Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 15 NOVEMBER 2004

09:30 BI1.001 The JET Trace Tritium Experiment: progress in understanding Thermal and Fast Particle Transport and in Heating scheme and Diagnostic development for Fusion Plasmas

D. Stork (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK)

10:00 BI1.002 Advances in Understanding Quiescent H-Mode Plasmas in DIII-D

K.H. Burrell (General Atomics)

10:30 BI1.003 Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization of High Beta NSTX Plasmas*

Aaron Sontag (Columbia University)

11:00 BI1.004 Non-axisymmetric field effects on Alcator C-Mod

Stephen M. Wolfe (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

11:30 BI1.005 Steady-State Sustainment of High-Beta Plasmas through Stability Control in JT-60U

Akihiko Isayama (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute)

12:00 BI1.006 Development of an ITER Relevant Advanced Scenario at ASDEX Upgrade

Otto Gruber (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, 85748 Garching, Germany)

09:30 BI2.001 Direct-Drive, Cryogenic Target Implosions on OMEGA

F. J. Marshall (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

10:00 BI2.002 Polar Direct Drive---Proof-of-Principle Experiments on OMEGA

R. S. Craxton (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

10:30 BI2.003 Improved Target Stability Using Picket Pulses to Increase and Shape the Ablator Adiabat

J. P. Knauer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:00 BI2.004 Multidimensional Analysis of Direct-Drive Plastic-Shell Implosions on OMEGA

P. B. Radha (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:30 BI2.005 Increasing robustness of indirect drive capsule designs against short wavelength hydrodynamic instabilities

Steven W. Haan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

12:00 BI2.006 The effects of fill tubes on the hydrodynamics of ignition targets and prospects for ignition on the National Ignition Facility

John Edwards (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:30 BO1.001 Increasing the coupling efficiency of early NIF hohlraums

L. J. Suter, P. Amendt, D. Callahan, S. Haan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:42 BO1.002 Modification of a Laser Hohlraum Spectrum via a Mid-Z Wall Liner*

R. E. Olson, G. A. Rochau (SNL), E. L. Dewald (LLNL), J. L. Kaae (GA), R. J. Leeper (SNL), L. J. Suter (LLNL)

09:54 BO1.003 Using Shims to Improve Symmetry in Indirect Drive, ICF Capsules

Debra Callahan, Emily Spangler, Max Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Guy Bennett, Michael Cuneo, Roger Vesey (Sandia National Laboratory), Abbas Nikroo (General Atomics)

10:06 BO1.004 Long Pulse Vacuum Hohlraum Performance on NIF

O.L. Landen, L.J. Suter, E. Dewald, R.E. Turner, K.M. Campbell, J.W. McDonald, J. Holder, J. Schein, S.H. Glenzer, A.J. Mackinnon, D. Froula, C. Niemann, M.S. Schneider, R.J. Wallace, K. Manes, R.L. Kauffman, D.H. Kalantar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), M. Stevenson, J. Foster (AWE, United Kingdom), M.C. Monteil (CEA, France)

10:18 BO1.005 Hard x-ray imaging and spectroscopy of long pulse NIF hohlraums

Joseph McDonald, Robert Kauffman, Laurance Suter, John Celeste, Marilyn Schneider, Joe Holder (Lawrence Livermore National laboratory), John Foster (AWE, Aldermaston), Nino Landen (Lawrence Livermore National laboratory)

10:30 BO1.006 The Effects of Self-Generated Magnetic Fields on NIF Ignition Hohlraums

R. P. J. Town, W. E. Alley, M. J. Edwards, J. H. Hammer, G. B. Zimmerman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. G. Haines, R. J. Kingham (Imperial College London)

10:42 BO1.007 Calculations for LANL Hohlraum Experiments on the First Quad at NIF

S.R. Goldman, J.C. Fernandez, N.M. Hoffman, D.W. Schmidt, D.C. Swift (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:54 BO1.008 Gas-filled hohlraum experiments at the National Ignition Facility*

Juan C. Fernández, D.C. Gautier, S.R. Goldman, G.P. Grim, J.L. Kline, N.E. Lanier, D.W. Schmidt, D.C. Swift, J.B. Workman (Los Alamos National Lab.)

11:06 BO1.009 Experimental measurement of Au M-band flux in indirectly-driven double-shell implosions

H. F. Robey, T. S. Perry, H.-S. Park, P. A. Amendt, S. M. Compton, C. M. Sorce (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA USA 94550), J. P. Knauer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY)

11:18 BO1.010 First results of implosion experiments with OMEGA scale-3/4 hohlraums

N. Izumi, P. Amendt, O.S. Jones, E.L. Dewald, K.M. Campbell, S.H. Glenzer, J.A. Koch, O.L. Landen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C.K. Li, J. Frenje, F.H. Seguin, R.D. Petrasso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:30 BO1.011 Measuring x-ray drive in scale-3/4 hohlraums using the proton temporal diagnostic (PTD): Design and analysis

P. Amendt, N. Izumi, O.S. Jones, E.L. Dewald, S.H. Glenzer, O.L. Landen (LLNL), C.K. Li, J. Frenje, F.H. Séguin, R.D. Petrasso (MIT)

11:42 BO1.012 Studies of gas hydro-coupling effects on capsule compression symmetry in gas-filled hohlraums for indirect drive ICF

Eduard Dewald, Stephen Pollaine, Otto Landen, Robert Turner, Russell Wallace, Peter Amendt, Kelly Campbell, Siegfried Glenzer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:54 BO1.013 Design of a crossed beam energy transfer/ hohlraum symmetry experiment.

