Nov 17 2008 8:00AM, Monday

Session AR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations I Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland Room: Landmark A/B
Invited Speakers:  Stewart Prager,  T.M. O'Neil 

Nov 17 2008 9:45AM, Monday

Session BI1 Inertial Confinement Fusion Chair: Douglas Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  D.G. Hicks,  Hans Herrmann,  R.C. Mancini,  C.K. Li,  V.A. Smalyuk 

Session BI2 Rotation in Tokamaks Chair: John de Grassie, General Atomics Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  A.M. Garofalo,  Y. Liu,  Jeremy Hanson,  Francois Waelbroeck,  Yijun Lin 

Session BO3 Basic MHD, Turbulence, and Transport Chair: William Dorland, University of Maryland Room: Reunion A

Session BO4 Laser Plasma Pulse Compression/Laboratory Astrophysics Chair: Ilya Dodin, Princeton University Room: Reunion B

Session BO5 Nonlinear Waves, Simulation, and Modeling Chair: William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Reunion C

Session BP6 Poster Session I: Z-Pinches and High Energy Density Plasmas; Simulation and Modeling of Magnetic Confinement; Stellarators Room: Marsalis A/B, 9:45am - 12:45pm

Nov 17 2008 2:00PM, Monday

Session CI1 Magnetic Confinement I Chair: Piero Martin, Consorzio RFX - Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla fusione, Padova (Italy) Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  Katsumi Ida,  Rita Lorenzini,  C.T. Holcomb,  D.J. Den Hartog,  Kiyoshi Itami,  M.E. Mauel 

Session CT2 Tutorial: Using Space as a Nonlinear Plasma Laboratory Chair: Martin Lampe, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers: 

Session CO3 NSTX and Spherical Torus Chair: Stephen Knowlton, Auburn University Room: Reunion A

Session CO4 Fast Ignition I Chair: Brian Albright, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Reunion B

Session CO5 Hydrodynamic Instability Chair: Valeri Goncharov, University of Rochester Room: Reunion C

Session CP6 Poster Session II: Heating and Current Drive; Non-Neutral Plasmas; Basic Theory; MHD and Stability; LDX and MCX Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Nov 17 2008 3:00PM, Monday

Session DI2 Plasma-Based Acceleration Chair: Patric Muggli, University of Southern California Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  V. Malka,  Aghapi Mordovanakis,  B.A. Shadwick,  M. Tzoufras 

Nov 17 2008 5:15PM, Monday

Session EE1 Women in Plasma Physics Room: Reunion E

Nov 18 2008 8:00AM, Tuesday

Session FR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations II Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Landmark A/B
Invited Speakers:  Keith Matzen,  Mark J. Kushner 

Nov 18 2008 9:45AM, Tuesday

Session GI1 Energetic Particles and MHD Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  M. Podesta,  N.N. Gorelenkov,  E. Edlund,  Kai Germaschewski,  Jong-kyu Park 

Session GI2 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas Chair: Peter Gary, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  L. Yin,  M.E. Koepke,  M.D. Nornberg,  Raoul Trines 

Session GO3 Research in Support of ITER Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics Room: Reunion A

Session GO4 Short Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego Room: Reunion B

Session GO5 Hohlraum Physics Chair: Mark Herrmann, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Reunion C

Session GP6 Poster Session III: Magnetic Reconnection; Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities; Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence and Transport; Magnetic Fusion Technology Room: Marsalis A/B, 9:45am - 12:45pm

Nov 18 2008 1:00PM, Tuesday

Session HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns for Junior Scientists Chair: Jill Foley, Nova Photonics, Inc./PPPL Room: Reunion A

Nov 18 2008 2:00PM, Tuesday

Session JI1 Reconnection Chair: Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  J. Egedal,  Paul Cassak,  A. Simakov,  A. Kuritsyn 

Session JT2 Tutorial: The Science of Spherical Tokamak Plasmas: Progress and Promise Chair: Martin Peng, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  Alan Sykes 

