Nov 2 2009 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: Realizing Steady State Tokamak Operation for Fusion Energy
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Steven Allen, LLNL/General Atomics

Nov 2 2009 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Reconnection in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial I Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BI3 Advances in Tokamaks: Core and Edge Physics
Room: Centennial II Chair: Robert Granetz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BO4 Magnetic Confinement Theory, Simulation and Modeling
Room: Regency VI Chair: Don Batchelor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

BO5 Hohlraum Physics
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Mordecai Rosen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO6 Microwaves, Compton Scattering and Accelerator Physics
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Kevin Felch, CPI

BP8 Poster Session I: Plasma Sources and Boundaries; Gyrokinetics and Turbulence; Complex, Non-neutral and Other Novel Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

BM9 Mini-Conference on Innovative Magnetic Mirror Concepts and Applications I
Room: The Learning Center Chair: Xianzhu Tang, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 2 2009 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 Accelerators, Beam Dynamics and Radiation
Room: Centennial I Chair: Joe Kwan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CT3 Tutorial: Flow driven MHD Instabilities in Weakly Magnetized Laboratory Experiments: Dynamos and MRI
Room: Centennial II Chair: Dylan Brennan, University of Tulsa

CO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: Regency VI Chair: Michael Mauel, Columbia University

CO5 Equation of State, Strength, and Hydrodynamics
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Tom Boehly, University of Rochester

CO6 Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence
Room: Hanover FG Chair: William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO7 Low Temperature Plasmas I
Room: Regency VII Chair: Michael Keidar, George Washington University

CP8 Poster Session II: Diagnostics, Heating, Current Drive; Diagnostics, Laser Plasma Interactions, and Fast Ignition
Room: Grand Hall East

CM9 Mini-Conference on Innovative Magnetic Mirror Concepts and Applications II
Room: The Learning Center Chair: E. Bick Hooper, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 2 2009 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Gyrokinetic Theory and Simulation
Room: Centennial II Chair: Ronald Waltz, General Atomics

Nov 2 2009 5:30PM, Monday

EE1 Panel Discussion: Tools Needed to Survive in Science
Room: Regency VI

Nov 2 2009 7:00PM, Monday

EE2 University Fusion Association General Meeting, including Town Meeting on DOE Research Needs Workshops
Room: Hanover CDE

Nov 2 2009 9:00PM, Monday

EE3 Town Hall Meeting on the High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma Research Needs Workshop
Room: Hanover FG

Nov 3 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Ion Acceleration using Ultra-high Intensity Lasers
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Chan Joshi, University of California, Los Angeles

Nov 3 2009 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Micro and Low-temperature Plasmas
Room: Centennial I Chair: Martin Lampe, Naval Research Laboratory

GI3 Islands, Kinks and Sawteeth
Room: Centennial II Chair: Jill Foley, Nova Photonics, Inc

GO4 C MOD Tokamak
Room: Regency VI Chair: Steve Allen, LLNL/General Atomics

GO5 Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Mike Cuneo, Sandia National Laboratories

GO6 Laser Acceleration and Transport; Radiation and FELs
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GP8 Poster Session III: ITER, General Tokamak, Simulation and Modeling; MHD, Linear and Nonlinear Phenomena; Waves and Instabilities in Basic Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

GM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature I: Reconnection Rate and Dynamics
Room: Regency V Chair: Giovanni Lapenta, Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium

Nov 3 2009 1:00PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: The Learning Center

Nov 3 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 ICF Compression, Equations of State and Z-pinches
Room: Centennial I Chair: Tom Mehlhorn, Sandia National Laboratories

JT3 Tutorial: Verification and Validation for Magnetic Fusion: Moving Toward Predictive Capability
Room: Centennial II Chair: Bill Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine

JO4 NSTX Spherical Torus
Room: Regency VI Chair: Houyang Guo, Tri Alpha Energy

JO5 Laser-plasma Coupling at Long Scale Lengths
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Larry Suter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO6 Waves, Turbulence, and Boundary Effects in Laboratory and Space Plasmas I
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico

JP8 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; DIII-D Tokamak II; Laser and Plasma Based Accelerators
Room: Grand Hall East

