Agenda

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Sunday, April 27

On-Site Registration
18:00 to 21:00, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Howdy Reception
19:00 to 21:00, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Monday, April 28

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 11:30, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Welcome
8:20 to 8:30, Ballroom C, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level
Wendell Horton, Local Organizing Committee

Session 1A. Review Talk. Chair: Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (ORNL)

8:30
Mark Raizen (University of Texas), New Frontiers in Controlling the Motion of Matter with Light: From Single Atoms to Neurons

Session 1B. Oral Session. Chair: Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (ORNL)

9:30
Dan D'Ippolito (Lodestar Research Corp), Blob Stability and Transport in the SOL Plasma

Session 1C. Poster Session
10:00 to 12:00. Coffee Break during Poster Session

Lunch. 12:00

On-Site Registration
13:00 to 17:00, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Session 1D. Oral Session. Chair: Carl R. Sovinec (University of Wisconsin)

13:30
Fatima Ebrahimi (University of Wisconsin), The Three-Dimensional MHD Dynamics of ac Helicity Injection

14:00
Valerie Izzo (University of Washington), Relaxation Current Drive in Spheromaks as a Forward Energy Cascade Requiring Sufficient Lundquist Number

14:30
Elena Belova (Princeton Plasma Physcs Laboratory), Stability Properties of Field-Reversed Configurations

15:00
Luis Chacon (Los Alamos National Laboratory), The Behavior of Current/Vortex Sheets in Extended MHD: A System-Scale Theory for Fast Reconnection?

Session 1E. Poster Session
15:30 to 17:30 Coffee/Beverage Break during Poster Session

Tuesday, April 29

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 11:30, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Session 2A. Review Talk. Chair: Linda Sugiyama (MIT)

8:30 to 9:30
Tetsuya Sato (Earth Simulator Center, Japan Marine Science & Technology Center), The Earth Simulator and Its Impact on Science and Technology

Session 2B. Oral Session. Chair: Linda Sugiyama (MIT)

9:30
Dominique Escande (University of Provedence, FRANCE), Linear Theory and Chaos: Breakthrough in the Description of Wave-Particle Interaction in Plasmas

Session 2C. Poster Session
10:00 to 12:00 Coffee Break during Poster Session

Lunch. 12:00

Free afternoon

Fajita Feast. 17:30

Session 2D. Oral Session. Chair: Ron Waltz (General Atomics)

19:00
Paul Terry (University of Wisconsin), Zonal Flow Spectra and the Reduction of Collisionless Trapped Electron Turbulence by Nonlinear Damping

19:30
Liu Chen (University of California, Irvine), Zonal Flow Dynamics and Size-Scaling of Anomalous Transport

20:00
Yang Chen (University of Colorado), Simulations of Electromagnetic Microturbulence with Kinetic Electrons

20:30
Kim Molvig (MIT), Enhanced Neoclassical Polarization and its Equivalence to the Pinch Effect

Wednesday, April 30

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 10:00, Omni Hotel, Bayfront Tower, Third Level

Session 3A. Review Talk. Chair: Boris Breizman (University of Texas)

8:30 to 9:30
Dmitri Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Scaling Astrophysical Hydrodynamics to High Energy Density Laboratory Experiments

Session 3B. Oral Session. Chair: Boris Breizman (University of Texas)

9:30
Alexei Arefiev, Power Deposition Mechanism in Helicon Plasma Sources

10:00 Coffee Break

Session 3C. Oral Session. Chair: Tom Rognlien (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:30
Allen Boozer (Columbia University), Delta-W Calculation of Magnetic Islands in Plasma Equilibria

11:00
Leonid Zakharov, LiWall Tokamak Regimes and Our Path to the Fusion Power Reactor

11:30
Tunde Fülöp (Chalmers University), Poloidally Localized Fueling Effects on Toroidal Flow and Radial Electric Field