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The 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference(PAC05) will take place on May 16-20, 2005,at the Knoxville Convention Center (KCC) in

Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference will cover newdevelopments in all aspects of the science, technolo-gy, and use of accelerators. It will also provide a com-munication channel for accelerator scientists andengineers and for those interested in acceleratorapplications. The conference is open to the public,and all individuals with an interest in particle acceler-ators are invited to register and attend.

This is the 21st biennial conference in the seriesand is organized under the joint auspices of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), through its Nuclear and Plasma SciencesSociety (NPSS), and the American Physical Society(APS), through its Division of Physics of Beams(DPB). The conference also serves as the annualmeeting of the DPB. The hosting institutions areOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) andThomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility(JLab). The conference is supported in part by theU.S. Department of Energy and the National ScienceFoundation.

In addition, the year 2005 is a special year for thecommunity because the United Nations has declared

S O C I E T Y N E W SNumber 1 • March 2005

SwapanChattopadhyay

Scientific Program Chair

Norbert HoltkampConference Chair

Stuart HendersonLocal OrganizingCommittee Chair

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCEMay 16-20, 2005

www.sns.gov/pac05; [email protected] Convention Center

Knoxville, Tennessee

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Kathy RosenbalmConferenceCoordinator

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IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS:Robert Smrek, Production ManagerPaul Doto, Newsletter Coordinator Contributors to March 2005 IEEE NPSS Newsletter in AlphabeticalOrder: Igor Alexeff, Hugh Barnaby, Robert C Baumann, Ilan Ben-Zvi,Uwe Bratzler, Robert Cauble, Gerald Cooperstein, Magnus Dahlbom,Alberta M. Dawson Larsen, Christopher Deeney, Alberto Del Guerra,Paul V. Dressendorfer, Teresa Farris, Philip Heitzenroeder, Carolyn G.Hoffman, Richard Jacobsson, Ronald J. Jaszczak, Daniel O. Jobe, ShuT. Lai, Patrick Le Dû, Irvin R. Lindemuth, John Maenchen, YitzhakMaron, Jean-Pierre Martin, Lloyd W. Massengill, George H. Miley,Akira Mizuno, William W. Moses, Kathy Rosenbalm, Stanley O.Schriber, Ronald Schrimpf, Bruce P. Strauss, Magesh Thiyagarajan,Martin P. Tornai, Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Craig Woody

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

Particle Accelerator Conference . . . . . . . . . . .1The 2005 Real Time Conference – RT2005 . . .515th IEEE International Pulsed PowerConference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7ICOPS 2005 International Conference on Plasma Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Radiation Effects Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Final Report 2004 Nuclear Science Symposiumand Medical Imaging Conference . . . . . . . . .10President’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16Secretary’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Class of 2008: The Newly Elected AdComMembers

Uwe Bratzler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Christopher Deeney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Ronald J. Jaszczak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

New Technical Committee ChairsJean-Pierre Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Ilan Ben-Zvi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Daniel O. Jobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Gerald Cooperstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Thoughts about Edward J. Hoffman . . . . . . .24Open Letter to IEEE NPSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Computer Applications in Nuclear SciencesTechnical Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Fusion Technology Committee . . . . . . . . . . .27News from the Nuclear and Medical ImagingSciences Technical Committee . . . . . . . . . . .28Radiation Effects Technical Committee . . . . .29Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee .30Results of Awards Committee Evaluations . . . . .32Report from the Publications Committee . . . . . .33Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award . . . . . . . . . . .37New IEEE FellowsRobert Christopher Baumann . . . . . . . . . . . . .38Shu T. Lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38Irvin Raymond Lindemuth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39Yitzhak Maron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40Lloyd Wilson Massengill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40Akira Mizuno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Stanley O. Schriber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42Bruce Paul Strauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42Benjamin M. W. Tsui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Society Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44Other Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44Call for Award Nominations for 2005 . . . . . . . . .46Will Radiation-Hardening-by-Design Work? . . . .48Better Ethics Needed to Improve Energy Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50


Charlie HorakEditor-in-Chief

it the World Year of Physics in honor of the100th anniversary of Einstein’s three discover-ies that had, and still have, a remarkable impacton accelerator science (light quanta, Brownianmotion, and the special theory of relativity).On Wednesday afternoon of the conference, aspecial session—organized by PAC and its sis-ter European and Asian conferences EPAC andAPAC—and a cultural event will honor thisanniversary, with participation from the public,local officials, and government representativesfrom various agencies.

The conference chair is Norbert Holtkampof ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS).The PAC05 Scientific Program Committee,chaired by Swapan Chattopadhyay of JLab, hasalready structured the conference program.The program, publication instructions, and allother relevant information are available on theconference web site at www.sns.gov/pac05.The head of the Local Organizing Committeeis Stuart Henderson of ORNL/SNS.Additional information can be obtained fromthe Conference Coordinator:

Kathy Rosenbalm Oak Ridge National LaboratorySpallation Neutron SourceBethel Valley Rd., Bldg. 8600Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6477, USAPhone: (865) 574-0558Fax: (865) 576-3041E-mail: [email protected]

More than 1700 abstracts have beenreceived for PAC05. The proceedings, whichwill be edited by a team representing accelera-tor facilities from all over the world, will bepublished by IEEE and will be available onCD-ROM and on the Joint AcceleratorConferences Web Site (www.jacow.org). Allabstract and paper submissions must beuploaded through the web system. Authors arealso required to bring a hard copy of theirpaper and a completed IEEE copyright per-mission form to the conference.

To register for PAC05, please complete theonline registration form at the web site, whichwill be available on February 3, 2005. The reg-istration fee is $495; however, a reduced fee of$395 is available to those who register and paybefore March 18, 2005. This fee covers partic-ipation in all official conference events, includ-ing the welcome reception, conference ses-sions, coffee breaks, concert, “Einstein in the

City” event, banquet, awards ceremony, andone CD-ROM of the proceedings. The regis-tration fee does not cover additional banquettickets, the Saturday SNS tour, or companiontours. When signing up for these additionalactivities, an additional fee will be added, asindicated on the registration form. A link tothe Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporationis available for more information about thecompanion tours and pre- and post-conferencetravel packages.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMThe organization of the scientific program issimilar to previous conferences in this series,with plenary sessions on Monday morningand Friday afternoon. The opening plenarysession will feature talks by B. Barish(CalTech) on “Linear Collider TechnologyDecision,” W. Nazarewicz (University ofTennessee) on “Science of Rare IsotopeAccelerator (RIA) and the Project Status,” J.Seeman (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)on “PEP-II/KEK-B Operational Status,” T.Roser (Brookhaven National Lab) on “RHICOperational Status,” and D. McGinnis (FermiNational Accelerator Lab) on “FNALTevatron Operational Status.” The closingplenary session talks will include T. Mason(ORNL/SNS) on “Science with SNS,” P.Schneider (DESY) on “XFEL/Short PulseScience,” and C. Jarlskog (Lund University)on “Physics Expectations from FutureAccelerators.” Two plenary talks have not yetbeen finalized.

The five-day conference will include about20 oral sessions, with more than 200 invitedspeakers and selected contributed papers.Seven poster sessions, sized to accommodatemore than 1400 posters, are scheduled.Presentations will be grouped into the follow-ing sessions: • accelerator technology • advanced concepts• application of accelerators; secondary beam

facilities: neutrons, muons, neutrinos andphotons

• controls and computing• development in the south, east, and mid-

east/light sources• development in the south, east, and mid-

east/nuclear physics, high-energy physics• extreme beams• high-energy hadron accelerators and colliders• instabilities and feedback

Privy pensée

Privacy is likeproperty in this:that while a fewpeople ought tohave less of it,most peopleought to havemore of it.

G.K. Chesterton

• instrumentation• light sources and free-electron lasers• linear colliders• single particle dynamics and optics• lepton accelerators and colliders • low- and medium-energy accelerators and

rings • magnets • multiparticle beam dynamics • pulsed-power and high-intensity

beams/induction linacs • radio-frequency systems • sources and injectors • two-stream instabilities and collective

processes

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONAn industrial exhibition of about 60 booths,situated adjacent to the technical sessions andthe posters, where companies can advertisetheir products and expertise, will be openfrom noon to 5:00 p.m. on Monday and from9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday andWednesday. The cost of an 8 by 10 footbooth is $2200 (U.S.). This fee includes onefull conference registration, CD-ROM of theproceedings, two banquet tickets, and a ven-dor reception hosted by Knoxville/OakRidge community leaders. Online registrationwill be available on the conference web sitebeginning February 3, 2005. Sponsorshipopportunities for the reception, refreshments,and supplies are also available. Our sponsor-ship listing is available on the web site andsponsors will be fully acknowledged at theconference and in the conference program.Further information on exhibiting or spon-sorship can be obtained by contacting CraigDeibele at [email protected].

ACCOMMODATIONSApproximately 1200 participants have attendedthe last few meetings in the series, and similarnumbers are anticipated for PAC05 inKnoxville. A block of rooms at several down-town Knoxville hotels has been reserved. Pleasecheck the PAC05 web site for further details.Attendees should book directly with the hoteland are encouraged to book early. When mak-ing reservations, be sure to indicate attendanceat PAC05 to receive the conference rate.

COMPANION PROGRAMThe conference has arranged an extensivecompanion program. The program begins on

Monday morning with a Companion Get-Acquainted Reception at the KCC that willinclude a continental breakfast. Prearrangedtours depart Monday through Saturday morn-ings, returning in the late afternoon. The toursare being offered by the Knoxville Tourismand Sports Corporation. The six tours andtheir costs (in daily order) are: HistoricKnoxville City Tour ($67.00), A Step Back inTime ($39), A Day at Dollywood and PigeonForge Outlets ($55), A Day in Old Appalachia($59), Wild Mountain Tour ($41), and SecretCity Tour ($53). Please see the PAC05 website for more information about the tours. Theregistration deadline is April 25, 2005.

OTHER INFORMATIONThe conference banquet will be held on theterrace of the KCC beginning at 7:00 p.m.on Thursday, May 19, 2005. The cost of thebanquet is included in your registration fee,but a reservation is required for planningpurposes.

The Awards Reception and Ceremony willtake place on Wednesday, May 18, to presentthe following 2005 awards and prizes:• APS Robert R. Wilson prize• APS Award for Outstanding Doctoral

Thesis Research in Beam Physics• APS Student Travel Awards• IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science &

Technology Awards• U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize for

Achievement in Accelerator Physics &Technology

• Newly Elected Fellows of the APS• Newly Elected Fellows of the IEEE

Several meeting rooms are available for inci-dental satellite meetings during the week ofthe conference. Audiovisual equipment andfood and beverage charges will be billed at theconvention center rate. To reserve a meetingroom, please contact Doris Shubert at [email protected].

Conference attendees will have access toInternet-connected laptops and printers.Wireless Internet connections will also beavailable throughout the KCC.

Knoxville weather in May is generally mild,with average daytime highs in the low-to-mid70s and average nighttime lows in the high 50sto low 60s (F).

We look forward to seeing you in Knoxvillein May!


Let me thinkabout it

The whole prob-lem of the worldis that fools andfanatics arealways so cer-tain of them-selves, andwiser people sofull of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

Acid test

The [U.S.] gridhas grown socomplex that noone understandsit. That makes itperfect for congressional hearings.

Robert Park


It is a great pleasure for us to announce theforthcoming 14th IEEE Real TimeConference 2005. It will be held at the

Alba Nova University Centre in Stockholm,Sweden, 4-10 June 2005.

As in previous conferences in this series,RT2005 will be a multidisciplinary conferencedevoted to the latest Real Time computingapplications in plasma physics, nuclear physics,particle physics, astrophysics, space science,accelerators, and in medicine and biology. Theconference philosophy is to have only plenarysessions. New this year is the addition of mini-oral presentations for the poster papers. Wewill also invite more speakers who will giveintroductory overviews to help in bridging thedifferent fields and topics. All this takentogether lays the ground for an extremelystimulating environment and ample opportu-nity for discussions and fruitful exchanges.

CONFERENCE TOPICS• Real Time System Architectures• Front-end Signal Processing• High Speed Synchronous Control• Trigger and Data Acquisition• Event Building and Fast Networks• Online Processing Farms and• High Level Triggers• Online Databases • Controls and Monitoring Systems• Medical Systems and Data Processing• Emerging Real Time Technologies

TUTORIALS AND SHORT COURSESMore information can be found at the confer-ence Web site: http://www.sysf.physto.se/RT2005/

Submission of abstracts for oral presenta-tions and posters is through the Web sitebeginning on December 13th, 2004. Thesubmission deadline is February 27, 2005.The submissions should include an abstract ofabout 100 words and a summary of maximumtwo pages.

As in the past, this conference will have onlyplenary oral and poster sessions.

Oral presentations: All oral presentationswill be allocated 20 minutes which includesabout 5 minutes for questions and discussion.One video projector will be provided in theauditorium, connected to a PC and usingPowerpoint and PDF format. It also accom-modates transparencies as well as paper printedin landscape format.

New this year! Mini Oral/Poster presen-tations: A new way of presenting and promot-ing the poster session will be organized. Eachposter will be introduced by the proponent in amini oral presentation of 3 minutes/3 slidesduring the relevant plenary sessions.

Attendance at the poster sessions is orga-nized around conference breaks. Authors arerequested to set up their posters before themorning break of the day of their assignedposter session. Each poster board has a mount-ing surface of dimensions: 120 cm high by 240cm wide. The posters are attached to the surfacewith push-pins. Material to attach the posterswill be provided by the organizers. The posterexhibit area will be adjacent to the breakrefreshment area. Authors are requested to be attheir posters during their poster session.

Publication: The Conference Proceedingswill include all papers that have been acceptedfor oral and poster presentation and that haveactually been presented.

A CD of the Proceedings will be shippedwithin one month after the conference to allparticipants containing texts as well as presen-tations and photos of the event.

Authors of all papers included in theConference Proceedings have, in addition, theopportunity to submit manuscripts for publica-tion in the IEEE Transactions on NuclearScience (TNS editor Jean-Pierre Dufey)which will publish a special issue devoted to the2005 Real Time Conference. All papers submit-ted to TNS are subject to a peer review process.

For both publications, the format of thepaper must comply with the IEEE editingrules. Please note that the pages must not benumbered and no header or footer informa-tion is accepted. The deadlines for the sub-

The 2005 REAL TIME CONFERENCE – RT20054 -10 June 2005

Alba Nova University CentreStockholm,Sweden

http://www.sysf.physto.se/RT2005/

Richard JacobssonGeneral Chairman

Patrick Le DûCANPS Committee

Jean-Pierre MartinCANPS Chair

missions are : • The day before the presentation of the

paper for the Conference Proceedings • One week after the last day of the

Conference, that is June 19, 2005, to be

considered for publication in TNS.Awards: One senior award and two student

(New!) awards for the best work submittedand presented as either oral or poster paperswill be presented.


Politics 1,Science 0

In this adminis-tration, sciencestrongly informspolicy. It isimportant toremember, how-ever, that evenwhen the sci-ence is clear -and often it isnot - it is butone input intothe policyprocess.

John H.Marburger III

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AND SUPPORTGeneral Chair : Richard Jacobsson CERNLocal organizing committee

Christian Bohm (Chair) Stockholm University, SwedenSten Hellman Stockholm University, SwedenStig Larsson Karolinska Institute, SwedenBengt Lund-Jensen Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenMark Pearce Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenSamuel Silverstein Stockholm University, Sweden

Executive committee (New)Christian Bohm Stockholm University, SwedenChristian Boulin EMBL, GermanyRichard Jacobsson CERNAnthony Lavietes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USAPatrick Le Dû (Chair) CEA, FranceJean-Pierre Dufey CERNRay Larsen Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USAJean-Pierre Martin University of Montreal, Canada

Scientific committeeAlberto Aloisio Universita di Napoli, ItalyPierre Andre Amaudruz TRIUMF, CanadaFabrizio Barone University of Salerno, ItalyChristian Bohm (Chair) Stockholm University, SwedenAnders Brahme Karolinska Institute, SwedenDenis Calvet CEA, FranceChikara Fukunaga Tokyo Metropolitan University, JapanPatrick Le Dû CEA, FranceJean-Pierre Dufey CERNBasil Duval EPFL, SwitzerlandPhilippe Gavillet CERNHartmut Gemmeke Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, GermanyPier Giorgio Innocenti CERNHarald Kleines Forschungzentrum Jülich, GermanyStig Larsson Karolinska Institute, SwedenRoger Lecomte University of Sherbrook, CanadaJacques Lecoq CNRS/IN2P3, FranceMicheal Le Vine Brookhaven National Laboratory, USALorne Levinson Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelIrakli Mandjavidze CEA, FranceBill Moses Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USAMasaharu Nomachi Osaka University, JapanMark Pearce Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenStanislav Pospisil Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech RepublicMartin Purschke Brookhaven National Laboratory, USAStefan Ritt Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), SwitzerlandVolker Schmidt Consorzio RFX, Euratom ENEA Association, ItalyHans Von Der Schmitt DESY, GermanyJoao Varela LIP/IST, PortugalGordon Watts Washington University, USAYantai Shu Tianjin University, China


Conference assistance Dora Merelli CEA, France

TNS editor Jean-Pierre Dufey CERN

Web interface for abstract and paper handling Bo Yu Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Graphics design assistance Fabienne Marcastel CERN

CONTACT INFORMATIONWeb : http://www.sysf.physto.se/RT2005/Email: [email protected]: +41-76-487 37 30Fax: +41-22-767 94 25

We look forward to welcoming you to Stockholm!

Richard Jacobsson, General Chairman, RT2005 Conference can be reached at CERN 1211Geneva 23, SWITZERLAND; Phone: +41 22 767-3619; Fax: +41 22 767-9425; E-mail:[email protected].

Patrick Le Dû, CANPS committee member elected to AdCom, can be reached at CEA Saclay,DAPNIA-SPP, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette-Cedex, FRANCE; Phone: +33 1 6908 4073; Fax: +33 1 6908-6428; E-mail: [email protected].

Jean-Pierre Martin, CANPS Chair, can be reached at University of Montreal, CP 6128Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 CANADA; Phone: +1 514 343-7340; Fax: +1514 343-6215; E-mail: [email protected].

And most do

Any fool can be60, if he liveslong enough.

George BernardShaw

15th IEEE INTERNATIONALPULSED POWER CONFERENCE

An Invitation to PPC2005 in Monterey, CaliforniaVisit our website at http://www.sandia.gov/ppc2005/

We cordially invite you to the 15thIEEE International Pulsed PowerConference to be held in Monterey,

CA, June 13 to 17, 2005. The conference,held at the Portola Plaza Hotel and the adja-cent Monterey Convention Center, is locatedat the very heart of the beautiful MontereyPeninsula with a contrast of balmy, pristinebeaches and dramatic, rugged cliffs.

Modern pulsed power has its genesis in thepioneering work of the late John ChristopherMartin and his colleagues at the Atomic WeaponsEstablishment in Aldermaston, England in the1960s. “Charlie,” as he was known to the com-munity, was a hydrodynamicist who could notpurchase an adequate X-ray radiography sourceto image the dynamic phenomena in which hewas interested. As a result he pursued a new gen-eration of radiography sources that were based onhigh power Marx generators coupled with lowimpedance transmission lines and cold cathode

single-stage accelerating gaps. Thus was modernpulsed power born.

Pulsed power science and technologyrapidly disseminated to the USA, formerSoviet Union and the present-day Russia,Europe and Asia. Pulsed power refers to thetechnology whereby energy is accumulatedover a relatively long period of time, and thencompressed in a short period of time to deliv-er very large power pulses to a load. Pulsedpower has been an enabling technology forparticle beam diodes, imploding plasmas, andother primarily defense-related applications.Today, Pulsed Power is used to drive biologi-cal experiments, purify water from municipaldrinking supplies and effluents from combus-tion processes, etc, evolving to become animportant technology in the environmentaland biomedical arenas.

