Session NO1: NSTX

Chair: Todd Evans, General Atomics
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon G


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

NO1.00001: Research directions and highlights from the 2006 NSTX experiments.
R. Raman

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

NO1.00002: NSTX Experiments with Evaporated Lithium Coatings on Plasma-Facing Surfaces
M.G. Bell , H.W. Kugel , R. Kaita , R.P. Majeski , D.K. Mansfield , L.A. Roquemore , C.H. Skinner , J.R. Timberlake , L.E. Zakharov

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

NO1.00003: Observation of the Enhanced High-k Spectra during H-mode Phase on NSTX.
H.K. Park , D.R. Smith , E. Mazzucato , M. Bell , R. Bell , B. Leblanc , S. Kaye , R. Maingi , C.W. Domier , N.C. Luhmann, Jr.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

NO1.00004: The Enhanced Pedestal H-mode in NSTX
R. Maingi , R.E. Bell , D.A. Gates , S.M. Kaye , B.P. LeBlanc , J.E. Menard , S.A. Sabbagh , F. Levinton , H. Yuh

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

NO1.00005: Study of the Relationship between Type I ELM Severity and Perturbed Electron Transport in NSTX
Kevin Tritz , D. Stutman , L. Delgado-Aparicio , M. Finkenthal , R. Bell , B. LeBlanc , S. Kaye , R. Maingi , S. Sabbagh

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

NO1.00006: Developments in plasma shaping experiments on NSTX
D.A. Gates , J.E. Menard , D. Mueller , T. Stevenson

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

NO1.00007: Error field identification and correction in NSTX high beta-N plasmas
J.E. Menard , D.A. Gates , C.A. Ludescher , D.M. Mastrovito , S.A. Sabbagh , A.C. Sontag

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

NO1.00008: RWM Stabilization Physics in NSTX
A.C. Sontag , S.A. Sabbagh , J.M. Bialek , R.E. Bell , D.A. Gates , J.E. Menard , A.H. Glasser , K.L. Tritz

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

NO1.00009: Hole-clump Pair Suppression with HHFW on NSTX
E.D. Fredrickson , N.N. Gorelenkov , S.S. Medley , S. Bernabei , J.R. Wilson , J. Menard , W. Heidbrink , H. Berk , S. Kubota , N. Crocker , W.A. Peebles , R.W. Harvey

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

NO1.00010: New beam driven modes below the geodesic acoustic frequency in NSTX
Nikolai Gorelenkov , E. Fredrickson , H. Berk

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

NO1.00011: HHFW Propagation and Damping Properties on NSTX versus B$_{\Phi }$ and Antenna k$_{\vert \vert }$
J. Hosea , R. Bell , S. Bernabei , B. LeBlanc , C.K. Phillips , J.R. Wilson , S. Sabbagh , L. Delgado-Aparicio , K. Tritz , P. Ryan , J. Wilgen

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

NO1.00012: Thermal Electron Bernstein Wave Emission Measurements on NSTX
S.J. Diem , G. Taylor , P. Efthimion , B.P. LeBlanc , C.K. Phillips , J. Caughman , J. Wilgen , R.W. Harvey , J. Preinhaelter , J. Urban

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

NO1.00013: MARFE structure and dynamics in NSTX
Ricardo Maqueda , Rajesh Maingi , Charles Bush , Kevin Tritz , K.C. Lee

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

NO1.00014: Supersonic gas jet fueling experiments in NSTX
V.A. Soukhanovskii , H.W. Kugel , R. Kaita , A.L. Roquemore , M.G. Bell , R.E. Bell , D.A. Gates , T. Gray , B.P. LeBlanc , J.E. Menard , D.P. Stotler , R. Raman , C.E. Bush , R. Maingi

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

NO1.00015: Dynamic retention and deposition in NSTX measured with quartz microbalances
C.H. Skinner , H.W. Kugel , A.L. Roquemore , R. Maingi , W.R. Wampler

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Session NO2: Advances in Plasma Simulation II

Chair: Andris Dimits, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon H


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

NO2.00001: Recent progress from Simulation of Wave Interactions with MHD (SWIM)
Donald Batchelor

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

NO2.00002: Solution of the Helical Grad-Shafranov Equation for Magnetic Fields with Islands
Daniel Raburn , Ravi Samtaney , Donald Monticello , Allan Reiman

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

NO2.00003: Axisymmetric MHD Simulations of Pellet Ablation
Roman Samulyak , Tianshi Lu , Paul Parks

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

NO2.00004: Full Orbit PIC in NIMROD
Charlson Kim

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

NO2.00005: Effects of Ion Landau Damping and Vortex Generation on the Kinetic Internal Kink Model
Hiroshi Naitou , Keiichi Ishida , Kenji Ishida , Jean-Noel Leboeuf , Masatoshi Yagi , S. Tokuda

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

NO2.00006: New time-adaptive technique for stiff gas dynamics and MHD
Y.A. Omelchenko , H. Karimabadi , M.L. Goldstein , A.V. Usmanov

