Nov 17 2008 8:00AM, Monday

AR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations I
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland

Nov 17 2008 9:45AM, Monday

BI1 Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: Landmark A Chair: Douglas Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

BI2 Rotation in Tokamaks
Room: Landmark B Chair: John de Grassie, General Atomics

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

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

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

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

CI1 Magnetic Confinement I
Room: Landmark A Chair: Piero Martin, Consorzio RFX - Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla fusione, Padova (Italy)

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

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

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

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

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

DI2 Plasma-Based Acceleration
Room: Landmark B Chair: Patric Muggli, University of Southern California

Nov 17 2008 5:15PM, Monday

EE1 Women in Plasma Physics
Room: Reunion E

Nov 18 2008 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations II
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory

Nov 18 2008 9:45AM, Tuesday

GI1 Energetic Particles and MHD
Room: Landmark A Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine

GI2 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Landmark B Chair: Peter Gary, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 18 2008 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI1 Reconnection
Room: Landmark A Chair: Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

KI2 Warm Dense Matter and Laser-Plasma Interactions
Room: Landmark B Chair: Siegfried Glenzer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 18 2008 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Cotton Bowl

Nov 18 2008 7:30PM, Tuesday

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

Nov 19 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

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

Nov 19 2008 9:45AM, Wednesday

NI1 Edge and Pedestal Physics in Tokamaks
Room: Landmark A Chair: Earl Marmar, MIT

NI2 Intense Beams, Plasma Filaments, and Nonlinear Waves
Room: Landmark B Chair: Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 19 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 19 2008 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI1 Shocks and Shock-Driven Phenomena in High-Energy Density Plasmas
Room: Landmark A Chair: Vladimir Smalyuk, University of Rochester

QI2 Education and Outreach
Room: Landmark B Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics

Nov 19 2008 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Reunion A

Nov 19 2008 6:30PM, Wednesday

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

Nov 20 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

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

Nov 20 2008 9:30AM, Thursday

TI1 Low Temperature Plasmas and Technology
Room: Landmark A Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TI2 Boundaries, Fluctuations and Transport
Room: Landmark B Chair: Robert La Haye, General Atomics

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 20 2008 2:00PM, Thursday

UI1 Basic Plasma Experiments
Room: Landmark A Chair: Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Columbia University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 20 2008 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Current Drive
Room: Landmark B Chair: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 21 2008 8:00AM, Friday

XR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations IV
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Ian Hutchinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nov 21 2008 9:45AM, Friday

YI1 Fast Ignition II
Room: Landmark A Chair: Richard Town

YI2 Transport and Zonal Flows
Room: Landmark B Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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

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

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

Nov 17 2008 8:00AM, Monday

AR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations I
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland

Nov 17 2008 9:45AM, Monday

BI1 Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: Landmark A Chair: Douglas Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

BI2 Rotation in Tokamaks
Room: Landmark B Chair: John de Grassie, General Atomics

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

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

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

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

CI1 Magnetic Confinement I
Room: Landmark A Chair: Piero Martin, Consorzio RFX - Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla fusione, Padova (Italy)

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

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

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

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

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

DI2 Plasma-Based Acceleration
Room: Landmark B Chair: Patric Muggli, University of Southern California

Nov 17 2008 5:15PM, Monday

EE1 Women in Plasma Physics
Room: Reunion E

Nov 18 2008 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations II
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory

Nov 18 2008 9:45AM, Tuesday

GI1 Energetic Particles and MHD
Room: Landmark A Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine

GI2 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Landmark B Chair: Peter Gary, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 18 2008 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI1 Reconnection
Room: Landmark A Chair: Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

KI2 Warm Dense Matter and Laser-Plasma Interactions
Room: Landmark B Chair: Siegfried Glenzer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 18 2008 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Cotton Bowl

Nov 18 2008 7:30PM, Tuesday

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

Nov 19 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

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

Nov 19 2008 9:45AM, Wednesday

NI1 Edge and Pedestal Physics in Tokamaks
Room: Landmark A Chair: Earl Marmar, MIT

NI2 Intense Beams, Plasma Filaments, and Nonlinear Waves
Room: Landmark B Chair: Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 19 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 19 2008 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI1 Shocks and Shock-Driven Phenomena in High-Energy Density Plasmas
Room: Landmark A Chair: Vladimir Smalyuk, University of Rochester

QI2 Education and Outreach
Room: Landmark B Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics

Nov 19 2008 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Reunion A

Nov 19 2008 6:30PM, Wednesday

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

Nov 20 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

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

Nov 20 2008 9:30AM, Thursday

TI1 Low Temperature Plasmas and Technology
Room: Landmark A Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TI2 Boundaries, Fluctuations and Transport
Room: Landmark B Chair: Robert La Haye, General Atomics

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 20 2008 2:00PM, Thursday

UI1 Basic Plasma Experiments
Room: Landmark A Chair: Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Columbia University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 20 2008 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Current Drive
Room: Landmark B Chair: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Nov 21 2008 8:00AM, Friday

XR0 Celebration of Plasma Physics Plenary Presentations IV
Room: Landmark A/B Chair: Ian Hutchinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nov 21 2008 9:45AM, Friday

YI1 Fast Ignition II
Room: Landmark A Chair: Richard Town

YI2 Transport and Zonal Flows
Room: Landmark B Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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

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

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