Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 18 NOVEMBER 1999

Session RT1. Plasma Lighting/Laser-Induced Fluorescence.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Grand I, The Westin Seattle

14:00 RT1.01 Plasma research and applications in the lighting industry
Timothy Sommerer (Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, P. O. Box 8, Schenectady, New York 12301 USA)
14:40 RT1.02 Laser-Induced Fluorescence Plasma Ion Diagnostics
Roger McWilliams (University of California, Irvine)

Session RO1. Coherent Radiation and Coherent Radiation-Based Accelerators.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Cascade I, The Westin Seattle

14:00 RO1.01 Gyro-amplifiers modeling with MAGY
Baruch Levush (Naval Research Laboratory), Khanh Nguyen (KN Research), Moti Botton (University of Maryland), Alexander Vlasov (SAIC), Jr. Antonsen (University of Maryland), Naval Research Laboratory Collaboration
14:12 RO1.02 Cross-Platform Graphical User Interface with fast 3-D Rendering for Particle-in-Cell Simulations
David Bruhwiler, Kelly Luetkemeyer, John Cary (Tech-X Corporation)
14:24 RO1.03 X-Band Pulsed Magnicon for Next Linear Collider*
Oleg A. Nezhevenko, Vyacheslav P. Yakovlev, Jay L. Hirshfield (Omega-P, Inc.), Evgueny V. Kozyrev (Omega-P, Inc.**), Steven H. Gold, Arnold W. Fliflet (Naval Research Laboratory), Allen K. Kinkead (Sachs/Freeman Associates, Inc.)
14:36 RO1.04 A Model of Barium Coverage Evolution in Thermionic Cathodes and Its Relation to Noise
K. L. Jensen (Naval Research Laboratory), Y. Y. Lau (U. of Michigan), B. Levush (Naval Research Laboratory)
14:48 RO1.05 Characteristics of a plasma produced by high power short pulse microwaves
Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Hiroshi Amemiya (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)
15:00 RO1.06 Use of a High Power Microwave Source to Detect Superluminal Group Velocities
Mohammad Mojahedi, Kevin Malloy, Edl Schamiloglu, Frank Hegeler, Gregory Park (University of New Mexico)
15:12 RO1.07 Development of a 10 MW, 91 GHz Gyroklystron for W-Band Linear Accelerators
Jeff Nielson, Lawrence Ives (Calabazas Creek Research, Inc.), Wes Lawson, Melany Arjona (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland)
15:24 RO1.08 Linear Stability of Stationary Operating Density Profiles in a Crossed-Field, Electron Vacuum Device
D.J Kaup (Clarkson University), Gary E. Thomas (CPI, Beverly, MA)
15:36 RO1.09 Calculations of Shot Noise in Gyroklystrons
Arne Fliflet, Thomas Antonsen Jr., Jeffrey Calame, Bruce Danly (Vacuum Electronics Branch, Code 6841, Electronics Science and Technology Division Naval Research Laboratory)
15:48 RO1.10 Grating Couple Radiation in the Highly Relativistic Range
J.E. Walsh, J.H. Brownell, J.C. Swartz, S. Trotz (Dartmouth College), H. Kirk, R. Fernow, V. Yakimenko (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:00 RO1.11 RF Characterization of a Tunable, High-Gradient, X-Band Photoinjector
E.C. Landahl, F.V. Hartemann, A.L. Troha, J.R. Van Meter, D.J. Gibson (ILSA at LLNL), J.P. Heritage (UCD), Hector A. Baldis (ILSA at LLNL), Jr. Luhmann (UCD), C.H. Ho, T.T. Yang, M.J. Horny, J.Y. Hwang, W.K. Lau, M.S. Yeh (SRRC)
16:12 RO1.12 The Chirped-Pulse Inverse Free-Electron Laser
F.V. Hartemann, E.C. Landahl (ILSA at LLNL), L. Song (UCD), A.L. Troha, J.R. Van Meter, D.J. Gibson, H.A. Baldis (ILSA at LLNL), Jr. Luhmann (UCD)
16:24 RO1.13 Resonant Absorption of Bessel Beams
J. Fan, E. Parra, H.M. Milchberg (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
16:36 RO1.14 Vacuum electron acceleration in a coherent dipole field
A.L. Troha, E.C. Landahl, J.R. Van Meter (ILSA at LLNL), R.M. Alvis (LLNL), Jr. Luhmann (UCD), A.K. Kerman (MIT), F.V. Hartemann (ILSA at LLNL), R.R. Freeman (UCD), H.A. Baldis (ILSA at LLNL)
16:48 RO1.15 Simulation of Noise in a Traveling Wave Tube
J. P. Verboncoeur, P. J. Christenson, H. B. Smith (University of California at Berkeley)
17:00 RO1.16 Resonant absorption of a short-pulse laser in a doped dielectric
L. K. Ang, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, B. Qi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104)
17:12 RO1.17 Low frequency relativistic solitary waves
F. Pegoraro (Dip. Fis. and INFM Pisa Italy), N.M. Naumova (Gen. Phys. Inst. Moscow Russia), T.Zh. Esirkepov (Moscow Institute Physics Technology, Russia), S.V. Bulanov (Gen. Phys. Inst. Moscow Russia), F. Califano (INFM Pisa Italt), H. Ruhl (Theoretical Quantum Electronics, Darmstad, Germany)
17:24 RO1.18 Interaction of an electromagnetic wave packet with relativistic ionization front: role of Langmuir waves
Michael I. Bakunov (Department of Radiophysics, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Alexey V. Maslov (Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814)

