Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 6 OCTOBER 1999

Session JW1. Electron Collisions With Excited Atoms and Molecules.

Wednesday afternoon, 16:00, Stratford Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

16:00 JW1.01 Electron-Impact Excitation out of the Metastable Levels of Rare Gas Atoms
Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
16:30 JW1.02 Coincident Electron-Energy-Loss Study of Highly Excited Molecules
N. Kouchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
17:00 JW1.03 Elastic and inelastic electron scattering by laser-excited 138Ba(... 6s6p 1P1) atoms
M.A. Khakoo (California State University, Department of Physics, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA)
17:30 JW1.04 Electron Interactions with Excited Atoms
Loucas Christophorou, James Olthoff (NIST)
17:45 JW1.05 Electron Interactions with Excited Molecules
Loucas Christophorou, James Olthoff (NIST)
18:00 JW1.06 Polarized Electron Impact Excitation of ArII*
H.M. Al-Khateeb, B.G. Birdsey, T.J. Gay (University of Nebraska)
18:15 JW1.07 Dissociative electron attachment to vibrationally and rotationally excited H_2 molecule
Y. Xu, I.I. Fabrikant (University of Nebraska)

Session JW2. Simulations and Modeling.

Wednesday afternoon, 16:00, York Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

16:00 JW2.01 Pulsed Power Excitation and Instabilities in Low Pressure Electronegative Discharges
Michael A. Lieberman (University of California, Berkeley)
16:30 JW2.02 Approximation Methods for Plasma-Surface Processes
David Graves (University of California at Berkeley)
17:00 JW2.03 Strategies for Rapidly Developing Plasma Chemistry Models
Mark J. Kushner (University of Illinois, Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Engr., Urbana, IL 61801 USA)
17:30 JW2.04 Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Sections for Polyatomic Molecules, Radicals, and Ions
Yong-Ki Kim (NIST)
18:00 JW2.05 Numerical Simulation of a Constant Current Density Discharge in a Flowing Plasma
Graham Candler, Manoj Nagulapally (University of Minnesota), Christophe Laux, Charles Kruger (Stanford University)
18:15 JW2.06 An effort at parallelizing numerical simulations of plasma discharges.
J.M. Truxon, Yu. Sosov, J.R. Gottschalk, C.E. Theodosiou (University of Toledo), Jr. Williamson (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)