Chapters, Local Activities, Distinguished Lecturers
Steven H. Gold
NPSS AdCom Meeting6 March 2009Monterey, CA
Chapters Report
• NPSS now has 19 chapters or joint chapters. Of these, 17 appear to be active, 8 in North America, 7 in Europe, 2 in Asia.
• Two chapter do not appear to be active, Cleveland and also Chicago, due to the death of its long-time chair, Jack Sherman.
• Four chapters were established in 2009: Seoul, Korea; Richland, WA; Toronto, Canada; and Czechoslovakia.
• Three chapters received financial support in 2009: Saratov/Penza ($500), East Ukraine ($500), and Seoul, Korea ($1,250): total $2,250.
• Three chapters have received financial support in 2010: Saratov/Penza ($500), Seoul, Korea ($500), Toronto ($1500). A request has also been received from East Ukraine ($500) and an additional request is expected from the Czechoslovakia chapter.
• Both the Saratov, Russia and the East Ukraine chapters have continued to pursue MOUs for their chapter cosponsored events.
Chapter Name Date Formed
Officers Start Date Chapter Chair Email Address
Albuquerque Jt. Chapter, AP03/NPS05/MTT17/EMC27 19-Mar-91 1-Jan-09 H J Wagnon [email protected]
Benelux Section Chapter, NPS05 26-Feb-01 1-Jan-03 Benoit G Brichard [email protected]
Boston Section Chapter, NPS05 13-Sep-67 1-Jul-98 Dikshitulu K Kalluri [email protected]
Chicago Section Chap, NPS05/AES10/OE22/GRS29 1-Nov-95 Vacant
Cleveland Section Jt Chap, SP-01/NPS-05/C-16/EMB-18 12-Oct-00 1-Jan-06 Cheri X Deng [email protected]
Czechoslovakia Section Chapter, NPS05 17-Mar-09 17-Mar-09 Stanislav Pospisil [email protected]
France Section, NPS05 14-Dec-00 14-Dec-00 Jean-Luc Leray [email protected]
Germany Section Chapter, NPS05 5-May-98 5-May-98 Klaus Frank [email protected]
Italy Section Chapter, NPS05 22-May-01 22-May-01 Alessandro Rizzo [email protected]
Japan Council Chapter, NPS05 17-Jul-81 1-Jan-09 Ken Yukimura [email protected]
Long Island/New York Jt Sect Chap, NPS05 11-Sep-02 31-Jul-09 Wu Zhang [email protected]
Los Alamos/Northern New Mexico Chap, NPS05 6-Jul-94 1-Jan-09 Glen A Wurden [email protected]
Oakland-East Bay Section Chapter, NPS05 28-Jun-91 1-Jan-08 William J Dehope [email protected]
Richland Section Chapter, NPS05 26-Oct-09 26-Oct-09 Brian D Milbrath [email protected]
Russia Sect, AP03/ED15/MTT17/ CPMT21/NPS05 (Saratov) 3-Oct-08 3-Oct-08 Nikita M Ryskin [email protected]
Seoul Section Chapter, NPS05 8-Jun-09 8-Jun-09 Hee-Joung Kim [email protected]
Toronto Section Chapter, NPS05 3-Sep-09 3-Sep-09 Hossam E A.Gabbar [email protected]
Ukraine, AP/NPS/AES/ED/MTT/GRS (East) 24-May-95 1-Jan-09 Oksana V Shramkova [email protected]
Wa/Balt/No.Va Jt Chap, NPS 23-Aug-82 1-Jan-01 Harry R Sauberman [email protected]
NPSS Chapters (February, 2010)
CHAPTER AFFILIATION MTGSALBUQUERQUE AP03/NPS05/MTT17/EMC27 8BENELUX NPS05 0BOSTON NPS05 2CHICAGO NPS05/AES10/OE22/GRS29/MAG33 1CLEVELAND SP01/NPS05/C16/EMB18 0CZECHOSLOVAKIA NPS05 1FRANCE NPS05 5GERMANY NPS05 0ITALY NPS05 0JAPAN COUNCIL NPS05 6LONG ISLAND/NY NPS05 17LOS ALAMOS NPS05 1OAKLAND-EAST BAY NPS05 1RICHLAND NPS05 0RUSSIA (Saratov/Penza) AP03/CPMT21/ED15/MTT17/NPS05 3SEOUL NPS05 8TORONTO NPS05 0UKRAINE (EAST) AP03/NPS05/AES10/ED15/MTT17/GRS29 (EAST)34WASHINGTON NPS05 JT. WA/BALT/NO.VA 4
2009 Chapter Meeting Summary
• The existing motion authorizes $20K per year for travel expenses of DLs making presentations at NPSS Chapter or IEEE Section or student chapter meetings.
