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A Publication of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number 1 • March 2003 S O C I E T Y N E W S
CONFERENCES
2003 PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE
May 12-16 Portland Oregon
he 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference Maura Chatwell,
T (PAC2003) will take place on May 12-16, 2003,
at the Hilton Portland in Portland, Oregon. The
conference will cover new developments in all aspects
PAC03 Conference Coordinator
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Road
of the science, technology, and the use of accelerators. It
will also provide a communication channel for acceler- Mail Stop 58
ator scientists and engineers and for those interested in Menlo Park, California, 94025 USA
the applications of accelerators. The conference is open Telephone: +1 650 926-4931
to the public and all individuals with an interest in par- Fax: +1 650 926-4962,
ticle accelerators are invited to register and attend. E-mail: PAC03@slac.stanford.edu
This is the 20th biennial conference in the series
and is organized under the joint auspices of the Insti- The deadline for abstract submission has passed.
tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) The Proceedings, which are being edited by Joe
through its Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Chew, will be published as an IEEE Conference Re-
(NPSS) and the American Physical Society (APS) cord and will be available in hardcopy or as a CD. All
through its Division of Physics of Beams (DPB). abstract and paper submission should be through the
The conference also serves as the annual meeting of Web upload system, however, authors are also re-
the DPB. The hosting institutions are Stanford Lin- quired to bring a hardcopy to the conference.
ear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Lawrence Berke- To register for PAC2003, please complete the online
ley National Laboratory (LBNL). The conference is registration form at the website. The registration fee of
supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. $450.00 ($350.00 for those who register and pay
the National Science Foundation and the Office of before April 10, 2003) supports the conference almost
Naval Research. Industrial sponsors include Bergoz entirely. This fee covers participation in the conference
Instrumentation, Danfysik, GMW Associates, and sessions, the welcome reception, the awards ceremony
Wah Chang, an Allegheny Technologies Company. and coffee breaks. It also includes a copy of the Pro-
The Conference Chairman is Robert. H. Siemann of ceedings of the conference in CD form. Student and re-
SLAC. The PAC2003 Program Committee, chaired by tiree registration is $100. The registration fee does not
Ed Lee of LBNL, has al- cover the banquet. Com-
ready structured the confer- panion tours will be avail-
ence program. Program, able; a companion-tour
publication instructions and registration form can be
all other relevant informa- obtained from the web site.
tion is available on the con-
ference website at http:// Technical Program
www-conf.slac.stanford. The organization of the
edu/PAC03/. Additional in- technical program is simi-
formation can be obtained lar to previous conferences
from the Conference Coor- in this series with plenary
dinator: Robert H. Siemann Ed Lee
Conference Chairman Program Chairman Continued on page 3
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 1IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES
TA B LE OF CONT ENT S
SOCIETY NEWS
is published three times per year by The Institute of Electrical and
2003 Particle Accelerator Conference . . . . . 1 Electronics Engineers, Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855.
Invitation to Icops 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NEWSLETTER EDITOR:
2003 NSREC in Monterey, California . . . . . 5 W. Kenneth Dawson
TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall
Plans Announced for the 20th Symposium on
Vancouver, British Columbia
Fusion Engineering (SOFE) . . . . . . . . . . 7 Canada, V6T-2A3.
2003 Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems Tel: +1 604 222 7455: Fax: +1 604 222 7307.
(SNPS) Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 E-mail: k.dawson@ieee.org
Report on the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science EDITOR EMERITUS:
Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference . 8 John F. Osborn
President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 507 Elmhurst Circle
Sacramento, CA 95825
Secretary’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Tel: +1 916 641 1627
CLASS OF 2006 Fax: +1 916 641 2625
The Newly Elected Ad Com Members . . . . 14 IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS:
Division IV Director’s Report . . . . . . . . . 16 Robert Smrek, Production Manager
Nuclear Medical And Imaging Sciences Andrea Watson, Newsletter Coordinator
Technical Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Contributors to this issue include, in alphabetical order: Joe
Benedetto, Bruce Brown, Mu Chen, Zhiyu Chen, Kyu-Sun Chung,
Call for Nominations For New Members of the Peter Clout, Simon Cooke, Paul Dressendorfer, Teresa Farris, Jay
IEEE NPSS Nuclear And Medical Imaging Forster, Grant Gullberg, Phil Heitzenroeder, Ed Hoffman, Jan
Sciences Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Iwanczyk, Ron Jaszczak, Joel Karp, Ron Keyser, Glenn Knoll, Albe
Inside The Radiation Effects Steering Group . . 20 Larsen, Ray Larsen, Craig Levin, Pat O’Shea, Dale Platteter, Ned
Sauthoff, Peter Staecker, Martin Tornai, Peter Winokur
New RESG Member-At-Large . . . . . . . . 21
Publicity releases for forthcoming meetings, items of interest from
2002 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Con- local chapters, committee reports, announcements, awards, or
ference Outstanding Conference Paper Awards 21 other materials requiring society publicity or relevant to NPSS
Radiation Effects Award . . . . . . . . . . 22 should be submitted to the Newsletter Editor by April 25, 2003.
RITC Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES
Report from the Communications Committee. . 23 News articles are actively solicited from contributing editors, par-
ticularly related to important R&D activities, significant industrial
Annual Review of the TNS Editorial Process . . 24 applications, early reports on technical break-throughs, accom-
NPSS Award Nominations Due May 15 . . . 27 plishments at the big laboratories and similar subjects.
2002 NPSS Merit Award . . . . . . . . . 28 The various Transactions, of course, deal with formal treatment in
2002 Richard F. Shea Award . . . . . . . . 29 depth of technical subjects. News articles should have an element
of general interest or contribute to a general understanding of
2002 Early Achievement Award . . . . . . . 31 technical problems or fields of technical interest or could be
Graduate Student Awards . . . . . . . . . 31 assessments of important ongoing technical endeavors.
2002 Medical Imaging Scientist Award . . . 32 Advice on possible authors or offers of such articles are invited by
2003 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award . . . 33 the editor.
IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee . . . . . . 35 Committee Chairpersons, Liaison Representatives, and other
Ad Com members are particularly reminded that reports, award
The Senate Energy Bill Circa 2002 . . . . . 35 announcements, or observations on society interests are needed
Bill Would Use R&D Funding to Promote and should be submitted where possible before the copy dead-
Metric Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 line of April 25, 2003.