This biennial conference is the principalforum for the exchange of information on

John MaenchenGeneral Chair


pulsed power science and technology and theconference proceedings serve as the majorarchival source of papers published in this field.PPC2005 registration is Monday, June 13th,with technical sessions Tuesday throughFriday. PPC2005 immediately precedes the32nd IEEE International Conference onPlasma Science (ICOPS 2005), repeating thesuccessful teaming of the two conferences that

first took place in Monterey in 1999. ICOPS2005 starts the following Monday, June 20that the same location to enhance the interactionbetween these two communities. As shown inthe calendar below, an ICOPS minicourse“The Physics of Z Pinches” will unite the twoconferences.

We look forward to welcoming you toMonterey.

Edl SchamilogluScientific Program Chair

ICOPS 2005INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON PLASMA SCIENCESMonterey, California

20-23 June 2005

We wish to extend a cordial invitationto the 32nd IEEE InternationalConference on Plasma Science

(ICOPS) to be held in Monterey, California20-23 June 2005 with a minicourse scheduled18-19 June. The venue is the Portola PlazaHotel, formerly the DoubleTree Hotel, on theharbor in Monterey. ICOPS 2005 will be pre-ceded by the 15th IEEE International PulsedPower Conference, 13-17 June, also at thePortola Plaza.

Plasma science covers a wide range of top-ics, both fundamental and applied. ICOPS willoffer a balanced program of technical presen-tations spanning the range. Overall topicsinclude:• Basic Processes in Fully and Partially

Ionized Plasmas • Microwave Generation and Plasma

Interaction• Charged Particle Beams and Sources • High Energy Density Plasmas and Their

Interactions

• Industrial, Commercial, and MedicalApplications of Plasmas

• Plasma Diagnostics • Pulsed Power and Other Plasma

ApplicationsICOPS will be held at the Portola Plaza

Hotel and in the adjoining MontereyConference Center, Monday 20 June throughThursday 23 June 2005. The Portola Plaza andConference Center will also host the biannualIEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC),Monday 13 June through Friday 17 June,2005. These contiguous conferences are dis-tinct but those registrants for both ICOPS andPPC will receive a reduction in the registrationfees for both meetings. Over the weekend span-ning the PPC and ICOPS, there will be a mini-course on The Physics of Z-Pinches organizedby Jack Davis of the Naval Research Laboratoryand Christopher Deeney of Sandia NationalLaboratories; the minicourse is organized aspart of ICOPS. Complete information onICOPS can be obtained at www.icops2005.org.


There is a link on this website for registrationand abstract submission. Information on PPCcan be found at www.sandia.gov/ppc2005.

The town of Monterey is located on theMonterey Peninsula about 100 miles south ofSan Francisco, just north of Carmel and the BigSur coast. The geography is complex and stun-ning; the town is rich in history and culture.There are numerous recreational activities anddestinations that include spectacular naturalland- and seascapes, truly world-class golf, possi-

bly the planet’s best aquarium, local missions,historic Fisherman’s Wharf and Cannery Row.Wineries are close at hand, shopping is excellentand widely varied, and restaurants serve fresh fare- seafood from just offshore and produce fromjust over the hills. June is well beyond the rainyseason and the weather is generally sunny andcool. Monterey is a great place to work and relax.There is commercial air service into Monterey oryou can arrive via a pleasant drive through theCoast Range from any of the Bay Area airports.

RADIATION EFFECTS CONFERENCE2005 NSREC Set for Seattle

The 2005 IEEE Nuclear and SpaceRadiation Effects Conference (NSREC)will be held July 11-15, 2005 in Seattle,

Washington at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel andTowers. The conference features a TechnicalProgram consisting of ten sessions of con-tributed papers that describe the latest observa-tions and research results in radiation effects.Also included is a Short Course, presented onJuly 11, that will emphasize scaling effects inmodern microelectronic devices and the likelyeffects of continued progression in device scal-ing on radiation susceptibility in space, aRadiation Effects Data Workshop, and anIndustrial Exhibit. The Technical Programincludes oral and poster sessions. There will alsobe special events for companions in a parallelsocial program. Supporters of the Conferenceinclude the Defense Threat Reduction Agency,Sandia National Laboratories, Air ForceResearch Laboratory, the Jet PropulsionLaboratory, NASA Goddard SFC, andAerospace Corporation.

TECHNICAL PROGRAMPapers to be presented at this meeting willdescribe the effects of space or nuclear radia-tion on electronic or photonic devices, cir-cuits, sensors, materials, and systems, as wellas semiconductor processing technology anddesign techniques for producing radiation-tolerant devices and integrated circuits. Anew session that was initiated last year onradiation-hardening by design has been con-tinued because of the high interest for spaceand defense systems. The conference will beattended by engineers, scientists and man-agers who are concerned with radiation

effects. International participation in the con-ference is strongly encouraged.

Specific topics for technical papers that willbe presented at this conference include thefollowing:

Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects inElectronic Materials and Devices• Ionizing radiation effects• Displacement damage effects• Radiation effects on materials• Single-event charge collection phenomena

and mechanisms• Processing-induced radiation effects• Radiation transport, energy deposition and

dosimetry

Radiation Effects on Electronic andPhotonic Devices and Circuits• MOS, bipolar and advanced technologies• SOI and SOS technologies• Optoelectronic and optical devices, and

optical systems• Novel devices structures, such as MEMS• Single-event effects• Modeling of devices, circuits and systems• Methods for radiation hardening by design

and manufacturing• Radiation effects at cryogenic temperatures• Particle detectors and associated electronics

at high-energy accelerators

Space, Atmospheric and TerrestrialRadiation Effects• Characterization and modeling of radiation

environments• Space weather effects• Spacecraft charging

Hardness Assurance Technology andRadiation Testing• Testing techniques and guidelines• Hardness assurance methodology• Dosimetry

Radiation Effects on Commercial SpaceSystems

New Developments of Interest to theRadiation Effects Community

RADIATION EFFECTS DATA WORKSHOPThe Radiation Effects Data Workshop is aforum for papers on radiation effects data onelectronic devices and systems. Workshoppapers are intended to provide radiationresponse data to scientists and engineers whouse electronic devices in a radiation environ-ment, and for designers of radiation-hardenedor radiation-tolerant systems. Papers describ-ing new simulation facilities are also welcomed.

PAPER SUBMITTALInformation on the submission of summariesto the 2005 NSREC for either the TechnicalSessions or the Data Workshop can be found atwww.nsrec.com. The deadline for submittingsummaries was February 4, 2005, and finalselection of papers will be made in March. Alimited number of late-news papers will beconsidered for the conference, but must besubmitted by May 30. Late-news papers mustclearly show why they are newsworthy, as wellas technically significant.

Papers accepted for the conference are eli-gible for publication in the December issue ofthe IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,subject to an additional review cycle after theconference. Papers presented at the Workshopwill be published in a special IEEE publicationfollowing the conference that is not subject toan additional peer review.

SHORT COURSEAttendees will have the opportunity to partici-pate in a one-day Short Course on Monday,July 11. This one-day Short Course willaddress several evolving problems that areimportant when modern microelectronicdevices are used in space. The motivationstems from the rapid evolution of microelec-tronic device design and manufacturing. Thishas allowed devices to be designed with veryhigh density, extreme complexity and marked-ly improved performance. Although those

manufacturing trends improve some aspects ofradiation hardness, they also raise new issuesand concerns that impact their performance inspace that have not been addressed in previousshort courses at this conference. Much of thematerial presented in the course will emphasizescaling effects, and the likely effects of contin-ued progression in device scaling on radiationsusceptibility in space environments. AllanJohnston of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the2005 Short Course Chairman, has organized ahighly qualified team of lecturers for these top-ics. Four different talks will be presented.Experts in the semiconductor industry willgive the first two talks, providing specialinsight into scaling effects, technology evolu-tion and soft-error sensitivity of unhardenedcommercial microelectronics. The pace ofchange in this industry is affected by econom-ic factors and capitalization costs as well astechnical requirements. The last two talks willbe given by experts in the radiation effectscommunity, discussing two specific issues –total dose effects and single-event transients inlinear circuits – that will include hardeneddevices as well as commercial devices.

In the first section of the short course, Prof.Scott Thompson, University of Florida, will dis-cuss trends in transistor technology for nanoscaledevices. The era of simple device scaling is over,with progress now being made via new materialsand changes in the device structure. The sessionwill interpret the Semiconductor IndustryAssociation Roadmap, beginning with short-term topics related to scaling that are expected tobe in production during the next 5 years, such asnanoscale MOSFETs, strained silicon, and high-k gates. This will be followed by a discussion oflong-term topics that are ahead of initial projec-tions, as well as some that are off the mainstream, but offer high potential for advances inscaling and performance. These include car-bon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, and single-electron devices for both logic and memoryapplications.

The second talk by Dr. Robert Baumann,Texas Instruments, will discuss the extensivework done by integrated circuit manufacturersto deal with terrestrial radiation effects fromneutrons produced in the upper atmosphere,and alpha particles emitted by materials withinintegrated circuits and packages. Those issuesbecame relevant more than twenty years ago,and are now mainstream concerns of the com-mercial electronics industry. He will discuss


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mechanisms, test structures and test methodsused to determine soft-error rates for commer-cial devices, as well as the JEDEC TestStandard used by manufacturers to measureand validate soft-error rates. The effects ofdevice scaling on soft-error susceptibility willalso be discussed. The talk will conclude witha comparison of the environments and issuesconsidered by manufacturers to the moresevere environments encountered in space.

After lunch, Prof. Hugh Barnaby, ArizonaState University, will discuss several key issuesassociated with deep submicron and nonclassi-cal devices as well as advanced materials in thespace radiation environment. There are, asoutlined in the ITRS roadmap, numerouschallenges ahead for commercial industry in itseffort to track Moore’s Law down to the 45nm node and beyond. While many of the clas-sical threats posed by the space radiation envi-ronment have been diminished by aggressivesemiconductor scaling, the question remainswhether there may be unknown, potentiallyworse threats, lurking in the deep submicronregime. In this course, Dr. Barnaby will pro-vide a basic overview of some of the materials,devices, and designs that are being exploredor, in some cases, used today. He will reviewspace radiation threats and how the impact ofradiation is characterized. The last part of thecourse will include a detailed discussion ofwhat we know now about how moderndevices and materials respond to radiation andhow we may assess, through the use ofadvanced analysis and modeling techniques,the relative hardness of future technologies.

Steve Buchner, QSS/NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center, will wrap up the Course with atalk on transients in linear integrated circuitsthat are produced when they are exposed tohigh-energy particles. This is a complex prob-lem that affects many types of hardened linearcircuits as well as unhardened commercialdevices that are selected and qualified for spaceapplications. He will discuss mechanisms andcircuit-related issues for linear transients, test-ing methods, and special diagnostic tech-niques, including the use of pulsed lasers todetermine the sensitive regions within com-plex linear circuits that produce output tran-sients. Examples of the effects of transients infielded space systems will also be discussed.

This cohesive set of talks is geared towarddesigners, radiation effects engineers, compo-nent specialists and other technical and man-

agement personnel that are involved in devel-oping space systems. Each lecturer will devel-op the core content of their respective topicsfrom initial background material, allowing thecourse to benefit both new and experiencedengineers, scientists and managers. In-depthnotes will be provided. For those interested inContinuing Education Units (CEUs), therewill be an open-book test at the end of thecourse. The course is valued at 0.6 CEUs, andis endorsed by the IEEE and the InternationalAssociation for Education and Training(IACET).

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITAn Industrial Exhibit will be included as partof the Conference. The exhibit will be held onTuesday and Wednesday. It will includeexhibits from 35-40 exhibitors that representcompanies or agencies involved in manufactur-ing electronic devices or systems for applica-tions in space or nuclear environments, mod-eling and analysis of radiation effects at thedevice and system level, and radiation testing.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTSThe main social event for the Conference willbe a 4-hour adventure that includes a boatcruise on Elliot Bay, a delicious buffet featur-ing traditional Indian-style baked salmon, aspectacular stage show, and time to explore theforested trails and picturesque beach walks onBlake Island State Park. Local expert MarkBaze will lead a guided hiking excursion. TheIndian Cultural Center will be reserved exclu-sively for the conference during the evening,allowing attendees and family members theopportunity to network and visit in a relaxedatmosphere.

Companion events include a family-friendlytour of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, part ofthe 8-mi Lake Washington Ship Canal that con-nects freshwater Lake Washington and LakeUnion with the salt water of Shilshole Bay andPuget Sound. Visitors will also have a chance toobserve how the marine population makes thesame journey from saltwater to fresh water onthe fish ladder, whose 21 levels form a gradualincline that allows an estimated half millionsalmon and trout to swim upstream each year. Atour of the Chateau St. Michelle winery andelegant sit-down luncheon is also planned.

SEATTLEThe combination of water, hills and lush green-ery, set against a backdrop of far-off mountains,

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including the spectacular Mt.Rainier, makesSeattle one of the most beautiful urban areas inthe USA. Truly, the bluest skies are in Seattle,and the days are long and warm in July, wherethe amount of rainfall is less than Phoenix dur-ing that month. Everyone takes advantage ofthe outdoors! This easily accessible and user-friendly city has numerous fine restaurants,interesting museums, and a vigorous arts scenein the downtown area. Unique attractions, suchas the Pike Place Market, draw many locals andvisitors through displays of wearable art, freshfruits, vegetables, and huge bouquets of freshflowers that fill the senses with wonderful col-ors and delicious scents. Cycling and walkingtrails interlace the urban area, and local ferriesinterconnect nearby islands, providing yetanother fun and unique way to tour the area.Seattle is also a major US port and boasts mod-ern cruise ship facilities for trips to Alaska.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEEGeneral Chair: Fred SextonSandia National Laboratories, (505) 844-3927Technical Program: Mike XapsosNASA/GSFC, (301) 286-2263Short Course: Allan JohnstonJet Propulsion Laboratories, (818) 354-6425Finance: Ron LacoeThe Aerospace Corp, (310) 336-0118Local Arrangements: Kay JobeBoeing Space Systems, Co, (310) 416-3705Publicity: Teresa FarrisAeroflex Colorado Springs (719) 594-8035Awards: Jim KinnisonJohns Hopkins/Applied Physics Laboratory,(240) 228-6169Industrial Exhibits: Nazik MaloyanInternational Rectifier, Inc, (310) 726-8412Guest Editor: John CresslerGeorgia Tech, (404) 894-5161


FINAL REPORT2004 NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCEIncluding the Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems

14th Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors Workshop and Special Focus Workshops

(Rome, Italy, October 16-22, 2004)http://www.nss-mic.org/2004

Alberto Del GuerraGeneral Chair

Sibylle ZieglerMIC Program Chair

Fabio SauliNSS Program Chair

The Nuclear Science Symposium, MedicalImaging Conference, Symposium onNuclear Power Systems, and the 14th

International Workshop on Room TemperatureSemiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectorswas held for the first time in Italy, in the presti-gious city of Rome, on October 16-22, 2004.The conference under the “patronage” of Mr.

Philippe Busquin, Member of the EuropeanCommission and of the Italian Ministry ofUniversity and Research was sponsored by theNuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of theIEEE, the University of Pisa, the Department ofPhysics of the University of Pisa, the IstitutoNazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), CERN,the Associazione per lo Sviluppo Scientifico e

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Tecnologico del Piemonte (ASP), the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH), and theMunicipality of Rome.

The Conference has been also supported byseveral companies listed below in alphabeticalorder:

CDC S.p.A., CPS Innovations, CTI-Concorde LLC, GARR, General ElectricGlobal Research, Hamamatsu Photonics Italias.r.l., ORTEC, Philips Medical Systems,Programatica S.p.A., Siemens MedicalSolutions.

The venue of the conference was theErgife Palace Hotel, one of the largest exhi-bition and congress areas in Europe. TheNuclear Science Symposium has been an out-standing meeting for scientists and engineersworking in the fields of nuclear science, radi-ation instrumentation, software and theirapplications. The Medical ImagingConference was once again an extremely pro-ductive scientific meeting of internationalexperts on the physics, engineering, andmathematical aspects of nuclear imaging inmedicine. The Room TemperatureSemiconductor Detectors workshop hasjoined in for the second year in a row, bring-ing an additional forum of scientists and engi-neers working to develop new solid-stateradiation detectors and imaging arrays.

Two excellent sets of short courses weregiven at the start of the NSS/MIC programs,covering a wide range of nuclear and medicaltechnology. One set was mostly related toNSS topics (SC1: Radiation Detection andMeasurement; SC2: Detectors forAstroparticle and Synchrotron RadiationExperiments; SC3: Semiconductor Strip, Pixeland Voxel Arrays; SC4: GEANT4).The otherset was principally related to MIC topics(SC5: Detectors for SPECT and PET; SC6:Biomedical Applications of Particle Detectors;SC7: Optical Imaging; SC8: StatisticalMethods for Image Reconstruction).

We were fortunate to receive many grantsfrom public institutions and private companiestoward the financial support of PhD studentsand young post-docs. In addition, an INTASgrant and an FP6 grant from the EuropeanUnion have allowed support for scientists fromRussia and other Eastern Countries. A summa-ry is presented in Table 1. Portions of somegrants were specifically targeted for shortcourse fees. In total, more than 300 attendeesenrolled in the short courses.

Table 1- Grants and Educational ProgramSponsor Number of Grantees-----------------------------------------------------•INFN (Italy) 12•IEEE [Short Courses] 2•NIH (USA) 35•NIH [Short Courses] (USA) 9•(Medical Imaging) Companies 22•INTAS (EU) 20•FP6 (EU) 6•ASP (Italy) 4

The Industrial Program was extremely suc-cessful. Almost 50 companies from all aroundthe world were present to demonstrate theirlatest products in detectors, pulse processinginstrumentation, imaging, software, and otherassociated areas. The exhibition was comple-mented by a series of seminars and technicalpresentations, which allowed an in-depthexchange of information between attendeesand exhibitors on existing products, futuredevelopments and needs.

The entire Conference program extendedover an eight-day period (including the NRBCworkshop), the time schedule for which is list-ed in Table 2.

Table 2 - Time slots allocated to the variousevents of the Conference------------------------------------------------------•Short Courses (3.5 days)•Nuclear Science Symposium (4 days)•Medical Imaging Conference (3.5 days)•RTSD (3.5 days)•SNPS (1 day)•GW Workshop (1 day)•SR Workshop (1 day)•NRBC Workshop (1.5 days)•Industrial Program (3 days)

We received an extraordinary number ofabstract submissions: more than 1650 in total.This number sets an all-time record for theConference. An outstanding scientific pro-gram was laid down by the chairs of the vari-ous tracks with the help of more than 400reviewers.

The total number of registered participantshas also set an all-time record with a final num-ber of 1835. The participation by country isshown in Figure 1. Europe had the largestattendance with a total of 55.23%, followed byNorth America (31.23%) and then Asia(12.17%), while the remaining countries

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reached 1.37%. The subdivision among thevarious categories is represented in Table 3. Ifone considers the registered accompanyingpersons and the additional attendees at theNRBC workshop, the total number exceeds2200.

Table 3 – Attendee breakdown by variouscategories-------------------------------------------------------•IEEE Member 368•IEEE Student 103•Non-IEEE Member 789•Non-IEEE Student 237•One-day only 86•Short Courses only 21•Retired/Unemployed 16•Committee Members 72

& Invited speakers & staff•Exhibitors 143

-----------------Total 1835

The Grand Opening of the Conference (seeFig. 2) was held on Monday 18 October,chaired by the General Chair, Alberto DelGuerra, with the participation of the presidentof INFN, Prof. Roberto Petronzio, the Directorof the Sezione INFN of Pisa, Prof. RinoCastaldi, the vice-rector of Pisa University, Prof.Enrico Giaccherini, the Director of the PhysicsDepartment of Pisa University, Prof. PaoloRossi and the official representative of CERN,Dr. Jean-Marie Le Goff. Following the GrandOpening, two distinguished invited speakersshed light on subjects of general interest: Prof.Pier Andrea Mandò (Florence University) on“Nuclear Techniques for the CulturalHeritage,” and Dr. Lothar Strüder, (Max PlankInstitute, Munich) on “Semiconductor

Detectors - In Heaven andon Earth.”

