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The combined IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) (held annually) and Pulsed Power Conference (held biennially) are merged once every six years, sponsored by the Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) and the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee (PPS&T) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS). The joint conference, called the Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference, was held on June 23–28, 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA. The conference’s technical program included a wide range of topics, which ranged from fundamental research to traditional and emerging technology applications. The conference had over 800 accepted abstracts, representing scientists from over 30 countries. The program also included a minicourse on “Computational Methods in Plasma Physics.” This year the PPPS sessions were enhanced by a number of exceptional plenary talks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The winner of the 2019 Transactions on Plasma Science Best Paper Award has been selected (refer to our Transactions home page for details about the award at https://ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasma-science/). This year is the first year that the award is being given, and I am pleased to announce that Prof. Noah Hirshkowitz, of the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, WI, USA, is the winner for his paper, “43 years of Fun Basic Plasma Physics Experiments,” published in the Transactions in 2016 (vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 347–363). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of our continuing efforts to upgrade and improve the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (TPS), a number of changes were made or are taking place. I wanted to update our readers on these developments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]