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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Minutes of 1999 Business Meeting</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND="carpet.gif" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <H2> MINUTES OF THE TOPICAL GROUP ON SHOCK COMPRESSION OF CONDENSED MATTER BUSINESS AND EXECUTIVE MEETING </H2> <H2> WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE, 1999 </H2> <P> The 1999 SCCM executive business meeting was called to order at 12:00 am by newly elected Chair Neil Holmes. <P> Roughly 25 persons attended the meeting in part or whole, including : Neil Holmes (Current Chair), Don Curran (Past-Chair), Datta Dandekar (Chair-Elect), Steve Sheffield (Vice-Chair), Mike Boteler (Secretary/Treasurer) , Mike Furnish, Lalit Chhabildas, Rob Hixson, Bill Deal, Alita Roach, Carter White, Tom Russell, Yogi Gupta, and Bill Anderson. <P> Mike Boteler provided the Treasurer's report. A motion was made to adopt the 1998 meeting minutes and was seconded. The minutes were unanimously accepted into the official record. <P> The final number of students supported for the 1999 Snowbird conference was twenty-five. Of this number two did not attend. <P> An action item was identified regarding student support. It was suggested that the total number per institution be limited to three. It was generally accepted that this was a good idea although no official decision was made. <P> The Shock Compression award was increased to $3K for the Snowbird Conference by general consensus. The APS position is that the award should be in the $5K range to make it more consistent with other APS awards. To accomplish this an additional $18 K needs to be deposited into the award account. <P> APS comments that : <i>One thing that you might want to consider is to raise the stipend to $5,000. It would only take about $18K to make this happen for the Shock Compression Award. The goal is to eventually raise all the award stipends to the $5,000 level which for a biannual award would require a fund of $50K.</I> <p> A contribution directly from the Topical Group funds is of course the quickest way to accomplish this or the Topical Group could either enlist the help of a sponsor or undertake a membership fund raising effort. It should be noted that once the funds are placed into the award account they MAY NOT be removed except to support the SCCM award. Several members voiced strong objection to the transfer of funds from the general account favoring a sponsorship approach. Lalit Chhabildas suggested raising the voluntary contribution from $10 to $20 but there was objection to this approach as well. This matter was not resolved and is pending further action. <P> Rob Hixson reported on the Snowbird meeting. As of Wednesday a total of 389 had registered including 189 members, 118 non-members, 59 students/Retirees, and 21 Staff/Exhibitors. The meetings are proceeding very smoothly and the participants seem to be enjoying the scenery and sponsored events. <P> Neil Holmes addressed the issue of continuity of information during the yearly changeover of Topical Group Officers. A common complaint is the lack of clearly defined timelines, various committee members etc., which leaves the Chair position scrambling to catch up for most of the tenure. Because the Secretary/Treasurer has a tenure of three years he/she attempts to keep the Group's Officers informed but there are occasional lapses such as when the Treasurer position changes. It was suggested that a member be designated as an official historian. It was also decided that business meetings should take place more frequently than once a year. It was motioned and seconded that a follow-up meeting take place in September 1999 at Livermore to address many of the issues discussed in these minutes. <P> Carter White announced the most recent APS fellows: Neil Holmes and Andrew Ng. <P> Naresh Thadhani and Yuki Horie discussed the 2001 SCCM meeting in Atlanta Georgia June 23 to 30. The Renaissance Waverly was awarded the contract and will be able to accommodate all participants within the 2001 allowed Government per diem. <P> At 12:51 pm the meeting was adjourned. <P> J. Michael Boteler<br> SCCM Topical Group Treasurer </BODY></HTML>