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 jellycat@swcp.com

Benelux Section Chapter, NPS05 26-Feb-01 1-Jan-03 Benoit G Brichard bbrichar@sckcen.be

Boston Section Chapter, NPS05 13-Sep-67 1-Jul-98 Dikshitulu K Kalluri dikshitulu_kalluri@uml.edu

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 cheri.deng@case.edu

Czechoslovakia Section Chapter, NPS05 17-Mar-09 17-Mar-09 Stanislav Pospisil stanislav.pospisil@utef.cvut.cz

France Section, NPS05 14-Dec-00 14-Dec-00 Jean-Luc Leray jean-luc.leray@ieee.org

Germany Section Chapter, NPS05 5-May-98 5-May-98 Klaus Frank klaus.frank@physik.uni-erlangen.de

Italy Section Chapter, NPS05 22-May-01 22-May-01 Alessandro Rizzo rizzo@deemail.poliba.it

Japan Council Chapter, NPS05 17-Jul-81 1-Jan-09 Ken Yukimura kenyukimura@gaia.eonet.ne.jp

Long Island/New York Jt Sect Chap, NPS05 11-Sep-02 31-Jul-09 Wu Zhang arling@bnl.gov

Los Alamos/Northern New Mexico Chap, NPS05 6-Jul-94 1-Jan-09 Glen A Wurden wurden@lanl.gov

Oakland-East Bay Section Chapter, NPS05 28-Jun-91 1-Jan-08 William J Dehope dehope1@llnl.gov

Richland Section Chapter, NPS05 26-Oct-09 26-Oct-09 Brian D Milbrath brian.milbrath@pnl.gov

Russia Sect, AP03/ED15/MTT17/ CPMT21/NPS05 (Saratov) 3-Oct-08 3-Oct-08 Nikita M Ryskin RyskinNM@info.sgu.ru

Seoul Section Chapter, NPS05 8-Jun-09 8-Jun-09 Hee-Joung Kim hjk1@yonsei.ac.kr

Toronto Section Chapter, NPS05 3-Sep-09 3-Sep-09 Hossam E A.Gabbar hossam.gabbar@gmail.com

Ukraine, AP/NPS/AES/ED/MTT/GRS (East) 24-May-95 1-Jan-09 Oksana V Shramkova o.shramkova@gmail.com

Wa/Balt/No.Va Jt Chap, NPS 23-Aug-82 1-Jan-01 Harry R Sauberman poppaman@aol.com

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" fnajmabadi@ucsd.edu

Brad Nelson (ORNL)"Engineering Challenges for ITER"

nelsonbe@ornl.gov

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"

WWMoses@lbl.gov

David W. Townsend (National University, Singapore)(1) "The evolution of hybrid imaging"; (2) "Lost in

Translation - From Basic Science to Clinical Reality" DTownsend@mc.utmck.edu

Particle Accelerator Science and Technology

Dr. Baruch Levush (NRL) "Vacuum Electronics Technology"

baruch.levush@nrl.navy.mil

Patric Muggli (USC)(1)"Miniaturization of particle accelerators using plasmas"; (2)"Plasma-based radiation sources";

(3)"Ultra-fast beam diagnostics" muggli@usc.edu

Thomas Roser (BNL)"Accelerating and colliding relativistic heavy ions"

roser@bnl.gov

Plasma Science and Applications

J. Pace VanDevender (SNL)"Ball Lightning--New Physics, New Energy Source, or

Just Good Entertainment" jpvande@sandia.gov

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.”alexeff@utk.edu

Mounir Laroussi (Old Dominion Univ.) "Interaction of Cold Plasmas with Biological Cells:

Can Plasmas Play a Role in Modern Medicine?" mlarouss@odu.edu

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"

giovanni.lapenta@wis.kuleuven.be

Pulsed Power Science and Technology

Dr. Charles H. Stallings (Stallings & Associates) “Pulsed Power - What Is It and Why Should You

Care?” cstallings11@comcast.net

Dr. Peter J. Turchi (LANL) "Plasma and Megagauss Fields"

turchi@lanl.gov

Bryan Oliver (Sandia) "Intense electron beam diodes for X-ray

generation"bvolive@sandia.gov

Radiation Effects

Dr. John D. Cressler (Georgia Tech) "Radiation Effects in Silicon-Based Heterostructure Device Technologies" john.cressler@ece.gatech.edu

Dr. Allan Johnston (JPL)(1)"Radiation Effects in Optoelectronic Devices";(2)"An Introduction to Space Radiation Effects in

Electronics"Allan.H.Johnston@jpl.nasa.gov

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"

rjames@bnl.gov

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"Paul.Lecoq@cern.ch

Dr. Marek Moszynski (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland)

"Energy Resolution and Non-Proportionality of Scintillation Detectors"

marek@ipj.gov.pl

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"

rizzo@deemail.poliba.it

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