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Lord Drayson of Kensington visit
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University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute
The University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Carter was presented with the IVEC 2009 Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics on 28th April at the Tenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference in Rome.
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The University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Carter was presented with the IVEC 2009 Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics on 28th April at the Tenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference in Rome.
This prestigious award was made, “For a life-long commitment to education in vacuum electronics and visionary leadership in academia and technical research in the field.” It recognises the international impact of Professor Carter’s work over a period of thirty years. His deep insight into, and comprehension of, the complex mechanisms of vacuum electronics together with a rare aptitude for synthesis and explanation have had a widely recognized influence on the way the many former students, researchers and people who have attended his lectures, think about the theory and modelling of microwave tubes. His lectures, delivered in eight countries, in three continents, and in video recordings, have been an invaluable source of knowledge within the international vacuum electronics and particle accelerator communities. Around fifty people have worked with him as research fellows, research assistants and research students. Several of these now hold leading positions: two are laboratory directors and three head major research groups in the USA, China and India.
Professor Carter’s uncommon breadth of expertise is demonstrated by innovative contributions on: modelling of helix, coupled-cavity, folded waveguide and in general slow-wave structures for travelling-wave tubes (TWTs) with particular emphasis on equivalent circuit definition, performance improvements and large signal aspects; design and simulation of strapped magnetron anodes; beam-wave interaction in klystrons and multi-beam klystrons; and development of methods of cold-test measurement for components used in microwave tubes. He was responsible for developing, or overseeing the development, of computer codes for large-signal modelling of TWTs and klystrons. His contributions have been embodied in computer codes which are used in UK, European, and Indian companies and research laboratories for computer-aided design of microwave tubes.
Appointed to the staff of the Engineering Department of Lancaster University in 1972, Richard Carter was promoted to a Chair in 1996. He was influential in the formation of the Faraday Partnership in High Power Radio-Frequency Engineering in 2001 and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology in 2004. He is an IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer and has been a member of the Technical Committee on Vacuum Electronics since its formation in 1998.
Background Information
The International Vacuum Electronics Conference IVEC 2009 was held in Rome, Italy on 28-30 April 2009. The meeting, attended by more than 250 delegates, took place at the Angelicum, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and was sponsored by the European Space Agency with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and the support of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
IVEC was originally created in 2000 by merging the US Power Tubes Conferences and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshops, and has now expanded to a fully international conference, being held every other year in the US, and in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. After Kitakyushu, Japan in 2007 and Monterey, USA in 2008, IVEC 2009 returned to Europe for the celebration of its tenth anniversary in the magnificent city of Rome.
IVEC has become the worldwide forum for all players in the field of Vacuum Electronics, drawing together representatives of academia, research institutes, industry, institutions and users. For systems developers, IVEC provides unique insight into the latest developments in vacuum electron devices. These devices continue to provide power and performance for advanced electromagnetic systems, especially at higher frequencies. Rapid technological advances in the vacuum electron device area, as well as new and improved devices, are making it possible for systems to achieve reliability and capabilities well beyond those of any available today.
The IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field. Anyone or any group of persons working in the field of vacuum electronics is eligible for this award, which will be presented each year during the IVEC conference. Anyone in the field may place a colleague in nomination. Selection of the winner will be made by a vote of the members of the Technical Committee. Members of the Technical Committee who are nominees may not vote. Only living persons are eligible for the award. The winner will receive a commemorative plaque and an award of $2000. If a group nomination is selected for the award they will each receive a plaque and share the $2000.
Previous recipients of the IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics:
2002- Armand Staprans, Communication and Power Industries, USA
2003- George Caryotakis, Stanford Linear Accelerator, USA
2004- Georges Fleury, Thales Electron Devices, France
2005- Joe Saloom, Technical Consultant, USA
2006- Jim Dayton Jr., Genvac Aerospace Corp., USA
2007- Baruch Levush, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
2008- Manfred Thumm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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