Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 25 OCTOBER 2000

Session PI1. DPP/ICPP: Topics of Community Interest.

Wednesday afternoon, 16:00, Room 200C, Qu\'{e}bec City Convention Centre

16:00 PI1.001 ICPP: The Physics of ITER-FEAT
D. J. Campbell (EFDA Close Support Unit, Garching, Germany)
16:30 PI1.002 Communicating Plasma Science with Nonscientists
D. E. Newman (Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks)

Session PI2. DPP/ICPP: Stochastic Astrophysical Processes.

Wednesday afternoon, 16:00, Room 200A, Qu\'{e}bec City Convention Centre

16:00 PI2.001 Modern theory of Fermi acceleration: a new challenge for plasma physics
Mikhail Malkov (University of California at San Diego, USA)
16:30 PI2.002 Stochastic Growth of Localized Plasma Waves
Peter Robinson (School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia)

Session PO2. DPP: High Density Pinch Sources.

Wednesday afternoon, 16:00, Room 302AB, Qu\'{e}bec City Convention Centre

16:00 PO2.001 Rod-Pinch X-Radiography for Diagnosis of Material Response
David Mosher, Robert Commisso, Gerald Cooperstein, Stavros Stephanakis (Plasma Physics Div., Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC), Stephen Swanekamp, Frank Young (JAYCOR, McLean, VA)
16:12 PO2.002 Proof-of-principle laser-induced fluorescence measurements of gas distributions from supersonic nozzles
B. H. Failor, P. L. Coleman, J. S. Levine, Y. Song, H. M. Sze (Maxwell Physics International, San Leandro, CA 94577)
16:24 PO2.003 Fast High Capacity Annular Gas Puff Valve Design Concept
Edward Ruden (AFRL, Directed Energy Directorate)
16:36 PO2.004 Progress Report on the Vacuum Spark (VSX) and the Spherical Pinch (SPX) X-Ray/EUV Point Sources
Emilio Panarella (ALFT, Inc.), and ALFT Team