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17. Venkat Selvamanickam (Intermagnetics, Latham and SuperPower, Schenectady) ~ Dr. Selvamanickam (“Selva”) joined Intermagnetics General Corporation in 1994 and was instrumental in establishing the SuperPower subsidiary in March 2000, initially as Program Manager, Materials Technology where he led a team of more than 40 scientists, engineers and technicians engaged in scaling up to manufacture SuperPower’s 2G HTS wire, and then as Vice President and CTO. Selva has authored more than 100 U.S. and international patents and more than 100 publicaitons on HTS. Prior to joining IGC, he was a Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and a Post-doctoral fellow and Research Assistant with the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. In 1996, Dr. Selvamanickam received the Presidential Early Career Award from the White House. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. The award resulted in a grant of $500,000 for five years to conduct research on HTS in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force. In 2005, Dr. Selvamanickam was named the “Superconductivity Industry Person of the Year” by Superconductor Week. He earned a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston. Dr. Selvamanickam continues to lead SuperPower’s R&D program as Chief Technology Advisor, while also holding the position of W.D. Anderson Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. 18. Vasili Semenov (IBM, Poughkeepsie and Stony Brook University, Stony Brook) ~ Dr. Semenov is a co-inventor of rapid single flux quantum electronics which has been the key to getting beyond the limitation of latching logic that had formed the basis of the early efforts in supercomputers. More recently, Dr. Semenov innovated yet another approach to achieving the fundamental limit in low energy dissipation in high end computation, particular in reversible computing. Dr. Semenov has been the key academic leader in New York State to advise graduate students and postdoctoral associates who then go on to become part of the workforce in the state for the further development and commercialization of superconductor electronics. Innovator, educator, teacher to colleagues as well as students, Dr. Semenov expemplifies the scientific thought leader that guides our field and its applications in electronics. 19. SuperPower Team (Schenectady) ~ SuperPower is a world leader in the manufacturing scale-up of HTS wire, an important technology addressing the quest for improved energy efficiency. SuperPower is a high performing business that is also developing advanced devices for Clean, Green, and Smart Grid applications. The company is a true community partner and works closely with Schenectady County Community College to develop and implement a quality nanotechnology career program to respond to an emerging workforce need. This has included curriculum development and teaching of the advanced level courses. The team also works with Union College and Union Graduate College to incorporate the technology into the engineering and management programs at those institutions. Special recognition to team members Art Kazanjian, Trudy Lehner, Gene Carota, Karol Zdun, Simon Miner and, in memoriam, Dr. Andrei Rar. 20. Elie Track (Hypres, Elmsford) ~ For 24 years, Dr. Track has been dedicated to the development and commercialization of superconducting electronics, spanning all activities from hands-on laboratory work in device physics, to program management, to leading the successful effort of commercializing the NIST design of primary voltage standards and making it available worldwide. From Hypres’ home in Westchester County, NY, he led the electronics program of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, the main conference in the field, for many years, and emerged as the current leader of the field within IEEE, and as President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity since the beginning of 2011. Perhaps most importantly, his ability to network together universities, companies, research institutions, and government agencies for the common goal of advancing the technology and markets of superconductivity has given the field much needed energy and boost over the last two decades. 21. John Tranquada (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ Based on his neutron-scattering experiments in the 1980s at BNL’s High Flux Beam Reactor, Dr. Tranquada, a Brookhaven physicist, discovered that cuprates exhibit antiferromagnetism, a condition in which adjacent magnetic atoms have their magnetic north poles pointing in opposite directions. In the 1990s, Tranquada and his colleagues discovered that HTS have a tendency toward charge segregation, which enables the coexistence of conducting and insulating properties. This work indicates that the electronic structure of HTS consists of fluctuating strings of charge, known as stripes, a concept that is increasingly influencing the current models of HTS. Currently, he leads the Neutron Scattering Group in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department. He was co-recipient of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Tranquada received a U.S. Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Solid State Physics in 1988 and the Sustained Research Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America in 2006. ~ 34 ~
22. Peter Wanderer (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ Dr. Wanderer is an expert in the development of superconducting accelerator magnets. He began working on them for the Isabelle Project. His magnet work continued with the Colliding Beam Accelerator, the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC), the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP), the Accelerator Project Upgrade for the LHC (APUL), and other projects. During the SSC and RHIC projects, he was head of the Magnet Test Group. For the RHIC Project, he cochaired the Magnet Acceptance Committee. He is currently the Project Manager for the APUL Project and Interim Head of the Superconducting Magnet Division. As an example of the projects with which he has been affiliated, BNL was a key player in preparing a new material for use in a focusing magnet built by members of the multilaboratory LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP). The material, niobium tin retains its superconducting properties at higher temperatures than niobium titanium, the material that’s used in RHIC and in today’s LHC magnets, making it more tolerant of the increased beam heating that will accompany increases in the LHC luminosity. In 2009, a magnet built by the LARP team using superconducting niobium tin achieved the goal of a magnetic field strong enough to focus intense proton beams in the upgraded LHC interaction regions. Wanderer led the effort during its most critical phase. 23. Robert Wilcox (Intermagnetics and Philips, Latham) - Mr. Wilcox retired 2 years ago after almost 35 years with Intermagnetics / Philips. For many years, he was Manager of Magnet Engineering and Director of Engineering. Bob Wilcox made outstanding technical contributions to all Intermagnetics/Philips products for variety of industrial, research, medical and military applications. More than 20 commercial superconducting magnets were designed under his leadership and supervision. Without Bob’s involvement, it is difficult to imagine Intermagnetics’ commercial superconducting MRI magnets. ~ 35 ~
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