Report of the
Fusion Technology Committee Chair
D.L. Youchison, SNL-NM
06 March 2010
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc_ftc.html
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FTC Membership
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New US members appointed to the
committee
– Mark Tillack, UCSD (retained on standing
committee)
– Jean Paul Allain, Purdue (replaces David Ruzic)
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International members retained
– Asia: Satoshi Konishi, Kyoto University
– EU: Hans-Stephan Bosch, Max-Planck-Institut,
Griefswald
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New chair
Nuclear and Plasma
Science Society
– Dennis Youchison,
SNL-NM
Special issue of TPS
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For the first time ever for SOFE2009, both proceedings and peer review
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All authors were invited (after submitting to proceedings)
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Guest Editors: David Ruzic (U. Illinois), J. P. Allain (Purdue)
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57 papers submitted, 39 accepted for special issue
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6 withdrawn, 5 rejected, 7 delayed to next issue
Schedule
o June 29, 2009
journal submission deadline
o Feb. 1, 2010
peer reviews due
o Feb. 28, 2010
revised manuscripts due
o Mar. 2010
journal publication
Limited reviewer pool – diverse technologies
Technology in a predominantly plasma physics journal
Issues with review submission & notifications
Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
SOFE 2009 in March Issue of TPS
•Recruit editors for 23rd SOFE
•Define reviewer pool among
conference attendees
•Adhere to six month schedule
•Work with TPS to improve
review process
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24th SOFE (C. Neumeyer)
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25-30 June 2011, Jointly organized with 38th ICOPS, following PPC
General Chair: Charles Neumeyer (PPPL)
Program Chair: Brad Nelson (ORNL)
The organizing committees have been established, the budget has been
prepared and approved by FTC/PSAC/NPSS, a conference bank account has
been opened, and the NPSS conference loan has been received.
Lisa Boyd of IEEE MCM is serving as the conference consultant to SOFE.
Registration Management will most likely be contracted to TDMG
NPSS conference (Bo Yu) software under discussion
Financial support being solicited from agencies and industry
Hyatt Regency
McCormick Place Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ICOPS2011/
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24th SOFE
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The SOFE banquet will be at the Adler Planetarium located on the lake
shore
Members of the ICOPS/SOFE team visited the conference site in January.
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Remaining Issues
• hotel/conference center is located away from downtown in an area with no restaurants or other attractions
in walking distance.
• hotel/conference center includes a number of eateries suitable for lunch but they will not be open due to
lack of presence of a sufficiently large conference, thus box lunches will be the only viable lunch option
• hotel and its affiliates are the only option for food service, and their prices are extremely high
• union labor has to be used for essentially all activities ranging from plugging in a power strip to
configuring and operating A/V equipment
• cost of internet trunk line is extremely high ($1100 + 100/computer-day (first 20) + $75/computer-day
(21-100) etc.). Cost to provide, e.g. 150 connections would be $43K
ICOPS/SOFE team have revised the budget to account for the above and, unless relief can be found,
registration fees will be quite high – may affect attendance.
Relief could be as follows:
- large effort in raising funds for external support (already underway)
- NPSS help in paying for IEEE MCM fees
- NPSS relief in expected %return in surplus
Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
25th SOFE
• Proposal was to join with PPPS (San Francisco)
– Hyatt Regency Embarcadero
– PPPS organizers declined this proposal due to space
limitations
• Searching for a new general chair
– Hutch Neilson (PPPL) SOFE Program Chair
• Issues remaining to discuss
– Stand-alone SOFE
– San Francisco, or move venue?
– Follow PPPS?
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