Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 26 OCTOBER 2000

13:40 VI1.001 Recent Developments in Collisionless Reconnection Theory: Implications for Laboratory and Space Plasmas

A. Bhattacharjee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, 203 Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242)

14:40 VI1.002 Fast Magnetic Reconnection in a Toroidal Magnetic Cusp

Jan Egedal (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

15:10 VI1.003 Experimental Study of Ion Heating and Acceleration During Magnetic Reconnection

Scott Hsu (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

13:40 VI2.001 Beam Generated Plasmas for Processing Applications

Robert Meger (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

14:10 VI2.002 ICPP: The Physics and Chemistry of Waste Destruction using Thermal Plasmas

A. B. Murphy (CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, Sydney, Australia)

14:40 VI2.003 ICPP: Identification and Quantification of Elementary Plasma Surface Processes during thin Film Growth

A.V. Keudell (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany)

13:40 VI3.001 Experimental Studies of Self-Modulated and Standard Laser Wakefield Accelerators

W.P. Leemans (Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)

14:10 VI3.002 Three-Dimensional PIC Simulations of the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Evan S. Dodd (University of California, Los Angeles)

14:40 VI3.003 Short pulse energetic electron production by high-intensity laser ionization of gases

Christopher I. Moore (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

15:10 VI3.004 ICPP: Detailed Study of Electron Acceleration and Raman Instabilities in Self-Modulated Laser Wake Field excited by a 10 Hz - 500 mJ laser

Jean-Raphaël Marquès (Laboratoire d'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses)

13:40 VO1.001 Beam Power Matching on the OMEGA Laser

R.L. Keck, W.R. Donaldson, P.A. Jaanimagi, W. Seka, R. Boni (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

13:52 VO1.002 Electra: Development of KrF laser technology for Inertial Fusion Energy

J.D. Sethian, S.P. Obenschain, M.C. Myers (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), W.D. Webster (RSI, Inc Lanham, MD)

14:04 VO1.003 Modeling and Experiments of Electron Beam Transport in Large-Area Diodes for KrF Laser Driven ICF

S.B. Swanekamp (JAYCOR, McLean, VA), M. Friedman (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC), S. Searles (RSI, Lanham, MD), L. Ludeking, D. Smithe (MRC, Newington, VA), J.D. Sethian, S.P. Obenschain (Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC)

14:16 VO1.004 A Kinetics Model for KrF Laser Amplifiers in the Electra Program

J. L. Giuliani, R. Lehmberg, P. Kepple (NRL), G. Petrov (Berkeley Research Scholars, Inc.)

14:28 VO1.005 Nonlinear Optical Effects on ISI-Smoothed Beams in KrF Fusion Drivers

R. H. Lehmberg, C. J. Pawley (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), A. V. Deniz (Baker Research Associates, Alexandria, VA)

14:40 VO1.006 The Smoothing Performance of Various Picket-Fence Schemes on NIF

J.A. Marozas, J.D. Zuegel (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

14:52 VO1.007 Amplification of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Plasmas by a Counterpropagating Pumping Beam

Yuan Ping, Iddo Geltner, Nathaniel Fisch, Gennardy Shvets, Syzmon Suckewer (Princeton University)

15:04 VO1.008 Exploring the experimental parameter space of sonoluminescence in the direction of thermonuclear fusion

D. Felipe Gaitan, Sarah Blecksmith, Ross Tessien (Impulse Devices Inc.), William C. Mead (Adaptive Network Solutions Research, Inc.)

15:16 VO1.009 Could Sonic Cavitation Drive Fusion Reactions?

William C. Mead (Adaptive Network Solutions Research, Inc.), D. F. Gaitan (Impulse Devices, Inc.)

15:28 VO1.010 The Cryogenic Pressure Loader: a testbed for cryogenic ICF ignition targets

P. S. Ebey, J. K. Hoffer, J. E. Nasise, Jr. Nobile, R. L. Nolen (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. D. Sheliak (General Atomics)

13:40 VO2.001 Study of the Dependence of Energy Transfer Between Beams on Intensity in a Flowing Plasma

R. K. Kirkwood, A. B. Langdon, C. Decker, J. D. Moody, P. E. Young, L. J. Suter, S. H. Glenzer (LLNL), W. Seka (LLE)

13:52 VO2.002 Numerical Simulations of the SSD- and DPP-Smoothed Laser Beam Filamentation and Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Plasmas

A.V. Kanaev, C.J. McKinstrie (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

14:04 VO2.003 Power transfer between smoothed laser beams

A. B. Langdon, R. L. Berger, B. I. Cohen, C. D. Decker, D. E. Hinkel, R. K. Kirkwood, C. H. Still, L. J. Suter, E. A. Williams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:16 VO2.004 A Variational Approach to the Coupling Between Forward Brillouin Scattering and Self-Focusing

Warren Mori (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles), Brian Duda (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles)

14:28 VO2.005 Experimental evidence of plasma-induced incoherence of a laser beam after propagation through an underdense plasma

Christine Labaune, Julien Fuchs, Sylvie Depierreux (LULI, CNRS-CEA, École Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France), Hector Baldis (ILSA-/LLNL, Livermore, California 94550), Denis Pesme, Jason Myatt, Stefan Hüller, Guy Laval (CPHT, CNRS-École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France), Vladimir Tikhonchuk (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow 117924, Russia)

14:40 VO2.006 Observation of laser self-smoothing in an exploding foil plasma

J. D. Moody, P. E. Young, R. L. Berger, L. Divol, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. M. Chambers (University of Arizona), J. Hawreliak, P. Sondhauss, J. S. Wark (Oxford University)

14:52 VO2.007 Modeling of beam propagation experiments on Nova and Vulcan with parallel F3D

E.~A. Williams, R.~L. Berger, C.~D. Decker, L. Divol, S. H. Glenzer, A.~B. Langdon, J.~D. Moody, C.~H. Still, P.~E. Young (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), L. Lours (CEA/DIF BP 12 91680 Bruyeres--Le--Châtel, France)

15:04 VO2.008 NonlinearPropagation of a Randomized Laser Beam: Plasma-Induced Smoothing and Scattering Instabilities

A. Maximov, W. Rozmus, C.E. Capjack, M. Foote (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

15:16 VO2.009 Nonlinear Sound Waves in Two-Ion Plasmas

M.V. Kozlov, C.J. McKinstrie (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:28 VO2.010 SBS from Fast and Slow Waves in Two-Ion Plasmas

C.J. McKinstrie, M.V. Kozlov (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

13:40 VM1.001 Effects of Liquid Metal Walls on Equilibrium and Stability

Ahmet Y. Aydemir (Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712)

14:10 VM1.002 Liquid Metal Walls and the Belt Pinch

Michael Kotschenreuther (Institute for Fusion Studies), W. Dorland (University of Maryland), J. Manickam, J. Menard (PPPL), R. Miller (General Atomic)

14:50 VM1.003 Stabilization of resistive wall modes by lithium streams

Leonid E. Zakharov (Princeton University, PPPL)

15:10 VM1.004 Plans for Liquid Lithium Experiments in CDX-U

R. Kaita, R. Majeski, P. Efthimion, D. Hoffman, B. Jones, H. Kugel, J. Menard, T. Munsat, S. Raftopoulos, G. Taylor, J. Timberlake, R. Woolley, L. Zakharov (Princeton University), M. Finkenthal, V. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), S. Luckhardt, R. Doerner (UCSD), R. Maingi (ORNL), S. Molesa (Hope College)

15:40 VM1.005 Coffee Break

16:00 VM1.006 Resistive Liquid Wall Modes and Coupling to Fluid Surface Modes

H.L. Rappaport (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

16:30 VM1.007 Stabilization of Resistive Wall Modes using Rotating Liquid Metal Walls

C.B. Forest, C. Hegna, G. Fiksel, T. Lovell, J.A. Sarff (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

17:00 VM1.008 Toroidally Symmetric Liquid Metal J x B Experiments

David Ruzic, Boaz Mark, Norman Jeffery, Jean Paul Allain (University of Illinois)

17:30 VM1.009 Experimental Study of Surface Waves on Liquid Gallium

H. Ji, L. Bell, S. Zweben, R. Woolley (PPPL)

VP1.001 Waves (DPP)

VP1.002 Two-dimensional measurements of ion temperature in a helicon plasma source

R.C. Soulsby, B.R. Kent, M.M. Balkey, R.F. Boivin, J.L. Kline, E.E. Scime (Physics Department, West Virginia University)

VP1.003 Rogue waves in plasmas

E. R. Tracy, A. R. Osborne (William amp; Mary)

VP1.004 Extraordinary/ordinary wave conversion via gyroballistic modes

Allan N Kaufman (LBL/UCBerkeley), Eugene R. Tracy (William amp; Mary)

VP1.005 Noise-driven instabilities in systems exhibiting pulse formation via passive mode-locking

G. A. Andrews, E. R. Tracy, W. E. Cooke, M. Ricci (William amp; Mary)

VP1.006 Ion acoustic wave damping with hybrid kinetic-hydrodynamic closure

E. Furkal, F. Detering, A. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 Canada), V. Bychenkov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)

VP1.007 Vlasov-Maxwell simulations of the strong wave-plasma interaction in a magnetized plasma

F. Califano (Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, and Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, C.N.R., EUR-ENEA-CNR Ass., Milano, Italy), M. Lontano (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, C.N.R., EUR-ENEA-CNR Ass., Milano, Italy)

VP1.008 Exact Damping for Relativistic Plasma Waves

D.G. Swanson (Auburn University)

VP1.009 Study of electromagnetic wave propagation in a hot plasma in a 2-dimensional nonuniform magnetic field

V. A. SVIDZINSKI, D. G. SWANSON (Auburn University)

VP1.010 Optimal Distributed Excitation of Surface Wave Plasmas

K.J. Bowers, C.K. Birdsall (Plasma Theory and Simulation Group, EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720)

VP1.011 Three Wave Interactions in a Weakly Collisional Plasma

Andrew Case, William Noonan (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland), Frederick Skiff (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

VP1.012 Nonlinear Magnetic Beach

A. AREFIEV, B. BREIZMAN (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas, Austin TX)

VP1.013 Waves (ICPP)

VP1.014 Whistler Wave Emission by Modulated and Pulsed Electron Beams

Catherine Krafft (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, , Universite Paris-Sud, France), Mikhail Starodubtsev, Alexander Kostrov (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

VP1.015 Global Drift Waves in Weakly Ionised Magnetized Plasmas: Confronting Theory and Observations

Michel Poleni (LPMIA, Universiti Henri Poincari - Nancy I, Vandoeuvre, France), Petro Sosenko (International Centre of Physics (Ukraine); UHP Nancy 1, France)

VP1.016 Ion-Acoustic Waves Generated by Drift Instability in a Weakly Magnetized Plasma

Isao Tsukabayashi, Sugiya Sato (Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan), Yoshiharu Nakamura (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan)

VP1.017 Dielectric Characteristics of an Axisymmetric Low Aspect Ratio Tokamak with Circular Magnetic Surfaces

Nikolay I. Grishanov (Laboratsrio Nacional de Computagco Cientmfica, 25651-070 Petrspolis, Brazil), Carlos A. de Azevedo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Joaquim P. Neto (Laboratsrio Nacional de Computagco Cientmfica, 25651-070 Petrspolis, Brazil)

VP1.018 Ship Waves Driven by the Poloidal Component of a Sheared Flow in a Tokamak Plasma

Elina Asp, Vladimir P. Pavlenko, Sergey M. Revenchuk (Dept. Space and Plasma Physics, Uppsala University, S-75591 Uppsala Sweden)

VP1.019 Stability of Two Counterstreaming Ion Beams with Inhomogeneous Density Profiles

B. Dasgupta (Instituto de Fisica /DEQ, c. P. 6165 UNICAMP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil), M. E. Koepke (Physics Dept., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315 USA), J. R. Penano, G. Ganguli (Beam Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA)

VP1.020 Inhomogeneous Plasma Parametric Decay Instability Driven by Frequency Modulated Pump

Boris Yakovlev, Evgeniy Gusakov (Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia)

