor of a forthcoming book entitled “Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies” (IEEE Press, 2000) (with Robert J. Barker), and he is coauthor of “High Power Microwaves,” 2nd Edition (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001) (with Jim Benford and John Swegle). He has authored or coauthored 36 refereed journal and 46 reviewed conference papers, and serves on the international program committee of numerous conferences in pulsed power, plasma science, and high power microwave sources.
Edl Schamiloglu can be reached at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1356; Phone: (505) 277-4423; Fax: (505) 277-1439; E-mail: edl@eece.unm.edu