Nov 16 2015 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Invited Review: The Physics of the Laboratory Magnetosphere
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Earl Scime, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Mauel  

Nov 16 2015 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Invited Pedestals
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Masayuki Ono, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Wayne Solomon,  Xueqiao Xu,  Jon Hillesheim,  Istvan Cziegler,  Nikolas Logan,  Mike Kotschenreuther  

BI3 Invited Turbulent Fluctuations at Large and Small Scales
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Tiffany Desjardins,  David Schaffner,  Vladimir Zhdankin,  Bart Van Compernolle,  Lang Cui,  Colin Adams  

BO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion I
Room: 105/106 Chair: Dan Clark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO5 Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Room: 200 Chair: Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa

BO6 Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities
Room: 201/202 Chair: Ilya Dodin, Princeton University

BO7 Shocks, Reconnection, Emission
Room: 203 Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO8 Laser and Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Room: 103/104 Chair: Sven Steinke, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

BP12 Poster Poster Session I (FRC, Spheromak, Mirror)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 16 2015 2:00PM, Monday

CT2 Invited Tutorial: Recent Developments in Reconnection Theory: the Plasmoid Instability, Self-Generated Turbulence, and Implications for Laboratory and Space Plasmas
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Amitava Bhattacharjee  

CI3 Invited ICF Stagnation and Burn
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Max Karasik, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Clark,  Harry Robey,  John Kline,  P.B. Radha,  S.P. Regan,  A.R. Christopherson  

CO4 Equation of State
Room: 105/106 Chair: Luke Shulenburger, Sandia National Laboratories

CO5 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 200 Chair: Matthew Landreman, University of Maryland-College Park

CO6 DIII-D
Room: 201/202 Chair: Earl Marmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CO7 Plasma Sources & Technologies
Room: 203 Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico

CO8 Laser Plasma Sources of X Rays and Neutrons
Room: 103/104 Chair: Cedric Thaury, Ecole Polytechnique

CM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales I
Room: 100/101 Chair: John Sarff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CP12 Poster Poster Session II (C-Mod, MST, RFP, Stellarator; Waves, Shocks, and Instabilities; Shock Wave and Discontinuity)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 16 2015 3:00PM, Monday

DI2 Invited Reconnection from Lab to Space
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  James Burch,  Jay Anderson,  Gregory Werner,  Fan Guo  

Nov 16 2015 5:15PM, Monday

EE2 Women in Plasma Physics Reception
Room: Westin Hotel, Savannah Grand Ballroom B Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory

Nov 16 2015 7:00PM, Monday

EE1 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Uri Shumlak, University of Washington

Nov 17 2015 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Invited Review: Measuring the Opacity of Stellar Interior Matter in Terrestrial Laboratories
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  James Bailey  

Nov 17 2015 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Invited MFE Model Development and Simulation
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Andris Dimits, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  J.M. Candy,  Mikhail Dorf,  O. Meneghini,  Stephen Jardin,  N.M. Ferraro,  David Gates  

GI3 Invited ICF Preheat and Drive
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Sebastien le Pape,  Maria Alejandra Barrios,  David Turnbull,  A.K. Davis,  Adam Harvey-Thompson,  Shinsuke Fujioka  

GO4 C-Mod, ADX, Lockheed Martin CFR
Room: 105/106 Chair: George McKee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

GO5 Hydrodynamic Instability I
Room: 200 Chair: Paul Bradley, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GO6 Fundamental High-Energy Density Science
Room: 201/202 Chair: Johan Frenje, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GO7 Laser Plasma Ion Acceleration
Room: 203 Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

GO8 Beam, Source and Pinch Physics
Room: 103/104 Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

GM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales II
Room: 100/101 Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GM10 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas I
Room: 102 Chair: Evgeny Mishin, Air Force Research Laboratory

GP12 Poster Poster Session III (Plasma Accelerators and Radiation: NSTX-U, ST, and International MFE)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 17 2015 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE2 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: 203

Nov 17 2015 1:00PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Richard Magee, Tri Alpha Energy

Nov 17 2015 2:00PM, Tuesday

JT2 Invited Tutorial: Considerations of the High Magnetic Field Tokamak Path on the Approach to Fusion Energy
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Steven Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Earl Marmar  

JI3 Invited Fundamental HED Science
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Robert Cauble, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Siegfried Glenzer,  Yuan Ping,  Andrew Ng,  Johan Frenje,  Luke Shulenburger,  Dayne Fratanduono  

JO4 Hydrodynamic Instability II
Room: 105/106 Chair: Radha Bahukutumbi, University of Rochester

JO5 Laser Plasma Interactions I
Room: 200 Chair: David Turnbull, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO6 Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion I
Room: 201/202 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

JO7 Short Pulse Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: 203 Chair: Alex Arefiev, University of Texas at Austin

