Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 19 NOVEMBER 2004

09:30 RI1.001 Edge Ion Heating by Launched High Harmonic Fast Waves in NSTX

T.M. Biewer (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

10:00 RI1.002 ICRF Mode Conversion Physics in Alcator C-Mod: Measurements and Model Validation

S.J. Wukitch (MIT PSFC)

10:30 RI1.003 Full-wave Electromagnetic Field Simulations in the Lower Hybrid Range of Frequencies

P.T. Bonoli (MIT PSFC)

11:00 RI1.004 Simulation of a DIII-D plasma disruption with the NIMROD Code

S.E. Kruger (Tech-X Corporation)

11:30 RI1.005 Optimization of DIII-D Advanced Tokamak Discharges With Respect to the Beta Limit

J.R. Ferron (General Atomics)

12:00 RI1.006 High-bootstrap, non-inductively sustained electron internal transport barriers in TCV

Stefano Coda (CRPP-EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

09:30 RI2.001 The electromagnetic drift instability in the lower hybrid frequency range in the MRX

Russell Kulsrud (Princeton University)

10:00 RI2.002 Two-dimensional Anomalous Magnetic Reconnection

Leonid Malyshkin (Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSOLAP), The University of Chicago)

10:30 RI2.003 Challenges to the theory of astrophysical dynamos

Fausto Cattaneo (University of Chicago)

11:00 RI2.004 Learning about coronal heating from solar wind observations

S. Peter Gary (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

11:30 RI2.005 Firehose driven magnetic fluctuations in the magnetosphere

H. Vernon Wong (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

12:00 RI2.006 A unified perspective on MHD turbulence description in space and astrophysical applications

Ye Zhou (LLNL)

09:30 RO1.001 Mass Ablation Rate and Self-Emission Measurements in Planar ICF Experiments

O.V. Gotchev, V.N. Goncharov, J.P. Knauer, D. Li, D.D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

09:42 RO1.002 NIF Neutron Bang Time Detector Development on OMEGA

V.Yu. Glebov, C. Stoeckl, T.C. Sangster, C. Mileham, S. Roberts (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), R.A. Lerche (LLNL)

09:54 RO1.003 The Rochester Optical Streak System

P.A. Jaanimagi, R. Boni, R.L. Keck, W.R. Donaldson, D.D. Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

10:06 RO1.004 First Results from a Penumbral Imaging System Design Tool

M.C. Ghilea, D.D. Meyerhofer, T.C. Sangster (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), R.A. Lerche (LLNL), L. Disdier (CEA)

10:18 RO1.005 Simulation and Analysis of Pinholes for Neutron Imaging

Carlos Barrera, Edward Morse (University of California, Berkeley), Michael Moran, Jeffrey Koch (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:30 RO1.006 Double Pulse Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy

Cleon Barnett, Hanna Bereket (Affiliation), Lewis Johnson (Florida Aamp;M University)

09:30 RO2.001 Extracting Symbolic Cycles from Data and Simulations of Nonneutral Plasmas

S. Neil Rasband (Brigham Young University)

09:42 RO2.002 Laser-induced nonequilibrium solid-to-plasma phase transition in ultrathin gold foils

Y. Ping (LLNL), T. Ao, H. Tam (UBC), K. Widmann, D. Price (LLNL), A. Ng (LLNL, UBC)

09:54 RO2.003 The electrical conductivity and equation of state for copper in the warm-dense-matter regime --- measurements and quantum molecular dynamics calculations

Jean Clérouin, Patrick Renaudin, Yann Laudernet, Pierre Noiret (DPTA CEA/DAM Île-de-France, BP12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel Cedex, France), Michael Desjarlais (Pulsed Power Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1186, USA)

10:06 RO2.004 Probable role of nanodust-assembled fractals in plasmas of severe weather phenomena

A.B. Kukushkin, V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov (RRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia)

10:18 RO2.005 Waterspout as a special type of atmospheric aerosol dusty plasma

Valentin A. Rantsev-Kartinov (Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute")

10:30 RO2.006 Shear viscosity measurements in a liquid strongly-coupled dusty plasma