Session RO2. Alcator C-MOD and Other Tokamaks.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Cascade II, The Westin Seattle

14:00 RO2.01 Recent Results from Alcator C-Mod
J.L. Terry (MIT-PSFC)
14:12 RO2.02 H-mode pedestal measurements on Alcator C-Mod
D. Mossessian, R. L. Boivin, R. Granetz, A. Hubbard, J. Hughes, J. Irby, B. LaBombard, Y. Lin, E. Marmar, T. Sunn Pedersen, C. S. Pitcher (MIT, PSFC), D. Johnson, G. Taylor (PPPL)
14:24 RO2.03 Impurity Transport and H-mode Edge Pedestals in Alcator C-Mod
R.S. Granetz, J.E. Rice, E.S. Marmar, T. Sunn Pedersen, I.H. Hutchinson (MIT PSFC)
14:36 RO2.04 Poloidal asymmetries in soft x-ray pedestals from Alcator C-Mod
T. Sunn Pedersen, R.S. Granetz, I.H. Hutchinson, D. Mossessian, S. Wolfe (MIT PSFC)
14:48 RO2.05 Ion Temperature Gradient Scale Length in Alcator C-Mod: Theory and Experiment
D. R. Mikkelsen, G. Taylor (Princeton U.), W. Dorland (U. Maryland), M. Greenwald, A. Hubbard, J. Irby, E. Marmar, D. Mossessian, J. Rice, S. Wolfe (M.I.T.)
15:00 RO2.06 Electron Power Deposition During ICRF Heating on C-Mod
G. Taylor, B. LeBlanc, C.K. Phillips, G. Schilling, J.R. Wilson (Princeton U.), A. Hubbard, Y. In, P. Bonoli, E. Nelson-Melby, S.J. Wukitch (MIT)
15:12 RO2.07 Observation of n=1 Resistive Interchange Mode in low-\beta Plasmas
Y. In, J.J. Ramos, A.E. Hubbard, I.H. Hutchinson, E. Marmar, M. Porkolab, J. Snipes, S. Wolfe (PSFC, MIT), G. Taylor (PPPL)
15:24 RO2.08 New Results from the Phase Contrast Imaging on Alcator C-Mod
A. Mazurenko, M. Porkolab, S.J. Wukitch (PSFC, MIT), G. Hallock, A. Shugart (FRC, University of Texas)
15:36 RO2.09 Cross-Field Particle Transport through the Separatrix and Scrape-off Layer in Alcator C-Mod
B. LaBombard, R.L. Boivin, J. Hughes, B. Lipschultz, D. Mossessian, C.S. Pitcher, J. Reardon, J.L. Terry, M. Umansky (PSFC, MIT)
15:48 RO2.10 Impurity Screening Studies on Alcator C-Mod
J.A. Goetz, B. LaBombard, B. Lipschultz, C.S. Pitcher, J.L. Terry, J.E. Rice (MIT PSFC)
16:00 RO2.11 2-D Profiles of Volume Recombination in the Alcator C-Mod Divertor
C. J. Boswell, J. L. Terry, B. Lipschultz, J. A. Goetz, B. LaBombard (MIT - PSFC)
16:12 RO2.12 Optimisation of Confinement above the Greenwald Density in TEXTOR-94
A.M. Messiaen, G. Mank, J.P.H.E. Ongena, B. Unterberg, TEXTOR-94 team (Trilateral Euregio Cluster)
16:24 RO2.13 Isotopic dependence of Confinement and Performances in freshly Siliconized Discharges in the circular limiter tokamak TEXTOR-94
J.P.H.E. Ongena, P. Dumortier, A.M. Messiaen, B. Unterberg, G. Van Wassenhove, TEXTOR-94 team (Trilateral Euregio Cluster)
16:36 RO2.14 Plasma Profile changes caused by variations in Transport and Heating Profiles
J.P. Christiansen (JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon., UK), J.G. Cordey, B. Balet (JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon., U.K.)
16:48 RO2.15 ExB Shearing in JET ELMy H-mode Pulses
R.V. Budny, D.R. Ernst (PPPL, Princeton University), J.G. Cordey, R. Sartori, M.G. Von Hellermann (JET), JET Team
17:00 RO2.16 Edge Stability in Disappearance of Giant ELMs in JT-60U High Triangularity Discharges
T. Oikawa, Y. Kamada (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), L.L. Lao (General Atomics)
17:12 RO2.17 Characterization of the Compact Toroid Injection Experiment
Kevin Baker, Harry McLean, Robert Horton, Russell Evans, Steven Terry (University of California, Davis)

