Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 16 NOVEMBER 2004

14:00 FI1A.001 Grid Computing and Collaboration Technology in Support of Fusion Energy Sciences

D.P. Schissel (General Atomics)

15:00 FI1B.001 Relativistic Attosecond Physics: A Path to Extreme Fields and Coherent X-Rays

Natalia Naumova (University of Michigan)

15:30 FI1B.002 Thermal Effects in Short-Pulse Laser-Plasma Interactions: a Hamiltonian Model of Low-Temperature, Collisionless, Relativistic Plasmas

B. A. Shadwick (Institute for Advanced Physics and CBP, LBNL)

16:00 FI1B.003 Steady State Global Simulations of Microturbulence

W. W. Lee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543)

16:30 FI1B.004 Modeling Fluid Instabilities in Inertial Confinement Fusion Hydrodynamics Codes

Steven Zalesak (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

14:00 FI2.001 Reaching Nonlinear Regime in Large Raman Amplification of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Szymon Suckewer (Princeton University)

14:30 FI2.002 Measurements of Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse Propagation in Air

Antonio Ting (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:00 FI2.003 Resonant Heating of a Cluster Plasma by Intense Laser Light

Thomas Antonsen (University of Maryland, College Park MD)

15:30 FI2.004 Laser plasma acceleration of electrons: towards the generation of high quality, monoenergetic, relativistic beams

Karl Krushelnick (Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London)

16:00 FI2.005 High Gradient Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Patric Muggli (University of Southern California)

16:30 FI2.006 Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency of Magnetized Plasma: New Approach to Electromagnetic Energy Compression and Particle Acceleration

Gennady Shvets (Department of Physics and Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin)

14:00 FO1.001 LONG SCALE LENGTH LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS ON NIF

Siegfried Glenzer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), NIF Experiments Team

14:12 FO1.002 Laser-Plasma Interaction Simulations of NIF “Gas Bag” Experiments

Steven H. Langer, Charles H. Still, Siegfried Glenzer, Ogden S. Jones, A. Bruce Langdon, Edward A. Williams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:24 FO1.003 Measurements of 2w laser beam propagation in ignition relevant plasmas

C. Niemann, L. Divol, D. Froula, S.H. Glenzer, G. Gregori, R.K. Kirkwood, N.B. Meezan, J.D. Moody, C. Sorce, L.J. Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:36 FO1.004 Control of backscatter from 527 nm and 351 nm interaction beams in a long scalelength plasma

J. D. Moody, L. Divol, D. Froula, S. H. Glenzer, G. Gregori, R. K. Kirkwood, A. Mackinnon, N. B. Meezan, C. Niemann, S. Dixit, L. J. Suter, E. A. Williams (LLNL), R. Bahr, W. Seka (LLE)

14:48 FO1.005 Interplay of Density Gradients and Nonlinear Frequency Shifts in Stimulated Raman Scattering

D.J. Strozzi (MIT), E.A. Williams, A.B. Langdon (LLNL), A. Bers, A.K. Ram (MIT), M.M. Shoucri (IREQ)

15:00 FO1.006 Study of the Polarization Dependence of Two Beam Interactions,

R. K. Kirkwood, C. Niemann, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, B. I. Cohen, L. Divol, S. H. Glenzer, L. J. Suter, O. L. Landen (LLNL)

15:12 FO1.007 Convective Versus Absolute Two-Plasmon Decay in Inhomogeneous Plasmas

R.W. Short (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:24 FO1.008 Two-Plasmon-Decay Instability in Plasmas Irradiated by Incoherent Laser Beams

A.V. Maximov, J. Myatt, R.W. Short, W. Seka, C. Stoeckl (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:36 FO1.009 A Model of Fast-Electron Signals from Overlapping Pump Beams

A. Simon, C. Stoeckl, W. Seka (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:48 FO1.010 Effect of Electric Fields on Thermal Transport in Laser-Produced Plasmas

G. Li, V.N. Goncharov (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

16:00 FO1.011 Effects of the Ponderomotive Terms in the Thermal Transport on the Hydrodynamic Flow in Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments

V.N. Goncharov, G. Li (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

16:12 FO1.012 Langmuir wave self-focusing versus decay instability

Harvey A. Rose (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:24 FO1.013 The minimum amplitude for electron acoustic waves (EAW’s) and kinetic electrostatic electron nonlinear waves (KEEN’s) and its effect on laser fusion

Wallace Manheimer (RSI and Plasma Physics Division, NRL)

16:36 FO1.014 Space resolved Thomson scattering of electron plasma waves stimulated by Raman backscattering in gasbag plasmas

S. Depierreux (Département de Conception et de Réalisation des Expérimentations, CEA-DIF, France), H.A. Baldis (Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis), W. Seka (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester), J.D. Moody, S.H. Glenzer, R.K. Kirkwood (LLNL), R. Bahr (LLE)

16:48 FO1.015 A particle-in-cell simulation-based study of the interaction between stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering instabilities

E. S. Dodd, B. Bezzerides, D. F. DuBois (Los Alamos National Laboratory), H. X. Vu (University of California, San Diego)

17:00 FO1.016 Trapping-induced coupling between the electron beam acoustic mode and backward stimulated Raman scattering

