Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 29 OCTOBER 2001

09:30 BI1.001 Physics and control of resistive wall modes

Anders Bondeson (Department of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

10:00 BI1.002 Sustained Rotational Stabilization of DIII-D Plasmas Above the No-Wall Beta Limit

A.M. Garofalo (Columbia University)

10:30 BI1.003 Beta-limiting Instabilities and Global Mode Stabilization in NSTX

Steven Sabbagh (Columbia University)

11:00 BI1.004 Ideal MHD Ballooning Stability Boundaries in Three-Dimensional Equilibria

C. C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin)

11:30 BI1.005 Control of Neoclassical Tearing Modes in DIII-D

R.J. La Haye (General Atomics)

12:00 BI1.006 Alfven Wave Cascades in a Tokamak

S.E. Sharapov (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK)

09:30 BI2.001 First Complete Picture of the Presheath/Sheath Region near a Boundary in a Weakly Collisional Multi-Dipole Plasma

Noah Hershkowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:00 BI2.002 Shear-Limited Diffusion and Viscosity: Experiments and Theory

C. Fred Driscoll (University of California, San Diego)

10:30 BI2.003 Thermally-excited wave experiments in a strongly-coupled plasma

Shota Nunomura (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242)

11:00 BI2.004 Measurement of lower-hybrid drift turbulence in a reconnection current sheet

Troy Carter (Princeton University)

11:30 BI2.005 Collisionless magnetic reconnection and the role of dispersive waves

Barrett Rogers (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)

12:00 BI2.006 Spontaneous 3D Reconnection in Electron MHD Plasmas

Reiner L. Stenzel (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547)

09:30 BO1.001 A Novel All-optical Electron Injector

D. Umstadter, S. Chen, A. Maksimchuk, N. Saleh, P. Zhang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, Z.-M. Sheng (Osaka University), G. Shvets (Princeton University)

09:42 BO1.002 Relativistic Focusing via the Mutual Index of Refraction of Crossing High-Intensity Laser Beams

N Saleh, S Chen, A Macksimshuk, P Zhang, D Umstadter (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan), Kunioko Mima, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Zheng-Ming Sheng (ILE, Osaka University), Gennady Shvets (PPPL, Princeton University)

09:54 BO1.003 Post-acceleration of electron bunches from self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration

Albert Reitsma (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Wim Leemans, Eric Esarey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA)

10:06 BO1.004 Observation of laser chirp dependency on electron yield in laser wakefield accelerators.

W.P. Leemans, P.E. Catravas, E. Esarey, C.G.R. Geddes, B.A. Shadwick, C. Toth, J. Van Tilborg (l'OASIS Group, LBNL), R. Trines (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), J.R. Cary, R. Giacone (U.CO Boulder)

10:18 BO1.005 Numerical investigation of the influence of laser chirp on electron yield in laser wakefield accelerators

R. M. G. M. Trines, L. P. J. Kamp, T. J. Schep (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), W. P. Leemans, E. H. Esarey (l'OASIS Group, LBNL)

10:30 BO1.006 Wake and direct acceleration of electrons by an intense short laser pulse

M. Y. Yu (Theoretical Physics I, Ruhr University, D-44780 Bochum, Germany), Wei Yu, Zhaoyang Chen, Z. Z. Xu (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai 201800, China), Jie Zhang (Institute of Physics, Beijing 100081, China)

10:42 BO1.007 Characterization Of A Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam

Paul Guèye, Cynthia Keppel, Bianca Lane, Judy Owens, Rickey Torrence (Hampton University), Ned Saleh, Don Umstadter, Ping Zhang (University of Michigan), Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab), Kétévi Assamagan (Brookhaven National Lab), Hampton University Collaboration, University of Michigan Collaboration, Jefferson Lab Collaboration, Brookhaven National Lab Collaboration

10:54 BO1.008 Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Gas Ionization by Short Intense Laser Pulses

Dimitre Dimitrov, David Bruhwiler (Tech-X Corporation), Wim Leemans, Eric Esarey, Palma Catravas, Csaba Toth (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brad Shadwick (LBNL and Institute for Advanced Physics), John Cary (University of Colorado and Tech-X Corporation), Rodolfo Giacone (University of Colorado), John Verboncoeur, Peter Mardahl (University of California Berkeley)

11:06 BO1.009 Polarimetry measurements of high order harmonics from intense laser solid interactions.

K. Krushelnick, F. N. Beg, A. Gopal, M. Tatarakis, M. S. Wei, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor (Dept. Of Physics, Blackett Lab., Imperial College, London UK), U. Wagner, P. A. Norreys (Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, UK), M. Zepf (Dept. of Physics, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK)

11:18 BO1.010 Generation of High Harmonics by Ultra-Intense Laser Pulse inside Hollow Fiber

N.M. Naumova (Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany), I.V. Sokolov (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), S.V. Bulanov (General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), T.Zh. Esirkepov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia)

11:30 BO1.011 Study of of energetic ion generation from high-intensity-laser dense-plasma interaction

K. Flippo, A. Maksimchuk, V. Wong, K. Nash, S. Banerjee, D. Umstadter (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), V.Yu. Bychenkov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow), Y. Sentoku, K. Mima (Osaka University)

11:42 BO1.012 Application of Short Plasma Channels for Focusing of Intense Laser Pulses

R. F. Hubbard, A. Ting, P. Sprangle, T. G. Jones (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), B. Hafizi (Icarus Research, Inc.), D. Kaganovich (LET Corp.), A. Zigler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

11:54 BO1.013 Particle Acceleration by Few-Cycle Laser Pulses with Single-Wavelength Spot Size

G. I. Dudnikova (Institute of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia), V. Yu. Bychenkov (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), Z. Chang, A. Maksimchuk, G. Mourou, J. Nees (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), V. A. Vshivkov (Institute of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia)

09:30 BO2.001 Aluminum Hugoniot and adiabatic release measurements from ultra-high pressure

M.D. Knudson, R.W. Lemke, C.A. Hall, J.R. Asay (Sandia National Laboratories, Albq. NM), D.B. Hayes (Tijera, NM)

09:42 BO2.002 Measurement of the quasi-isentrope for 6061-t6 aluminum to ~2Mbar using pulsed magnetic loading on Z

Clint Hall, James Asay, Marcus Knudson, Raymond Lemke, Jean-Paul Davis, Dennis Hayes (Sandia National Laboratories)

09:54 BO2.003 Experimental Data on Liquid-Solid Phase Transition in Tin Using Pulsed Magnetic Loading on the Saturn Accelerator

Jean-Paul Davis, Dennis B. Hayes, James R. Asay (Sandia National Laboratories), Paul A. Flores, Phillip W. Watts (Bechtel Nevada - Los Alamos Operations), David B. Reisman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:06 BO2.004 Aximuthal Structure Observed and Modeled in Annular Wire-Array Z-Pinches Having a Solid Current-Return Anode

T. W. L. Sanford, R. C. Mock, K. W. Struve (SNL*), N. F. Roderick (University of New Mexico)

10:18 BO2.005 Tungsten wire array number scan studies with the 100-ns, 20-MA Z accelerator*

Michael Mazarakis, Melissa Douglas, Michael Cuneo, Gordon Chandler, Thomas Nash, William Stygar (Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

10:30 BO2.006 2D and 3D Magneto-hydrodynamic Modelling of Wire Array Z pinches on 'Z'

J.P. Chittenden, S.V. Lebedev, C. Jennings, S.N. Bland (Imperial College), M.E. Cuneo, G.A. Chandler (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:42 BO2.007 Exploding Wire Simulations with Accurate EOS and Transport Models

S. E. Rosenthal, M. P. Desjarlais (Sandia National Laboratories), K. R. Cochrane (Ktech Corp.)

10:54 BO2.008 Influence of electronic emission on wire initiation

Gennady Sarkisov (Ktech Corp.), Kenneth Struve, Stephen Rosenthal (SNL), Pavel Sasorov (ITEP)

