Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 18 NOVEMBER 1997

Session iTupI1. Inertial Confinement.

Tuesday afternoon, 16:00, South 6, 8, & 10, Convention Center

16:00 iTupI1.01 The Development of Beryllium Capsules for the National Ignition Facility: Douglas C. Wilson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)
16:30 iTupI1.02 Computational modeling of direct-drive fusion pellets and KrF-driven foil experiments: John Gardner (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,D.C. 20375)
17:00 iTupI1.03 Distributed Radiator Heavy Ion Target Designs: Max Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
17:30 iTupI1.04 Status and Prospects for a Direct-Drive Laser Fusion Reactor: Stephen E. Bodner (Naval Research Laboratory)

Session iTupI2. Astrophysical Plasmas.

Tuesday afternoon, 16:00, South 2 & 4, Convention Center

16:00 iTupI2.01 Physical Processes in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Christopher L. Carilli (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM, USA)
16:30 iTupI2.02 Hydrogen Equation of State Measurements Along the Principle Hugoniot: G.W. Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
17:00 iTupI2.03 X-ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies-A Cosmological Laboratory: Richard Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC)
17:30 iTupI2.04 Thermal Transport and Magnetic Fields in the Diffuse Gas of Galaxy Clusters: Robert Rosner (The University of Chicago)