The opening session wasfollowed by the traditionalNSS Luncheon, during whichProf. Ugo Amaldi (Universityof Milano Bicocca and TERAFoundation) gave an excel-lent talk on “Advances inRadiotherapy: from theDiscovery of X-Rays toHadron Therapy.” As for thedetailed NSS scientific pro-gram, the accepted paperswere assigned to 44 oral par-allel and two plenary poster

sessions. Moreover, two dedicated joint NSS-MIC sessions presented contributions bridgingthe fields of nuclear detectors and medicalimaging.

The Medical Imaging Conference was offi-cially opened on Wednesday, 20 October bytwo invited speakers: Professor Peter Morrisfrom the Sir Peter Mansfield MagneticResonance Centre of the University ofNottingham (“Exploring the Mind withFunctional Magnetic Resonance”), andProfessor Michael Unser of the Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology in Lausanne (“MedicalImage Interpolation - the Quest for HigherQuality”). The MIC banquet on Thursdayevening featured a lecture by ProfessorGiovanni Ettore Gigante from the UniversityLa Sapienza in Rome, who shared his experi-ence in using physical techniques for the analy-sis and restoration of art works. As for MIC,the program included 10 oral sessions, and 4non-overlapping poster sessions.

To foster poster sessions and young studentparticipation, four poster awards were given,two for NSS posters and two for MIC posters,respectively.

The 14th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray andGamma-Ray Detectors scientific program wasarranged in 12 oral sessions and 1 poster ses-sion. The Symposium on Nuclear PowerSystems was arranged in three oral sessions. Thisyear, two one-day Workshops on “Sensing,Control and Readout of Gravitational WaveDetectors” and on “Synchrotron RadiationDetectors” were also held on Thursday 21 andon Friday 22, respectively. Finally, the “2004Workshop on Nuclear Radiology of BreastCancer” was run on Friday 22 and Saturday 23


Figure 1: Participants to the conference subdivided by country

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October, as a satellite workshop to the confer-ence. A Conference Record CD-ROM is duefor release early in 2005.

More than 200 Internet connections, bothwired and wireless, were set up so as to satisfythe needs of the attendees in four separatelocations, including the Exhibitor Area. TheIEEE membership desk located near theRegistration Desk, was run very efficiently byVernon Price and attracted quite a number ofnew IEEE members.

Due to the extraordinary number of atten-dees all the social events were also sold out:• Welcome Cocktail at Ergife Palace Hotel

(Monday, October 18)• Exhibitors Reception at Ergife Palace Hotel

(Tuesday, October 19)• Conference Dinner at Villa Miani

(Wednesday, October 20).

The Tour program (which was also soldout) included Rome Seen from Its Belvederes,The Glories of Baroque Rome, Ostia Antica,Imperial Rome, Tivoli and Stately Homes, andThe Vatican Museums,.

It was a tremendous job to organize and runsuch a huge conference. As is always the case,there were some flaws and difficulties.Nevertheless, I hope that the attendees were sat-isfied both with the scientific content and thegeneral organization. If this is the case the meritgoes entirely to the team of extraordinary friendsand colleagues (see Fig. 3) who shared with methe burden of organizing this conference.

Alberto Del Guerra can be reached at:Department of Physics, University of Pisa, ViaF. Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy; Phone:+39050 2214942; Fax: +39 050 2214333 ; E-mail :[email protected]

Figure 2: The OpeningSession, NSS/MIC Rome2004

Figure 3: The OrganizingCommittee of the Rome2004 NSS/MIC Conference

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As I write this article a few days beforeNew Years Eve, “out with the old and inwith the new” seems to be a highly

appropriate theme. The terms of four electedAdCom members (Tom Lewellen, Mark Rader,Erik Heijne, and Mike Unterweger) and threeTechnical Committee Chairs (Bob Reinovsky,Bruce Brown, and Christian Boulin) end in afew days and six new people will take over theirpositions on AdCom (Chris Deeney, RonJaszczak, Uwe Bratzler, Gerry Cooperstein,Ilan Ben-Zvi, and Jean-Pierre Martin). I wouldlike to thank the outgoing members and Chairsfor four years of hard work, and to welcometheir replacements; I look forward to their con-tributions. I also welcome our new AdComVice-President, Jane Lehr of Sandia NationalLaboratory. Jane will become the AdComPresident when my term is completed (in twoyears), and I’m confident that she will do anoutstanding job. Although she was elected lessthan two months ago, she has already been agreat help in running AdCom. Finally, I wouldlike to thank Tony Lavietes for taking on thejob of Assistant NPSS Treasurer, and IgorAlexeff and Peter Winokur for adding twomore years onto their AdCom service in theroles performed by the Past-Presidents.

You may have also noticed that we have anew Editor for this Newsletter. I thank AlbeLarsen for taking on the job and especiallythank Ken Dawson for nine years of outstand-ing service as Newsletter Editor. I’m glad tosay that Ken is staying on as Editor Emeritus,which means that we will continue to have allof the quips and quotes that have become anessential part of the Newsletter!

There have also been significant changes inthe editorial staff of Transactions on NuclearScience (TNS). The death of Ed Hoffman,who edited the papers submitted to theMedical Imaging Conference (MIC) portionof the NSS/MIC Meeting, coupled with JohnValentine stepping down as the Editor for TNSmanuscripts associated with the NSS, meantthat we did not have Editors for approximate-ly half of the papers that appear in TNS. It hasbeen a challenging six months as we worked torecover from this double blow, but we are now

in excellent shape. During this time JohnValentine and Paul Kinahan, as interimEditors, kept the flow of manuscripts frombeing interrupted while, in parallel, a commit-tee led by Steve Gold took a close look at theTNS editorial process. This committee recom-mended two highly desirable changes: 1) addapproximately a dozen Associate Editors, tocreate another editorial “layer” but reduce thework load on the Editors, and 2) eliminate thedistinction between manuscripts submitted inassociation with a conference and those notassociated with a conference. We are nowimplementing these changes and have anEditor-in-Chief (Paul Dressendorfer), fourSenior Editors (Zane Bell for RadiationInstrumentation, Joel Karp for NuclearMedical and Imaging Sciences, John Cresslerfor Radiation Effects, and Jean-Pierre Dufeyfor Real-Time Computer Applications), andare in the process of naming Associate Editors.The only changes that authors and readersshould see are improved quality and consisten-cy of review, as well as shorter review time!

The final change is one that is coming inex-orably, but whose exact form is uncertain. Thatis Open Access, the idea that, as taxpayers havepaid for the research that is presented in manyrefereed journals, these articles should be avail-able to everybody at no cost. That is, if theresearch reported in an article was supportedby government funding, the publisher of thatarticle (such as IEEE) would have to providean electronic copy of that article to anybodywho requested it (even if they did not have asubscription to that journal). This movementis rapidly gaining momentum and my belief isthat it will be common before my term asPresident is over. As a user of information, Ieagerly await Open Access and applaud theconcept. As a publisher of journals, it scaresthe pants off me. There are substantial costsassociated with producing a journal, and it isuncertain just how these will get paid for inOpen Access. At first glance it seems thatputting an electronic manuscript on the Webshould cost very little, and that is true provid-ed that it is essentially a duplicate of an articlethat has already been produced in paper for-

PRESIDENT’S REPORT


NPSS GENERAL BUSINESS

Bill MosesNPSS President

Hope springseternal

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The IEEE NPSS AdCom met on 23October 2004 at the Ergife PalaceHotel in Rome, Italy for our second

non-North American meeting. It was excitingto be able to see some of the second NSS/MICconference held outside North America and tobe amazed at the large attendance and dynam-ic program organized for this conference.

As this was our Annual meeting, it was a timewhen changes were announced, and I join withBill Moses in extending thanks to the outgoingClass of 2004 AdCom members Tom Lewellen,Mark Rader, Erik Heijne, and Mike Unterwegerand technical committee chairs ChristianBoulin, Bruce Brown and Bob Reinovsky forfour years each of dedicated service. I join inBill’s delight with the election of Jane Lehr, justat the end of her first year of AdCom service, asour new Vice President, from a strong pool ofvice-presidential candidates.

Ed Lampo, our Treasurer, reported that theconferences are, overall, doing well financially,but as always, late closings have to be watched.We also had an unbudgeted expense of $50,000in 2004 to buy computer equipment and pro-jectors that can be used by our conferences andthat will help reduce some of the very highrental charges. Anyone who is interested shouldcontact Tony Lavietes at [email protected] is somewhat behind schedule in 2004.

Bill Moses thanked two ad hoc committees,one assessing TNS and the other looking atmembership issues, for their work. He alsoannounced that Anthony (Tony) Lavietes ofLivermore National Laboratory has beenappointed Assistant Treasurer to give Ed

Lampo some help. Tony will assume principalresponsibility for conference budgets andfinance and will provide overall backup for Edas needed. Carolyn Hoffman (see letter below)had also sent thanks to Bill for all the remem-brances of Ed and for making it possible forher to attend the NSS/MIC this year.

Bill and others will attend the IEEE TABmeetings in November. Although IEEE is run-ning in the red this year, we anticipate that ourtreasury will not be as severely impacted as it hasbeen in past years. An IEEE TAB strategy work-shop discussed membership, publications andopen access, the latter of which Bill has discussedin detail in his report above. This may have a bigimpact on our income stream, but it will be ayear or two until that is determined. Anotherissue that arose is that of hotel contracts. Theseare becoming more complex, negotiating favor-able conditions is getting harder and, with thenumber of conferences and smaller workshopsand other meetings organized by IEEE (over300 per year) there is a feeling that the Instituteis not using its buying power to best advantage.There is also a big difference in how US confer-ences and international conferences are man-aged. Perhaps it is time for IEEE to develop itsown blanket hotel contract for all IEEE confer-ences. On the good news side, NPSS confer-ences have been growing, which has not beentrue for all IEEE societies.

Our Finance chair and Division IVDirector, Harold Flescher, also discussedIEEE finances, income streams, and entitieswithout income streams that use resources. Ofthis amount, HQ requires only about $25m,


SECRETARY’S REPORT

mat. However, the number of printed copiesof our publications is falling rapidly, so theelectronic publication needs to share the costto produce the “original” copy and may soonneed to bear the entire cost. In addition, wedemand more features from electronic articlesthan we do from paper, such as live links to thereferences in the manuscript (or to articles thatcite the one we are reading), so the cost toproduce electronic copy actually exceeds thatto produce paper copy. Finally, IEEE providesliterally millions of papers, and the overhead ofmanaging all of them (as well as maintainingthe systems to store and deliver them) is non-trivial. Thus, “Open Access” will probably notmean “Free Access,” as these costs must be

paid for. I do not know what form it will be —whether there will be a return to somethinglike page charges, whether there will be someform of external support, or whether there willbe some form of search or download fee.However, I’m certain that the way that IEEEcharges for publications will change signifi-cantly in the next few years and I look forwardto NPSS being part of the evolution.

If you have any thoughts on these or anyother issues, please feel free to contact me.

Bill Moses can be reached at the LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory, MS 55-12, OneCyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA;Phone:+1 510 486-4432; Fax: +1 510 486-4768;E-mail: [email protected].

Albe Dawson LarsenNPSS Secretary

or 12% of income. It is a lean organization,thanks to Dan Senese, the retiring manager.Society and publications costs for infrastruc-ture have to be paid for and so do such thingsas salary increases, motivational bonuses, andthings like the huge increase in the cost ofpaper. Hal notes that Open Access and mem-bership issues will be important for the nextseveral years. It is, with publishing changes,becoming increasingly hard to explain thevalue of the $135 membership dues.

One issue brought up in discussion was thatof requiring IEEE membership to allow paperpresentation and publication at our confer-ences and in our journals. Other societies dohave such policies, and perhaps TAB shouldevaluate this.

Much detail that was presented in theTechnical Committee reports can be seenbelow in the reports from many of theTechnical Committees, so will not be repeatedhere. There is also a lot of information on theIEEE NPSS web site related to the conferences.One item of note is that Particle AcceleratorScience and Technology is considering theintroduction of short courses with their 2007conference that will be held in Albuquerquecontiguous to the joint Plasma Sciences/PulsedPower conference. Both will be held in thesame venue with a weekend between.

Radiation Effects noted a large drop ininternational attendance at their 2004 confer-ence. It is unclear whether this was due to visaissues or another factor, but visas are definite-ly harder to get and take more time, so it isimportant to get invitation letters out earlyand to urge people from countries where visasare required, to send in their requests early.Make sure you know who the applicants areand be very clear about issues of support!

Erik Heijne reported that the TransnationalCommittee still needs to be expanded, and thatit should work more vigorously with theMembership committee to increase internation-al membership. Erik also discussed the visa issuesin greater detail, including problems that peoplewith valid visas have experienced in returning tothe US from visits abroad. Several technical soci-eties are looking into this issue.

The Conference Information andPromotion Committee (CIP), formed forthe 2000 NSS/MIC in Lyon, is an offshootof the Transnational Committee and hasbeen very active in promoting NPSS confer-ences through posters, and information

table at meetings, preparing participantpackages, putting articles in non-NPSS jour-nals, advertising, and so on. They are a veryenergetic, active group who have focused onNSS/MIC and the Real Time conference,but they just might be willing to help withother conferences.

For NPSS Conference chairs, it was againemphasized that one must be familiar withboth the IEEE conference planning manualand the supplemental NPSS documents asthere are very specific details about ExecutiveCommittees, publicity requirements, etc. Ifyou are a conference chair and haven’treceived these documents or the links tothem, contact Ray Larsen ([email protected]) who will assist you. Conference-related organizational questions should alsobe addressed to Ray.

Igor Alexeff noted that getting nominationsfor the Society awards is hard work. Rememberto send Igor ([email protected]) nominations forthe Merit, Shea and Graduate Scholar awards.See the NPSS web site for details http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm. The sub-mittal deadline is May 15th and we have manycolleagues deserving of these, technical commit-tee, and IEEE awards.

Vern Price again told us the NPSS member-ship, although down slightly, has been fairlyconstant over the last 20 years, but the mem-bership “churn” or turnover is high. Generally,those who make it through the first few yearsstay for the long haul.

Overall, IEEE membership is down about6% in the last year. It is expected that by 2015or slightly thereafter, North Americans will be50% or less of total IEEE membership. Canyou tell us why IEEE NPSS is important toyou? Send me a note. We’d like to know.

By the time you receive this, the deadlinefor Fellow nominations will be past. However,it is none too early to think about 2006 nom-inations as preparation of the application takessome time. If you know of anyone who shouldbe a Fellow, contact either Peter Winokur orIgor Alexeff to help you get the process start-ed. Fellow candidates must be senior membersof IEEE, should be nominated by anothersenior member, and will need letters of recom-mendation from a minimum of six Fellows.

This year, only TNS managed to stay closeenough to its projected page count that itreceived a bonus from IEEE Publications. Wehope that TPS, with 8 special issues in 2005,


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will again be in the bonus-receiving column.We have also had a tough year for TNS in los-ing special edition editors. John Valentineresigned and Ed Hoffman passed away. PaulKinahan deserves a large vote of thanks forfinishing the 2003 MIC papers and forlaunching the 2004 effort, and John deservesequal thanks for hanging on when he waseager to step aside from his editorial duties.After much searching, and past the AdCommeeting, new editors have been found and anew editorial structure has been proposed forour journals, which is being implemented.

For anyone interested in submitting materialto the Newsletter, the deadlines are April 15 forthe June issue, and July 25 for the Septemberissue. We are especially looking for articlesabout the technical work our members do.

Peter Clout, chair of the CommunicationsCommittee, reported that a new brochure willbe released in 2005. We need to learn to takeadvantage of advertising opportunities, such asthe 2007 confluence of three of our confer-ences, and we should issue press releases aboutour awards. If you need brochures for one ofour conferences, or posters, or to use thebooth, contact Peter directly ([email protected]) to request these items.

At present, according to Ron Keyser, chairof our Standards Committee,, there are 10 to12 NPSS standards that must be reaffirmed orupdated. A core group of people who are bothNPSS and Standards Committee members areneeded for the balloting process. Contact Ron([email protected]) if this is anactivity that interests you. What about the 40-year-old NIM standard? Is anyone out therestill interested in it? Let Ron know.

Hal Flescher who also wears the hat ofRADECS liaison, reported that there will be aRADECS workshop in the south of France in2005, and that the 2006 meeting will be ineither Greece or Sweden.

AdCom actions:A motion was passed to allow the presentation ofup to two student paper awards and two honor-able mention certificates at each NPSS conferenceat the conference committee’s discretion. Detailshave been submitted to TABARC for considera-tion and it is hoped that before you receive this,these new awards will have been sanctioned.

There were three motions related topublications:1. AdCom endorses the proposed Editorial struc-

ture for TNS with an Editor-in-Chief, SeniorEditors, and Associate Editors, for the technicalareas of Radiation Instrumentation, NuclearMedical and Imaging Sciences, RadiationEffects, and Real-Time Computer Applications,and authorizes the Editor-in-Chief of TNS tomove forward with this structure.This motion was moved, seconded and

passed. To implement this, a change in theConstitution and Bylaws will be required.

2. AdCom endorses the elimination of the dis-tinction in the editorial process betweenmanuscripts originating from conferencesand those submitted as “regular contribu-tions.” In general, the same editorial staffwill handle the review process for all papers,regardless of origin. The Editor-in-Chief ofTNS is authorized to move forward withimplementing this change.This motion was moved, seconded and passed.

3. Paul Dressendorfer is authorized for 2005to allocate up to $40,000 for administrativesupport to the Editorial staff of TNS.This motion was moved, seconded, andpassed, and Paul will regulate how thismoney is allocated and spent. He and otherswill also investigate the practicality or wis-dom in having one person handle all admin-istrative functions for our publications.A motion was moved, seconded and passedto have plaques made to honor certain long-standing and active members of AdCom.It was also moved, seconded and passedthat the ad hoc committees on publicationsand membership would continue in 2005.The Membership Committee has, in partic-ular, been charged with looking at how tohandle member recruitment in a post-Vernon Price era since Vernon has maderumblings about stepping aside. The publi-cations committee will finish its scrutiny ofTNS and then will take a look at how TPSoperates.

The next meeting of the AdCom will be:Saturday, 12 March 2005Sheraton Tucson Hotel and SuitesTucson, AZ

Albe Larsen can be reached at StanfordLinear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand HillRoad, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA; Phone: +1650 926-2748; Fax: +1 650 926-5124; E-mail:[email protected].

Let’s hear you

Considering howfoolishly peopleact and howpleasantly theyprattle, perhapsit would be bet-ter for the worldif they talkedmore and didless.

SomersetMaugham

Uwe Bratzler of CERN and TokyoMetropolitan University (TMU) is amember of the ATLAS Collaboration

at CERN where he has been working on theMuon Detector Project for the last nine years.His current job function is Project Manager(for TMU at CERN).