Session JO3 Alcator C-Mod, KSTAR, Ignitor Chair: Stewart Zweben, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Reunion A

Session JO4 Laser-Plasma Acceleration Chair: Brad Shadwick, University of Nebraska Room: Reunion B

Session JO5 X-Pinches and Z-Pinches Chair: Michael Cuneo, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Reunion C

Session JP6 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; DIII-D I; HBT-EP and Other Tokamaks; Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions and Equations of State for HEDP Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Nov 18 2008 3:00PM, Tuesday

Session KI2 Warm Dense Matter and Laser-Plasma Interactions Chair: Siegfried Glenzer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  Richard More,  Andrea Kritcher,  Kathryn Lancaster,  B.J. Albright 

Nov 18 2008 6:00PM, Tuesday

Session LE1 Student Appreciation Reception Room: Cotton Bowl

Nov 18 2008 7:30PM, Tuesday

Session LE2 Town Meeting on ITER Chair: James Van Dam, University of Texas Room: Landmark A

Nov 19 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

Session MR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations III Chair: Eugene Parker, University of Chicago Room: Landmark A/B
Invited Speakers:  Richard Fitzpatrick 

Nov 19 2008 9:45AM, Wednesday

Session NI1 Edge and Pedestal Physics in Tokamaks Chair: Earl Marmar, MIT Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  P.B. Snyder,  R. McDermott,  K.H. Burrell,  Grigory Kagan,  Choong-Seock Chang 

Session NI2 Intense Beams, Plasma Filaments, and Nonlinear Waves Chair: Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  David Pace,  A. Arefiev,  Ki-Yong Kim,  Y. Hidaka,  Adam Sefkow,  Sanjay Varma 

Session NO3 Magnetic Confinement II Chair: Donald Batchelor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: Reunion A

Session NO4 Laser-Plasma Interactions Chair: David S. Montgomery, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Reunion B

Session NO5 Compression and Burn I Chair: Richard Petrasso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Reunion C

Session NP6 Poster Session V: Dusty and Low Temperature Plasmas; Basic Plasma Physics and Simulation; MST, RFX-MOD, and Reversed Field Pinch; NSTX and Spherical Torus; General Spherical Torus Room: Marsalis A/B, 9:45am - 12:45pm

Session NM7 Miniconference on the Plasma Physics of the Solar Wind: From Parker (1958) to the Present I Chair: William Matthaeus, University of Delaware Room: Pegasus

Nov 19 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday

Session PT2 Tutorial: Experimental Investigation of Opacity Models for Stellar Interiors, Inertial Fusion, and High Energy Density Plasmas Chair: R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  J. Bailey 

Session PO3 DIII-D I Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin Room: Reunion A

Session PO4 Magnetic Reconnection and Basic Plasma Properties Chair: Troy Carter, University of California, Los Angeles Room: Reunion B

Session PO5 Dusty and Low Temperature Plasmas Chair: William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Reunion C

Session PP6 Poster Session VI: Low Temperature Plasmas; Laser Plasma Accelerators and Coherent Sources; C-Mod; Inertial Confinement and Laser-Plasma Interactions Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Session PM7 Miniconference on the Plasma Physics of the Solar Wind: From Parker (1958) to the Present II Chair: Gary Zank, University of Alabama in Huntsville Room: Pegasus

Nov 19 2008 3:00PM, Wednesday

Session QI1 Shocks and Shock-Driven Phenomena in High-Energy Density Plasmas Chair: Vladimir Smalyuk, University of Rochester Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  C.C. Kuranz,  Omar Hurricane,  T.R. Boehly 

Session QI2 Education and Outreach Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  Darlene Markevich,  Truell Hyde,  Donald Correll 

