Bulletin of the American Physical Society

54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 57, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 29–November 2 2012; Providence, Rhode Island

Invited Speakers

Anderson, Jay University of Wisconsin	Session JI2.00004 Fast Ion Confinement and Stability of an NBI-heated RFP Room: Ballroom DE
Anderson, K.S. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session UI2.00005 NIF Target Designs and OMEGA Experiments for Shock-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion Room: Ballroom DE
Ang, Lay Kee (Ricky) Singapore University of Technology and Design	Session CI2.00002 Modeling of ultrafast laser induced electron emission from a sharp tip Room: Ballroom DE
Avinash, Khare Department of Physics and Astrophysics University of Delhi, Delhi India	Session GI3.00003 Dust cluster explosion Room: Ballroom BC
Baylor, L.R. Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session TI3.00001 Reduction of ELM Intensity on DIII-D by On-demand Triggering With High Frequency Pellet Injection and Implications for ITER Room: Ballroom BC
Bernhardt, Paul Naval Research Laboratory	Session GI3.00005 Electron Acceleration by High Power Radio Waves in the Ionosphere Room: Ballroom BC
Bortolon, Alessandro University of California, Irvine	Session JI2.00002 Interplay between coexisting MHD instabilities mediated by energetic ions in NSTX H-mode plasmas Room: Ballroom DE
Briesemeister, Alexis HSX Plasma Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Session NI3.00006 Measurement and Modeling of Large Helical Flows in the HSX Stellarator Room: Ballroom BC
Candy, J. General Atomics	Session CT3.00001 Theory, Verification and Validation of Finite-Beta Gyrokinetics Room: Ballroom BC
Cerjan, Charles Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session BI3.00002 Integrated Diagnostic Analysis of ICF Capsule Performance Room: Ballroom BC
Chapman, Ian EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association	Session TI3.00004 Towards understanding ELM mitigation by resonant magnetic perturbations in MAST Room: Ballroom BC
Chen, Francis F. UCLA	Session PI2.00004 New insights into the experimental behavior of magnetized gas discharges Room: Ballroom DE
Chen, Liu Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine	Session SR1.00001 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Talk: On Nonlinear Physics of Shear Alfv\'en Waves Room: Ballroom ADE
Chen, Yu-hsin Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park	Session UI2.00001 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Talk: The Ultrafast Nonlinear Response of Air Molecules and its Effect on Femtosecond Laser Plasma Filaments in Atmosphere Room: Ballroom DE
Clark, Daniel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session BI3.00001 Detailed Implosion Modeling of DT-Layered Experiments on the National Ignition Facility Room: Ballroom BC
Cohen, Bruce Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session YI3.00003 BOUT Simulations of Drift Resistive Ballooning L-mode Turbulence in the Edge of the DIII-D Tokamak Room: Ballroom BC
Collins, Cami University of Wisconsin - Madison	Session BI2.00006 Stirring An Unmagnetized Plasma for Magnetorotational Instability Studies Room: Ballroom DE
Crabtree, Chris Naval Research Laboratory	Session TI2.00005 Weak Turbulence Effects in Space Plasmas Room: Ballroom DE
Cziegler, Istvan Center for Momentum Transport and Flow Organization, UCSD	Session YI3.00005 Fluctuating Zonal Flows in I-mode in Alcator C-Mod Room: Ballroom BC
Den Hartog, D.J. Department of Physics and Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session BI2.00002 Ion energization during magnetic reconnection in the RFP laboratory plasma Room: Ballroom DE
Ding, Weixing University of California, Los Angeles	Session NI3.00001 Direct Evidence of Magnetic Fluctuation-Driven Intrinsic Flow in a Toroidal Plasma Room: Ballroom BC
Dodin, I.Y. PPPL	Session TI2.00001 Quantum physics of classical waves in plasma Room: Ballroom DE
Doeppner, Tilo Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session NI2.00003 Mix mitigation experiments on cryogenic DT layered implosions on the NIF Room: Ballroom DE
Dollar, Franklin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Session UI2.00003 Investigations of High Intensity, High Contrast Laser Solid with Short Pulses Room: Ballroom DE
Doron, Ramy Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science	Session GI3.00002 The structure of a magnetic field propagating through low-resistivity, multi-ion species plasma Room: Ballroom BC
Doveil, Fabrice CNRS	Session GI3.00001 Lyman-alpha radiation of a probing metastable hydrogen beam to measure electric fields in diluted fluids and plasmas Room: Ballroom BC
Edwards, John Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session MR1.00001 Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility Room: Ballroom ADE