• There are currently 20 DLs offering 37 lectures. All 2009 lecturers will probably be continued into 2010 (unless DL withdraws or TC chair objects).
• All DLs were polled for 2009 lectures that overlapped the content of posted lectures and for which speaker was introduced as an NPSS DL.
• For 2009, there were 27 lectures presented, versus 16 in 2008.• Five 2009 lectures were reimbursed (4 separate trips), with 4 to NPSS
chapters and 1 to a student chapter; total cost $3585.77.• Some questions for 2010:
– How long should DLs serve?– What can be done to improve the program and increase its visibility?
• I renew my request for the TC chairs to nominate additional DLs, particularly from locations outside North America.
Distinguished Lecturers Report
Fusion Technology
Prof. Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD) "Characteristics of an Economically Attractive Fusion
Power Plant" [email protected]
Brad Nelson (ORNL)"Engineering Challenges for ITER"
Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences
William W. Moses (LBNL)(1)"Fundamentals of Nuclear Medical Imaging"; (2)
"Time-of-Flight PET"; (3) "Advances in Scintillators for Medical Imaging Applications"; (4) "Scintillator Non-Proportionality: Present Understanding and Future
Challenges"; (5) "Selected Topics in Nuclear Medical Imaging and Radiation Detection"
David W. Townsend (National University, Singapore)(1) "The evolution of hybrid imaging"; (2) "Lost in
Translation - From Basic Science to Clinical Reality" [email protected]
Particle Accelerator Science and Technology
Dr. Baruch Levush (NRL) "Vacuum Electronics Technology"
Patric Muggli (USC)(1)"Miniaturization of particle accelerators using plasmas"; (2)"Plasma-based radiation sources";
(3)"Ultra-fast beam diagnostics" [email protected]
Thomas Roser (BNL)"Accelerating and colliding relativistic heavy ions"
Plasma Science and Applications
J. Pace VanDevender (SNL)"Ball Lightning--New Physics, New Energy Source, or
Just Good Entertainment" [email protected]
Igor Alexeff, UTK (ret)(1) “The Plasma Antenna - Now you see it, now you don’t.”; (2) “The Plasma Sterilizer – Killing bacteria
with a ceramic floor tile.”; (3) “Ball Lightning – Balls of fire in the laboratory.”; (4) “Thermonuclear fusion
power plants – – the ultimate energy source – maybe.”[email protected]
Mounir Laroussi (Old Dominion Univ.) "Interaction of Cold Plasmas with Biological Cells:
Can Plasmas Play a Role in Modern Medicine?" [email protected]
Dr. Giovanni Lapenta (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
(1) "The Particle In Cell (PIC) method as a general tool for plasma simulation and beyond"; (2) "The
challenge of multiple scales in space weather and fusion plasmas"
Pulsed Power Science and Technology
Dr. Charles H. Stallings (Stallings & Associates) “Pulsed Power - What Is It and Why Should You
Care?” [email protected]
Dr. Peter J. Turchi (LANL) "Plasma and Megagauss Fields"
Bryan Oliver (Sandia) "Intense electron beam diodes for X-ray
generation"[email protected]
Radiation Effects
Dr. John D. Cressler (Georgia Tech) "Radiation Effects in Silicon-Based Heterostructure Device Technologies" [email protected]
Dr. Allan Johnston (JPL)(1)"Radiation Effects in Optoelectronic Devices";(2)"An Introduction to Space Radiation Effects in
Electronics"[email protected]
Radiation Instrumentation
Dr. Ralph James (BNL)(1) "Past, present and future for nuclear radiation
detectors"; (2) "Solid-State Gamma-Ray Detectors"; (3) "Homeland Security R&D at Brookhaven National Lab"
Dr. Paul Lecoq (CERN)(1) "Development of new scintillating crystals for High
Energy Physics, Medical Imaging and other applications"; (2) "Spin-off from particle detectors in the field of medicine and biology"; (3) "Metamaterials
for novel X or gamma ray detector designs"; (4) "Molecular Imaging Challenges with PET and SPECT
techniques"[email protected]
