Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 23 OCTOBER 2003

08:00 PR1.001 Electron impact ionization of Rydberg atom

Daniel Vrinceanu (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

08:30 PR1.002 Ultracold Rydberg Gases and Plasmas

Phillip Gould (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut)

09:00 PR1.003 Absolute Cross Sections for Electron Impact Ionization of Sodium Rydberg Atoms Below 2 eV

K. Nagesha, K.B. MacAdam (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506-0055)

09:15 PR1.004 Long-range ultracold Rydberg molecules

M. Raymond Flannery (Georgia Institute of Technology), Valentine Ostrovsky (St. Perersburg State University), Daniel Vrinceanu (ITAMP-Harvard University), N Prudov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center)

08:00 PR2.001 Study of pd and j/p^2 scaling in abnormal glow discharges in argon

Dragana Mari\'c (Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro), Peter Hartmann, Zoltan Donkó (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary), Zoran Petrovi\'c (Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

08:15 PR2.002 Simulating Neutral Flow Effects in Pulsed Plasmas

David Graves, Mark Nierode (University of California at Berkeley)

08:30 PR2.003 Landau damping and anomalous skin effect in low-pressure gas discharges: self-consistent treatment of collisionless heating

Igor D. Kaganovich (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543), Oleg Polomarov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 43606-3390)

08:45 PR2.004 On electron heating and thermalisation processes in surface wave plasma

E Stamate, S Nakao, M Aramaki, A Kono, H Sugai (Nagoya University, Department of Electrical Engineering)

09:00 PR2.005 Time Resolved Measurements of a Pulsed DC Hollow Cathode Discharge

Cristian Paduraru, Kurt H. Becker, Abe Belkind, Jose Lopez (Stevens Institute of Technology), Yolanda A. Gonzalvo (Hiden Analytical, UK)

09:15 PR2.006 Investigation of the disturbing impact of a floating probe on a neon discharge plasma

S. Arndt, F. Sigeneger (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik, Greifswald), R. Kozakov, H. Testrich, C. Wilke (Institut für Physik, University of Greifswald, Germany)