V. Nosenko, J. Goree (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Univ. of Iowa)

10:42 RO2.007 MD simulation of a 2-D liquid dusty plasma

Bin Liu, John Goree (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City IA)

10:54 RO2.008 Formation of a second shock in front of a radiative shock

J. F. Hansen, M. J. Edwards (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

11:06 RO2.009 Laser driven quasi-isentropic compression experiments (ICE) for extracting continuous single shot EOS data along a materials isentrope

Raymond Smith, Thomas Lorenz, Steve Moon, John Edwards, Alan Jankowski, Steve Pollaine, Bruce Remington, Jave Kane, Walter Unites, Gilbert Collins (LLNL)

11:18 RO2.010 Confined plasma, tamped ablation for acceleration of thin (2 \mum - 2mm) solid 1-D metal plates for dynamic material response experiments

D. L. Paisley, D. C. Swift, T. Tierney, S. Luo, C. P. Munson, R. P. Johnson (Los Alamos Natonal Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

09:30 RM2.001 Improvement of optical diagnostic methods for a xenon operating thruster plasma

Georgy Karabadzhak (TSNIIMASH)

09:50 RM2.002 Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Measurements of Electric Propulsion Device Life Time

Azer Yalin (Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University)

10:10 RM2.003 Characterization of the Plasma Parameters in Electrostatic Ion Thrusters

Dan Goebel (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA)

10:30 RM2.004 High Power Helicon In-Space Thruster

Timothy Ziemba, John Slough, Robert Winglee (University of Washington)

10:50 RM2.005 Inductively coupled plasma source for VASIMR engine

V.A. Godyak (OSRAM SYLVANIA), A.I. Smolyakov, D.Y. Sydorenko (University of Saskatchewan), R.Z. Sagdeev (University of Maryland), S.I. Krasheninnikov, V.I. Shevchenko (University of California at San Diego)

11:10 RM2.006 General Space Propulsion amp; MXER Plasma Requirements

Joseph Bonometti, Kirk Sorensen (NASA MSFC)

11:30 RM2.007 The Plasmoid Thruster Experiment (PTX)

Adam Martin, Richard Eskridge, Mike Lee (Propulsion Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center TD40), Syri Koelfgen, Peter J. Fimognari III (University of Alabama Huntsville)

11:45 RM2.008 Self-organizing plasma behavior in multiple grid IEC fusion devices for propulsion

Thomas McGuire, Carl Dietrich, Raymond Sedwick (MIT Space Systems Laboratory)

12:00 RM2.009 Grid Free Plasma Simulations for Arbitrary Domains with Applications to Ion Optics

Andrew Christlieb, Robert Krasny (University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics), Jerry Emhoff, Iain Boyd (University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering)

RP1.001 Supplemental

RP1.002 Theoretical study the effects of electromagnetic fluctuations on magnetic reconnection

William Fox (MIT PSFC), R. Kulsrud, H. Ji

RP1.003 Stability of stratified flow with inhomogeneous shear

Vladimir Mikhailenko (Kharkov National University), Earl Scime (West Virginia University)

RP1.004 Nonlinear Evolution Of Suydam Instabilities

Sangeeta Gupta, J. D. Callen, C. C. Hegna (University of Wisconsin)

RP1.005 Mechanisms for D retention in Tore Supra CIEL very long discharges

J. Hogan (Fusion Energy Division, ORNL), E. Tsitrone, T. Loarer, R. Mitteau, P. Thomas (CEA-Cadarache), Tore Supra Team

RP1.006 A CO2 laser interferometer insensitive to vibrations

P. A. Bagryansky, A. D. Khilchenko, A. A. Lizunov, V. V. Maximov, R. V. Voskoboynikov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics), A. L. Solomahin (Novosibirsk State University)

RP1.007 Stimulated Raman scattering growth in the presence of imposed density modulations

Sylvie Depierreux (Département de Conception et Réalisation des Expérimentations, CEA-DIF, BP 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France), Kevin Lewis (CEA-DIF, BP 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France and Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France), Heidi Bandulet, Christine Labaune (LULI, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France), Hector Baldis (Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616), Alain Michard (LULI, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France)

RP1.008 Atmospheric photoionization of Argon with a short pulse laser

Wallace Manheimer (Affiliation)

RP1.009 Hall Plasma Dynamics in the Current Sheet

S. Messer, W. Amatucci, L. Rudakov, D. Blackwell, J. Huba, D. Walker (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

RP1.011 Wire array experiments with dielectric fibers.

