EPITOME OF THE 1994 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DIVISION OF PLASMA PHYSICS
7-11 November 1994; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Each session is labeled by a number and one or two letters. The number
denotes the half-day of the session: 1 for Monday morning, 2 for Monday
afternoon, etc. Thus, morning sessions have odd numbers and afternoon
sessions have even numbers. The letter designations indicate the type of
session and the location, according to the following key:
Room Key
Session Room Content
RV Nicollet Ballroom Review Papers
IA,IB,IC Nicollet Ballroom Invited Papers
IF Nicollet Ballroom Evening Symposia
IH Skyway Suite Human Rights
IP Hyatt Center Posters of Review and
Invited papers
E Greenway Ballroom, B-E Oral contributed papers
F Greenway Ballroom, F-I Oral contributed papers
P,Q,R,S,T Hyatt Center Poster contributed papers
U,V Hyatt Center Supplemental and Postdeadline
Note that review sessions begin at 8:15 a.m., and they are scheduled for a
50-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Each daytime
invited presentation is scheduled for 25 minutes with 5 minutes for
discussion. Oral presentations are 10 minutes followed by 2 minutes for
discussion. Evening programs are scheduled to start at 20:00. The names of
the people appearing below are those of invited and review speakers.
MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 1994
MONDAY REVIEW
8:15 1RV Review of Deuterium-Tritium Experiments on TFTR: K McGuire.
MONDAY MORNING
9:30 1IA JT-60 and JET: Fukuda, Tubbing.
10:30 1IB Diagnostics: B Penetration, Microwaves, and Minorities:
Maron, Piliya, Meger.
12:00 1IC Comet-Jupiter Encounter: Stellingwerf.
9:30 1E Laser Plasma Interactions: Short Pulse.
9:30 1F Space and Astrophysical Plasmas-I.
9:30 1P Linear and Nonlinear Waves.
9:30 1Q Resistive MHD and Reconnection.
9:30 1R Computer Simulation and Techniques.
9:30 1S TdeV and PBX-M.
9:30 1T MST, Reversed Field Pinch, HIT, Compact Tori, and Others.
MONDAY AFTERNOON
14:00 2IA TFTR DT Physics: Scott, Bush, Fisher.
15:30 2IB FRC, Stellarators, and Mirrors: Slough, Jernigan, Tamano.
14:00 2E Laser Plasma Interactions: General.
14:00 2F Basic and Appl. Equil. and Stab. Waves, Transport, Nonneutral
Plasmas.
14:00 2P Waves in Nonuniform Plasmas.
14:00 2Q Accelerators, Free Electron Lasers, and X-ray sources.
14:00 2R Plasma Diagnostics.
14:00 2S JT-60U, JET, TEXTOR, FTU, and TCV.
14:00 2T TPX, Low Aspect Ratio Tokamaks, Ignitor.
14:00 2IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
MONDAY EVENING
20:00 2IF Opportunities in Plasma Science.
TUESDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 1994
TUESDAY REVIEW
8:15 3RV Review of Indirect Drive ICF: J. Lindl.
TUESDAY MORNING
9:30 3IA Inertial Fusion Energy and Hydrodynamic Instabilities: Moir,
Shvarts, Dahlburg.
11:00 3IB Basic Tokamak Transport: Kotschenreuther, Gentle, Petty.
9:30 3E Microwave Generation, Ion and Electron Sources, and Ion Beams.
9:30 3F DIII-D.
9:30 3P Laser Plasma Interactions-I, and ICF.
9:30 3Q Ionosphere, Lab Experiments, Dust.
9:30 3R ITER.
9:30 3S TEXT.
9:30 3T Stellarators, Z-Pinches, Plasma Foci.
9:30 3IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
14:00 4IA Toroidal Stability and Confinement: Nelson, Taylor, Sarff.
15:30 4IB Short Pulse Laser Interactions: Intense Laser Pulses,
Moderately Coupled Plasmas: Mori, Andreev, Li.
14:00 4E Hohlraum Physics.
14:00 4F Alcator C-Mod.
14:00 4P General Transport and Diffusion.
14:00 4Q Ion Beams, Electron Beams, and Heavy Ion Fusion.
14:00 4R Wave Heating and Current Drive.
14:00 4S Phaedrus T, HBT-EP, and other Tokamaks.
14:00 4IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
TUESDAY EVENING
16:30 4IH Human Rights.
20:00 4IF U.S. Indirect Drive ICF Program (now PG-13): Haan, Hauer,
Cable, Matzen.
WEDNESDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 1994
WEDNESDAY REVIEW
8:15 5RV Modeling of Plasmas on Computers: Past, Present, and Future:
J. Dawson.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
9:30 5IA Basic Gyrokinetics: Mynick, Waltz, Xu.
