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June 2007N U C L E A R & P L A S M A S C I E N C E S S O C I E T Y 1

The 2007 IEEE Nuclear and Space RadiationEffects Conference will be held July 23-27,2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Hilton

Hawaiian Village. The conference features aTechnical Program consisting of ten sessions of con-tributed papers, both poster and oral, which describethe latest observations and research results in radia-tion effects, an up-to-date Short Course offered onJuly 23, a Radiation Effects Data Workshop, and anIndustrial Exhibit. Lloyd Massengill, VanderbiltUniversity, is General Chair.

This year’s conference will be held July 23-27,2007, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort onbeautiful Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Acomplete technical and social program is beingplanned to maximize opportunities for informationexchange and networking in the area of radiationeffects on microelectronic and photonic devices, cir-cuits, and systems. Supporters of the conferenceinclude the Defense Threat Reduction Agency,Sandia National Laboratories, Air Force ResearchLaboratory, the NASA Electronic Parts and

Packaging Program, NASA Living With a StarProgram, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.NSREC also has new corporate supporters: BAESystems, Boeing, Micro-RDC, Honeywell, STMicroelectronics, and Aeroflex Colorado Springs.Additional information on the conference is availableon the Web at http://www.nsrec.com.

TECHNICAL PROGRAMThe Technical Program Chairman, John Cressler,Georgia Tech, and his program committee, haveassembled an excellent set of contributed papers thatare arranged into nine sessions of oral and posterpapers and a Radiation Effects Data Workshop. TheWorkshop consists of papers emphasizing radiationeffects data on electronic devices and systems anddescriptions of new simulation and radiation testfacilities. In addition, there are three outstandinginvited talks of general interest to both conferenceattendees and their companions.

Attendees will have the opportunity to participatein a one-day Short Course on Monday, July 23 enti-

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John Cressler Technical Program

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Lloyd MassengillGeneral Chair

Hugh BarnabyShort Course Chair

Susan CrainLocal Arrangements

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NUCLEAR AND SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS CONFERENCE

NSREC 2007Honolulu, HawaiiJuly 23-27, 2007

A Publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

CONFERENCES

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IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCESSOCIETY NEWS

is published three times per year by The Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers, Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855.

NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Albe Dawson LarsenStanford Linear Accelerator CenterMS-662575 Sand Hill RoadMenlo Park, CA 94025Tel: +1 650 926 2748Fax: +1 650 926 5124E-mail: [email protected]

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IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS:Robert Smrek, Production ManagerPaul Doto, Newsletter Coordinator Contributors to June 2007 IEEE NPSS Newsletter in alphabetical order:David Abe; Peter Clout; David Gurd; Teresa Farris; Albe DawsonLarsen; Paul Kinahan; Jane Lehr; Tom Lewellen; Jean-Pierre Martin;William Moses; Benjamin Tsui; Peter Winokur; Dennis Youchison.

Publicity releases for forthcoming meetings, items of interest fromlocal chapters, committee reports, announcements, awards, or othermaterials requiring society publicity or relevant to NPSS should besubmitted to the Newsletter Editor by July 16, 2007.

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLESNews articles are actively solicited from contributing editors, particu-larly related to important R&D activities, significant industrial applica-tions, early reports on technical breakthroughs, accomplishments atthe big laboratories and similar subjects.The various Transactions, of course, deal with formal treatment indepth of technical subjects. News articles should have an element ofgeneral interest or contribute to a general understanding of technicalproblems or fields of technical interest or could be assessments ofimportant ongoing technical endeavors.Advice on possible authors or offers of such articles are invited by theeditor.

© 2007 IEEE. Information contained in this newsletter may be copied without per-mission provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commer-cial advantage, and the title of the publication and date appear. Printed in U.S.A.

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference .1

22nd Symposium on Fusion Engineering . . . . . .4

ICALEPCS 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

President’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Secretary’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Technical Committee Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

CANPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

NMISTC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Functional & Appointive Committees . . . . . . . . .11

Awards - The IEEE NPSS Awards Process . . .11

Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Nominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

2006 Medical Imaging Science Young

Investigtor Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Particle Accelerator Science and Technology

Awards for 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Yitzhak Maron - 2007 Plasma Science and

Applications Award Recipient . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Awards Solicitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

NMISC Young Investigator and Hoffman

Medical Imaging Scientist Awards . . . . . . . . . .17

2008 Plasma Science and Applications Award .18

Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

All Engineers Need Leadership Skills . . . . . . . .18

John Stone Stone - Engineering History . . . . .19

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tled Hardened Electronics for Tomorrow’sRadiation Tolerant Systems. Chaired byHugh Barnaby, Arizona State University,this Short Course is an excellent learningopportunity for those who are new to theradiation effects community and need aquick introduction to the field, as well asthose who want to stay abreast of currentissues. The Short Course will start Mondaymorning with tutorials on ProcessTechnologies and Hardening andRadiation Effects and MitigationStrategies on Digital ASICs and FPGAs.Monday afternoon will include tutorials onRadiation Effects on Analog IntegratedCircuits and Extreme EnvironmentDesign, and Radiation Hardening at theSystem Level.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITSThis year’s sold-out Industrial Exhibit willfeature the leading suppliers of radiationhardened products, related materials, andservices. The Industrial Exhibit permits one-on-one discussions between exhibitors andconference attendees on the latest in radia-tion-hardened electronic devices, radiationanalysis and test services, and radiation testfacilities and test equipment. If you needmore information on the exhibit, pleasevisit www.nsrec.com or contact BarryTempleton, the 2007 NSREC IndustrialExhibits Chairman.

Exhibitors include:• 3D Plus - USA• Actel Corporation• Aeroflex Colorado Springs• BAE Systems• Boeing - Phantom Works• Crane Aerospace & Electronics• Cyclotron Institute, Texas A & M University• Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)• Honeywell• ICS Radiation Technologies• Idaho Accelerator Center• Indiana Univ. Cyclotron• International Rectifier• Intersil Corporation• J.L. Shepherd & Associates• Jazz Semiconductor• JD Instruments• Maxwell Technologies• MBDA• Micro-RDC

• Modular Devices Inc.• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center• National Semiconductor• Northrop Grumman Corporation• Orora Design Technologies, Inc. • Peregrine Semiconductor Corp.• Prairie View A&M - NASA Center for

Applied Rad Research• Radiation Assured Devices• Sandia National Laboratories• Silvaco International• Survivability, Vulnerability, & Assessment

Directorate• Synopsys• Synplicity, Inc• US Semiconductor Corp.• Vanderbilt University - Institute for Space

and Defense Electronics• VPT, Inc• Xilinx

SOCIAL EVENTSSocial events have been planned to giveConference attendees and their guests manyopportunities to discuss informally radiationeffects and to become better acquainted.Susan Crain (The Aerospace Corporation),this year’s Local Arrangements Chairman, hasplanned an extraordinary social program. Themain conference social on Wednesday nightwill be an unforgettable visit to the ParadiseCove Luau. Attendees and guests will enjoyisland activities, an oceanfront dinner, and aspectacular show on the leeward coast ofO’ahu. In addition, we have planned two com-panion tours during the day on Tuesday andThursday, each with its own Hawaiian Islandtheme.

Honolulu, HawaiiNSREC will be held at the Hilton HawaiianVillage Resort. We are quite confident you willhave an ‘olu’olu (wonderful) time at thisworld-renowned, award-winning resort situat-ed directly on the beach at Waikiki. The city ofHonolulu has something for everyone, fromthe history buff to the cultural connoisseurto those desiring dining and dancing after abusy conference day. The island of O’ahu isno less diverse, with eco regions rangingfrom sandy beaches to rocky volcanic moun-tains to tropical rainforests to lush agricul-tural plains – all within a short drive. Therewill be culture, history, and excitement forthe whole family.

Cause andeffect

We don’t stopplaying becausewe grow old; wegrow oldbecause we stopplaying.

George BernardShaw

Top secret

Statistics are likebikinis. Whatthey reveal issuggestive, butwhat they con-ceal is vital.