DOE Plan Calls for Fusion-Generated Electricity
in 35 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
National Academy Heads Question Visa Restrictions
on Foreign Scientists and Engineers . . . . . 39
Strengthening Ties Between the Media and the © 2003 IEEE. Information contained in this newsletter may be copied
Engineering Community . . . . . . . . . . 39 without permission provided that the copies are not made or distrib-
uted for direct commercial advantage, and the title of the publication
and date appear.
Printed in U.S.A.
2 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYCONFERENCES (cont’d)
sessions on Monday morning and Friday after- and supplies are also available to organizations.
noon. The opening plenary session will feature These are listed on the website and will be fully
talks by S. Mishra, FNAL on High Luminosity acknowledged at the conference and in the
Operation of the Tevatron, P.W. Schmor, conference program. Further information on
TRIUMF on Recently Commissioned and Fu- exhibiting or sponsorship can be obtained by
ture Radioactive Ion Beam Facilities, N. contacting Adrienne Higashi at ahigashi@ Quark-like
Holtkamp, ORNL on Status of the Spallation SLAC.Stanford.edu The chains of
Neutron Source and G. Dugan, Cornell on
Technology Options for Linear Colliders. The habit are too
Accommodations
closing plenary session talks will include R.
Approximately 1200 participants have at- weak to be felt
Orbach, DOE on Prospects for a Physical Sci-
ence Renaissance, D. Prosnitz, LLNL on Roles
tended the last few meetings in the series and until they are too
similar numbers are anticipated for PAC2003
for Accelerator Technology in Homeland Secu-
in Portland. A block of rooms at the Portland
strong to be
rity, C.V. Shank, LBNL on Opportunities for broken.
Hilton has been reserved at the conference rate
Accelerators in Nanoscience and Y. Petroff,
of $139.00/night, single or double occupancy.
ESRF on Evolution of Light Sources.
Due to the limited availability of rooms, atten- Samuel Johnson
During the five-day period there will be 21
dees are strongly urged to reserve early, directly
oral sessions with 81 invited speakers and se-
with the hotel. When making reservations, be
lected contributed papers. Eight poster ses-
sure to indicate attendance at PAC2003 in or-
sions sized to accommodate more than 1000
der to receive the conference room rate.
posters are scheduled. Accelerator systems are
categorized by sessions on Low & Medium
Energy Accelerators, Hadron Accelerators and Companion Program
Colliders, Lepton Accelerators and Colliders, The conference has arranged a companion pro-
Linear Colliders, Light Sources, FELs and gram. This begins on Monday morning with a
ERLs, Secondary Beam Factories, Advanced Companion Get Acquainted Reception at the
Concepts and Extreme Beams. Sessions on Portland Hilton that will include a continental
Single Particle Beam Dynamics and Optics, breakfast. Prearranged tours depart Monday
Multi-Particle Beam Dynamics, Two-Stream through Saturday mornings, returning late af-
Interactions and Collective Processes, and In- ternoon, and include specially selected lunch
stabilities and Feedback have been assigned. In stops. They are being offered through “RAZ”,
addition there are specific sessions on Sources a private company. In daily order, the six tours
and Injectors, Magnets, Controls and Comput- and their costs are: Portland City Tour
ing, Instrumentation, Radio Frequency Sys- ($59.00), Columbia Gorge Tour ($55.00),
tems, Accelerator Technology, Pulsed Power Oregon Garden and Aurora ($55.00), North
and High Intensity Beams, and the Applica- Coast Tour ($60.00), Woodburn Shopping
No sale
tions of Accelerators. Tour ($33.00), Columbia Gorge Tour Wisdom is like
($55.00). If planning on joining any of these gold; it is useless
tours, please print and complete the PAC03
Industrial Exhibition if no one will
Companion Tour Registration Form and sub-
An industrial exhibition of about 40 booths,
situated adjacent to the poster area, where
mit directly to RAZ before the April 28, 2003 accept it from
deadline.
companies can advertise their products and ex- you.
pertise, will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
on Monday and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Other Information Geoffrey Pyke
Tuesday and Wednesday. The cost of a 10 foot The conference banquet will be held at 7 PM
by 10 foot booth is $2000.00 (U.S.). This fee on Thursday, May 15, 2003. Banquet tickets
includes one full conference registration, a CD will cost $70.00 and reservations are required
copy of the proceedings and attendance at the since seating is limited.
reception. An online registration form is avail- The Awards Reception and Ceremony will
able on the conference website. Sponsorship be held on Wednesday, May 14 at 4 PM to pres-
opportunities for the reception, refreshments ent the following 2003 awards and prizes:
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 3APS Robert R. Wilson Prize plus network connections for laptop comput-
Cause and effect APS Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis ers. This facility allows uploading and manage-
Research in Beam Physics ment of manuscripts as well as reading and
In general a man Student Travel Awards Honoring sending of e-mail and other miscellaneous per-
owes his success Lou Costrell and Mel Month sonal computing tasks. Ethernet is also avail-
able in guest rooms at the Hilton Portland.
to his first wife, Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Awards
Historical weather data show that in Port-
and his second U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize for land in mid-May we can expect lows in the mid
Achievement in Accelerator Physics & Technology 40s and highs in the mid 60s F (8-18 C) with a
wife to his Newly Elected Fellows of the APS chance for rain. See for instance www.pova.
success. Newly Elected Fellows of the IEEE com/visitors/weather.html
Conference attendees will have access to We look forward to seeing you in Portland
Unnamed CEO Internet-connected computers and printers in May!
INVITATION TO ICOPS 2003
June 2-5 Jeju Island, Korea
he 30th IEEE International Conference ing fields through plenary talks and the regular
T on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2003) will
be held during June 2-5, 2003 on Jeju Is-
land (“Hawaii of Asia”) in Korea. It is spon-
conference program. Reports on the current
state of fusion and flat panel display will also be
presented. This conference will cover the fol-
sored by IEEE NPSS Plasma Science and lowing areas:
Applications Committee. • Basic Processes in Fully and Partially Ion-
ICOPS conferences have been challenging ized Plasmas
and nourishing events for the advancement of • Microwave Generation and Microwave
Plasma Science and Technology for the past 30 Plasma Interaction
years. For the first time in its history, ICOPS is • Charged Particle Beams and Sources
Kyu-Sun Chung going to be held in Korea outside North Amer- • High Energy Density Plasmas and Their
ICOPS 2003 Chairman ica (USA & Canada). Although it happens to Applications
be hosted by Korea, other Asian countries, es- • Commercial/Industrial Applications of
pecially Japan and China, will take advantage Plasmas
of the opportunity to show Western countries • Fusion
the strength of their research activities in the ar-
• Pulsed Power.
eas of Plasma Science and Technology. Two
A special mini-course on Plasma Diagnos-
major plasma societies, one from Korea (Korea
Accelerator and Plasma Research Association) tics will be offered June 5-6. Abstracts of all pa-
and the other from Japan (Japan Society of pers will appear in the Conference Record.
Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research) Plenary and invited papers will be published in
are co-sponsoring this conference along with the February 2004 special issue of the Transac-
other institutions such as Hanyang University tions on Plasma Science. Selected oral contribu-
and Korea Vacuum Society. Historically, the tions will be considered for publication in an
Korean peninsula has been a strategic place additional special issue of the Transactions on
linking the Asian continent (China, Russia, Plasma Science scheduled for April 2004.
etc) to the Pacific Ocean countries (Japan, Jeju Island is one of the most fantastic re-
USA, etc). This time Korea will be a nourish- sorts in Korea and it is one hour’s flight south
ing place where the Western and Eastern of Seoul. The 649 sq. mile island has many ex-
plasma scientists and engineers can have real tinct volcanoes, sparkling beaches and fishing
communication and collaboration in the area villages. It is located in a semi-tropical belt.
of Plasma Science and Technology. ICOPS There 1700 different kinds of plants, from
2003 will also be a constructive and amusing semi-tropical to frigid zone species, flourish in
scientific fellowship on an exotic island! nature with a temperature range from 22° to
ICOPS 2003 will emphasize both the tradi- 26° Celsius (72° to 80° Fahrenheit). There are
tional fields of plasma science and the emerg- many sights and activities that will interest and
4 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYentertain people of all ages. An official excur- eral inquiries regarding ICOPS 2003 can be sent
sion is planned for Tuesday afternoon. to the Conference Coordinator, Ms. Hye-Jeong
You can get more information about this Kim at icops2003@ahpe. hanyang. ac.kr, or the
Conference at http://www.ieee.org/icops2003 or Conference Chair, Professor Kyu-Sun Chung at
at http://ahpe.hanyang.ac.kr/~icops2003. Gen- kschung@hanyang. ac.kr.
2003 NSREC IN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
he 2003 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radia- Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects
T tion Effects Conference will be held July
21-25, 2003 in Monterey, California at
the Doubletree Hotel. The conference features a
in Electronic Materials and Devices
• Ionizing radiation effects
• Displacement damage effects
Technical Program consisting of ten sessions of • Radiation effects on materials
contributed papers that describe the latest ob- • Single-event charge collection
servations and research results in radiation ef- phenomena and mechanisms
fects, a Short Course focusing on how device • Processing-induced radiation effects
scaling impacts radiation effects in space that • Radiation transport, energy deposition
will be presented on July 21, a Radiation Effects and dosimetry
Data Workshop, and an Industrial Exhibit. The Radiation Effects on Electronic and
Technical Program includes oral and poster ses- Photonic Devices and Circuits
sions. There will also be special events for com- • MOS, bipolar and advanced technologies
panions in a parallel social program. • SOI and SOS technologies
This is the 40th year in which the NSREC • Optoelectronic and optical devices, and
has been held. A special publication will be optical systems
made available to attendees that describes the • Novel devices structures, such as MEMS
major technical accomplishments associated • Single-event effects
with work presented at the Conference over its • Modeling of devices, circuits and systems
forty-year history. • Methods for hardened design and manu-
Supporters of the conference include the facturing
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Sandia Na- • Radiation effects at cryogenic temperatures
tional Laboratories, Air Force Research Labo- • Particle detectors and associated elec-
ratory, and the NASA Electronic Parts and tronics at high-energy accelerators
Packaging Program. Space, Atmospheric and Terrestrial
Radiation Effects
TECHNICAL PROGRAM • Characterization and modeling of radia-
Papers to be presented at this meeting will de- tion environments
scribe the effects of space or nuclear radiation • Space weather effects
on electronic or photonic devices, circuits, sen- • Spacecraft charging
sors, materials and systems, as well as semicon- Hardness Assurance Technology and Moveable assets
ductor processing technology and techniques Radiation Testing The only way I
for producing radiation-tolerant devices and • Testing techniques and guidelines
integrated circuits. A new session has been • Hardness assurance methodology
know to transfer
added this year on terrestrial radiation effects technology is
that is becoming an important problem for Radiation Effects on Commercial Space
semiconductor manufacturers for highly scaled Systems with people.
devices. The conference will be attended by en- Chuck Geschke
gineers, scientists and managers who are con-
New Developments of Interest to the
cerned with radiation effects. International
Radiation Effects Community
participation in the conference is strongly en-
couraged. RADIATION EFFECTS DATA
Specific topics for technical papers that will WORKSHOP
be presented at this conference include the fol- The Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a fo-
lowing: rum for papers on radiation effects data on
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 5electronic devices and systems. Workshop pa- tion, and microdose damage from protons and
pers are intended to provide radiation response heavy ions, which is an important problem for
data to scientists and engineers who use elec- advanced memory devices.
tronic devices in a radiation environment, and Session three will concentrate on the way in
for designers of radiation-hardened or radia- which device scaling affects single-event upset
Waves of tion-tolerant systems. Papers describing new sensitivity. It will be presented by Dr. Timothy
romance simulation facilities are also welcomed. Oldham, NASA GSFC. This is one of the most
important topics for advanced devices because
If it is love that the critical charge required for single-event up-
PAPER SUBMITTAL
makes the world Information on the submission of summaries set continues to decrease as devices evolve.
New results for silicon-on-insulator technol-
go round, it is to the 2003 NSREC for either the Technical
ogy will be included as part of this session.
Sessions or the Data Workshop can be found at
self-induction that www. nsrec.com. The deadline for submitting The fourth session will be presented by Dr.
makes summaries was February 7, 2003, and final se- John Cressler, Georgia Tech University. He will
lection of papers will be made in March. A lim- discuss radiation effects in advanced bipolar de-
electromagnetic vices, including those made with silicon-germa-
ited number of late-news papers will be
waves go round considered for the conference, but must be nium technology. Advanced bipolar devices are
the world. submitted by May 30. Late-news papers must fabricated very differently from conventional
clearly show why they are newsworthy, as well transistors, using heterojunctions to increase
Oliver Heaviside as technically significant. performance and allow device dimensions to be
Papers accepted for the conference are eligi- reduced to the submicron level.
ble for publication in the December issue of the
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, subject INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT
to an additional review cycle after the confer- An Industrial Exhibit will be included as part
ence. Papers presented at the Workshop will be of the Conference. The exhibit will be held on
published in a special IEEE publication follow- Tuesday and Wednesday. It will include exhibits
ing the conference that is not subject to an ad- from 35-40 exhibitors who represent compa-
ditional peer review. nies or agencies involved in manufacturing
electronic devices or systems for applications in
SHORT COURSE space or nuclear environments, modeling and
Attendees will have the opportunity to partici- analysis of radiation effects at the device and
pate in a one-day Short Course on Monday, July system level, and radiation testing.
Consistency 21. The short course will focus on how scaling
and technical advances in microelectronics affect LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Fault has been their use in space. It will consist of four tutorial The main social event for the Conference will
found with these presentations that begin with basic material and be a banquet, scheduled for Wednesday eve-
develop a thorough understanding of how ad-
articles that they vanced microelectronics are affected by space ra-
ning at the Monterey Aquarium. It will be
open to attendees and their immediate fami-
are hard to read. diation, as well as ways to select advanced lies. The aquarium will be reserved exclusively
They were, microelectronics for space applications. for the conference during the evening, allow-
The first session of the 2003 Short Course ing attendees and family members the oppor-
perhaps, hard to will be presented by Dr. Ron LaCoe, Aero- tunity to see this world-famous facility in a
write. space Corporation. It will discuss device scal- relaxed atmosphere.
ing and design principles for CMOS
Companion events will include a lun-
Oliver Heaviside technology. It will also include a discussion of
cheon/shopping trip to nearby Carmel on
hardened-by-design methodologies, as well as
Tuesday, and a tour of a local winery and lun-
radiation effects in advanced isolation struc-
cheon in a nearby restaurant on Thursday.
tures, such as shallow trench isolation.
The second session, presented by Dr.
Alessandro Paccangella of the Universita di MONTEREY
Padova, will discuss radiation effects on thin The picturesque city of Monterey is located on
oxides. The session will begin with a discussion Monterey Bay, approximately 120 miles south
of trends and design requirements for oxides in of San Francisco. It is the site of the renowned
advanced CMOS devices. Radiation effects will Monterey Aquarium as well as the location of
include leakage current from ionizing radia- Cannery Row, made famous by the novelist
6 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYJohn Steinbeck. The nearby 17-mile drive con- Publicity: Teresa Farris
tains some of the most beautiful scenery in the Aeroflex UTMC, (719) 594-8035
United States and was photographed by Ansel
Adams during the 1940s. Sea lions, seals and Finance: Kay Jobe
otters abound in Monterey Bay. Beaches, hik- Boeing Satellite Systems, (310) 416-3705
ing, historical sites, kayaking, sailing, golf, and Awards: Gordon Hopkinson Protocol
nearby wineries in the Carmel Valley are Sira Electro-Optics, Ltd. (UK), It is not enough
among the many attractions in this unique site. (44) 20-8467-2636 to be wrong, one
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Industrial Exhibits: Howard Bogrow must also be
Xilinx Inc., (623) 376-8692
General Chair: Allan Johnston polite.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (818) 354-6425 Guest Editor: Jim Kinnison
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Niels Bohr
Technical Program: Paul Dodd (240) 228-6169
Sandia National Laboratories, (505) 844-1447
Teresa Farris, the NSREC Publicity Chair, can
Local Arrangements: Mark Hopkins
be reached at Aeroflex UTMC, 4350 Centennial
Aerospace Corporation, (515) 872-6201
Blvd., Colordo Springs, CO 80907-3486; Phone:
Short Course: Joe Benedetto +1 719 594-8035; Fax: +1 719 594-8468;
Aeroflex UTMC, (719) 594-8415 E-mail: teresa.farris@aeroflex.com
Plans Announced for the
th
20 Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)
ichard Callis, Chairman of the 20th tel in Mission Bay from October 14-17, 2003.
R SOFE, released a Pre-announcement of
the Symposium in an e-mail to prospec-
tive attendees on January 8. The Symposium is
Abstracts are requested by April 30. Abstract
submittal instructions and general information
can be found at the Symposium’s web
a biennial event dedicated to the scientific, site: http://d3dnff.gat.com/sofe03/. The 20th
technological and engineering issues of fusion SOFE is sponsored by IEEE/NPSS and is sup-
energy research and is a mixture of oral presen- ported by the DIII-D National Fusion facility
tations and poster sessions. It will be held in and General Atomics.
San Diego, California at the Bahia Resort Ho-
Too, too right!
I have not been
2003 Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems afraid of excess:
(SNPS) Call for Papers excess on
occasion is
exhilarating. It
Portland, Oregon, October 21–23, 2003
prevents
• New aspects on equipment qualifications
he 2003 Symposium on Nuclear Power moderation from
T Systems (SNPS) will again be held in
conjunction with the Nuclear Science
Symposium and Medical Imaging Confer-
• A special annual overview report of ma-
jor importance to nuclear power utilities
• A panel session of major importance to
acquiring the
deadening effect
ence. The Technical paper sessions on nuclear operating NPGS
of habit.
power systems cover subjects currently of ma- • And more
jor interest to the operation of nuclear power Please send an abstract (11.5 x 10 cm block) W. Somerset
stations and supporting services and suppli- and a summary of maximum two pages by May
ers, including: 15, 2003 to Jay Forster, SNPS Program Chair-
Maugham
• Upgrading digital technology for reactor man,GE Nuclear Energy, M/C 334, 175 Curtner
protection, I&C, and other systems Ave., San Jose, CA 95125: Phone: +1 408
• Reliability-based maintenance and plant 925-5090; Fax: +1 408 925-2923; E-mail
modernization jay.forster@gene.ge.com
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 7CONFERENCE SUMMARY
Report on the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science
Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
he 2002 IEEE NSS/MIC was held in Nor- organization by Gary Alley who has served as
T folk, Virginia at the Marriott Waterside
Convention Center from Sunday, Novem-
ber 10 to Saturday, November 16. As with prior
Short Course chair since 1994. The exhibitor
program ran from November 12-14 and was
successful with 43 companies exhibiting their
years, the NSS/MIC meeting was complimented products. Several non-profit organizations also
by a Short Course program from November exhibited.
10-12 and the Symposium on Nuclear Power We should congratulate the more than 30 stu-
Systems (SNPS) from November 12-13. In addi- dents who received awards of up to $500 to help
tion, we helped organize an outreach program for defray the cost of the meeting and encourage
science teachers at Jefferson Laboratory on No- their participation. These awards were made pos-
vember 11, and helped to coordinate a workshop sible by the generous support of several compa-
Joel Karp
on Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer immedi- nies, as well as the conference itself. The
General Chairman,
ately following MIC, on November 16 & 17. companies who helped to sponsor these awards
2002 NSS/MIC
included Concorde Microsystems, CPS Innova-
By all measures the meeting was a success.
tions, CTI Molecular Imaging, GE Medical Sys-
The NSS/MIC conference is one of the most
tems, Hamamatsu Corporation, Marubeni
productive international scientific meetings in
Specialty Chemicals and Hitachi Chemical Co.,
the fields of nuclear and particle physics, and the
ORTEC, Philips Medical Systems, Saint-Gobain
physics of nuclear medicine. It is particularly suc-
Crystals and Detectors, and Siemens Medical So-
cessful, and unique in the manner in which it
lutions USA. In addition, I’d like to acknowledge
combines these areas of research, due to the syn-
the additional support from ORTEC and Philips
ergism between applied nuclear physics and
Medical Systems who together funded the
Rational medical imaging. This year’s success can certainly
padfolio bags that contained the scientific pro-
explanation be attributed to the excellent organization and
gram and abstract books.
hard work by the scientific chairs, including
It is often stated Nigel Lockyer and Rick Van Berg for NSS, Paul We should also congratulate the following
scientists who received these prestigious
that of all the Kinahan and Robert Miyaoka for MIC, and Jay
awards at the meeting: Mu Chen received the
Forster for SNPS. Approximately 850 scientists
theories registered for the meeting, of which 20% were NPSS Graduate Scholarship Award and a
proposed in this students. There were 525 presentations during NPSS Paul Phelps Continuing Education
the meeting, including those at NSS, MIC, and Grant; Edward Hoffman received the Medical
century, the Imaging Scientist Award; Jan Iwanczyk re-
SNPS, and including the invited presentations at
silliest is the plenary sessions. There was an increased em- ceived the NPSS Merit Award; and Ralph
James, was recently elected IEEE Fellow.
quantum theory. phasis on poster presentations, in fact, 365 of the
presentations were posters, which were available As general chair, I’d like to thank all of the
In fact, some say from Tuesday afternoon through Saturday morn- members of the program committee who volun-
that the only ing. This format permitted more time for the teered their time and energy to the organization
posters to be displayed, and encouraged and running of the conference. In addition to the
thing quantum scientific chairs, I am especially grateful to Timo-
cross-fertilization between NSS and MIC. We
theory has going also held joint oral NSS/MIC sessions on both thy DeVol, Karyn Gerecitano, Margaret
for it is that it is Tuesday and Wednesday. The joint session on Daube-Witherspoon, Richard Freifelder, Janet
Wednesday included invited talks on proton ther- Saffer, Scott Metzler, Bo Yu, Tony Maeda, and
unquestionably apy and imaging and was particularly well re- the group from TDMG who took care of regis-
correct. ceived. It was run immediately following the tration. And of course, I thank all of the partici-
plenary MIC session, with no competing parallel pants who make this conference very special, year
Michlo Kaku sessions so as to encourage participation from all after year. I hope to see you next year in Portland.
NSS and MIC attendees. The Short Course Pro- Joel Karp, the 2002 NSS/MIC General Chair,
gram had close to 350 participants, with espe- can be reached at the University of Pennsylvania,
cially high attendance by students and post-docs. Department of Radio Nuclear Medicine, 3400
The high attendance is partly due to the dis- Spruce street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Phone: +1
counts that were offered to these young scien- 215 662-3073; Fax: +1 215 573-3380; E-mail:
tists, and certainly due to the excellent karp@rad.upenn.edu.
8 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYNPSS GENERAL REPORTS
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
ne of the great strengths of the Nuclear who get to chair sessions. Four of our interest
O and Plasma Sciences Society is that it is
a volunteer society. However, this can
also be one of its greatest weaknesses. If you
groups have Steering Committees or Councils
that are responsible for running conferences
and overseeing the publication of parts of the
look at the back cover of this Newsletter or on Transactions. Each of these groups has about
the inside cover of the Transactions, you will 16 elected seats, and a current elected member
see lists of people filling various positions. Ex- of these groups cannot succeed himself. So
cept for the administrative staff at Piscataway, there is a continuous need for new blood. The
NJ, these are all unpaid volunteers. The pri- AdCom, of which I am the current president, is
mary functions of this Society are to hold scien- effectively a steering committee for all of
tific conferences and symposia and to publish NPSS, where the representatives of the various Edward J. Hoffman
scientific journals. Up to the point of printing groups meet to deal with the operation and NPSS President
the journal or auditing the books on the con- problems of the society. We also act as the liai-
ferences, essentially all the work and planning son to IEEE and are represented in its steering
is done by volunteers. committee. The members of the AdCom al-
We are one the smallest of the IEEE societ- most always come from the individual councils
ies with about 3000 in a 400,000 member or steering committees.
IEEE. We consist of 8 separate interest groups I have had the privilege of seeing the
that deal with some aspect of Nuclear or strength of the volunteer system at work in the
Plasma Sciences. This means even the largest of NPSS. When I first attended an AdCom meet-
these interest groups has less than 1000 partici- ing as an appointed chair for the Nuclear Medi-
pants. The groups are small enough that an in- cal Sciences group, I had heard that it was
dividual’s opinion can be heard and make a totally a political body in the worst sense of the
difference. As I mentioned above, a great word. Instead I found a group of people work-
weakness our society is that it is a volunteer so- ing very hard to make sure that the NPSS
ciety, and if the quality and quantity of volun- worked. Rather than simply representing his
teers is poor the result can be disastrous. own constituency, each member of the AdCom
Since you are bothering to read this article, supported actions to help other groups to
you probably have some concern about the achieve their goals even when there were nega-
quality of our society. If you are not involved tive financial consequences. We are considered
the activities of the NPSS, I would encourage to be one the best run societies in the IEEE (At
you to get involved at some level. You can start least through 2002!) and to maintain this level
by simply being active in presenting papers at of quality we need you to get involved.
conferences. You can volunteer to review ab- Get in touch with Ed Hoffman at the UCLA
stracts for conferences and the Transactions. School of Medicine, 10833 Le Conte Avenue,
We are always looking for more reviewers. Vol- B2-096 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6948;
unteer to help organize and run a conference or Phone: +1 310-825-8851; Fax: +1 310 825-4517;
short course. The volunteers are the people E-mail: EHoffman@mednet.ucla.edu.
Utility
A mathematician usually means that a theory is directly useful if it can be used in
theoretical physics ... after which he still has to say that insight in theoretical physics itself
is only useful if it is useful in experimental physics. After which you must say that a
concept in experimental physics is, by ordinary criteria, useful if it is useful in engineering...
John Von Neumann
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 9SECRETARY’S REPORT
IEEE NPSS AdCom Meeting
9 November 2002
he IEEE NPSS Administrative Com- both of which look exciting. The University of
T mittee held its Annual Meeting on No-
vember 9, 2002 at the Sheraton
Waterside, Norfolk, VA just before the open-
Montreal is handling conference logistics and
IEEE is managing finances and registration
Check out their web site!
ing of the NSS/MIC meeting. Traditionally, Christian is working, too, to expand the
this meeting is held at the end of NSS/MIC, Technical Committee membership. Perhaps
but the TAB and the Board of Directors’ meet- some of the ICALEPCS leadership will be
ing series interfered. asked to participate. Interest continues in
Ed Lampo, our treasurer, emphasized the holding discussions with ICALEPCS about
importance of closing conferences on time. At some kind of common future. He is also
the moment four conferences are delinquent working hard to ensure that the RT award is
Alberta Dawson
and we have been paying fines for the late given in 2003. It was not presented in 2001.
Larsen
closings. While the Society is solvent, our re- The 2001 RT Conference, whose books
NPSS Secretary
serves continue to dwindle due to IEEE taxes. were managed by the University of Valencia,
We can expect a hit of ~$250k by IEEE this has not closed. Ed Lampo and Christian are
year. At times it is hard to remember, to quote looking for ways to spur them to complete
Pogo, that “us is them.” On an editorial note, this task.
it is very frustrating to see NPSS’s careful fis- Fusion Technology chairman, Phil Heitzen-
cal prudence paying for the butterflies. roeder, reported that at the last gasp LLNL had
Peter Winokur, seemingly cheerfully chair- to relinquish chairmanship of the 2003 SFE.
ing his last meeting as president, thanked Rich Callis and the generous people at General
many people graciously for their service. Four Atomics have agreed to host the conference in
people deserve particular mention: Ed September/October 2003. Hotel options are
Proustian Lampo, our stalwart treasurer; Gary Alley, being evaluated and a conference team being
advantage who has managed the NSS/MIC short courses put in place. Rich will once again be the gen-
for many years now and whose absence will eral chairman. Phil noted that the 19th SFE
But Proust definitely be visible; Vernon Price for his con- had closed well in the black, and that the books
avoided Wilde’s tinuing outstanding job on membership and were in audit.
chapter development; and Peter Clout for his
greatest tactical and the Communications Committee work in
The SFE has dropped in attendance from a
high of 900 in 1979 to about 140 in 2002. The
error, which was developing our handsome brochure and por- community is spread very thin, the budget situ-
to put his genius table exhibition, and working to migrate and ation is poor, and it is hard to find people who
update our web site. Dick Kouzes and Ken can take on the conference organization. Phil
into his life, Connor continue to keep it up to date. has started to look at collocation or merger op-
leaving only his Thanks were also given to retiring AdCom tions with other conferences. A member of the
members Alan Todd and Chuck Britton. Pe-
talent for his ter’s own term and that of Ed Hoffman end at
standing committee will, in fact, attend the
PSAC ExCom meeting to discuss future op-
works. the end of the year, but they continue as tions with ICOPS.
Past-President and President respectively. Mike Unterweger reported for NIDCom
Peter Conrad
that the germanium X-ray detector standard
Technical Committee Reports has been issued. The wide-band gap detector
CANPS, under Christian Boulin, continues in standard has been withdrawn from IEEE and
its excellent preparation for the 2003 Real Time published by ANSI. While NIDCom acted
Conference to be held in Montreal in May under without appropriate AdCom approval, the
the chairmanship of Jean-Pierre Martin, with as- level of frustration with IEEE was clearly evi-
sistance from a broadly based international dent. AdCom decided to support Standards
committee, and especially CEA-Saclay who Society membership for the appropriate
host the web and prepared and mailed the post- NIDCom members so that being allowed to
ers. There will be two short courses offered, vote on one’s own standards is no longer an is-
10 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYsue. The RISC and NIDCom chairs will de- Future PAC conferences have been sched-
cide jointly who is eligible for membership in uled for Knoxville, TN in 2005 with Norbert
the Standards Association. Further discussion Holtkamp of SNS as chair and 2007 in Albu-
of Standards and Standards Association mem- querque with Stan Schriber of LANL as chair.
bership will occur at the March 1 AdCom Look for a PAST web site, which should be
meeting. coming soon. The 2003 conference web site
We were delighted to hear the announce- has long been active.
ment by Ron Jaszczak, chair of the NMIS Since Bob Parker was on his way to the
Committee, that Ed Hoffman is the recipient PSAC Executive Committee meeting, Edl
of the 2002 Medical Imaging Award. Grant Schamiloglu reported for him. The 2003
Gullberg is the newly elected member of ICOPS is now settled on Jeju Island, Korea
AdCom from this community. The NMIS and the committee is in place and moving for-
constitution and bylaws are undergoing their ward with its plans. The venue is a good one, Law of
5-year review, a process led by Bill Moses. The at least from the brochures, but much less ex-
pensive than downtown Seoul. diminishing
NSMIC will review the proposed changes and
they will be presented to AdCom in time for a Plans for 2004 are moving ahead and there returns
vote at the March meeting. Max Vergiever will will be a new short course on the application The researches
take over from Mike Vannier as the editor in of plasmas and pulsed fields to biological ma-
chief of Transactions on Medical Imaging. terials. Stay tuned for more. of many
There will be a TMI Board meeting in In 2007 the ICOPS and Pulsed Power con- commentators
Rosemont, Illinois before the Radiology Soci- ferences will once more join, this time under
the chairmanship of Edl Schamiloglu, and will
have already
ety meeting. The 2005 site selection commit-
tee for NSS/MIC has selected San Juan, PR as meet as PPPS in Albuquerque in the week thrown much
their venue. Tom Lewellen will be the general contiguous to the PAC07 meeting. It is hoped darkness on this
chair with Simon Cherry as MIC chair and that this contiguity will help to expand the ex-
hibits at both meetings, as well as bring some subject, and it is
Dick Lanza as NSS chair.
Anatoly Rosenfeld has approached both
double attendance. Bob Reinovsky, chair of probable that, if
the Pulsed Power TC, noted that the 2007
NMIS and RISC with a proposal for a Mel-
PPPS would be more streamlined with a sim-
they continue,
bourne, Australia meeting some time in the
future. Perhaps there will be further word later
plified registration fee structure. The 2003 we shall soon
Pulsed Power conference, chaired by Mike know nothing
in the year.
