Agenda

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Sunday, April 25

On-Site Registration
18:00 to 21:00, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Howdy Reception
19:00 to 21:00, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Monday, April 26

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 11:30, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Welcome
8:20 to 8:30, Doubletree Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level
Andrew Ware, Local Organizing Committee

Session 1A. Review Talk. Chair: Lynda Lodestro (LLNL)

8:30
Inez Fung (University of California - Berkeley),
Climate Change: What Do We Really Know? (viewgraphs)

Session 1B. Oral Session. Chair: Lynda Lodestro (LLNL)

9:30
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge National Laboratory),
Non-Diffusive Transport in Plasma Turbulence: A Fractional Diffusion Approach (viewgraphs)

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, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Session 1D. Oral Session. Chair: Alan Glasser (LANL)

13:30
Phil Snyder (General Atomics),
Extending the Peeling-Ballooning Model of ELMs: Toroidal Rotation and 3D Nonlinear Dynamics (viewgraphs)

14:00
Barrett Rogers (Dartmouth College),
Non-Curvature Driven Modes in the Edge Pedestal (viewgraphs)

14:30
Predimin Kaw (Institute for Plasma Research, INDIA),
A Model of the Radiatively Improved (RI) Confinement Mode in Tokamaks (viewgraphs not available at this time)

15:00
Sergei Krasheninnikov (University of California at San Diego),
Dynamics of Dust Motion in Tokamak Edge Plasmas (viewgraphs)

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

Tuesday, April 27

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 11:30, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Session 2A. Review Talk. Chair: Chris Hegna (University of Wisconsin)

8:30 to 9:30
Fausto Cattaneo (University of Chicago),
Astrophysical Dynamo Action (viewgraphs)

Session 2B. Oral Session. Chair: Chris Hegna (University of Wisconsin)

9:30
Xianzhu Tang (Los Alamos National Laboratory),
Astrophysical Magnetic Helicity Injection: Jets, Lobes, and LAPD-U (viewgraphs not available at this time)

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

Lunch. 12:00

Free afternoon

Excursion: Rafting the Clark Fork River

Conference Dinner. 18:00

Session 2D. Oral Session. Chair: Glenn Bateman (Lehigh University)

19:30
Darin Ernst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Gyrokinetic Simulations of Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence in Alcator C-Mod Internal Particle Transport Barriers (viewgraphs)

20:00
Christopher Holland (University of California at San Diego),
A Simple Model of Interactions Between Electron Temperature Gradient and Drift-Wave Turbulence (viewgraphs)

20:30
Denis Eremin (University of Texas),
Formation and Instability of Phase Space Structures (viewgraphs)

21:00
C. S. Chang (New York University),
Monte Carlo Guiding-Center Simulation of Neoclassical Edge Pedestal Formation and Study of Pedestal Scaling Law (viewgraphs)

Wednesday, April 28

On-Site Registration
7:30 to 10:00, Doubletree Hotel Missoula, Lobby Level

Session 3A. Review Talk. Chair: Andrew Ware (University of Montana)

8:30 to 9:30
Alberto Loarte (Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, GERMANY),
ELM Energy/Particle Plasma Losses and Fluxes on Plasma Facing Components (viewgraphs)

9:30 Coffee Break

Session 3B. Oral Session. Chair: Scott Parker (University of Colorado)

10:00
Rick Nebel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Electrostatic Confinement on the INS-e Device (viewgraphs not available at this time)

10:30
Stuart Hudson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory),
Influence of Pressure-Gradient and Shear on Ballooning Stability in Stellarators (viewgraphs)

11:00
Linda Sugiyama (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Two-Fluid Performance Limits: Stellarator and Tokamak Compared (viewgraphs)

11:30
Riccardo Betti (University of Rochester),
Resistive Wall Mode in Quasi-Stationary Collisionless Plasmas (viewgraphs)