Plasma Science and Applications Committee Report Brendan Godfrey, PSAC ExCom Chair 7 July 2011 NPSS AdCom Meeting

Upcoming ICOPS ICOPS 2012 progressing well –Chair: Michael Kong –8 – 12 July 2011, International Conference Center, Edinburgh, UK –419 registrants to date; 610 anticipated based on past ratios –15% return likely to be achieved, but barely –819 abstracts –Plasma Medicine and Health Care mini-course offered –Gennady Mesyats to receive IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (from Peter Staecker, IEEE President-Elect) –Mounir Laroussi to receive NPSS Merit Award –Andrew Ng to receive PSAC Award –Boaz Rubenstein to receive Outstanding Student Award See

Future ICOPS ICOPS 2013 (joint with Pulsed Power) –9 – 14 June 2013, San Francisco, California USA –Chair: Brian Oliver, PPST –PSAC Technical Co-chair: John Verboncoeur ICOPS 2014 / Beams 2014 –25 – 30 May 2014, Washington, DC USA –Chair: Joseph Schumer ICOPS 2015 –Spring 2015 – Antalya, Turkey –Chair: Lutfi Oksuz (assistance from Edl Schamiloglu) ICOPS 2016 –Spring 2016 – Location TBD (soon)

US Government Travel Restrictions OMB directed Federal Agencies to reduce FY13 travel to 70% of FY10 levels DoD capped FY13 expenditures (attendance and grants) at $100k for most conferences Impact on government contractors, grantees unknown Already, ICOPS 2012 attendance probably smaller than expected Impact estimate based on ICOPS/SOFE 2011 data –130 US government registrants out of 712 total (18%) –Includes 42 DoD registrants (6%) plus $20k in grants –OMB cap might reduce registration by 5-7% –DoD cap might reduce registration by 2% (subsumed in OPM cap)

Tribute to Prof Igor Alexeff Distinguished scientist, inventor, teacher Founded PSAC, hosted first ICOPS, promoted plasma engineering in many ways –Also contributed significantly to NPSS in its early years Terminally ill with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) PSAC ExCom proposes renaming its outstanding student award for him –“Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science Award” –Especially appropriate in light of his devotion to students –Igor has concurred in writing PSAC requests NPSS approval (item )

MCM- PSAC Master Service Agreement Agreement signed 9 March 2012 Outgrowth of “free sample” provided by NPSS Results encouraging from year-to-year MCM support for ICOPS 2009 – 2011 One-year agreements also in place for 2013, 2014 Negotiations underway for over a year, fully vetted by PSAC ExCom Designates MCM as Preferred Event Manager for PSAC –Provides various sets of services at prenegotiated rates –Preserves ICOPS Chair’s right to opt out (not to be done lightly) –Effective now through end of 2016 (ICOPS 2012 excluded)