Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 8 OCTOBER 1997

Session LW1. Positron and Electron Scattering.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Class of '24 Reception Room, Memorial Union

08:00 LW1.01 Investigations in Gaseous Positronics: Positron - Atom, Molecule Scattering
Walter E. Kauppila (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202)
08:30 LW1.02 Recent Progress in the Calculation of Positron Interaction with Gases
Allan D. Stauffer (York University, Toronto, Canada)
09:00 LW1.03 A Rubidium Spin Filter for Electrons
B.A. Hitt, H. Batelaan, A.S. Green, T.J. Gay (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
09:15 LW1.04 Ionization Cross Sections Of Cl_2 by Electron Impact
S.K. Srivastava, R. Boivin (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)
09:30 LW1.05 Theoretical Support for a Ramsauer-Townsend Minimum in e^---CF_4 scattering
W. A. Isaacs, C. W. McCurdy (LBNL), T. N. Rescigno (LLNL)
09:45 LW1.06 Interactions of Slow Electrons with C_2F_6
L. G. Christophorou, J. K. Olthoff (NIST)

Session LW2. Propulsion and Space Plasmas/Microdischarges and Plasma Display Panels.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Great Hall, Memorial Union

08:00 LW2.01 Microdischarge Devices
D. J. Wheeler, J. W. Frame, T. A. DeTemple, J. G. Eden (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
08:15 LW2.02 Time Resolved Current Waveform and Light Emission in a PDP
J.R. Gottschalk, S. Ambalanath, A. Shvidky, J.M. Truxon, A.D. Compaan, Jr. Williamson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo)
08:30 LW2.03 Breakdown in a 3-Electrode AC Plasma Display Panel Cell
J. P. Verboncoeur, P. J. Christenson, K. L. Cartwright (Dept. EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1770), Y. Ikeda (Hitachi Research Laboratory)
08:45 LW2.04 Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas
J. E. Lawler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
09:15 LW2.05 Qualification and On-Orbit Use of Xenon Ion Propulsion
J.R. Beattie (Hughes Telecommunications and Space Co.)