Announcing a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
for Selected Papers from the
17th International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS2008),


(Scheduled for October 2009)

The next biennial International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS2008) will be held on July 6 ~ 11, 2008, in Xi’an, China (http://ifp.caep.ac.cn/beams2008/). This conference will reflect the most recent developments on the physics and technology of high-power particle beams and other related topics. It is one of the most important conferences in this field.

The objective of this Special Issue is to bring the most up-to-date developments reported at BEAMS2008 to the readership of IEEE Transactions of Plasma Science. Although the BEAMS2008 will publish its own proceedings, this Special Issue will be restricted to manuscripts that are substantially revised and lengthened from those of the BEAMS
proceedings. These manuscripts will undergo standard peer-review process typical for all IEEE Transactions and Journals.

The manuscript submission deadline is November 30, 2008, http://tps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com.

This Special Issue will be restricted to BEAMS2008 attendees only and it will cover the following topics, same as the conference:

The following persons will serve as the Guest Editors for this Special Issue:

Dr. Weihua Jiang
Tsinghua University
Department of EE
Beijing 100084
China
Tel: +86-10-6279-7554
wjiang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Dr. Bruce Weber
Naval Research Laboratory
Code 6773
Washington DC 20375
USA
Tel: 1-202-767-8373
bruce.weber@nrl.navy.mil

Dr. John Mankowski
Texas Tech University
Department of ECE
Lubbock, TX 79404
USA
Tel: 1-806-742-0526
john.mankowski@ttu.edu