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ByJean-Luc Leray, elected, chair 2009-2012AndPatrick Le Dû, Conference Liaison

Transnational Committee Report to the AdCOM

Years 2008-2012 in short

Status Nov 2012 since last AdCOM

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Overview

The TNC aims at being servicing both the non-North American Community, so called Transnational, and the NPS Society purposes

It means-Methods-Membership-Improvements-Conferences

This talk is an condensed evokation of these 4 year activity and 12 reports to the AdCOM

Discussion welcome!Today or by mail

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Recalling the basics

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Methods

• Redaction of effective purposes and guidelines – Guidelines rather than by-laws ……

Year 1– Posted on the public NPSS website

• Installation of a yearly cycle of 3 telephone calls – prior to the next AdCOM– these TelCo and parallel emails help to report news, needs and motions to

the AdCOM ……Year 1

• Installation of a collaborative website – based on BaseCamp thanks to Tony …… Year 3– This website also serves as repository of documents and works

Result: we begin to be spontaneously contacted (volunteering of post-doc as well as associate professor)

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Membership in TNS vs in NPSS

• This is the crucial matter = balance between NPSS membership versus TNC membership– A rule of thumb of one TMC member for each hundredth NPSS members– It means, routhly, a committee of 20 members– Not less, not more

• Recruiting news TNC Members during these past 4 years– New representatives in R10 Seoul, Beijing, and Japan and R9 Brazil– UK next to follow in R8, hopefully!

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TNC LIST to datePermanent Committee

(in, eg, meeting or conferences or mailing during the last two years)

R10• Anatoly Rosenfeld, RI and MI, Australia• Zhen-An Liu, RI and CANPS, China (new member 2009)• Guyseong Cho, MI, Korea (new member 2010)• Haru Nomachi, RI and CANPS, Japan (new member 2011)R9• Gabriella Hoff, Brazil (new member 2010)R8• Uwe Bratzler, RI, Germany-USA• Alberto Del Guerra, MI, Italy• Evangelos Gazis, RI, Greece• Erik Heijne, RI, The Netherlands + CERN• Christoph Ilgner, RI, Germany• Patrick Le Du, RI and CANPS• Jean-Luc Leray, RE, France• Marek Moszinski, RI, Poland• Stanislav Pospisil, RI, Czech Republic• Maxim Titov, RI, France-Ukraine• Archana Shana, RI, CERN• Alessandro Paccagnella, RE, Italy (new member 2009)• Peter Beck, RE, Austria (new member 2009)• Cincia da Via, RI, UK (new member 2012)

Advisory members Sub Committee (Consultative Members « in the reserve » in « advisory » position, ex officio)

• Eugenio Perillo, R8, Italy (since 2010)

18 = 13 R8 1 R9 5 R10 ~ about one for every 100 NPSS Members

+ 1 Advisory

Expectation: member from India (residing in India)

Expectation: members from Northern Europe And UK

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Membership needs (2) = a Directory vs a Roster?• Deep reflexion concerning NPSS Directory

– Initiated by Erik Heijne – regrets the paper directories / edition discontinued

• It was found that there were two kind of needs– Need for a roster available to the NPSS membership

• in good standing, with names and grades but no much more• A scan of other societies practicies has been made• The knowledge of a name would allow contact possible through the MyIEEE system,

beyond the NPSS

– Need for TNC and AdCOM • to access to a more precise directory of functions, awards, committes, MGA activities

• For promotion purposes, eg, nominations (senior, fellow) and TNC networking in a specific area

• => Accessible to AdCOM officers and Membership Chair through SAMIEE

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Member Roster Project• Rationale presented at AdCOM, March 2011, as a conclusion

• Contracted with IEEE by AdCOM, early 2012

– Coordinating with the Membership Committee and the AdCOM Secretary (and the Finance Chair)

• To appear on the NPSS webpages, soon

• as a roster of names grade, region, password protected

On Going Action

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Improvements

Support to Transnational Conferences / or events•« WHAREHOUSE SYSTEM »

– Custom (free circulation within EU-27)– A managing contractor has been selected in France– Cost and pain saving, return of papers, banners and goods for re-

use– Minimize risk of loss and roberry

• March 2012 AdCOM - Motion passed Proposal for treating the case of R8 / Europe /

Estimated cost for 3 conferences a year11.2.1 Transnational Committee for European booth equipment and

Storage: It was moved and passed that NPSS budget up to $15,000 in 2012 and yearly thereafter to replace and enhance booth equipment for European conferences and to secure European warehouse and shipping capabilities to store and ship IEEE and NPSS booth equipment and literature for European conferences.

