Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 24 OCTOBER 2003

08:00 VF1.001 Electron impact ionization of water molecules

Birgit Lohmann (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia 4111)

08:30 VF1.002 Ultrafast reactions of energetic species produced by ionizing radiation.

Simon Pimblott (Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0579)

09:00 VF1.003 Ion Beam Bombardment of Biological Tissue

S. Sangyuenyongpipat, L. D. Yu, T. Vilaithong (Dept. of Physics, Chiang Mai University, Thailand), B. Phanchaisri (Institute for Science and Technology Ramp;D, Chiang Mai University, Thailand), S. Anuntalabhochai (Dept. of Biology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand), I. G. Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA)

09:15 VF1.004 Non-Equilibrium Modeling of Warm Dense Matter

Hyun-Kyung Chung (LLNL), W. Lowell Morgan (Kinema Research amp; Software), Richard W. Lee (LLNL)

08:00 VF2.001 Observation of Solitons in a Pulsed Magnetron Sputtering Discharge

Jon Tomas Gudmundsson (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Hjardarhaga 2-6, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland), Kristinn B. Gylfason (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Hjardarhaga 2-6, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland), Jones Alami, Johan Böhlmark, Ulf Helmersson (Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping Sweden)

08:15 VF2.002 Developing electrical probes for measuring fast changes in plasma properties in pulsed low-pressure discharges

S. K. Karkari, A. M. Vetushka, J. W. Bradley (UMIST)

08:30 VF2.003 Characterisation of the diffusion chamber of a helicon source for materials processing

Cormac Corr, Nicolas Plihon, Pascal Chabert (Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France), Rod Boswell (Space Plasma and Plasma Processing group, Plasma Research Laboratory, Research school of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National Laboratory, Canberra, Australia)

08:45 VF2.004 Plasma beam generation from a helicon current-free double-layer

Christine Charles, Rod Boswell (The Australian National University)

09:00 VF2.005 Experimental Measurements and Modeling of a Helicon Plasma Source with Large Axial Density Gradients*

Shane Tysk, Mark Denning, John Scharer, Kamran Akhtar (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

09:15 VF2.006 Particle Modeling of Plasma Confinement by a Multipolar Magnetic Field

HIDETO TAKEKIDA, KENICHI NANBU (Institude of Fluid Science)