11:06 BO2.009 Controlling the Implosion of Nested Wire array Z-Pinches

S.N. Bland, S.V. Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, F.N. Beg, M.G. Haines (Imperial College of Science and Technology)

11:18 BO2.010 Experiments to Study Radiation Transport through Inhomogeneously-Mixed Plasmas at Z

P. A. Rosen, J. M. Foster, J. Palmer, P. J. Adsley, A. M. Dunne, C. C. Smith, S. J. Davidson (AWE Aldermaston, UK), R. E. Chrien, R. G. Watt, G. C. Idzorek (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 BO2.011 Time- and polarization-dependent spectroscopic analysis of Mo x-pinches at the NTF.

A.S. Shlyaptseva, S.B. Hansen, V.L. Kantsyrev, B.S. Bauer, D.A. Fedin, R. Presura, S. Fuelling, N.D. Ouart, S. Keely, H. LeBeau (University of Nevada, Reno, USA), U.I. Safronova (University of Notre Dame, USA.)

11:42 BO2.012 Study of hard x-ray and energetic electron beams generated from 0.9-1.0 MA high-Z x-pinches.

V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Shlyaptseva, B.S. Bauer, D.A. Fedin, R. Presura, S. Fuelling, S.B. Hansen, S. Batie, A. Oxner, S. Keely, H. LeBeau, D. Chamberlain, N. Ouart (University of Nevada, Reno.)

11:54 BO2.013 The Vacuum Spark VSX-200 as a Soft X-Ray Point Source for Laboratory Microlithography

Emilio Panarella (ALFT, Inc.), and ALFT Team

12:06 BO2.014 A Plasma Accelerator Concept for Application to Magnetized Target Fusion

Y C Francis Thio, Richard Eskridge, James Smith, Adam Martin (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812), Jason Cassibry, S.T. Wu (University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL)

12:18 BO2.015 PLASMA COXIAL DISCHARGE EFFICIENCY

E. A. Mehanna (E. A.)

09:30 BM1.001 A Perspective on Current Helicon Source Science Issues

Rod Boswell (Space Plasma and Plasma Processing, Australian National University)

09:42 BM1.002 Light Ion Helicon Studies on Mini-RFTF

F.W. Baity, M.D. Carter, R.H. Goulding, D.A. Rasmussen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R.A. Munden, H.G. Smith, R.F. Thornton, K.F. White (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education), NASA Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory Collaboration

09:54 BM1.003 Helicon plasma generation at very high radio frequency

G.S. Eom, I.D. Bae, W. Choe (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Y.S. Hwang (Seoul National University)

10:06 BM1.004 Transition between ICPs and Helicons at Low Magnetic Fields

F.F. Chen, J.D. Evans, D. Arnush (UCLA)

10:18 BM1.005 Helicons - Our Last Year

C.M. Franck, Th. Klinger (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany, EURATOM-Association)

10:30 BM1.006 Multiple antennae and power levels in a helicon discharge

Jim Gilland (Ohio Aerospace Institute/University of Wisconsin-Madison), Noah Hershkowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:42 BM1.007 Effects of Boundary Conditions on the Intrinsic Ion Heating in a Helicon Plasma

J.L. Kline (West Virginia University), M.M. Balkey (Naval Research Laboratory), R.F. Boivin, E.E. Scime (WVU)

10:54 BM1.008 Optical and Magnetic Probe Measurements and Analysis for a Helicon Plasma Source

John Scharer (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Alex Degeling (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne), Gerard Borg, Rod Boswell (Australian National Univ., Canberra)

11:06 BM1.009 Modeling helicon antenna coupling to a short dense-plasma column

K.P. Shamrai, V.F. Virko, G.S. Kirichenko (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine)

11:18 BM1.010 Physics of High Pressure Helicon Plasma and Effect of Antenna Wavenumber Spectrum

Shunjiro Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan), Konstantin Shamrai (Scientific Center Institute for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine)

