1. NPSS IS THE TECHNICAL SOCIETY THAT COVERNPS…NPSS Vernon G. Price 25 October 2012 Brief Summary of Membership Recruiting 2012

2. Conference 2011 Result 2012 Result SORMA Oakland 15 EML Beijing ? IPAC New York 10Baton Rouge 1 RTC Berkeley 11 IPMHVPC San Diego 31 PPC Chicago 0 ICOPS Chicago 13 Edinburgh 37 SOFE Chicago 8 NSREC Las Vegas 23 Miami 23 ANIMMA Ghent 5 SCINT Giessen 1 RADECS Seville Biarritz ? ICALEPSC Grenoble BEAMS MegaGauss Maui ? NSS-MIC-RT Valencia 117 Anaheim ? Beijing 35 Total  216 Total  118

3. NPSS PUBCurrent Grade LevelLISHES SEVERAL JOURNALS…. Life Fellows….. 88Regular Members…. 1906 Fellows……… 115Associate Members. 102 Life Seniors… 87Graduate Students.. 169 Senior Members..397 Students……… 52 Life Members…. 159 Affiliates……… 41 Current Grade Level Distribution in NPSS As of 26 October 2012

4. NPSS Conference Recruiting-1 The population of NPSS at the end of December 2011 was 3268, a decrease of 74 members below the same date in 2010. At the end of February 2012, the population fell abruptly to 2644, a delta of 550 members 163 of those non-renewing NPSS did, however, renew their IEEE memberships The reference datum, Aug 2011, was 3017. The “churn”, therefore is 550/3017=18.23% The ‘Lost’ members included 13 who ‘retired’.

5. NPSS Conference Recruiting-2 N IEEE AND NPSS 78 % of the 2011 NPSS members had renewed their memberships for 2012. The average for the whole of IEEE was 71%. Hopefully this renewal rate will continue in going into the 2013 year. The current NPSS level is 2.8% higher than the same date last year. (see ‘Hockey stick’ chart) IEEE membership is now 400,000

6. NPSNS NONRGANIZES/SUPPORTS MANY SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES ….