International Compumag Society
The following members have been duly elected to serve on the Board of the International Compumag Society:
The AmericasThe Board of the International Compumag Society, at its meeting during COMUPMAG Aachen, awarded the organisation of COMPUMAG 2011 to Sydney, Australia. The conference will be co-chaired by Prof. J.G. Zhu (University of Technology, Sydney), Prof. J.W. Lu (Griffith University) and Prof. A. Nafalski (South Australia University). The proposed venue is the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The board of the International Compumag Society has decided that in 2009 the COMPUMAG conference will go to Brazil. It will most likely be held in the "Costao do Santinho" resort of Florianopolis, the capital of the state of Santa Catarina. It will be organised by the SBMAG (Sociedade Brasileira de Electromagnetismo) and supported by the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). The chairman of the conference will be Prof. Joao Pedro Assumpcao Bastos (UFSC) and the Editorial Board will be lead by Prof. Nathan Ida (University of Akron, USA). It is proposed to hold the conference in November. Further information and final decisions will be communicated to ICS members when available.
The following members have been duly elected to serve on the Board of the International Compumag Society:
| The Americas | Asia and Oceania | Europe and Africa |
| Joao Bastos | Chang-Seop Koh | Raffaele Albanese |
| Nathan Ida | Jun Wei Lu | Oszkar Biro |
| David Lowther | Norio Takahashi | Arnulf Kost |
| Sheppard Salon | Qingxin Yang | Stephen Russenchuck |
As the result of the elections and in accordance with Article VI of the Constitution and Article III of the Bye-Laws of the International Compumag Society, the new Board will therefore consist of the following members: R Albanese (Italy), J Bastos (Brazil), O Biro (Austria), K Choi (Korea), X Cui (China), J A Vasconcelos (Brazil), B Forghani (Canada), K Hameyer (Belgium), T Honma (Japan), N Ida (USA), L Kettunen (Finland), Chang-Seop Koh (Korea), A Kost (Germany), D Lowther (Canada), Jun Wei Lu (Australia), S Nabeta (Brazil), A Nicolas (France), Z Ren (USA), S Russenchuck (Switzerland), S Salon (USA), J K Sykulski (UK, Secretary/Treasurer), N Takahashi (Japan), R Tang (China), C W Trowbridge (UK, Honorary President), S Wiak (Poland), Qingxin Yang (China).
By the end of 2004, 12 new members (4 from each region Asia, America and Europe) will be elected to serve on the ICS Board. The nomination of the candidates is complete and the Ballot will be sent to ICS members with the next ICS Newsletter.
Changes to the Bye-Laws and new guidelines for bidding for organisation of COMPUMAG conferences were approved on December 22, 2003. The Bye-Laws and the new guidelines can be viewed here.
The following is on behalf of the ICS Board to explain the situation regarding the post conference publication in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. As you are probably aware the costs of IEEE publications are continuously rising and have become the most significant component in the conference registration fee. To give you some appreciation of these expenses the full cost would add over 300 US dollars to each registration fee. The ICS Board has decided that we need a debate amongst all members of the Society regarding the future of this publication and we are currently in the process of investigating various alternatives. When this is completed we will invite comments from all members so that we can plan the future.
In the meantime, it was felt to be important to take a decision regarding the forthcoming COMPUMAG in Saratoga Springs. It has, therefore, been decided to reduce the burden of the publication costs and thus only partially cover them by the registration fees. As a result the remaining contribution will have to come directly from the authors whose papers are accepted after the final reviewing process. Thus approximately half of the total IEEE cost will be included in the fee and the remaining amount will be collected later after the second review process has been completed. Although we appreciate that this decision may not necessarily be the one which will be adopted at future conferences, we feel that it is fair on the participants and has the benefit of not accelerating the costs unduly. The information about the fees may be found on the conference web page.
Arnulf Kost, President
Jan Sykulski, Secretary
The new term of office of Board members will be 3 years. Members of the Board will serve 6 rather than 4 years and elections will take place every 3 years when half of the Board will retire. The next elections will be in 2004.
The following members have been elected to serve on the Board of the International Compumag Society:
Americas
Asia
Europe
As a result of the elections and in accordance with Article IV/2 of the Constitution, the new Board will consist of the following members: J Bastos (Brazil), O Biro (Austria), K Ckoi (Korea), X Cui (China), J A de Vasconcelos (Brazil), B Forghani (Canada), K Hameyer (Belgium), T Honma (Japan), H Igarashi (Japan), H K Jung (Korea), L Kettunen (Finland), A Kost (Germany, President), D Lowther (Canada), S Nabeta (Brazil), A Nicolas (France), Z Ren (USA), D Roger (UK), S Russenchuck (Switzerland), J K Sykulski (UK, Secretary/Treasurer), T Takagi (Japan), N Takahashi (Japan), R Tang (China), C W Trowbridge (UK, Honorary President), I Tsukerman (USA), L Turner (USA), S Wiak (Poland).
During Compumag Evian (2nd - 5th July, 2001) Bill Trowbridge formally stood down as president and was replaced by Arnulf Kost as previously planned. At the conference dinner the new President, Arnulf Kost, together with Alain Nicolas, the chairman of Compumag Evian, presented Bill Trowbridge with a book on the life of Michael Faraday by John Tyndall (1868). The President also announced that the ICS board had elected Bill as Honorary President and Honorary Life member.Alain Nicolas also announced that Compumag 2005 had been awarded to China. Further details will be announced later in the year.
The List of Candidates for the forthcoming board election
Americas
Asia
Europe
Short biographies for each candidate will be printed in the next ICS Newsletter to be published July 2001.
The following members will stand down from the ICS board on December 31, 2001: Asia and Oceania: S Y Hahn (Korea), T Honma (Japan), H Tsuboi (Japan), H Yamashita (Japan) Europe and Africa: L Kettunen (Finland), A Nicolas (France), G Rubinacci (Italy), C W Trowbridge( UK). The Americas: A A Arkadan (USA), J R Brauer (USA), B Forghani (Canada), R.C Mesquite (Brazil). According to the constitution any of the above are eligible for nomination as a candidate for election unless they are members of the nominating committee. The twelve members of the current board who will remain in post for a further two years are as follows: Asia and Oceania: H Igarashi (Japan), H K Jung (Korea), T Takagi (Japan), N Takahashi (Japan) Europe and Africa: O Biro (Austria), A Kost (Germany), D Rodger (UK), S Russenchuck (Switzerland) The Americas: J Bastos (Brazil), D Lowther (Canada), I Tsukerman (USA), L Turner (USA).
In addition Jan Sykulski will continue as a board member in his capacity of Secretary/Treasurer thus leaving twelve members (four from each region) to be elected in 2001 in line with the constitution. Also at Graz in September 1998 the board decided to amend the Bylaws to allow an additional alternate member to each region nominating committee (NC) to cover the case that if at the beginning of the process the NC decide that one of their number should be a candidate.
The board has authorised the Presidents and Vice Presidents to appoint the nominating committee in their respective regions. Accordingly the nominating committees have now been appointed as follows:
Asia and Oceania: N Takahashi (Japan, Chairman, norio@eplab.elec.okayama-u.ac.jp), Kawase Yoshihiro (Japan), H K Jung (Korea), Yan Weili (China)
Europe and Africa: G Rubinacci (Italy, Chairman, rubinacci@ing.unicas.it), J Coulomb(France), S Russenchuck (Switzerland).
The Americas: J Bastos (Brazil, Chairman, jpab@grucad.ufsc.br), D Lowther(Canada), R Cardoso(Brazil)
The first step is for members to make recommendations for candidates to the chairman of the nominating committee for their region by E-Mail (preferred) or ordinary mail. The nominating procedures are defined in the constitution Art. V14 where it is stated,' the slate of candidates shall have at least six nominees for each region’. The closing date for chairman to receive recommendations by this route is April 15, 2001. A further period of two months will then elapse to allow for petition candidates to be submitted to the Secretary/ Treasurer. Five signatures from members of the region concerned must support a valid nomination by petition. The final slate of candidates will be announced and the ballot papers sent to all members on July 1, 2001. Completed ballot forms must be returned to the Secretary /Treasurer by October 1, 2001.
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Bill Trowbridge has indicated that he would like to step down after Compumag France, in July 2001. The Board of the Society is delighted to announce that they unanimously elected Professor Arnulf Kost, the chairman of Comumag'95 in Berlin to be the new President. In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Bill and Arnulf will work together until Compumag Evian.
The ICS board is delighted to announce that the 14th Compumag Conference will be held in June 2003 in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. The conference will be hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the general chairmanship of Professor Sheppard Salon salons@rpi.edu.