E. A. Williams, P. A. Amendt, D. E. Hinkel, R. K. Kirkwood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

12:06 BO1.014 Hot Hohlraums: Coupling of high power lasers to small, hot targets*

M.B. Schneider, D.E. Hinkel, A.B. Langdon (LLNL), H.A. Baldis (UC Davis and LLNL), L.J. Sutter (LLNL), R. Bahr (LLE), E. Eichenberger (UC Davis), D.H. Froula, R.F. Heeter, J.P. Holder, R. Kirkwood, O.L. Landen, A.J. Mackinnon, M.J. May, K. Oades (LLNL), W. Seka (LLE), R. Shepherd, M.S. Singh (LLNL), G. Slark (AWE, Aldemaston,UK), P.T. Springer (LLNL), M. Stevenson (AWE, Aldemaston,UK), C. Stoeckl (LLE), B.K. Young (LLNL)

12:18 BO1.015 Stimulated Raman Scattering from High Temperature Small-scale Halfraums Plasmas

H.A. Baldis (UC Davis and LLNL), M.B. Schneider, D.E. Hinkel, A.B. Langdon (LLNL), W. Seka (LLE), S. Depierreux (CEA, France), R. Bahr (LLE), E. Eichenberger (UC Davis), D.H. Froula, R.F. Heeter, R. Kirkwood, A.J. Mackinnon, M.J. May, R. Shepherd, M.S. Sing (LLNL), C. Stoeckl (LLE), B.K. Young (LLNL)

09:30 BO3.001 Polarization Statistics of Stochastic Waves

M. J. Hole, P. A. Robinson, Iver H. Cairns (School of Physics, University of Sydney 2006, NSW, Australia.)

09:42 BO3.002 Penetration of intense charged particle beams in precompressed thermonuclear fuels

Claude Deutsch (LPGP Bat.210 UParis XI 91405-Orsay France)

09:54 BO3.003 Investigation of electric fields in current-carrying plasmas using forbidden-line spectroscopy

Konstantin Tsigutkin, Evgeny Stambulchik, Vladimir Bernshtam, Yitzhak Maron (Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel)

10:06 BO3.004 Doppler Measurements of Impurities on CTIX

Stephen Howard, Alex Graf, David Hwang, Robert Horton, Russell Evans, Samuel Brockington (UC Davis/ LLNL), Mark May (LLNL, EBIT), Michael Rogers (UC Santa Cruz/ NUF Fellowship)

10:18 BO3.005 The stability of ballooning modes in tokamaks with internal transport barriers

Anthony Webster (UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association), David Szwer (University of Cambridge), Howard Wilson (UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association)

10:30 BO3.006 Destabilizing effect of shear flow without inflection point in ideal MHD plasma

Tomoya Tatsuno, William Dorland (IREAP, Univ. Maryland)

10:42 BO3.007 Theory and Simulation of Sheared Buneman Instabilities

Martin V. Goldman, David L. Newman (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Andre Mangeney (Observatoir de Paris à Meudon, France), Francesco Califano (University of Pisa, Italy)

10:54 BO3.008 Towards the theory of nonlinear Weibel turbulence

M.V. Medvedev (University of Kansas), L.O. Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

11:06 BO3.009 Wave and Optical Measurements of Helicon Plasmas for a Wide Range of Magnetic Fields

Mark Denning, John Scharer, Kamran Akhtar (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Alex Degeling (University of Edmonton), Rod Boswell (Australian National University)

11:18 BO3.010 Anomalous Resistivity and Particle Kinetic Effects in Collisionless Driven Reconnection

Ritoku Horiuchi, Hiroaki Ohtani, Akihiro Ishizawa (National Institute for Fusion Science)

11:30 BO3.011 Structure and Dynamics of Current Sheets in 3D Magnetic Fields with the X-line

Anna G. Frank (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), S.Yu. Bogdanov, S.G. Bugrov, V.S. Markov, G.V. Dreiden, G.V. Ostrovskaya (A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia)

11:42 BO3.012 Direct Determination of Characteristic Fluctuation Frequencies from Phase Space Trajectories in Turbulent Plasmas

K. M. Williams, J. A. Johnson III (Laboratory for Modern Fluid Physics at Florida Aamp;M University)

11:54 BO3.013 Evidence of Magnetic Field Distortions of Turbulent Plasma Parameters

A.B. Alexander, C.T. Raynor, E.-D. Mezonlin, J.A. Johnson III (Laboratory for Modern Fluid Physics, Tallahassee, FL 32310), N.K. Podder (Troy State University, Troy, AL 36082)

12:06 BO3.014 Ion Temperatures and Turbulence in Hypervelocity Shock-Induced Plasmas*

N. K. Podder (Troy State University, Troy, AL), K. M. Williams, J. A. Johnson III (Florida Aamp;M University, Tallahassee, FL)

12:18 BO3.015 Direct Measurements of Turbulent Plasma Velocity Fluctuations Behind an Ionizing Shock Wave

C. T. Raynor, K. M. Williams, J. A. Johnson III, C. B. Johnson (Laboratory for Modern Fluid Physics, Florida A & M University), N. K. Podder (Troy State University)

09:30 BM2.001 Energetic Charged Particles in Space

J. R. Jokipii (University of Arizona)

10:00 BM2.002 Upper bounds on particle energization?