Session RM1. Mini-Conference on Dusty Plasmas: Strong Coupling Effects, Part II and Fusion and Industrial Applications.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Fifth Avenue, The Westin Seattle

14:00 RM1.01 Condensed Plasmas: liquid and crystalline states
Gregor Morfill (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik)
14:30 RM1.02 Active Controls of Fine-Particle Clouds in Plasmas
Noriyoshi Sato (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
15:00 RM1.03 Measurements of three-dimensional structures and transport in dc glow discharge dusty plasmas
Edward Thomas Jr., Michael Watson (Fisk University)
15:30 RM1.04 Dust in Fusion Devices
Joerg Winter (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
16:15 RM1.05 Dusty plasmas: diagnostics and industrial perspectives.
Gerrit Kroesen, Geert Swinkels, Winfred Stoffels, Eva Stoffels (Eindhoven University of Technology), EPG Team
17:00 RM1.06 Generation and Growth of Nanometer-Particles in Processing Plasmas
Uwe Kortshagen, Upendra Bhandarkar, Steven L. Girshick (Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota), Mark T. Swihart (Chemical Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY))

Session RM2. Mini-Conference on Computational Studies of Complexity in Turbulent Plasma, Part III.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Vashon, The Westin Seattle

14:00 RM2.01 Effects of zonal flows on turbulent transport scalings
Zhihong Lin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
14:40 RM2.02 Break
15:00 RM2.03 Influence of Dynamics on Relaxation of 2D Turbulence: From Minimum Enstrophy States to Vortex Crystals.
D.Z. Jin, E.J. Moreau, D.H.E Dubin, C.F. Driscoll (UCSD)
16:20 RM2.04 Diagnosing Simulations of Plasma Turbulence
W.M. Nevins, B.I. Cohen, A. Dimits, D. Shumaker (LLNL), Zihong Lin (PPPL), S.E. Parker (U. of CO)
16:20 RM2.04 Diagnosing Simulations of Plasma Turbulence
W.M. Nevins, B.I. Cohen, A. Dimits, D. Shumaker (LLNL), Zihong Lin (PPPL), S.E. Parker (U. of CO)

Session RP1. Poster Session.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Grand III, The Westin Seattle

Links to specific topics:

Chaos, Turbulence, and Plasma Structures, RP1.01-RP1.35
Spherical Torus: Pegasus, CDX-U, HIT-II, RP1.36-RP1.64
Theory: Waves and Particles, Boundaries and Edges, RP1.65-RP1.93
Astrophysical Plasmas, RP1.94-RP1.116