VP1.021 Importance of Neutral Dynamics in Partially Ionized Plasma

A.A. Shaikh (C.U. Shah Science College, Ahmedabad 380 014, India), A.C. Das (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India)

VP1.022 Dynamic Stabilization of Plasma Disruption Precursors on the HT-7 Superconducting Tokamak

Jianshan Mao, Jiarong Luo, Jinyu Zhao, Maoqian Wang (Institute of Plasma Physics, Academia Sinica (ASIPP), China)

VP1.023 Drift-Alfven Instability in the Presence of Sheared Flows

Vladimir S. Mykhaylenko (Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, 61108, Ukraine), Martin F. Heyn (Inst. fuer Theor. Physik, Techn. Univ. Graz, Petersg. 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria)

VP1.024 Electromagnetic Instability Study in Nonuniform Streaming Electron Magnetohydrodynamics

Muhammad Khizar, A Abrarove (Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Eng. Sciences, Pakistan)

VP1.025 Observation of low frequency instability in a magnetised plasma

Joyanti Chutia, Heremba Bailung (IASST, Guwahati-22, Assam, India)

VP1.026 Instability in a Bounded Discharge Plasma: Simulation and Experiment

Milan Cercek, Zoran Petric, Tomaz Gyergyek (Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia)

VP1.027 Influence of Secondary Electrons on the Stability of the Plasma-Wall Transition

David Tskhakaya, Siegbert Kuhn (Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

VP1.028 One Dimensional Model for Radiative Collapse of a Z-Pinch

J.Julio E. Herrera-Velazquez, Marco Antonio Maza-Palacios, Fermmn Castillo-Mejma (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico)

VP1.029 Turbulence and Transport (DPP)

VP1.030 Suppression of runaway electron avalanches by radial diffusion

P Helander (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK), L-G Eriksson (Association EURATOM-CEA sur la Fusion, CEA Cadarache, France), F Andersson (Dept of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

VP1.031 Modifications to Neoclassical Theory in the H-mode Edge for Bootstrap Current Calculations

W. A. Houlberg (ORNL), K. C. Shaing, R. Hiwatari

VP1.032 Neoclassical Radial Electric Field and Transport with Finite Orbits

W.X. Wang (University of California, Irvine), F.L. Hinton, S.K. Wong (General Atomics)

VP1.033 A Scaling Theory for Effect of Strong Flow Shear on Cross-Phase

P.W. Terry (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706), D.E. Newman (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775), A.S. Ware (University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812)

VP1.034 Theory of Multifield Bispectral Deconvolution

D.A. Baver, P.W. Terry (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706)

VP1.035 The Hurst Exponent and Long-time Correlation

G. Wang (Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315), G. Antar (Fusion Energy Research Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, 9500 Gilman Dr., CA 92093-0417), P. Devynck (Association Euratom-CEA sur la Fusion Controlee, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint Paul lez Durance, France)

VP1.036 Anomalous Ion Loss from Stochastic Collisional Ripple Transport in Tokamaks

Kunyoung Park (Dept. of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Choong-Seock Chang (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)

VP1.037 Shear Flow Generation by Finite Beta Drift Waves and Kinetic Shear Alfven Waves

Parvez Guzdar, Robert Kleva (IPR, University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Amita Das, Predhiman Kaw (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)

VP1.038 Initiation and Controlled Sustainment of Dynamic Transport Barriers

D. E. Newman (Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks), A. Boyd (UAF), B. A. Carreras (ORNL), J. N. Leboeuf (UCLA), P. H. Diamond (UCSD)

VP1.039 Comparison of Observed Toroidal Rotation with Neoclassical Transport Theory

S.K. Wong, V.S. Chan, F.L. Hinton (General Atomics)

VP1.040 Transport Barrier Under The Conservation Of Total Angular Momentum

Teruo Tamano, Isao Katanuma (Plasma Research Genter, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

VP1.041 Taming drift wave turbulence: experiment and simulation

Ch. Schröder, T. Klinger (University of Greifswald (Germany)), D. Block, A. Piel (University of Kiel (Germany)), G. Bonhomme (University of Nancy (France)), V. Naulin (Risoe National Laboratory (Denmark))

VP1.042 Initial Results from the Controlled Shear Decorrelation Experiment (CSDX)

