The 2017 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award will be presented to Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi of the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Professor Joshi will be recognized at ICOPS 2017 for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering.

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2017 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award

The 2017 IEEE Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award will be presented to Professor Ravindra Joshi of Texas Tech University, United States of America. Professor Joshi will be recognized at ICOPS 2017 for significant and sustained contributions to bioelectrics and physics-based understanding of high field phenomena in pulsed power applications.

NPSS Child Care Assistance Grant

Student Travel Grants

A total of thirty Student Travel Grants were awarded to partially fund students to present their research at ICOPS 2017.

Student Travel Grant Recipients: 

• Ali Charchi Aghdam, University of South Carolina, USA
• F. Antoulinakas, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Thaisa Baesso Santos, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, Brazil
• Laura Barillas, Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
• Matthew Burnette, Texas A&M University, USA
• Christopher Campbell, Texas A&M University, USA
• Abismael Diaz, Texas A&M University, USA
• Kenneth Engeling, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Rachel C. Goncalves, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, Brazil
• Joseph Groele, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Daniel Guerrero, Seton Hall University, USA
• E. Augusto G. Guerrero, CICATA IPN-Queretaro, Mexico
• Tripti Thapa Gupta, University of Toledo, USA
• Sanjana Kerketta, University of Southern California, USA
• Umesh Kumar, BETA - Institute for Plasma Research, India
• Janis Lai, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Amanda Loveless, Purdue University, USA
• Michael McDougall, Seton Hall University, USA
• Grant Miars, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Richard L. Miner, University of Missouri, USA
• Zhandos Moldabekov, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet of Kiel, Germany
• Selman Mujovic, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Jimmy Ni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• C. Thirumurugan, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
• Hamid Razavi, Old Dominion University, USA
• Xi Tan, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Huihui Wang, Florida State University, USA
• Patrick Wong, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Di Xu, Fudan University, China
• Z.L. Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China  

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Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant

In order to promote continuing education, the Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant is awarded to support participation in ICOPS 2017's Mini-course on "Charged Particle Beams and High Powered Pulsed Sources" and to further encourage membership in NPSS. The grant award will be for $500 which includes the mini-course registration fee and support for hotel accommodations.

Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant Recipients: 

• Paul Campbell, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Shen Shou Max Chung, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
• Steven Exelby, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Yangyang Fu, Michigan State University, USA
•  Amzad Hossain, Saga University, Japan
•  Anthony Packard, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA 

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NPSS Student Paper Awards

The NPSS Student Paper Award seeks to recognize outstanding student poster or oral papers submitted to the 44th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2017). The purpose of these awards are to encourage both outstanding student contributions and greater student participation as principal or sole authors of papers as well as to acknowledge the importance of student contributions to the fields embraced by the NPSS. The two best papers (two awards) will receive cash awards of $500 each and a Certificate. The two runners-up will receive a certificate only. 

The Oral Presentations to evaluate the research work of the NPSS Student Paper Awards nominees will be on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM in the meeting room - Wildwood 6 at the Harrah's Resort AC Convention Center.

The NPSS Student Paper Awards recipients will be announced during the ICOPS 2017's Conference Dinner on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 in Wildwood 3.

NPSS Student Paper Awards final nominees: 

• Thaisa Baesso Santos, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba, Brazil
• Russell Brayfield, Purdue University, USA
• Kenneth Engeling, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
• Daniel Guerrero, Seton Hall University, USA
• Amanda Loveless, Purdue University, USA
• Michael McDougall, Seton Hall University, USA
• Jimmy Ni, University of Illinois at Urbama-Champaign, USA
• Gayathri Shivkumar, Purdue University, USA
• Tan Xi, University of Notre Dame, USA