Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 17 NOVEMBER 1997

16:00 eMopI1.01 Indirect Drive Experiments Utilizing Multiple Beam Cones in Cylindrical Hohlraums on OMEGA

Thomas J. Murphy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:30 eMopI1.02 Classical Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments at Nova

Kimberly S. Budil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

17:00 eMopI1.03 Hydrodynamic Perturbation Growth in Start-up Phase of Laser Implosion

Katsunobu Nishihara (Institute of Laser Engineering,Osaka University)

17:30 eMopI1.04 Measurements of Fuel--Pusher Mixing in Spherical Imploding Targets on the OMEGA Laser System

D.K. Bradley (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

16:00 eMopI2.01 Dynamics of Thin Current Sheets and Their Disruption by Ballooning Instabilities: a Mechanism for Magnetospheric Substorms

A. Bhattacharjee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, 203 Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242)

16:30 eMopI2.02 Laboratory Simulations of Solar Prominence Eruptions

Paul M. Bellan (Caltech)

17:00 eMopI2.03 Theoretical Issues in the Physics of the Ionosphere

Bamandas Basu (Phillips Laboratory)

17:30 eMopI2.04 Two-Dimensional Mappng of the Plasma Density in the Upper Atmosphere with Computerized Ionospheric Tomography (CIT)

P.A. Bernhardt (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)