11:00 5IB Tokamak Divertors: Labombard, Wade, Pospieszczyk, Post.
9:30 5E ICF: Hydrodynamic Instability.
9:30 5F Plasma Sources, Diagnostics, and Industrial Applications.
9:30 5P DIII-D: Stability, Transport, and Current Drive.
9:30 5Q DIII-D: Divertors.
9:30 5R Turbulence, Stochasticity, and Chaos.
9:30 5IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
14:00 6IA Radiation sources: Litvak, Rocca, Whitney.
15:30 6IB Ionospheric and Space Plasmas: Robertson, Shapiro, Sentman.
14:00 6E Laser Plasma Interactions: Long Scale Length.
14:00 6F Numerical Tokamak-I; General Computational Issues I.
14:00 6P Alcator C-Mod.
14:00 6Q TFTR-I.
14:00 6R TFTR-II; Alpha-Channeling.
14:00 6S ICF: Simulations, Hydrodynamics, and Diagnostics.
14:00 6T Plasma Switches and Sources.
14:00 6IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
17:30 DPP Business Meeting--Greenway Ballroom B-E.
WEDNESDAY EVENING
18:30 Cocktail Hour--Nicollet Promenade and Nicollet Ballroom D.
19:30 Banquet--Nicollet Ballroom A-C.
THURSDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 1994
THURSDAY REVIEW
8:15 7RV Dynamics of Non-Neutral Plasmas: R. Gould.
THURSDAY MORNING
9:30 7IA Basic waves: Bauer, Vyacheslavov, Koepke.
11:00 7IB Plasma Processing and Electron Beams: Jaeger, Hairapetian,
Sanford.
9:30 7E ICF: Implosions, Stability, and Mix.
9:30 7F TFTR.
9:30 7P General MHD and Fluid Equilibrium and Stability.
9:30 7Q Gyro Fluid, Kinetic Theory, and Simulations.
9:30 7R Divertors.
9:30 7S Space and Astrophysical Plasmas-II.
9:30 7IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
14:00 8IA RF Heating and Current Drive: Phillips, Intrator, Fisch.
15:30 8IB Basic MHD: Den Hartog, Chu, Huba.
17:00 8IC Education and Public Outreach: Correll, Holt.
14:00 8E ICF Diagnostics and Laser Technology.
14:00 8F Numerical Tokamak-lI; General Computational Issues II.
14:00 8P Plasma Processing and Applications.
14:00 8Q Laser Plasma Interactions-II.
14:00 8R Non-Neutral Plasmas and Traps.
14:00 8S Microwave Generation.
14:00 8T Public Outreach and Education.
14:00 8IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
THURSDAY EVENING
20:00 8IF The Next Large Devices in the Magnetic Fusion Program: Aymar,
Davidson, Iiyoshi.
FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1994
FRIDAY REVIEW
8:15 9RV Industrial Applications of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics:
F. Chen.
FRIDAY MORNING
9:30 9IA ICF Experiments and Laser-Plasma Interactions: Tanaka,
Powers, Rose.
11:00 91B Tokamak Transport: Greenwald, Moyer, Cima.
9:30 9P Laser Plasma Interactions-III.
9:30 9Q Dense Plasmas.
9:30 9R Plasma-Wall Interactions, Fueling, Reactors.
9:30 9U Supplemental.
9:30 9V Postdeadline.
9:30 9IP Review and Invited Posters from previous half-day session.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
The following list may be incomplete; a complete list will be distributed
at registration.
SUNDAY
19:00 College Physics Problem Solving Workshop - Greenway Ballroom D-E.
MONDAY
9:00 Companions Continental Breakfast, get-acquainted and information
session- Lake Superior.
15:00 PR and PRL Drop in Hour - Lake Superior.
16:30 Women in Plasma Physics, complimentary wine and cheese reception -
Mirage Room.
17:30 University Fusion Association General Meeting - Skyway Suite.
20:00 Symposium on Opportunities in Plasma Science - Nicollet Ballroom.
TUESDAY
9:30 Computer Equipment Exhibit - Hyatt Center.
16:30 Human Rights- Skyway Suite.
17:30 Plasma Science and Technology Initiative Town Meeting - Greenway
Ballroom B-E.
20:00 Symposium on U.S. Indirect Drive ICF Program (now PG-13) -
Nicollet Ballroom.
WEDNESDAY
9:00 SEEP Project.
14:00 AIP Career Workshop - Lake Superior.
17:30 Business Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics -
Greenway Ballroom B-E.
18:30 Cocktails - Nicollet Promenade and Nicollet Ballroom D.
19:30 Banquet - Nicollet Ballroom A-C.
THURSDAY
8:30 High School Teachers Day - Lake Superior A
20:00 Symposium on The Next Large Devices in the Magnetic Fusion Program
- Nicollet Ballroom.