Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 15 NOVEMBER 1999

Session DI1. Innovative Confinement Concepts.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Grand I, The Westin Seattle

15:30 DI1.01 Flux Generation and Sustainment of a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) with Rotating Magnetic Field (RMF) Current Drive: John Slough (University of Washington)
16:00 DI1.02 Merging Formation of FRC and Its Application to Ultra-High-Beta ST Formation in TS-3/4 (Tokyo university Spherical torus): Yasushi Ono (High Temperature Plasma Research Center / Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo)
16:30 DI1.03 Numerical Study of Global Stability of Field-Reversed Configuration: Elena Belova (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
17:00 DI1.04 Electron Trapping in the Penning Fusion Experiment - Ions (PFX-I): D. C. Barnes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
17:30 DI1.05 Plasma Equilibria in Dipolar Magnetic Configurations: Sergei I. Krasheninnikov (UCSD and MIT PSFC, USA)

Session DI2. Education, Space Plasmas and Short-Pulsed Lasers.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Grand II, The Westin Seattle

15:30 DI2.01 Space Plasma Science as a Motivator for Education & Outreach: Paul Dusenbery (Space Science Institute)
16:00 DI2.02 Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere: Joachim Birn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:30 DI2.03 Plasma waves in the inhomogeneous auroral ionosphere: Paul Kintner (Cornell University)
17:00 DI2.04 Ultra-powerful compact amplifiers for short laser pulses: Vladimir Malkin (Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)
17:30 DI2.05 Plasmas and Short-Pulse, High-Intensity Lasers: Thomas Clark (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)