1. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Annual Report of the Fusion Technology Committee Chair D.L. Youchison, SNL-NM Knoxville, TN 06 November 2010 http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-ftc.html

2. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Outline August2010 teleconference Planning for SOFE 2011 Planning for SOFE 2013 SOFE/TOFE relationship Year-end summary

3. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society FT Standing Committee Meeting August 12, 2010 Teleconference ParticipantsAbsent Satoshi KonishiJP Allain Wayne MeierHans-Stephan Bosch Hutch NeilsonBill Cary Chas NeumeyerPhil Heitzenroeder John SantariusJoe Minervini Mark TillackBrad Nelson Scott Willms Dennis Youchison Agenda NPSS website http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-ftc.htmlhttp://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-ftc.html July AdCom Meeting (Youchison) TPS publication – volunteer editors (Youchison) Awards nominations (Heitzenroeder) Fusion Elected Member (Nielsen) IEEE-USA Energy Policy Liaison (Neumeyer) Status of SOFE 2011 (Neumeyer) Publicity Technical sessions Status of SOFE 2013 (Meier) Planning, schedule News articles/highlights NPSS FTC newsnote (Youchison, Tillack) TOFE meeting – technical co-sponsorship? (Youchison) Other items Next call

4. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society 2009 23 rd SOFE attendance Statistics for ICOPS/SOFE 2009 Total Number of Registrants685 North America (Regions 1-7)483 Europe (Region 8)140 Latin America (Region 9)0 Asia (Region 10)62 Abstracts Submitted916acceptedwithdrawnrejected (ICOPS)580542308 (SOFE)336318180 Abstracts Accepted908 (ICOPS)572 (SOFE)336 Short Courses2 Exhibits14 captured for the record

5. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society FT Standing Committee Meeting 2009 SOFE statistics captured for Bill Moses TPS guest editors for SOFE papers only. ICOPS handling their own. Tiana Dodson succeeds Phil Heitzenroeder as FTC Awards chair. Charles Neumeyer provided update on SOFE2011. Technical topics finalized Pursuing contributions from AESJ and others December newsletter article Wayne Meier provided update on SOFE2013. Investigating other hotels JP Allain agreed to setup mini-courses for SOFE2013 Committee endorsed technical co-sponsorship of TOFE 2012 conference and the motion before NPSS Next teleconference week of November 15.

6. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society 24 th SOFE (C. Neumeyer-courtesy of PSAC & Purdue) June 26-30, 2011

7. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society NPSS December Newsletter Article

8. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Conference Flyer Anticipated Attendance: SOFE 250 ICOPS 450 ~700 Final site visit 11/18-19 Registration web site ready (Bo Yu) Second call for papers ~12/01 Registration begins 1/01

9. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society SOFE2011 Technical Program Topics (B. Nelson)

10. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society 25 th SOFE (W. Meier) General Chair: Wayne Meier, LLNL Program Chair: Hutch Neilson, PPPL Date: June 23-27, 2013 IEEE Meeting & Conference Management is handling negotiations for hotel site. Looking at other venues like the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf. Many hotels do not book small groups more than two years out. Stanford Court or the Omni are good alternatives for SOFE2013. J.P. Allain offered to arrange for a fusion- related mini-course at SOFE2013 or held in conjunction with the PPPS2013 mini-courses just before SOFE. Given a venue change, the conference dates might also change. SOFE is usually held in the fall when not combined with ICOPS or PPPS.

11. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society SOFE/ TOFE relationship SOFE/TOFE alternate years (“do not compete” understanding) –Conferences usually in the fall unless combined or embedded with others SOFE strong in RF heating/magnets/IFE/RH/DAC TOFE strong in neutronics/thermalhydraulics/PMI –IEEE/ANS share many members –SOFE attendance ~250 & TOFE attendance ~300 Propose technical co-sponsorship of TOFE 2012 (motion) –Reduced registration for IEEE members –Member recruitment booth? –Publicity for SOFE 2013 –Reciprocity in 2013? –Meet with the FED ExCom tomorrow (11/07/2010)

12. Nuclear and Plasma Science Society year-end summary New US members appointed to the committee –Mark Tillack, UCSD (retained on standing committee) –Jean Paul Allain, Purdue (replaces David Ruzic) International members retained – Asia : Satoshi Konishi, Kyoto University – EU : Hans-Stephan Bosch, Max-Planck-Institut, Griefswald New chair –Dennis Youchison, SNL-NM FTC website updated with the help of Dick Kouzes IEEE policy statement on fusion energy from IEEE USA “sunsetted” ? SOFE2011 requested a special issue of TPS TPS guest editors for SOFE papers only. ICOPS handling their own. New international award considered for SOFE2013. Tiana Dodson succeeds Phil Heitzenroeder as FTC Awards chair Charles Neumeyer provided updates on SOFE2011. –Technical topics finalized –Pursuing contributions from AESJ and others Wayne Meier of LLNL accepted the chair of SOFE2013. –Committee decided not to start SOFE early –Investigating other hotels in San Francisco –JP Allain agreed to setup mini-courses for SOFE2013 Committee endorsed technical co-sponsorship of the ANS TOFE2012 conference and the motion before NPSS