PULSED POWER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STANDING TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT March 06, 2010

1. PULSED POWER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STANDING TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT March 06, 2010 Monterey, California Edl Schamiloglu, University of New Mexico

2. OUTLINE • PPS&T Conferences • PPS&T Technically Co-sponsored Conferences • Committee Update • New Business (no new business to bring to AdCom) • Next Meeting (May 25, 2010 at Atlanta, GA in conjunction with PMC 2010)

3. PPS&T Conferences – 2009 PPC Status

4. 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 are beginning the process of closing out the conference budget and accounts. The Conference is expected to break even. • 55 manuscripts were submitted to 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. The Guest Editors are 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). The Special Issue is set to appear October 2010.

5. PPS&T Conferences – 2011 PPC Status

6. 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) • I will introduce Prof. Randy Curry to present his report

7. PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status • Conference Venue: Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero, San Francisco, June 15-22, 2013 • Combined with ICOPS

8. PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status • Conference 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

9. PPS&T Conferences – PPPS-2013 Status • Contract with the Hyatt signed – IEEE MCM assisted with negotiations • Still considering options for meeting support (IEEE, TDMG, Mosaic, others?) • Decided to NOT combine with SOFE • PPS&T Conferences – 2015 PPC Status • Planning on hold due to reorganization at IAT, UT Austin. Marc Crawford will report back at the May 25 PPS&T Committee meeting.

10. PPS&T TCS Conferences – 15th EML Symposium

11. PPS&T TCS Conferences – 15th EML Symposium • MOU signed with IEEE • 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.

12. PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Power Modulator Conference and High Voltage Workshop • IEEE DEIS • TCS – IEEE EDS and IEEE NPSS

13. PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Megagauss Conference • MOU being prepared for TCS (Bob Reinovsky, liason)

14. PPS&T TCS Conferences – 2010 Beams and 3rd Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference • MOU being prepared for TCS (Weihua Jiang, liason)

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

16. Committee Updates • Edl Schamiloglu has been reappointed as Chair for another year • The current PPST committee membership comprises 24 active members of the pulsed power community. 16 of the members are voting members elected by the committee, and 8 are non-voting Ex Officio members. • The Committee’s Constitution and By-Laws are undergoing review. We plan to include international representatives onto the committee, one from S. America, one from Europe and one from Asia. The revised C&BL will be voted on during the May 25 committee meeting.

17. Thank You – Any Questions?