Nov 19 2008 5:15PM, Wednesday

Session RE1 DPP Business Meeting Room: Reunion A

Nov 19 2008 6:30PM, Wednesday

Session RE2 DPP Reception and Banquet Room: Reunion Ballroom E-H

Nov 20 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

Session SR0 Maxwell Prize Address Chair: John Lindl, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Landmark A/B
Invited Speakers: 

Nov 20 2008 9:30AM, Thursday

Session TI1 Low Temperature Plasmas and Technology Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  Francis F. Chen,  Yevgeny Raitses,  Yakov Krasik,  J.R. Danielson,  Joan Marler 

Session TI2 Boundaries, Fluctuations and Transport Chair: Robert La Haye, General Atomics Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  B. Lipschultz,  P. Valanju,  R. Maqueda,  J.H. Yu,  H. Yuh,  E. Belli 

Session TO3 Electron and Ion Beams Chair: Gennady Shvets, University of Texas Room: Reunion A

Session TO4 Long and Short Pulse Laser Matter Interactions and Transport Chair: Denise Hinkel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Reunion B

Session TO5 Compression and Burn II Chair: Thomas Boehly, University of Rochester Room: Reunion C

Session TP6 Poster Session VII: DIII-D II; KSTAR, FDF, ITER, Diagnostics; FRC and Spheromak; Basic Turbulence and Transport; Gyrokinetics Room: Marsalis A/B, 9:30am - 12:30pm

Session TM7 Miniconference on the Plasma Physics of the Solar Wind: From Parker (1958) to the Present III Chair: Marco Velli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Room: Pegasus

Nov 20 2008 2:00PM, Thursday

Session UI1 Basic Plasma Experiments Chair: Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Columbia University Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  M.R. Stoneking,  Q. Marksteiner,  F. Anderegg,  B.A. Grierson 

Session UT2 Tutorial: Use of Non-Axisymmetric Shaping in Magnetic Fusion Chair: Paul Terry, University of Wisconsin Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers: 

Session UO3 Diagnostics and Target Fabrication Chair: Christina Back, General Atomics Room: Reunion A

Session UO4 High Energy Density Plasmas and Warm Dense Matter Chair: Alexander Velikovich, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Reunion B

Session UO5 Low Temperature Plasmas and Electric Propulsion Chair: Philip Efthimion, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Reunion C

Session UP6 Poster Session VIII: Astrophysical and Space Plasmas; Laboratory Astrophysics; Beams, Coherent Radiation and Computation; Basic Plasma Experiment; Divertors, Edge Physics, and Fuelling Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Session UM7 Miniconference on the Plasma Physics of the Solar Wind: From Parker (1958) to the Present IV Chair: Benjamin Chandran, University of New Hampshire Room: Pegasus

Nov 20 2008 3:00PM, Thursday

Session VI2 Current Drive Chair: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  A.C. Sontag,  J.M. Park,  F. Volpe 

Nov 21 2008 8:00AM, Friday

Session XR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations IV Chair: Ian Hutchinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Landmark A/B
Invited Speakers:  James Meiss,  R.P. Drake 

Nov 21 2008 9:45AM, Friday

Session YI1 Fast Ignition II Chair: Richard Town Room: Landmark A
Invited Speakers:  C. Stoeckl,  A. Solodov,  Jonathan Davies,  J. Tonge,  P.K. Patel,  Anle Lei 

Session YI2 Transport and Zonal Flows Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Landmark B
Invited Speakers:  R. Sanchez,  Hideo Sugama,  D. Ernst,  L. Schmitz,  David Smith,  Weixing Wang 

Session YO3 Astrophysical and Space Plasmas Chair: Robert Lysak, University of Minnesota Room: Reunion A

Session YP6 Poster Session IX: Inertial Confinement Fusion and HEDP Experiments, Diagnostics and Drivers; Supplemental; Postdeadline Room: Marsalis A/B, 9:45am - 12:45pm

Nov 21 2008 12:45PM, Friday

Session ZR1 Door Prize Drawing Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire Room: Landmark B