Conference Grant Proposal for 39th IEEE ICOPS. Conference to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland; July 8-12, 2012

ICOPS是一个国际知名的、参加人数众多的会议，涉及的主题与美国国家科学基金会、大学、美国能源部、空军和许多其他机构直接相关。本次会议由IEEE核与等离子体科学学会（NPSS）主办。ICOPS自1974年以来每年举行一次。最近的会议在伊利诺伊州芝加哥（2011年）、弗吉尼亚州诺福克（2010年）、加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥（2009年）、德国卡尔斯鲁厄（2008年）、墨西哥州阿尔伯克基（2007年）举行。今年的会议将于2012年7月初在英国苏格兰的爱丁堡举行。2012年，PI预计将有大约700人参加。预计25%将是政府/联邦与会者，75%将是非联邦与会者。会议将包括关于等离子体科学和技术研究的全体会议、口头会议和海报会议，以及IEEE Marie Shklodowska-Curie奖和IEEE NPSS等离子体科学和应用委员会奖获得者的获奖演讲。口头会议将包括邀请和贡献的论文。受邀论文有25分钟的陈述时间和5分钟的提问时间。提交的论文有12分钟的陈述时间和3分钟的提问时间。ICOPS迷你课程是关于血浆医学和保健的。等离子体技术在材料加工、照明、环境保护、医学研究和治疗等许多新领域的应用正在扩大。所有这些技术都依赖于我们会议传统上支持的基础研究的强大基础。第39届国际等离子体项目大会的计划将通过全体会谈和定期技术计划强调等离子体科学的传统领域和这些新的增长领域。该奖项提供的资金部分用于支持学生的旅行补助金，特别是为未被充分代表的少数民族，促进妇女在工程领域的活动，并帮助支付奖励费用。旅行补助金将颁发给以第一作者身份发表论文（口头演讲和海报）的学生。

ICOPS is an internationally renowned, well-attended conference involving topics of direct interest to the NSF, Universities, DOE, Air Force, and many others. The meeting is sponsored by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). ICOPS has been held annually since 1974. Recent meetings were held in Chicago IL (2011), Norfolk VA (2010), San Diego CA (2009), Karlsruhe Germany (2008), Albuquerque NM (2007). This year's meeting will be held in Edinburgh Scotland UK at the early July 2012. In 2012, the PI is projecting an attendance of approximately 700 participants. It is anticipated that 25% will be Government/Federal attendees and 75% will be non-federal attendees. The conference will include plenary, oral, and poster sessions on research in plasma science and technology and a Prize Addresses by the recipients of the the IEEE Marie Shklodowska-Curie Award and the IEEE NPSS Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award. Oral sessions will include both invited and contributed papers. Invited papers are allotted 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. Contributed papers are allotted 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions. The ICOPS Minicourse is on Plasma Medicine and Health Care.Applications of plasma technologies are expanding in many new areas for materials processing, lighting, environmental protection, and medical research and treatment. All of these technologies depend on a strong underpinning of basic research traditionally supported by our meeting. The program of the 39th ICOPS will emphasize both the traditional areas of plasma science and these new areas of growth through the plenary talks and the regular technical program. This award provides funding to partially support student travel grants, particularly for underrepresented minorities, activities to promote women in engineering, and help in awards costs. The travel grants will be awarded to those students who will be presenting papers (oral talks and posters) as first authors.