JM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature II: Impulsive Reconnection and Onset
Room: Regency V Chair: Tom Intrator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 3 2009 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Turbulent Transport Measurement and Modeling
Room: Centennial II Chair: Chris Holland, University of California, San Diego

Nov 3 2009 7:30PM, Tuesday

LE2 Town Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Steven Koonin, Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy
Room: Centennial I Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire

Nov 4 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Physics Progress of Reversed Field Pinch Magnetic Confinement
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Stewart Prager, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 ICF Capsules and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Room: Centennial I Chair: David Meyerhofer, University of Rochester

NI3 Plasma Rotation and Helical Equilibria
Room: Centennial II Chair: Eric Fredrickson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO4 International Tokamak Research and ITER
Room: Regency VI Chair: Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO5 Fast Ignition
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Richard Petrasso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NO6 Complex Plasmas
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Jeremiah Williams, Wittenberg University

NP8 Poster Session V: Electron and Ion Beams and Radiation Generation; Low Temperature Plasmas; Pinches, Equations of State, and Simulations; Edge
Room: Grand Hall East

NM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature III: 3D Reconnection and Diffusion Region
Room: Regency V Chair: Yasushi Ono, University of Tokyo

Nov 4 2009 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Tokamak Physics: Edge, Scrape-off Layer and Wall
Room: Centennial I Chair: Andrea Garofalo, General Atomics

PT3 Tutorial: ICF Ignition: The Lawson Criterion, and Comparison with MFE Ignition
Room: Centennial II Chair: Debra Callahan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PO5 High-intensity Short-pulse Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Christina Back, General Atomics

PO6 Waves, Turbulence, and Boundary Effects in Laboratory and Space Plasmas II
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Bill Dorland, University of Maryland

PP8 Poster Session VI: C-Mod; NSTX and General Spherical Torus; Simulation and Modeling of Basic Plasma Phenomena
Room: Grand Hall East

PM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature IV: Turbulence and Multiple Reconnections
Room: Regency V Chair: Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 ICF and Ignition
Room: Centennial II Chair: Debra Callahan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Hanover FG

Nov 4 2009 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 Reception and Banquet
Room: Centennial III/IV

Nov 5 2009 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Maxwell Prize Address: Taming Magnetically Confined Plasmas with RF Waves: A Historical Perspective
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Ronald Davidson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 5 2009 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Flows and Turbulence in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial I Chair: William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory

TI3 RF in Tokamaks and ITER
Room: Centennial II Chair: Paul Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TO4 Laser Wakefield Accelerators and Radiation Sources
Room: Regency VI Chair: David Bruhwiler, Tech-X Corporation

TO5 ICF Simulations and Target Fabrications
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

TO6 Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TO7 Shock Ignition, Diagnostics, and X-ray Sources
Room: Regency VII Chair: Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada

TP8 Poster Session VII: DIII-D Tokamak III; MST, RFP, and Stellarator; Magnetic Reconnection; Magneto-Inertial-Fusion
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 5 2009 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 Laser Wakefield Acceleration and Solid Target Interactions
Room: Centennial I Chair: Michael Downer, University of Texas

UI3 Basic Plasmas: Novel Plasmas in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial II Chair: Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University

UO4 Research In Support of ITER
Room: Regency VI Chair: Rich Hawryluk, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

UO5 Compression and Burn
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Richard Town, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO6 Basic Plasma Phenomena: Theory and Simulation
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory

UO7 Magneto Inertial Fusion & Neutron Generation
Room: Regency VII Chair: James Degnan, Kirtland AFRL

UP8 Poster Session VIII: Alternates; Turbulence, Transport, and Stability; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 6 2009 8:00AM, Friday

WR1 Review: Applied Spectroscopy in Pulsed Power Plasmas
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire

Nov 6 2009 9:30AM, Friday

XI2 High Energy Density Physics and High Performance Capsule Implosions
Room: Centennial I Chair: Gail Glendinning, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

XI3 Energetic Particles
Room: Centennial II Chair: Nikolai Gorelenkov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

XP8 Poster Session IX: Supplemental and Post-Deadline Posters
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 6 2009 12:35PM, Friday

YR1 Door Prize Drawing
Room: Centennial I Chair: Tom Antonsen, University of Maryland

Nov 2 2009 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: Realizing Steady State Tokamak Operation for Fusion Energy
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Steven Allen, LLNL/General Atomics

Nov 2 2009 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Reconnection in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial I Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BI3 Advances in Tokamaks: Core and Edge Physics
Room: Centennial II Chair: Robert Granetz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BO4 Magnetic Confinement Theory, Simulation and Modeling
Room: Regency VI Chair: Don Batchelor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

BO5 Hohlraum Physics
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Mordecai Rosen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO6 Microwaves, Compton Scattering and Accelerator Physics
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Kevin Felch, CPI

BP8 Poster Session I: Plasma Sources and Boundaries; Gyrokinetics and Turbulence; Complex, Non-neutral and Other Novel Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

BM9 Mini-Conference on Innovative Magnetic Mirror Concepts and Applications I
Room: The Learning Center Chair: Xianzhu Tang, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 2 2009 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 Accelerators, Beam Dynamics and Radiation
Room: Centennial I Chair: Joe Kwan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CT3 Tutorial: Flow driven MHD Instabilities in Weakly Magnetized Laboratory Experiments: Dynamos and MRI
Room: Centennial II Chair: Dylan Brennan, University of Tulsa

CO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: Regency VI Chair: Michael Mauel, Columbia University

CO5 Equation of State, Strength, and Hydrodynamics
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Tom Boehly, University of Rochester

CO6 Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence
Room: Hanover FG Chair: William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO7 Low Temperature Plasmas I
Room: Regency VII Chair: Michael Keidar, George Washington University

CP8 Poster Session II: Diagnostics, Heating, Current Drive; Diagnostics, Laser Plasma Interactions, and Fast Ignition
Room: Grand Hall East

CM9 Mini-Conference on Innovative Magnetic Mirror Concepts and Applications II
Room: The Learning Center Chair: E. Bick Hooper, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 2 2009 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Gyrokinetic Theory and Simulation
Room: Centennial II Chair: Ronald Waltz, General Atomics

Nov 2 2009 5:30PM, Monday

EE1 Panel Discussion: Tools Needed to Survive in Science
Room: Regency VI

Nov 2 2009 7:00PM, Monday

EE2 University Fusion Association General Meeting, including Town Meeting on DOE Research Needs Workshops
Room: Hanover CDE

Nov 2 2009 9:00PM, Monday

EE3 Town Hall Meeting on the High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma Research Needs Workshop
Room: Hanover FG

Nov 3 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Ion Acceleration using Ultra-high Intensity Lasers
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Chan Joshi, University of California, Los Angeles

Nov 3 2009 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Micro and Low-temperature Plasmas
Room: Centennial I Chair: Martin Lampe, Naval Research Laboratory

GI3 Islands, Kinks and Sawteeth
Room: Centennial II Chair: Jill Foley, Nova Photonics, Inc

GO4 C MOD Tokamak
Room: Regency VI Chair: Steve Allen, LLNL/General Atomics

GO5 Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Mike Cuneo, Sandia National Laboratories

GO6 Laser Acceleration and Transport; Radiation and FELs
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GP8 Poster Session III: ITER, General Tokamak, Simulation and Modeling; MHD, Linear and Nonlinear Phenomena; Waves and Instabilities in Basic Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

GM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature I: Reconnection Rate and Dynamics
Room: Regency V Chair: Giovanni Lapenta, Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium

Nov 3 2009 1:00PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: The Learning Center

Nov 3 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 ICF Compression, Equations of State and Z-pinches
Room: Centennial I Chair: Tom Mehlhorn, Sandia National Laboratories

JT3 Tutorial: Verification and Validation for Magnetic Fusion: Moving Toward Predictive Capability
Room: Centennial II Chair: Bill Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine

JO4 NSTX Spherical Torus
Room: Regency VI Chair: Houyang Guo, Tri Alpha Energy

JO5 Laser-plasma Coupling at Long Scale Lengths
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Larry Suter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO6 Waves, Turbulence, and Boundary Effects in Laboratory and Space Plasmas I
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico

JP8 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; DIII-D Tokamak II; Laser and Plasma Based Accelerators
Room: Grand Hall East

JM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature II: Impulsive Reconnection and Onset
Room: Regency V Chair: Tom Intrator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 3 2009 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Turbulent Transport Measurement and Modeling
Room: Centennial II Chair: Chris Holland, University of California, San Diego

Nov 3 2009 7:30PM, Tuesday

LE2 Town Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Steven Koonin, Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy
Room: Centennial I Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire

Nov 4 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Physics Progress of Reversed Field Pinch Magnetic Confinement
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Stewart Prager, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 ICF Capsules and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Room: Centennial I Chair: David Meyerhofer, University of Rochester

NI3 Plasma Rotation and Helical Equilibria
Room: Centennial II Chair: Eric Fredrickson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO4 International Tokamak Research and ITER
Room: Regency VI Chair: Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO5 Fast Ignition
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Richard Petrasso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NO6 Complex Plasmas
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Jeremiah Williams, Wittenberg University

NP8 Poster Session V: Electron and Ion Beams and Radiation Generation; Low Temperature Plasmas; Pinches, Equations of State, and Simulations; Edge
Room: Grand Hall East

NM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature III: 3D Reconnection and Diffusion Region
Room: Regency V Chair: Yasushi Ono, University of Tokyo

Nov 4 2009 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Tokamak Physics: Edge, Scrape-off Layer and Wall
Room: Centennial I Chair: Andrea Garofalo, General Atomics

PT3 Tutorial: ICF Ignition: The Lawson Criterion, and Comparison with MFE Ignition
Room: Centennial II Chair: Debra Callahan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PO5 High-intensity Short-pulse Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Christina Back, General Atomics

PO6 Waves, Turbulence, and Boundary Effects in Laboratory and Space Plasmas II
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Bill Dorland, University of Maryland

PP8 Poster Session VI: C-Mod; NSTX and General Spherical Torus; Simulation and Modeling of Basic Plasma Phenomena
Room: Grand Hall East

PM9 Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature IV: Turbulence and Multiple Reconnections
Room: Regency V Chair: Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 ICF and Ignition
Room: Centennial II Chair: Debra Callahan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 4 2009 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Hanover FG

Nov 4 2009 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 Reception and Banquet
Room: Centennial III/IV

Nov 5 2009 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Maxwell Prize Address: Taming Magnetically Confined Plasmas with RF Waves: A Historical Perspective
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Ronald Davidson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 5 2009 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Flows and Turbulence in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial I Chair: William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory

TI3 RF in Tokamaks and ITER
Room: Centennial II Chair: Paul Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TO4 Laser Wakefield Accelerators and Radiation Sources
Room: Regency VI Chair: David Bruhwiler, Tech-X Corporation

TO5 ICF Simulations and Target Fabrications
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

TO6 Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TO7 Shock Ignition, Diagnostics, and X-ray Sources
Room: Regency VII Chair: Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada

TP8 Poster Session VII: DIII-D Tokamak III; MST, RFP, and Stellarator; Magnetic Reconnection; Magneto-Inertial-Fusion
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 5 2009 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 Laser Wakefield Acceleration and Solid Target Interactions
Room: Centennial I Chair: Michael Downer, University of Texas

UI3 Basic Plasmas: Novel Plasmas in Laboratory and Space
Room: Centennial II Chair: Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University

UO4 Research In Support of ITER
Room: Regency VI Chair: Rich Hawryluk, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

UO5 Compression and Burn
Room: Hanover CDE Chair: Richard Town, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO6 Basic Plasma Phenomena: Theory and Simulation
Room: Hanover FG Chair: Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory

UO7 Magneto Inertial Fusion & Neutron Generation
Room: Regency VII Chair: James Degnan, Kirtland AFRL

UP8 Poster Session VIII: Alternates; Turbulence, Transport, and Stability; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 6 2009 8:00AM, Friday

WR1 Review: Applied Spectroscopy in Pulsed Power Plasmas
Room: Centennial I-II Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire

Nov 6 2009 9:30AM, Friday

XI2 High Energy Density Physics and High Performance Capsule Implosions
Room: Centennial I Chair: Gail Glendinning, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

XI3 Energetic Particles
Room: Centennial II Chair: Nikolai Gorelenkov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

XP8 Poster Session IX: Supplemental and Post-Deadline Posters
Room: Grand Hall East

Nov 6 2009 12:35PM, Friday

YR1 Door Prize Drawing
Room: Centennial I Chair: Tom Antonsen, University of Maryland