11:30 BM1.011 Plasma Production in Compact Helical System by Helicon Waves

Tatsuo Shoji, HIdeki Kikuchi, Yoichi Sakawa (Dept. Energy Engineering and Science, Nagoya Universitty, Japan), Chihiro Suzuki (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)

11:42 BM1.012 Operation of the Magnetic Nozzle Experiment (MNX) with an m=0 helicon antenna

K.A. Stokke (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Univesity), R. Gondhalekar (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge), F. Levinton (NovaPhotonics), F. Trintchouk, J. Foley, T. Kornack, S.A. Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), E. Scime, Robert Boivin (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)

11:54 BM1.013 Initial Results from CSDX

George R. Tynan, Michael J. Burin, Neal Crocker, Jonathan George (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD)

12:06 BM1.014 Multi-helicon operation in Alpha

Christopher Watts (New Mexico Tech)

BP1.001 Transport Modeling

BP1.002 Dynamic Evolution of Electron and Ion Channel Transport Barriers

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

BP1.003 Model for L-H transitions based on finite beta drift waves including transport

J.J. Martinell (ICN-UNAM, MEXICO), P.N. Guzdar (University of Maryland)

BP1.004 Theory of the Enhanced Reverse Shear Transition in a Tokamak

S. Sen (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; and University of North Bengal, Dt. Darjeeling and Centre of Plasma Physics, Guwahati, India), D. R. McCarthy (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan), A. Punjabi (hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668)

BP1.005 Profile Characteristics of H-mode and ITB Tokamak Plasmas

Teruo Tamano, Isao Katanuma (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

BP1.006 H-mode power threshold, grad-B drift direction and ion collisionality

H. M. Power, K. C. Shaing (University of Wisconsin)

BP1.007 Potato transport flux in cylindrical coordinates

T. K. Neal, K. C. Shaing (University of Wisconsin)

BP1.008 Transport process in the vicinity of magnetic islands

K. C. Shaing (University of Wisconsin)

BP1.009 Impurity Transport in Low Collisionality Tokamaks

Harold Weitzner (Courant Institute-NYU)

BP1.010 Transient transport analysis based on transport-MHD model

Masatoshi Yagi, Sanae-I Itoh (RIAM, Kyushu University), Kimitaka Itoh (NIFS), Atsushi Fukuyama (Kyoto University)

BP1.011 Self-sustained turbulence of current-diffusive ballooning mode and drift instabilities^1

MORIHISA UCHIDA, ATSUSHI FUKUYAMA (Kyoto University)

BP1.012 Anomalous Diffusion and Exit Time Distribution of Particle Tracers in Plasma Turbulence Model

B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. M. Zaslavsky (New York University)

BP1.013 Small Sample Effects on Information-Theoretic Estimate

Andrew Davis, Eugene Tracy (College Of William and Mary, VA), Dennis Weaver (St. Leo's University, VA)

BP1.014 Symbolic Cycle Analysis of Turbulent Plasma Fluctuations

A.B. Rechester, M. Lehrman (Institute of Nonlinar Science Applications)

BP1.015 Extracting Symbolic Cycles from Turbulent Fluctuation Data

M. Lehrman, A.B. Rechester (Institute of Nonlinar Science Applications)

BP1.016 Advantages of Structure Function Analysis to Investigate the Complex Dynamics of Plasma Turbulence

C.X. Yu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PRC), M. Gilmore, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles (Electrical Engineering Dept., University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA)

BP1.017 Characterization of self similarity properties of turbulence in

Gerard Bonhomme, Cristobal Alvarado-Minic (University of Nancy (France)), Pascal Devynck (Association Euratom-CEA (France))

BP1.018 Non-linear Phenomena I

BP1.019 Supression of coherent interchange modes in a magnetic dipole with

D. Maslovsky, M. Mauel, B. Levitt (Columbia University)

BP1.020 Planned Observation of Rotationally-Driven Interchange Instabilities in a Laboratory Dipole Plasma

B. Levitt, M.E. Mauel, D. Maslovsky (Columbia University)

BP1.021 Electron and Ion Phase Space Holes From Buneman Instabilities in a Current-Driven Plasma

M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman (University of Colorado), A. Mangeney (Observatoire de Meudon, France)

BP1.022 An accurate structure of Alfven soliton formed by modulational interaction of the Lower hybrid waves with a Kinetic Alfven mode

Kevin B. Quest (Ece Department, UCSD, La Jolla, California), Defne Ucer, Vitali D. Shapiro (Physics Department, UCSD, La Jolla, California)

BP1.023 Ion Heating and Transport due to Kinetic Alfvén Waves

Jay Johnson, C.Z. Cheng (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.024 Modeling of Landau damping of nonlinear Alfven waves

V.I. Shevchenko, V.L. Galinsky, P.H. Diamond, M.V. Medvedev (University of California, San Diego)

BP1.025 Viscous MHD Detonation

Omar Hurricane (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

BP1.026 Bifurcation Properties of an ITG Instability in Slab Geometry

Oliver Sieks, Karl H. Spatschek (Theor. Phys., Univ. Duesseldorf)

BP1.027 Plasma Hole as a Localized Structure of Vorticity in a Rotating Magnetized Plasma

Masayoshi Y. Tanaka (National Institute for Fusion Science), Kenichi Nagaoka, Atsushi Okamoto (Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University), Shinji Yoshimura (National Institute for Fusion Science), Mitsuo Kono (Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University)

BP1.028 Ducting of high power microwaves in preformed plasma waveguide

Chirag Rajyaguru, Toshihiro Hosoya, Hiroaki Ito, Yugami Noboru, Yasushi Nishida (Energy and Environmental Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8585, Japan)

BP1.029 CHARMing Zonal Flows

A. Thyagaraja, C.N. Lashmore-Davies (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, OX14 3DB, UK.), D.R. McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA.)

BP1.030 Self-stabilizing effects in the nonlinear regime of the parallel velocity/tearing instability

J. M. Finn, L. Chacon, D. A. Knoll (LANL)

BP1.031 Equilibrium and Stability of Self-Organized Electron Spiral Toroids

Renato Pakter, Chiping Chen (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), Clint Seward (Electron Power Systems, Inc.)

BP1.032 Autoresonant Pulse Excitation and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Christopher Kulp, Eugene Tracy (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary), Alfred Osborne (Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universitá di Torino)

BP1.033 Pulse Formation via Passive Mode-Locking

G. A. Andrews (Applied Science, College of William and Mary), E. R. Tracy (Physics, College of William and Mary)

BP1.034 Nonlinear propagation of two-dimensional gravity wavetrains in MHD

David Rollins, Bhimsen Shivamoggi (University of Central Florida)

BP1.035 Perturbed drift solitary-wave propagation

Bhimsen Shivamoggi, David Rollins (University of Central Florida)

BP1.036 Short laser pulses amplification and compression in process of Raman backscattering in plasma inside a capillary

Ilya Y. Dodin, Gennadii M. Fraiman (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Ulyanova 46, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia 603155), Vladimir M. Malkin, Nathaniel J. Fisch (Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

BP1.037 Nonlinear oscillations in radiative plasmas

Dmitri Morozov (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares. UNAM. Mexico-city, Mexico)

BP1.038 On the Radiation of Ion-Sound by a Langmuir solitary wave in inhomogeneous media

Marco Antonio Maza-Palacios, J. Julio E. Herrera-Velázquez (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM)

BP1.039 Electromagnetic solitons in a high temperature electron-positron plasma.

Maurizio Lontano (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, C.N.R., Milan, Italy), Sergei Bulanov (General Physics Institute, R.A.S., Moscow, Russia), James Koga (Advanced Photon Research Center, JAERI, Japan)

BP1.040 Bright and dark relativistic solitons in electron-ion plasmas

D. Farina (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, CNR, Milano, Italy), S. V. Bulanov (General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia)

BP1.041 Is there Hamiltonian Chaos in a Tokamak's Magnetic field?

R.K.W. Roeder (Cornell U.), T.E. Evans (General Atomics), B. Rapoport^ (Harvard U.)

BP1.042 Waves and Shocks

BP1.043 Propagation of whistler waves in homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasmas

C.M. Franck, Th. Klinger (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany, EURATOM-Association)

BP1.044 Mode Conversion of Shear Alfven Waves in a Helicon Plasma

Jeremy Hanna, Christopher Watts (Auburn University)

BP1.045 Excitation of Ion-Acoustic-Like Waves by Sub-Critical Currents in a Plasma Having Equal Electron and Ion Temperatures

Erick Agrimson, Nicola D'Angelo, Robert Merlino (The University of Iowa)

BP1.046 Study of MHD Effects on Surface Waves in Liquid Gallium

W. Fox (Princeton University), H. Ji (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), D. Pace (University of Pacific), H. Rappaport (University of Texas)

BP1.047 Ion-ion Instability with Biased Mesh Grid as Boundary Condition

Masaaki Matsukuma, Yoshinobu Kawai (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University)

BP1.048 Observation of Density Transitions by Voltage Biasing in Cylindrical Magnetized Plasma

Shunjiro Shinohara, Shoichiro Matsuyama (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan)

BP1.049 3D Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Medium with a Normal Dispersion

Alexander Litvak, Vyacheslav Mironov, Nina Zharova (Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

BP1.050 Possibility of Relativistic Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Instabilities Driven by MeV Ions

J.D. Huang, K.R. Chen (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)

BP1.051 Exact Relativistic Dispersion Functions

D. G. Swanson (Auburn University)

BP1.052 Ion acoustic waves in two-negative ion species plasmas

Ryuta Ichiki, Masako Shindo (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University), Shinji Yoshimura, Tsuguhiro Watanabe (National Institute for Fusion Science), Yoshinobu Kawai (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University)

BP1.053 Multidimensional wave conversion: a ray-based algorithm

Allan N. Kaufman (LBNL amp; UC Berkeley), Eugene R. Tracy (Wm. amp; Mary)

BP1.054 Ion Drifts and Density Perturbations Associated With Large Amplitude Shear Alfvén Waves

Nathan Palmer, Walter Gekelman (UCLA)

BP1.055 Possibility of Plasma Heating in Reversed Field Pinches at the Fundamental Ion Cyclotron Resonance.

V. A. SVIDZINSKI, S. C. PRAGER (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

BP1.056 Full wave analysis of ICRF waves and Alfvén eigenmodes in toroidal plasmas

Atsushi FUKUYAMA, Taku AKUTSU (Dept. Nucl. Eng., Kyoto Univ.)

BP1.057 Growth and Staturation of Alfven Cascades

H.L. Berk, B. N. Breizman (University of Texas at Austin (IFS)), S.E. Sharapov (EURATOM/UKEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Center)

BP1.058 Krook Collisional Models of the Kinetic Susceptibility

Merav Opher, George J. Morales, Jean N. Leboeuf (UCLA)

BP1.059 Rayleigh-Taylor instability in plasmas with shear flow

MYKHAYLENKO Volodymyr S., MYKHAYLENKO Volodymyr V. (Kharkov National University, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine), WEILAND Jan (Calmers Technological University and Euratom - NFR Association, 41296, Goteborg, Sweden)

BP1.060 Three dimensional relativistic fluid simulations of the Weibel instability

Carlo Cavazzoni (Cineca, Bologna, Italy), Francesco Califano, Francesco Pegoraro (Dip. Fisica and INFM, Universita' di Pisa, Italy), Sergei Bulanov (General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia)

BP1.061 Modification of Plasma Current by a Large-Gradient Radial Electric Field.

