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NSF，大学，DOE，空军和许多其他人直接感兴趣的主题。该会议由IEEE核与等离子体科学学会（NPSS）赞助。ICOPS自1974年以来每年举办一次。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）、新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基（2007年）举行。今年的会议将于2012年7月初在英国苏格兰爱丁堡举行。2012年，PI预计将有大约700名参与者。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，以及由IEEE玛丽·施克洛多夫斯卡-居里奖和IEEE NPSS等离子体科学和应用委员会奖获得者颁发的奖项。口头会议将包括邀请和贡献的文件。邀请论文分配25分钟的陈述和5分钟的问题。投稿论文分配12分钟的陈述和3分钟的问题。ICOPS微型课程是关于等离子体医学和医疗保健的。等离子体技术的应用正在扩大到许多新的领域，如材料加工，照明，环境保护和医学研究和治疗。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ICOPS的计划将通过全体会议和常规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。该奖项提供资金，以部分支持学生旅费赠款，特别是为代表性不足的少数民族，活动，以促进妇女在工程，并帮助在奖励费用。旅行赠款将颁发给那些将作为第一作者提交论文（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.