Aaron Levenstein

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INVITED SPEAKERSDr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, the Director for theInstitute for Astronomy at the University ofHawaii, will be speaking on Astronomy inHawaii; Mr. Cy Bridges, the Director ofCulture at the Polynesian Cultural Center, willbe speaking on Polynesian History, Mythology,and Culture; and Dr. Patricia Fryer, Professor ofMarine Geology and Geophysics in the Schoolof Ocean and Earth Science and Technology atthe University of Hawaii, will be speaking onVolcanism in Hawaii.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONFor the latest NSREC information (technicalprogram, conference & social registrationforms, hotel and travel information, etc.)please visit our web site at www.nsrec.com.

You may contact the General Chair, LloydMassengill, Vanderbilt University at (615)345-6677 or Email: [email protected].

Or you can contact the PublicityChairwoman, Teresa Farris, Aeroflex, at (719)594-8035; E-mail: [email protected]


Dennis YouchisonGeneral chair

Michael UlricksonProgram chair

22nd IEEE/NPSS SYMPOSIUM ON FUSION ENGINEERING 2007 (SOFE07)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17-21, 2007http://sofe22.sandia.gov/

The 22nd IEEE/NPSS Symposium onFusion Engineering (SOFE07) will takeplace June 17-21, 2007 at the

Albuquerque Convention Center inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. The Symposium isdedicated to the scientific, technological andengineering issues of fusion energy researchand presents a mixture of oral presentationsand poster sessions allowing for extensiveinteractions among the participants. The con-ference is open to the public, and all individu-als with an interest in fusion energy are invitedto register and attend. This year the SOFEmeeting is collocated with the InternationalPulsed Power and Plasma Science 2007 con-ference (the combined 2007 ICOPS and the2007 International Pulsed Power Conference)that runs through June 22. Attendees regis-tered with SOFE can attend any sessions ofPPPS2007 and will receive a pocket programfor both SOFE and PPPS as well as a fullabstract book for SOFE. A grand plenaryincluding both is planned for the first day.

The meeting is being organized by SandiaNational Laboratories. The SOFE07 GeneralChair is Dennis Youchison. The TechnicalProgram Chair is Michael Ulrickson. The organi-zation of the technical program is similar to pre-vious conferences in this series, with plenary ses-sions in the first part of each morning followed bya late morning session with oral invited and con-tributed presentations in selected technical areas.A poster session starts in the early afternoon, fol-lowed by an oral session to close the day.

Abstract submission for SOFE is nowclosed. Approximately 140 abstracts were sub-mitted through the website. About 65 ofthese were from outside the United States.

Ten student papers were identified for evalua-tion in the best student paper search.Attendance at SOFE is projected to be 160people. Authors were notified of paper accep-tance and format requirements on April 30,2007. Pre-registration closes on May 18,2007. On-site registration begins Sundayevening, June 17, 2007 and is open throughJune 21. Several SOFE related exhibitors havejoined the PPPS2007 exhibition bringing thecurrent number of exhibitors to 18. A cybercafé will be available at the convention centerfor the attendees. The combined opening ple-nary on Monday morning will include presen-tations on the Sandia ZR upgrade and USengineering activities on ITER. Breaks andother events were programmed to coincidewith PPPS2007 activities. These include theSunday evening reception, the companionprogram, and a Tuesday night out at the zoo,complete with food and entertainment. SOFEwill host a unique southwestern banquet onWednesday evening. The IEEE/NPSS FusionTechnology Award and a student award forbest paper will be presented at that time.

The SOFE web site at http://sofe22.san-dia.gov/ is available for more information.

Dennis Youchison, chair of the 2007Symposium on Fusion Engineering, can bereached at the Sandia National Laboratories,P.O. Box 5800, MS-1129, Albuquerque, NM87185-1129 USA; Phone: +1 505 845 3138; Fax:+1 505 845-3130; E-mail: [email protected].

Michael Ulrickson can be reached at theSandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800,MS-1129, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1129 USA;Phone: +1 505 845 3020; Fax: +1 505 845-3130;E-mail: [email protected].

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David Gurd General Chair

Large Experimental Physics facilities can-not operate without their control sys-tems. As the size and complexity of

these facilities grow, so too do the size andcomplexity of control systems and thedemands and expectations on those systems.Using the newest computer and communica-tions technologies, and always pushing the“state-of-the-art,” these systems are designed,built and commissioned by an internationalcommunity of control system experts. Aftertheir meetings in Villars, Vancouver, Tsukuba,Berlin, Chicago, Beijing, Trieste, San Jose,Gyeongju and Geneva, those experts arepoised to meet once again at the eleventh inthe series of International Conferences onAccelerator and Large Experimental PhysicsControl Systems – ICALEPCS 2007 – inKnoxville, Tennessee, October 15 – 19, 2007.Between 250 and 300 are expected to partici-pate. The Conference Chair is Dave Gurd,Controls group leader at the SpallationNeutron Source in Oak Ridge and theProgram Chair is Karen White, project manag-er for instrumentation and controls for theJefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade project.

Following the tradition of previous confer-ences, ICALEPCS 2007 will focus on tech-nologies and issues in the development of con-trol systems for large experimental physics pro-jects, including accelerators, telescopes, high-energy physics detectors, fusion devices (iner-tial and magnetic, but not cold) and spaceprobes. The demanding requirements andgrowing complexity of many new projects cur-rently planned or under construction aroundthe world present new challenges in the con-trols field. These projects include theInternational Linear Collider (ILC), third andfourth generation light sources, huge newdetectors for the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) at CERN, high intensity and heavy ionaccelerators, fusion devices such as theNational Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US and

Megajoule and ITER in France, as well asincreasingly sophisticated telescopes and spaceprobes. At the same time, the extremely rapiddevelopment of hardware, software and com-munications technology offers to the commu-nity an ever-changing variety of tools toaddress these challenges. All this is the subjectmatter of ICALEPCS.

Control system software toolkits, commu-nication protocols, fieldbuses, feedback, tim-ing and synchronization, data and databasemanagement, configuration management,high-level applications, the use of industrialcontrols, outsourcing, upgrading of operatingfacilities, computer and network security,model-based control and much more havebeen topics for presentation and discussion atmeetings past. Many of the largest new pro-jects will be built as national or internationalcollaborations which presents particularlyinteresting challenges to the systems designedfor integration – the control systems – and totheir managers.

The meeting will be held at the CrownePlaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville,Tennessee. Whereas ICALEPCS 2005 washeld in Geneva near the Alps – one of theyoungest mountain ranges in the world,Knoxville is nestled at the foot of the GreatSmoky Mountains – the oldest range of moun-tains in the world. In October these ancienthills show their spectacular fall colors, attract-ing tourists from around the world. The GreatSmoky Mountain National Park is the mostvisited park in the US, and nearby Gatlinburgand Pigeon Forge feature famous tourist andshopping areas. The region is well-known forits Bluegrass Music and for hometown favoriteDolly Parton.

As in the past, the Conference will fea-ture a vendor exhibit. Because of the nar-row focus of ICALEPCS on control systemsand related technologies, vendors withhardware or software products related to

ICALEPCS 2007 - The International Conference on Accelerator

and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems October 15- 19, 2007Knoxville, Tennessee

Karen WhiteProgram Chair

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Only politicians?

What is it aboutretiring thatmakes politiciansso muchsmarter?

William Watson

this area will find an audience almost all ofwhom will be interested in their products.Satellite meetings arranged so far includemeetings of the EPICS and TangoCollaborations, a workshop on computer

security as it relates to control systems, anda low-level RF workshop to be held in thesame hotel the following week. Furtherinformation about ICALEPCS 2007 can befound at www.sns.gov/icalepcs07.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

NPSS GENERAL BUSINESSS

The NPSS sponsors or co-sponsorsapproximately 14 conferences andsome members of the AdCom view the

NPSS business as our main interest in hostingtechnical conferences. For many, it is how weinitially became involved in IEEE activities andwhy we maintain our NPSS membership.Moreover, a particular NPSS conference is anevent we do not want to miss.

Many IEEE Societies host single conferenceand it is highly unusual for an IEEE Society tohost many diverse conferences - as NPSS does.The diversity in our conferences reflects thetechnical diversity of our membership. NPSShas seven Technical Committees, each of whichsponsors at least one conference which is runlargely autonomously by the sponsoring com-mittee. As NPSS President, I have observed thevalue of our diversity: it enables the quick spreadof ideas yet allows each Technical Committeehas its own culture, traditions and needs. I wasfortunate that I inherited a well functioningsociety and as such, can concentrate on ways tomake NPSS even more valuable to its members.I would like to illustrate some of the trendsamong our various conferences.

Several of our Technical Committees relatedto various aspects of the Plasma Sciences havemembers in common and are combining orcollocating their conferences. This year, Junein Albuquerque, New Mexico will be a hotbedof NPSS activity. The Pulsed Power Sciencesand Technology and the Plasma Science andApplications Technical Committees are holdinga joint conference, known as PPPS2007. Thiscombining of these two conferences was firstdone in 2001 with great success. Further syn-ergy is gained by collocating the Symposium ofFusion Engineering with PPPS2007 and evenhaving joint social events and sessions. The fol-lowing week, the Particle AcceleratorConference will be held in the same venue. Inthe weekend between the conferences, aPlasma Science Weekend is planned as an edu-cational outreach to the community. This is awonderful example of one variation of the syn-

ergy between our technical committees.NPSS has been keen on getting the interna-

tional perspective at AdCom for nearly a decadeand has a very active Transnational Committee.This year, our Transnational Committee Chair,Uwe Bratzler, has been named a liaison to IEEERegion 8 from TAB. Another TransnationalCommittee Member, Patrick LeDû has takenon the role of Transnational ConferencesLiaison to facilitate conferences held outsideNorth America. The Real Time Conference,sponsored by the Computer Applications inNuclear and Plasma Sciences TechnicalCommittee, is routinely held outside theUnited States. In recent years, other confer-ences are focusing on serving a wider commu-nity by attracting more international partici-pants to their conferences. The RadiationInstrumentation and the Nuclear Medical andImaging Technical Committees have, in recentyears, held several conferences in Europe tofacilitate interaction with their European col-leagues. With several large and successful con-ferences held in Europe, and with more in theplanning stages including a Plasma ScienceICOPS conference, NPSS is taking the firststeps toward encouraging more participation bytheir Asian colleagues by holding two confer-ences in Hawaii this year: the Nuclear ScienceRadiation Effects Conference and the NuclearSciences Symposium and Medical ImagingConference. Both technical communities haveextensive ties with Asia and would like deeperinteraction with their Asian colleagues.

At NPSS, our conferences are the mostpublic activity we have and we are exceptional-ly proud of them. Judging from the manyconferences I have been to, they are highly val-ued by the participants. At NPSS, we contin-ually look for ways to improve, and the diver-sity found within NPSS is truly an asset.

Jane Lehr, IEEE NPSS President, can bereached at Sandia National Laboratories,MS1193, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM87185-1193; Phone +1 505 844 8554; E-mail:[email protected].

Jane LehrNPSS President

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Not for ourgovernment

Rules are notnecessarilysacred; principles are.

FranklinRoosevelt

The last AdCom meeting was held in SanAntonio, TX at the Menger Hotel. Wewelcomed new AdCom members

Sandra Biedron (PAST) returning for a fullterm, Eric Frey (NMIS), Jim Schwank (RE)and Rick Van Berg (RI), and RonGilgenbach, the new chair of the PlasmaScience and Applications TC to their firstmeeting of their terms.

Ed Lampo noted that we are behind in clos-ing out conferences, and that the situation is notimproving. Not only does this mean penalties, italso means that the IEEE auditors are unhappy.Conferences are being asked for more frequentreporting prior to conferences and during thecloseout period. Turning accounts over to IEEEConference Services for final closeouts helps alot. You don’t have to wait to pay that last latebill. It can be paid directly from Piscataway, sav-ing both our treasurer and your conference trea-surers’ considerable grief. However, we did endup in a financially healthy position in 2006 withan increase in reserves due in part toTransactions on Plasma Sciences staying within itspage budget, and thereby gaining us a bonus.

Jane Lehr reported on the TAB meeting.The Engineering Management Society willbecome a council. NPSS will not be involved.Hal Flescher’s algorithm for infrastructuresupport was approved. This will impact usfinancially, but not to a harmful extent. A per-centage of earned packaged product incomewill be used to support indirect infrastructureactivities. This will avoid the need for a hugedues increase that the present paradigm wouldrequire, and which certainly would be unac-ceptable to membership.

IEEE membership has increased and thetraditional early year slump was not seen thisyear. The IEEE Foundation has money to sup-port technology literacy programs, so get intouch with them if you have ideas and wouldlike to submit a proposal. IEEE has also devel-oped a new Best Practices for Conferences. Itis on line at http://www.ieee.org/web/con-ferences/mom/index.html.

Jane has joined the TAB PeriodicalsCommittee.

Plans for all 2007 conferences are well inhand. The weeks from June 17 through June29 in Albuquerque will be an IEEE NPSSextravaganza, as Jane has discussed in thePresident’s Report. Plans for 2008 and 2009conferences are also well in hand and you can

learn much about them from the NPS website, http://www.ieee-npss.org. If you havecomments or suggestions for improving theweb site, send them to me, to Peter Clout([email protected]) or to RichardKouzes, our web master ([email protected]).We’d like to make our web site as useful as pos-sible for our members.

Our Transnational Committee continues toexpand and now has 18 members, with expan-sion ongoing. The goal is not just to representour members outside North America, but toalso represent the full breadth of our technicalcommunity. There is also discussion of a newchapter in Taiwan. Remember that you can getyour international colleagues involved in yourconferences as session chairs, reviewers, com-mittee members and so on, thereby broadeningthe international aspects of NPSS. TheMembership Committee is also looking atsome small benefits at conferences in the USAfor international participants. Additionally, ourTransnational Conferences Liaison, PatrickLeDû, is available to consult with chairs ofthese conferences, help provide a liaison toTony Lavietes, the Associate Treasurer for con-ferences, and to give guidance from his ownmany experiences in organizing internationalIEEE NPSS conferences ([email protected]).Patrick will work with the Conference PlanningCommittee to add a chapter on planning inter-national conferences to the NPSS-specific con-ference planning guide that complements theIEEE guidelines referenced above.

Our Distinguished Lecturers program isstarting to gain traction and we have quite afine roster of speakers available for chapter andother meetings. There is even some help avail-able. Check out our web site and contactCharles Neumeyer ([email protected]) withquestions.

The Fellow Candidate EvaluationCommittee has some concerns about recom-mending people as IEEE fellows who,although exemplary in their field, have no vis-ible IEEE involvement beyond having rank ofSenior Member – that is, they haven’t pub-lished in IEEE journals, haven’t participated inIEEE conferences as presenters or committeemembers or reviewers, and so on. This is anongoing discussion and is relevant to othersocieties as well.

Please note Bill Moses’ article on need fornominees to fill elected AdCom positions

SECRETARY’S REPORT

Albe DawsonLarsen

NPSS Secretary andNewsletter Editor

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for Fusion, Plasma Science and Applications,Pulsed Power and Radiation EffectsTechnical Committees. Serving on AdComis both a privilege and a wonderful educa-tion about the depth and breadth of oursociety’s work, as well as an opportunity togain better connectivity with what is hap-pening at the TAB and Board of Directorslevels of IEEE.

Our publications are doing well, and areranked highly on the basis of “hits” and citations.

The Standards Committee has withdrawnthe germanium detector standard to upgrade

figures. Fourteen of our standards were reaf-firmed recently. If you have an interest in stan-dards development, contact Ron Keyser([email protected]), our StandardsCommittee Chair.

Allan Johnston, our new liaison to IEEEWomen in Engineering, gave a comprehensivereport on this fairly new activity. We are one ofonly eight of 39 IEEE societies with a liaisonto this group. If you are interested, contactAllan at [email protected].

The AdCom will meet again on June 23,2007 in Albuquerque.

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCE

As these lines are being written, there areclose to 200 participants registered forthe 15th meeting of the IEEE NPSS

Real Time Conference at Fermilab (April 29thto May 4th 2007). One of the highlights ofthis conference is the attribution of theCANPS award. This award is meant to recog-nize individuals who have made an outstand-ing achievement in the application of comput-ers in nuclear and plasma sciences. The recipi-ent this year is Dr. Peter Clout, founder ofVista Control Systems.