Yu. Petrov, T. S. Huang (PVAMU, TX 77446)

BP1.062 Physical Mechanism of the Electron Acceleration to Ultrarelativistic Energies in an Oblique Shock Wave

Naoki Bessho, Yukiharu Ohsawa (Department of physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan)

BP1.063 Experimental study of the interaction of a strong shock with a spherical density inhomogeneity

H.F. Robey, T.S. Perry, R.I. Klein, J.A. Greenough, J.O. Kane (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T.R. Boehly (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester)

BP1.064 ICF Physics and HEDP

BP1.065 Emission and Velocity Profile Measurements of High Pressure (50-150 Gpa) Deuterium Shocks

A.N. Mostovych, M. Karasik, J. Weaver (Plasma Physics Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

BP1.066 Design Studies for Multiple-Reflected-Shock Experiments on Deuterium

Jason W. Bates, Andrew N. Mostovych (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Nike Laser Team

BP1.067 Emission measurements from laser-driven shocks propagating in planar deuterium targets.

Max Karasik, A. N. Mostovych, J. L. Weaver, S. P. Obenschain (Plasma Physics Division, NRL), E. A. McLean (RSI)

BP1.068 Isentropic Compression on the 10-MA Saturn Pulsed Power Generator

Christopher Deeney, Michael Furnish, Jean-Paul Davis, Brad Peyton, James Asay, Kenneth Struve, Clint Hall, Thomas Bergstresser, Christopher Russell (Sandia National Laboratories)

BP1.069 Two-Dimensional Simulations of Laser Produced Shock Propagation

David Braun, David Bradley, Robert Cauble, Gilbert Collins, Gail Glendinning, Stephen Moon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.070 Laser driven high pressure, high strain rate materials experiments

Daniel H. Kalantar, J. Belak, M. Kumar, K. T. Lorenz, A. Lubcke, S. Pollaine, B. A. Remington (LLNL), A. M. Allen, J. S. Wark (Univ. Oxford), M. A. Meyers, M. Schneider (UCSD), T. R. Boehly (UR LLE)

BP1.071 Laser-Driven Near Isentropic Compression of an Aluminum Flyer Plate

K.T. Lorenz, D. Kalantar, J. Edwards, J.D. Colvin, D.B. Reisman, B. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.072 An atomic database computing system for opacity calculations

Jiankui Yuan, Gregory Moses (Dept of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706)

BP1.073 Electronic Contributions to the Equation-of-State of Warm Dense Matter*

J.R. Albritton, D.A. Liberman, V. Sonnad, D.A. Young, D.B. Reisman, R.C. Cauble (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

BP1.074 Probabilistic approach to the Laser MégaJoule robustness study

F. Poggi, J. Giorla (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, DAM/Ile de France, B.P.12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France)

BP1.075 Inertial Confinement Fusion Capsule Optimization

Mark C. Herrmann (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Max Tabak, Steve Haan

BP1.076 Pulse Shaping of ICF Capsules

Ian Parrish (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mark Herrmann (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.077 Simulation of the Radiative Heating of Gold-Backed Thin Foils in Z-pinch Experiments

K. A. Park, J. J. MacFarlane, A. R. Thomas-Cramer (Prism Computational Sciences, Inc., Madison, WI 53703), J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, M. E. Cuneo, P. Lake (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

BP1.078 Spectral Analysis of Al/MgF Foils Heated by Z-pinch Radiation

Gregory A. Rochau, James E. Bailey (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), Joseph J. MacFarlane (Prism Computational Sciences, Madison, WI 53703), Patrick W. Lake (Ktech Corporation, Albuquerque, NM 53703)

BP1.079 Self-consistent analysis of X-ray line spectra and monochromatic images in imploded cores at OMEGA

L. Welser, R. Mancini (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno), I. Golovkin (Fusion Technology Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison), J. Koch, S. Dalhed, S. Libby, P. Bedrossian, R.W. Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), F. Marshall, J. Delettrez (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, New York), Y. Ochi, H. Nishimura (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan), L. Klein (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington DC)

BP1.080 X-ray spectroscopic measurements of temporal variation of ICF core plasma gradients

Y. Ochi, K. Fujita, M. Fukao, H. Nishimura, A. Sunahara, H. Shiraga, M. Nakai, N. Miyanaga, H. Azechi (ILE, Osaka University), I. Golovkin, R. C. Mancini (University of Nevada, Reno), R. Butzbach, I. Uschmann, E. Foerster (Jena University), R. W. Lee (LLNL), L. Klein (Howard University)