Ian Mitchell, Jorge Gómez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Sergey Lebedev, Simon Bland, Jerry Chittenden, David Ampleford, Simon Bott, Gareth Hall (Imperial College, London)

RP1.012 Averaged PIC (aPIC) simulation of laser pulse amplification by Raman backscatter

Min Sup Hur, Ryan Lindberg, Andy Charman, Josh Rembaum (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Wurtele (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

RP1.013 Scalability of the Bubble acceleration regime

Alexander Pukhov, Sergey Gordienko, Sergey Kiselev (Institut fur Theoretische Physik I, University of Dusseldorf, 40225 Dusseldorf Germany), Igor Kostyukov (IAP, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)

RP1.014 Relativistic shock surfing acceleration at the oblique shocks

Vitali Shapiro, Defne Ucer (UC San Diego)

RP1.015 Debye Sheath Constrained Electron Refluxing in Reduced Mass Relativistic Laser Target Interactions

R. Snavely, M. Chen, H. Chung, S. Glenzer, G. Gregori, S. Hatchett, M. Key, J. Koch, J. Kuba, N. Izumi, A. MacKinnon, H. Park, B. Remington, M. Tabak, R. Town, S. Wilks (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. Akli, D. Hey, J. King, B. Zhang (University of California, Davis), C. Stoeckl, W. Theobald (University of Rochester, LLE), J. Hill, R. Freeman (Ohio State University), R. Heathcote (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), R. Stephens (General Atomics)

RP1.016 ALEGRA Simulations of Copper Foil and Wire Array Z-Pinch Experiments

T. A. Haill, T. J. Nash, C. Deeney, T. A. Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories)

RP1.017 Seeding of forward Raman scattering by ionization blue-shifting in high intensity laser plasma interactions

Shouyuan Chen, Ping Zhang, Wolfgang Theobald, Ned Saleh, Matthew Rever, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Donald Umstadter (FOCUS center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.)

RP1.018 Optimization of a Neutralized Beam Compression Experiment

Enrique Henestroza, Simon S. Yu (LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY), Linchun Wu (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN), William L. Waldron (LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY)

RP1.019 Postdeadline

RP1.020 Adaptive Grid Generation for Magnetically Confined Plasmas

A.H. Glasser, V.S. Lukin (Los Alamos National Laboratory), V.D. Liseikin, L.A. Kitaeva (Institute of Computational Technologies)

RP1.021 Collective behaviour of a System of Emitting Dust Particles

Giovanni Lapenta (LANL), Gian Luca Delzanno (Affiliation)

RP1.022 3D Magnetic reconnection: evolution of x-lines and x-points.

D. Krauss-Varban (UC Berkeley), H. Karimabadi (UCSD), J.D. Huba (NRL), L.I. Rudakov (Berkeley Scholars, Inc., Beltsville, MD), G. Lapenta (LANL), P. Ricci (Dartmouth College)

RP1.023 Numerical simulation of a strongly shocked gas bubble

John Niederhaus, Devesh Ranjan, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jeff Greenough (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

RP1.024 PIXIE3D: A Parallel, Implicit, eXtended MHD 3D Code.

