PULSED POWER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STANDING TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT

November 06, 2010

Knoxville, TN

Edl Schamiloglu, University of New Mexico

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OUTLINE

• PPS&T Conferences

• PPS&T Technically Co-sponsored Conferences

• Committee Update

• New Business (no new business to bring to AdCom)

• Next Meeting (March 2011 at Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago)

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PPS&T Conferences – 2009 PPC Status

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PPS&T Conferences – 2009 PPC Status

• The 2009 Pulsed Power Conference was held June 29 to July 2, 2009 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC.

• The Proceedings DVD have been produced and distributed to the registrants.

• The Conference Organizers have begun the process of closing out the conference budget and accounts. A $10k grant from DTRA for which a PO was issued in 2009 is unaccounted for. The conference is projecting a slight deficit of $17k.

• The Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on Pulsed Power Science and Technology, many of which are enhancements of papers submitted to this conference, was just published in October 2010. The Guest Editors were Larry Altgilbers (US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL), Randy Curry (U. Missouri-Columbia), Weihua Jiang (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan), and Paul Smith (Oxford, United Kingdom). 39 papers appeared in the Special Issue.

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PPS&T Conferences – 2011 PPC Status

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PPS&T Conferences – 2011 PPC Status

• Conference Venue: Hyatt Regency, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, June 19-24, 2011

• Co-located with ICOPS/SOFE (week afterwards)

• Randy Curry (U. Missouri-Columbia) is the General Chair; Bryan Oliver (Sandia National Laboratories) is the Technical Program Chair; Mark Rader (US Army SMDC) is the Treasurer

• 2011 will not use TDMG, will use IEEE MCM for complete conference support

• The loan has been received

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PPS&T Conferences – 2011 PPC Status

• The banquet will be held at the Field Museum

• The night out will be held aboard the Odyssey on Lake Michigan

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PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status

• Conference Venue: Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero, San Francisco, June 15-22, 2013

• Combined with ICOPS

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PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status

• General Chair: Dr. Bryan Oliver, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

• Technical Program Chair: Dr. Marc Crawford, IAT, UT Austin, TX

• Local Organizing Chair: Pat Corcoran, L3-Pulsed Sciences, San Leandro, CA

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Hyatt Regency

• Good web site for conference information• http://sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/events/pdf_links.jsp

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PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status

• Contract with the Hyatt signed – IEEE MCM assisted with negotiations

• Still considering options for meeting support (will use IEEE MCM)

• Decided to NOT combine with SOFE

PPS&T Conferences – 2015 PPC Status

• Mark Crawford exploring venues with Keisha Carr, IEEE MCM

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 15th EML Symposium

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 15th EML Symposium

• Special Issue of IEEE TPS will publish papers derived from this symposium. Guest editors are Scott Fish and Harry Fair of IAT, UT Austin. 160 manuscripts have been received and are under review. Approximately 99 papers will be appear in the Special Issue.

16th EML Symposium

Will take place in Beijing, China 2012. An MOU is being prepared.

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Power Modulator Conference and High Voltage Workshop

• IEEE DEIS

• TCS – IEEE EDS and IEEE NPSS

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Megagauss Conference

• Conference statistics are being compiled

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2012 Megagauss Conference

Will be held in Maui, HI in October 2012 – will be a fully sponsored IEEE conference.

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Beams and 3rd Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Beams and 3rd Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference

Dr. G.H. Rim of KERI in S. Korea was the General Chair

Number of abstracts received : 233 Accepted oral : 99 Accepted poster : 134 Rejected : 0 No shows : numerous, numbers not available at this time.

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Beams and 3rd Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference Number of registrants : 221 Korea : 95 China : 27 USA : 22 Japan : 21 Russia : 16 Germany : 9 France : 8 UK : 7 Israel : 6 Iran : 4 Sweden : 3 Switzerland : 2 Singapore : 1

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PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2012 Beams and 4th Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference To be held mid-September 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Dr. Georg Muller of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will be the General Chair.

An MOU for Technical Co-Sponsorship being prepared.

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Committee Updates

• Edl Schamiloglu has completed 3 years as committee Chair. The committee voted unanimously to request that Jane Lehr be appointed as Chair effective 1/2011.

• We have added two new domestic committee members (Susan Heidger, AFRL and Ravi Joshi, Old Dominion U.) and will add three international committee members (by 15 Dec.). Two members are cycling off (Bryan Oliver and David Price). Our committee will comprise 21 voting members on Dec. 15.

• A subcommittee is looking into export control issues and how they might impact conferences and publications in the pulsed power and related areas.

• The Committee’s Constitution and By-Laws are undergoing revision. It will be brought before the Committee in early 2011 for discussion and vote.

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Thank You – I have enjoyed this most recent tenure on the committee – I look forward to participating in future committee activities.

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