David C. Montgomery (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755)

10:30 BM2.003 Imaging space plasmas in energetic neutral atoms

E. C. Roelof, R. DeMajistre, D. G. Mitchell, P. C:son Brandt (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory)

11:00 BM2.004 Particle acceleration at shocks moving through irregular magnetic fields

Joe Giacalone (University of Arizona)

11:30 BM2.005 Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy

Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware)

12:00 BM2.006 Particle Acceleration via Relativistic Electromagnetic Plasma Expansion and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Edison Liang, Koichi Noguchi (Rice University), Kazumi Nishimura

BP1.001 Theory and Modeling of Space and Astrophysical Plasmas

BP1.002 Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulation of the Bow Shock

Yu Lin, Xueyi Wang (Physics Department, 206 Allison Laboratory, Auburn University)

BP1.003 Analysis of a cyclotron maser instability with application to space and laboratory plasmas.

Irena Vorgul (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY169SS, UK.), Kevin Ronald, David Spiers (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK.), Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX110QX, UK.), Robert Cairns (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY169SS, UK.), Alan Phelps (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK.)

BP1.004 Hybrid Quasineutral Darwin Simulation Code for Whistlers

Glenn Joyce, Wallace Manheimer (Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD 20814), Martin Lampe (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

BP1.005 dHybrid: a three dimensional hybrid code for large scale simulations of interacting plasmas in space

L. Gargate, R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal)

BP1.006 Adaptive Particle Refinement

Gregory Howes (Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley)

BP1.007 Ion Shell Instabilities Driven by Velocity Dispersed Ion Structures in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer

Maha Ashour-Abdalla (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA), Jean-Noel Leboeuf (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA), David Schriver (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA), Jean-Michel Bosqued (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse), Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin (Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planetaires/IPSL, Velizy), Vladimir Sotnikov (Department of Physics, University of Nevada at Reno)

BP1.008 Axisymmetric Modes in Thin Accretion Disks: Equilibrium Configurations and Instabilities

E.A. Keyes, B. Coppi (MIT)

BP1.009 Simulation of turbulence development in a thin magnetized disk

Julio J. Martinell (Inst. Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM), Fabio de Colle (Inst. Astronomia, UNAM), Alejandro Raga (Inst. Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM)

BP1.010 Studies of Kinetic Effects on the MRI in Black Hole Accretion

Prateek Sharma, Greg Hammett, Jim Stone (Princeton University), Eliot Quataert (University of California, Berkeley)

BP1.011 Simulation of the Magneto-Thermal Instability

Ian Parrish, James Stone (Princeton University)

BP1.012 Baryon loading and the Weibel instability in GRBs

M. Fiore, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva (GoLP/IST, Portugal), C. Ren, M. A. Tzoufras, W. B. Mori (University of California Los Angeles)

BP1.013 Waves in MHD Shallow Water

H. Xu, P.H. Diamond (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

BP1.014 The Alfven Wave Cascade in the Kinetic Regime -- Simulations and Theory.

Steven C. Cowley (UCLA, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Bill Dorland (University of Maryland Department of Physics.), Greg. Hammett (Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory), Eliot Quataert (University of California Berkeley,), Alexander Schekochihin (DAMTP, Cambridge University), Center for Multi-Scale Plasma Dynamics Collaboration

BP1.015 Dynamos in Cluster Plasmas -- Viscous Effects.

Russell Kulsrud (Princeton University), Alexander Schekochihin (University of Cambridge), Steven C. Cowley (UCLA), Center for Multi-Scale Plasma Dynamics Collaboration

BP1.016 Stochastic relativistic shock-surfing acceleration

Benjamin D. G. Chandran (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa), Naoki Bessho (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Hampshire)

BP1.017 Cyclotron maser radiation from magnetized plasmas

David Speirs (Dept. of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, G4 0NG, UK), Robert Bingham, Barry Kellett (Rutherford Appeleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK), Robert Cairns, Irena Vorgul (University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9SS, UK), Kevin Ronald, Alan Phelps (Dept. of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, G4 0NG, UK)

BP1.018 Coupling of Neutrinos in Dense Astrophysical Plasmas

Luis Silva (GoLP, Centro de Fisica de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal), Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom,), Jose Mendonca (GoLP, Centro de Fisica de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal), Padma Shukla (Institut fur Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr Universitat Bochum)

BP1.019 New Estimates of Plasma Turbulence in the Inner Solar Wind

Steven Spangler, Laura Ingleby (University of Iowa), Dusan Odstrcil (NOAA Space Environment Center)

BP1.020 Magnetosonic-whistler fluctuations: Linear Vlasov theory

S. Peter Gary, Joseph E. Borovsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.021 A Universal Scaling Law of CME Acceleration: A Signature of Pre-Eruption Magnetic Structure

James Chen, Jonathan Krall (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

BP1.022 Magnetic Flux Ropes from the Sun to 1 AU

Jonathan Krall, James Chen (Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division)

BP1.023 Ideal MHD Ballooning Instability in the Near-Earth Magnetotail: 2D and 3D MHD Simulations

Ping Zhu, Amitava Bhattacharjee (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire)