•(R10 may follow if sucessful)Printing the roll-ups in France avoiding shipment costs, etc

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Installed June 2012, 3 conferences done up to now

• ICOPS, July 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland-UK• RADECS, September 2012, Biarritz, Pays Basque near Spain, France• BEAMS, September 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany

From Peter Clout and Claude Foubert messages:“This is to document what we have done for RADECS and BEAMS - two conferences just a weekend and 1,200 km apart.

>> 1. IEEE has shipped 450 each of the 16-page brochure and the Haiti initiative leaflet to RADECS for registration kit stuffing.>>>> 2. Claude Foubert at Vert Com has shipped 300 each of the 16-page >> brochure and the Haiti initiative leaflet to BEAMS for kit stuffing.>>>> 3. Claude Foubert will send the case with 5 banners (3 NPSS and 2 for Haiti) to RADECS for the membership desk and anywhere else they can be put as well as holders, other leaflets and items shipped back from >> Edinburgh.>>>> 4. Jane Lehr plus 1 will be at RADECS to sign up many new members and >> then they will drive to Karlsruhe for BEAMS with the case and repeat >> the same there.

>> 5. We have sent Jane an envelope with membership forms and other >> items she will need and Vern has sent by email detailed instructions >> on procedure.>>>> 6. Claude Foubert will arrange pickup of the case from Karlsruhe at >> the end of the BEAMS conference. Some details have to be arranged for this.Etc !

To be discussed with Peter Clout at the Communication Committee at 4pm today

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Transnational Y2009-2012 in R8, R9 and R10 Conferences

• In R8 – the foundation of the ANIMMA Conference– As earlier as 2006-7, Belgium and France Nuclear National Labs and Industries intended to set a Nuclear Instrumentation

international Conference (« ANIMMA ») in Europe– The local TNC members, also the local NPSS France and Belgium Chapters , helped at that time (2008-09)

• to install cosponsorship and MoU between NPSS and ANIMMA • To provide scientists• To promote publication througu IEEE

2009 (Marseilles), 2011 (Ghent) and 2013 (Marseilles) – UK to come in 2015 300-400 attendees

– The Post Fukushima nuclear world - a more secure nuclear industry• Therefore thru this opportunity in R8, Nuclear Science may re-activate Nuclear Engineering

For the purposes of reinforcing nuclear safery by physics methods

• In R9, since 2009, Pr Gabriella Hoff is instrumental in linking with Brazil – Uruguay-Argentina instrumentation and radioprotection societies

• In R10, thru the seminar and conference activities– since 2008, Pr Zhen-An Liu at Beijing HEP is being instrumental in the installation of a Chapter _ opening may happen soon– Linking with the Chinese NEDS Nuclear Detection Society has been evoked – NEDS is a subsidiary of the CEI, the Chinese Electronic Institute– People in China are interested in hosting NSS/MIC 2018 (TIPP in 2017)

• In R10, Pr Anatoly Rosenfeld big network based from Wollongong Australia• Also volunteer for hosting NSS/MIC

• In R10 also, we have new members in Japan and Korea – more to see in Seoul 2013

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Current topics under way

• Project: “Summer Schools”

• Discussion at July 2012 AdCOM in Edinburgh– Transnational - Change the name?

• Transnational = Transatlantic, Transpacific?

– Duplicate TNC?• TNC-R8 (&R9?) • TNC-R10

Advantages : would mimic regional activities, with better replication of actual world as it is.Risk : generation of two separate networks, the East (R10) versus the West (of Pacific).

• What about India?

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TNC

We tried

•To be analytical and rational•To be attentive•To be proactive

•Not to make everything by ourselves when other are more efficient in action or legitimate

•Thanks to All

More to come!