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

NO2.00007: Grid-Free Particle Simulations for Electrostatic Plasmas
Robert Krasny , Ben Sonday , Lyudmyla Barannyk , Andrew Christlieb

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

NO2.00008: On a Primal Coarse Projective Integration Method for Multiscale Simulations
Milos Skoric , Seiji Ishiguro , Sandra Maluckov

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

NO2.00009: Is PIC-MCC the right tool for the job?
Andrew Christlieb

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

NO2.00010: Particle dynamics and energization at the earth bow shock.
Richard Marchand , Frances Mackay , Jianyong Lu , Konstantin Kabin , Robert Rankin

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

NO2.00011: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO BO2.00015


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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

NO2.00012: Viscous Heating of Ions through Saturated Fine-Scale MHD Instabilities in a Z-Pinch at 200-300 KeV Temperature
Malcolm Haines , Christine Coverdale , Chris Deeney , P. David Lepell , Brent Jones , J.P. Apruzese

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

NO2.00013: Evidence of Non-Classical Transport in Discharge Hollow Cathodes
Ioannis Mikellides , Ira Katz , Dan Goebel , Kristina Jameson

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

NO2.00014: HDF5WS -- Web Service for Remote Access of Simulation Data
Svetlana Shasharina , Chuang Li , Rooparani Pundaleeka , Nanbor Wang , David Wade-Stein , David Schissel , Qian Peng

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

NO2.00015: Cross Sections for Charge Exchange and Ionization of High Energy Ions in Noble Gases
Linchun Wu , Hiromu Momota , George H. Miley

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Session NO3: Short-Pulse Lasers and Fast Ignition

Chair: Todd Ditmire, University of Texas at Austin
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon KL


Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

NO3.00001: Status of the OMEGA EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser Facility
C. Stoeckl , J. Bromage , J.H. Kelly , T.J. Kessler , B.E. Kruschwitz , S.J. Loucks , R.L. McCrory , D.D. Meyerhofer , S.F.B. Morse , A.L. Rigatti , T.C. Sangster , W. Theobald , L.J. Waxer , J.D. Zuegel

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

NO3.00002: High-resolution 15-100 keV K-alpha radiography for high-energy density experiments
Hye-Sook Park , R. Tommasini , M. Key , A. MacKinnon , P. Patel , B. Remington , M. Tabak , R. Towm , C. A. Back , E. Giraldez , C. Stoeckl , W. Theobald

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

NO3.00003: Characterization of Fast-Electron Beam Propagation Through Solid-Density Matter by Optical Transition Radiation
M. Storm , J. Myatt , C. Stoeckl

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

NO3.00004: Anomalous Transmission through Thin Al Foils Driven by High Contrast Ultra-intense Laser
T. Matsuoka , T. Lin , S. Reed , A. Maksimchuk , A.A. Batishcheva , J. Fox , O.V. Batishchev , V.Yu. Bychenkov

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

NO3.00005: Integrated 1D PIC Simulation of Fast Ignition
Brian Chrisman , Yasuhiko Sentoku , A. Kemp , T. Cowan

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

NO3.00006: The Channeling Effect in the Underdense Plasma
G. Li , C. Ren , V.N. Goncharov , W.B. Mori

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

NO3.00007: Beam-plasma interaction analyzed by a hybrid simulation code
Toshihiro Taguchi , Kunioki Mima

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

NO3.00008: Relativistic electron transport in wire and foil targets driven by intense short pulse lasers
R.J. Mason , R.B. Stephens , M. Wei , R.R. Freeman , J. Hill , L.D. Van Woerkom

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

NO3.00009: Energy transport experiments using the Vulcan petawatt laser facility
Peter Norreys

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

NO3.00010: Collisional Relaxation of Super Thermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Thin Solid Targets
Andreas Kemp , Emmanuel d'Humieres , Yasuhiko Sentoku , Hui Chen , Hyun Chung , Stephanie Hansen , Ronnie Shepherd , Scott Wilks

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

NO3.00011: Three-dimensional fast electron transport for ignition-scale inertial fusion targets
Javier Honrubia , Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

NO3.00012: Instabilities of Relativistic Electron Beams in Plasmas: Spatial Growth and Absolute Instability
R.W. Short , J. Myatt

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

NO3.00013: K-alpha X-rays, Hot Electrons and Electron Jets from Sub-millijoule Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Cristina Serbanescu , Dmitri Romanov , Clarence Capjack , Valery Bychenkov , Wojciech Rozmus , Robert Fedosejevs

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

NO3.00014: Spatial evolution of femtosecond-laser-induced aluminum plasma observed by picosecond time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Yasuaki Okano , Katsuya Oguri , Takeshi Kai , Ryou Fujii , Hiroaki Nishimura , Tadashi Nishikawa , Hidetoshi Nakano

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

NO3.00015: Single-shot time resolved measurement of molecular alignment in laser-irradiated gases: application to `self-channeled' plasma columns
Sanjay Varma , Yu-hsin Chen , Ilya Alexeev , Raphael Moon , Howard Milchberg

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