After professional training and several yearsof experience working in the telecommunica-tion field in Germany, his home country, heentered the University of Karlsruhe (Germany)where he completed his Diploma/M.S. inphysics (1990) with high honors and receiveda Fulbright Scholarship to study in the UnitedStates. He obtained his Ph.D. in experimentalparticle physics from the University ofWashington, Seattle, USA, in 1995. Hereturned to Germany to the Max-PlanckInstitute (MPI) in Munich to lead the devel-opment, production and testing of the firstlarge-scale, high-precision MDT muon detec-tor for the ATLAS project at CERN. Duringthis time, Dr. Bratzler was elected to the MPIInstitute Board. In 1998, he moved to CERNto focus on the continuing ATLAS MuonProject tasks there, and was a member of theproject management team at CERN. Dr.Bratzler is a collaborator of research teams andinstitutions from a number of countries

around the world, such as IHEP Protvino(Russia), MIT (USA), NTU Athens (Greece)and TMU (Japan). This gives him a broadbackground, insight and vision concerning ourinternational science communities, their situa-tion and problems but also their potentials indifferent countries. He is author or co-authorof numerous publications and has made sever-al crucial contributions to the development oflarge-scale particle detector systems. In addi-tion to these project tasks and activities, Dr.Bratzler has been working for physics educa-tion and outreach both in Europe and theUSA and in the last several years for the pro-motion of the IEEE Nuclear ScienceSymposium (NSS) and Medical ImagingConference (MIC). He has been an IEEEmember for 13 years and has served on theIEEE Transnational Committee (TNC) for thelast three years. He was the program chair ofthe 2003 IEEE NSS and is the leader of theIEEE NSS/MIC Conference Information andPromotion (CIP) team. Most recently, Dr.Bratzler was elected to the NPSS RadiationInstrumentation Steering Committee (RISC)where he will serve for the next 4 years. He hasbeen elected to AdCom to chair theTransnational Committee and to bring inter-national interests and concerns to AdCom.

Christopher Deeney was born onOctober 28th, 1963 in Bellshill,Scotland. In June 1984, he graduat-

ed with a First Class Honours B.Sc. inPhysics from the University of Strathclyde,Glasgow. From October 1984 to October1987, he completed his Ph.D. research onthe formation of hotspots and electronbeams in gas puff Z pinches and plasma fociiat Imperial College in London. Dr. Deeneywas a postdoctoral researcher at theUniversity of Stuttgart, Germany until May1988 when he joined Physics InternationalCompany, California.

At Physics International he became the pro-gram manager for Z-pinch-based plasma radi-

ation source development, for X-ray laserresearch and the application of pulsed coronatechnologies to pollution control. In 1991, hewas promoted to be the Department Managerof the Plasma Physics Group.

In February 1995, Dr Deeney became thefirst foreign national employee of SandiaNational Laboratories where he has been oneof the experimenters on the 8-MA Saturn and20-MA Z pulsed-power generators. FromAugust 1999 to August 2000, Dr. Deeney wason detail in the Office of Inertial ConfinementFusion, where he was responsible for planningactivities associated with various science cam-paigns, including the Nuclear SurvivabilityCampaign, the Secondary Physics Campaign,

CLASS OF 2008The Newly Elected AdCom Members

Uwe Bratzler


Christopher Deeney

Uwe BratzlerTransnational

Committee

Christopher DeeneyPlasma Science and

Applications

Ronald Jaszczak received his B.S. degreewith High Honors in Physics from theUniversity of Florida in 1964, ranking

4th in a class of 980. In 1968, he received hisPh.D. degree in Physics from the same univer-sity. He was awarded a U.S. Atomic EnergyCommission (AEC) Post-Doctoral Fellowshipat Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)and remained in its Physics Division as a StaffPhysicist until 1971. He then joined theResearch Department at Nuclear ChicagoCorporation (now Siemens Medical Systems) asa Principal Research Scientist, and was promot-ed to Chief Scientist in 1977. In 1979, he wasrecruited to Duke University Medical Center asan Associate Professor in the Department ofRadiology, and was promoted to Professor ofRadiology in 1989. Currently, he is also aProfessor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke.

Professor Jaszczak’s research interests arein the field of medical imaging science. Hehas over 32 years of experience in the designand application of nuclear medical imagingsystems. He has contributed to the devel-opment of single photon emission comput-ed tomography (SPECT), and is creditedwith coining the term SPECT. He designedand built early prototype SPECT devices,and for the past several years his researchactivities have focused on advancing thequantitative imaging capabilities of emissiontomography.

In 1981, he and his wife, Nancy, co-found-ed Data Spectrum Corporation (DSC) inHillsborough, NC, a leading manufacturer ofquality assurance and research phantoms forthe nuclear medical imaging community. Hehas authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceed-ings and book chapters. Professor Jaszczakreceived the 2000 Paul C. Aebersold Awardfrom the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and a2004 Outstanding Alumni Award from theUniversity of Florida, Gainesville.

Professor Jaszczak has been activelyinvolved in the IEEE Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society (NPSS) since 1975. He hasheld several appointed and elected positionson the NPSS Administrative Committee(AdCom) including, for example: NPSSPresident and Vice President, NPSS AdComMember, NPSS Awards Chair, NPSSNominations Committee Chair, NPSS FellowEvaluation Committee Chair, IEEETransactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)Steering Committee Chair, Associate Editorof TMI, Nuclear Medical and ImagingSciences (NMIS) Technical Committee Chair,IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC)Program Chair, and NSS/MIC Site SelectionCommittee member. In 1993, he was recog-nized for his contributions to nuclear medi-cine imaging by being elected an IEEEFellow.


Ronald J. Jaszczak

and the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program.In 2000, he was promoted to a departmentmanager position at SNL with responsibilitiesin areas including Z-pinch development andapplications of pulsed power to materialdynamics studies.

To date, Dr. Deeney has published 85journal papers on Z-pinch physics, X-raylasers, spectroscopy, plasma focus research,X-ray diagnostics, dynamic material proper-ties, and high repetition rate pulsed power

for pollution mitigation. He is also an active member of the IEEE,

having sat on the PSAC EXCOM and beingthe Chairperson for 1999 InternationalConference on Plasma Science, and is the chairfor a Z-pinch Minicourse at ICOPS 2005 inMonterey. In 1999, he was awarded an APSFellowship in the Division of Plasma Physics,and is a senior member of the IEEE. He hasparticipated in many program reviews forSandia and DOE.

Ronald J. JaszczakNuclear and Medical

Imaging Science

Jean-Pierre Martin obtained his Ph.D. inexperimental nuclear physics in 1971, atthe University of Montreal. He then

worked for the University of Montreal with theresponsibility of maintaining and developingthe data acquisition system at the NuclearPhysics Laboratory. During that period, in thevery early days of the CAMAC standard he,amongst other things, designed CAMACbranch drivers for the Laboratory. In the mid-1970s, he worked at the TRIUMF facility onrare pion decay experiments, here again con-tributing to the development of detectors(TPC) and DAQ systems.

In the early 1980s, he was involved in thedesign of the DAQ system for a gamma spec-trometer facility (called the “8Pi” detector)installed at the A.E.C.L. Laboratory at ChalkRiver and during the same period wasinvolved in a regional electron acceleratorproject and spent some time working on

beam transport issues for the Mainz electronmicrotron project.

At the end of the 1980s, Jean-Pierreworked at CERN commissioning the “ZEDchambers” DAQ system for the OPAL collab-oration, and thereafter kept it operationaluntil the final LEP shutdown. In the 1990s,he was involved in a succession of unrelatedprojects, designing and building detectorsand/or electronics for various research groupsand industries.

He is now the associate director of theR.J.A. Levesque Laboratory at the Universityof Montreal and is still heavily involved in elec-tronics, instrumentation and DAQ for manycollaborations (PICASSO, ATLAS, VERITAS,KOPIO) with particular attention given to theinstrumentation of the TIGRESS gamma spec-trometer facility at TRIUMF/ISAC.

He is a senior member of IEEE, and chairedthe NPSS Real Time Conference in May 2003.

Ilan Ben-Zvi is a senior scientist atBrookhaven National Laboratory. Heserves as the group leader for the Electron

Cooling of RHIC group in the Collider-Accelerator Department. His current researchinterests are electron cooling of hadronbeams, the generation of high-brightnesselectron beams, advanced electron beam diag-nostics, Energy Recovery Linacs, short wave-length Free-Electron Lasers, and advancedaccelerator concepts. He has developed theSuperconducting Quarter Wave Resonator,the superconducting reentrant cavity and theSuperconducting RFQ for heavy ion accelera-tors, a number of generations of the BNLphotoinjector, spearheaded the measurementof slice-emittance and phase space tomogra-phy of photoinjectors, and the developmentof a new type of superferric undulator. He iscurrently developing ampere average current,high-brightness electron beam based on asuperconducting photoinjector and energyrecovery linac.

He is a Fellow of the American PhysicalSociety, and a Senior Member of the Instituteof Electrical and Electronic Engineers, mem-ber of the New York Academy of Science andthe American Association for theAdvancement of Science. He is the recipient ofthe 1999 IEEE Accelerator Science andTechnology Award and the 2001 BNL Scienceand Technology Award.

Ilan Ben-Zvi received his Ph.D. in physicsfrom the Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot, Israel in 1970. From 1970 to 1989he was a member of the scientific staff of theWeizmann Institute. He held visiting positionsas Research Associate at Stanford University(1970-1975), Associate Professor of Physics atthe University at Stony Brook (1980-1982)and Professor of Physics at Stony Brook(1988-1990). He joined the NationalSynchrotron Light Source at BrookhavenNational Laboratory in 1989, and the ColliderAccelerator Department (joint appointment)in 2000. He is a tenured senior physicist at

New Technical Committee ChairsJean-Pierre Martin

Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences


Ilan Ben-ZviParticle Accelerator Science and Technology

Jean-Pierre Martin

Ilan Ben-Zvi

Daniel O. JobeMarch 2005N 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 23

BNL and an Adjunct Professor of Physics atStony Brook. He served as the Director of theAccelerator Test Facility, a user’s facility forbeam physicists, from 1989 to 2004, buildingup the facility to serve as the premier DOEfacility for advanced accelerator R&D.

His active involvement in internationalcooperative projects led to his design and con-struction of the current leads of the HERAproton ring in DESY, Germany, participationin the design and construction of theUniversity of Washington’s superconductingheavy ion booster, advisory work on beamoptics, cavity design and controls of the INFNsuperconducting linac in Legnaro, Italy andnew generation photoinjectors in collabora-tion with SLAC and UCLA (Gun III) andwith KEK and Sumitomo (Gun IV) in Japan.In 1996 he initiated the archive of acceleratorconference proceedings on the web, later tobecome known as JACoW. Ilan Ben-Zvi devel-oped special relations with industry, includingtransfer of technology projects and collabora-tions on the development of novel acceleratorcomponents.

He participated in the earliest stages of thedevelopment of superconducting linear acceler-ators at Stanford University. His work thereincluded SRF techniques such as UHV firing ofniobium cavities; particle beam dynamics inheavy ion linacs including work on alternatingphase focusing and beam dynamics of highbrightness ion beams, and accelerating struc-tures. In this field he is the co-developer of thesuperconducting reentrant cavity and wrotecodes that explained high order multipactoringin rf cavities. In 1975 he founded theCryogenic Technology Laboratory at theWeizmann Institute and worked there on SRF,cryogenics and electrostatic accelerators. He

developed a chopper-buncher system withemittance-independent chopper, harmonicbuncher and a superconducting rebuncher andbuilt the first quarter wave resonator supercon-ducting booster linac. At Stony Brook he par-ticipated in the construction of its Heavy IonSuperconducting Linac, developed theSuperconducting Quarter Wave Resonator, awide-band rf cavity controller circuit and theSuperconducting RFQ, all in wide use aroundthe world. At BNL he headed the constructionof the ATF Users Facility where he did researchon laser and plasma acceleration, FEL physics,superferric undulators, high brightness electronguns and optical stochastic cooling. In most ofthese instances Ilan Ben-Zvi led teams of scien-tists, engineers, technicians and administratorsto carry out complex R&D and constructionprojects.

He was a member of the editorial board ofPhysical Review Special Topics - Accelerators andBeams from its inauguration in 1998 until 2004.He is a member of the ICFA Panel on Advancedand Novel Accelerators. He was the electedSecretary-Treasurer of the APS Division ofPhysics of Beams from 1999 to 2002. From 1997to 1999 he chaired the BNL Council. He hasserved on or chaired several advisory and programcommittees of Beam Physics conferences andworkshops, (including acting as a co-chair of the1995 International FEL Conference, Programchair of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conferenceand the 2001 International FEL Conference,chair of the 2004 Advanced Accelerator ConceptsWorkshop etc.), technical advisory panels andreviews of accelerator and FEL projects. Since2005 he serves as the IEEE/NPSS ParticleAccelerator Science and Technology Committeechair. He is the author or co-author of over twohundred and fifty publications.

Daniel O. JobePlasma Science and Applications

Daniel O. Jobe attended the Universityof Wyoming studying Business in1978 continuing with studies in

Electronics/Instrumentation at the TechnicalVocational Institute through 1981. He hascompleted studies in Pulsed Power,Mathematics and X-ray Diagnostics throughSandia National Laboratories in 1983-85 and1998-99. He joined Dynalectron Corporationin 1979-80, focusing on pulsed power andinstrumentation for EMP applications. In

1980, he joined Ktech Corporation undercontract to Sandia National Laboratories,Albuquerque, as a specialist in Marx generatoroperation and development. From 1991-93he performed research in energy loss in pulsedpower switching. From 1993 through thepresent, his research interests have focused onZ-pinch diagnostics. He is the team leader ofthe Ktech Z Experimental team consisting of50 engineers and technicians responsible forproviding the Z-pinch diagnostics, target

ComputerCatechism

Q: If so, whatare the do’s anddon’ts?

A: I believe thereare just don’ts.As in “don’tbother tryingbecause it don’tdo it.”

Jim Hart

development and experimental support for theZ Accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories.

Daniel Jobe is an active member of theIEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.Beginning in 1999 at the Monterey ICOPSand continuing through the present, he has

run the IEEE Placement Center, resulting ina record number of job offerings and place-ments in plasma physics. In 2004 he servedas Vice-Chair of the Executive Committeefor the International Conference on PlasmaScience.

Gerald Cooperstein received both hisB.S. degree in physics in 1963 and aPh.D. degree in experimental high-

energy physics in 1968 from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.

At EG&G, Ion Physics Corporation, and,since 1971 at the Naval ResearchLaboratory, presently as head of the PulsedPower Physics Branch, he has been responsi-ble for research into the technology andapplications of pulsed power science. He hasco-authored over 100 publications on thesubjects of high-voltage pulsed power, andintense electron and ion beam generationand applications. Dr. Cooperstein was elect-ed a Fellow of the American Physical Society

in 1987. He was a guest editor of two specialissues of the IEEE Transactions on PlasmaScience devoted to plasma opening switchesand to pulsed power science and technology.In 1992 he served as co-chairman of the 9thInternational Conference on High-PowerParticle Beams. In 1995, Dr. Coopersteinserved as technical program chairman of the10th IEEE International Pulsed PowerConference, and in 1997 chairman of the11th IEEE International Pulsed PowerConference, and was co-editor of the pro-ceedings for all three conferences. Thepulsed power community recognized himwith the IEEE Peter Haas Pulsed PowerAward in 1999.


Gerald CoopersteinPulsed Power Science and Technology

Gerald Cooperstein

Thoughts about Edward J. HoffmanMartin P. Tornai

I’ve known Ed Hoffman since 1990. I knewof him since 1989 as one of the co-inven-tors of Positron Emission Tomography

(PET), and as a world-class scientist. So, whenI started working for Ed in graduate school in1992, he asked me if I was willing to take a riskby doing something different than PET. Notknowing any better – but thinking that he hadalready been at the forefront of something thatseemed quite successful – I jumped right in.

A few others had toyed with similar ideas,but Ed basically helped establish a “new” fieldof compact molecular imaging devices. Thisfield includes his lab’s more recent researchendeavors, and also his active participation andpositive influence in the medical imaging com-munity, especially in the nuclear medical sci-ences. This class of technologies has even beenvariously mentioned in discussions about thefuture of Nuclear Medicine, as the ultimatedirection of the field: where molecular imagingcan have an immediate and direct impact on

patient care. But in these overview presenta-tions, Ed was not always mentioned by name –he was never the star, never in the spotlight. Infact, he never sought the spotlight, since Idon’t believe he needed that affirmation. Hepreferred to be in the lab doing research, gen-erating discussion and ideas, or otherwiseengaging students and colleagues.

He promoted and unequivocally supportedthe people working with him, and he did thistirelessly: for students in and even those notdirectly in his lab, all manner of researchersand administrators, and many professionalcolleagues as well. This is a testament to thefact that he was a fantastic human being whotreated everyone with respect regardless oftheir rank.

He once told me, “Every minute that Ispend working in my office, is another minutethat you [his graduate students] can spend inthe lab.” There was much he shielded us from,so that we really could have fun, explore, and

Edward J. HoffmanLate President

IEEE NPSS

Iwould like to thank everyone in AdComand the Society for the many heartfelt con-dolences I've received since Ed's death July

1, 2004. I'm truly grateful for the great honorthe Society has bestowed upon my husband byadding his name to the Medical ImagingScientist Award; this will go a long way in keep-ing alive the memory of his many contributionsto IEEE and the medical imaging field.

I am also thankful for the Society sponsor-ing my attendance at the 2004 NSS/MICconference. I was warmly welcomed by many,including some I'd never met before, and itbuoyed my spirits. It was also my only oppor-

tunity to see many of the friends we've bothmade over the years.

I continue to be amazed and awed by howmany lives Ed touched and of the high opin-ion so many have of him. Thank you, every-one, for helping to keep him alive, at least inour memories.

My thanks also go to the NPSS, TAB and-many IEEE members who have contributedto the Edward J. Hoffman GraduateFellowship Funds.

Sincerely,Carolyn Gray Hoffman


Open Letter to IEEE NPSS

grow as students and individuals. He kept usfrom having to worry about administrativeissues or academic politics. He set up a “scien-tific playground,” and that really seemed like atheme to his lab. He taught me that the “aca-demic race” was truly one of pure intellectualpursuit, of discovering, inventing and justplaying with ideas and instruments to helpsolve problems.

He always encouraged learning and self-dis-covery, and he had confidence in us to try tofigure out questions for ourselves first. At anyimpasse, you could always go to him, and afterlistening to your explanation, he would havethis clear vision to the heart of the problem,and would help open up a path to solving it.

While he was clearly woven into the fabricof the academic and scientific communitiesand was a world-class scientist, he was an evenbetter mentor and friend. He always seemedto give the right advice at the right time. Heonce told me, “Play to your strengths.” Andwhen he said that – even though this was afamiliar adage – I somehow got this feeling hemeant it in a completely supportive way, for allaspects of life. You didn’t often get pats-on-the-back from him, but his approval wasunmistakable, and the drive it inspired in all ofus was invigorating.

He taught to me not to worry about thelittle things. He taught me that most thingswere “little.” And, he taught me that ittakes working long hours to get things done– but this means working long hours onevery aspect of one’s life, including, firstand foremost, family, and working in thisfield of molecular imaging, on which he hashad such a profound impact. Of course, healso said that if we’re not enjoying theseworking hours, we should change them sothat we are. I personally try to “work tolive,” and I appreciate that Ed showed mehow to take things in stride, how to balancehard work with enjoying non-working lifeto the fullest, and even how to make senseof it all.

“If you can survive in the hard times, youcan enjoy it when times are plenty,” he oncesaid. With his loss, we are unfortunately in oneof the hard times. I am grateful for all he hasgiven me and us, and for all the wonderfulmemories that we have of him that can helpeach of us through it.

Martin P. Tornai can be reached at theDuke University Medical Center, DUMC-3949, Durham, NC 27710-0001; Phone:+1919 684-7940; Fax: +1 919 684-7164; E-mail:[email protected].

Martin TornaiDuke University

School of Medicine

Carolyn G. Hoffman

I expected that

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Eric Hoffer

Computer Applications in Nuclear andPlasma Sciences (CANPS) is one of theeight major technical areas represented

by NPSS. It main purpose is to organize everytwo years the Real Time Conference (RTC).The most recent conferences are listed below:• 1993: Vancouver, BC, Canada (Chair: R.

Poutissou, TRIUMF)• 1995: East Lansing, MI, USA (Chair: R.

Fox, U. Michigan)• 1997: Beaune, France (Chair: P. Le Dû,

CEA Saclay)• 1999: Santa Fe, NM, USA (Chair: T.

Kozlowski, Los Alamos)• 2001: Valencia, Spain (Chair: A. Ferrer

Univ of Valencia)• 2003: Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Chair:

J.P. Martin, Univ. Montreal)• 2005: Stockholm, Sweden (Chair: R.

