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NPSS Education Activities

For Students

The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society covers a broad range of technical topics, but in all our areas of endeavour education is an important concern. The Transactions are a repository for students of almost all ages and the Conferences serve as a dynamic educational experience for all attendees.

For both under-graduate and graduate students we offer discounted registration fees at conferences and discounted IEEE and NPSS memberships. Several student and young investigator awards are offered each year. On a more formal level a number of the conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the Society offer short courses or mini-courses in technical topics that are the focus of that particular conference. See the list below of conferences with explicit short course or mini-course offerings.

Some conferences also provide travel grants, such as the NSS/MIC Trainee Grants (see the link under Awards and Grants).

In addition to course discounts for students, the Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant provides travel grants for students to attend these conference short courses.

For Practitioners

The NPSS has many educational activities directed at students, but practitioners can also benefit from short or mini-courses either as a quick entry to new material or a brush-up on old material when confronting new tasks and challenges. Again see the list below of conferences offering courses.

The Plasma Sciences and Applications Technical committee has compiled a useful set of links to outreach information and educational materials on Plasma Science.

NPSS Sponsored Conferences With Scheduled Courses

• International Conference on Plasma Science (2012 ICOPS): Plasma Medicine and Plasma Healthcare”
• Symposium on Fusion Engineering (2011 SOFE): Several short courses planned.
• Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (2012 NSREC): Short Course “Testing and simulation methods for Characterizing radiation effects in advanced electronics”
• Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2012 NSS/MIC): Many short courses - see the 2010 web pages for the offerings last year.

NPSS Technically Co-Sponsored Conferences With Scheduled Courses

• International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications (2011 ANIMMA): Several short courses planned.
• Radiation & Its Effects on Components & Systems (2011 RADECS): Several short courses planned.

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