George Tynan, Seok-Min Yun, Michael Burin, Jonathan George (UC San Diego), Basic and Applied Plasma Physics Laboratory Team

VP1.043 Experimental study of the effect of velocity shear upon small amplitude coherent waves in a quiescent cylindrical plasma

Jonathan George, Michael Burin, George Tynan, Seok-Min Yun (UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

VP1.044 Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Shear Flow-Turbulence Interactions Using

Michael Burin, Jose Boedo, Jonathan George, Chris Holland, Richard Moyer, George Tynan, Seok-Min Yun (UC San Diego)

VP1.045 Sheared Toroidal Flow Effects on Microturbulence in Electric Tokamak Plasmas

C. G. Hobbs (Adelphi University), M. G. House, J. N. Leboeuf, J. M. Dawson, V. K. Decyk, M. W. Kissick (UCLA), R. D. Sydora (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

VP1.046 Helimac -- A Model Device for Plasma Turbulence

Kenneth Gentle (University of Texas), Stanley Luckhardt (UC San Diego), William Rowan (University of Texas)

VP1.047 Status of the National Transport Code Collaboration Modules Library

Douglas McCune, Christiane Ludescher, Alex Pletzer (PPPL), Glenn Bateman, Arnold Kritz (Lehigh U.), Wayne Houlberg (ORNL), Jon Kinsey (Lehigh U. (at GA)), Lynda Lodestro (LLNL), John Mandrekas (Ga. Tech.)

VP1.048 New Features Implemented in National Transport Code Collaboration Java Client

S.~G. Shasharina, D. A. Alexander, J.~R. Cary (TechX Corp), D. Greenwood (ORNL), R.~A. Jong (LLNL), the NTCC Demo Team

VP1.049 Documentation and Testing of the NTCC Physics Server

Glenn Bateman, Arnold H. Kritz, J. Kinsey (Lehigh University), J. Wiley (U.~Texas), H. St.~John (GA), R.~H. Cohen, R. Jong (LLNL), J.~R. Cary, S.~G. Shasharina (TechX Corp), the NTCC Demo Team

VP1.050 Benchmarking and Application of NTCC Python Physics Server

J. R. Cary, S. Shasharina (TechX), R. H. Cohen, R. Jong (LLNL), G. Bateman, J. Kinsey, A. Kritz (Lehigh U.), W. Houlberg, M. Murakami (ORNL), and the NTCC Demo Team

VP1.051 Improvements to the National Transport Code Collaboration Data Server

D. A. Alexander, S.~G. Shasharina, J.~R. Cary (TechX Corp), D. Greenwood (ORNL), R.~A. Jong (LLNL), the NTCC Demo Team

VP1.052 Lower Hybrid Current Drive and Heating for the National Transport Code Collaboration

D.W. Ignat, S.C. Jardin, D.C. McCune, E.J. Valeo (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

VP1.053 Tearing Mode Stability of Evolving Toroidal Equilibria

A. Pletzer, D. McCune, J. Manickam, S. C. Jardin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

VP1.054 Efficient Computational Techniques for Toroidal Plasma Geometry in Transport Simulations

Pär Strand, Wayne Houlberg (ORNL)

VP1.055 A Quasi-linear Hyper-resistivity Theory with Applications to the RFP and Spheromak

H.L. Berk (Institute for Fusion Studies), T. K. Fowler, L. L. Lodestro, L. D. Pearlstein (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

VP1.056 Turbulence and Transport (ICPP)

VP1.057 Coupled Electron and Ion Heat Fluxes in the Magnetized Plasmas

T.K. Soboleva, J.J. Martinell (ICN-UNAM, Mexico), O.V. Batishchev (MIT, USA)

VP1.058 Modulational Instability of Drift Wave Turbulence in the Presence of MARFE in a Tokamak Edge

Rajiv Goswami, Raghvendra Singh, Predhiman Kaw (IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)

VP1.059 Nonlinear Simulations of Alpha-Particle-Driven TAE

Yasushi Todo, Hyoung-Bin Park (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)

VP1.060 Aspect Ratio Effect in Collisional Transport for Toroidal Configurations

Pablo Martin, Julio Puerta (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)