Jacobsson, CERN)These conferences were organized under the

guidance of CANPS chairpersons R. Poutissou,TRIUMF (1992-1996), T. Kozlowski, LANL(1996-2000), Ch. Boulin, EMBL (2000-2004)and now the newly appointed chair J.P Martin,Univ. of Montreal. The average attendance is 175participants. Among the various NPSS confer-ences, its particularity is to attract a majority ofnon-US physicists, engineers and students. This iswhy the various conference venues have also beenwidely distributed in North America and Europe.This conference can be considered as a laboratoryin which IEEE NPSS members have learned andexplored the international role of IEEE NPSS inpromoting overseas scientific and technical events.This was the origin of the European involvementin larger conferences such as the NSS/MIC heldin Lyon in 2000 and Rome in 2004.

In order to organize these fully internation-al conferences, and to take into account thelocal particularities of each non-US site (finan-cial, logistics …), we are experimenting inRT2005 Stockholm with a new way to manageand help the General Chair in his task by set-ting in place a strong team of well-trained

experts embedded in an executive committee.Later, this model could be applied to largeroverseas conferences, if successful.

Concerning the program targeted forStockholm, the Computer Applications and RealTime Data Acquisition and Analysis field hasbeen evolving rapidly over the few past years.Starting mainly from the Nuclear and HighEnergy Physics Trigger and Data acquisition sys-tems for embedded small and large acceleratorexperiments, we saw at the last conference inMontreal the evolution toward new excitingfields such as medical and astrophysics applica-tions. In the same manner, both the so-calledslow control, as well as on-line monitoring activ-ities, are now fully integrated into the Real Timetechnologies. This evolution in the scope of theconference needs increased attention in the focusof this small, collegial and convivial event that isvery well attended and supported by an interna-tional community at the edge of the state of theart of the technology. The widening of the scopecan be made by approaching, for example, themedical imaging community (engineers workingon front-end and digital signal processing ….).Other communities to reach will include the syn-chrotron radiation instrumentation people andprobably the instrumentation developers in gen-eral, including the industrial sector (advancedPCI, board-based modular electronics and com-puting equipment…).

A new CANPS committee, now underselection, will work to bring new ideas andsuggestions to the community in order toremain at the leading edge of these techniques.

Jean-Pierre Martin, the CANPS Chair, canbe reached at the University of Montreal, CP6128 Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec,CANADA; Phone +1 514 343-7340; Fax: +1 514343-6215; E-mail: [email protected]

Patrick Le Dû, the CANPS elected member toAdCom, can be reached at CEA Saclay, DAPNIA-SPP, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette-Cedex,FRANCE; Phone: +33 1 6908 4073; Fax: +33 16908 6428; E-mail: [email protected].

COMPUTER APPLICATIONSin NUCLEAR and PLASMA SCIENCES

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE


TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

J. P. MartinCANPS Chair

Patrick LeDûCANPS Elected

AdCom Member


General Chair Nermin Uckan andTechnical Program Committee ChairDavid Rasmussen recently announced

the First Call for Papers for the 21stIEEE/NPSS Symposium on FusionEngineering. The Symposium will be held atthe Hilton Hotel in downtown Knoxville,Tennessee from September 26-29, 2005. TheSymposium is dedicated to the scientific, tech-nological and engineering issues of fusionenergy research and is a mixture of oral pre-sentations and poster sessions allowing forextensive interactions among the participants.Submissions in all areas of magnetic fusionenergy (MFE) and inertial fusion energy (IFE)are sought, including:• Experimental devices and new device design• Reactor studies• Plasma facing components• Plasma materials interactions for IFE, MFE

and alternates• Targets for IFE and alternates• Chambers, vacuum vessels and pumping for

IFE, MFE and alternates• Blankets and shields for IFE, MFE and

alternates• Diagnostics, data acquisition, and plasma

control systems• Safety and environmental engineering• Heating and current drive• Plasma fueling• Tritium handling systems• IFE drivers and related technologies• Magnet engineering for IFE, MFE and

alternates• Materials assembly, fabrication, and

maintenance• Power systems• Electromagnetics and electromechanics

Knoxville is located just outside the GreatSmoky Mountains National Park and is thehome of the University of Tennessee. Adjacentto the downtown area is The Old City, an areaof shops, galleries, restaurants and nightspots inVictorian warehouses. Located along theTennessee River, the Gateway Regional VisitorCenter celebrates east Tennessee’s naturalresources and its technological (predominantlynuclear) achievements. It stands among the

fountains and foliage of Volunteer Landing,which includes riverside restaurants and river-boat tours. The Knoxville Museum of Art, inthe World’s Fair Park area, hosts visitingexhibits and features a small permanent collec-tion. The Frank H. McClung Museum atCircle Park on the University of Tennesseecampus, features displays on the city’s archeol-ogy, art and history. The Great SmokyMountains National Park is a 35-minute drivefrom Knoxville. During the Fall you can enjoythe brilliant shows of red, yellow, orange andgold which splash the mountain sides and val-leys as the leaves turn the region into a brilliantbright visual wonderland. Fall is craft time inthe Smokies, with special festivals throughoutthe nearby region. The Oak Ridge Laboratoryis about a 30-minute drive from downtownKnoxville. The laboratory’s major scientificprograms include neutron science, energy, highperformance computing, complex biologicalsystems, advanced materials and national secu-rity. The construction of the SpallationNeutron Source will be completed in 2006 andwhen combined with the High Flux IsotopeReactor it will make Oak Ridge the world’sforemost center for Neutron Science. Locatedin the city of Oak Ridge, the AmericanMuseum of Science and Energy includesexhibits on science, technology, energy, envi-ronment, national defense and historical pho-tographs, documents and artifacts from theManhattan Project and the construction ofOak Ridge.

The deadline for abstract submissions is April30, 2005. For more information, please visit theSOFE web site at www.ornl.gov/fed/sofe05.

Nermin Uckan, chair of the 2005 Symposiumon Fusion Engineering, can be reached at theOak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box2008, MS6169, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6169USA; Phone: +1 865 574 1354; Fax: +1 865 3418231; E-mail: [email protected].

Philip Heitzenroeder, chair of the FusionTechnical Committee, can be reached at thePrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory, MS08 C-Site ENG 108, Box 451, Princeton, NJ USA;Phone: +1 609 243-2043; Fax: +1 609 243-3030; E-mail: [email protected].

FUSION TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEEFirst Call for Papers

21st Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)

Phil HeitzenroederChair of the Fusion

Technical Committee

Wrong call

No mistake ismore commonand more fatuous thanappealing tologic in caseswhich arebeyond her jurisdiction.

Samuel Butler

Iwould first like to thank Margaret Daube-Witherspoon, Lars Eriksson, StevenMeikle, and Charles Stearns for serving on

the NMISC during the last three years. Iwould also like to welcome the newly electedmembers of the council: Roger Fulton,Christian Morel, Todd E. Peterson, Martin P.Tornai, and Charles C. Watson, who will servefrom 2005 through 2007.

The NMISC held its Annual Meeting onOctober 21, 2004 from Noon-2 PM at theErgife Palace Hotel, Rome, Italy. The meetingwas called to order by Magnus Dahlbom,NMISC Chair.

Members present included: MagnusDahlbom, John Aarsvold, Joel Karp, MargaretDaube-Witherspoon, Tom Lewellen, RonKeyser, Chris Thompson, Bill Moses, RonJaszczak, Grant Gullberg, Sibylle Ziegler, RonHuesman, Lars Eriksson, Paul Kinahan, LarryZeng, Jeff Fessler, Craig Levin, Ben Tsui,Charles Stearns, Simon Cherry, Ed Lampo,Alberto Del Guerra.

The 2004 MIC meeting was dedicated bythe organizers to the memory of Dr. Edward J.Hoffman, who passed away on July 1, 2004.Sibylle Ziegler (2004 MIC chair) gave a pre-liminary report on the 2004 MIC. She report-ed that 659 MIC abstracts were submitted,which was an increase of 50% compared to lastyear. 46 oral presentations were given at theMIC sessions, 504 posters were invited, andapproximately 100 abstracts were rejected(approximately 16%). The total number of pre-registrants was 1635, which was an increase of20% compared to last year’s meeting. The finalnumber of registrants was not available at thetime of the meeting, but preliminary numbersindicate a record in attendance for theNSS/MIC meeting. Travel support wasoffered to approximately 65 individuals fromfunds obtained from 5 vendors and an NIHaward.

Simon Cherry (2005 MIC chair) reportedon the progress for the upcoming 2005 MIC.The abstract deadline has been set for May 2,2005. He indicated that the meeting will bestructured into morning and evening sessions,which will allow the attendees to enjoy the

resort. A grant application has been submit-ted to NBIB that will be used for student trav-el support.

John Aarsvold (2006 MIC chair) reportedthat the 2006 organizing committee had met atthe Rome meeting and that a preconferencebudget was being finalized for submission toIEEE. The general chair for the meeting isGraham Smith; the NSS chair is Chuck Britton.

Ron Keyser (chair of the site selectioncommittee) presented the proposals from thethree locations (Hawaii, Las Vegas and St.Louis) considered by the 2007 site selectioncommittee. The primary criteria used in thesite selection process are: meeting space,operating costs, number/quality/cost ofavailable rooms, travel time and availabilityand cost of food. The site selection commit-tee selected, on a very close vote, Hawaii.One of the stated reasons for this was itsaccessibility for potential attendees fromPacific-rim countries. A vote within theNMISC concurred with the site selectioncommittee’s recommendation to pursue theholding of the 2007 NSS/MIC in Hawaii.

Ron Keyser also spoke on behalf of the2008 site selection process. Options discussedincluded: having the selection committee pur-sue an eastern USA location; having the selec-tion committee investigate further Las Vegasand St. Louis; and having the selection com-mittee solicit proposals relevant to holding the2008 NSS/MIC in Germany. A vote withinthe NMISC recommended the site selectioncommittee to pursue proposals for holding the2008 meeting in Germany. This would con-tinue the trend of holding the meeting inEurope every 4th year.

Margaret Daube-Witherspoon, chair of theNMISC Awards/Fellows subcommittee,reported on the name change of the MedicalImaging Scientist Award to the Edward J.Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award.The 2004 award recipient was Dr. GerdMuehllehner who was presented this presti-gious award at the MIC dinner in Rome.

Craig Levin gave a brief summary of the2004 Breast Imaging Workshop that was heldin connection with the NSS/MIC. This work-

NEWS from theNUCLEAR and MEDICAL IMAGING SCIENCES

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE


Magnus DahlbomNMIS Technical

Committee

Pedal to themental (sic!)

It is a wry commentary onthe value systemin the UnitedStates that onespeaks there of"teacher training"and "driver education."

Peter Hilton

Janet Barth of NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center is the 2006 ConferenceGeneral Chairman. Janet has selected

Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida,as the conference site. This location is ideal forgolfers, as well as those who love beaches orhistorical sites. Janet has an excellent confer-ence committee in place and we anticipateanother successful NSREC.

The 2007 NSREC will be held at theHilton Hawaiian Village Hotel in Honolulu,Hawaii. Lloyd Massengill of Vanderbilt

University, Conference General Chairman, iswell along in organizing an excellent confer-ence. This will be the first NSREC to be heldin Hawaii and it will take place at the premierconference site on the island of Oahu.

The amount of lead time required to plan aconference is increasing and it currently takesmore than three years to plan each NSREC. PaulDodd of Sandia Labs is the 2008 ConferenceGeneral Chair; he is currently considering sites forthe conference and will host the spring meetingof the RESG at the site he proposes.


RADIATION EFFECTS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Future NSREC Conference Plans

shop had support from the Susan G. KomenBreast Cancer Foundation, the NationalCancer Institute, the National Institute ofBiomedical Imaging and Bioengineering,Philips, GE, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, andthe IEEE NPSS. Due to the great interestand success of this workshop, there are prelim-inary plans for future workshops connectedwith the NSS/MIC in 2006 and 2008.

The annual meeting concluded with theappointments of Jeff Fessler as the Chair of theAwards-Fellow subcommittee, who willreplace Margaret Daube-Witherspoon; andRon Huesman as the Chair of the communica-

tions subcommittee and NMISC web-master,who will replace Larry Zeng. I would like tothank Margaret and Larry for their work onthese subcommittees.

Excerpted from the Minutes of the AnnualMeeting and submitted by John Aarsvold,Secretary. The minutes from the meeting can befound at: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nmisc.

Magnus Dahlbom, Chair of the NMISC,can be reached at the Division of NuclearMedicine, David Geffen School of Medicine atUCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095; Phone: +1 310206-8273; Fax: +1 310 206-4899; E-mail:[email protected].

Teresa FarrisRadiation EffectsPublicity Chair

Radiation Effects Award

Nominations are currently being acceptedfor the 2005 IEEE Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society (NPSS) Radiation

Effects Award. The purpose of the award is torecognize individuals who have had a sustainedhistory of outstanding and innovative technicaland/or leadership contributions to the radiationeffects community. The $2000 cash award andplaque will be presented at the IEEE NSREC in

Seattle, Washington, July 11-15, 2005.Nomination forms are available electronical-

ly at http://www.nsrec.com/nominate.htm.Nominations must be submitted by March 18,2005.

Additional information can be obtainedfrom Gary Lum, Senior Member-at-Large forthe Radiation Effects Steering Group. GaryLum can be reached at 408-756-0120.

Member at Large

Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois of theCommissariat à l'Énergie Atomique(CEA) was elected Junior-Member-at-

Large of the Radiation Effects Steering Groupduring the annual Open Meeting at the 2004

Nuclear and Space Radiation EffectsConference (NSREC). Véronique has thirteenyears of experience in research and develop-ment related to radiation effects on SOI andbulk CMOS technologies. She joined the Véronique Ferlet-

Cavrois

CEA, Centre de Bruyères-le-Châtel, in 1991to work on the experimental and simulationanalysis of several generations of technologiesdeveloped for military and space applications.Her field of interest also extends to the highfrequency characterization and modelling ofSOI devices. She is currently working on theradiation sensitivity of highly integrated 40nm-SOI technologies with different architec-tures, single or multi-gate devices. Since 2001,Véronique is responsible for research programsto develop hardened circuits based on SOI

technologies for CEA systems.Véronique graduated from l'Ecole

Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et deRadioelectricité de Grenoble (ENSERG),France in 1990. She has published more than70 international papers, and received severalawards and recognition for her work.

We welcome Véronique to the RESG!Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois can be reached at

CEA, BP-12, Bruyères, Le Châtel 91680FRANCE; Phone +331 69264265; Fax: +33169267115; E-mail: [email protected].

The Awards Committee for the 2004Nuclear and Space Radiation EffectsConference, chaired by Dave

Beutler, Sandia National Labs, completedthe evaluation of technical papers presentedat the Conference, with the followingresults.

The Outstanding Conference Paper wasgiven to the paper entitled:

“Production and Propagation of Single-Event Transients in High-Speed Digital LogicICs,” by Paul E. Dodd, Marty R. Shaneyfelt,James A. Felix, and James R. Schwank (SandiaNational Laboratories).

The two Meritorious Papers are:Charge Enhancement Effect in NMOS Bulk

Transistors Induced by Heavy IonIrradiation—Comparison With SOI, by V.Ferlet-Cavrois (CEA/DIF), G. Vizkelethy(Sandia National Laboratories), P. Paillet, A.Torres (CEA/DIF), J. R. Schwank, M. R.Shaneyfelt (Sandia National Laboratories), J.

Baggio (CEA/DIF), J. du Port de Pontcharraand L. Tosti (CEA LETI).

Issues for Single-Event Proton Testing ofSRAMs, by J. R. Schwank, P. E. Dodd, M. R.Shaneyfelt, J. A. Felix, G. L. Hash (SandiaNational Laboratories), V. Ferlet-Cavrois, P.Paillet, J. Baggio (CEA/DIF), P.Tangyunyong (Sandia National Laboratories),and E. Blackmore (TRIUMF).

The NSREC Awards Committee has select-ed a Radiation Effects Data Workshop presen-tation for recognition. This year the paperselected as Outstanding Radiation EffectsData Workshop Presentation is:

Effect of Passivation on the Enhanced LowDose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS) of NationalLM124 Operational Amplifiers, by John E.Seiler, Gary W. Dunham, Dale G. Platteter(NAVSEA Crane), Ron L. Pease (RLPResearch), Michael C. Maher (NationalSemiconductor Corporation), and Marty R.Shaneyfelt (Sandia National Laboratories).


Outstanding and Meritorious Papers2004 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference

RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

As I start my second year as RISC Chair,I can see that 2005 promises to be anexciting one for the RITC. First, the

results of last fall’s election brings five newmembers to the RISC. The new members,whose terms started January 1, 2005, are JimBrau, Larry Franks, Roger Gearhart, SaraPozzi and Marek Szawlowski. We would liketo congratulate the winners and welcomethem to the RISC. The runners up wereRenyuan Zhu and Ingrid-Maria Gregor, andwe hope that they will continue to have an

interest in the RISC and consider running forelection again in the future. We would alsolike to thank Leon Kaufman, Zane Bell,Patrick Le Dû, Marek Moszynski and AnthonyPeurrung, whose terms ended on December31, 2004, for their much appreciated serviceon the RISC.

Certainly the biggest event for the RITClast year was the 2004 NSS/MIC/RTSD,which was held in Rome, Italy from October16-22, 2004. This was by far the largestNSS/MIC ever, with over 1700 attendees and

Craig WoodyChair, RadiationInstrumentation

Technical Committee

A dilemma

... attempts tostandardize anything hereresults apparentlyin more stan-dards, not fewer.

Richard P.Feynman


a very full program from both the NSS andMIC, as well as the RTSD. Alberto Del Guerradid an excellent job organizing and runningthis extraordinarily large meeting, and I wishto congratulate him and his OrganizingCommittee on their outstanding success.Please see Alberto’s report in this Newsletterfor additional details.

The RISC held its annual meeting in con-junction with the 2004 NSS/MIC on October19, 2004. The main order of business was thereport of the Site Selection Committee, head-ed by Ron Keyser, on its choice of a site for the2007 NSS/MIC. The recommendation wasfor Hawaii, with St. Louis a close second. TheRISC voted in favor of this recommendation,which was subsequently also approved by theNMISC, and the meeting is now destined forHawaii in the fall of 2007. At the present time,the General Chair has not been named, butthere are several worthy and willing candi-dates. The next order of business for the SiteSelection Committee is to choose a site and aGeneral Chair for 2008. There is considerableinterest and support for hosting the meetingin Europe in 2008, particularly in Germany,and the Committee is now awaiting formalproposals from several groups regardingpotential sites there. We hope to have a clearpicture of how this will proceed by earlyspring of this year.

One of the most enjoyable events at theNSS/MIC meeting in Rome was the presenta-tion of the RITC awards at the NSS luncheon.Two RITC awards were presented. TheOutstanding Achievement Award went to Prof.Emilo Gatti from the University of Milano forhis many outstanding achievements in the fieldof radiation detectors, and for “a career in pio-neering and transcendent contributions tonuclear electronics.” As many of us have knownEmilio for many years as a devoted attendee ofthe NSS, it was particularly appropriate that hereceive this award with all of his colleagues pre-sent in Rome. The second award was the EarlyCareer Award, which went to Dr. ChiaraGuazzoni, also from Milano, for “contribu-tions to an innovative X-ray spectroscopicimager with fast frame rates and nuclear elec-tronics.” In addition, eight other young inves-tigators were also given certificates of recogni-tion for their achievements in the early stages oftheir career. It was particularly enjoyable to seeour community recognize these outstandingyoung scientists for their excellent work.

