Oct 29 2012 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: One Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Going to Extremes
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Ellen Zweibel  

Oct 29 2012 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics I
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jan Egedal,  D.J. Den Hartog,  Yi-Hsin Liu,  Obioma Ohia,  Yi-Min Huang,  Cami Collins  

BI3 ICF Implosions, Diagnostics, Laboratory Shocks
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Charles Nakhleh, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Clark,  Charles Cerjan,  Gary Grim,  J.P. Knauer,  Carolyn Kuranz,  Frederico Fiuza  

BO4 Fast/Shock Ignition Computation/Theory
Room: 551AB Chair: Kenneth Anderson, University of Rochester

BO5 Target Charging and Wire Array Z-pinches
Room: 552AB Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

BO6 Surfaces, Helicons, Thrusters, Atmospheric Pressure, and Diagnostics
Room: 555AB Chair: David Ruzic, University of Illinois

BO7 C-Mod Tokamak
Room: 556AB Chair: David Pace, General Atomics

BP8 Poster Session I: Non-Neutral, Dusty, and Strongly Coupled Plasmas I; Non Linear Phenomena and Turbulence Experiment; Plasma Waves; Stellarator, General Tokamak, Transport and Turbulence Theory
Room: Hall BC

Oct 29 2012 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 Beams and Coherent Radiation
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Eric Esarey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rami Kishek,  Lay Kee (Ricky) Ang,  Carl B. Schroeder,  Christopher Ridgers,  Sasi Palaniyappan,  Donald Umstadter  

CT3 Tutorial: Theory, Verification and Validation of Finite-Beta Gyrokinetics
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  J. Candy  

CO4 Hohlraum and X-ray Physics
Room: 551AB Chair: Daniel Clark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CO5 Liners, Gas Discharges, Rayleigh-Taylor
Room: 552AB Chair: Patrick Knapp, Sandia National Laboratories

CO6 Space Plasma Physics
Room: 555AB Chair: Gregory Howes, University of Iowa

CO7 Plasma Material Interface; Alternate Magnetic Confinement
Room: 556AB Chair: Brian LaBombard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CP8 Poster Session II: Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics I; Magnetic Reconnection; ICF and HEDP
Room: Hall BC

Oct 29 2012 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Gyrokinetics and Core Turbulence
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Martin Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  A.E. White,  R.E. Waltz,  J.C. Hillesheim,  D.R. Ernst  

Oct 29 2012 7:00PM, Monday

EE3 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: Ballroom BC

Oct 30 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: The Role of the Boundary Plasma in Defining the Viability of a Magnetic Fusion Reactor
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Martin Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Whyte  

Oct 30 2012 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Plasma Wall and Impurity Physics
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  P.C. Stangeby,  Rudolf Neu,  G.M. Wright,  Dick Majeski,  Filippo Scotti,  Matthew Reinke  

GI3 Fundamental Plasma Physics I
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Robert Merlino, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Fabrice Doveil,  Ramy Doron,  Khare Avinash,  Hanno K\"ahlert,  Paul Bernhardt,  Erik Gilson  

GO4 Compression and Burn
Room: 551AB Chair: Charles Cerjan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GO5 Fast Ignition/Shock Ignition Experiment
Room: 552AB Chair: Hiroshi Sawada, University of Nevada, Reno

GO6 NSTX and Other Spherical Torus
Room: 555AB Chair: Gary Staebler, General Atomics

GO7 Magnetic Reconnection
Room: 556AB Chair: Jan Egedal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GP8 Poster Session III: Gyrokinetic Theory and Transport; Non-linear Phenomena and Turbulence Theory; Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics II, Shocks; Magneto-inertial Fusion; DIII-D I, Edge Plasma, ELMs, Diag.
Room: Hall BC

GM9 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas I
Room: 553AB Chair: Evgeny Mishin, Air Force Research Laboratory

Oct 30 2012 12:30PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns for Junior Scientists
Room: Rotunda

Oct 30 2012 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 Fast Ion Physics, RF Theory
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Tobin Munsat, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Ge Wang,  Alessandro Bortolon,  Guoyong Fu,  Jay Anderson,  D.C. Pace,  Abhay Ram  

JT3 Tutorial: Laboratory Study of Fundamental Plasma Processes in Astrophysics: Progress and Opportunities
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado, and S. Lebedev, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Hantao Ji  

JO4 Direct Drive
Room: 551AB Chair: Evan Dodd, Los Alamos National Laboratory

JO5 Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions: Experiment
Room: 552AB Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

