Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 17 NOVEMBER 1997

10:15 cMoaI1.01 Recent Results from W7-AS Stellarator

F. Wagner (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM-Association, Boltzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching, FRG)

10:51 cMoaI1.02 J* Optimization of Small Aspect Ratio Stellarator/Tokamak Hybrid Devices

D. A. Spong (Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:27 cMoaI1.03 Characterization of the H-mode Transition and Pedestal Region on Alcator C-Mod

A.~E.~ Hubbard (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.~I.~T.~)

12:03 cMoaI1.04 Scaling Studies of the H--Mode Pedestal

R.J. Groebner (for the DIII--D Physics Group, General Atomics)

10:15 cMoaI2.01 Theory and Experiment of the Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier

Kwo Ray Chu (Dept. of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

10:51 cMoaI2.02 The X-ray FEL

Claudio Pellegrini (UCLA)

11:27 cMoaI2.03 A High Brightness, X-Band Photoinjector for the Production of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation

Gregory Peter Le Sage (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Davis Department of Applied Science)

12:03 cMoaI2.04 X-ray Lasers in Transitions to Ground State of Ions

S. Suckewer (Princeton University)

10:15 cMoaO1.01 Thomson scattering from fusion plasmas

S.H. Glenzer, C.A. Back, L. Suter, S. Pollaine, B.J. MacGowan, K. Estabrook, B.A. Hammel, J. Hammer, O.L. Landen, J. Lindl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M.A. Blain (CEL-V), J.S. DeGroot (University of California, Davis), B.H. Wilde (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:27 cMoaO1.02 The Role of Nonlocal Heat Flow in Hohlraums

R.P.J. Town, R.W. Short, C.P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), B.B. Afeyan (U. of California, Davis-Livermore), S.H. Glenzer, L.J. Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:39 cMoaO1.03 Effect of ISI on flow induced laser beam deflection: Analytic theory

Sandip Ghosal, Harvey Rose (LANL)

10:51 cMoaO1.04 Three dimensional spatial contraction of laser light in underdense plasmas and its coupling to SBS.

V. Eliseev, D. Pesme, W. Rozmus, V.T. Tikhonchuk, C.E. Capjack (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

11:03 cMoaO1.05 f Number Increase of a High-Intensity Green Laser Beam in a Plasma

J. A. Cobble, R. P. Johnson, R. J. Mason (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:15 cMoaO1.06 Three-Temperature MHD Calculation of the Critical Surface of Laser Absorption in Laser Induced Plasmas

Laurence D. Merkle, Jr. Peterkin (Air Force Research Laboratory)

11:27 cMoaO1.07 Oblique Stimulated Raman Scattering of a Short Laser Pulse in a Plasma Channel

E.J. Turano, C.J. McKinstrie, A.V. Kanaev (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:39 cMoaO1.08 Collisional Amplication of Test Waves in a Plasma Subject to Intense Laser Radiation

A. Das, P. Kaw (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar - 382 428, INDIA)

11:51 cMoaO1.09 Plasma effects in ultra-short pulse material processing

M. D. Feit, M. D. Perry, A. M. Rubenchik, B. C. Stuart, V. Yanovsky (LLNL)

10:15 cMoaO2.01 Linear Evolution of the Outer and Inner Surfaces of Imploding Spherical Shells

V.N. Goncharov, R. Betti, R.L. McCrory, C.P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

10:27 cMoaO2.02 Single and Multi-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability In Cylindrical Systems.

D. Shvarts, Y. Yedvab, D. Oron (Nuclear Research Center-Negev and Ben-Gurion University, Israel), U. Alon (Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Israel and Prinecton University, NJ, USA.)

10:39 cMoaO2.03 Hydrodynamic Instability Experiments Using the Nova Laser

B.A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K.S. Budil, S.G. Glendinning, D.H. Kalantar, R. Wallace, M.M. Marinak, S.V. Weber, S.W. Haan, J. Colvin, P. Miller, T. Peyser, D. Farley (LLNL), A. Hauer (LANL), C. Cherfils, A. Richard, D. Galmiche (CEA), J. Kane, D. Arnett (U. of Arizona)

10:51 cMoaO2.04 Rayleigh-Taylor evolution of 3D multimode modulations in indirectly-driven planar foils.

S.G. Glendinning , M.M. Marinak, K.S. Budil, S.W. Haan, B.A. Remington, R.J. Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:03 cMoaO2.05 Late-Time Nonlinear RT Instability Simulations for ICF Applications

C. K. Choi (Purdue University), N. M. Hoffman, W. J. Powers, M. R. Clover (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:15 cMoaO2.06 Numerical Simulation of Doped Targets for ICF

Lee Phillips, John H. Gardner, Stephen E. Bodner, Denis Colombant (Naval Research Laboratory), Marcel Klapisch (ARTEP Inc.), Avraham Bar-Shalom (SAIC)

11:27 cMoaO2.07 Dynamic Stabilization of Imploding Cryogenic Capsules

V. Lobatchev, R. Betti, V.N. Goncharov, R.L. McCrory, C.P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

11:39 cMoaO2.08 Further Surrogate Cryogenic Target Experiments on OMEGA

F.J. Marshall, D.K. Bradley, J.A. Delettrez, P.A. Jaanimagi, R.L. Kremens, C.P. Verdon, B. Yaakobi (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester), M.D. Cable (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:51 cMoaO2.09 Simulations in One Dimension of Unstable Mix in Laser-Driven Implosion Experiments

R. Epstein, J.A. Delettrez, D.K. Bradley, C.P. Verdon (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

12:03 cMoaO2.10 Studies of Beryllium Capsules in 250eV Hohlraums

P.A. Bradley, D.C. Wilson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:15 cMoaO2.11 Mix, Temperature, and Density Capsule Conditions in a 1-ns Square Pulse Convergence Study

G.D. Pollak, D.B. Harris, B. Chrien, B. Failor (Los Alamos National Laboratory)