Dr. Peter Clout has been an innovativeleader in the area of real-time computerizeddata acquisition and control systems for over35 years. During much of this time, Peter hasbeen an active leader of the IEEE NPSS and

of CANPS. He worked on the developmentand implementation of the CAMAC hardwarestandard, was project leader at Los AlamosNational Laboratory in the 1980s, and servedas president of NPSS. At the head of VistaControl Systems, he developed a diverse cus-tomer base in the military, research and indus-trial sectors for his control and data acquisi-tion system products. Peter was also awardedthe NPSS Shea Award for service to theSociety in 2002.

Jean-Pierre Martin, Chair of the ComputerApplications in Nuclear and Plasma ScienceTechnical Committee can be reached at theUniversity of Montreal, RJA Lévesque Laboratory,Montreal (QC), Canada H3C 3J7. Phone +1 514343 7340; e-mail: [email protected]

Jean-Pierre MartinChair, CANPS

Peter Clout 2007 RT Award

Recipient

Tom Lewellen Chair, NMISTC

NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGING SCI-ENCES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

(NMISTC) UPDATE

We are coming up on another roundof elections. I will have contactedpotential candidates in May with the

goal of circulating the ballot in late June. Thisyear we elect 5 members at large and a newvice-chair. Charles Watson will assume dutiesas chair after the 2007 NMISC meeting at theIEEE NSS/MIC conference in Hawaii.

MIC 2007This meeting will be held at the Hilton HawaiiVillage, Honolulu, Oct. 26-Nov 3, 2007. The

general chair, Ben Tsui (Johns Hopkins) andhis team are in the midst of the ordered chaosthat occurs as we draw close to the meetingdate. Our expectations are for abstract sub-missions on par with the last two years and thatmay well requires some creative decisions bythe program committee given space con-straints at the conference site. We again thankEric Frey (the MIC chair), and MagnusDahlbom (deputy MIC chair) for their effortsfor this years meeting. By the time thisnewsletter is published, the abstract deadline

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will have passed. But I do urge all who wish toattend to make those reservations early and getready for another outstanding meeting.

MIC 2008The 2008 committee and general chair UweBratzler has also had their share of work get-ting ready for the 2008 meeting to be held atthe conference center in Dresden. The com-mittee is planning on a large meeting based onthe European response to the meetings inLyon and Rome. We look forward to the firstIEEE NSS/MIC to be held in Germany.

MIC 2009The contract for 2009 has been signed andRichard Lanza (NSS chair for 2005) hasagreed to be the General Chair. I am happy toinform you that Ramsey Badawi (deputy MICchair in 2005) has signed on as the MIC chairand (for better or for worse), your currentNMISC chair will take on the duties of localarrangement chair. The site will be the Hiltonat Walt Disney World. We will take over theentire conference area at the hotel and expectto have enough room for all of our functions(and avoid some of the problems we have facedin recent years). The room rate will be $175(in 2009 dollars), but we also have commit-ments for a percentage of our room block tobe at federal per diem rates as well as a numberof student rate rooms (at $119/night). Keepan eye out on the NSS/MIC web site(www.nss-mic.org) for more information.

MIC 2010The runner up site for the 2009 selection wasKnoxville. There were several concerns thatdropped Knoxville to the second place on thesite list for 2009. Continued discussions withthe Knoxville convention center and bureauhave resolved the major issues and, pendingsuccessful negotiation of a formal contract, willbe recommended to the NMISC as the 2010site. We are breaking tradition with two eastcoast sites in consecutive years, but thegroundwork is almost complete as a result ofthe 2009 site search and we have strong sup-port from ORNL, Ortec, and SiemensKnoxville to hold the meeting there. RonKeyser has volunteered to be the general chairand has the unanimous support of the siteselection committee. Part of the motivationwas to balance the meeting sites between highvisibility tourist areas (e.g., Hawaii, Orlando,

Puerto Rico) and so-called second tier cities.For those who have been to Knoxville, youknow it is a most pleasant city with a beautifulcountryside. The facilities are first rate and wewill be able to offer hotel rooms at ~$120/night in 2010.

MIC 2011 AND 2012The site committee is now looking at optionsfor 2011 and 2012. There has been an ongo-ing discussion of how often the meeting shouldbe held in Europe with the current two optionsbeing every four or every three years. This issuemust be resolved before we can finalize optionsfor 2011 and 2012. The committee is alsoreviewing proposals from an organizing groupin Spain to hold the meeting in Madrid. So far,this looks like a very strong option, but we havenot yet finalized whether it would be in 2011 or2012. Whichever of those two years we are inEurope, the other year will be a West Coastregion city. Several sites are now being investi-gated and more details will be available by theNMISC meeting in October 2007.

OTHER ISSUESBesides the on-going discussion of where theNSS/MIC meeting should be held, how tobalance the need for a considerable space forthe exhibits and posters, and the always toughissue of room cost versus site options, we alsoneed to review once again the constitution.We are a bit out of sync with the RISC consti-tution on our definition of the executive com-mittee that shares tasks between RISC andNMISC. I will organize a small group to con-sider one more round of changes during thesummer, but if you have suggestions pleasesend them to me before the 2007 NSS/MICmeeting ([email protected]).

Investigators, particularly in the UnitedStates, are facing difficult financial times withthe low percentiles needed to obtain NIHfunding, the cuts in the DOE funding forNuclear Medicine, and the restrictions inlocal institutions finances. In spite of theseproblems, we do anticipate a strong turn outfor the MIC meeting. It is still a uniquevenue for frank discussion of technologiesand goals for the use of imaging in biomed-ical research and clinical applications. Ourmembership and attendees are leaders intheir fields and the papers are always of thehighest quality. But the success of the meet-ing really depends on those who volunteer to

Gratifying end

I didn’t attendthe funeral, but Isent a nice lettersaying Iapproved of it.

Mark Twain

On the mark

Talent hits a target no oneelse can hit;genius hits a target no oneelse can see.

ArthurSchopenhauer

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assist the organization of the meeting andNPSS general management. I urge those ofyou who want to assure the continuation ofthe success of MIC to let your NMISC chairknow of your interest so that you canbecome more involved.

Tom Lewellen, Chair of the NMISTC, can bereached at Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Room200, Old Fisheries Science Center, University ofWashington, PO Box 357897, Seattle, WA98195; Phone: +1 206 543 2365; E-mail: [email protected].

The thin edge

Your body is thebaggage youmust carrythrough life. Themore excessbaggage, theshorter the trip.

Arnold Glasgow

FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES

AWARDSTHE IEEE NPSS AWARDS PROCESS

Iwould like to begin this article by thankingour outgoing NPSS Awards Chairman,Igor Alexeff. Igor did a superb job over

the last 4 years. Under Igor’s leadership, therehas been an awardee for every NPSS award.That may sound easy, but it’s a fair amount ofwork to prepare a nomination and get the nec-essary references to the Awards Committee bythe 15th of May.

As part of the transfer of duties, Igor pre-pared an outline of the IEEE NPSS AwardProcess. This is the process for Society-levelawards like the Merit, Shea, EarlyAchievement, etc. For these awards, the IEEEprepares plaques, certificates, and checks thatare mailed directly to the awardee. That infor-mation and more is included in the NPSSAwards Process that follows:1. Awards applications received by May 15.2. Packages duplicated and mailed to mem-

bers of awards committee.3. Rankings received back from the commit-

tee. A spread sheet is prepared.4. Awardees decided by the Awards

Committee following extensive discussions. 5. For award winners, both nominators and

nominees are notified of the decision of thecommittee. If a candidate is unsuccessful,only the nominator is notified of the decision.

6. Proposed citations on plaques and certifi-cates checked for accuracy.

7. Awardees names submitted to IEEE. LizParascondola ([email protected])prepares certificates and plaques andRosanne Loyal ([email protected]) prepareschecks for Society-level awards.

9. Rosanne Loyal sends out Income TaxForms to awardees. Check cannot be sentout until signed Income Tax Form isreturned by awardee.

10. The plaques, certificates, and checks are

mailed directly to the awardee to avoidpossible loss. If a presentation is desired ata given meeting, the nominator or theawardee is responsible for bringing theplaque for photo opportunities. Since theAwards Committee doesn’t decide awardrecipients until the fall, awards are general-ly presented at meetings during the subse-quent year. For example, most 2007awardees will receive their plaques at con-ferences of their choice held during 2008.However, there is an option to have boththe year awarded and the year presentedprinted on the plaques and the certificates.

11. Names, biographies, citations and photosof the awardees are submitted to the NPSSnewsletter by the awardees. Send the mate-rial to [email protected].

The process for choosing winners ofTechnical Committee Awards, e.g., RadiationEffects Award, Plasma Science andApplications Award, Edward J. HoffmanMedical Imaging Scientist Award, etc., is theresponsibility of the respective TechnicalCommittee. IEEE is available to prepareplaques, certificates, and checks for theseaward winners too. Once again, the contactsare Liz Parascondola for plaques and certifi-cates and Rosanne Loyal for checks.

NPSS Awards are very competitive. Therehave been several excellent candidates for eachaward. So, please keep the nominations com-ing. Our NPSS awardees are of the highest cal-iber. IEEE NPSS Awardees for 2006 are:Charles Melcher for the NPSS Merit Award;Paul Dressendorfer for the NPSS Shea Award;John Luginsland for the NPSS EarlyAchievement Award; Xin Dai, Carrie Hruska,Randolf McKinley, and Xing Zhou for NPSSGraduate Student Awards.

Igor and I would both like to thank the

Peter WinokurAwards Committee

Chair

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FellowsNPSS FELLOW CANDIDATE EVALUATION COMMITTEE

SEEKING MORE NOMINATIONS!

members of last year’s Awards Committee fortheir hard work and dedication. They are BillMoses, Ray Larsen, and Hal Flescher.

Peter S. Winokur, Chair, NPSS Awards

Committee, can be reached at the DefenseNuclear Facilities Safety Board, Washington,DC; Phone: +1 202 694-7090; E-mail:[email protected].

As reported in the last Newsletter, this inthe year when we re-print the NPSSBrochure and the leaflets. Since the last

report this job has consumed almost all myspare time with the seeking of suitable pic-tures, quotes from members and changes andupdates to the text. Often, including of editsfrom the committee and the proofing thebrochure and leaflets was done against a tightdeadline to meet schedule for the first confer-ence delivery. My grateful thanks go to themembers of my committee and others whocontributed to the process. I think that theteam did a great job and certainly a very muchbetter one than I could do on my own!

This time I wanted to have a different lookto the brochure and leaflets and I have reliedon an outside design and production companyto do this. This company also is working onthe IEEE Annual Report this year. At the timeof writing, the material is through the finalprinter’s proof and is being printed so that bythe time you read this the first conferenceattendees and the Chicago Chapter will haveseen the result.

In addition, the topics were changed toconcentrate more on member activities andthen just have one section on administration ofour very considerable business. This reducedsome repetition between conferences and theold technical committee section, the latternow omitted.

Next will be new banners for the membershipbooth and the conferences. The current bannershave done excellent service and will be kept for

use at meetings in addition to the new ones. We also ship copies of older issues of the

journals to the conferences so that attendeescan see them and take one if interested – bet-ter given out this way than have excess copiespulped.

This year we have four of our conferencesheld in one place spaced over two weeks andthis greatly simplifies the work of shipping andreceiving! This is even more simplified becausethese meetings are a short drive from my officewhere the materials are stored.

Please give me feedback on the new mate-rials – while we can not make changes afteralmost 2,000 lb. of printing, we can carrycomments forward to the next productionin 2009.

Please go to our web pages and reviewthem with the question in your mind that ifyou were a member of the public, what infor-mation would be useful there? Of course, I amextremely interested in receiving proposednew pages to add - especially the content forthem! In addition, what other promotionalmaterials would be helpful and what else couldwe do to promote the activities of the NPSS?

We are always looking for volunteers tohelp, and so please do not hesitate to contactme if you are interested!

Peter Clout, Chair of the NPSSCommunications Committee, can be reached atVista Control Systems, Inc., 176 Central ParkSquare, Los Alamos, NM 97544-4031; Phone:+1 505 662 2484; Fax: +1 505 662 3956; E-mail: [email protected].

Communications

Peter Clout NPSS

CommunicationsCommittee Chair

Last year, there were only 9 nominationsfrom NPSS for the grade of IEEEFellow. The average is 13, so by any

standard last year’s total was below par. For therecord, in calendar years 1999 through 2006,the NPSS Fellows Evaluation Committee

(FEC) evaluated 12, 11, 18, 13, 11, 12, 19,and 9 nominations, respectively. NPSS isn’tguaranteed that a certain percentage of ournominations will be elected to the grade ofFellow, but a rule of thumb is about 40%. I’mpleased to report that 6 of the 9 NPSS nomi-

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nees were elected to the grade of IEEE Fellowin 2006. That’s 2/3, which is really unheard of.I attribute our extraordinary success to superbcandidates and a very dedicated NPSS FellowEvaluation Committee (FEC). I want to thankthe members of the FEC for all their efforts.They are Victor Granatstein, Ron Huesman,Osamu Ishihara, Stan Schriber, Jim Schwank,and Peter Turchi. It’s always challenging toreview these nominations. I hope you can makeour job ever more difficult by increasing thenumber of nominations in 2007.

“An IEEE Fellow has been judged to havemade extraordinary contributions in any of theIEEE fields of interest that are of significantvalue to the profession and society.” That’s prettyheady stuff, but the entire evaluation process ispredicated on identifying a candidate’s primarycontribution and its significance and impact. In2007, the following NPSS members were elect-ed to the grade of IEEE Fellow: RichardKouzes, Wim Leemans, Warren Mori,Xiaochuan Pan, Ronald Pease, and NedSauthoff. Congratulations to our new fellows!

Each year, the NPSS FEC is asked to evalu-ate nominations from our eight diverse techni-cal areas, e.g., pulsed power, nuclear medicalimaging, radiation effects, etc. The NPSS FEChas experts from its technical areas, but eachmember of the committee is asked to evaluateall NPSS nominations as a generalist. This mayseem daunting, but the committee quicklycomes to a consensus about the top candidatesfor that year. These evaluations are forwardedto the national IEEE FEC where the final deci-sions are made. I served on the national IEEEFEC for three years and know that the societyevaluations often carry the day. After all, whoknows how to evaluate and rank candidatesbetter than the societies?

Who is eligible to be nominated? The fol-lowing requirements are from the IEEEFellow Program Web Site: “To be nominated,the candidate must meet the following threebasic qualifications: hold Senior Membergrade at the time the nomination is submitted;be an ‘active’ member (that is, dues must becurrent); and must have completed five yearsof service in any grade of IEEE membership.Note: IEEE affiliate membership within anIEEE society does not apply.”

Almost anyone can serve as a nominator ofa candidate for IEEE Fellow grade; you do noteven have to be an IEEE member. But, forperhaps obvious reasons, the following cannot

be nominators: members of the IEEE Board ofDirectors, members of the IEEE FellowCommittee, chairs and members of IEEETechnical Society/Council Fellow EvaluatingCommittees, or IEEE Staff.

A nomination must be supported by at leastfive, but no more than eight references fromactive IEEE Fellows. A list of IEEE Fellows canbe found at the IEEE Fellow Program Web Siteor in the current IEEE Membership Directory.The biggest stumbling point for nominations isgetting five references. If possible, nominatorsshould list eight references. That way, if one ortwo references can’t meet the deadline, thenomination still has the required five references.It’s also important for nominators to communi-cate with the references and verify that theyactually sent in the reference. This is the thirdyear for the IEEE Electronic FellowNomination Process, which no doubt makes iteven easier to submit references.

The IEEE Board of Directors recentlyapproved changes to the process for nominat-ing and electing IEEE members to FellowGrade. The goal of these changes is to increase thenumber of nominations received for membersfrom industry and to make the process morereceptive to nominations received for applicationengineers or engineering practitioners who havemade contributions of unusual distinction to theprofession. Specifically the changes established anew nomination category for individual contri-butions, “Application Engineer/Practitioner.”This category recognizes significant contribu-tions in “product development, advancementin system, application or operation, projectmanagement or construction activity, processdevelopment, manufacturing innovation, codesor standards development, or other applicationof technology.” Also, the existing designation;“Engineer/Scientist” was changed to,“Research Engineer/Scientist.” The other exist-ing categories, “Educator” and “TechnicalLeader” remain the same. So, the IEEE now rec-ognizes contributions in four distinct categories.

The deadline for receipt of the FellowNomination Forms and Reference letters is the1st of March. Nominating forms, detailedinstructions, and frequently asked questionscan be found at the IEEE Fellow ProgramWeb Site at www.ieeee.org/fellows. Don’twait to get started. Each year, several nomina-tions miss the deadline by only a few days.

Recognizing the achievements of its membersis an important part of the mission of the IEEE.

Step forward,please

Leisure is workyou volunteerfor.

Robert Robinson

That one too??

Alcohol may beman’s worstenemy, but theBible says loveyour enemy.

Frank Sinatra

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2006 MEDICAL IMAGING SCIENCE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

AWARDS

On behalf of the NPSS Fellows EvaluationCommittee, we urge you to consider making anIEEE Fellow nomination this year!

Peter S. Winokur, Chair, NPSS Fellows

Evaluation Committee, can be reached at theDefense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,Washington, DC; Phone: +1 202 694-7090; E-mail: [email protected].

Are you interested in helping run the NPSS?The NPSS AdCom (AdministrativeCommittee) is the body that “runs” the

NPSS, which includes setting the policies for all ofthe conferences and publications that the NPSSsponsors. Each year we hold elections for approx-imately one quarter of the sixteen elected AdCompositions. This summer we will be holding elec-tions for AdCom members elected from five NPSScommunities: Plasma Science (the communitythat puts on ICOPS), Radiation Effects (the com-munity that puts on NSREC), Pulsed Power (thecommunity that puts on the Pulsed PowerConference), Fusion Technology (the communitythat puts on SOFE) and Computer Applications(the community that puts on the Real TimeConference). These are four-year terms that beginon January 1, 2008, with the exception of the

Computer Applications position, which is a two-year term as it fills a mid-term vacancy. In general,the requirements are that you are a member ofboth the IEEE and the NPSS (which basicallyincludes everybody who receives this Newsletter)and that you have an interest in one of those fivetechnical areas. If you are interested in running forone of these positions, you must let me know([email protected]) by June 30 of this year. Youwill be asked to submit a 200-word biography plusa 200-word position statement. Please feel free tocontact me if you have any questions or need moreinformation.

Bill Moses, Chair of the NPSS NominationsCommittee, can be reached at Lawrence BerkeleyNational Laboratory, MS55-12 One CyclotronRoad, Berkeley, CA 94720; Phone +1 510 486 4432;Fax: +1 510 486 4768; E-mail: [email protected].

NOMINATIONS CANDIDATES SOUGHT FOR ELECTED

ADCOM MEMBERSHIP

Suleman Surti 2006 Medical Imaging

Young ScientistAwardee

Suleman Surti, Research AssistantProfessor of Radiology at the Universityof Pennsylvania, received the 2006

Medical Imaging Science Young InvestigatorAward at the annual IEEE NPSS NuclearScience Symposium and Medical ImagingConference meeting on November 3rd, 2006.The award citation was “For contributions toPET instrumentation design and quantificationof imaging performance.” He was nominatedby Joel S. Karp, his mentor at the University ofPennsylvania. Dr Surti received a BA in physicsfrom Ohio Wesleyan University in 1994, fol-lowed by a PhD in Physics from the Universityof Pennsylvania in 2000. From then until hisfaculty appointment in 2003 he was a post-doc-toral fellow in the Department of Radiology.

From his nomination letter by ProfessorKarp:

Suleman Surti is an outstanding scientistwho has made significant contributions to thedesign and development of high performancePET instruments and to our understanding ofPET imaging performance. His computermodeling has helped to design several instru-ments for both human and animal scanning,and to guide the development of techniques toimprove both image quality and accuracy ofquantification. He translated concepts ofAnger-logic continuous detectors to pixelatedAnger-logic detectors, leading to detectorsbased on NaI(Tl), GSO, LYSO, and LaBr3.The pixelated Anger-logic detector with a con-tinuous light-guide achieves a combination ofhigh spatial resolution with uniform light col-lection, thus good energy resolution and tim-ing resolution.

Suleman has also developed a compre-

Bill MosesNominations

Committee Chair

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PARTICLE ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AWARDS FOR 2007

hensive simulation package for PET scannerdesign, starting from basic detection con-cepts and incorporating both physicaleffects and scanner effects. In this way hehas been able to guide the development ofthe system and help optimize its operation.He has used the comparison of simulatedand measured data to assess imaging perfor-mance and to correlate intrinsic scannerperformance with clinically relevant mea-sures of image quality.

Suleman’s work has had a large impact onthe development of lanthanum bromide detec-tors and a time-of-flight PET scanner. Thescanner design takes advantage of his modeling

of pixelated detectors, with additional emphasison both energy and timing resolution, and hismodeling of PET systems. The development ofclinically relevant and task-oriented measures ofperformance helped guide the overall design ofthe scanner and helped validate the data pro-cessing (scatter correction) and image recon-struction (fully 3D list-mode reconstruction).The relevance of this work for clinical imagingis very high given the recent introduction ofcommercial TOF PET systems.

Suleman Surti can be reached at Universityof Pennsylvania Department of Radiology 3400Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Phone:+1 215-662-7214. [email protected]

The more themerrier

You can neverunderstand onelanguage untilyou understandat least two.

Ronald Searle

Since 1965, the IEEE Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society has sponsored the bian-nual Particle Accelerator Conference.

PAC2007 renews this tradition with a meetingin Albuquerque, New Mexico from June 25-29.

Since 1989, the Particle Science andTechnology Awards have been presented at theParticle Accelerator Conference to honor out-standing contributions to particle accelerator sci-ence and technology. The 2007 winners are Drs.Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison, SeniorScientists at the Brookhaven NationalLaboratory, Upton NY USA and Dr. VictorMalka, Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoired’optique appliquée, Palaiseau, France.

Born and raised in Japan, Satoshi Ozakimoved to the USA in 1955 under theFulbright Scholarship Program, soon after fin-ishing his MS degree working on the recon-struction of the Osaka University Cyclotron.Immediately after obtaining his PhD in Physicsfrom MIT in 1959 he moved to BNL, wherehe pursued experimental research studying thedynamics in particle interactions and spec-troscopy of hadrons using the Cosmotron andAGS, from conception to the development ofresearch facilities such as a major particle spec-trometer and the use of a computer on-line fora real-time data analysis.

In 1981, Ozaki was asked to come to KEKto direct the construction of TRISTAN, a 60GeV e+e-collider, the first major high energyphysics research facility in Japan. The TRIS-

TAN Project was completed on schedule with-in the budget (>$ 500M) in 1987. Hereturned to BNL in 1989 as the Head of theRHIC Project, which was successfully com-pleted in 1999, leading to an outstandingphysics program in the study of relativisticheavy ion collisions including the observationof new hot and dense matter that behaves likeperfect liquid. He was also instrumental inbringing the polarized proton capability toRHIC with the funding support from RIKENInstitute of Japan.

Presently, as the Director of AcceleratorSystems for NSLS II, he is engaged in thedesign of an ultra bright third generation lightsource.

Dr. Harrison was an Associate ProjectDirector on the Relativistic Heavy IonCollider ((RHIC) at Brookhaven NationLaboratory. In this role he was responsible foroverseeing the design and construction of theRelativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He iscurrently Project Director of the Center forFunctional Nanomaterials and the ProgramDirector for the Americas Regional Team forthe International Linear Collider Project. Hereceived a Ph.D. from Liverpool University inEngland in High Energy Physics and came toBNL from Fermilab where he participated inthe experimental high energy physics programas well as construction of the Tevatron.

Dr. Harrison has been a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society since 1994 and is a

Satoshi Ozaki

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former member of the High Energy PhysicsPresidential Advisory Panel (HEPAP). He is, orwas, a member of accelerator oversight commit-tees at Fermilab, the European Laboratory forParticle Physics (CERN), and the DeutschesElektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). He has partic-ipated in numerous DOE Project and LaboratoryProgram Reviews in High Energy, NuclearPhysics, and Basic Energy Science programs.

Drs. Ozaki and Harrison are cited “For lead-ership in the successful design and construction ofthe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.”

Dr. Victor Malka is one of the most prolificscientific researchers in laser plasma accelera-tors. After graduating from his engineeringschool in chemistry, he started to study physicsat University when he was 24 years old. He gothis PhD in atomic physics in 1988 and got apermanent position at CNRS in 1989. Heworked on inertial fusion, on parametric insta-bilities and on particle acceleration.

From October 2001, Victor creates hisgroup of laser driven particle sources at theLaboratory of Applied Optics (LOA). He ismaking strong efforts in promoting the laser-particle acceleration in various fields. Victor likes

to explore new scheme and new applications ofthe laser plasma accelerators concept. He foundvarious potential applications (in chemistry,radiobiology, medicine, material science) ofimportance for the whole scientific community.With expertise in plasma physics, he developsnew bridges between different fields of science.His teaching activity at Ecole polytechnique isbased on a “research approach” in domains suchas lasers physics, optics and plasmas, stimulatescreativity and is appreciated by his students.

Dr. Malka is cited “For groundbreakingwork on laser-plasma accelerators.”

The PAST Award Committee members for2007 were: Ilan Ben-Zvi (Chair), BruceBrown, Ron Davidson, Steve Milton, ThomasRoser, and John Seeman.

Links: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/past-award.html (PAST Awards); http://pac07.org/(2007 PAC)

Ilan Ben-Zvi, chair of the ParticleAccelerator Science and Technology TC can bereached a Brookhaven National Laboratory,Collider-Accelerator Department, MS911B,Upton, NY 11973; Phone +1 631 344 5143;Fax: +1 631 344 5954; E-mail: [email protected].

YITZHAK MARON2007 Plasma Science and Applications Award Recipient

Professor Yitzhak Maron of theWeizmann Institute of Science(Rehovot, Israel) has been selected as

the recipient of the 2007 Plasma Science andApplications Award for “pioneering the appli-cation of spectroscopic techniques to thedetailed space and time characterization ofelectric and magnetic fields, charged-particlebeams, and plasmas under extreme conditionsof high-current, high-voltage, high-fields, andshort-duration.” The award presentation willtake place at the IEEE International PulsedPower and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS2007) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 17-22June 2007.

Yitzhak Maron was born on April 12, 1948in Iraq. With his family, he emigrated to Israelin 1951. In 1968, he graduated with a B.Sc.in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem and went on to com-plete his M.Sc. studies there in 1970. From1971-1977, he conducted his Ph.D. researchat the Weizmann Institute of Science, where hespent an additional three years as a postdoctor-

al fellow. In 1980, he joined the Laboratory ofPlasma Studies at Cornell University (Ithaca,New York) where he worked as a ResearchAssociate. He returned to the WeizmannInstitute in 1985 to become a Professor ofPhysics and is currently the Head of thePlasma Laboratory in the Faculty of Physics.

Professor Maron is a world leader in thedevelopment of spectroscopic methods todetermine the charge and current density dis-tributions as well as electric and magnetic fieldsin non-equilibrium short-duration plasmas.His pioneering experimental techniques havemade it possible to measure, understand, andcontrol the extreme plasma environments ofhigh-power ion diodes, plasma openingswitches (POS), and Z-pinches. His many“firsts” include the use of Stark shift measure-ments to determine the dynamic electric fielddistribution in the high-voltage gaps in iondiodes, making it possible to measure the elec-tron density distribution in magnetically insu-lated diode gaps; the use of Doppler lineshapes to determine the ion beam divergence

Yitzhak Maron 2007 PSAC Awardee

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AWARD SOLICITATIONS

So they tell me

“Money isn’teverything”according tothose who have it.

Malcolm Forbes

These awards are sponsored by theIEEE-NPSS Nuclear and MedicalImaging Sciences Council (NMSIC),

which is the steering committee for the annualMedical Imaging Conference(*).

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: JULY 15, 2007The Young Investigator Medical ImagingScience Award is given annually to a youngindividual in recognition of significant andinnovative technical contributions to the fieldof medical imaging science. The award consistsof $1,000, a certificate, and a plaque present-ed at the IEEE NPSS Medical ImagingConference.

Nominees will be judged according to theircontributions to medical imaging science asdemonstrated by the technical merit and cre-ativity of their research. Priority will be givento nominees whose research has been pub-lished in peer-reviewed journals, especially ifthe nominee is the first author. Graduate stu-dents or other individuals, whose highestdegree was awarded no more than six yearsprior to the date of nomination are eligible.

The Edward J. Hoffman Medical ImagingScientist Award is given annually to an individ-ual in recognition of outstanding contribu-tions to the field of medical imaging science.The award, consisting of $2,000, a certificate,and a plaque, is presented at the IEEE MedicalImaging Conference. In selecting the recipi-

ent of this award, primary consideration will begiven to the impact and innovativeness of anominee's research in the field of medicalimaging science. Other factors include a nom-inee's research contributions over a career andhis/her influence on medical imaging sciencethrough education.

Please note there are several other IEEENPSS awards that NSS/MIC attendees mayqualify for:• the Merit Award,• the Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member

Award,• the Early Achievement Award,• the Graduate Scholarship Award,• the Paul Phelps Continuing Education

Grant,• NPSS Student Paper Awards

Please consider nominating your well-deserving colleagues for the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society and Committeeawards. More details and application forms areavailable on the NPSS awards website:http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm

(*) Held in conjunction with the NuclearScience Symposium in Honolulu, HawaiiOctober 28 to November 3, 2007

http://www.nss-mic.org/2007Paul Kinahan, the Chair of the NMISTC

Awards Committee can be reached at: E-mail:[email protected].

NMISC YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AND HOFFMAN MEDICAL IMAGING

SCIENTIST AWARDS

in acceleration gaps; the determination of theelectron temperature and particle flow indynamic ionizing plasmas; the use ofZeeman-splitting measurements in pulsed-plasmas to determine the evolution of thespatial distribution of magnetic fields indiodes, Z-pinches, and POS; and the deter-mination of the properties of turbulent fieldsin diodes and POS plasmas. ProfessorMaron’s body of work has greatly advancedthe understanding of pulsed-plasmas andatomic physics under extreme conditions.

In addition to his outstanding scientificachievements, he has also helped to train newgenerations of researchers through his teach-ing activities and his collaborations with uni-versities and institutions throughout theworld. In recognition of his many talents andaccomplishments, Professor Maron was madea Fellow of the American Physical Society in1996 and a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005.

Yitzhak Maron can be reached at theWeizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100Israel; E-mail: [email protected]

Paul Kinahan NMIS Awards

Committee Chair

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ARTICLES


Established in 1988, this award recognizes“outstanding contributions to the fieldof plasma science.” The recipient need

not be a member of the Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society or the IEEE, but where candi-dates have otherwise equal qualifications, pref-erence shall be given to the candidate who is anIEEE member. The award includes a cashprize, a plaque, and the privilege of presenting aplenary address at the annual InternationalConference on Plasma Science (ICOPS).

The nomination package should include: anominating letter (5 page limit); biographicalmaterial for the person nominated (3 pagelimit); a publication/citation/patent list (5page limit); 3 to 5 letters of support; and pro-posed text for the award citation (50 words orless). Please also include an e-mail address for

the nominator where receipt of the packagewill be confirmed.

Nominations should be submitted to David Abeby 14 September 2007 (electronic submissions pre-ferred). A nomination form may be obtainedonline at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/PSACaward.htm or by sending an e-mail request [email protected].

Information about other awards sponsoredby the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma SciencesSociety are described on the NPSS website athttp://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/.

Dr. David K. Abe, PSAC AwardsCommittee Chair, can be reached at the NavalResearch Laboratory, Code 6841, 4555 OverlookAve SW, Washington DC 20375 USA; Phone:+1 202 767 0033; Fax: +1 202 767-1280; E-mail: [email protected].

2008 PLASMA SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS AWARD

Deadline: 14 September 2007

David Abe PSAC Awards

Committee Chair

ALL ENGINEERS NEED LEADERSHIP SKILLSBy Gary C. Hinkle from Today’s Engineer, April 2007, published by IEEE USA

Engineers need to be influential. At alllevels of an organization, engineersshould play a significant role in driving

innovations that will benefit customers andincrease profits.

