1. Report from the Membership Chair Christoph Ilgner, June 23, 2007 Membership development: Ch. Ilgner, CERN PH-ULB and univ. of Dortmund, Albuquerque, June 23, 2007 meeting# new members# NPSS added SCINT07401 RT07116 (62 are transnationals) SOFE/ICOPS/PPPS46  A total of 203 new NPSS members thanks to Uwe Bratzler, Anastasia Patsouli, Tony Peratt and Vernon Price‘s very successful recruiting activities!

2. Report from the Membership Chair Membership development Retreat at IEEE HQ: -Want us to come up with a comprehensive list of NPSS benefits -Need especially to look at membership turnaround (renewals after 1 st year, I will -look into this soon) -Does cross-financing of membership by conference budgets make sense? -Focus on „21 st century benefits“, ieee.tv, virtual community etc. Booth itself was upgraded by a laptop computer At-the-conference benefits under discussion: -„New member“ ribbon - free phone calls (through Skype) Related issues: membeship grade elevation Ch. Ilgner, CERN PH-ULB and univ. of Dortmund, Albuquerque, June 23, 2007

3. Report from the Membership Chair Conferences in 2007 (booth staff already found / booth staff still needed) : 15th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT 2007) 29 Apr - 04 May  9th International Conf. on Inorganic Scintillators and their Appl. (SCINT 2007) 04 Jun - 08 Jun IEEE 34th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 17 Jun - 22 Jun IEEE Pulsed Power Plasma Science Conference (PPPS 2007) 17 Jun - 22 Jun IEEE 22nd Symposium on Fusion Engineering - SOFE17 Jun - 21 Jun  IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC) 25 Jun - 29 Jun IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC 2007) 23 Jul - 27 Jul IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2007 NSS/MIC) 26 Oct - 03 Nov Still need your help to identify 3-4 candidates in each community to host the membership booth (dream team: student + recent retiree), but none that does it just for the free trip. IEEE/NPSS membership needs to come first! Ch. Ilgner, CERN PH-ULB and univ. of Dortmund, Albuquerque, June 23, 2007