Chaos, Turbulence, and Plasma Structures

RP1.01 Signatures of Strong Langmuir Turbulence in Large-scale Irregularities
J. P. Sheerin (Eastern Michigan Univ.)
RP1.02 A Controlled Shear Decorrelation Experiment (CSDX)
George Tynan (University of California, San Diego)
RP1.03 Measurements of E x B driven rotation in PHLUX
Gregory Lampkin, Cleon Barnett, Edward Thomas, Michael Watson, B. Kent Wallace (Fisk University)
RP1.04 Measurements Of Natural and Driven Oscillations in PHLUX
Cleon Barnett, Gregory Lampkin, Tom Obufa, Candis Adams, Edward Thomas, Michael Watson, Kent Wallace (Fisk University)
RP1.05 Ionization Instabilities and Fluctuations in DC Glow Discharge Plasmas
Bryan Kent Wallace, Edward Thomas, Michael Watson, Gregory Lampkin, Cleon Barnett (Fisk University)
RP1.06 Ar plus Ar+ Turbulent Processes in Stationary High Density High Temperature Plasmas*
Erick May, Kyron Williams, Richard Appartaim, J. A. Johnson III (Florida Aamp;M University)
RP1.07 Turbulence Induced Distortion of Resonance Absorption in a Glow Discharge Tube's Plasma*
J. A. Johnson III, Stephen Roberson, Kyron Williams, Richard Appartaim (Florida A&M University)
RP1.08 Turbulent Plasma Fluctuations are Measured Using 2-D Fast Phosphor Diagnostic Imaging Techniques
Andreas Liebscher, Stan Luckhardt (Fusion Energy Research Program, UC San Diego), Stewart Zweben (PPPL, Princeton University)
RP1.09 Strong Turbulence in Alkali Halide Negative Ion Plasmas
Daniel Sheehan (Dept. Physics, University of San Diego)
RP1.10 Symbolic precursors of noise-driven instabilities
Eugene R. Tracy (William and Mary), Dennis M. Weaver (Saint Leo's College)
RP1.11 Magnetohydrodynamic Axisymmetric Turbulence
Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi (University of Central Florida)
RP1.12 On the Characterization of BGK Wave Packets in Langmuir Turbulence
C. Holland, P.H. Diamond (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319), A. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK S7N OWO Canada)
RP1.13 Feedback Control of Drift Wave Turbulence and Chaos
Charles Figarella, Saddrudin Benkadda, Peter Beyer, Philippe Gabbai (Equipe Dynamique des Systèmes Complexes, LPIIM, CNRS -- Université de Provence, Marseille, France), Xavier Garbet (Association Euratom--CEA sur la Fusion, CEA Cadarache, France), Amiya Sen (Columbia University, New York)
RP1.14 Turbulence Closures in MHD - an Integrity Basis Formulation
G Vahala (William amp; Mary), T Gatski (NASA Langley Research Center), L Vahala (Old Dominion University)
RP1.15 Geometric Properties of Passive Random Advection.
S. A. Boldyrev (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara), A. A. Schekochihin (Princeton University.)
RP1.16 Passive Particle Dynamics in the Kolmogorov Flow
Peter Beyer, Saddrudin Benkadda (Equipe Dynamique des Systèmes Complexes, LPIIM, CNRS -- Université de Provence, Marseille, France), George Zaslavsky (Courant Institute, New York)
RP1.17 Lagrangian Coordinates and the Chaotic Advection of a Magnetic Field
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Allen Boozer (Dept. of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY)
RP1.18 Symbolic Cycles Distribution for Chaotic Signals and Turbulent Fluctuations
M. Lehrman, A.B. Rechester (Institute of Nonlinear Science Applications)
RP1.19 The chaotic behavior of the system where the ion-ion instability is excited
Masaaki Matsukuma, Kenta Kaimoto, Yoshinobu Kawai (Department of advanced Energy Engineering Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University)
RP1.20 Statistical Dynamics of Pressure-Coupled Burgerlence
J. Fleischer, P.H. Diamond (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)
RP1.21 Models of self-consistent transport
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
RP1.22 Hydrodynamic Regimes of Zonal Flows Instability in Geostrophic Fluids and Plasmas
L. Breznev, A.I. Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 Canada), P.H. Diamond, V.I. Shevchenko (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA)
RP1.23 Global Drift Wave Map Test Particle Simulations of Enhanced Confinement
Jae-Min Kwon (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Wendell Horton, P. Zhu, P.J. Morrison (Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin), Hyoung-Bin Park, Duk-In Choi (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
RP1.24 Structure of Edge Plasma Fluctuations: Monofractal or Multifractal
B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch (ORNL), D. Newman (U. of Alaska-Fairbanks), C. Hidalgo, R. Balbin, E. Sanchez, B. van Milligen, I. Garcia-Cortes, M. A. Pedrosa (CIEMAT), J. Bleuel, M. Endler (Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik)
RP1.25 Anomalous Diffusion Model
V. E. Lynch, B. A. Carreras, K. M. Ferreira (ORNL), G. M. Zaslavsky (NYU)
RP1.26 SOC dynamics with the addition of classical diffusion
Raul Sanchez (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain), David Newman (Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks), B. A. Carreras (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
RP1.27 Self-Organized Criticality Associated with Force-Free States
G. G. Craddock (Albuquerque, NM), P. H. Diamond (University of California, San Diego), P. W. Terry (University of Wisconsin, Madison), D. E. Newman (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
RP1.28 Envelope formalism approach to modulation: modulational interaction between drift-wave and streamer
Stephanie Champeaux, Patrick Diamond (University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman drive, La Jolla CA 92093-0319)
RP1.29 Observed Long-Living Rigid-Body Filamentary Structures in Tokamak Plasmas
V.A. Rantsev-Kartinov, A.B. Kukushkin (INF RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia)
RP1.30 Large Amplitude Solitary Hole in Relativistic Electron Beam
Vladimir I. Lapshin, Vasili I. Maslov, Ivan V. Tkachenko (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technoogy, 310108, Kharkov, Ukraine, e-mail: maslov@rocketmail.com)
RP1.31 Solitary Precursor of Large Amplitude
Alexej M. Egorov, Vasili I. Maslov, Ivan N. Onishchenko (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technoogy, 310108, Kharkov, Ukraine, e-mail: maslov@rocketmail.com)
RP1.32 Transformation of Ion-Acoustic Double Layer with Small Amplitude into Strong Double Layer
Vasili I. Maslov (NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technoogy, 310108, Kharkov, Ukraine, e-mail: maslov@rocketmail.com)
RP1.33 Excitation and propagation of negative-potential solitons and shocks in an electronegative plasma
T. E. Sheridan (Plasma Research Laboratory, Australian National University)
RP1.34
RP1.35 Dynamics of Electron Phase-Space Holes in a 2-D Magnetized Plasma
D. L. Newman, M. V. Goldman (University of Colorado)