From the earliest stages of their careers,engineers are expected to lead projects andteams, and to bring new ideas to fruition.Senior-level engineers are expected to leadlarge, complex projects; to drive innovation;and to provide guidance for less-experiencedpeers. Excellent leadership skills are necessaryto effectively execute such responsibilities.

Engineers are trained to innovate, but, unfor-tunately, many have not learned the skills neces-sary to influence others and to develop ideas thatincrease profits. Many managers are trained todo this, but they cant get into the minds of everyengineer to harvest all of their ideas.

Engineers, then, need to know how to artic-ulate their thoughts so that others will beinspired to build on them. They need to learnhow to drive projects and ideas to create inno-vations that customers will value. While notevery engineer will be the next Thomas Edison,every engineer can aspire to accomplish great

things that customers will value. Engineers whodont have these goals need to ask themselvesWhy not? Every manager who isnt encouragingtheir engineers to have high aspirations shouldask themselves the same question.

Following are seven reasons why technicalprofessionals need leadership skills:• Technical acumen alone is not influential.

Technical gurus without leadership skillshave limited influence. Not many canachieve guru status, but wouldn't yourather be a guru with technical master andthe combination of business skills and inter-personal skills that make a great leader?

• Leadership is not just for managers.Leading and managing require differentskill sets. Some leadership experts mightargue this point, but most agree that lead-ership has little to do with “management.”Generally speaking, managers should alsobe good leaders. However, strong leadersoften aren't suited to be managers, andforcing a strong leader into a managementrole can be counterproductive.

• Engineers lead projects.Even engineers who aren’t “project leads”

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provide a certain amount of direction, andthey need to influence others to help gettheir work done.

• Engineers can guide less-experiencedpeers.Guidance is providing direction one of thethree basic definitions of leadership (theother two are influence and authority).

• Engineers need to help their managers'business succeed.You may not be inspired to help your man-ager be more successful as an individual, butyou must be dedicated to helping your busi-

ness achieve success. If not, find anotherjob.

• Engineers can influence decision-makersin their organizations.Engineers understand technology betterthan non-technical managers, and theyunderstand the details better than mosttechnical managers.

• Everyone should be interested in build-ing character.Leadership is mostly character and a littlebit of skill. People listen to people who haveintegrity and who apply it well on the job.

Credibility gap

I have as muchauthority as thepope, I just don’thave as manypeople whobelieve it.

George CarlinJOHN STONE STONE – ENGINEERINGHISTORY

By Michael Geselowitz, from Today’s Engineer, IEEE-USA, April 2007

Anniversaries are wonderful opportunitiesto take stock and reflect on where we havebeen, where we are, and where we are

going, as well as to celebrate our heritage. Theyear 2009 will be the IEEE's 125th anniversary.This reckoning is dated from the 1884 foundingof the American Institute of Electrical Engineers(AIEE), the earliest of the IEEEs predecessororganizations, and in two years we can look for-ward to a number of recognitions and celebra-tions. However, an organization as complex as theIEEE can have many milestones in its history, andthis month marks an interesting IEEE centennial.

The Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers(SWTE) was founded in Boston on 25 February1907 by an individual named John Stone Stone.Members of the growing radio field did not feel athome in the established, but power-oriented,AIEE. In January 1909, a similar radio organiza-tion, The Wireless Institute (TWI), was formed inNew York, largely through the efforts of RobertH. Marriott, with some assistance from Alfred N.Goldsmith. In 1912, TWI absorbed the SWTEwhich had been struggling as the center of theradio industry moved from Boston to New Yorkto form the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE),with Marriott as its first president. In 1963, IREmerged with the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers (AIEE) to form the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Therest, pardon the expression, is history.

However, it is worth pausing to consider JohnStone Stone. If nothing else, he bears one of themost interesting names in electrical engineeringhistory. For example, word-processor spell-check-ers insist that the double name must be an error.Stone, son of Charles Pomeroy Stone and Jeannie(nee Stone) Stone, was born in Dover, Virginia,

on 24 September 1869. His parents were perhapsdistant cousins, and the custom among their classof having the son take the mothers maiden nameas a middle name led to his interesting appellation.After attending the Columbia University Schoolof Mines and Johns Hopkins University, he beganhis engineering career in 1890 as an experimen-talist in the American Bell Telephone Companylaboratory in Boston. Over time, he held a num-ber of positions, eventually founding his owncompany and ending up as a consultant with theAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Stone made many contributions to the fieldsof wired telephony and wireless telegraphy(which he called “space telegraphy”). Whileworking at Bell, he invented the Stone commonbattery system for telephones, characterized bythe use of impedance coils between the batteryand the line wires; and assisted in developingtelephone transmission systems. He held severalpatents, including one for an important systemof loosely coupled, tuned circuits for radiotransmission and reception. Additionally, heauthored several important technical papers.

Perhaps Stone's greatest contribution, though,was his belief that radio engineers needed their ownprofessional society. After his SWTE was absorbedinto the IRE, he served the Institute as a memberof the board of directors from 1912 to 1917, asvice-president from 1913 to 1914, and as presidentin 1915. He was made a Fellow of the IRE in 1915and received the Medal of Honor in 1923. JohnStone Stone died on 20 May 1943 in San Diego,California. For a more complete biography seewww.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/stone.html, and for more detail on the his-tory of IEEE see www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/his-tory_center/history_of_ieee.html.

Make me anoffer

He that is of theopinion moneywill do every-thing may wellbe suspected ofdoing everythingfor money.

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2007 Nuclear and Plasma Sciences SocietyAdministrative Committee

President Jane M. LehrVice President Craig Woody

Secretary Alberta M. Dawson LarsenTreasurer Edward J. Lampo

Most Recent Past President William W. MosesDivision IV Director Edward Della Torre

Elected Administrative Committee MembersTerms ending 2007: Steven H. Gold (PSA), Allan H. Johnston(RE), Jane M. Lehr (PPST), Charles L. Neumeyer (FT)Terms ending 2008: Uwe Bratzler (Transnational), ChristopherDeeney (PSA), Ronald J. Jaszczak (NMIS)Terms ending 2009: Daniel M. Fleetwood (RE), Anthony Peratt(PSA), Robert E. Reinovsky (PPST), Craig L. Woody (RI).Terms ending 2010: Sandra Biedron (PAST), Eric Frey (NMIS),James Schwank (RE), Rick Van Berg (RI)

Technical Committee ChairsComputer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science (CANPS):Jean-Pierre Martin; Radiation Instrumentation (RI): RichardLanza; Fusion Technology (FT): Mark Tillack; Nuclear Medicaland Imaging Sciences (NMIS): Tom Lewellen; ParticleAccelerator Science and Technology (PAST): Ilan Ben-Zvi;Plasma Science and Applications (PSA): Ronald M. Gilgenbach;Pulsed Power Science and Technology (PPST): GeraldCooperstein; Radiation Effects (RE): Timothy R. Oldham.

Functional Committee ChairsAwards: Peter S. Winokur; Chapters and Distinguished Lecturers:Charles Neumeyer; Communications: Peter N. Clout; FellowCandidate Evaluation: Peter S. Winokur; Finance: Harold Flescher;Conference Policy: Raymond S. Larsen; Membership: ChristophIlgner; Nominations: William W. Moses; Publications: Paul V.Dressendorfer; Standards: Ronald M. Keyser; Transnational: UweBratzler.

PublicationsEditor-in-Chief: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor, IEEETransactions on Nuclear Science: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Editor,IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science: Steven J. Gitomer;Editor, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging: Max A. Viergever;Conference Editors, Transactions on Nuclear Science: ZaneBell; John Cressler; Joel Karp; Jean-Pierre Dufey; Editor,Newsletter: Albe Dawson Larsen; Editor Emeritus: W. KennethDawson.

Liaison Representatives on other IEEE CommitteesCoalition for Plasma Science: Gerald L. Rogoff; DistinguishedLecturer Program: Charles Neumeyer; Energy Policy: RichardLanza and Charles Neumeyer; R&D Policy: Sandra G.Biedron; RADECS Liaisons: Harold Flescher and RonaldSchrimpf; Sensors Council: Anthony D. Lavietes; SocialImplications of Technology: Raymond S. Larsen; Standards:Michael Unterweger; TMI: A. Bertrand Brill and Ronald J.Jaszczak. Medical: A. Bertrand Brill, International Conferences:Patrick Le Dû.

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