L. Chacon, D.A. Knoll (LANL)

RP1.025 Magnetic and Electric Helical Drive for RFPs

R. A. Nebel, J. M. Finn, C. Bathke (LANL)

RP1.026 Electron Bunch Acceleration by an Intense Short-Pulse Laser

S. Kawata (Utsunomiya University), Q. Kong (Fudan University), S. Miyazaki, K. Miyauchi, R. Sonobe, K. Sakai, T. Kikuchi (Utsunomiya University)

RP1.027 Dynamics of radiation of argon ions in Z-pinches

Elena Baronova (RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia), Viktor Vikhrev (RRC Kurchatov Institute), Takashi Fujimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

RP1.028 Inclusion of Atomic/Molecular Physics in the Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Warm Dense Matter

Christopher Jones, Michael Murillo, Jerome Daligault (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.029 Numerical studies of laser ablation in magnetic fields

Roman Samulyak, Yarema Prykarpatskyy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

RP1.030 Free-Free Radiation in Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Jon Weisheit, Jerome Daligault, Michael Murillo, Leaf Turner (Theoretical Division, LANL)

RP1.031 Dynamic Sub-Grid Scale Modeling of Tearing Mode Interaction with Turbulence

Christopher McDevitt, Pat Diamond (University of California, San Diego)

RP1.032 Laser-Coupling in foam- and gas-fileld Hohlraums

Jochen Schein, Gianluca Gregori, Eduard Dewald, Laurent Divol, Dustin Froula, Siegfried Glenzer, Kelly Campbell, Laurance Suter, Otto Landen, Robert Turner (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551, USA)

RP1.033 Heavy ion beam illumination on an ICF direct-driven pellet

S. Kawata, T. Someya (Utsunomiya Univ., Japan), A.I. Ogoyski (Varna Tech. Univ.), T. Kikuchi (Utsunomiya Univ., Japan)

RP1.034 Variational Equation of State Model for Dense, High Energy-Density Matter

George Csanak, Michael Murillo, Jerome Daligault (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.035 The Effect of Initial Gas Density on ICF Ignition

David Eklund (University of California, Berkeley), Nathan Meezan, Laurance Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

RP1.036 Hohlraum designs for NIF first cluster

N.B. Meezan, M.M. Marinak, S. Glenzer, L.J. Suter, B.A. Hammel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

RP1.037 Fabrication and Assembly of Thin walled Au Halfraums for NWEX Experiments

Kelly Youngblood (Schafer Laboratories, Livermore, CA), E. Hsieh and B. Motta Team, D. Mathews Team, J. Florio Team

RP1.038 Event-based modeling of plasmas: a novel approach to overcoming multi-scale and dimensional challenges in PIC, Vlasov and MHD simulations

Y. Omelchenko, H. Karimabadi, J. Driscoll (SciberNet,Inc)

RP1.039 Role Played by the Trapped-Particle Instability in Simulations of Stimulated Raman Scattering.

Stephan Brunner (CRPP), Ernest Valeo (PPPL)

RP1.040 Electron kinetics in a dual inductively coupled plasma

Sae Hoon Uhm, Kyong Ho Lee, Hong Young Chang (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, 305-701, Republic of Korea), Chin Wook Chung (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, HanYang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, Republic of Korea.)

RP1.041 Modeling of Ablative Standoff in ICF Hohlraums(Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.)

Kyle Peterson, Slutz Stephen, Thomas Mehlhorn (Sandia National Laboratories)

RP1.042 Search for optimal 3D wave launching configurations for the acceleration of charged particles in a magnetized plasma: Resonant Moments Method

Maxim Ponomarjov, Daniele Carati (Statistical and Plasma Physics, EURATOM Assoc., PTM, ULB)

RP1.043 Two-Stream Stability of the Virtual Cathode in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device

S. Stange, R. A. Nebel, J. Park (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RP1.044 Measurements of instability growth in NIF ablator materials using the OMEGA laser system

David Bradley, Gail Glendinning, S. W. Haan, J. D. Salmonson, D. H. Munro, G. W. Collins, D. G. Braun (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.)

RP1.045 Global Dynamics of Single Ion Motion in a Model Field-Reversed Configuration

J. E. Howard (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado), A. S. Landsman (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

RP1.046 Laser plasma coupling with moderate Z, long scalelength underdense plasma

William Kruer (University of California, Davis), Richard Berger, Nathaniel Meezan, Larry Suter, John Moody, Siegfried Glenzer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R.M. Stevenson, K. Oades (Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston)