Plasma Science and Applications Committee

Report

Rickey Faehl, PSAC Chair

2 March 2013 NPSS AdCom Meeting

Savannah, Georgia USA

Fall ExCom Election Results

• New PSAC ExCom Officers (2-yr term)– Rickey Faehl, Chair– Don Shiffler, Vice-Chair– Brendan Godfrey, Past Chair

• New Members (3-yr term)– John Giuliani, Michael Kong, Mark Kushner, Mounir Laroussi, Tom

Mehlhorn, Peter Stoltz

• New AdCom rep (4-yr term)– John Luginsland

• All changes effective 1 January 2013• Contact information and subcommittee assignments

– http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-psac.html

Teleconference Voting on PSAC Awards

• PSAC used a one-time By-law waiver to conduct Award votes by teleconference.

• PSAC Award for 2013 to Richard Temkin (MIT)• Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science

Award to Paul Schmit (Princeton Univ).

Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science Award

• Igor a distinguished scientist, inventor, teacher• Founded PSAC, hosted first ICOPS, promoted plasma

engineering in many ways– Also contributed significantly to NPSS in its early years

• Died recently from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)• Action underway to rename PSAC Outstanding Student

Award in his honor– Proposed by PSAC– Endorsed by NPSS– Endorsed by TABARC– Passed by TAB

Recent ICOPS

• ICOPS 2011 closed out*.• ICOPS 2012 several items yet to be submitted.

* ICOPS 2011 Conference Chair assures me conference is closed, but NPSS audit continuing.

Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2013 is a Joint Conference Between ICOPS and PPS

• Conference Venue is the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California– June 16-21, 2013

• Conference Chair: Bryan Oliver, Sandia National Laboratories– Technical co-Chair: Mark Crawford, LANL– Technical co-Chair: John Verboncoeur, Michigan State Univ

• Conference website: http://www.ece.unm/ppps2013

Google Search: PPPS 2013

• Mini-course organized by John Giuliani on 15-16 June.

Federal Budget Sequestration will significantly effect PPPS2013

• Past Joint ICOPS/PPS conferences indicated that 1100 attendees was reasonable expectation:– To date, 989 + 44 “draft” abstracts submitted.– Corresponding authors amount to 814 potential attendees.

• Grants from Federal Agencies/Institutions are being suspended or cancelled.

• Conference Income could fall well below expectations.• Conference Organizers are already taking Proactive

Steps:

Room Block at the Conference Hotel has been re-negotiated.

Social Functions (Night Out, Breakfasts, Banquet) to be scaled-back or cancelled.

Direct abstract solicitation being conducted.

Future ICOPS

• ICOPS 2014 / Beams 2014– 25–30 May 2014, Washington, DC USA– Chair: Joseph Schumer (NRL)

• ICOPS 2015– Spring 2015 – Antalya, Turkey– Chair: Lutfi Oksuz (assistance from Edl Schamiloglu)

• ICOPS 2016– June 2016 – Banff, Alberta, Canada– Chair: Ying Tsui (University of Alberta)