JM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales III
Room: 100/101 Chair: Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University

JM10 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas II
Room: 102 Chair: Vladimir Sotnikov, Air Force Research Laboratory

JM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions I
Room: 103/104 Chair: Davide Curreli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee Knoxville

JP12 Poster Poster Session IV (Education and Outreach; Undergraduate/High School Research; DIII-D I, Diagnostics and Simulation Methods; Low Temperature Plasmas, Breakdown, Thrusters, and Sheaths)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 17 2015 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI2 Invited MFE Regime Optimization
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Steven Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Joelle Mailloux,  J.R. Ferron,  Amanda Hubbard,  Q. Ren  

Nov 17 2015 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE2 Meet the Editors of the APS Journals
Room: Georgia International Gallery

Nov 17 2015 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Westin Harbor A Chair: Paul Miller, West Virginia University

Nov 18 2015 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Invited Review: Turbulence in Laboratory and Natural Plasmas: Connecting the Dots
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Frank Jenko  

Nov 18 2015 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Invited Waves and Instabilities
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Seth Dorfman, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Edward Thomas,  Erik Tejero,  Xin An,  Francois Anderegg,  Noah Hurst,  Shreekrishna Tripathi  

NI3 Invited MFE Transport and Turbulence
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Lothar Schmitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  N.T. Howard,  Alejandro Banon Navarro,  D. Ernst,  G.R. McKee,  Paul Ennever,  Mario Podesta  

NO4 Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion II
Room: 105/106 Chair: Dan Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories

NO5 Laser Plasma Interactions II
Room: 200 Chair: Amanda Davis, University of Rochester

NO6 Plasma-Material Interactions & Boundary
Room: 201/202 Chair: Tom Rognlien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NO7 High-Energy Density Hydrodynamics
Room: 203 Chair: Harry Robey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales IV
Room: 100/101 Chair: Greg Howes, University of Iowa

NM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions II
Room: 103/104 Chair: Blas Uberuaga, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Karl Hammond, University of Missouri

NP12 Poster Session V (MHD, Heating, Current Drive, HBT-EP; Magnetic Reconnection; Astrophysical and Space Plasmas)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 18 2015 1:00PM, Wednesday

OE1 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Nov 18 2015 2:00PM, Wednesday

PT2 Invited Tutorial: Two Decades of Progress in Understanding and Control of Laser Plasma Instabilities in Indirect Drive Inertial Fusion
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dustin Froula, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  David S. Montgomery  

PI3 Invited MHD and Rotation
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Guo-yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  B.J. Tobias,  John Rice,  Jong-Kyu Park,  Stefano Munaretto,  Yang Chen,  Gunsu Yun  

PO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion II
Room: 105/106 Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 Baryonic Mix & Neutron Diagnostics
Room: 200 Chair: Leslie Welser Sherrill, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO6 Pegasus, NSTX-U, and International Experiments
Room: 201/202 Chair: Ted Strait, General Atomics, Inc.

PO7 High Field Physics and Relativistic Plasmas
Room: 203 Chair: Thomas Grismayer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

PM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions III
Room: 103/104 Chair: David Ruzic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PP12 Poster Poster Session VI (Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization-Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales, Turbulence and Transport, Transport, Transients, ITER and Next-Steps)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 18 2015 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI2 Invited Rosenbluth Award, ICF Instabilities and Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dustin Froula, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Cami Collins,  David Martinez,  Kyle Peterson,  Kevin Schoeffler  

Nov 18 2015 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 203 Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester

Nov 18 2015 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 DPP Reception and Banquet
Room: Westin Hotel Grand Ballroom Foyer and Grand Ballroom Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester

Nov 19 2015 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Invited James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Plasma: How It Works and Energizes Plasma Particles
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Masaaki Yamada  

Nov 19 2015 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Invited Low Temperature Plasmas, Stellarator, and Disruptions
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Koichi Sasaki,  Dmytro Sydorenko,  M. Umair Siddiqui,  Hiroshi Kasahara,  Shaun Haskey,  D. Shiraki  

TI3 Invited Particle Beams
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Brian Beaudoin,  Alexey Arefiev,  Igor D. Kaganovich,  Stepan Bulanov,  Cedric Thaury,  Sven Steinke  

TO4 X-Ray Sources and Diagnostics
Room: 105/106 Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory

TO5 Solar Wind, Turbulence, Particle Motion
Room: 200 Chair: Bart Van Compernolle, University of California, Los Angeles

TO6 Research in Support of ITER
Room: 201/202 Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TO7 Dusty Plasma, Multi-Phase Media, and Anti-Matter Plasma
Room: 203 Chair: Edward Thomas, Auburn University