Egedal, Jan MIT	Session BI2.00001 Large-Scale Electron Acceleration by Parallel Electric Fields During Magnetic Reconnection Room: Ballroom DE
Ernst, D.R. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Session DI3.00004 Nonlinear Upshift of Trapped Electron Mode Critical Density Gradient: Simulation and Experiment Room: Ballroom BC
Felici, Federico Eindhoven University of Technology	Session VI3.00001 Advances in tokamak control: from multi-actuator MHD control to model-based current profile tailoring Room: Ballroom BC
Ferron, J.R. General Atomics	Session VI3.00002 Progress Toward Fully Noninductive Discharge Operation in DIII-D Using Off-axis Neutral Beam Injection Room: Ballroom BC
Fiuza, Frederico GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear - LA, Instituto Superior Tecnico	Session BI3.00006 Collisionless shocks and particle acceleration in laser-driven laboratory plasmas Room: Ballroom BC
Fletcher, Luke University of California Berkeley	Session NI2.00005 X-ray Thomson scattering measurements of temperature and density from multi-shocked CH capsules Room: Ballroom DE
Friedman, Brett University of California, Los Angeles	Session TI2.00003 Energy dynamics in a simulation of LAPD turbulence Room: Ballroom DE
Fu, Guoyong Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session JI2.00003 M3D-K Simulations of Beam-Driven Alfven Modes in DIIID Room: Ballroom DE
Garcia, Odd Erik Department of Physics and Technology, University of Troms{\o}, N-9037 Troms{\o}, Norway	Session YI3.00001 Intermittent fluctuations in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer Room: Ballroom BC
Gilson, Erik Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session GI3.00006 Excitation of Transverse Dipole and Quadrupole Modes in a Pure Ion Plasma in a Linear Paul Trap to Study Collective Processes in Intense Beams Room: Ballroom BC
Grim, Gary Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session BI3.00003 Nuclear imaging of implosions at the National Ignition Facility Room: Ballroom BC
Henestroza, Enrique Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Session UI2.00006 The X-Target: A novel high gain target with single-sided heavy-ion beam illumination Room: Ballroom DE
Highcock, E.G. University of Oxford	Session YI2.00006 Comparison of the Zero Turbulence Manifold with results from the JET and MAST tokamaks Room: Ballroom DE
Hillesheim, J.C. University of California Los Angeles	Session DI3.00003 Observation of a Critical Gradient Threshold for Electron Temperature Fluctuations in the DIII-D Tokamak Room: Ballroom BC
Howes, Gregory University of Iowa	Session KI3.00004 Constraints on the Dissipation of Solar Wind Turbulence using Gyrokinetic Simulations Room: Ballroom BC
Huang, Yi-Min Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence and Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, University of New Hampshire	Session BI2.00005 Plasmoid Instability in High-Lundquist-Number Magnetic Reconnection Room: Ballroom DE
Hughes, Jerry MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session TI3.00003 Advancing the predictive capability for pedestal structure through experiment and modeling Room: Ballroom BC
Izzo, V.A. University of California San Diego	Session PI2.00003 Impurity Mixing, Radiation Asymmetry, and Runaway Electron Confinement in MGI Simulations of DIII-D and ITER Room: Ballroom DE
Ji, Hantao Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University	Session JT3.00001 Laboratory Study of Fundamental Plasma Processes in Astrophysics: Progress and Opportunities Room: Ballroom BC
K\"ahlert, Hanno Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf	Session GI3.00004 Effective magnetization of the dust particles in a complex plasma Room: Ballroom BC
Kaganovich, Igor PPPL	Session PI2.00001 Plasma-Wall Interaction in Presence of Intense Electron Emission from Walls Room: Ballroom DE
Keidar, Michael George Washington University	Session PI2.00005 Cold Atmosphere Plasma in Cancer Therapy Room: Ballroom DE
Kishek, Rami IREAP, University of Maryland	Session CI2.00001 Ping-Pong Modes and Higher-Periodicity Multipactor Room: Ballroom DE
Kline, John Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session NI2.00001 Inertial confinement fusion implosions at 500 TW laser drive on NIF Room: Ballroom DE
Knauer, J.P. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session BI3.00004 Neutron Spectroscopy on the National Ignition Facility Room: Ballroom BC
Krauland, Christine University of Michigan	Session KI3.00002 Radiative Reverse Shock Laser Experiments Relevant to Accretion Processes in Cataclysmic Variables Room: Ballroom BC
Kugland, Nathan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session KI3.00003 Visualizing electromagnetic fields in laser-produced counterstreaming plasma experiments for collisionless shock laboratory astrophysics Room: Ballroom BC
Kuranz, Carolyn University of Michigan	Session BI3.00005 The evolution of a radiative shock system in a high-energy-density regime Room: Ballroom BC
Lesur, Maxime Itoh Research Center for Plasma Turbulence, Kyushu University	Session TI2.00004 Nonlinear instabilities driven by coherent phase-space structures Room: Ballroom DE
Liu, Yi-Hsin Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session BI2.00003 The structure of the magnetic reconnection exhaust boundary Room: Ballroom DE
Majeski, Dick Princeton Plasma Physics Lab	Session GI2.00004 Particle Control and Confinement in the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX) with Lithium-Coated Walls Room: Ballroom DE
Manuel, Mario Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Session QI3.00003 Measurements of Rayleigh-Taylor-Induced Magnetic Fields in the Linear and Non-linear Regimes Room: Ballroom BC
McBride, Ryan D. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM	Session QI3.00001 Beryllium liner implosion experiments on the Z accelerator in preparation for Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF)* Room: Ballroom BC
McKee, G.R. University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session XR1.00001 Turbulence in Magnetically Confined Plasmas Room: Ballroom ADE
Meezan, Nathan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session NI2.00004 Inflight Properties of NIF Ignition Capsules Inferred from Convergent Ablator Experiments Room: Ballroom DE
Michel, D.T. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester	Session YI2.00002 Experimental validation of the two-plasmon-decay common-wave process Room: Ballroom DE
Michel, Pierre Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session YI2.00001 Saturation of multi-beams laser plasma interactions by turbulent ion heating Room: Ballroom DE
Moyer, R.A. University of California San Diego	Session TI3.00006 Plasma Rotation and Radial Electric Field Response to Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in DIII-D Room: Ballroom BC
Mueller, Dennis Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session UT3.00001 Physics of Tokamak Plasma Start-up Room: Ballroom BC
Myra, J.R. Lodestar Research Corporation	Session YI3.00002 Edge Sheared Flows and Blob Dynamics Room: Ballroom BC
Nagaoka, Kenichi National Institute for Fusion Science	Session NI3.00004 3D effects on viscosity and generation of toroidal and poloidal flows in LHD Room: Ballroom BC
Neu, Rudolf JET-EFDA, Culham Science Centre, OX14 3DB, Abingdon, UK	Session GI2.00002 First Operation with the JET ITER-Like Wall Room: Ballroom DE
Ohia, Obioma MIT	Session BI2.00004 Demonstration of Anisotropic Fluid Closure Capturing the Kinetic Structure of Magnetic Reconnection Room: Ballroom DE
Olynyk, Geoff MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session PI2.00002 Disruption mitigation experiments with multiple gas jets on Alcator C-Mod Room: Ballroom DE
Pace, D.C. General Atomics	Session JI2.00005 Energetic Ion Transport and Neutral Beam Current Drive Reduction Due to Microturbulence in Tokamaks Room: Ballroom DE
Pak, Arthur Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session KI3.00001 Supernova dynamics in the laboratory: Radiative shocks produced by ultra-high pressure implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility Room: Ballroom BC
Palaniyappan, Sasi Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session CI2.00005 Dynamics of Relativistic Transparency and Optical Shuttering in Expanding Overdense plasma Room: Ballroom DE
Parker, Scott Deptartment of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder	Session YI3.00006 Global Gyrokinetic Simulations of the Dominant High-n and Intermediate-n Instabilities in the H-Mode Tokamak Edge Pedestal Room: Ballroom BC
Peterson, Kyle Sandia National Laboratories	Session QI3.00002 Experiments and simulations studying electrothermal instabilities in magnetically accelerated implosion systems Room: Ballroom BC
Piovesan, Paolo Consorzio RFX, EURATOM/ENEA Association	Session NI3.00002 RFX-MOD: A Multi-Configuration Fusion Facility for 3D Physics Studies Room: Ballroom BC
Poli, Francesca Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08543, USA	Session VI3.00003 Heating and current drive requirements for ideal MHD stability and ITB sustainment in ITER steady state scenarios Room: Ballroom BC
Radha, P.B. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session NI2.00006 Polar-Drive--Implosion Physics on OMEGA and the NIF Room: Ballroom DE
Ram, Abhay MIT, Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session JI2.00006 Scattering of waves by blobs in tokamak plasmas: venturing beyond geometric optics Room: Ballroom DE
Reinke, Matthew MIT - Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session GI2.00006 Poloidal variation of high-Z impurity density in Alcator C-Mod ICRF-heated plasmas Room: Ballroom DE