BP1.081 Studies of soft x-ray emission at the Nike laser facility

J. Weaver, D. Colombant, U. Feldman (NRL), G. Holland (SFA), M. Klapisch (ARTEP), A. N. Mostovych, S. Obenschain, J. F. Seely, V. Serlin (NRL)

BP1.082 Large Scale Simulation on MeV Electron Transport in Dense Plasmas

Kunioki Mima (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University), Yasahiko Sentoku (ILE,Osaka University), Toshihiro Taguchi (Faculty of Engineering,Setsunan University), Hideo Nagatomo (ILE,Osaka University), Hitosi Sakagami (Computational Engineering,Himeji Institute of Technology), Peta Watt Laser and Fast Ignition Project Team

BP1.083 Detailed Modeling of MAGO, FRC, and Other Magnetized Target Fusion Experiments

Peter T. Sheehey, Rickey J. Faehl, Ronald C. Kirkpatrick, Irvin R. Lindemuth (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.084 Stopping of ultra-relativistic electrons precisely in the core of an inertial fusion target.

Vladimir M. Malkin, Nathaniel J. Fisch (Princeton University)

BP1.085 Solid state physics at ultrahigh pressure and strain rate on NIF*

B.A. Remington, J.F. Belak, J.D. Colvin, M.J. Edwards, D.H. Kalantar, B.F. Lasinski, K.T. Lorenz, S.M. Pollaine, S.V. Weber, W.G. Wolfer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

BP1.086 New Developments in Cone-Focussed Fast Ignition

S. Hatchett, M. Herrmann, M. Tabak, R. Turner (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R. Stephens (General Atomics)

BP1.087 Direct Drive Beryllium Ablator Capsules for the Omega Laser

P.A. Bradley, D.C. Wilson, J.A. Cobble, T.J. Murphy, J.C. Cooley, M.A. Salazar, G. Rivera, Jr. Nobile (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.088 Direct drive pellet designs for high gain and NIF

Andrew J. Schmitt, Denis Colombant (Plasma Physics Division, NRL), David Fyfe, John H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, NRL), Alexander Velikovich (Plasma Physics Division, NRL.)

BP1.089 Real material effects in laser fusion direct-drive targets

Denis G. Colombant, Andrew J. Schmitt (Plasma Physics Divison, Naval Research Laboratory)

BP1.090 Properties of SiO_2 Aerogels Suitable for Astrophysical Experiments

S.L. Sublett, J.P. Knauer, D.D. Meyerhofer, S. Skupsky (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), A. Frank, A.Y. Poludnenko (Physics and Astronomy, U. of Rochester)

BP1.091 A Parallel Scheme for Multi-Group Radiation Diffusion in DRACO

Paul P.H. Wilson, Igor E. Golovkin, Gregory A. Moses (Fusion Technology Institute, UW-Madison)

BP1.092 Three-dimensional ICF Target Simulations on a LINUX Cluster

David Fyfe, John Gardner, Andrew Schmitt, Denis Colombant (Naval Research Laboratory), Keith Obenschain (Berkley Research Associates)

BP1.093 First wall survival studies for dry wall IFE chambers

Donald Haynes, Robert Peterson, Igor Golovkin (Fusion Technology Institute, University of Wisconsin)

BP1.094 Implosion modeling and output calculations for high yield direct drive targets.

Igor E. Golovkin, Robert R. Peterson, Jr. Haynes, Gregory A. Moses (Fusion Technology Institute, University of Wisconsin - Madison.)

BP1.095 Initial Results from IFE Chamber Materials Response to Ions and X-Rays from RHEPP-1 and Z*

C.L. OLSON, T.J. TANAKA, T.J. RENK, M.A. ULRICKSON, G.A. ROCHAU, S.T. EAKLE (Sandia National Laboratories), P.F. PETERSON (UC-Berkeley), R.R. PETERSON, I. GOLOVKIN (University of Wisconsin), T.R. KNOWLES (ESL, Inc), A.R. RAFFRAY, M.S. TILLACK (UC-San Diego)