BP1.024 New Ionospheric Interaction Experiments

J. P. Sheerin (Eastern Michigan Univ.)

BP1.025 Exact Dissipative Moment Closures for Simulation of Magnetospheric Plasmas

D. L. Newman, N. Sen, M. V. Goldman (University of Colorado at Boulder)

BP1.026 Reduced Vlasov Simulations of Auroral Transition Layers

N. Sen, D. L. Newman, M. V. Goldman, R. E. Ergun, L. Andersson (University of Colorado at Boulder)

BP1.027 Orientation of Intense Z-Pinch Instabilities from an Intense Aurora as Recorded in Prehistory

A. L. Peratt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), D. A. Scott (University of Massachusetts), M. A. van der Sluijs (Mythopedia Surrey England)

BP1.028 Waves, Nonlinear Phenomena, Magnetic Reconnection

BP1.029 Effect of ion cyclotron parametric turbulence on the generation of edge suprathermal ions during ion cyclotron plasma heating

Vladimir Mikhailenko, Earl Scime (West Virginia University)

BP1.030 New Regimes of Stochastic Wave Dynamics

P.A. Robinson, B. Li, I.H. Cairns (University of Sydney)

BP1.031 Stabilizing Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations

Christopher Kulp (Eastern Kentucky Univesity), Eugene Tracy (The College of William and Mary)

BP1.032 Reduction of plasma oscillations in a magnetized linear plasma column

Ashley Eadon, Edwynn Wallace, Michael Taylor, Edward Thomas (Auburn University)

BP1.033 Effect of parallel velocity shear on the electrostatic ion cyclotron instability

Su-Hyun Kim, Erick A. Agrimson, Nicola D'Angelo, Robert L. Merlino, Michael J. Miller (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa), Gurudas Ganguli (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

BP1.034 Parallel-Ion-Drift-Shear Driven Ion Acoustic Instabilty in a Magnetized Plasma

Seiji Ishiguro (Theory and Computer Simulation Center, National Institute for Fusion Science), Toshiro Kaneko, Noriaki Matsumoto, Rikizo Hatakeyama (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University)

BP1.035 Second harmonic electromagnetic emission via beam-driven Langmuir waves

Bo Li, Andrew Willes, Peter Robinson, Iver Cairns (University of Sydney, Australia)

BP1.036 Laser filamentation in (E\vert \vert B) standing EM waves

Fathallah Alouani Bibi (INRS-EMT, Univ. du Quebec, Varennes, QC, Canada), Jean-Pierre Matte (INRS-EMT, Univ. du Québec, Varennes, QC, Canada), Thomas Brabec (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada), Paul Corkum (NRC, Ottawa, Canada)

BP1.037 Modulational interaction between short wavelength lower hybrid waves and slow large scale density fluctuations

Vitali Shapiro, Defne Ucer (UC San Diego)

BP1.038 Generation of Alfv'en waves by high power microwave pulse

Bart Van Compernolle, Walter Gekelman, Patrick Pribyl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.039 The discrete Alfvén wave spectrum induced by the Hall current

Atsushi Ito, Akira Hirose (Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan), Swadesh Mahajan (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas), Shuichi Ohsaki (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

BP1.040 Plasma Response to Waves in Arbitrary Magnetic Field Geometry

Brent Goode, J.R. Cary (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado), L.A. Berry (Oak Ridge National Lab)

BP1.041 Stochastic and adiabatic effects in ponderomotive barriers

I. Y. Dodin, N. J. Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.042 Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Solution in a Three Dimensional Unmagnetized Plasma

C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee (Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824)

BP1.043 Numerical Simulation of MHD Dynamo For Resistive Tearing Instability

Hao Tian, Carl Sovinec, Vladimir Mirnov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

BP1.044 Studies of nonlinear interactions between shear Alfvén waves in a laboratory plasma

Troy Carter, Brian Brugman, Warren Lybarger, Patrick Pribyl, Steven Cowley (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

BP1.045 Parametric Interactions between Alfven waves in LaPD

B. Brugman, T.A. Carter, S. C. Cowley, P. Pribyl, W. Lybarger (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.046 Studies of a driven Alfvénic cavity and cylindrical Alfven eigenmodes in LAPD

Warren Lybarger, Troy Carter, Brian Brugman, Pat Pribyl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

BP1.047 Further investigations into the behavior of a unijunction transistor oscillator (UJT) circuit

John Zielinski, Mark Koepke (West Virginia University)

BP1.048 Nonlinear Pulses of Small-scale Alfven Waves

G. J. Morales, F. S. Tsung, J. W. Tonge (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

BP1.049 Interaction of shear Alfvén waves with transversely flowing plasma.