JO6 Waves and Nonlinear Phenomena
Room: 555AB Chair: Martin Goldman, University of Colorado Boulder

JO7 Intense Beams and High Power Microwaves
Room: 556AB Chair: Don Shiffler, Air Force Research Laboratory

JP8 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; C-MOD, ITER, MFE Simulation, MST and Other RFPs
Room: Hall BC

JM9 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas II
Room: 553AB Chair: Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory

Oct 30 2012 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Laboratory Astrophysical Plasmas II
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: S. Lebedev, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Pak,  Christine Krauland,  Nathan Kugland,  Gregory Howes  

Oct 30 2012 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Rotunda

Oct 31 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: David Meyerhofer, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  John Edwards  

Oct 31 2012 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 ICF Implosions
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Mordecai Rosen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  John Kline,  T.C. Sangster,  Tilo Doeppner,  Nathan Meezan,  Luke Fletcher,  P.B. Radha  

NI3 Flow and MHD in Stellarators and RFPs
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: John Sarff, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Weixing Ding,  Paolo Piovesan,  Mark Schlutt,  Kenichi Nagaoka,  Shinsuke Satake,  Alexis Briesemeister  

NO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: 551AB Chair: Randy Wilson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO5 Intense Laser Plasma Interactions: Theory and Simulations
Room: 552AB Chair: Paul Schmit, Princeton University

NO6 Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics III
Room: 555AB Chair: Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas

NO7 Particle Driven Wakefields and Laser Ion Acceleration
Room: 556AB Chair: Stepan Bulanov, University of California, Berkeley

NP8 Poster Session V: Non-neutral, Dusty, and Strongly-coupled Plasmas II; Plasma Sources and Boundaries; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; Spherical Torus, MHD Stability, LTX, HICD
Room: Hall BC

NM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics I
Room: 553AB Sponsor: GPAP Chair: Tom Intrator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 31 2012 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Plasma Wall Interactions, Disruptions, and Plasma Technology
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Igor Kaganovich,  Geoff Olynyk,  V.A. Izzo,  Francis F. Chen,  Michael Keidar,  Osamu Sakai  

PT3 Tutorial: Magnetic Flux Compression in Plasmas followed by Z-pinch, HED Magnetic Fields
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Mingsheng Wei, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  A.L. Velikovich  

PO4 National Ignition Facility Mix
Room: 551AB Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 HED Equation of State and Materials Properties
Room: 552AB Chair: Caroline Kuranz, University of Michigan

PO6 Dusty and Strongly-Coupled Plasmas
Room: 555AB Chair: Edward Thomas Jr., Auburn University

PO7 Advances in MFE Theory and Computation
Room: 556AB Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PP8 Poster Session VI: NSTX, Field- Reversed Configurations, Other Magnetic Confinement; Intense LPI and FI; Beams and Coherent Radiation
Room: Hall BC

PM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics II
Room: 553AB Chair: Walter Gekelman, University of California, Los Angeles

Oct 31 2012 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 Z-pinch, HED Magnetic Fields
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Mingsheng Wei, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Ryan D. McBride,  Kyle Peterson,  Mario Manuel,  Bhuvana Srinivasan  

Oct 31 2012 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 553AB

Oct 31 2012 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 Reception and Banquet
Room: Westin Providence Narragansett Ballroom

Nov 1 2012 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Maxwell Prize Address: On Nonlinear Physics of Shear Alfven Waves
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Liu Chen  

Nov 1 2012 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Fundamental Plasma Physics II
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Yu Lin, Auburn University
Invited Speakers:  I.Y. Dodin,  David Schaffner,  Brett Friedman,  Maxime Lesur,  Chris Crabtree,  Tim Tharp  

TI3 Pedestal ELMs and ELM mitigation
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  L.R. Baylor,  X.Q. Xu,  Jerry Hughes,  Ian Chapman,  A.D. Turnbull,  R.A. Moyer  

TO4 Mix and Hydro Instabilities
Room: 551AB Chair: Radha Bahukutumbi, University of Rochester

TO5 Laser-plasma Coupling at Long Scale Lengths
Room: 552AB Chair: Pierre Michel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TO6 General Tokamak; Heating and Current Drive; Diagnostics
Room: 555AB Chair: Ted Strait, General Atomics

TO7 Laser-plasma Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation
Room: 556AB Chair: John Luginsland, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

TP8 Poster Session VII: DIII-D II; Divertor, Heating and Current Drive; Low Temperature Plasmas; Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: Hall BC

TM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics III
Room: 553AB Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology

Nov 1 2012 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 High Intensity Interactions and Advanced ICF Ignition
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Natalia Krasheninnikova, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yu-hsin Chen,  Paul Schmit,  Franklin Dollar,  Hiroshi Sawada,  K.S. Anderson,  Enrique Henestroza  

UT3 Tutorial: Physics of Tokamak Plasma Start-up
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Steve Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Mueller  

UO4 ICF Kinetic Effects and Codes
Room: 551AB Chair: Michail Tzoufras, University of California, Los Angeles

UO5 LPI and ICF diagnostics
Room: 552AB Chair: Gary Grim, Los Alamos National Laboratory

UO6 Laser-plasma Acceleration of Electrons
Room: 555AB Chair: Alec Thomas, University of Michigan

UO7 ITER and Magnetic Fusion Development
Room: 556AB Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

UP8 Poster Session VIII: Simulation and Modeling of Basic Plasma Phenomena; Plasma and Fusion Technology
Room: Hall BC

UM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics IV
Room: 553AB Chair: Bill Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 1 2012 3:00PM, Thursday

VI3 Tokamak Operations, Control, Scenarios, and RF Heating
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Steve Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Federico Felici,  J.R. Ferron,  Francesca Poli,  Stephen Wukitch  

Nov 2 2012 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: Turbulence in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  G.R. McKee  

Nov 2 2012 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Laser-plasma Interactions, Kinetic Effects and Invited Post-deadline
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Andrew Schmitt, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Michel,  D.T. Michel,  Michail Tzoufras,  Markus Roth,  Mark J. Schmitt,  E.G. Highcock  

YI3 Edge Turbulence
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Walter Guttenfelder, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Odd Erik Garcia,  J.R. Myra,  Bruce Cohen,  David Smith,  Istvan Cziegler,  Scott Parker  

YO4 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 551AB Chair: Jason TenBarge, University of Iowa

YO5 ICF X-ray Measurements
Room: 552AB Chair: James Knauer, University of Rochester

YP8 Poster Session IX: Supplemental; Post-Deadline
Room: Hall BC

Nov 2 2012 12:35PM, Friday

ZR2 Door Prize Drawing
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Oct 29 2012 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: One Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Going to Extremes
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Ellen Zweibel  

Oct 29 2012 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics I
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jan Egedal,  D.J. Den Hartog,  Yi-Hsin Liu,  Obioma Ohia,  Yi-Min Huang,  Cami Collins  

BI3 ICF Implosions, Diagnostics, Laboratory Shocks
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Charles Nakhleh, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Clark,  Charles Cerjan,  Gary Grim,  J.P. Knauer,  Carolyn Kuranz,  Frederico Fiuza  

BO4 Fast/Shock Ignition Computation/Theory
Room: 551AB Chair: Kenneth Anderson, University of Rochester

BO5 Target Charging and Wire Array Z-pinches
Room: 552AB Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

BO6 Surfaces, Helicons, Thrusters, Atmospheric Pressure, and Diagnostics
Room: 555AB Chair: David Ruzic, University of Illinois

BO7 C-Mod Tokamak
Room: 556AB Chair: David Pace, General Atomics

BP8 Poster Session I: Non-Neutral, Dusty, and Strongly Coupled Plasmas I; Non Linear Phenomena and Turbulence Experiment; Plasma Waves; Stellarator, General Tokamak, Transport and Turbulence Theory
Room: Hall BC

Oct 29 2012 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 Beams and Coherent Radiation
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Eric Esarey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rami Kishek,  Lay Kee (Ricky) Ang,  Carl B. Schroeder,  Christopher Ridgers,  Sasi Palaniyappan,  Donald Umstadter  

CT3 Tutorial: Theory, Verification and Validation of Finite-Beta Gyrokinetics
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  J. Candy  

CO4 Hohlraum and X-ray Physics
Room: 551AB Chair: Daniel Clark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CO5 Liners, Gas Discharges, Rayleigh-Taylor
Room: 552AB Chair: Patrick Knapp, Sandia National Laboratories

CO6 Space Plasma Physics
Room: 555AB Chair: Gregory Howes, University of Iowa

CO7 Plasma Material Interface; Alternate Magnetic Confinement
Room: 556AB Chair: Brian LaBombard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CP8 Poster Session II: Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics I; Magnetic Reconnection; ICF and HEDP
Room: Hall BC

Oct 29 2012 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Gyrokinetics and Core Turbulence
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Martin Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  A.E. White,  R.E. Waltz,  J.C. Hillesheim,  D.R. Ernst  

