BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

STANLEY O. SCHRIBER

Stanley O. Schriber received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1967. From 1966 to 1984 Schriber worked at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). He was internationally recognized for his expertise in the development of coupled rf cavity linear accelerator systems. He invented improved versions of such structures, investigated their properties analytically, supervised their construction, and used them in system applications. He demonstrated management talents as leader of the Medical Accelerator Group that designed, built, and commissioned the 25-MeV electron accelerator for radiotherapy; as project manager for an AECL proposal to establish a new accelerator laboratory in Quebec; and as leader of various projects and studies.

Schriber came to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as Deputy Division Leader of the Accelerator Technology (AT) Division in July of 1984 and served as Technical Director of the Neutral Particle Beam Program (NPB) within the Strategic Defense Initiative. He established international technical collaborations under the NPB umbrella and worked with the Ground Test Accelerator (GTA), Beam Experiments Aboard Rocket (BEAR), and Free Electron Laser (FEL) programs. In November 1987, Stan became Accelerator Technology Division Leader, leading a business with an annual budget of about $50M. He initiated the studies and activities that led to the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) and the Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW) programs, and the collaborations with various European and Japanese institutions. He also supported and ensured success in initiating activities to establish superconducting rf accelerator expertise, applications of high power microwaves and a new methodology for control systems, the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS).

With the LANL restructuring in November 1993, Stan became the Accelerator Operations and Technology (AOT) Division Director; responsible for operation of the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE) and for R&D of other accelerator related activities. He successfully merged two different organizations, AT and parts of MP (Medium Physics). AOT was involved in a wide range of accelerator applications for medical, research, defense, and industrial interests, with an annual budget of about $70M. During his 1993 to 1997 tenure, significant improvements were achieved in increased operation hours for users, in reducing costs of operations and in improved reliability/availability of the facility. At the same time, significant advances were made in accelerator technology for the accelerator community, Laboratory programs and the nation.

With the 1993 LANL restructuring, Stan was co-chair, chair and past-chair of the Laboratory Leadership Counsel (LLC), the main Laboratory leadership body. Every Director served a three-month term in each of these positions. Stan was on the first executive team that hired the LLC support staff and established much of its operations. Each meeting resulted in a grade from colleagues on the performance of the individuals running the LLC. During this nine-month period he received the highest grades anyone received from LLC members in the running of this Counsel.

While Director of AOT Division, Schriber received the highest rating for a Laboratory Division Director in feedback from Division employees. Anonymous upward appraisal forms submitted to an outside organization were used to review the entire Laboratory on a yearly basis.

In 1995 he was on assignment for three months to the DOE Forrestal Building in Washington, DC, assisting in establishing the APT activities within the Defense Programs office.

Stan was the Lab lead in successfully establishing an ATW program within DOE and getting support from Congress in 1998. He obtained support from OCRWM with an agreement to transfer the program to NE, established a national body to support the program, put in place various reviews, described the program to obtain support from many influential organizations including EPRI and OSTP, and testified before a Senate Committee on Nuclear Issues.

In 1997 Schriber led an effort to gain support for a copy of the AFEL to be located at WSMR. He was one of the members developing the New Mexico Directed Energy Alliance. From a LANSCE Division point of view he managed the accelerator research, development and support programs within LANSCE Division – a $35M business within the $100M LANSCE budget.

Since starting the LANL Return-to-Research program in 2001 January, Stan spent three months at each of the following institutions: CEA, Saclay, France; CERN, Switzerland; and FZ-Juelich, Germany. At Saclay he contributed to the ESS and CONCERT programs, at CERN he contributed to the Neutrino Factory program, and at FZ-Juelich he contributed to the COSY New Injector and ESS programs, as well as assisting two students with their M. Sc. investigations.

In 2003 April, Stan joined Michigan State University as full professor in the College of Natural Sciences, with a joint appointment between NSCL and the Physics and Astronomy Department. At MSU he taught freshman physics and was involved in R&D for the Rare Isotope Accelerator project. Stan retired from MSU in January 2007, moving to Eagle Idaho to be near family. As an adjunct professor he assists Boise State University Physics Department with their freshman physics lab class one half-day a week.

Outside of the Laboratory, Stan was accelerator team chair for the Proton Therapy Cooperative Group and assisted the Loma Linda University Hospital plans for a proton therapy system. Stan holds eight patents and has more than a 150 publications. He has been actively involved in IEEE and APS affairs. Within the APS-DPB he has served on nominating committees, as ex-officio member of the executive council and is presently serving as Secretary Treasurer 2008-11. Stan is chair of the Particle Accelerator Science Technology Committee within IEEE-NPSS for 2009 – 2013. He is on the organizing committees for EPAC, PAC, IPAC and LAC and was chair of the 1995 PAC conference in Dallas and the 2007 PAC conference in Albuquerque. Stan was instrumental in forming the coalition between EPAC and PAC, helping put together some of the exchange activities. He was also a leading force behind making the Linac Conference an international entity with representation from European and Asian Labs. Until 2008, Stan was on the Board of Governors for the US Particle Accelerator School and served many years as chair of the USPAS program committee determining possible courses and instructors for the schools.

Among much recognition, he is a Fellow of the APS and a Fellow of the IEEE.

His research interests continue to be in accelerating structures for high power accelerators and the associated beam dynamics, and nuclear physics applications.

2008/12/08


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