J. Tonge, F. S. Tsung, G. S. Morales (UCLA)

BP1.050 Effect of the bounce-orbit's turning-point location on bounce-resonance Landau damping

M. E. Koepke (Phys. Dept., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315)

BP1.051 Long-lived fluctuations driven by shear flows

J.-H. Kim, W. Horton, P. Morrison (Institute for Fusion Studies), G. D. Chagelishvili, G. Gogoberidze (Center for Plasma Astrophysics, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory), R. Dahlburg (Naval Research Laboratory)

BP1.052 KEEN Waves and the Search for a Truly Self-Consistent Steady-State (Moving Frame) Plasma Response

T.W. Johnston, Yuriy Tyshetskiy (INRS-EMT, Varennes, QC,Canada), Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc., Pleasanton, CA)

BP1.053 KEIN (Kinetic Electrostatic Ion Nonlinear) Waves (the Ionic version of KEEN waves) Behavior via Vlasov-Poisson Simulation

Y. Tyshetskiy, T.W. Johnston (INRS-EMT, Varennes, QC, Canada), B. B. Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc. Pleasanton, CA)

BP1.054 Mirror Mode and Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron mode instabilities

Manish Mithaiwala, Wendell Horton, H. Vernon Wong (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin), Gurudas Ganguli (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

BP1.055 Characterizing the Dynamics TurbulentTransport

Willis Ferenbaugh, D. E. Newman (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks), P. W. Terry (Univ. of Wisconsin Madison)

BP1.056 Experimental Confirmation of the Persistence of Ponderomotively Driven Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear (KEEN) Waves in Laser Produced Plasmas

J. Kline, B. Afeyan, W. Bertsche, N. Kurnit, D. Montgomery, V. Savchenko, K. Won (Los Alamos National Lab)

BP1.057 Study of global and local physics of magnetic reconnection on MRX

M. Yamada, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, S. Gerhard, A. Kuritsyn, Y. Ren, Y. Wang (PPPL, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ)

BP1.058 Study of the Ion Dynamics in the MRX Current Sheet

A. Kuritsyn, S.P. Gerhardt, H. Ji, Y. Ren, M. Yamada (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

BP1.059 Study of the Fine Structures and Fluctuations in the Current Sheet in MRX

Y. Ren, S. Gerhardt, H. Ji, R. Kulsrud, M. Yamada (PPPL, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543)

BP1.060 Active Experimental Study of Magnetic Fluctuations in Reconnecting Current Sheet

Y. Wang, H. Ji, Y. Ren, M. Yamada (PPPL, Princeton U.)

BP1.061 Modern Theory of the Drift-Tearing Mode

B. Coppi, V. Roytershteyn, C. Yarim (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

BP1.062 Three species collisionless reconnection: O+ in the magnetotail and dusty astrophysical plasmas

Marc Swisdak, Michael Shay (University of Maryland)

BP1.063 MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS IN MAST

G. Turri, R.J. Buttery, R.J. Hastie, C.G. Gimblett (EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, UK), S.C. Cowley (Imperial College, London, UK), I. Lehane (University College Cork, Ireland), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association Team, Imperial College Team, University College Cork Team

BP1.064 Nonlinear Evolution of the Lower-hybrid Drift Instability in a Current Sheet

William Daughton, Giovanni Lapenta (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth)

BP1.065 Numerical Solution Of Linear and Non-Linear Model Equations for the Drift-Tearing Mode

C. Yarim, B. Coppi, V. Roytershteyn (MIT)

BP1.066 Exact time-dependent solutions of the magnetic reconnection problem

Paul G. Watson (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

BP1.067 Laboratory Study of Fast Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in the New VTF Closed Magnetic Configuration.

Jan Egedal, William Wox, Miklos Porkolab (Plasma Science Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BP1.068 Magnetic Reconnection: studies of collisionless momentum balance near an X-line with a guide magnetic field

William Fox, J. Egedal, M. Porkolab, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

BP1.069 Kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in plasma with different \beta values

Jeremiah Brackbill (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH), William Daughton, Giovanni Lapenta (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH)

BP1.070 3D kinetic simulations of the onset of collisionless magnetic reconnection

Paolo Ricci, Jeremiah Brackbill (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH), William Daughton, Giovanni Lapenta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

BP1.071 The Spherical Tearing Mode

A. Bhattacharjee, J. Dorelli, J. M. Greene (Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824), S. Hu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697)

BP1.072 Nonlinear m=1 modes: Hall MHD Versus Four-Field Studies

K. Germaschewski, A. Bhattacharjee, C.-S. Ng (Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824)

BP1.073 Collisionless Reconnection Dynamics Using PIC and Hall MHD Simulations: A Comparative Study

N. Bessho, A. Bhattacharjee (Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824), B. Chandran (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)

BP1.074 Driven Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Terrestrial Magnetopause

John Dorelli, Jimmy Raeder, Amitava Bhattacharjee (EOS Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire)

BP1.075 Structure of the parallel electric field during magnetic reconnection

J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak (University of Maryland)

BP1.076 Plasma Pile-up Effect of Current Sheet as a Fast Reconnection Mechanism

Yukihiro Murata, Daisuke Hirota, Ryota Imazawa, Eiichiro Kawamori, Yasushi Ono (University of Tokyo)

BP1.077 Two-dimensional Collisionless MHD Turbulence

Bhimsen Shivamoggi (University of Central Florida, Orlando FL 32816-1364)

BP1.078 Collisionless MHD Reconnection: Parker Problem

Benjamin Landon, Bhimsen Shivamoggi (University of Central Florida, Orlando FL 32816-1364)

BP1.079 Gyrokinetic \delta \! f simulation of collisionless and semi-collisional tearing mode instabilities

Weigang Wan, Yang Chen, Scott Parker (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

BP1.080 The Hall Magnetic Reconnection Rate

J.D. Huba (Plasma Physics Divison, Naval Research Laboratory), L.I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars, Inc.)