VP1.061 Drift Eigenmodes in Tokamak Plasma Rotating both Toroidally and Poloidally

Ingmar Sandberg, Vladimir Pavlenko, Sergey Revenchuk (Space amp; Plasma Physics Uppsala University S-75591 Uppsala Sweden)

VP1.062 Radial Electric Field Generation During Anomalous ExB Impurity Diffusion

L. Krlin (Institute of Plasma Physics, Association EURATOM-ICPP. CR, Prague, Czech Rep.), S. Kuhn (Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria), J. Stoeckel (Institute of Plasma Physics, Association EURATOM-ICPP. CR, Prague, Czech Rep.), V. Svoboda (Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic), M. Tendler (Alfven Laboratory, Fusion Plasma Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), D. Tskhakaya (Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria), M. Zapotocky, R. Klima (Institute of Plasma Physics, Association EURATOM-ICPP. CR, Prague, Czech Rep.)

VP1.063 Visualization of the Ponderomotive Force During Electron Cyclotron Resonant Wave Absorption and the Resulting Poloidal Plasma Rotation

Julio J. Martinell, Mercedes Garcia-Orozco (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico)

VP1.064 ICRH Induced Neoclassical Poloidal Plasma Rotation in Tokamaks

Caigen Liu, Boris Weyssow (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium)

VP1.065 General Spherical Torus (DPP)

VP1.066 Ion behaviour in MAST plasmas

Mikhail Tournianski, Robert Akers, Colin Bunting, Calum Byrom, Patrick Carolan, Neil Conway (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, UK), Sid Medley, Lane Roquemore (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

VP1.067 Characteristics of High Performance OH Plasmas and Program Plans for Pegasus

R.J. Fonck (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Pegasus Team

VP1.068 Operational Limits and MHD Activity at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio

E.A. Unterberg, S.J. Diem, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, B.T. Lewicki, C.N. Ostrander, A.C. Sontag, T.A. Thorson, G.R. Winz (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

VP1.069 Magnetic Reconstruction of PEGASUS Equilibria

A.C. Sontag, R.J. Fonck, G.D. Garstka, K.L. Tritz (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

VP1.070 The Soft X-ray Flux Surface Shape Diagnostic on the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment

K.L. Tritz, R.J. Fonck, R.J. Schooff, A.C. Sontag (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

VP1.071 Equilibrium and Stability Measurements via Neutral Beam Spectroscopy

E.A. Reinecke, R.J. Fonck, B.T. Lewicki, A.D. Olig, T.A. Thorson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

VP1.072 The Helicity Injected Torus (HIT) Program

T.~R. Jarboe, P. Gu, W. Hamp, V. Izzo, P. Jewell, J. Liptac, K.~J. McCollam, B.~A. Nelson, R. Raman, A.~J. Redd, U. Shumlak, P.~E. Sieck, R.~J. Smith (University of Washington), K.~K. Jain (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India), M. Nagata, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan)

VP1.073 Edge Plasma Characteristics in the HIT-II Spherical Tokamak

K.~K. Jain, T.~R. Jarboe, B.~A. Nelson, A.~J. Redd, R. Raman, J.~A. Rogers, R.~J. Smith, HIT Group (University of Washington)

VP1.074 Multi-Point Thomson Scattering First Results in HIT-II Plasmas

R.~J. Smith, W.~T. Hamp, J.~E. Liptac, T.~R. Jarboe, B.~A. Nelson (University of Washington), B.~P. LeBlanc (PPPL), P. Phillips (University of Texas)

VP1.075 Alignment and Calibration of the Multi-Point Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for the Helicity Injected Torus

W.T. Hamp, R.J. Smith, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson (University of Washington), B.P. Leblanc (PPPL), P. Phillips (University of Texas)

VP1.076 Multi-chord Interferometry and Particle Balance on the HIT-II Experiment

P.~D. Jewell, T.~R. Jarboe, B.~A. Nelson, R.~J. Smith (University of Washington)

VP1.077 Surface Magnetics and Numerical Simulations for the HIT Program

V.A. Izzo, T.R. Jarboe, K.J. McCollam, B.A. Nelson, A.J. Redd (University of Washington)

