In the first edition of the ACES Journal for 1994, Vol. 9.1, a compact double column format was introduced. This voluntary format permitted more efficient use of allocated page limitations. The ACES Tenth Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics was held March 21-26, 1994, at the Doubletree Hotel in Monterey. It was managed by Veda Corporation under contract to the Air Force via Andrew Terzuoli, Review Chairman. Veda prepared the Review Proceedings and handled all publicity, both at no cost to ACES. This reduced ACES' expenses by about $20,000. Co-chairmen were Dennis Andersh and Jeffrey Fath (both Wright Labs, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). Facilitator was Jodi Nix (Veda Corp.); advisor was Richard Adler. Sponsors included DOD/OSA, CECOM, DOE, LLNL, NCCOSC, NRAD, NPS, and USAIESA, in cooperation with the IEEE AP and EC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) Societies, USNC/URSI and CEFC.

Fifteen service awards and three outstanding paper awards were presented at the Awards Banquet. Valued Service awards went to Christopher Smith for establishing the ACES Code User Group Committee, and Jodi Nix for Annual Review Facilitator and ACES worldwide promotional activities. Exemplary Service Awards went to John W. Williams, for contributions to scholarly publication and ACES Journal promotion; Reinaldo Perez, for work in publications as well as promotional and marketing projects; Adalbert Konrad, for contributions to scholarly publications, intersociety relations and special promotional projects; Kenzo Miya, for ACES' promotion in Japan and elsewhere; and Harold Sabbagh, for contributions in regional activities, intersociety relations, and validation of computational techniques. Mainstay Awards went to John W. Rockway, for starting and managing the ACES Review short course program; Lee Corrington, for starting and pioneering the ACES Awards program; Shing Ted Li, for starting and pioneering the ACES Election-by-mail Program; and Patricia Adler, wife of Richard Adler, for her initiative and sustained service throughout ACES' 9-year period in publications, production, ACES Review support, and member services administration. The following persons received a Founders Award: Paul Elliot, as Newsletter editor and innovator, and ACES publicizer; Anthony Brown, as co-founder of the NEC UK Users Group and first regional ACES Chapter; James Logan, as financial officer and former Treasurer, Vice President, and President of ACES; and Richard Adler, for his vision and leadership in sustained service as Executive Officer, ACES Review Local-arrangements Coordinator, Managing Editor of ACES' publications, former ACES Secretary, and unofficial Strategic Planner.

At the BOD meeting on March 20 it determined that its annual meeting would be held on the first technical-paper day, with the annual business meeting of members held the morning of the next day. The present Board members and their term expiration dates are:

Harold Sabbagh (President) - 1996

Frank Walker (Vice President) - 1996

Perry Wheless (Secretary) - 1996

Andrew Peterson (Treasurer) - 1997

with members-at-large

Duncan Baker - 1997

James Breakall - 1995

Patricia Foster - 1995

Edmund Miller - 1997.

The three members of the BOD with terms expiring in 1997 had been elected by mail. About 217 registrants attended 23 sessions and presented 151 papers, which were printed in two volumes of the Review Proceedings spanning 1193 pages.

Highlights included vendor exhibits, five full-day short courses and six half-day courses. A special session of invited papers in bioelectromagnetic effects was underwritten by DOE. The net proceeds to ACES were nearly $42,000. Reinaldo Perez became Editor-in-chief of the Newsletter in February 1994, succeeding Paul Elliot. In the Vol. IX.1, March 1994, issue of the Newsletter ACES members learned that the Software Performance Standards Committee, now chaired by Donald Pflug (Rome Laboratory/ERPT), was cooperating with the IEEE APS Modeling Software Committee in sharing information about validation and performance analysis of codes and their computational models. This Newsletter issue introduced a voluntary double column format permitting a more efficient use of allocated page limits.

Membership rates (which include Journals and Newsletters) effective April 1, 1994, increased by $5, except for students. For individual surface mail the rates are $65 for the U.S. and $68 for all other areas. For individual airmail, rates vary from $65 for the U.S. to $85 for Africa, the Mideast, Asia, and Pacific Basin. The organizational airmail-only rate was increased to $115 for all. President Sabbagh summarized the activities of ACES in his Newsletter article entitled "The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society", also published in the IEEE AP Magazine of February 1994, pp 18-19. He summarized the activities, which included validation and performance analyses of codes; computational studies of basic physics; new techniques, such as vector and parallel data processing; new applications for existing techniques; new codes and enhancements and fixes" for old ones; computational tricks of the trade; and input-output and hardware issues.

ACES code applications relate to electromagnetic wave propagation, antennas, radar cross section and scattering, shielding, EMP, EMI (electromagnetic interference), EMC, microwave components,fiber optics, NDE (nondestructive evaluation), and eddy currents. Problems are formulated in either the time domain and solved by finite difference, finite element, and integral equation methods, or in the frequency domain, where they are solved by diffraction theories, physical optics and integral equation methods.

ACES sponsors an evolving computational data base, to be used for code validation, performance analysis, and optimization, as well as for information about codes and techniques. Each data set would be documented to include such items as code and machine used.

Treasurer Peterson's Report of May 31, 1994 offered reassurance that ACES would continue to prosper for many years to come. On January 1, 1994, total assets were $51,239, and these grew to $103,550 on May 31. The increase was due primarily to the Review net proceeds of nearly $42,000.

The Special Issue of the {ACES Journal}, Vol. 9.2, dated July, 1994, was devoted to The Numerical Computation of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields. It was edited by special guest editors Adalbert Konrad and J. D. Lavers. The compact double column format was used to good effect and allowed publication of 12 special issue and 7 regular papers, as well as several notes concerning Journal policy, calls for papers, and other items--all in 186 pages.