BP1.081 Three-dimensional Particle Simulation Study of Collisionless Driven Reconnection

H. Ohtani, R. Horiuchi (NIFS,Jpn,Grad.Univ.Adv.Studies,Jpn.), A. Ishizawa (NIFS,Jpn.)

BP1.082 Forced magnetic reconnection about a magnetic X-point

Emiliano Fable (CRPP-EPFL, Switzerland), Gian Luca Delzanno, Franco Porcelli (Burning Plasma Research Group, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

BP1.083 Pulsed High-Power Heating of Magnetic Reconnection for Burning ST/CT Formation

Yasushi Ono, Kotaro Umeda, Yukihiro Murata, Eiichiro Kawamori (High Tem. Plasma Center, Univ. Tokyo)

BP1.084 Nonlinear Waves in Hall MHD: Analysis and Comparison to Known Linear Waves

Jesse Pino, Swadesh Mahajan (IFS, U. Texas at Austin), William Dorland (CMPD, U. Maryland College Park)

BP1.085 Diagnostics

BP1.086 Detection of RF Electric Field Using an Ion Beam Diagnostic

Jiahe Si, Paul Schoch, Kenneth Connor, John Schatz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

BP1.087 A Bichromator for High Time Resolution Measurements of Stark Broadened Pellet Ablation Light

G.L. Schmidt, L.R. Baylor, D.T. Fehling, T.C. Jernigan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), N.H. Brooks, P.B. Parks (General Atomics)

BP1.088 Turbulence and transport diagnostic using multilayer mirror telescopes and monochromator arrays

G. Suliman, D. Stutman, M. Finkenthal, L.F. Delgado-Aparicio, K. Tritz (Johns Hopkins University)

BP1.089 Development of the Motional Stark Effect with Laser-Induced Fluorescence (MSE-LIF) Diagnostic

E. L. Foley (Princeton University), F. M. Levinton (Nova Photonics, Inc.)

BP1.090 Ion doppler spectroscopy at SSX

C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, A. O Murchadha (Swarthmore College), M. J. Schaffer (General Atomics)

BP1.091 Advanced MIR/ECEI Imaging Technology

Y. Liang, C.W. Domier, Jr. Luhmann, Z. Shen, H-C. Wu, Z.G. Xia, L. Yang (UC Davis), H.K. Park, T. Munsat (PPPL)

BP1.092 Simultaneous MIR/ECEI Plasma Imaging on KSTAR

Z.G. Xia, C.W. Domier, Jr. Luhmann, J. Wang, H-C. Wu (UC Davis), H.K. Park (PPPL)

BP1.093 2-D ECEI on TEXTOR: Status and Upgrade Plans

C.W. Domier, N. Akil, Jr. Luhmann, J. Saini, J. Wang, Z.G. Xia (UC Davis), H.K. Park, T. Munsat, E. Mazzucato (PPPL), I.G.J. Classen, M.J. van de Pol, A.J.H. Donné (FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen)

BP1.094 MIR on TEXTOR: Status and 2-D Upgrade Plans

J. Wang, C.W. Domier, Z.G. Xia, Jr. Luhmann (UC Davis), E. Mazzucato, H.K. Park, T. Munsat (PPPL), I.G.J. Classen, M.J. van de Pol, A.J.H. Donné (FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen)

BP1.095 Combined ECE Imaging and Microwave Imaging Reflectometer Diagnostic for TEXTOR

T. Munsat, E. Mazzucato, H. Park (PPPL), C.W. Domier, Jr. Luhmann, J. Wang, J.G. Xia (UC Davis), I.G.J. Classen, A.J.H. Donne, M.J. van de Pol (FOM Rijnhuizen)

BP1.096 Fast Ion Millimeter Wave CTS Diagnostic Installation Activities on TEXTOR and ASDEX Upgrade

S.B. Korsholm (MIT PSFC and Risoe National Laboratory), H. Bindslev, F. Meo, P.K. Michelsen, S. Michelsen, S.K. Nielsen, E.L. Tsakadze (Risoe), J. Egedal, P.P. Woskov (MIT), J. Hoekzema (Forschungszentrum Jülich Institut für Plasmaphysik), F. Leuterer (Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik), E. Westerhof (FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen)

BP1.097 Comparison of SCT Plasma Density Gradient Measurements from Laser Deflection Diagnostics and Heterodyne Interferometers

S. Brockington, D. Hwang, R. Horton, R. Evans, S. Howard, A. Graf (UC Davis/ LLNL), M. Rogers (UC Santa Cruz/ NUF Student)

BP1.098 Three-Wave Polarimeter-Interferometer System for MST

B.H. Deng, W.X. Ding, D.L. Brower (UCLA), MST Team

BP1.099 Advanced Methods in Bispectral Deconvolution Analysis

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

BP1.100 Evaluations of Mach Probe Characteristics in a Subsonic and Supersonic Plasma Flow

Akira Ando, Takashi Watanabe, Takahiro Makita, Hiroyuki Tobari, Kunihiko Hattori, Masaaki Inutake (Dep. of Electrical Eng., Tohoku University)

BP1.101 Measurement of Internal Magnetic Fields of Plasmas using an Alpha Particle Source

P. Ross, D. Darrow, S. Zweben (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Lowrance, G. Renda (Princeton Scientific Instruments, Inc.)