The Outstanding Achievement Award willalso be presented this year, and we would liketo call for nominations for this prestigiousaward. The award is given in recognition ofoutstanding and enduring contributions to thefield of radiation instrumentation. Anyone,not just an RITC member, who has madelong-standing and noteworthy contributionsto the field is eligible. Nomination forms canbe found on the NPSS website athttp://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htmwhich, when completed, can be sent to ourAwards Committee Chairman, David Wehe [email protected]. The nominations are due byJune 1st, 2005, so please get your nominationsin as soon as possible to allow time for theCommittee to make its selection.

Another important way to recognize out-standing members of our Society is throughthe promotion of our colleagues to SeniorMembers and Fellows. We have many peoplein our Society who have made great contribu-tions to the field of radiation instrumentation,detectors, electronics, medical imaging, andnumerous other areas, as well as having per-formed great services to our Society as awhole. We should recognize these individualsfor their achievements, and this can be donethrough the IEEE Senior Member andFellows program. Information about this canbe found on the IEEE website athttp://www.ieee.org/ under IEEE Awardsand Fellows for the Fellows Program, andUnderstanding Membership for SeniorMembers. Please consider identifying out-standing scientists and engineers in our field(including yourself!) and promote themthrough these noteworthy programs.

Other news from the RISC meetingincludes the appointment of Zane Bell as thenew Chief Editor for Radiation Detectors forthe IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.Zane takes over from John Valentine, whoserved admirably as Chief Editor for severalyears. We thank both John for his years of dili-gent service, and Zane for stepping up and tak-ing over this important job.

Looking ahead, we should all take note ofthe dates of the upcoming NSS/MIC confer-ences. The 2005 NSS/MIC will be held at theWyndham El Conquistador Hotel in San Juan,Puerto Rico from October 23-29, 2005. TomLewellen is the General Chair, and the plan-ning for this conference is well under way. Thedeadline for abstract submission is May 2,

Noah said

To say weshould not dothat which wejudge too dangerous to dois a definition ofsanity.

Bill Joy

Solid foundations

Where the pastexists, the futuremay flourish.

Peter Ackroyd

FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES

2005 and is coming up soon, so please startpreparing your abstract and summaries. Weexpect this to be another large meeting, and amost enjoyable one at one of the top resorts inthe Caribbean.

Plans for the 2006 meeting are also underway, which will be held from Oct. 29-Nov 4,2006 at the Town and Country Resort in SanDiego. Graham Smith is the General Chair ofthis meeting, and the first conferenceannouncement will soon be sent out. TheRTSD will also be held in conjunction with the

NSS/MIC in 2006, so we expect that this willagain be a large and well attended meeting.

Finally, please don’t forget that we will againbe electing five new members for the RISC thisyear. Serving on the RISC is an excellentopportunity to get involved in the workings ofour Society and to let your opinion be heard.Please consider running for the RISC if youwould like to make a difference in how we dobusiness. Nominations are due by July 1st of2005 and can be sent to me at [email protected] give me a call at 631-344-2752.

The committee received 14 award appli-cations, and the committee chose thefollowing 7. The applications were out-

standing, and many excellent people had tolose. Please resubmit.

MERIT AWARD Kenneth R. Prestwich 12201 Cedar Ridge, NEAlbuquerque, New Mexico, 87112Citation – “For contributions to advance

pulsed power technology of high peak poweraccelerators and for contributions in formingand organizing the NPSS Pulsed PowerScience and Technology Committee.”

SHEA AWARDEdward J. Lampo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory1 Cyclotron Road MS 80-101Berkeley, CA 94720 – 0001Citation – “For Outstanding Service to the

IEEE as Treasurer of the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society for 12 years, includingfinancial overseeing of the society, three jour-nals, and numerous yearly conferences.”

EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Robert Andrew ReedNASA Goddard Space Flight Center,Code 561.4

Greenbelt, MD 20771Citation – “For contributions to measure-

ment and modeling based solutions of particleinduced damage and soft error problems inhigh speed microelectronic and photonic tech-nologies for satellite applications.”

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDSHao D. Xiong5637 Stevenson CenterEECS Dept.Nashville, TN 37235

Vitaly GoryashkoApt. # 42, 50A Pobeda Avenue,Kharkiv 61202, Ukraine

Magesh ThyagarajanPhysics DepartmentUniversity of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706

Sriram Parameswaran1611 Laurel Ave., Apt. no. 716Knoxville, TN 37916

Igor Alexeff can be reached at Ferris Hall315, University of Tennessee, Middle Drive,Knoxville, TN 37996-2100; Phone: +1 865 974-5467; E-mail: [email protected].


Results of Awards Committee Evaluations

Igor AlexeffChairman, NPSS

Awards Committee


REPORT from the PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEEAnnual Review of the Editorial Process

This note provides the annual review of theeditorial process for the TRANSAC-TIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for

regular contributed papers (those not associatedwith conferences or with our new section onnuclear medical and imaging sciences). This mate-rial also appeared as an Editorial in the February,2005, issue of TNS, so anyone who read that notecan skip this one and move on to other things.

The data presented begins with 1994. The“year” used for each data interval is fromNovember 1 through October 31; for exam-ple, “2004” represents the twelve-monthinterval from November 1, 2003, throughOctober 31, 2004.

Figure 1 shows the number of contributedpapers submitted over each of the last 11 years,ranging from 67 to 113. Figure 2 shows for thosemanuscripts that completed the review process ina given year the percentage of manuscripts accept-ed for publication. As can be seen, the acceptancerate continues to remain around 50%.

Figure 3 shows the average time taken forthe first review cycle for papers completing thereview process in a given year. It generallytakes from 6 to 8 weeks for the authors to be

sent the comments from the reviewers of theirmanuscript. Although reviews are typicallyrequested from at least three reviewers, theaverage number of reviews sent to authorsranges from 2.4 to 2.7 (Fig. 4); approximately10-20% of the time a reviewer does not returncomments on a manuscript, resulting in thisaverage being less than three.

Essentially all contributed manuscriptsrequire revision in response to the reviewers’comments. Over the last ten years, the averagetime for authors to submit the revised versionof their manuscript after being sent thereviewers’ comments ranges from six to overfourteen weeks, as illustrated in Fig. 5. Itremains interesting that on average theauthors seem to take longer to respond to thereviewers’ comments than for the reviewers toperform their reviews.

When all the editorial work is completed, andthe manuscript is either accepted or rejected forpublication, the manuscript (in electronic for-mat) and illustrations (usually in electronic for-mat) are sent to IEEE for publication. Figure 6shows that the average time from receipt of amanuscript by the Editor until its final disposi-

Paul V. DressendoferIEEE NPSS

Editor-in-Chief

Figure 1. Number of contributed papers submitted for consideration for publication in theTRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for each year (November 1 through October 31).

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Figure 3. Average time to complete the first review and send authors the reviewers’ comments for theTRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for each year (November 1 through October 31).

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Modern hedonism

Ignorance of science andtechnology isbecoming theultimate self-indulgent luxury.

JeremyBernstein


tion (acceptance for publication or rejection)has ranged from 3.0 to 4.4 months over theperiod 1994 through 2004. In 2004 if threepapers in which the authors took >4 months toreturn their first revision are eliminated fromthis average, the average time from receipt tofinal disposition drops to 2.3 months.

There remains additional time before anaccepted manuscript appears in print. Sincethe TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCI-ENCE is published bimonthly, on average amanuscript is delayed one month waiting forthe next publication issue. IEEE schedulesapproximately 10 weeks to format, index, pag-inate, typeset, and otherwise prepare for print-ing, print, and mail the issue.

An overview of the times in the publicationprocess is shown in Fig. 7. For each year, theaverage times for first review, for the authors torespond to the comments from the first review,the delay from the fact that these TRANSAC-TIONS are a bimonthly publication, and thetime for IEEE to put together the issue is shown,along with what percentage each of these factorscontributes to the overall time. This depiction issomewhat notional, since a number of manu-scripts undergo a second (and sometimes a third)review cycle, and the average time for first reviewincludes those manuscripts that are rejected (andthus do not proceed through the subsequentsteps of the process). However, it does provide a

good overall picture of the contributors to andthe overall time for the publication process.

The international character of the journaldominated again this year. Of the 58 paperscompleting the review process during this peri-od, 11 (19%) were from the US. Asia had themost submissions with 24 (41%); Europe had16 papers (28%). The Former Soviet Unionhad 3, and India/Pakistan had 4.

The average number of reviewers reportingon each manuscript has been 2.5. The reviewerpool for manuscripts draws upon the expertiseof the international community; from 1994through 2004 the proportion of internationalreviewers (those outside the United States) hasranged from 25% to 53% of the reviewsreturned. In 2004 that percentage was 47%.

If any readers have other questions about theeditorial process for the TRANSACTIONS ONNUCLEAR SCIENCE, or have suggestions forimprovement, please do not hesitate to contactme. Also I am continually seeking additionalreviewers, so if any of you are interested in par-ticipating, please send me your name, mailingaddress, phone and FAX numbers, emailaddress, and areas of interest/expertise.

Paul Dressendorfer can be reached at SandiaNational Laboratories, Dept. 1116, 1515Eubank SE, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM87185-1413 USA; Phone: +1 505 844-5373; Fax:+1 505 844-5470; E-mail: [email protected].

Figure 4. Average number of reviewers returning comments for each manuscript submitted to theTRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for each year (November 1 through October 31).

E for effort

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Stan Mazor

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Figure 5. Average time for authors to return revised version of manuscript responding to commentsfrom first review cycle for each manuscript submitted to the TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEARSCIENCE for each year (November 1 through October 31).

Figure 6. Average time from receipt to final disposition (acceptance or rejection) for each manu-script submitted to the TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for each year (November 1through October 31).

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Figure 7. Average time for primary parts of publication process for each manuscript submitted tothe TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE for each year (November 1 through October 31).

AWARDS

Charles Proteus Steinmetz AwardThe Institute offers a number of prestigiousawards for outstanding service or achievementin one’s technical field and to the Institute. The2004 Steinmetz award recipient, Julian Forster,is the first member of the Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Society to win such a Technical FieldAward, given for exceptional contributions tothe development of standards in electrical and

electronics engineering. Congratulations, Jay!We have had only one other recipient of anInstitute award, the Emberson Service Awardgiven in 2003 to W. Kenneth Dawson.

Surely there are more members of NPSS whoare eligible for these awards. Look at the crite-ria and at your colleagues and let’s see a wholestring of these.

Julian Forster

The IEEE has named Julian “Jay”Forster, retired consultant for GeneralElectric in San Jose, California, as the

recipient of the 2004 Charles ProteusSteinmetz award. Forster has made vital con-tributions to the early commercialization ofnuclear power while providing sustained, inno-vative leadership in the IEEE standards devel-opment process.

The award, presented in New York on Dec.5, 2004, celebrates major contributions in thedevelopment of standards in the fields of elec-

trical and electronic engineering. While pursu-ing a career of over three decades in thegrowth and success of commercial nuclearpower, first at the General Electric AtomicPower Division in San Jose, CA, and then atQuadrex Corporation in Campbell, CA, Jayhas contributed to the development of IEEEstandards, from 1969-1971 as a member ofthe Standards Association board, and as theleader of the team that developed the firstIEEE nuclear safety standard, IEEE Standard279 (now IEEE Standard 603), Criteria for

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Protection Systems for Nuclear PowerGenerating Stations. He also initiated the writ-ing of computer hardware and software stan-dards, and worked to improve the Standardsreview and approval process.

Jay, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, belongs tothe IEEE Computer Society, the PowerEngineering Society and the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society. He has been a memberof the International ElectrotechnicalCommission (IEC) TC-45 StandardsCommittee since 1969 and serves on the ANSIN-42 Standards Committee of RadiationInstrumentation. An active member of the NPSS,he is the liaison to the IEEE PACE and Standardscommittees and has organized, at the NuclearScience Symposium since 1967, a Symposium on

Nuclear Power Systems, serving as its chair some20 times. Jay has also been honored by IEEE asthe recipient of the IEEE ProfessionalAchievement Award, the IEEE Standards BoardDistinguished Service Award, the IEEE ThirdMillennium Medal and the IEEE NPSS RichardF. Shea Distinguished Member Award.

Citation: For outstanding contributionsto the development of standards in thenuclear power industry, and for sustained,innovative leadership in the IEEE Standardsdevelopment process.

Jay Forster can be reached at General Electric– Nuclear Engineering M/C 344, 175 CurtnerAvenue, San Jose, CA 95125; Phone: +1 408925-5090; Fax: +1 408 925-2923; E-mail:[email protected].


New IEEE FellowsEach year the Board of Directors elects no morethan 0.1% of the full membership to the grade ofFellow. Nominations are made by SeniorMembers and must be supported by at least sixFellows. After being reviewed and ranked by theappropriate IEEE Society, the nominations are

forwarded to the Fellows Committee of theBoard who then recommend a list of candidatesfor the Board’s consideration. The NPSS ispleased that the following members were electedby the Board this year, and extends its congratu-lations to all of them.

Robert Christopher Baumann

Robert Baumann received the B.A.(1984) with honors in physics fromBowdoin College and the Ph.D.

(1990) in electrical engineering from RiceUniversity, researching ferroelectric processdevelopment and integration for opto-elec-tronic applications. He joined TexasInstruments in 1989 where he made signifi-cant contributions to the understanding ofalpha and neutron effects including the discov-ery that activation of 10B in BPSG by lowenergy neutrons is a significant source of softerrors in advanced technologies. Most of thesemiconductor industry has since followedsuit, eliminating BPSG from advanced tech-nologies. He is currently a DistinguishedMember of the Technical Staff, focused onradiation effects in advanced SRAM and logic

devices. Robert was one of the primaryauthors of the International JEDEC JESD-89 specification that has become the defactoindustry standard for radiation effects testingof commercial electronics. Robert is co-chairing an SIA experts panel on radiationeffects regarding the International Traffic inArms Regulations(ITAR) and its potentialfor inadvertently capturing commercial tech-nologies. Robert was recently elected toFellow of the IEEE “For contributions tothe understanding of the reliabilityimpact of terrestrial radiation mechanismsin commercial electronics.”

Dr. Baumann can be reached at 13560 N.Central Expressway, MS3737, Dallas, TX75243-1108 USA; Phone: +1 972 995-1432;Fax: +1 972 995-2770; E-mail: [email protected].

Robert Baumann

Shu T. Lai

Shu T. Lai

Shu T. Lai, a senior physicist in the SpaceWeather Center of Excellence, SpaceVehicles Directorate, Air Force Research

Laboratory (AFRL), Hanscom Air Force Base,Massachusetts, is a recognized leader in space-craft interactions with space plasmas. This areais important to space science and engineering,

systems, and missions. He was previously withthe Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLincoln Laboratory.

With his theoretical formulations and dataanalysis of spacecraft environmental interac-tions, Dr. Lai has contributed significantly tothe maturation of spacecraft charging from

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Irvin Lindemuth retired from full-timeemployment in November 2003 aftermore than 32 years with the University

of California, first at the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory and then at the LosAlamos National Laboratory. At Los Alamosat the time of his retirement, Dr. Lindemuthwas a Special Assistant for RussianCollaboration in the Office of the AssociateDirector for Weapons Physics, the TeamLeader for Magnetohydrodynamics andPulsed Power in the Plasma Physics Group,and a Project Leader for Pulsed PowerScience, Technology, and InternationalCollaboration in the High Energy DensityHydrodynamics Program. His primaryresponsibility was to provide technical leader-ship for a scientific collaboration betweenLos Alamos and Los Alamos’ Russian coun-terpart, the All-Russian Scientific ResearchInstitute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)at Sarov (Arzamas-16). Prior to joining LosAlamos in 1978, he was a technical staffmember in A-Division at the LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory where hewas involved in fusion research. Dr.Lindemuth received his B.S. degree inElectrical Engineering from LehighUniversity in 1965 and his M.S. and Ph.D.

degrees in Engineering--Applied Sciencefrom the University of California,Davis/Livermore in 1967 and 1971, respec-tively. His thesis research was conductedunder the direction of Dr. John Killeen,founder of the National Magnetic FusionEnergy Computer Center. He has been anAdjunct Professor at the University of NewMexico Los Alamos branch, where he hastaught engineering and mathematics courses.He spent the 1991-92 academic year as aVisiting Professor in the NuclearEngineering Department of Texas A&MUniversity, where he taught undergraduateand graduate courses, helped lay the ground-work for the Department’s expansion intothe controlled fusion area, and assisted theDepartment in forming collaborations withRussian laboratories and educational institu-tions. His areas of expertise include ther-monuclear fusion and advanced numericalmethods for the computer simulation offusion plasmas and related pulsed powertechnology. He has published numerouspapers in refereed journals and proceedingsof major international conferences. He hasbeen involved in a wide range of fusion andhigh energy density physics programs span-ning essentially all of the ten orders of mag-


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its infancy in the late 1970s into its currentstate as a well-developed aerospace subjectthat impacts spacecraft design, space experi-ments, space electronics and spacecraft sur-vivability. Dr. Lai’s more than eighty publi-cations, including three patents, communi-cate important advances in understandingthe process of spacecraft surface charging,deep dielectric charging, mitigation tech-niques, critical velocity ionization in thevicinity of spacecraft, and hypervelocityimpacts on spacecraft.

Dr. Lai received his Ph.D. in Physics fromBrandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1971 andthe Certificate of Special Studies inAdministration and Management fromHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1986.He was the leading guest editor of IEEETransactions on Plasma Science, Special Issueon Space Plasmas, Dec 2000. He was theChair of the IEEE Nuclear and PlasmaSciences Chapter, IEEE New England Section,

1993-1996. He has chaired numerous ses-sions in conferences of IEEE, AmericanInstitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics(AIAA), American Geophysical Union (AGU),American Physical Society (APS), and inSpacecraft Charging Technology Conferences.He also served as the Chair of the AIAAAtmospheric and Space EnvironmentsStandards Committee, 1996-2002, and theChair of the AIAA Atmospheric and SpaceEnvironments Technical Committee, Jan 2003-Jan 2005. In addition to his election to IEEEFellow, Dr. Lai is also a Fellow of the Instituteof Physics, a Fellow of the Royal AstronomicalSociety, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Citation: for contributions to spacecraftinteractions with space plasmas.

Dr.Lai can be reached at: Air Force ResearchLaboratory, Mail stop: VSBXT, 29 RandolphRoad, Hanscom AFB MA 01731-3030; Phone:+1 781 377-2932; Fax: +1 781 377-3010; E-mail: [email protected].

Irvin RaymondLindemuth

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nitude in density and time space from mag-netic fusion energy plasmas to inertial con-finement fusion plasmas. An internationallyrecognized pioneer in the application ofimplicit, non-split computational methods tomagnetohydrodynamics, he has achievedwidespread recognition for his large-scalenumerical simulations of a variety of fusionand other high-density plasma systems. Inaddition to his accomplishments in modelinghigh temperature plasmas, he has formulateda variety of novel pulsed power computercodes that have led to important advances inlaboratory programs. His codes have stimu-lated the development of several types of fastopening switches. He is a US pioneer inMagnetized Target Fusion (MTF) and per-formed the first comprehensive survey of theparameter space in which MTF was likely towork. Even before the collapse of the SovietUnion, he recognized that the Soviets haddeveloped advanced technology in the areasof ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahighenergy electrical pulse generation that signif-

icantly exceeded US capabilities and thatwere motivated by the Soviet MTF programknown as MAGO. Dr. Lindemuth played anessential role in establishing the collabora-tion with VNIIEF, a collaboration that hashelped integrate Russian weapons scientistsinto the global scientific community and hasresulted in more than 250 conference papersand archival publications. The LANL/VNI-IEF collaboration, and Dr. Lindemuth’s role init, were featured in the Discovery Channeldocumentary, “Stockpile,” first aired in 2001.In 1992, Dr. Lindemuth was the recipient of aLos Alamos Distinguished Performance Awardfor his work in the formative stages of theLANL/VNIIEF collaboration. Dr. Lindemuthis currently associated with the faculty of thePhysics Department of the University ofNevada at Reno.

Citation: For contributions to magnetizedplasma and related pulse power technology.