Spherical Torus: Pegasus, CDX-U, HIT-II

RP1.36 Future Directions for the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment
R. Fonck, PEGASUS Team
RP1.37 Plasma Behavior in the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment
T. Thorson, PEGASUS Team
RP1.38 Magnetic Equilibrium Studies on the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment
A. Sontag, R. Fonck, M. Ono, T. Thorson, K. Tritz
RP1.39 Design and Initial Operation of the Soft X-ray j(R) Diagnostic on the PEGASUS Toroidal Experiment
K. Tritz, R. Fonck, A. Sontag, T. Thorson
RP1.40 Wall Conditioning and Impurity Measurements in the PEGASUS Experiment
M. Ono, R. Fonck, R. Toonen, T. Thorson, K. Tritz, G. Winz
RP1.41 Toroidally Viewing Interferometry, Polarimetry and Collective Scattering on Pegasus
Tony Peebles, Xuan Nguyen (UCLA), Tim Thorson, Ray Fonck (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
RP1.42 Transport Measurements of Ohmic and RF-Heated Plasmas in CDX-U
T. Munsat, B. LeBlanc, P. Efthimion, B. Jones, R. Kaita, H. Kugel, R. Majeski, A. Menard, A. Post-Zwicker, J. Rosenberg, G. Spaleta, V. Taylor (Princeton University), D. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), T. Hoffman (Drexel University), Miller (University of Massachussetts, Lowell)
RP1.43 The CDX-U multilayer mirror array
M. Iovea, D. Stutman, V. Soukhanovskii, M. Finkenthal (Johns Hopkins University), T. Munsat, J. Menard, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, B. Jones, J. Spaleta, G. Taylor, P. Efthimion (Princeton University), D. Hoffman (Drexel University)
RP1.44 Liquid lithium wall experiments in CDX-U
R. Kaita, R. Majeski, P. Efthimion, B. Jones, H. Kugel, J. Menard, T. Munsat, A. Post-Zwicker, A. Rosenberg, J. Spaleta, G. Taylor (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Finkenthal, M. Iovea, V. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), R. Conn, R. Doerner, S. Luckhardt (University of California at San Diego), D. Hoffman (Drexel University), T. Miller (University of Massachusetts at Lowell)
RP1.45 Radiated power accounting and impurity transport estimates at the CDX-U spherical torus using photodiode arrays and FUV spectroscopy.
V. A. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman, M. Iovea, M. Finkenthal, H. W. Moos (JHU), D. Hoffman (Drexel University), T. Munsat, J. Menard, R. Majeski, R. Kaita, B. Jones, J. Spaleta, G. Taylor, P. Efthimion (PPPL)
RP1.46 Impurity Flow and Ion Temperature Measurements in CDX-U using a Modulated Optical Solid-State Spectrometer
Andrew Post-Zwicker, Robert Kaita, Tobin Munsat (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Timothy Miller (University of Massachusetts at Lowell)
RP1.47 Null field formation and ohmic start-up in the CDX-U
Adam Rosenberg, Jon Menard, Richard Majeski, Robert Kaita, Tobin Munsat (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Daniel Hoffman (Drexel University), CDX-U Team
RP1.48 Studies of rotamak current drive in CDX-U
R. Majeski, B. Jones, P. Efthimion, R. Kaita, H. Kugel, J. Menard, T. Munsat, A. Rosenberg, J. Spaleta, G. Taylor (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Finkenthal, M. Iovea, V. Soukhanovskii, D. Stutman (Johns Hopkins University), I. R. Jones (Flinders University), D. Hoffman (Drexel University)
RP1.49 Self-consistent strap current calculations using the RANT3D code