BP1.102 Feasibility study on the hybrid soft x-ray diagnostics with tomography and tangential 2-D array in toroidal geometry

Junghee Kim, W. Choe (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

BP1.103 Measurement of Instability in Compact Torus by use of 3-D Tomography

Eiichirou Kawamori, Alex L. Balandin (High Temperature Plasma Center, Universiy of Tokyo), Takehiro Iwama, Toru Ogawa, Takashi Sumikawa (Universiy of Tokyo), Yasushi Ono (High Temperature Plasma Center, Universiy of Tokyo)

BP1.104 Digital Holography for High Speed, High Resolution Plasma Density and Fluctuation Measurements

C.E. Thomas Jr. (Third Dimension Technologies), L.R. Baylor, D.A. Rasmussen (ORNL)

BP1.105 LDX, ET, MCX, HBT-EP

BP1.106 Levitated Dipole Experiment: Overview of First Results and Plans

D.T. Garnier, A.K. Hansen, M.E. Mauel, E.E. Ortiz (Columbia University), A. Boxer, J.E. Ellsworth, I. Karim, J. Kesner, S. Mahar, J. Minervini, P. Michael, A. Roach, A. Zhukovsky (MIT PSFC)

BP1.107 X-Ray Measurements of the Levitated Dipole Experiment

J.L. Ellsworth, J. Kesner (MIT PSFC), D.T. Garnier, A.K. Hansen, M.E. Mauel (Columbia University)

BP1.108 Profile Scan Studies on the Levitated Dipole Experiment

A.K. Hansen, D.T. Garnier, M.E. Mauel, E.E. Ortiz (Columbia University), J. Kesner, A.C. Boxer, J.L. Ellsworth, I. Karim, S. Mahar, A. Roach (MIT PSFC)

BP1.109 Multiple Frequency Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating on the Levitated Dipole Experiment

Scott Mahar, Jay Kesner (MIT), Darren Garnier, Alexander Hansen, Mike Mauel (Columbia University)

BP1.110 Magnetic Diagnostics in LDX

I. Karim, J. Kesner (MIT PSFC), D. Garnier, A. Hansen, M. Mauel (Columbia U.)

BP1.111 Probe Measurements of Electrostatic Fluctuations in LDX

E.E. Ortiz, M.E. Mauel, D.T. Garnier, A.K. Hansen, B.J. Levitt (Columbia University), J. Kesner, A. Boxer, J.L. Ellsworth, I. Karim, S. Mahar, A.H. Roach, M. Zimmermann (MIT PSFC), Columbia University Collaboration, MIT PSFC Collaboration

BP1.112 Microwave Interferometer for the Levitated Dipole Experiment

A.C. Boxer, J. Kesner (MIT PSFC), M.E. Mauel, D.T. Garnier, A.K. Hansen (Columbia University)

BP1.113 Kalman Filter for Noise Reduction and Dynamical Tracking for Levitation Control and for Plasma Mode Control

M. Mauel, D. Garnier, T. Pedersen (Columbia University), A. Roach (MIT)

BP1.114 Non-Linear Simulations of the Levitated Dipole Experiment

Jay kesner (MIT PSFC), Carl Sovinec (UW, Madison)

BP1.115 Sensitivity of energy confinement time to experimental parameters in hardcore Z-pinch

A. Kouznetsov, J. Freidberg, J. Kesner (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

BP1.116 A Study of Electromagnetic Edge Turbulence in the UCLA Electric Tokamak

A.E. White, D.C. Pace, T.A. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, D.J. Lafonteese, L. Schmitz, R.J. Taylor, T.F. Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.117 Fast Wave Profiling of the Electric Tokamak

D.J. LaFonteese, R.J. Taylor, G.J. Morales, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, L.W. Schmitz, T.A. Carter, D.C. Pace, A.E. White (University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.118 Momentum Drive by Neutral Beams and ICRH in the Electric Tokamak

L.W. Schmitz, T.A. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, A. Grossman, D.J. LaFonteese, D. Pace, R.J. Taylor, A. White (University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.119 Diagnostics upgrade in ET for equilibrium studies.

J.-L. Gauvreau, T.C. Carter, P.-A. Gourdain, A. Grossman, D.J. LaFonteese, D.C. Pace, L.W. Schmitz, R.J. Taylor, A.E. White, T.F. Yates (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

BP1.120 Initial neutral beam injection results on the UCLA Electric Tokamak.

R.J. Taylor, T.C. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, A. Grossman, D.J. LaFonteese, D.C. Pace, L.W. Schmitz, A.E. White, T.F. Yates (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

BP1.121 Neutral Beam Injection in the Electric Tokamak

P.-A. Gourdain, T.A. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, A. Grossman, D.J. Lafonteese, D.C. Pace, L.W. Schmitz, R.J. Taylor, A.E. White, T.F. Yates (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

BP1.122 Investigation of Density Accumulation in the Electric Tokamak

D. C. Pace, T. A. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, A. Grossman, D. J. LaFonteese, L. Schmitz, R. J. Taylor, A. E. White, T. F. Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)

BP1.123 Study of MHD Instabilities in ET near the Troyon Limit

T.F. Yates, R.J. Taylor, T.C. Carter, J.-L. Gauvreau, P.-A. Gourdain, A. Grossman, D.J. LaFonteese, D.C. Pace, L.W. Schmitz, A.E. White (University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

BP1.124 Magnetic Diagnostics on the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX)

