Session NI1: Plasma Edge and Divertor

Chair: Steve Allen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon ABF


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 10:00AM

NI1.00001: Superdense Plasma in LHD
Invited Speaker: Tomohiro Morisaki

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:00AM - 10:30AM

NI1.00002: Nonlinear dynamics of the tokamak edge plasmas
Invited Speaker: Ahmet Y. Aydemir

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 11:00AM

NI1.00003: Carbon Sources, Scrape-Off Layer Transport, and Deposition in DIII-D
Invited Speaker: M. Groth

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:00AM - 11:30AM

NI1.00004: Achievement of Low Recycling and High Power Density Handling in CDX-U with Lithium Plasma-Facing Components
Invited Speaker: Robert Kaita

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 12:00PM

NI1.00005: Characterization of Zonal Flows and Their Dynamics in Experiment and Simulation
Invited Speaker: C. Holland

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:00PM - 12:30PM

NI1.00006: Geometric Gyrokinetic Theory for Edge Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Hong Qin

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Session NI2: Space and Astrophysical Plasmas: Energetic Phenomena

Chair: R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon CDE


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 10:00AM

NI2.00001: A New Approach in Modeling the Large Scale Structure of Magnetically Dominated Astrophysical Jets
Invited Speaker: Hui Li

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:00AM - 10:30AM

NI2.00002: The Evolution of Magnetic Tower Jets in the Laboratory and in Astrophysics
Invited Speaker: Andrea Ciardi

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 11:00AM

NI2.00003: Magnetically-Dominated Jets inside Collapsing Stars as a Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernova Explosions
Invited Speaker: Dmitri Uzdensky

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:00AM - 11:30AM

NI2.00004: Experiment on mass-stripping of interstellar cloud following shock passage
Invited Speaker: J. Freddy Hansen

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 12:00PM

NI2.00005: Modeling the Magnetospheres of Luminous Stars: Interactions Between Supersonic Radiation-Driven Winds and Stellar Magnetic Fields
Invited Speaker: Stanley Owocki

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:00PM - 12:30PM

NI2.00006: Creating a Driven, Collapsed Radiative Shock in the Laboratory
Invited Speaker: Amy Reighard

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