VP1.078 Measurements of Ion Velocity Distributions in the HIT-II

P. Gu, T.R. Jarboe, K.J. McCollam, B.A. Nelson, A.J. Redd (University of Washington), M. Nagata, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)

VP1.079 Design of the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI)

P. E. Sieck, P. Gu, W. T. Hamp, V. A. Izzo, K. J. McCollam, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, A. J. Redd, J. A. Rogers, U. Shumlak (University of Washington)

VP1.080 Design and Development of the Liquid Lithium Limiter (L3) for CDX-U

R. P. Seraydarian, L. Chousal, R. P. Doerner, S. C. Luckhardt, T. Lynch (Center for Energy Research - University of California San Diego)

VP1.081 Liquid lithium experiments in CDX-U

R. Majeski, P. Efthimion, D. Hoffman, B. Jones, R. Kaita, H. Kugel, J. Menard, T. Munsat, S. Raftopoulos, G. Taylor, J. Timberlake, R. Woolley, L. Zakharov (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Finkenthal, V. Soukhanovski, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), R. Doerner, S. Luckhardt, D. Whyte (University of California at San Diego), R. Maingi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R. Causey, D. Buchanauer (Sandia National Laboratory)

VP1.082 Measurement of Electron Temperature Profile through Electron Bernstein Wave (EBW) Detection

B. Jones, G. Taylor, P.C. Efthimion, T. Munsat, J.C. Hosea, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, J. Menard (Princeton U.)

VP1.083 Impurity transport studies in ohmically heated plasmas in CDX-U spherical torus.

V. A. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman, M. Finkenthal, H. W. Moos (The Johns Hopkins University), T. Munsat, B. Jones, D. Hoffman, R. Majeski, R. Kaita (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

VP1.084 Formation of Compact RFP, Spheromak and ST in TS-3 Device and Their Merging Magnetic Reconnection

Y. Ono, Y. Ueda, T. Matsuyama, M. Tsuruda, M. Inomoto, H. Hayashiya, M. Katsurai (High Temperature Plasma Center, University of Tokyo), TS group Team

VP1.085 Ultra-high-beta Spherical Tokamak formed by Plasma Merging and Its Ballooning Instability in the TS-3 Device

Yoshinobu Ueda, Yasushi Ono, Michiaki Inomoto, Yoichi Oshima, Makoto Katsurai (Dept. E.E., Univ. of Tokyo)

VP1.086 Construction and Initial Operation of the large-scale merging facility: TS-4

Mayuko Tsuruda, Yoshinobu Ueda, Tomofumi Matsuyama, Takeshi Tawara, Tadahiro Nakahara, Masako Kikuchi, Ayumu Inoue, Hitoshi Hayashiya, Yasushi Ono, Makoto Katsurai (Univ. of Tokyo)

VP1.087 A new electron density profile measurement for comparative study of law-aspect torus plasmas

Hitoshi HAYASHIYA (Depertment of Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo), Ayumu INOUE, Tetsu NAKANO, Yasushi ONO, Makoto KATSURAI

VP1.088 Non-axisymmetric Electrostatic Helicity Injection into the HIST Spherical Torus

M. Nagata, T. Akamatsu, Y. Kagei, N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)

VP1.089 General Spherical Torus (ICPP)

VP1.090 RF Wave Experiments on the TST-2 Spherical Tokamak

Yuichi Takase, Akira Ejiri, Naohiro Kasuya, Takashi Mashiko, Syun'ichi Shiraiwa, Lucio Tozawa, Hirofumi Wada, Hiroshi Kasahara, Hideharu Yamada, Kenichi Yamagishi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

VP1.091 Global Motions of a Highly Elongated Low Aspect Ratio Tokamak Produced by Negative Bias Theta Pinch

Tsutom Takahashi, Hiroshi Gota (Nihon University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan), Yoshirou Narushima (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu, Japan), Yasuyuki Nogi (Nihon University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

VP1.092 Dynamics on Relaxation Phenomena in Spherical Tokamak

Naoki Mizuguchi, Takaya Hayashi, Tetsuya Sato (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu, Japan)