Andrew Case, Richard Ellis, Adil Hassam, Robert Lunsford, Ron McLaren, Sarah Messer, Sheung-Wah Ng, Catalin Teodorescu (IREAP, University of Marlyand College Park)

BP1.125 Vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements of opacity on hydrogen resonance lines in the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX)

J. Ghosh, A. Case, A. DeSilva, R. Ellis, R. Elton, H. Griem, A. Hassam, R. Lunsford, C. Teodorescu (IREAP, U. of Maryland)

BP1.126 Freewheeling and multi-stage plasmas on MCX

R. Lunsford, A. Case, R. F. Ellis, A. Hassam, R. McLaren, S. Messer, C. Teodorescu (University of Maryland, College Park)

BP1.127 Non-Monotonic Magnetic Scaling in a Plasma Confined by Sheared Supersonic Rotation

S. Messer (NRC Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory), R. Ellis, A. Case, A. Hassam, R. Lunsford, C. Teodorescu (University of Maryland - College Park)

BP1.128 Experimental verification of the MHD perpendicular dielectric constant of a magnetized rotating plasma on MCX

C. Teodorescu, A. Case, R. Ellis, A. Hassam, R. Lunsford, S. Messer (University of Maryland), C. Cothran, M. Brown (Swarthmore College)

BP1.129 HBT-EP Active Mode Control Research Program: Progress and Plans

G. A. Navratil, C. Cates, Y. Liu, M. E. Mauel, D. A. Maurer, D. Maslovsky, T. S. Pedersen, M. Shilov, N. Stillits, J. Bialek, A. H. Boozer, O. Katsuro-Hopkins (Columbia University), S. F. Paul (Princeton University), R. James (U.S. Coast Guard Academy/Stevens Institute of Technology)

BP1.130 Feedback control of external MHD modes using high speed FPGA computing on the HBT-EP tokamak

A.J. Klein, T.S. Pedersen, D.A. Maurer, M.E. Mauel, C. Cates, G.A. Navratil, M. Shilov, J. Bialek, Y. Liu, N. Stillits (Columbia University), R. James (Stevens Inst. of Tech.)

BP1.131 Measurement of Tokamak Plasma Response to External Resonant Magnetic Perturbations

M. Shilov, J. Bialek, C. Cates, A. Klein, Y. Liu, M.E. Mauel, D.A. Maurer, G.A. Navratil, T.S. Pedersen, N. Stillis (Columbia Univ.), S.F. Paul (Princeton Univ.)

BP1.132 The effects of driven ExB rotation on MHD modes in the HBT-EP tokamak

D. A. Maurer, C. Cates, Y. Liu, A. Klein, M. E. Mauel, G. A. Navratil, T. S. Pedersen, M. Shilov, N. Stillits (Columbia University), S. F. Paul (Princeton University)

BP1.133 MHD Mode Structure Study Using a Hall Probe Sensor Array on the HBT-EP Tokamak*

Y. Liu, G. A. Navratil, D. A. Maurer, J. Bialek, C. Cates, M. Shilov, M. E. Mauel, T. S. Pedersen, A. J. Klein, N. Stillis, O. Katsuro-Hopkins (Columbia University)

BP1.134 Seeking a Biased Electrode Induced H-mode on the HBT-EP Tokamak

N. Stillits, C. Cates, A. Klein, Y. Liu, M.E. Mauel, D.A. Maurer, G.A. Navratil, T.S. Pedersen, M. Shilov ((Columbia University))

BP1.135 ICRF Heating and Beta Enhancement of HBT-EP Plasmas

R. James (USCG Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology, HBT-EP), C. Cates, A. Klein, Y. Liu, M. E. Mauel, D. A. Maurer, G. A. Navratil, T. S. Pedersen, M. Shilov (Affiliation), N. Stillits (Columbia University), HBTEP Team

BP1.136 The Effect of Noise and Time Delay on RWM Feedback System Performance

O. Katsuro-Hopkins, J. Bialek, G.A. Navratil (Columbia University)

BP1.137 Multimode Analysis of the Resistive Wall Mode Instability

Dmitry Maslovsky, Allen Boozer (Columbia University)

BP1.138 VALEN RWM Control Modeling of Tokamaks

James Bialek, Gerald Navratil, Oksana Katsuro-Hopkins, Michael Mauel (Columbia University)

BP1.139 Issues related to MHD equilibrium reconstruction

C.S. Jones, J.M. Finn (LANL)

BP1.140 Ideal and resistive plasma resistive wall modes and control: linear and nonlinear

J.M. Finn, L. Chacon (LANL)

BP1.141 Effects of Hot Electrons on the Stability of a Closed Field Line Plasma

Natalia Krasheninnikova, Peter Catto (PSFC-MIT)

BP1.142 Theory and simulation of the shielding of emitting dust particles

G.L. Delzanno, A. Bruno (Burning Plasma Research Group), Giovanni Lapenta (LANL), G. Sorasio (Istituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

BP1.143 Microwave Imaging Reflectometry for the Study of Turbulent Fluctuations in TEXTOR

E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, H. Park (PPPL), C.W. Domier, M. Johnson, N.C. Luhmann Jr., J. Wang, Z.G. Xia (UC Davis), I. Classen, A.J.H. Donné, M. van de Pol (FOM-Rijnhuizen)