The American Nuclear Society Accelerator Applications Division

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The American Nuclear SocietyAccelerator
Applications Division

• Presented to the ANS Board of Directors
• Hollywood, Florida
• 12 June 2002
• Erik B. Iverson, AAD Chair

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Division Charter

• From the Professional Divisions Manual
• The division was organized to promote the
  advancement of knowledge of the use of particle
  accelerator technologies for nuclear and other
  applications. It focuses on production of
  neutrons and other particles, utilization of
  these particles for scientific or industrial
  purposes, such as the production or destruction
  of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine,
  defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging
  and diagnostics.

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Division Governance

• Officers
• Chair - Erik Iverson
• Vicechair - John Ireland
• Secretary - Roger Snyder
• Treasurer - Seokho Kim
• Past-Chair - Rusi Taleyarkhan

• Committee Chairs
• Executive - Erik Iverson
• Program - Rusi Taleyarkhan
• Nominating - current chair
• Honors/Awards - Laurie Waters

• Members
• Mario Carelli (02)
• Erik Iverson (02)
• Seokho Kim (02)
• Rodger Snyder (02)
• Rusi Taleyarkhan (02)
• Don Dudziak (03)
• John Ireland (03)
• Gregory Van Tuyle (03)

• Paul Lisowski (04)
• Jerry Nolen (04)
• Laurie Waters (04)
• Ed Arthur (05)
• Jim Bresee (05)
• Detlef Filges (05)
• Eric Pitcher (05)
• Tom Ward (05)
• Karen Corzine (05)

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Membership

• We are still growing rapidly, and anticipate
  more growth as we add new constituency to the
  society
• 5 of new ANS members in 2001 chose AAD
• at end of 2001, 3 of ANS members were AAD members

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Membership Demographics
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Membership Diversification

• The AAD originally came about because of a small
  number of very large, National Laboratory-related
  projects
• Volatile membership, depending on funding
• Very (too?) focused attention
• We are broadening our group to include more
  members from other areas, and from universities
  and industry

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Financial Position

• As a new division, we have been working to
  develop a margin with which we can support our
  desired activities
• student travel support
• standing scholarship
• paper awards
• Current excess over budget is 22,702
• New budget in preparation

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Technical Sessions

• 2002
• June - 2 sessions with 11 papers
• November - 6 sessions expecting 30 papers (no
  AccApp)
• 2001
• June - 2 sessions with 10 papers / panelists
• November - cosponsored 1 session with 4 papers
• Embedded AccApp with 250 attendees, 180 papers
• 2000
• June - 3 sessions with 14 papers
• November - Embedded AccApp with 67 papers

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AccApp Topical Meetings

• AAD has sponsored a heavy schedule of ambitious
  and successful topical meetings
• Five so far, have until now been annual
• most recent was 180 papers, 250 attendees,
  electronic proceedings
• We are scaling back to an 18 month cycle
• we feel we are better established now
• we want to reduce strain on organizational pool
• intend the next topical to be embedded in San
  Diego

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Division Honors and Awards

• We have initiated an Honors Awards Committee
• Laurie Waters serving as chair
• Have started best paper awards (student and
  regular) for topical meetings
• AAD-sponsored fellow John M. (Jack) Carpenter
• AAD-sponsored Nuclear Historic Landmark (IPNS)
• Developing standing scholarship from division
  funds

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Message to the Board

• As we expand our constituency and bring new
  members into ANS, we find recurring themes
• Meetings are expensive
• Publication is expensive
• Lead times are long
• ANS journals not the conventional repository
• Most attendees more inclined to publish in their
  traditional journals without page charges
• Would like to see Notes and Deadlines-style
  notice/reminder to division chairs/vice chairs

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Conclusions

• AAD has rapidly grown to be a substantial force
  within the American Nuclear Society
• We are expanding beyond roots in National
  Laboratory projects to draw in a new, more
  diverse constituency
• We will continue to grow with the Society and
  look forward to the future