Ridgers, Christopher University of Oxford	Session CI2.00004 Dense Electron-Positron Plasmas Generated by 10PW Lasers in the QED-Plasma Regime Room: Ballroom DE
Roth, Markus Technical University of Darmstad, Germany	Session YI2.00004 A Bright Neutron Source Driven by a Short Pulse Laser Room: Ballroom DE
Sakai, Osamu Kyoto University	Session PI2.00006 Novel functional composites of plasmas and metamaterials Room: Ballroom DE
Sangster, T.C. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session NI2.00002 Improving Cryogenic-DT Implosion Performance on OMEGA Room: Ballroom DE
Satake, Shinsuke National Institute for Fusion Science	Session NI3.00005 Simulation Study on Neoclassical Poloidal Viscosity in Helical Plasmas Room: Ballroom BC
Sawada, Hiroshi University of California San Diego	Session UI2.00004 Spectra of laser generated relativistic electrons using cone-wire targets Room: Ballroom DE
Schaffner, David UCLA	Session TI2.00002 Observation of improved and degraded confinement with driven flow on the LAPD Room: Ballroom DE
Schlutt, Mark University of Wisconsin, Madison	Session NI3.00003 Self-consistent simulations of nonlinear MHD and profile evolution in stellarator configurations Room: Ballroom BC
Schmit, Paul Princeton University	Session UI2.00002 New wave effects in nonstationary plasma Room: Ballroom DE
Schmitt, Mark J. Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session YI2.00005 Recent results from the first polar direct drive plastic capsule implosions on NIF Room: Ballroom DE
Schroeder, Carl B. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Session CI2.00003 Self-modulated plasma wakefield accelerators Room: Ballroom DE
Scotti, Filippo Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session GI2.00005 Modifications of impurity transport and divertor sources with lithium wall conditioning in NSTX Room: Ballroom DE
Smith, David University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session YI3.00004 Assessing low wavenumber pedestal turbulence in NSTX with measurements and simulations Room: Ballroom BC
Srinivasan, Bhuvana Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session QI3.00004 The mitigating effect of self-generated magnetic field on Rayleigh-Taylor unstable inertial confinement fusion plasmas Room: Ballroom BC
Stangeby, P.C. University of Toronto	Session GI2.00001 Reduction of Net Erosion of High-Z Divertor Surface by Local Redeposition in DIII-D Room: Ballroom DE
Tharp, Tim Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session TI2.00006 Guide Field Effects on Hall Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma Room: Ballroom DE
Turnbull, A.D. General Atomics	Session TI3.00005 Comparisons of Linear and Nonlinear Plasma Response Models for Non-Axisymmetric Perturbations Room: Ballroom BC
Tzoufras, Michail Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles	Session YI2.00003 A Novel Multi-Dimensional Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Code for Modeling Electron Transport in High Energy Density Plasmas Room: Ballroom DE
Umstadter, Donald University of Nebraska, Lincoln	Session CI2.00006 Bright MeV-energy x-ray beams from a compact all-laser-driven inverse-Compton-scattering source Room: Ballroom DE
Velikovich, A.L. Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC	Session PT3.00001 Magnetic Flux Compression in Plasmas Room: Ballroom BC
Waltz, R.E. General Atomics	Session DI3.00002 Search for the Missing L-mode Edge Transport and Possible Breakdown of Gyrokinetics Room: Ballroom BC
Wang, Ge Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin	Session JI2.00001 Simulation and Theory of Long Range Frequency Sweeping of TAE Modes Room: Ballroom DE
White, A.E. MIT-PSFC	Session DI3.00001 Multichannel Transport in L-mode and I-mode Plasmas at Alcator C-Mod and Comparison with Gyrokinetic Simulations Room: Ballroom BC
Whyte, Dennis MIT PSFC	Session FR1.00001 The role of the boundary plasma in defining the viability of a magnetic fusion reactor: A review Room: Ballroom ADE
Wright, G.M. Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, USA, 02139	Session GI2.00003 Comparison of Tungsten Fuzz Growth in Alcator C-Mod and Linear Plasma Devices Room: Ballroom DE
Wukitch, Stephen MIT PSFC	Session VI3.00004 Field-Aligned ICRF Antenna Characterization and Performance in Alcator C-Mod Room: Ballroom BC
Xu, X.Q. LLNL	Session TI3.00002 Gyro-Landau-Fluid Theory and Simulations of Edge-Localized-Modes Room: Ballroom BC
Zweibel, Ellen University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session AR1.00001 One Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Going to Extremes Room: Ballroom ADE

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 57, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 29–November 2 2012; Providence, Rhode Island

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