Dr. Lindemuth can be reached at 2490 N.Grannen Road, Tucson, AZ 85745 USA; E-mail: [email protected]

Yitzhak Maron received the Ph.D. degreein Physics from the Weizmann Instituteof Science, Israel, in 1977.

From 1980 to 1984, he worked at theLaboratory of Plasma Studies, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, N.Y. Since 1988, he hasbeen a Professor of Physics and the Head ofthe Plasma Laboratory, Faculty of Physics,Weizmann Institute of Science. HisLaboratory specializes in the development ofspectroscopic diagnostic methods for investi-gation of the properties of plasmas and of theelectric-magnetic fields in pulsed-power sys-tems, as well as in developing atomic physics

models required for the interpretation of datafrom hot and dense plasmas. His researchencompasses electron and ion diodes, plasmaswitches, and Z-pinches, including collabora-tions with various Universities and Institutionsin the USA and Europe.

Prof. Maron is also a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society.

Citation: For contributions to spectroscop-ic techniques for diagnosing high-current,high-voltage electric and magnetic properties.

Dr. Maron can be reached at the WeizmannInstitute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 ISRAEL;E-mail: [email protected]


Yitzhak Maron

Yitzhak Maron

Lloyd Wilson Massengill

Lloyd W. Massengill is professor ofElectrical and Computer Engineering atVanderbilt University in Nashville, TN

where his primary teaching responsibilitiesinclude microelectronic circuit analysis anddesign. His research focuses on radiation-effects modeling and integrated-circuit func-tional analysis for mission-critical space andstrategic systems.

During his career, he has pursued researchefforts in the study of integrated circuit faultsarising from single-event and dose-rate radia-

tion, the development of specialized circuitanalysis techniques, and the development ofradiation hardened circuitry. In particular,recent studies include single event (soft error)charge collection processes in submicronCMOS devices, terrestrial radiation effects inemerging low power technologies, single-ion-induced failures in very thin (<5 nm) gateoxide stacks, and soft error effects in combina-tional logic. He presently has programs in theanalysis of analog and digital single-event tran-sient effects, the assessment of radiation hard-Lloyd Wilson

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Akira Mizuno (M’84-SM’97) was bornin Aichi, Japan, in 1951. He receivedthe B.S. degree from Nagoya

University, Nagoya, Japan, and the M.S. andPh.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan in 1973, 1975, and 1978,respectively, all in electrical engineering.

He was with Ishikawajima-harima HeavyIndustries Company, Ltd., between 1978-1981. Since April 1981, he has been withToyohashi University of Technology, Aichi,Japan, where he is currently a Professor ofEcological Engineering. From December1982-April 1984, he was a visiting researchfellow in the Department of Physics, FloridaState University, Tallahassee, where he wasengaged in a project involving electron beamcharging and precipitation of aerosol andindustrial dusts. From May – August 1999,he was a visiting professor at the University ofPoitiers, France. Between April 2001 andMarch 2004, he was concurrently a professorin the Dept. of Electrical Engineering,University of Tokyo. Between April 2003 andMarch 2004, he was a professor at theInstitute of Molecular Sciences, OkazakiNational Institutes, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.

He has contributed significantly to theapplication of nonthermal plasmas in environ-mental protection, especially in decomposi-tion of gaseous pollutants. Prof. Mizuno andhis research group have developed an originaland energy-efficient gas cleaning process bycombining a catalyst with a nonthermal plas-ma produced by pulsed discharge or packedbed discharge. Recently, these nonthermalplasma processes have been widely used in airconditioner and air cleaning equipment. Oneof his inventions is the combination of pulseddischarge plasma with a TiO2 catalyst.Initially, a Korean company jointly developedthis system for air conditioners. Since itsintroduction to the market, this company has

produced over 1 million units per year. Prof.Mizuno also contributed to the developmentof an indoor air cleaner, together with aJapanese company. After commercialization,the nonthermal plasma process has been wide-ly accepted as an important method forimproving the quality of air. Prof. Mizuno hasbeen actively involved in various applicationsusing nonthermal plasma processes: (1) devel-opment of an efficient diesel exhaust gascleaning device using the plasma-catalyst com-bination, (2) sterilization using oxygen radi-cals produced by nonthermal plasma, (3) con-version of oil and hydrocarbons into methanolor hydrogen.

He has published over 100 reviewed papersin archival journals, and about 150 papers ininternational conference proceedings.

He supervised 10 PhD and 60 MSc dis-sertations, and currently is supervising 6 PhDstudents. He has acted as an external examin-er for over 10 PhD theses.

Prof. Mizuno has not only made contribu-tions in nonthermal plasma processes, but alsocontributed to development of the field ofapplication of electrostatics such as particlecharging by electron beam, electrostatic pre-cipitation, electrical sterilization, weed controlby electrical discharge, and manipulation offine particles including individual cells andDNA molecules using electrostatic force andlaser optical force. His method of using lasermanipulation with bead-clustering has provid-ed a simple and reliable way to handle singlemolecules.

He actively participates in IEEE,Institute of Electrostatics Japan, and is amember of the American Chemical Society,Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan,Japanese Applied Physics Society, and otherprofessional societies.

Citation: For the reduction of gaseouspollutants.


Akira Mizuno

ened-by-design techniques, and EDA tooldevelopment for space/strategic circuit design.

Prof. Massengill has served as the AssociateChair of the Vanderbilt Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science Department and nowserves as the Engineering Director of theVanderbilt Institute for Space and DefenseElectronics, a professional center providingengineering support for mission-critical andfault-tolerant microelectronic circuit design.

Education: PhD EE 1987, MSEE 1984,BSEE 1982, North Carolina State University.

Citation: For contributions to radiationeffects in microelectronics.

Prof. Massengill can be reached at VanderbiltUniversity, VU Station B 350069, Dept. ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science,Nashville, TN 27235-0069; Phone: +1 615 3436677; Fax: +1 615 343-6614; E-mail: [email protected].

Akira Mizuno

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Akira Mizuno can be reached at: Departmentof Ecological Engineering, Toyohashi Universityof Technology, 1-1Hibariga-Oka, Tempaku-Cho,

TOYOHASHI-AICHI 441-8580 JAPAN;Phone: +532 44 6904; Fax: +532 44 6929; E-mail:[email protected].

Stan Schriber is an elder statesman of theParticle Accelerator Science andTechnology Community within the

Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of theIEEE. His contributions span engineering/sci-entific achievements, technical leadership andnow education with his recent return to acade-mia at Michigan State University (MSU).

More than 30 years of designing and devel-oping linear accelerators has made physicistSchriber more than qualified to be selected anIEEE fellow. The MSU professor of physicsand astronomy, who has an appointment inMSU’s National Superconducting CyclotronLaboratory (NSCL), becomes one of a hand-ful of researchers to earn this honor.

“This recognition not only honors me, butthe entire team at the NSCL,” Schriber said.“This is a team that truly understands linearaccelerators. And we have one of the bestteams in the world doing experimental workusing the coupled cyclotron.”

Schriber and his colleagues hope to applytheir state-of-the-art work on linear acceleratorsto the Department of Energy’s (DOE) RareIsotope Accelerator (RIA) project, for whichMSU is competing. RIA is a soon-to-be-built$1 billion nuclear science research facility. TheDOE, funding agency for the project, has yet todecide where the facility will be located. MSUand Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois arethe main competitors.

Schriber received his Ph.D. in nuclearphysics from McMaster University in 1967.He has been at MSU since April 2003. Prior

to that he spent nineteen years at the LosAlamos National Laboratory in senior man-agement where, for most of that time, he ledthe Accelerator Technology division.

Prior to that he was at the Chalk RiverNuclear Laboratories where he served in anumber of capacities. While there, he wasinternationally recognized for his expertise inthe development of rf (radio frequency) cou-pled-cavity linear structures and continuous-wave accelerators. He invented improved ver-sions of such linear accelerator structures,investigated their properties analytically, super-vised their construction and used them in anumber of system applications.

He has been actively involved in IEEE andAmerican Physical Society (APS) affairs, help-ing on committees and councils. He served onorganizing committees for EPAC, PAC, andLAC, was the 1995 PAC conference chair inDallas, and will chair the 2007 PAC confer-ence in Albuquerque. Stan is chair of the USParticle Accelerator School program commit-tee that determines possible courses andinstructors for future schools.

In addition to this IEEE honor, Schriber is afellow of the APS, has published more than 130scholarly papers, and is the holder of eight patents.

Citation: For contributions to linearaccelerator technology.

Stan Schriber can be reached at MichiganState University, Cyclotron Bldg NSCL, Room100B, East Lansing, MI 48824-1020 USA;Phone: +1 517 333-6352; Fax: +1 517 353-5967E-mail: [email protected].


Stanley O. Schriber

Stanley O. Schriber

Bruce Paul Strauss

Bruce Strauss is presently the ProgramManager for the United StatesDepartment of Energy's $210 million

contribution to the LHC Accelerator Project.He serves on the DOE/NSF Joint OversightGroup (JOG) for U.S. LHC activities. Hechairs the CERN review committee regardingprocurement of superconductor and supercon-ducting magnets for the LHC. As a member ofthe Advanced Technology R&D branch of theOffice of High Energy Physics at DOE, he is

responsible for all of their superconductivitydevelopment university grants and laboratoryactivities. He serves as Executive Secretary tothe High Energy Physics Advisory Panel(HEPAP) of the Department of Energy andthe National Science Foundation.

He received his undergraduate and doctor-al education at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and a Master of BusinessAdministration degree at the University ofChicago.

Bruce Paul Strauss


Benjamin M. W. Tsui

Following early experience at the AVCOEverett Research Laboratory and at ArgonneNational Laboratory, he joined the Fermi NationalAccelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. AtFermilab, he rose to the rank of Assistant Directorof the Tevatron Project. He was responsible for theprocurement scheme for the entire superconduc-tor inventory for that project.

He left Fermilab to join the MagneticCorporation of America where he served asproduction manager for superconducting wireand magnet fabrication. Subsequently he wasthe principal of two management-consultingorganizations. Clients included governmentagencies, national laboratories and industrialconcerns. A significant consulting contributionwas to the Management and AdministrationBranch of the DOE for the Independent Cost

Estimation (ICE) process for all of the techni-cal components, installation and commission-ing for the Superconducting Super Collider.

Dr. Strauss is an incorporator of the AppliedSuperconductivity Conference, Inc. where hepresently serves as the corporate treasurer aswell as a member of several technical commit-tees. He is also treasurer of the IEEE TechnicalCouncil on Superconductivity.

Citation: For leadership in low tempera-ture superconducting materials and magnetsystems.

Bruce Strauss can be reached at the UnitedStates Department of Energy, 1000 IndependenceAve SW, SC-224/Germantown, Washington, DC20585-1290 USA; Phone: +1 301 903-3705; Fax:+1 301 903-2597; E-mail: [email protected].

Benjamin M. W. Tsui

Benjamin M. W. Tsui received his B.S. andA.M. degrees in Physics from the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong in 1970 and

Dartmouth College in 1972, respectively, andhis Ph.D. degree in Medical Physics from theUniversity of Chicago in 1977. He was aPostdoctoral Fellow (1977-1979) and anAssistant Professor (1979-1982) of Radiology atthe University of Chicago. He then worked as aResearch Associate Professor (1982-1987), anAssociate Professor (1987-1992) and a Professor(1992-2002) of Biomedical Engineering andRadiology at the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill. He is currently a Professor ofRadiology, Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Biomedical Engineering andEnvironment Health Sciences (2002-present) atthe Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Tsui is cited for his contributionsto nuclear medicine imaging, especially in sin-gle photon emission computed tomography(SPECT). He is noted for the development ofSPECT instrumentation, image reconstructiontechniques, quantitative SPECT methods, andimage quality assessment, and for the educa-tion of graduate students and postdoctoral fel-lows. His research interests include imagingphysics, instrumentation, computer phantoms,Monte Carlo simulations, image reconstruc-tion methods, and image evaluation usingmathematical and human observers. He is theauthor and co-author of over 200 publicationsand the principal investigator of 5 NIH andDOD research grants and several industrial

research contracts. He is the principal advisorof over 30 M.S. and Ph.D. past and currentstudents and 10 postdoctoral research fellows.

Prior to becoming a Fellow of the IEEE,Professor Tsui was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Institute for Medical and BiologicalEngineering (AIMBE), a Fellow and CharteredPhysicist of the Institute of Physics (IOP), anda member of several other professional organi-zations and societies. He has served as a mem-ber of many scientific review committees forvarious federal agencies, including the NIH,NSF, DOE and DOD, state agencies and pri-vate foundations. Also, he has been a regularreviewer and a member of the editorial boardsof several scientific journals. In addition,Professor Tsui has been an active member ofthe Nuclear Medical Imaging SciencesTechnical Committee (NMIST) of the IEEENuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS)for many years and was the program chair of theMedical Imaging Conference (MIC) for the2001 Nuclear Science Symposium (NPS) andMedical Imaging Conference (MIC). He nowrepresents NPSS in a liaison capacity to a com-mittee of IEEE-USA.

Citation: For contributions to nuclearmedical imaging, especially in single pho-ton emission computed tomography.

Ben Tsui can be reached at Johns HopkinsUniversity, JOHC4263, 601 North CarolineStreet, Baltimore, MD 21287-0859 USA;Phone: +1 443 287-4025; Fax: +1 410 614-1977; E-mail: [email protected].

Magesh Thiyagarajan was born inChennai, India. He received theBachelor of Engineering degree in

Electrical and Electronics Engineering fromthe University of Madras, India in 2001. Hereceived the prestigious Medal of Honor fromthe University of Madras for excellence in aca-demic work during his undergraduate studies.

Mr. Thiyagarajan has recently completed theM.S degree in Electrical Engineering with aconcentration on Plasma Engineering in May2004 from the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering at the University ofTennessee, Knoxville. There he was a GraduateResearch Assistant in the Microwave and PlasmaLaboratory, under the direction of ProfessorIgor Alexeff. His thesis work was on theAtmospheric Pressure Resistive Barrier PlasmaDischarge for Biological Decontamination andSterilization of Micro-organisms. This systemallows the use of plasmas to kill bacteria, virusesand spores. The device works well, and ispatented, licensed, and is generating royalties.He has designed a diagnostic Method of IonCurrent Measurement in the AtmosphericPressure DC Discharge that rejects plasma elec-trical noise. He was also actively involved in

other research projects such as ExperimentalBall Lightning, Plasma Stealth Antennas,MHDs and Plasma Thrusters.

Mr. Thiyagarajan has authored and co-authored nine archival papers in journals andconference proceedings in his area of research.He has been awarded the prestigiousUniversity of Tennessee Citation Award forExtraordinary Professional Promise for theyear 2004. Mr. Thiyagarajan is a member ofthe honor societies Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu,Order of the Engineer. He is a student mem-ber of the IEEE.

Mr. Thiyagarajan is currently concentratingon his Ph.D. dissertation research topic —developing a large volume laser initiated andradiofrequency sustained high pressure induc-tively coupled plasma source, at the Universityof Wisconsin – Madison.

He was nominated for this award byProfessor Emeritus Igor Alexeff of theUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Magesh Thiyagarajan can be reached at theCenter for Plasma Theory and Computation,University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1500Engineering Dr., Madison, WI 53706-1609; Phone:+1 608 658-4542; E-mail: [email protected].

SOCIETY AWARDSGraduate Scholar Awards

Magesh Thiyagarajan


Magesh Thiyagarajan

OTHER AWARDSGeorge H. Miley

2004 ANS Radiation Science and Technology Award

The American Nuclear Society, in recog-nition of the expanding contributionsradiation sciences make to industrial

progress, established the Radiation Scienceand Technology Award in 1967. The purposeof the award is to identify and honor thoseindividuals whose creative application of radi-ation sciences and engineering principles havebeen particularly outstanding.

The 2004 Award was presented to Prof.George H. Miley, Department of Nuclear,Plasma and Radiological Engineering at theUniversity of Illinois at an Honors andAwards Luncheon in Washington DC,November 16, 2004.

Citation: For his creative contributions

to radiation science and technology in fur-thering the development of nuclear batter-ies, nuclear pumped lasers, and smallfusion-based neutron sources for industri-al neutron activation analysis.

George Miley can be reached at the FusionStudies Laboratory, University of Illinois, 100NEL, 103 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2901; Phone: +1 217 333-3772; Fax: +1 217333-2906; E-mail: [email protected].

Ed. Note: The above is included to let ourmembership know of an important awardbestowed by another society on a long-standingand active member of the Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society. Congratulations,George!

George H. Miley

Ron Jaszczak Receives Outstanding Alumni Award


Ronald J. JaszczakUniversity of Florida Outstanding Alumni Award

Ronald Jaszczak has been recognizedwith an Outstanding Alumni Award bythe College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences at the University of Florida. Hereceived this honor at the University’s AnnualAwards Brunch held on November 13, 2004in conjunction with the University’sHomecoming activities in Gainesville, Florida.

Dr. Jaszczak earned a Bachelor's Degree inPhysics from the University of Florida in 1964,ranking fourth in a class of 980; he earned aPhD in Physics in 1968 from the same univer-sity. Over the course of his career, he hasworked in academia, private industry and atthe US Atomic Energy Commission’s OakRidge National Laboratory (ORNL). He heldappointments at ORNL and the NuclearChicago Corporation (now Siemens MedicalSolutions) until being recruited by DukeUniversity in 1979; since that time, he hasbeen a Professor of Radiology and BiomedicalEngineering at Duke.

His research interests are in the field ofmedical imaging science. He has made majorcontributions to nuclear medicine, in particu-lar to the development, characterization andunderstanding of single photon emissioncomputed tomography (SPECT). In 1981,he and his wife, Nancy, co-founded DataSpectrum Corporation (DSC) located inHillsborough, North Carolina. DSC is a lead-ing manufacturer of quality assurance andresearch phantoms for the nuclear medicalimaging community.

Dr. Jaszczak is a Fellow of the Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) and has served the Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society in many administra-tive capacities, including NPSS Presidentfrom 1997-1998. In recognition of his pio-neering work in nuclear medicine imaging,the Society of Nuclear Medicine honoredDr. Jaszczak with the 2000 Paul C.Aebersold Award.

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The time is NOW for nominating yourwell – deserving colleagues for theIEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences

Society and Committee awards. If you haveany questions, E-mail or call me. The deadlinefor nominations is May 15, 2005.

The NPSS Awards comprise the following.

THE RICHARD F. SHEA DISTINGUISHEDMEMBER AWARD.Description: To recognize outstanding contri-butions through leadership and service to theNPSS and to the fields of Nuclear and PlasmaSciences.Prize: $2,000, Plaque, and Certificate.Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society.Eligibility: Any member of the IEEE andNPSS who has contributed to the fields ofnuclear and plasma sciences through leadershipand service.Basis for Judging: Selection criteria are:a. Leadership roles and leadership quality;b. Innovative and important contributions to

Society activities;c. Service and dedication to the NPSS;d. Technical achievements.Presentation: One award presented annually atNuclear Science Symposium (Or at any otherIEEE NPSS meeting that the awardee chooses.)

THE NPSS MERIT AWARDDescription: To recognize outstanding tech-nical contributions to the fields of Nuclear andPlasma Sciences.Prize: $2,000, Plaque and Certificate.Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society.Eligibility: Any individual who has made tech-nical contributions to the fields of Nuclear andPlasma Sciences.Basis for Judging: Selection criteria, in orderof importance are:a. Importance of individual technical contri-

butions;b. Importance of technical contributions made

by teams led by the candidate;c. Quality and significance of publications and

patents;d. Years of technical distinction;e. Leadership and service within the fields of

nuclear and plasma sciences and relateddisciplines.

Presentation: One award presented annuallyat Nuclear Science Symposium or at an NPSSsponsored meeting chosen by the nominee.

THE NPSS EARLY ACHIEVEMENTAWARDDescription: To recognize outstanding contri-butions to any of the fields making up Nuclearand Plasma Sciences, within the first ten (10)years of an individual’s career.Prize: $1,800, Plaque, and Certificate.Funding; Funded by the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society.Eligibility: Member of the IEEE NPSS whoat the time of nomination is within the first ten(10) years of his or her career within the fieldof interest of NPSS.Basis for Judging: Three (3) letters of recom-mendation, publications and/or reports,patents, etc. which demonstrate outstandingcontributions early in the nominee’s career.Presentation: At any major NPSS sponsoredconference chosen by the awardee

THE NPSS GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPAWARDDescription: To recognize contributions tothe fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences.Prize: $500, Certificate, and one – year paidmembership in the NPSS.Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear andPlasma Sciences Society.Eligibility: Any graduate student in the fieldsof Nuclear and Plasma Sciences.Basis for Judging: Evidence of scholarshipsuch as academic record, reports, presenta-tions, publications, research plans, related pro-jects and related work experience,Participation in IEEE activities through pre-sentations, publications, student Chapterinvolvement, etc., will also be considered.Presentation: Up to four (4) awards present-ed annually. Check and certificates sent tonominator to be presented at a special occasionat the winner’s institution.

PAUL L. PHELPS AWARDDescription: The Paul L. Phelps award is dif-ferent, in that its objective is to permit peopleto attend short courses at IEEE NPSS meet-ings by giving them travel grants. Prize: Several travel grants per NPSS conference.Funding: Funded by the IEEE Nuclear and

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Plasma Sciences Society.Eligibility: Any graduate student in the fieldsof Nuclear and Plasma Sciences. Also membersof the IEEE who are unemployed or havetrouble obtaining travel funds. Each granteemust attend a short course.Basis for Judging: Each conference shall havean appointed chairman to handle Phelps travelgrants. The amount of funding per conferenceis determined by the short course attendanceat the previous conference. (Consult the IEEENPSS Treasurer.) This amount may then besubdivided at the discretion of the appointedchairman to accommodate several recipients.Application for the grant is by a letter to theappointed chairman (or the conference chair-man, who will forward it to the proper person)well in advance of the conference date. Theletter will convey the need for the grant, aswell as biographical and scientific informationto demonstrate the scientific capability of thepotential grantee.Presentation: A check will be sent to eachgrantee, preferably well before the confer-ence, but as soon as possible in the case oflate application.

THE IEEE AWARDS PROGRAMThere are an abundance of high – level awardsobtainable directly from the IEEE. In general,our society has ignored these awards. To myknowledge, the NPSS has only received ONEsuch award in its 30 - year history.Prize: Download the IEEE Award Manualfrom the web at IEEE AWARDS and be

amazed at what is available! And get to work!

THE IEEE NPSS TECHNICALCOMMITTEE AWARDS: Description: Most of the TechnicalCommittees under the IEEE NPSS umbrellahave their own awards. These awards are ingeneral funded from the committee’s confer-ence returns. These awards are tabulatedbelow. Details are obtainable from the IEEEWeb page, IEEE.NPSS.Summary of Committee Awards:(1) Computer Applications in Nuclear and

Plasma Sciences Award.(2) Radiation Effects Award.(3) Radiation Instrumentation Early Career

Award.(4) Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding

Achievements Award.(5) Fusion Technology Award.(6) Particle Accelerator Science and

Technology Award (PAST Award).(7) Plasma Science and Applications Award.(8) Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging

Scientist Award.(9) Young Investigator Medical Imaging

Science Award.(10) Erwin Marx Award(11) Peter Haas Pulsed Power Award.(12) Outstanding Pulsed Power Student

Award.Igor Alexeff can be reached at Ferris Hall

315, University of Tennessee, Middle Drive,Knoxville, TN 37996-2100; Phone: +1 865 974-5467; E-mail: [email protected].

ARTICLES

IntroductionRonald Schrimpf

As Chairman of the RESG I would like togive the NPSS community an opportu-nity to learn about one of the most

active topics in radiation effects research:Radiation Hardening by Design. RHBD tech-niques make it possible to improve the radia-tion tolerance of integrated circuits fabricatedin standard commercial processes or, whenused in conjunction with process modifications,

to meet the needs of systems that must operatein particularly harsh radiation environments. Ihave asked Dr. Hugh Barnaby, Arizona StateUniversity, to describe recent developments inRHBD. Dr. Barnaby has been attendingNSREC since he was a student at Vanderbilt,has served on NSREC conference committeesand will be presenting a Short Course session atthe 2005 NSREC in Seattle.

Ronald SchrimpfChair, Radiation Effects

Steering Group

The militaryview

Without war theworld wouldbecomeswamped inmaterialism.

General Helmuthvon Moltke

The continuing shrinkage in the “rad-hard” foundry market is making itmore difficult to secure qualified parts

that meet the power, performance, and lowcost demands of the modern radiation-hard-ened system. Today’s relatively small marketfor rad-hard components makes it difficult forthe few remaining suppliers of these parts tooffer state-of-the-art products (e.g., G4 micro-processors or high speed and density memory)to the manufacturers of satellites and otherspace systems. This has prompted the design-ers of these systems to adopt a variety of strate-gies to ensure the viability of their electronicsin the harsh radiation environment of spacewhile simultaneously controlling costs. Thesestrategies range from up-screening commercialparts to the radiation-hardening-by-design(RHBD) approach.

In RHBD, electronic components are man-ufactured to meet specified radiation perfor-mance criteria, but the techniques employed tomeet these criteria are implemented either inlayout or in the application architecture andnot in the fabrication process. RHBD is typi-cally considered distinct from radiation-hard-ening-by-process (RHBP). Radiation harden-ing via process modifications is the traditionalapproach used by rad-hard foundries(although it should be noted that thesefoundries typically implement both RHBP andRHBD techniques). While RHBP has theadvantage of being an extremely reliable meansof achieving hardened components, RHBP issusceptible to low volume concerns such asyield, process instability, and high manufactur-ing costs. These drawbacks, when coupledwith the post Cold War contraction of the gov-ernment electronics market, caused a dramaticindustrial exodus from rad-hard manufactur-ing. The number of rad-hard foundries hasgone from more than ten in 1985 to two ded-icated foundries today [1].

In order to leverage the economy-of-scaleprovided by the commercial electronics indus-try, some rad-hard electronics customers arelooking at RHBD as a potentially lower costsolution to persistent radiation threats. TheRHBD approach makes sense in today’s evolv-ing electronics marketplace where semicon-

ductor fabrication is becoming more detachedfrom integrated circuit design. IC developers,in companies both large and small, now submittheir ASIC designs to external foundries forfabrication. The growth of the field program-mable gate array market is another good exam-ple of the increasing detachment betweendesign and fabrication. The RHBD methodol-ogy fits this new model for IC development,i.e., custom circuits are designed for optimalperformance in a targeted radiation environ-ment and fabricated separately in a high vol-ume commercial technology.

However, it is still an open questionwhether RHBD alone will ultimately work.Ideally, the RHBD approach can producehardened devices on standard commercialfoundry flows, without any modification tothe existing process or violation of design andlayout rules. However, recent R&D effortshave indicated that the discovery of effective,design rule “clean,” techniques that meet tar-geted specifications is a more daunting taskthan originally thought. Many of the conven-tional RHBD techniques such as re-entrantgeometries for total ionizing dose mitigationor dual interlocked storage cells (DICE) forreducing single event upsets are difficult toimplement without corresponding electricalperformance and area penalties of greater thanone generation [2]. Designers for a number ofsatellite payload manufacturers are nowengaged in activities to identify the designpractices that will minimize the impact ofRHBD on their power, speed, and area tar-gets. Much of this effort relies on detailedunderstanding of the available commercialtechnologies and how these technologiesrespond to a specific set of radiation threats.Designers must often perform detailed model-ing and experiments to determine whichRHBD technique needs to be implemented tomeet mission requirements.

It is generally believed that the greatestradiation-related threats to modern electroniccomponents are single event effects caused byindividual energetic particles. Reduced devicedimensions and accompanying technologicalchanges have resulted in increased sensitivityto single event strikes. Many of the RHBD

Will Radiation-Hardening-by-Design (RHBD) Work?Hugh J. Barnaby

Arizona State University


Hugh J. Barnaby

Passingthought

Some days arefor living. Othersare for gettingthrough.

Malcolm Forbes


techniques available for SEE mitigation rely onredundant architectures, which can have adeleterious effect on performance and area.

Prohibitive performance, power, and areapenalties are not the only problems that mayimpact the ultimate efficacy of RHBD. Indeed,there are other, perhaps larger, unresolvedquestions including: costs to the end-user, parttraceability, and security. With respect to thefirst question, it is still unknown whether thehigh costs of commercial parts qualificationwill be significantly reduced with the RHBDapproach. Thus, even though manufacturingexpenses may be substantially reduced viaRHBD, the need to qualify designs may in thelong run erase any cost benefits to the enduser. Another benefit of RHBP and the use ofrad-hard foundries is their dedication to therad-hard electronics user. In RHBP, problemsassociated with the hardness of a particularprocess or lot may be traced and corrected forthe customer. The commercial foundry isunlikely to provide this level of support. Lastlywith the rad-hard foundry approach, the life-time of a classified IC is fairly easy to track,from design, to manufacturing in a clearedfacility, and to ultimate insertion into a strate-gic system. By contrast, the manufacturingcost advantage of RHBD is exactly what makesit a potentially greater security risk, i.e., fabri-cating the classified IC in a low cost commer-cial un-cleared foundry.

Today there are several groups activelyinvolved in trying to find answers to these

questions. In 2004, the Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated aprogram specifically dedicated to determiningthe workability of RHBD. Participants in theprogram include the Defense ThreatReduction Agency, the U.S. Air Force, theBoeing Company, ATK Mission Research, anda team of industrial and academic partners.These research efforts may ultimately revealthat the best solution may not be found inselecting one hardening methodology overanother but rather in finding the optimal com-bination of RHBD and process hardening [3]coupled with a firm understanding of theimpact of technological advancements on theradiation hardness of a specific system. [1] R. Lacoe, D. Mayer, J. Osborn and S.

Brown, “New Strategies for RadiationHard Electronics,” 2001 MRQW,December 11, 2001

[2] R. Lacoe, “CMOS Scaling DesignPrinciples and Hardening-by-DesignMethodologies,” IEEE NSREC ShortCourse, 2003.

[3] N. Nowlin, S. McEndree, D. Butcher, “ARadiation Hardened High-PrecisionResolver-to-Digital Converter (RDC)”,2004 IEEE Radiation Effects DataWorkshop, July 22 2004, pp 96 – 103.

Hugh Barnaby can be reached at the ECEDepartment, Arizona State University, 1230 E.Speedway Blvd., PO Box 210140, Tucson, AZ85721-0104; Phone: +1 480 727-0289; E-mail:[email protected].

Back-lighting

When nighttimeelectrical lightingwas new, it wasthe poor whoburned commoncandles. Whenelectricitybecame easilyavailable andpractically free,candles at din-ner became asign of luxury.

Kevin Kelly

Chasing rainbows

This is the paradox of measurement: the more objective and pre-cise we get the more nimbly truth manages to keep a certaindistance.

Cullen Murphy


Better Ethics Needed to ImproveEnergy Distribution

Terry CostlowIEEE-USA, Today’s Engineer

Jan. 2005

Not long ago, American energy marketleaders viewed deregulation as way toimprove profits and trim consumer

pricing by managing electricity and natural gascreation and distribution more efficiently.Unfortunately, Enron’s accounting shenani-gans, rolling blackouts in California, and the2003 Northeast blackout clouded that viewsignificantly.

Energy leaders recently began making amore concerted effort to make sure that theindustry begins living up to the expectationsthat come with an open market. Experts out-lined and discussed the myriad factors involvedin this new era of energy distribution at anIEEE-USA-cosponsored seminar, held inOctober at Notre Dame University on “Ethicsand the Changing Energy Markets.” Allagreed that the stakes are high, since electrici-ty is a basic part of the American infrastruc-ture. “This industry is second only to agricul-ture in its importance to society,” FrankIncropera, Dean of Notre Dame’s College ofEngineering, told the audience.

Though early attempts to let open marketsdefine the industry bordered on disastrous,many decision makers believe that things cansettle down and run smoothly. Eventually,consumers will enjoy the benefits of betterpricing, and well-run utilities will realize therewards associated with efficient management.

“There’s nothing about electric power thatmakes it impervious to regulation by the mar-ket, said George Mason University professorVernon L. Smith, an EE and Nobel Prize-win-ning economist. “But the market design has tohonor the features of the industry, acknowl-edging engineering and technical constraints.”

CONFERENCE FOCUSED ONELECTRICAL GRIDMany speakers focused on the electrical grid,noting that electric companies can follow themodel set by other deregulated energy fields.“Natural gas is the best example of an industryworking well after deregulation,” said WilliamHederman, director of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office ofMarket Oversight and Investigations.

Hederman, sometimes referred to as the“cop on the beat,” said electricity providershave a long way to go before the electricindustry can even be considered to be a modelfor anyone. He noted that that unethicalaction by Enron and others caused a loss offaith on every side. Investors became reticent,holding down the amount of available capital,while customers and elected officials lost con-fidence in information provided by utilitiesand doubted that regulators were protectingthe public interest.

FERC responded by improving theresponse infrastructure and providing morevigilant oversight and rules enforcement,Hederman continued. He said utilities andrelated companies must operate with moreregulation than many other fields, so deregula-tion is not a precise description of the indus-try’s move to open markets. “It’s morerestructuring than deregulating,” he said.

WHAT WENT WRONG?Before setting rules for the future, the industryhas to understand why problems occurred inthe first place. According to Hederman, lastyear’s rolling blackouts and bankruptcies inCalifornia won’t help create a model for mak-ing the link between problems and deregula-tion. “You can’t learn any more about deregu-lation from looking at California than you canlearn about plastic surgery from looking atMichael Jackson,” Hederman said.

That’s because most analysts contend thatCalifornia’s regulations actually created theproblem. Foremost among them was the lawthat fixed pricing for retail with market pricingfor wholesale, which made it difficult to main-tain profitability.

“One essential fact is that the problems inCalifornia were not created by deregulation,but by strong regulatory rules,” said JamesSweeney, a Stanford University professor andauthor of The California Energy Crisis.

Experts have analyzed the Enron debacle

We can’t win

God not onlyplays dice, butthrows them sofar they’rebeyond ourreach.

StephenHawking

Fortune shines

I’m a greatbeliever in luck -and I find theharder I work themore I have of it.

StephenLeacock


heavily, laying bare the interconnectionbetween auditors, Wall Street companies andothers. These interconnections prompted peo-ple to ignore suspicious activity in order toboost profits. More recently, watchdogs havebeen given more insight into corporate activi-ties which, in turn, has created an atmospherethat’s more conducive to efficient operations.“Markets depend on good faith and ethicalactions,” Hederman said.

LOOKING AHEADMost energy providers accept the idea that reg-ulations will help ensure that energy gets deliv-ered with few problems. Many are workingclosely with regulators to make sure that regu-lations don’t produce unexpected results, asthey did in California and elsewhere.

“Good market rules facilitate competitionand limit market power,” said Joseph Bowring,manager of the market-monitoring unit atPJM Interconnection, an energy providerheadquartered in Valley Forge, Pa.

As on the financial side of the issue,industry watchdogs will pay closer attentionto detail and will enforce the rules strictly.The enormous scope of the 2003 Northeastblackout, which affected states from NewYork to Michigan, affected tens of millionsof people. “The 2003 blackout was a turn-ing point,” said Michehl Gent, president ofthe North American Electric ReliabilityCouncil (NERC), a Princeton, N.J., groupthat sets standards and monitors complianceby bulk electrical providers around thecountry. “We’ve taken an oath that this willnot happen again.”

Gent promised that NERC wouldn’t hesi-tate to take definitive action when it discoversproblems. In the past, the fraternal feelthroughout the industry may have promptedNERC and others to overlook what they knewneeded to be done. Those days are now gone.“We’re beyond voluntary compliance,” hesaid. “We will measure performance and dis-

close lapses. We have put in sanctions for fail-ure to comply with standards.”

NERC worked within the ANSI process tocreate a readiness audit program that it thenintegrated with existing compliance programs.The combined audits will be conducted everythree years to determine how well utilities areperforming. “That was the single most effec-tive thing NERC has ever done,” Gent said.

SEPARATE GENERATION ANDDELIVERY?Another suggestion for service improvementsis to lessen the market power of large entitiesby spinning out some of their services. Prof.Smith suggested separating power generationfrom power delivery. “We have to separate thewires from the energy providers. That principleshould be supported at the retail level rightdown to the plug,” he commented.

In New Zealand, this approach led to theemergence of five retail energy companiesand common use of controls for turning offwater heaters and other products when nec-essary. Using some equipment at off-peaktimes should be a key part of energy plans,Smith said. “There should be highercharges for consumers who buy at peaktimes,” he added.

However, several hurdles will have to beovercome before this approach can work. Forstarters, to turn off equipment to minimizepeak usage, companies will have to install tech-nology in homes and offices. The necessarymicroprocessor-controlled meters are avail-able, but the industry has been slow to adoptthem.

“This is an age of sophisticated monitoringand metering, but not in the electric powerindustry,” Smith said. “Local franchisemonopolies are not well-motivated to startusing technology,” partly because the “costsare not trivial.”

Terry Costlow can be reached at [email protected].

QED

A proof is a proof and when you have a good proof it’s becauseit’s proven.

Jean Chrétien

A lot of happyfools around

Reason commands usmuch more thana master. If wedisobey a master we areunhappy but ifwe disobey reason we arefools.

Blaise Pascal

2005 Nuclear and Plasma Sciences SocietyAdministrative Committee

President William W. MosesVice President Jane M. Lehr

Secretary Alberta M. Dawson LarsenTreasurer Edward J. Lampo

Most Recent Past President Peter S. WinokurDivision IV Director Stuart A. Long

Elected Administrative Committee MembersTerms expiring 2005: Dennis B. Brown (RE), Mounir Laroussi(PSAC), Patrick LeDû (CANPS), William W. Moses (RI)Terms expiring 2006: Joseph Benedetto (RE), Grant Gullberg(NMIS), Glenn F. Knoll (RI), Patrick O’Shea (PAST)Terms expiring 2007: Steven H. Gold (PSA), Allan H. Johnston(RE), Jane M. Lehr (PPST), Charles L. Neumeyer (FT)Terms expiring 2008: Uwe Bratzler (Transnational), ChristopherDeeney (PSA), Ronald J. Jaszczak (NMIS)

Technical Committee ChairsComputer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science (CANPS):Jean-Pierre Martin; Radiation Instrumentation (RI): CraigWoody; Fusion Technology (FT): Philip J. Heitzenroeder; NuclearMedical and Imaging Sciences (NMIS): Magnus Dahlbom;Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST): Ilan Ben-Zvi; Plasma Science and Applications (PSA): Daniel O. Jobe;Pulsed Power Science and Technology (PPST): GeraldCooperstein; Radiation Effects (RE): Ronald D. Schrimpf.

Functional Committee ChairsAwards: Igor Alexeff; Chapter and Local Activities: Vernon G. Price;Communications: Peter N. Clout; Fellow Candidate Evaluation:Peter S. Winokur; Finance: Harold Flescher; Conference Policy:Raymond S. Larsen; Membership: Vernon G. Price; Nominations:Peter S. Winokur; Publications: Paul V. Dressendorfer; Standards:Ronald M. Keyser; Students & Careers: Edl Schamiloglu &Kenneth A. Connor; Transnational: Uwe Bratzler.

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; Editors Emeritus: W.Kenneth Dawson, John F. Osborn.

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: Peter S. Winokur;PACE: Julian Forster; RADECS Liaison: Harold Flescher;Sensors Council: Erik Heijne; Social Implications of Technology:Raymond S. Larsen; Standards: Julian Forster and MichaelUnterweger; TAB New Technology Directions: TMI: A BertrandBrill and Ronald J. Jaszczak. Medical: Benjamin M. W. Tsui.

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