M.D. Carter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. Scarabosio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
RP1.50 The Helicity Injected Torus Program
T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, P. D. Jewell, J. E. Liptac, K. J. McCollam, R. Raman, A. J. Redd, J. A. Rogers, P. E. Sieck, U. Shumlak, R. J. Smith (University of Washington), M. Nagata, T. Uyama (Himeji Inst. of Tech., JAPAN)
RP1.51 Diagnosis and Control of Internal Reconnection Events (IREs) in the HIT--II Spherical Tokamak
A.J. Redd, T.R. Jarboe, P.D. Jewell, K.J. McCollam, B.A. Nelson, R. Raman, P.E. Sieck, R.J. Smith (University of Washington)
RP1.52 Current Drive in the Helicity Injected Torus--II (HIT--II)
K. J. McCollam, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, U. Shumlak (University of Washington), M. Nagata, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology), S. Woodruff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
RP1.53 Multi-point Thomson Scattering First Results on the HIT-II Plasma
R. J. Smith, J. E. Liptac, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson (University of Washington), B. P. LeBlanc (PPPL), P. Phillips (University of Texas -- Austin)
RP1.54 Density Studies Using Single and Double-Chord Tangentially-Viewing Far Infrared (FIR) Interferometry on the HIT--II Experiment
P. D. Jewell, R. J. Smith, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson (University of Washington)
RP1.55 Multi-Point Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for the Helicity Injected Torus
J. E. Liptac, R. J. Smith, C. S. Hoffman, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson (University of Washington), B. P. LeBlanc (PPPL), P. Phillips (University of Texas -- Austin)
RP1.56 Engineering and Design of the Steady Inductive Helicity Injected Torus (HIT--SI)
P. E. Sieck, T. R. Jarboe, B. A. Nelson, J. A. Rogers, U. Shumlak (University of Washington)
RP1.57 Construction of TS-4 CT/ST Merging Device and Its Comparative Study of FRC, ST and Spheromaks
Y. Ono, H. Hayashiya, M. Inomoto, Y. Ueda, T. Matsuyama, Y. Ohshima, T. Murakami, M. Tsuruda, M. Katsurai (Univ. of Tokyo)
RP1.58 High-power Initial Heating of Spherical Tori in TS-3 Merging Experiment
Yoshinobu Ueda, Takashi Nakagawa, Yoichi Oshima, Yasushi Ono (Dept. E.E., Univ. of Tokyo)
RP1.59 Comparative Study of Low-aspect Torus Plasmas and Extension to the New Device TS-4
Yoichi Ohshima, Hiroyuki Toyota, Yasushi Ono, Makoto Katsurai (Tokyo Univ.)
RP1.60 Formation of Ultra-Low(1.02) Aspect Ratio Tokamak and Its Equlibrium Study with Varied External Toroidal Field
Mayuko Tsuruda, Yasushi Ono, Makoto Katsurai (Univ. of Tokyo)
RP1.61 Initial Results from the TST-2 Spherical Tokamak
Y. Takase, A. Ejiri, S. Shiraiwa, M. Ushigome, N. Kasuya, Y. Nagashima, T. Mashiko, H. Nozato, K. Yamagishi (University of Tokyo)
RP1.62 Magnetic measurements on TST-2
S. Shiraiwa, A. Ejiri, Y. Takase, M. Ushigome, N. Kasuya, Y. Nagashima, T. Mashiko, H. Nozato, K. Yamagishi (University of Tokyo)
RP1.63 Periodic Plasmoid Generation and Magnetic Reconnection Observed in the HIST Spherical Torus Experiment
M. Nagata, K. Goto, Y. Nasada, N. Yagi, N. Fukumoto, T. Uyama (Himeji Institute of Technology)
RP1.64 Computer Simulation of Helicity Injection Current Drive in Low Aspect Ratio Tokamaks
Y. Kagei, N. Amemiya (Yokohama National University)