L. Yin, W. Daughton, B.J. Albright, D.F. DuBois, B. Bezzerides, J.M. Kindel (Los Alamos National Laboratory), H.X. Vu (University of California, San Diego)

14:00 FO3.001 Research on JET in view of ITER

Jerome Pamela (EFDA-JET), Jef Ongena (ERM-KMS), Michael Watkins (UKAEA), JET-EFDA Workprogramme Collaboration

14:12 FO3.002 Characterization of thermal and current quench of JET plasmas

V. Riccardo (UKAEA Fusion), P. Barabaschi (ITER IT Garching), A. Loarte (EFDA CSU Garching), M. Sugihara (ITER IT Naka), JET-EFDA Collaboration

14:24 FO3.003 Ar seeded ELMy H-Mode discharges in JET with dual feedback control

J. Ongena, P. Dumortier, A. Messiaen (ERM-KMS, Brussels), R. Felton, J. Harling (UKAEA-Culham), E. Joffrin (CEA Cadarache), EFDA-JET Workprogramme Collaboration

14:36 FO3.004 Comparison of impurity, deuterium and electron heat transport in L and H mode experiments in JET

M.E. Puiatti, M. Valisa^1, L. Garzotti^1, L. Mantica, A. Bortolon, L. Carraro^1, I. Coffey, M. Mattioli^1, H. Weisen^3

14:48 FO3.005 Modelling of particle pinches and density profiles in JET and TCV

Alexei Zabolotsky (CRPP - EPFL, Association EURATOM - Confederation Suisse, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland), TCV Team, JET Particle Transport Team, JET-EFDA contributors Team

15:00 FO3.006 Comparison of Resonant Field Amplification in High Beta Plasmas in DIII-D and JET,

H. Reimerdes, A.M. Garofalo, G.A. Navratil (Columbia U.), M. Bigi, M.P. Gryaznevich, T.C. Hender, D.C. Howell (UKAEA), M.S. Chu, G.L. Jackson, R.J. La Haye, J.T. Scoville, E.J. Strait (GA), Y.Q. Liu (Chalmers U.), M. Okabayashi (PPPL), S.D. Pinches (IPP)

15:12 FO3.007 Effect of Isotope Mass in Simulations of JET H-mode Discharges

S.E. Snyder, T. Onjun, A.H. Kritz, G. Bateman (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA), V. Parail (Euratom/UKAEA, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK, and the EFDA JET Contributors)

15:24 FO3.008 An ideal MHD description of reversed shear Alfven eigenmodes in JET.

G.J. Kramer, N.N. Gorelenkov, R. Nazikian, C.Z. Cheng, R.V. Budny (PPPL Princeton), S.E. Sharapov (Euratom/UKAEA Cullham UK)

15:36 FO3.009 Poloidal rotation studies on JET

K. Crombé, G. Van Oost (Ghent University, Belgium), Y. Andrew, C. Giroud, N.C. Hawkes, V. Parail, K.-D. Zastrow (UKAEA, Culham, UK), M. Brix (IPP, Juelich, Germany), A. Murari (RFX, Padua, Italy), M.F.F. Nave (IST, Lisbon, Portugal), J. Ongena (LPP-ERM/KMS, Belgium)

14:00 FM1.001 A Liquid Sodium \alpha ømega Dynamo Experiment

Stirling Colgate, Howard Beckley, Hui Li (LANL), Richard Sonnenfield, Dave Westpfahl, Ian Bentley, Rocky Ginanni, Travis Mckinnly (NMIMT), Valadimir Pariev (Univ. Rochester)

14:15 FM1.002 Growing Large Scale Fields for Jets from Dynamos and Bihelical Relaxation

Eric Blackman (University of Rochester)

14:45 FM1.003 3D MHD Simulations of Large-Scale Structures of Magnetic Jets

Hui Li, Gianni Lapenta, John Finn (LANL)

15:15 FM1.004 Global Simulations of Magnetically Driven Jets from Accretion Disks

Ryoji Matsumoto (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chiba University)

15:45 FM1.005 Structures on Astrophysical Jets

Philip Hardee (The University of Alabma)

16:15 FM1.006 The Current-driven Kink Instability of the Poynting Flux Dominated Jets

Masanori Nakamura, David L. Meier (JPL)

16:45 FM1.007 Using astrophysical jets for establishing an upper limit for the photon mass

D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:30 FM2.001 OMEGA Direct-Drive Cryogenic Deuterium Targets

D.R. Harding, M.D. Wittman, L.M. Elasky, S. Verbridge, L.D. Lund, D. Jacobs-Perkins, W. Seka, D.H. Edgell, D.D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

15:00 FM2.002 Three-Dimensional Characterization of Ice Layers for Cryogenic Targets at LLE

D.H. Edgell, W. Seka, R.S. Craxton, L.M. Elasky, D.R. Harding, R.L. Keck, M. Pandina, M.D. Wittman (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), A. Warrick (LLNL)

15:30 FM2.003 Recent results from infrared layering of deuterium fuel in a NIF hohlraum.

J. D. Sater, B. Kozioziemski, J. Pipes, R. London (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. Bittner (Schafer Corp.)