Oct 29 2012 7:00PM, Monday

EE3 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: Ballroom BC

Oct 30 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: The Role of the Boundary Plasma in Defining the Viability of a Magnetic Fusion Reactor
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Martin Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Whyte  

Oct 30 2012 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Plasma Wall and Impurity Physics
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  P.C. Stangeby,  Rudolf Neu,  G.M. Wright,  Dick Majeski,  Filippo Scotti,  Matthew Reinke  

GI3 Fundamental Plasma Physics I
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Robert Merlino, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Fabrice Doveil,  Ramy Doron,  Khare Avinash,  Hanno K\"ahlert,  Paul Bernhardt,  Erik Gilson  

GO4 Compression and Burn
Room: 551AB Chair: Charles Cerjan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GO5 Fast Ignition/Shock Ignition Experiment
Room: 552AB Chair: Hiroshi Sawada, University of Nevada, Reno

GO6 NSTX and Other Spherical Torus
Room: 555AB Chair: Gary Staebler, General Atomics

GO7 Magnetic Reconnection
Room: 556AB Chair: Jan Egedal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GP8 Poster Session III: Gyrokinetic Theory and Transport; Non-linear Phenomena and Turbulence Theory; Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics II, Shocks; Magneto-inertial Fusion; DIII-D I, Edge Plasma, ELMs, Diag.
Room: Hall BC

GM9 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas I
Room: 553AB Chair: Evgeny Mishin, Air Force Research Laboratory

Oct 30 2012 12:30PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns for Junior Scientists
Room: Rotunda

Oct 30 2012 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 Fast Ion Physics, RF Theory
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Tobin Munsat, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Ge Wang,  Alessandro Bortolon,  Guoyong Fu,  Jay Anderson,  D.C. Pace,  Abhay Ram  

JT3 Tutorial: Laboratory Study of Fundamental Plasma Processes in Astrophysics: Progress and Opportunities
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado, and S. Lebedev, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Hantao Ji  

JO4 Direct Drive
Room: 551AB Chair: Evan Dodd, Los Alamos National Laboratory

JO5 Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions: Experiment
Room: 552AB Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

JO6 Waves and Nonlinear Phenomena
Room: 555AB Chair: Martin Goldman, University of Colorado Boulder

JO7 Intense Beams and High Power Microwaves
Room: 556AB Chair: Don Shiffler, Air Force Research Laboratory

JP8 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; C-MOD, ITER, MFE Simulation, MST and Other RFPs
Room: Hall BC

JM9 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas II
Room: 553AB Chair: Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory

Oct 30 2012 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Laboratory Astrophysical Plasmas II
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: S. Lebedev, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Pak,  Christine Krauland,  Nathan Kugland,  Gregory Howes  

Oct 30 2012 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Rotunda

Oct 31 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: David Meyerhofer, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  John Edwards  

Oct 31 2012 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 ICF Implosions
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Mordecai Rosen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  John Kline,  T.C. Sangster,  Tilo Doeppner,  Nathan Meezan,  Luke Fletcher,  P.B. Radha  

NI3 Flow and MHD in Stellarators and RFPs
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: John Sarff, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Weixing Ding,  Paolo Piovesan,  Mark Schlutt,  Kenichi Nagaoka,  Shinsuke Satake,  Alexis Briesemeister  

NO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: 551AB Chair: Randy Wilson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

NO5 Intense Laser Plasma Interactions: Theory and Simulations
Room: 552AB Chair: Paul Schmit, Princeton University

NO6 Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics III
Room: 555AB Chair: Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas

NO7 Particle Driven Wakefields and Laser Ion Acceleration
Room: 556AB Chair: Stepan Bulanov, University of California, Berkeley

NP8 Poster Session V: Non-neutral, Dusty, and Strongly-coupled Plasmas II; Plasma Sources and Boundaries; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; Spherical Torus, MHD Stability, LTX, HICD
Room: Hall BC

NM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics I
Room: 553AB Sponsor: GPAP Chair: Tom Intrator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 31 2012 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Plasma Wall Interactions, Disruptions, and Plasma Technology
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Igor Kaganovich,  Geoff Olynyk,  V.A. Izzo,  Francis F. Chen,  Michael Keidar,  Osamu Sakai  

PT3 Tutorial: Magnetic Flux Compression in Plasmas followed by Z-pinch, HED Magnetic Fields
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Mingsheng Wei, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  A.L. Velikovich  

PO4 National Ignition Facility Mix
Room: 551AB Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 HED Equation of State and Materials Properties
Room: 552AB Chair: Caroline Kuranz, University of Michigan

PO6 Dusty and Strongly-Coupled Plasmas
Room: 555AB Chair: Edward Thomas Jr., Auburn University

PO7 Advances in MFE Theory and Computation
Room: 556AB Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PP8 Poster Session VI: NSTX, Field- Reversed Configurations, Other Magnetic Confinement; Intense LPI and FI; Beams and Coherent Radiation
Room: Hall BC

PM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics II
Room: 553AB Chair: Walter Gekelman, University of California, Los Angeles

Oct 31 2012 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 Z-pinch, HED Magnetic Fields
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Mingsheng Wei, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Ryan D. McBride,  Kyle Peterson,  Mario Manuel,  Bhuvana Srinivasan  

Oct 31 2012 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 553AB

Oct 31 2012 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 Reception and Banquet
Room: Westin Providence Narragansett Ballroom

Nov 1 2012 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Maxwell Prize Address: On Nonlinear Physics of Shear Alfven Waves
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Liu Chen  

Nov 1 2012 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Fundamental Plasma Physics II
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Yu Lin, Auburn University
Invited Speakers:  I.Y. Dodin,  David Schaffner,  Brett Friedman,  Maxime Lesur,  Chris Crabtree,  Tim Tharp  

TI3 Pedestal ELMs and ELM mitigation
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  L.R. Baylor,  X.Q. Xu,  Jerry Hughes,  Ian Chapman,  A.D. Turnbull,  R.A. Moyer  

TO4 Mix and Hydro Instabilities
Room: 551AB Chair: Radha Bahukutumbi, University of Rochester

TO5 Laser-plasma Coupling at Long Scale Lengths
Room: 552AB Chair: Pierre Michel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TO6 General Tokamak; Heating and Current Drive; Diagnostics
Room: 555AB Chair: Ted Strait, General Atomics

TO7 Laser-plasma Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation
Room: 556AB Chair: John Luginsland, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

TP8 Poster Session VII: DIII-D II; Divertor, Heating and Current Drive; Low Temperature Plasmas; Z-pinches, X-pinches, and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: Hall BC

TM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics III
Room: 553AB Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology

Nov 1 2012 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 High Intensity Interactions and Advanced ICF Ignition
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Natalia Krasheninnikova, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yu-hsin Chen,  Paul Schmit,  Franklin Dollar,  Hiroshi Sawada,  K.S. Anderson,  Enrique Henestroza  

UT3 Tutorial: Physics of Tokamak Plasma Start-up
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Steve Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Mueller  

UO4 ICF Kinetic Effects and Codes
Room: 551AB Chair: Michail Tzoufras, University of California, Los Angeles

UO5 LPI and ICF diagnostics
Room: 552AB Chair: Gary Grim, Los Alamos National Laboratory

UO6 Laser-plasma Acceleration of Electrons
Room: 555AB Chair: Alec Thomas, University of Michigan

UO7 ITER and Magnetic Fusion Development
Room: 556AB Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

UP8 Poster Session VIII: Simulation and Modeling of Basic Plasma Phenomena; Plasma and Fusion Technology
Room: Hall BC

UM9 Mini-Conference: Flux Ropes and 3D Dynamics IV
Room: 553AB Chair: Bill Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nov 1 2012 3:00PM, Thursday

VI3 Tokamak Operations, Control, Scenarios, and RF Heating
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Steve Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Federico Felici,  J.R. Ferron,  Francesca Poli,  Stephen Wukitch  

Nov 2 2012 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: Turbulence in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
Room: Ballroom ADE Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  G.R. McKee  

Nov 2 2012 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Laser-plasma Interactions, Kinetic Effects and Invited Post-deadline
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Andrew Schmitt, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Michel,  D.T. Michel,  Michail Tzoufras,  Markus Roth,  Mark J. Schmitt,  E.G. Highcock  

YI3 Edge Turbulence
Room: Ballroom BC Chair: Walter Guttenfelder, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Odd Erik Garcia,  J.R. Myra,  Bruce Cohen,  David Smith,  Istvan Cziegler,  Scott Parker  

YO4 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 551AB Chair: Jason TenBarge, University of Iowa

YO5 ICF X-ray Measurements
Room: 552AB Chair: James Knauer, University of Rochester

YP8 Poster Session IX: Supplemental; Post-Deadline
Room: Hall BC

Nov 2 2012 12:35PM, Friday

ZR2 Door Prize Drawing
Room: Ballroom DE Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison