The U. S. DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) will meet November 14-15 in Bethesda, Maryland, under the guidance of its new chairman, Prof. Richard D. Hazeltine. Hazeltine, who is Director of the Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS) at the University of Texas, Austin, succeeds John Sheffield of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sheffield will remain a member of the Committee.

Hazeltine received his AB from Harvard University (1964) and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan (1968). He has been at the University of Texas since 1971 and has been a full professor there since 1986. He has served as Director of the IFS since 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, has served as chair of its Division of Plasma Physics and is a member of the Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council.

The FESAC will have several new members: Vincent S. Chan (General Atomics), Kathryn McCarthy (Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory), William McCurdy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and George Morales (UCLA). In addition, James F. Drake (University of Maryland) will join the FESAC as an ex-officio member in his capacity as Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics. Continuing members of FESAC are:Charles Baker (UCSD), Jill P. Dahlburg (US Naval Research Laboratory), Gerald Navratil (Columbia University), Jeffrey Freidberg (MIT), Joseph Johnson III (Florida A&M University), John Lindl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Cynthia Phillips (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Marshall Rosenbluth (General Atomics), John Sheffield (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Ned Sauthoff (ex-officio, representing the IEEE). Kathryn McCarthy will also serve as representative of the American Nuclear Society Fusion Energy Division.

The November 14-15 FESAC meeting will be held at the Bethesda Ramada Hotel, 8400 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, and is open to the public. The FESAC is expected to complete work on its current charge to review the Integrated Program Planning Activity (FPN00-26) and to receive several new charges. Details are posted at the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences web site (//wwwofe.er.doe.gov/). The FESAC is chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463) to provide independent advice to the Director of the DOE Office of Science on scientific and technological issues that arise in the planning, implementation, and management of the Fusion Energy Sciences program.

For further information contact Al Opdenaker (Albert.Opdenaker@science.doe.gov).