Giesselmann of Texas Tech, is receiving ab-
Joel Karp reported that the 2002 stracts now. The 2005 meeting will be collo- about it.
NSS/MIC, which was just getting underway, cated with ICOPS, but will not be a joint
had 290 people registered for the short meeting. Mark Twain
courses and 720 preregistered for the confer- Dennis Brown reported on Radiation Ef-
ences. The exhibit area of over 50 booths was fects for Dale Platteter. The 2002 conference
sold out and there were some generous corpo- in Phoenix had a 12% increase in attendance
rate gifts that helped pay for the attractive over 2001 as well as a 10% increase in interna-
padfolios distributed to attendees. tional attendance. Sixty percent of attendees
Bruce Brown reported on the activities of were IEEE members. Good going! The 2003
the Particle Accelerator Science and Technol- conference will be in Monterey. Check out
ogy Committee. In particular, Bruce stressed their web site.
the effort we need to make to reclaim this Ron Keyser reported on RISC activities.
community more positively for NPSS. This is The 2003 NSS/MIC will be held in Portland,
our largest and often most profitable confer- Oregon at the Hayden Island resort, with
ence, and is THE conference for particle accel- Ralph James as general chair. The 13th Inter-
erators. Let’s not abandon it, but we do need national Conference on Room Temperature
to assess the value of our input to PAC, which Semiconductors is expected to collocate with
has been different from other NPSS confer- this meeting. Leadership is in place and con-
ences. Your secretary thinks that we are essen- ference plans are moving along. However,
tially making up for a good many years of Gary Alley has resigned as Short Course chair.
neglect and our own lack of participation that Gary has given NSS/MIC outstanding service
must be reversed by the engineering commu- over many years; he will be missed AND hard
nity. You can’t build those big machines with- to replace. An update on the 2000 NSS/MIC
out the engineers after all! held in Lyon indicate that changes in tax regu-
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 11lations caused part of the problem in closing Brookhaven National Lab, has been formed
this conference. Ed Lampo and Hal Flescher on Long Island. The San Diego chapter has
are working closely with the organization for recently become more active as well. In addi-
the 2004 conference in Rome to try to circum- tion, we have retained more members than in
vent similar problems. years past, so the society is growing.
Erik Heijne reported that he is working to- As usual, our stalwart Newsletter editor re-
ward a Transnational Committee membership quests that conference chairs send him articles
of 20 that will represent all geographic areas as announcing their conferences well ahead of
well as all NPSS disciplines. The committee’s time, and a follow-on article after the confer-
goal is to encourage membership growth and ence is over is also welcome. Let us all know
development of new chapters. Several issues how things went – what was exciting and new.
brought to the committee need attention, in- And TC chairs, you, too, should be sending
cluding the long lead times necessary to get vi- updates on activities in your field at least once a
sas, and the need for the hosts in the US to get year, and if there’s some really hot news, there’s
Forsooth! letters of invitation out early. Of course, poten- always room to add a note. Contact Ken at
tial attendees could also help by making their k.dawson@ieee.org or kend@triumf.ca for
Nothing the wise Newsletter deadlines. Also note that Ken has
expected attendance known early and request-
men promised ing an invitation! The committee is concerned been awarded the IEEE’s Emberson Award for
has happened that paper copies of proceedings are no longer outstanding service. See the article about Ken
being offered in many cases. It was, however, elsewhere in this Newsletter. Congratulations!
and everything pointed out that these are available from IEEE Our TPS and TNS editors both talked
the damned fools to IEEE members at nominal cost. Another is- about publication delays, which seem to be
sue is the expense of electronic access to jour- getting worse, rather than improving. There
said would are also problems with the quality of images in
nals and the myriad problems with firewalls in
happen has come accessing them, if one can afford the charges. the electronically posted journals, and this is
to pass. This committee regards itself principally as a critical for NMIS papers. In general there is
channel to AdCom. It also expects that it will very little follow-up by IEEE with editors and
Lord Melbourne disband once AdCom has technical area repre- authors, and the Publications Department
sentatives who also represent the geographic does not seem to use good business practices
areas in a more balanced way. and has very tight staffing, which exacerbates
an already bad situation. However, there is
also a problem with authors and editors being
Functional Committees and late and not adhering to the stated timelines,
Liaisons which then bumps the publication to the back
Ron Jaszczak, chair of the Awards committee of the queue. Both editors are now using
announced that Peter Clout was the winner of Manuscript Central to process papers.
the Shea Award. Having worked with Peter in Look forward to a new NPSS brochure in
various capacities through my entire tenure 2003. Peter Clout and the Communications
On doing with NPSS, your secretary can vouch that this Committee are working on it. We also expect
was a well-deserved award. Congratulations, to see our booth at most NPSS conferences,
research Peter! The Merit and Early Achievement award so come by and say hello. The Committee is
You make winners are also selected by the Awards Com- also working on a PAC-specific flyer. Let’s
mistakes as fast mittee, and the Phelps grants are managed by work to make NPSS more visible at PAC. This
them, although these are awarded by the indi- was our conference for 30 years before the
as possible buy vidual conferences that offer short courses, physicists horned in! It is really time for a
try not to make with the amount available based on the num- better balance and our accelerator engineers
ber of short course attendees. Note: May 15 is need to make an effort to participate more
the same mistake the deadline for nominations for the 2003 fully in the planning and organization. Come
twice. awards. Contact Igor Alexeff (i.alexeff@ on, folks; if this is your area, take part!
ieee.org) and also check the NPSS web site for Jay Forster noted that there was very little
Robert Wentorf Jr. nomination forms. It is also time to start think- PACE activity in 2002. There will, however,
ing about Fellow candidates. Contact Osamu be a PACE workshop this March. NPSS is
Ishihara at oishihara@ynu.ac.jp for further in- very active in providing short courses, which
formation. is part of PACE oversight.
Vernon Price reported that a new chapter, Peter Winokur reported that the president
with considerable support from people at finally (after our meeting) signed a bill autho-
12 March 2003 NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETYrizing the doubling of NSF’s budget over contractual obligations. This is a win-win sit-
time, but other agencies supporting the physi- uation since AdCom does not need to estab-
cal sciences (DOE being the largest) have seen lish a separate master account with a hotel,
little in the way of funding increases, and so and the conference gets credit for what
far the FY2003 budgets have not been passed, AdCom uses. I see!
leaving many of us in murky waters. It was moved, seconded and passed that
IEEE NPSS be in technical cooperation with
You can observe
Ron Jaszczak reported that the TAB
Awards and Recognition Committee has ICALEPCS, which we have supported since a lot by watching.
made some minor word changes to their in- its inception. Several NPSS members are on
formation, but nothing that impacts us. We the management committee and are involved Yogi Berra
could work to establish a Technical Field with the program.
Award (TFA) since none of the existing TFAs It has been suggested that NIDCom be-
embrace the areas covered by NPSS. The come a functional committee. A proposal on
TFAs need to be fairly broad and are often how to accomplish this will be presented at
sponsored by more than one society or by cor- the March meeting. If NIDCom does become
porations. a functional committee, the size of AdCom or
Our liaison to the Coalition for Plasma Sci- the distribution of seats will be reevaluated.
ence, Gerry Rogoff, announced that a pro- AdCom may decrease in size or seats may be
posal is in the works to get a history of the redistributed based on a new field of interest
plasma sciences into the IEEE virtual mu- survey of the NPSS membership.
seum. CPS will also resume its luncheons with Ed Hoffman was elected President of
congressmen and congressional staffers. NPSS by acclamation. Mark Rader and Bill Today’s problem
Moses stood for the office of Vice Presi-
Erik Heijne, our liaison to the Sensors
dent/President elect. We congratulate Bill Mo-
The trouble .....
Council, noted that the Sensors Journal has
about 1200 subscribers and the first Sensors ses on his election and thank Mark for his was that the truth
conference, held in Florida in June, had about willingness to serve. was rarely
450 papers given, out of 650 abstracts sub- It was moved, seconded and passed that a
new brochure be developed and printed. A clear-cut and
mitted. The next conference, to be held in To-
ronto in October, is in direct conflict with cap of $12,000 was set for the cost. almost never
It was moved, seconded and passed that a
NSS/MIC. Erik was unable to attend the June
new flyer focusing on PAC be developed that
politically correct.
meeting and has been unsuccessful in getting
feedback from the council despite a number of would serve for PAC2003 and PAC2005. A Thomas
attempts. cap of $3000 was set for production and dis-
Hal Flescher noted that Philippe Calvel of tribution costs. Dormandy
Alcatel is the new president of RADECS and It was moved, seconded and passed unani-
that the first major RADECS conference to be mously that the wording of both the Merit
held outside France will occur this year near and Shea award statements be changed to al-
Amsterdam. low each award to be presented at the confer-
ence of the recipient’s choice.
Ed Hoffman presented Peter Winokur with
Actions Taken by AdCom a past president’s pin and Peter was given a
A motion was presented that the funding for round of applause and warm thanks for his
NPSS recruiting be paid for by AdCom rather service as president.
than by the conferences. This will be investi- The next meeting of AdCom will be held
gated further, but it is up to each conference on Saturday, March 1, 2003 at the Hyatt Un-
chair and technical committee to decide ion Station, St. Louis, MO.
whether they want to support this effort. Albe Larsen, the NPSS secretary, can be
It was clarified that AdCom does pay for its reached at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Cen-
activities held in conjunction with a confer- ter, P.O. Box 4939, Stanford, CA 94039; Phone:
ence, but also gives the conference extra room +1 650 926-2748; Fax: +1 650 926-5124;
nights and meal functions to help meet its E-mail: amlarsen@slac.stanford.ca.
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY March 2003 13CLASS OF 2006
The Newly Elected Ad Com Members
Joseph M. Benedetto
oseph M. Benedetto received his B.S. in ing spacecraft electronics. He has also been ac-
J Physics from the State University of New
York and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Maryland. Dr.
tively involved with the IEEE Nuclear and Space
Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), pre-
senting technical papers at the conference almost
Joseph M. Benedetto Benedetto began his career in radiation effects every year since 1984. He was nominated for
Elected Ad Com over 20 years ago as a Graduate Research Fel- outstanding conference paper in 1987 and 1995.
Member 2003-2006 low at the National Bureau of Standards. From He has also served as NSREC Session Chairman
1983 to 1995 he performed basic and applied (1990 & 1999), Finance Chairman (1997), Lo-
research for the Army Research Laboratory. cal Arrangements Chairman (2001), and will
Since 1995, Dr. Benedetto has been with serve as Short Course Chairman at next year’s
Aeroflex UTMC, most recently serving as conference in Monterey.
Standard Product Technology Manager. Dr. Benedetto is a Senior Member of the
Dr. Benedetto has been very active in the radi- IEEE, Member of the IEEE Nuclear and
ation effects community, publishing over 75 arti- Plasma Sciences Society and of Sigma Pi Sigma.
cles in a wide variety of publications, including Joe Benedetto can be reached at Aeroflex
IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear UTMC, MS 1004, 4350 Centennial Boulevard,
Science and the Journal of Applied Physics. To Colorado Springs, CO 80907-3701; Phone: +1
date he has been awarded 2 US Patents and has 719 594-8415; Fax: +1 719 594-8468; E-mail:
several more patents pending related to harden- Joe.Benedetto@Aeroflex.com.
Grant T. Gullberg
rant T. Gullberg received his B.S. degree solutions for the emission tomographic prob-
G in mathematics from Seattle Pacific
University in 1966, M.S. degree in
mathematics from the University of Washing-
lem by improving models of the image detec-
tion process, the solution of tensor tomography
problems in acoustic elasticity imaging and in
ton in 1971, and Ph.D. degree in biophysics magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging,
from the University of California, Berkeley in the development of physiological kinetic mod-
1979. He worked as an Engineer at the Boeing els for dynamic SPECT applications, the study
Company from 1967 to 1971, as a Scientist at of the relationship between cardiac function and
the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1972 cardiac deformation using gated SPECT and
to 1980, as a Senior Physicist at GE Medical cine MRI, and the solution of electromagnetic
Systems from 1980 to 1985, and as an Assis- inverse problems from MCG data.
Grant T. Gullberg
tant, an Associate, and a Professor of Radiology He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has
Elected Ad Com
at the University of Utah from 1985 to 2002. served on the NPSS Nuclear Medical Sciences
Member 2003-2006
He is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at the E. Technical Committee, as an Associate Editor of
O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and as
His research interests involve the study of in- Program Chairman for the 1999 IEEE Medical
verse problems with application to medicine Imaging Conference.
and biology that involve the use of positron and Grant Gullberg can be reached at the E.O.
single photon emission computed tomography, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mailstop
magnetic resonance imaging, acoustic imaging, 55R0121, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA
and magnetocardiography. Currently he is in- 94720; Phone: +1 510 486-7483; Fax: +1 510
volved in the the development of more accurate 486-4768; E-mail: gtgullberg@lbl.gov.
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