A new National basic research program for compact, portable pulsed power

Summary form only given, as follows. In June of 2001, a new 3-to-5-year program of basic research on "compact, portable pulsed power" begins at six US universities. Under the Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program, this large new effort seeks to focus the talents and capabilities of leading scientists and engineers from a multitude of fields onto this crucial defense topic. This Compact Pulsed Power MURI will be funded at a level of $1.5M/year and encompasses two synergistic consortia. The first is headed by Edl Schamiloglu at the University of New Mexico teamed with Karl Schoenbach at Old Dominion University and Robert Vidmar at the University of Nevada (Reno). The second is headed by Martin Gundersen of the University of Southern California teamed with James Dickens of Texas Tech University and William Nunnally of the University of Missouri (Columbia). The full list of researchers at the six institutions are presented along with highlights of their proposed research efforts.