16:00 FM2.004 Layer Formation at Low IR Heating Rates

D.N. Bittner, J. Burmann (Schafer Corporation), J.D. Moody, W. Unites (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:30 FM2.005 An Overview of the Latest HED Target Fabrication Developments at LLNL

Robin Hibbard, Matthew Bono (LLNL)

17:00 FM2.006 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS TARGETS FOR EXPERIMENTS AT NIF, OMEGA AND THE SANDIA Z PINCH FACILITY

Arthur Nobile, Matthew Balkey, Jacob Bartos, Steven Batha, Paul Brooks (Affiliation), Bernard Cameron, James Cobble, Jason Cooley, Robert Day, John Edwards, Joyce Elliott, Norman Elliott, James Fincke, Veronica Gomez, Douglas Hatch, Paul Keiter, George Kyrala, Nicholas Lanier, Ruben Manzanares, Pallas Papin, Ron Perea, Timothy Pierce, Blaine Randolph, David Sandoval, Robert Sebring, Gerald Rivera, Derek Schmidt, Ron Snow, Warren Steckle, Thomas Tierney, Adelaida Valdez, Robert Watt (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:30 FM2.007 Fabrication of Foam Shells for ICF Experiments,

D.G. Czechowicz, O. Acenas, J.S. Flowers, A. Nikroo, R.R. Paguio (General Atomics), D.G. Schroen, J. Streit (Schafer), M. Takagi (LLNL)

FP1.001 Education and Outreach

FP1.002 Plasma Physics, Fusion Science, and California High School Science

Donald Correll (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

FP1.003 What's the Matter?

L.A. Berry (Coalition for the Plasma Science Team)

FP1.004 The PPPL - Trenton Partnership: Past, Present, Future

Andrew Post-Zwicker, Christine Ritter, James Morgan (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Chris DeJesus (Hedgepath-Williams Middle School, Trenton, NJ), Nick Guilbert (The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ)

FP1.005 Educational Outreach at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Paul Rivenberg, Paul Thomas (M.I.T. Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

FP1.006 Promoting Pre-college Science Education,

R.L. Lee (General Atomics), General Atomics Fusion Education Team

FP1.007 The Wonders of Plasma

Jim Reardon, Clint Sprott (University of Wisconsin--Madison), CMSO Collaboration, MST Team

FP1.008 Undergraduate

FP1.009 DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST GOOD MAGNETIC SURFACE IN DIII-D USN WITH ELMS AND C-COILS SHOT 115467 DUE TO C-COILS USING MAPS

A. McCray, A. Punjabi, H. Ali (Center for Fusion Research and Training, Hampton University, Hampton, VS 23668)

FP1.010 DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST GOOD MAGNETIC SURFACE IN DIII-D USN WITH ELMS AND C-COILS SHOT 115467 DUE TO ELMs USING MAPS

L. Butcher, H. Ali, A. Punjabi (Center for Fusion Research and Training, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668)

FP1.011 DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST GOOD SURFACE IN DIII-D USN WITH ELMs AND C-COILS SHOT 115467 DUE TO ELMs AND C-COILS USING MAPS

K. Sherrow, A. Punjabi, H. Ali (Center for Fusion Research and Training, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668)

FP1.012 DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST GOOD MAGNETIC SURFACE IN DIII-D USN WITH ELMS AND C-COILS SHOT 115467 DUE TO GENERALIZED ASYMMETRIES USING MAPS

A. Herrera, H. Ali, A. Punjabi (Center for Fusion Research and Training, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668)

FP1.013 Obtaining Velocity Profiles of Rayleigh-stable Couette Flow Using Particle Imaging Velocimetry

R. Jensen, H. Ji, M. J. Burin, E. Schartman (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.014 Design and Results of Open Channel Liquid GaInSn Alloy Flow in Transverse Magnetic Field

Scott Kathrein, Hantao Ji, Dan Raburn, Mike Burin (Princeton U.)

FP1.015 Development of Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry Probes for Use on Liquid Sodium MHD Experiment

C.M. Jacobson, C.B. Forest, R.D. Kendrick, M.D. Nornberg, R. O'Connell, E.J. Spence (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

FP1.016 Study of Boundary Effects on the Reconnection Rate in MRX

A.J. Carver (UW - Madison), M. Yamada, H. Ji, S. Gerhardt, A. Kuritsyn, Y. Ren (PPPL)

FP1.017 Implementation of Linearized Equilibrium Equations for Two-Dimensional Equilibria

Megan White (The College of New Jersey), Leonid Zakharov (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.018 Is an Extended Fluid Model Any Better Than a Direct Particle Method?

Andrew C. Jones (Michigan State University), Scott E. Parker (University of Colorado, Boulder)

FP1.019 Gyrokinetic simulations of the parallel velocity shear instability

T. Findley, D. McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University), W. Dorland (University of Maryland)

FP1.020 Calibration of Model for Tokamak H-mode Pedestal and ELMs

C. MacDonald, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz, J. McElhenny (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), T. Osborne (General Atomics, San Diego, CA), A.Y. Pankin (SAIC, San Diego, CA)

FP1.021 Study of electron density evolution during sawtooth activity in tokamak plasmas

James Sanders, Ivo Furno (P-24 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

FP1.022 Marginal stability studies of microturbulence near ITB onset on Alcator C-Mod

J. A. Baumgaertel*, M. H. Redi, R. V. Budny, D. C. McCune (PPPL), W. Dorland (U. Md.), C. L. Fiore (MIT)

FP1.023 Triple Langmuir Probe Measurements in the CDX-U Spherical Torus

Christopher M. Wolfe (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), Dick Majeski, Robert Kaita, John Timberlake, Timothy Gray, Jeffery Spaleta, Phil Marfuta (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Matthew Frost (Kent State University), Sarah Angelini (Columbia University)

FP1.024 Magnetic Reconstructions for the Current Drive Experiment - Upgrade

Sarah Angelini (Columbia University), M. Frost (Kent State University), C. Wolfe (Kutztown University), L. Zakharov, T. Gray, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, P. Marfuta, J. Spaleta, J. Timberlake (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.025 X-Ray Point Source for Radiography Applications

M. Bright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), F. Beg, D. Lok (University of California-San Diego), R.B. Stephens (General Atomics)

FP1.026 Edge Density Profile Reconstruction Using the DIII-D Lithium Beam Diagnostic

J. Culver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A.W. Leonard, D.M. Thomas (General Atomics)

FP1.027 Real-Time CER Spectral Analysis on DIII-D,

R.J. Harrington (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M.R. Wade (ORNL), J.R. Ferron (General Atomics)

FP1.028 Analyzing Electron Transport on DIII-D Using the General Form of Heat Pulse Propagation,

N. Howard (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), C.C. Petty, T.C. Luce, J.C. DeBoo (General Atomics)

FP1.029 Experimental Measurements of the DIII-D 110 GHz Electron Cyclotron Heating System Transmission Line Efficiency,

A. Mui (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), J. Lohr, I.A. Gorelov, D. Ponce (General Atomics), K. Kajiawara (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education)

FP1.030 Fast Data Acquisition System for the DIII-D MSE Diagnostic Signal Processing Technique

R. Wagner (University of California, San Diego), M.A. Makowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

FP1.031 Digital Lock-In Amplifier Based Ground Loop Monitoring System for Magnetically Confined Plasma Devices

Timothy Connelly (Villanova University), Hans Schneider (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

FP1.032 Estimates of error fields in NSTX using internal magnetic sensors

C. Tcheyan, J. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.033 High-speed Camera observation of Supersonic Gas Injector and NSTX Plasma edge

M. Frost (Kent State University), R. Majeski, R. Kaita, T. Gray, J. Spaleta, P. Marfuta, J. Timberlake (PPPL), S. Angelini (Columbia University), C. Wolfe (Kutztown University)

FP1.034 High Voltage Ramp Generator for Electro-Optically Tunable Filter for the MSE-CIF Diagnostics on NSTX.

Ying Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Fred Levinton (Nova Photonics, Inc.)

FP1.035 Noise Reduction in the SSNPA

M. Gomez (U Michigan), L. Roquemore, D. Darrow (PPPL), D. Liu (UC Irvine)

FP1.037 Design of a Multi-Chord Soft X-Ray Camera for the HIT-SI Experiment

A.E. Askren, R.J. Smith, T.R. Jarboe, B.A. Nelson, A.J. Redd, R. Raman, R.G. O'Neill, P.E. Sieck, W.T. Hamp, V.A. Izzo (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

FP1.038 Radiation Measurements on Plasmas

Shaun Higginson (Bates College), Glen Wurden, Tom Intrator (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.039 Levitation Control System in the Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX)

Austin Roach, Jay Kesner (MIT PSFC), Darren Garnier, Alexander Hansen, Mike Mauel (Columbia University)

FP1.040 Magnetic Field Line Mapping of the Columbia Non-Neutral Torus

Naveed Ahmad (University of California, Berkeley), Remi Guy Lefrancois, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Quinn R. Marksteiner, Jason Kremer (Columbia University)

FP1.041 High Voltage rf isolator for periodically oscillating plasma sphere experiment

Greg Sonnenfeld, Jaeyoung Park, Mark Kostora (LANL)

FP1.042 Liner Dynamics During Flux Compression

T.S. Goodrich, R.E. Siemon, B.S. Bauer, T.E. Cowan, I.R. Lindemuth, V. Makhin (University of Nevada, Reno), R. Faehl, R.E. Reinovsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.043 Experiment on the stability of zero net current, line tied screw pinch

Sam Stambler, W. Bergerson, G. Fiksel, C.B. Forest, B. Grierson, D. Hannum, C. Hegna, R. Kendrick, S. Oliva, J. Sarff (UW-Madison)

FP1.044 Magnetic diagnostics on the Rotating Wall Machine

Brian Grierson (University of Wisconsin - Madison), W. Bergerson Collaboration, G. Fiskel Collaboration, C.B. Forest Collaboration, D. Hannum Collaboration, R. Kendrick Collaboration, S. Oliva Collaboration, J. Sarff Collaboration, S. Stambler Collaboration

FP1.045 Measurements of density, temperature and potential profiles in the Rotating Wall Machine

W. Schlichting (RPI), W. Bergerson, G. Fiksel, C.B. Forest, G. Grierson, D. Hannum, C. Hegna, R. Kendrick, S. Oliva, J. Sarff, S. Stambler (UW-Madison)

FP1.046 Machining CRF Foam for use in Laboratory Astrophysics

Douglas Kremer, R. Paul Drake, Korbie Dannenberg, Carolyn Kuranz, Peter Susalla, Robb Gillespie (University of Michigan)

FP1.047 Antenna generation of ion acoustic waves in a dense laboratory plasma

Nicholas Mauro (Lawrence University), Troy Carter, Walter Gekelman, Pat Pribyl (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

FP1.048 Alfvén Wave Excitation in a Helicon Source Generated Plasma

Daniel Ventura (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego), Earl Scime, Chris Compton (Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315)

FP1.049 Simulating the Trapped-Ion Instability in Non-Neutral Plasmas.

A.N. James, C.F. Driscoll (UCSD)

FP1.050 Envelope Dynamics of Charged Particle Beams in Non-Periodic Focusing Lattices

S. Austin Yi (Cornell University), Ronald C. Davidson, Hong Qin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University)

FP1.051 Empirical Bench-top Testing for Silicon Electron Beam Transmission Windows

E.K. Friis (UC San Diego), C.A. Gentile (PPPL)

FP1.052 Spectroscopic study of a pulsed rf ICP argon plasma

Ruth Hinde (Universal Technology Corporation, 1270 North Fairfield Rd., Dayton, OH 45432), C.A. DeJoseph (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433), V.I. Demidov (UES, INC., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Rd., Dayton, OH 45432)

FP1.053 Construction and Characterization of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Sputtering Source

William Cox (University of Wisconsin-Madison, SULI), Bixiao Zhao (West Windsor-Plainsboro H.S. South), Andrew Post-Zwicker (PPPL)

FP1.054 Nitrogen Plasma Source for Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Gallium Nitride

F. W. Doss, C. Biloiu, E. Scime (West Virginia University)

FP1.055 Numerical Simulation of bi-Maxwellian Electron Distribution Function Formation in Low Pressure Capacitively Coupled Plasmas

Justin T. Stimatze, Igor D. Kaganovich (Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08543, USA), Oleg V. Polomorov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390)

FP1.056 Absorption Spectroscopy of Helium Ions in a Helicon Plasma Source

Ryan Murphy, Brendan McGeehan, Earl Scime (West Virginia University)

FP1.057 Ion flow and temperature study for the FMP experiment

James C. Thome (Bucknell University), Justin D. Keener (Colorado School of Mines), Zhehui Wang, Glen A. Wurden (Los Alamos National Laboratory), FMP Team

FP1.058 Characterization of Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) from an Applied Electric Field Across a Neutral Beam

Joshua B. Kallman (Rutgers University), Elizabeth L. Foley (Princeton University), Fred M. Levinton (Nova Photonics, Inc.)

FP1.059 Response of Electrostatic Dust Detector to Particles of Different Sizes

Christopher Voinier (The College Of New Jersey), Charles Skinner, Lane Roquemore (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.060 Measuring particle charge in an rf dusty plasma

Jerome Fung (Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA), Bin Liu, John Goree, Vladimir Nosenko (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City IA)

FP1.061 Microparticle transport in an argon dc glow discharge dusty plasma due to an applied temperature gradient

Patricia Engel (University of Notre Dame), Jennifer Silver, Edward Thomas (Auburn University)

FP1.062 Evolution of remotely measured inner magnetospheric ion temperatures during a geomagnetic storm

Anna Zaniewski, Earl Scime (West Virginia University), Marc Hairston (University of Texas at Dallas), Craig Pollock (Southwest Research Institute), Michelle Thomsen, Ruth Skoug (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.063 Experimental Test of the BRL Theory in Partially Ionized Plasma

Katherine Pacha, Fred Skiff, Ahmed Diallo (University of Iowa)

FP1.064 DIII-D Transport and Current Drive

FP1.065 Zonal flow and Velocity Turbulence Dynamics using Advanced Time Delay Estimation Analysis,

D.K. Gupta, R.J. Fonck, G.R. McKee, M. Shafer, D. Schlossberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

FP1.066 Next Generation Beam Emission Spectroscopy System For High Sensitivity Core Fluctuation Measurements,

M.W. Shafer, R.J. Fonck, G.R. McKee, D.K. Gupta, D.J. Schlossberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

FP1.067 Comparison of DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Measurements in the Edge and Core Regions Diagnostic for High-k Measurements

J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, J.R. Dorris (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), K.H. Burrell (General Atomics)

FP1.068 Upgrade of the DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic and Modeling of High-k Measurements

J.R. Dorris, J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, D.R. Ernst (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT), K.H. Burrell (General Atomics)

FP1.069 Upgraded Two-Color Heterodyne Interferometer System on DIII-D and Its Use as a Fluctuation Diagnostic

M.A. VanZeeland (ORISE), T.N. Carlstrom (General Atomics), D.K. Finkenthal, T. Deterly (Palomar College)

FP1.070 Integrated Systems for Broad Wavenumber Spectrum Turbulence Measurements on DIII-D

T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles, X.V. Nguyen, G. Wang, L. Zeng, E.J. Doyle ( University of California, Los Angeles), M.A. VanZeeland (ORISE), M.A. Gilmore (U. New Mexico), D.R. Mikkelson (PPPL), W. Dorland (U. Maryland), R.V. Bravenec (U. Texas-Austin), T.C. Jernigan (ORNL)

FP1.071 Gyrokinetic Simulations of `ETG-Free' Discharges on DIII-D.

R. V. Bravenec (Fusion Research Center, University of Texas, Austin), T. L. Rhodes (UCLA), J. Candy, G. M. Staebler (General Atomics), DIII-D Team McKee (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

FP1.072 A Closer Look at Transient Improvement of Transport Near Rational q_min in DIII-D Discharges,

M.E. Austin, K.W. Gentle (University of Texas), K.H. Burrell, T.C. Luce (General Atomics), T.L. Rhodes (UCLA), R.J. Jayakumar, M.A. Makowski (LLNL)

FP1.073 Overlapping Electron and Ion Driftwave Instabilities In The Tokamak Edge

G.M. Staebler, R.E. Waltz (General Atomics), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U.)

FP1.074 Some Linear Properties of Zonal Flows

F.L. Hinton, R.E. Waltz, J. Candy (General Atomics)

FP1.075 Gyrokinetic Simulations of Neoclassical Flows Embedded in Turbulence

R.E. Waltz, J. Candy, F.L. Hinton (General Atomics)

FP1.076 Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations of Equilibrium ExB Shear Suppression of Transport

J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U.), J. Candy, R.E. Waltz (GA)

FP1.077 Flow shear, Magnetic shear, and Shafranov shift effects on transport in DIII-D plasmas

R.V. Budny, W.M. Solomon (PPPL), J.E. Kinsey (Lehigh U), K.H. Burrell, C.M. Greenfield, T.H. Osborne, C.C. Petty (General Atomics), R.J. Jayakumar (LLNL), M.E. Austin (UT-Austin), D. Gupta, G.R. McKee (U-Wisc), T.L. Rhodes (UCLA), D.P. Brennan (ORISE)

FP1.078 Neoclassical Angular Momentum Flux Revisited,

S.K. Wong (San Diego Mesa College), V.S. Chan (General Atomics)

FP1.079 Comparison of Calculated and Measured Profiles in the DIII-D Edge Pedestal

W.M. Stacey (Georgia Tech), R.J. Groebner (General Atomics)

FP1.080 Evidence for Relation Between Electron Temperature and Density in the H-mode Pedestal,

R.J. Grobener, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, T.H. Osborne, P.B. Snyder, D.M. Thomas (General Atomics), M.E. Fenstermacher (LLNL)

FP1.081 SOL and Pedestal Density Profile Evolution During DIII-D ELMy H-mode Operation,

L. Zeng, G. Wang, E.J. Doyle, T.L. Rhodes, W.A. Peebles (UCLA), M.E. Fenstermacher (LLNL), T.E. Evans (General Atomics), J.A. Boedo (UCSD)

FP1.082 Turbulence Dynamics at the LH Transition and ELM Dynamics in the Pedestal Region on DIII-D,

D.J. Schlossberg, R.J. Fronck, D.K. Gupta, G.R. McKee, M.W. Shafer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), C. Holland, G.R. Tynan (University of California, San Diego)

FP1.083 Possible Cause of HL Transition Following MARFE Formation

Z.W. Friis, W.M. Stacey (Georgia Tech), T.W. Petrie, A.W. Leonard (General Atomics)

FP1.084 Fully Noninductive, High Bootstrap Fraction, Stationary Discharges in DIII-D,

P.A. Politzer (General Atomics)

FP1.085 The Status and Performance of the 110 GHz Gyrotron System on the DIII-D Tokamak,

J. Lohr, I.A. Gorelov, D. Ponce, J.J. Peavy, R. Prater, J.F. Tooker, R.W. Callis (General Atomics), K. Kajiwara (ORISE)

FP1.086 Diamond Windows on the 110 GHz Gyrotrons at DIII-D,

I.A. Gorelov, J. Lohr, D. Ponce, R.W. Callis ( General Atomics), K. Kajiwara (ORISE)

FP1.087 Comparison Between Experiments and Thermal Simulations of the ECH Launcher Mirrors in DIII-D,

K. Kajiwara (ORISE), C.B. Baxi, J. Lohr, I.A. Gorelov, M.T. Green, D. Ponce, R.W. Callis (General Atomics), R.A. Ellis (PPPL)

FP1.088 Density Pump-Out During ECH in the DIII-D Tokamak,

K.L. Wong, R. Nazikian (PPPL), R.J. Jayakumar (LLNL), R. Prater, C.C. Petty (General Atomics)

FP1.089 Polarization Dependence of Electron Cyclotron Current Drive Efficiency

Y.R. Lin-Liu (National Dong Hwa U.), R. Prater (General Atomics)

FP1.090 Monte-Carlo Orbit/Full Wave Simulation of ICRF Wave Damping on Resonant Ions in Tokamaks

M. Choi, V.S. Chan, R.I. Pinsker (General Atomics), S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M), V. Tang, R. Parker, J. Wright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

FP1.091 High Harmonic Fast Wave Damping on an Ion Beam: NSTX and DIII-D Regimes Compared,

R.I. Pinsker, C.C. Choi, C.C. Petty (General Atomics), M. Porkolab (MIT), J.R. Wilson (PPPL), M. Murakami (ORNL), R.W. Harvey (CompX)

FP1.092 A D_\alpha Fast Ion Density Profile Diagnostic at DIII-D

Y. Luo, W.W. Heidbrink (UC Irvine), K.H. Burrell, P. Gohil (General Atomics)

FP1.093 Restart of the Fast Wave RF Systems on DIII-D

F. W. Baity, G. C. Barber, R. H. Goulding, A. R. Horton, M. Murakami, D. A. Rasmussen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R. I. Pinsker (General Atomics), E. H. Fredd, N. L. Greenough, J. C. Hosea, C. Brunkhorst, R. Ellis, J. R. Wilson (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

FP1.094 Basic plasmas III

FP1.095 Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry

Richard Fitzpatrick, Francois Waelbroeck (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

FP1.096 Method for computing flowing two-fluid plasma equilibria

Loren Steinhauer (University of Washington)

FP1.097 Three Fluid Hall MHD Simulations of a High Density Plasma Opening Switch

P. Sethuraman, H. Strauss (NYU), R. Doron (Weizmann Institute of Science), Y. Maron, R. Arad (WIS)

FP1.098 Two-fluid steady state considerations for toroidal plasmas

L.E. Sugiyama (MIT), H.R. Strauss (NYU), W. Park, G. Fu, J. Breslau (PPPL)

FP1.099 Oblique Merging of EMHD FRCs

K. D. Strohmaier, R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia (UCLA)

FP1.100 Momentum Conservation of a Tilted Current Layer

J. M. Urrutia, R. L. Stenzel, K. D. Strohmaier (UCLA)

FP1.101 Tilting of Field-Reversed Configurations in an EMHD Plasma

R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia, K. D. Strohmaier (UCLA)

FP1.102 Collisionless Hydrodynamics For Linear Waves in a Magnetic Field

A. Bers, J. Decker (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.)

FP1.103 Phase velocity of thin islands

F. L. Waelbroeck, Richard Fitzpatrick (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

FP1.104 Bistable Density Transition in Magnetized Plasma by Control of Voltage Biasing

Shunjiro Shinohara, Yasushi Nakamura, Seiichi Horii (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan)

FP1.105 Complexity and Entropy Functions for Chaotic and Pseudochaotic Dynamics of Particles

George M. Zaslavsky, Mark Edelman (Courant Institute-NYU and NYU Physics Department)

FP1.107 Reconnection and Meander Phenomena in the Standard Nontwist Map

Kathrin Fuchss, Amit Apte, Alexander Wurm, P.J. Morrison (Inst.\ for Fusion Studies, Dept.\ of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

FP1.108 Fast ion self-organization in the Gas Dynamic Trap

P. A. Bagryansky, A. V. Anikeev, A. A. Ivanov, A. A. Lizunov, V. V. Maximov, V. V. Prikhodko, Yu. A. Tsidulko, S. V. Murakhtin, GDT Team

FP1.109 Gyrokinetic Simulations of the Z-Pinch

Angus Macnab, William Dorland, Michael Barnes, Ingmar Broemstrup (University of Maryland)

FP1.110 Gyrokinetic PIC Calculations of ITG Turbulence with Parallel Nonlinearity and Strong Flow Corrections

James Kniep, Jean-Noel Leboeuf, Viktor Decyk (Universiy of California at Los Angeles)

FP1.111 SUMMIT Framework: Gyrokinetic calculations of ITG turbulence in general toroidal geometry

Jean-Noel Leboeuf, Viktor Decyk (University of California at Los Angeles), Andris Dimits, Dan Shumaker (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

FP1.112 Studies of Algorithms for Gyrokinetics, and the Effects of Flux Surface Shape on Plasma Turbulence

E. A. Belli, G. W. Hammett (PPPL), W. Dorland (U. Maryland)

FP1.113 Motivation for Studying Shaping Effects In Gyrokinetics and Its Implications for Reactor Design

G.W. Hammett, E.A. Belli, C. Kessel, D. Meade (PPPL), W. Dorland (U. Maryland)

FP1.114 Global eigenmode theory of drift compressional modes

Chris Crabtree, Liu Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Caliornia, Irvine)

FP1.115 Gyrokinetic stability of Z-pinch and dipole-like configurations

Barrett Rogers, Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH), William Dorland (University of Maryland, College Park MD)

FP1.116 Kinetic simulation of boundary plasma transport

W.M. Nevins, E. Bringa, B.I. Cohen, R.H. Cohen, M. Dorr, G. Gilmer, A. Kubota, J. Hittinger, G. Kerbel, C. Mundy, T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550), J. Verboncoeur (UCB, Berkeley, CA 94720)

FP1.117 Algorithm development for gyrokinetic simulations of boundary plasmas

X.Q. Xu, W.M. Nevins, M.R. Dorr, J.A. Hittinger, G.D. Kerbel (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550)

FP1.118 Simulating impurity production and transport for fusion edge plasmas

G. Gilmer, E. Bringa, A. Kubota, C. Mundy, L. Zepeda-Ruiz, T.D. Rognlien (LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550), J. Verboncoeur (UCB, Berkeley, CA 94720)

FP1.119 Effect of metastable atoms on rf ICP pulse noble-gas plasma properties

V.I. Demidiv (UES, INC., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Rd., Dayton, OH 45432), Jr. DeJoseph (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433), A. Kudryavtsev (St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198904, Russia)

FP1.120 Anomalous Skin Penetration and Resonant Behavior of Low-Pressure Radio-Frequency Discharges.

Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390), Igor D. Kaganovich (Affiliation)

FP1.121 Experimental Determination of Spatial and Temporal Discharge Parameters for an Ambient Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge in Helium

Brian Bures, Mohamed Bourham (North Carolina State University)

FP1.122 Ball Lightning in Zero Gravity in the Laboratory

Igor Alexeff, Sriram Parameswaran, Michael Grace (University of Tennessee)

FP1.123 New Electron Temperature Diagnostic for Low Temperature Plasmas

Robert Boivin, Stuart Loch (Auburn University, Department of Physics, 206 Allison Laboratory, Auburn, AL 36849-5311)

FP1.124 Molecular Dynamics Description of Partially Ionized Dense Plasmas

Ken LaGattuta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.125 Numerical Simulations of the Nonlinear Evolution of the Magnetron Instability for the A6 and Smooth-Bore Magnetrons

Christopher Lenyk, Timothy Fleming, Keith Cartwright (Air Force Research Lab/Directed Energy Directorate)

FP1.126 The three-dimensional MHD dynamics of momentum transport

Fatima Ebrahimi, S. C. Prager, C. R. Sovinec (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706)

FP1.127 Flowing Magnetized Plasma Experiment: Progress and Plans

S. Hsu, Z. Wang, C. Barnes, G. Wurden, G. Becerra Toledo, J. Keener, W. Robbins, J. Si, J. Thome (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.128 Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism in the Flowing Magnetized Plasma (FMP) Experiment

Zhehui Wang, Scott C. Hsu, Cris W. Barnes, Daniel C. Barnes, Glen A. Wurden (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

FP1.129 Plasma Flow, Instabilities, and Transport Associated with a Thin Current Sheet

Stephen Vincena (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy), Walter Gekelman, Troy Carter, David Leneman, Patrick Pribyl

FP1.130 Measurement of microstructures in a narrow current sheet

Walter Gekelman, Patrick Pribyl (University of California, Los Angeles), Paul Kintner (Cornell University), Janet Stillman (University of California, Los Angeles), Marla Singleton (Xavier University)

FP1.131 Using Laser Induced Florescence to Diagnose a Flowing Plasma

David Leneman (University of California, Los Angeles), Walter Gekelman, Steven Vincena, Brett Jacobs

FP1.132 Parallel flow shear and temperature anisotropy measurements in a current-free, helicon plasma

Xuan Sun (West Virginia University), Costel Biloiu, Earl Scime

FP1.133 Enhanced Optical Pumping of Ions Accelerating in a Magnetic Field Gradient

Earl Scime, Xuan Sun (West Virginia University), Samuel A. Cohen (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Fred Skiff (University of Iowa)

FP1.134 Observation of bistable rotational states in MBX

Rainer H. Hoerlein, H. J. Quevedo, P. M. Valanju, Roger D. Bengtson (University of Texas at Austin)

FP1.135 Study of the effects of high voltage potential applied to Magneto Bernoulli eXperiment (MBX)

H. J. Quevedo, Rainer H. Hoerlein, P. M. Valanju, Roger D. Bengtson (University of Texas at Austin)

FP1.136 Variational Derivation of Gyrofluid Models

Alexander Wurm, P.J. Morrison (Institute for Fusion Studies and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

FP1.137 Study of Open Channel Flow of Liquid Gallium in a Transverse Magnetic Field

N. Katz, H. Ji, D. Raburn, S. Kathrein, M. Burin, S. Zweben, E. Fredrickson (Princeton U.)

FP1.138 Model of n=0 energetic particle induced oscillations

Herbert L. Berk (Institute for Fusion Studies, Austin, Tx.), Sergei Sharapov (Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, UK), Maria Filomena F. Nave (Euratom/IST Fusion Association, Portugal), Simon Pinches (Euratom/IPP Fusion Assciation, Germany), Christopher Boswell (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, Mass.)

FP1.139 New Eulerian methods for nonlinear wave equations: computing multi-valued solutions in a Traveling Wave Tube

J.G. Wohlbier (Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. Sengele (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

FP1.140 Noise Stabilization: Markov Analysis, Circuits, and Broken Symmetries

A. S. Richardson, E. R. Tracy (College of William and Mary), J. M. Finn (LANL), W. E. Cooke

FP1.141 Force-free magnetic relaxation in driven plasmas

Xianzhu Tang (LANL), Allen H. Boozer (Columbia University)

FP1.142 Ion Drift Kinetic Equation to Second Order in Gyroradius Expansion

Andrei N. Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Peter J. Catto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)