Theory: Waves and Particles, Boundaries and Edges

RP1.65 RF Profile Control for Sustained Plasma Regimes
J Hosea, S. Bernabei, B. LeBlanc, R. Majeski, J. Menard, M. Ono, C. K. Phillips, G. Schilling, J. R. Wilson (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
RP1.66 Toroidal Effects on ICRF Heating and Minority Current Drive
Johan Carlsson (ORNL)
RP1.67 Lower Hybrid and Electron Cyclotron Current Drive With Bootstrap Current in Tokamaks
S.~D. Schultz (Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center, M.I.T.)
RP1.68 Hard X--Ray Emission Measurements in Discharges with Fully Electron-Cyclotron-Driven Current in the TCV Tokamak
S. Coda, O. Sauter, T.P. Goodman, M.A. Henderson, J.-P. Hogge, A. Pochelon (CRPP-EPFL, Switzerland), Y. Peysson (DRFC, CEA Cadarache, France)
RP1.69 The Non-Bounce-Averaged Calculation of Electron Cyclotron Current Drive Efficiency for Recent DIII-D Experiments
Y.R. Lin-Liu, V.S. Chan (General Atomics), O. Sauter (CRPP/EPFL), R.W. Harvey (CompX)
RP1.70 Effects of RF on Tokamak Plasma Near The Axis
S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M, Inc.), V.S. Chan, Y.R. Lin-Liu, Y.A. Omelchenko (General Atomics)
RP1.71 Generation of RF-Driven Radial Current and Plasma Rotation in a Tokamak
Y.A. Omelchenko, V.S. Chan, Y.R. Lin-Liu (General Atomics), S.C. Chiu (Sunrise Ramp;M, Inc.)
RP1.72 Finite-Bananna Width Effects and the Sustainment of ICRF-Induced Rotation
F. W. Perkins, R. B. White (Princeton Univ.)
RP1.73 Excitation of Cavity Resonance Mode in a Cylindrical Plasma Sustained by RF Heating Using a Slot Antenna
N. S. Yoon, B. H. Park (Korea Basic Science Institute)
RP1.74 Coupled Full-Wave and Ray-Tracing Numerical Treatment of Mode Conversion in a Tokamak Plasma
Yu.V. Petrov (PVAMU, Phys.Dept., Prairie View, 77446, USA), A. Becoulet (CEA, DRFC, Cadarache, F-13108, France), I. Monakhov (TRINITI, OFTR, Troitsk, 142092, Russia)
RP1.75 Fast Ion Diffusion by Driven Contained Modes
Daniel Clark, Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
RP1.76 Traveling-Wave Direct Energy Converter for Fusion Products
Kunihiro Sato (Himeji Institute of Technology), Hideaki Katayama (Maizuru National College of Technology)
RP1.77 Low Collisionality Steady State Tokamaks
Harold Weitzner (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
RP1.78 Predictive Study of Non-Inductive Current Drive Discharge Modes using Newly Upgraded ASTRA code in KSTAR
Myunghee Ju (Korea Basic Science Institute), Theory and Modeling Team
RP1.79 Magnetic Helicity Injection and Thermal Transport
Ronald Moses (LANL, T-3), Richard Gerwin, Kurt Schoenberg (LANL, P-24)
RP1.80 Transport Bifurcation Fronts and the H-Mode Pedestal Width Problem
V.B. Lebedev, P.H. Diamond (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319), B.A. Carreras (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8070)
RP1.81 Edge Transport-Barriers in Tokamaks using Consistent Profile and Turbulence Evolution
T.D. Rognlien, X.Q. Xu, R.H. Cohen, D.D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
RP1.82 A Reduced Model for Edge and SOL Drifts
D. A. D'Ippolito, J. R. Myra (Lodestar Research Corporation)
RP1.83 Turbulence produced by the electron temperature gradient sheath driven instability
Daniel McCarthy (Southeastern Louisiana University), Peter Catto, Sergei Krasheninnikov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
RP1.84 Induced plasma convection limited to the zone between the X-point and divertor plate
S.J. Fielding (UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association), R. H. Cohen, D.D. Ryutov (LLNL), P. Helender (UKAEA/Euratom)
RP1.85 Coupling of Parallelized DEGAS 2 and UEDGE Codes
D.P. Stotler, C.F.F. Karney (Princeton Univ.), M.E. Rensink, T.D. Rognlien (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
RP1.86 A time dependent 2D divertor code with TVD scheme for complex divertor configurations
K. Shimizu, T. Takizuka, T. Hirayama (Naka Fusion Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute)
RP1.87 Magnetic Field Influence in ALCATOR C-Mod MARFE Simulations
M.L. Adams (MIT), H.A. Scott (LLNL), A.Yu. Pigarov (MIT PSFC)
RP1.88 Benchmarking Calculations of Neutral Particle Transport in Plasmas
R. Rubilar, W.M. Stacey, J. Mandrekas (Fusion Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA)
RP1.89 Plasma Detachment and Impurity Transport in a Simulated Gas Target Divertor
L. M. Blush, L. Chousal, R. Doerner, S. Luckhardt, D. Whyte, R. W. Conn (Fusion Energy Research Program, University of California, San Diego)
RP1.90 Measurements and Modeling of Low-Energy Liquid Lithium Sputtering
J. P. Allain, M.R. Hendricks, M. Boaz, R. Ranjan, D.N. Ruzic (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
RP1.91 Liquid Metal Flows Encasing a Magnetic Cavity
A. B. Hassam, Deepak Goel, J. F. Drake, R. F. Ellis, D. P. Lathrop (University of Maryland, College Park)
RP1.92 Plasma Interactions with Solid and Liquid Lithium Surfaces
R.P. Doerner, A.A. Grossman, S.C. Luckhardt, R. Seraydarian, F.C. Sze, D.G. Whyte (University of California - San Diego)
RP1.93 Enhancement of TRIM.SP Sputtering Yields For Light, Low Energy Ions on Lithium and Gallium from Surface Binding Energy Reduction due to Liquid Surface Thermodynamics
Arthur A. Grossman, F. Sze, R. Doerner, S. Luckhardt (UCSD)

Astrophysical Plasmas

RP1.94 Modeling of a Divergent Geometry RM Experiment on Nova
J. Kane, K. S. Budil, B. A. Remington (LLNL)
RP1.95 Recent Results from Astrophysically Relevant Hydrodynamic Experiments on the Omega Laser
H.F. Robey, B.A. Remington, J.O. Kane, O. Hurricane (LLNL), R.P. Drake (U. of Mich.), R. Teyssier (CEA Saclay), J. Knauer (LLE)
RP1.96 Astrophysical Jets via Laser Plasma Interaction.
K. Estabrook, B. Remington, P. Rambo, D. Farley, E. Alley, J. Hammer, G. Zimmerman, J. Harte (LLNL), R. Kodama, T. Koase, Y. Ochi, H. Azechi, H. Takabe (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ.), K. Shigemori (LLNL and Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ.), N. Turner, J. Stone (Univ. of Maryland)
RP1.97 Simple theory of a blast wave for gases with the adiabatic index close to one
D.D. Ryutov, T. Ditmire, S.G. Glendinning, B.A. Remington, K. Shigemori (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
RP1.98 Pitch Angle Scattering of Cosmic Rays in the Interstellar Medium
Gian Marco Felice, Russell Kulsrud (Princeton University - Department of Astrophysical Sciences)
RP1.99 Strong astrophysical collisionless shocks: where their energy goes in?
M.A. Malkov, P.H. Diamond (University of California at San Diego), H.J. Voelk (MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
RP1.100 Possibility of Non-Ideal MHD (dissipative) Bending Modes
A. Seidel, B. Coppi, R. Bhatt (MIT)
RP1.101 Ideal MHD Theory of Bending Modes in Rotating Model Accretion Disks
Ronak Bhatt, Bruno Coppi, Alexander Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
RP1.102 Protostellar Jets: Laser Experiments and Astrophysical Simulations
Neal Turner (Astronomy Department, University of Maryland), Kent Estabrook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California), Jim Stone (Astronomy Department, University of Maryland), Bruce Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California)
RP1.103 Electron Acceleration by Ion Ring Distributions
John Tonge, John M. Dawson (University of California at Los Angeles)
RP1.104 Novel Driving Factor for Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks and Necessity of Finite Plasma Temperature
P. S. Coppi (Yale), B. Coppi (MIT)
RP1.105 Acceleration of the Solar Wind Ions
V.L. Shevchenko, V.L. Galinsky, M.V. Medvedev, S.K. Ride (UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093), R.Z. Sagdeev (U Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
RP1.106 Effect of magnetic boundary conditions on laboratory experiments simulating eruption of solar prominences
J. F. Hansen (Applied Physics, 128-95 Caltech, Pasadena CA 91125; 626-395-3986), P. M. Bellan (Applied Physics, 128-95 Caltech, Pasadena CA 91125; 626-395-4827)
RP1.107 Electrodynamics of neutrinos in plasmas
R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX), L.O. Silva, J.M. Dawson (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095), J.T. Mendonca (Centro de Fisica de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal), P.K. Shukla (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, D44780 Bochum, Germany)
RP1.108 Effect of the quantum uncertainty on the rate of nuclear reactions in the Sun
A.N. Starostin (TRINITI and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), V.I. Savchenko, N.J. Fisch (Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ 08540)
RP1.109 Differentiating Between Colored Random Noise and Deterministic Chaos with the Root Mean Squared Deviation
Brent Goode, John Cary, Isidoros Doxas (Center for Integrated Plasma Studies and Department of Physics, University of Colorado)
RP1.110 Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Using Exponential Propagation
Mayya Tokman, Paul Bellan, Daniel Meiron (Caltech)
RP1.111 CALE Simulation of the Spherically Divergent NLUF 2 Experiment
O.A. Hurricane, B. Remington (LLNL), R.P. Drake (U. of Michigan), H. Robey, J. Kane (LLNL), R. Teyssier (CEA-Saclay, France)
RP1.112 The Madison Dynamo Experiment
HW Canary, CB Forest, R O'Connell, JM Goldwin, RD Kendrick, MD Nornberg, EJ Spence, EM Reither (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
RP1.113 Initial operation with sodium in the Madison Dynamo Experiment.
R. Kendrick, EJ Spence, C. B. Forest, R. O'Connell, MD Nornberg, HW Canary (University of Wisconsin-Madison), A. Wright (Argonne), K. Robinson (ETEC)
RP1.114 Simulations of initial MHD experiments on the Madison Dynamo Experiment
R. O'Connell, C.B. Forest, J.M. Goldwin, R.D. Kendrick, H.W. Canary, M.D. Nornberg, A. Jaun (KTH, Sweden)
RP1.115 Dynamic Modeling of the Madison Dynamo Experiment
J.L. Truitt, C.B. Forest, J.C. Wright (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
RP1.116 Diagnostics for Measuring Magnetic and Velocity Fields in the Madison Dynamo Experiment
M.D. Nornberg, C.B. Forest, R. O'Connell, E.J. Spence (University of Wisconsin-Madison)