Dr. Marek Moszynski (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland)
"Energy Resolution and Non-Proportionality of Scintillation Detectors"
Transnational Committee
Dr. Alessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Bari)"Soft Sensors and Artificial Intelligence: exploiting experimental data and human expertise to design
effective tools for modelling, monitoring, validation and control"
2009 Distinguished Lecturers
History of NPSS Distinguished Lecturer Program2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Totals
CANPSFTC Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD) 2 2
Brad Nelson (ORNL) 0NMISC William W. Moses (LBNL) 3 3
David W. Townsend (National University, Singapore) 4 3 7
PAST Patric Muggli (USC) 1 1 2Baruch Levush (NRL) 1 2 3 Thomas Roser (BNL) 0
Robert Siemann (SLAC)PSAC J. Pace VanDevender (SNL) 1 4 5
Igor Alexeff, UTK (ret) 4 4Mounir Laroussi (Old Dominion Univ.) 2 2 4
Giovanni Lapenta (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) 0
PPCCharles H. Stallings (Stallings &
Associates) 1 2 1 1 5Peter J. Turchi (LANL) 1 2 3Bryan Oliver (Sandia) 3 1 4
REC John D. Cressler (Georgia Tech) 1 1 2Allan Johnston (JPL) 0
RIC Ralph James (BNL) 1 1 1 4 7Paul Lecoq (CERN) 0
Marek Moszynski (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland) 0
TNCAlessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Bari,
Italy) 1 1Planned
Totals 2 5 16 27 2 52
History of NPSS Distinguished Lecturer ProgramYear Lecturer Location Type Completed Reimbursed
2006 R. JamesUniversity of New Mexico,
Las Vegas Student X2006 B. Levush Albuquerque NPSS X2007 R. James University of Connecticut Student X2007 F. Najmabadi Chicago NPSS X Yes2007 F. Najmabadi Albuquerque NPSS X Yes2007 C. Stallings Auburn University Student X Yes2007 P. Turchi Albuquerque NPSS X2008 J. Cressler Albuquerque NPSS X Yes2008 R. James LANL NPSS X
2008 M. LaroussiGREMI Laboratory,
Orleans, France Other X
2008 M. LaroussiLAPLACE Laboratory,
Toulouse, France Other X
2008 B. LevushIEEE Radio and Wireless
Symposium, Orlando Other X
2008 B. LevushStrong Microwaves Workshop,
Nizhny Novgorod Other X2008 P. Muggli SLAC Other X
2008 C. StallingsUniversity of New Mexico,
Las Vegas (2 lectures) Student X Yes2008 D. Townsend LBNL Other X2008 D. Townsend Stanford University Other X
2008 D. TownsendNational University and A*STAR,
Singapore Other X
2008 D. TownsendMedical University of South
Carolina, Charleston Other X2008 P. Turchi NRL Other X2008 P. Turchi LANL NPSS X2008 P. VanDevender LANL NPSS X
History of NPSS Distinguished Lecturer ProgramYear Lecturer Location Type Completed Reimbursed2009 I. Alexeff Boston Section NPSS X Yes
2009 I. AlexeffEast Ukraine/IX Kharkov Young
Scientists Conference NPSS X Yes2009 I. Alexeff Boston Section (2 lectures) NPSS X Yes2009 J. Cressler Fermilab Invited Lecture Series Other X2009 R. James Duke University Other X
2009 R. JamesFriedrich Schiller University,
Jena, Germany. Other X
2009 R. JamesMoscow Engineering and Physics
Institute Other X
2009 R. JamesUniversity of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia. Other X2009 M. Laroussi Hampton Roads Section IEEE X2009 M. Laroussi COPS lecture on Capitol Hill Other X2009 W. Moses Bratislava Summer School (2) Other X2009 W. Moses Prague Chapter NPSS X2009 P. Muggli APS April meeting Other X2009 B. Oliver LANL, Physics Division Other X2009 B. Oliver Texas Tech University Other X2009 B. Oliver Sandia, Pulsed Power Division Other X2009 A. Rizzo Physcon 2009 Other X2009 C. Stallings University of South Carolina Student X Yes2009 D. Townsend 2009 ANIMMA, Marseille, France Other X2009 D. Townsend Singapore Neuroscience Inst Other X2009 D. Townsend Physics Institute, Marseille Other X2009 P. VanDevender LANL Other X2009 P. VanDevender Sandia Other X2009 P. VanDevender University of New Mexico Other X2009 P. VanDevender Metropolitan Information Exch. Mtg. Other X
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