TO8 Warm Dense Matter
Room: 103/104 Chair: Dayne Fratanduono, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TP12 Poster Session VII (ICF, Mathematical and Simulation Methods, Basic Theory, DIII-D II, Boundary and Plasma-Material Interactions)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 19 2015 2:00PM, Thursday

UT2 Invited Tutorial: Divertor Detachment
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: David Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Krasheninnikov  

UI3 Invited Quantum & HED Plasmas
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Alec Thomas, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Arati Dasgupta,  Edmund Yu,  Swadesh Mahajan,  George Swadling,  Anthony Link,  Thomas Grismayer  

UO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion III
Room: 105/106 Chair: Brian Spears, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO5 MHD and Transport
Room: 200 Chair: Nathaniel Ferraro, General Atomics

UO6 Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 201/202 Chair: David Martinez, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics
Room: 203 Chair: Sebastien Lapape, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UP12 Poster Session VIII (Pinches, Diagnostics, Codes and Modeling, One Component, Laser-Plasma Ions, Strongly Coupled and Dusty Plasmas)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 19 2015 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Invited Divertor and Boundary
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: David Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  A.G. McLean,  Wouter Vijvers,  I.C. Faust,  Federico Halpern  

Nov 19 2015 7:30PM, Thursday

UE2 Town Meeting on the Fusion Energy Science Workshops
Room: 105/106 Chair: Mark Foster, U.S. Department of Energy

Nov 20 2015 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Invited Review: Synergy Between Experiments and Simulations in Laser and Beam-Driven Plasma Acceleration and Light
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Warren B. Mori  

Nov 20 2015 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Invited Stix Award, RFP, FRC, and Postdeadline Invited
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Nuno Loureiro,  E. Parke,  Daniel Fulton,  Keith Burrell,  Satyabrata Kar,  Thomas Kluge  

YI3 Invited Eruptions and Jets
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Auna Moser, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Clayton E. Myers,  Joaquim Loizu,  Chikang Li,  Merav Opher,  Drew Higginson,  J.W.R. Schroeder  

YO4 Z-Pinches and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: 105/106 Chair: George Swadling, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

YO5 Computer Simulation Methods
Room: 200 Chair: Gian Luca Delzano, Los Alamos National Laboratory

YO6 Fast Ignition and Electron Transport
Room: 201/202 Chair: Chris McGuffey, University of California, San Diego

YP12 Poster Poster Session IX (Supplemental and Postdeadline)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 16 2015 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Invited Review: The Physics of the Laboratory Magnetosphere
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Earl Scime, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Mauel  

Nov 16 2015 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Invited Pedestals
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Masayuki Ono, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Wayne Solomon,  Xueqiao Xu,  Jon Hillesheim,  Istvan Cziegler,  Nikolas Logan,  Mike Kotschenreuther  

BI3 Invited Turbulent Fluctuations at Large and Small Scales
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Tiffany Desjardins,  David Schaffner,  Vladimir Zhdankin,  Bart Van Compernolle,  Lang Cui,  Colin Adams  

BO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion I
Room: 105/106 Chair: Dan Clark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO5 Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Room: 200 Chair: Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa

BO6 Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities
Room: 201/202 Chair: Ilya Dodin, Princeton University

BO7 Shocks, Reconnection, Emission
Room: 203 Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO8 Laser and Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Room: 103/104 Chair: Sven Steinke, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

BP12 Poster Poster Session I (FRC, Spheromak, Mirror)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 16 2015 2:00PM, Monday

CT2 Invited Tutorial: Recent Developments in Reconnection Theory: the Plasmoid Instability, Self-Generated Turbulence, and Implications for Laboratory and Space Plasmas
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Amitava Bhattacharjee  

CI3 Invited ICF Stagnation and Burn
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Max Karasik, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Clark,  Harry Robey,  John Kline,  P.B. Radha,  S.P. Regan,  A.R. Christopherson  

CO4 Equation of State
Room: 105/106 Chair: Luke Shulenburger, Sandia National Laboratories

CO5 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 200 Chair: Matthew Landreman, University of Maryland-College Park

CO6 DIII-D
Room: 201/202 Chair: Earl Marmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CO7 Plasma Sources & Technologies
Room: 203 Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico

CO8 Laser Plasma Sources of X Rays and Neutrons
Room: 103/104 Chair: Cedric Thaury, Ecole Polytechnique

CM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales I
Room: 100/101 Chair: John Sarff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CP12 Poster Poster Session II (C-Mod, MST, RFP, Stellarator; Waves, Shocks, and Instabilities; Shock Wave and Discontinuity)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 16 2015 3:00PM, Monday

DI2 Invited Reconnection from Lab to Space
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  James Burch,  Jay Anderson,  Gregory Werner,  Fan Guo  

Nov 16 2015 5:15PM, Monday

EE2 Women in Plasma Physics Reception
Room: Westin Hotel, Savannah Grand Ballroom B Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory

Nov 16 2015 7:00PM, Monday

EE1 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Uri Shumlak, University of Washington

Nov 17 2015 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Invited Review: Measuring the Opacity of Stellar Interior Matter in Terrestrial Laboratories
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  James Bailey  

Nov 17 2015 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Invited MFE Model Development and Simulation
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Andris Dimits, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  J.M. Candy,  Mikhail Dorf,  O. Meneghini,  Stephen Jardin,  N.M. Ferraro,  David Gates  

GI3 Invited ICF Preheat and Drive
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Sebastien le Pape,  Maria Alejandra Barrios,  David Turnbull,  A.K. Davis,  Adam Harvey-Thompson,  Shinsuke Fujioka  

GO4 C-Mod, ADX, Lockheed Martin CFR
Room: 105/106 Chair: George McKee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

GO5 Hydrodynamic Instability I
Room: 200 Chair: Paul Bradley, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GO6 Fundamental High-Energy Density Science
Room: 201/202 Chair: Johan Frenje, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GO7 Laser Plasma Ion Acceleration
Room: 203 Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

GO8 Beam, Source and Pinch Physics
Room: 103/104 Chair: Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

GM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales II
Room: 100/101 Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GM10 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas I
Room: 102 Chair: Evgeny Mishin, Air Force Research Laboratory

GP12 Poster Poster Session III (Plasma Accelerators and Radiation: NSTX-U, ST, and International MFE)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 17 2015 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE2 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: 203

Nov 17 2015 1:00PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Richard Magee, Tri Alpha Energy

Nov 17 2015 2:00PM, Tuesday

JT2 Invited Tutorial: Considerations of the High Magnetic Field Tokamak Path on the Approach to Fusion Energy
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Steven Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Earl Marmar  

JI3 Invited Fundamental HED Science
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Robert Cauble, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Siegfried Glenzer,  Yuan Ping,  Andrew Ng,  Johan Frenje,  Luke Shulenburger,  Dayne Fratanduono  

JO4 Hydrodynamic Instability II
Room: 105/106 Chair: Radha Bahukutumbi, University of Rochester

JO5 Laser Plasma Interactions I
Room: 200 Chair: David Turnbull, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO6 Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion I
Room: 201/202 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

JO7 Short Pulse Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: 203 Chair: Alex Arefiev, University of Texas at Austin

JM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales III
Room: 100/101 Chair: Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University

JM10 Mini-Conference: Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas II
Room: 102 Chair: Vladimir Sotnikov, Air Force Research Laboratory

JM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions I
Room: 103/104 Chair: Davide Curreli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee Knoxville

JP12 Poster Poster Session IV (Education and Outreach; Undergraduate/High School Research; DIII-D I, Diagnostics and Simulation Methods; Low Temperature Plasmas, Breakdown, Thrusters, and Sheaths)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 17 2015 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI2 Invited MFE Regime Optimization
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Steven Scott, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Joelle Mailloux,  J.R. Ferron,  Amanda Hubbard,  Q. Ren  

Nov 17 2015 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE2 Meet the Editors of the APS Journals
Room: Georgia International Gallery

Nov 17 2015 6:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: Westin Harbor A Chair: Paul Miller, West Virginia University

Nov 18 2015 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Invited Review: Turbulence in Laboratory and Natural Plasmas: Connecting the Dots
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Frank Jenko  

Nov 18 2015 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Invited Waves and Instabilities
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Seth Dorfman, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Edward Thomas,  Erik Tejero,  Xin An,  Francois Anderegg,  Noah Hurst,  Shreekrishna Tripathi  

NI3 Invited MFE Transport and Turbulence
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Lothar Schmitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  N.T. Howard,  Alejandro Banon Navarro,  D. Ernst,  G.R. McKee,  Paul Ennever,  Mario Podesta  

NO4 Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion II
Room: 105/106 Chair: Dan Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories

NO5 Laser Plasma Interactions II
Room: 200 Chair: Amanda Davis, University of Rochester

NO6 Plasma-Material Interactions & Boundary
Room: 201/202 Chair: Tom Rognlien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NO7 High-Energy Density Hydrodynamics
Room: 203 Chair: Harry Robey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NM9 Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales IV
Room: 100/101 Chair: Greg Howes, University of Iowa

NM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions II
Room: 103/104 Chair: Blas Uberuaga, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Karl Hammond, University of Missouri

NP12 Poster Session V (MHD, Heating, Current Drive, HBT-EP; Magnetic Reconnection; Astrophysical and Space Plasmas)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 18 2015 1:00PM, Wednesday

OE1 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Nov 18 2015 2:00PM, Wednesday

PT2 Invited Tutorial: Two Decades of Progress in Understanding and Control of Laser Plasma Instabilities in Indirect Drive Inertial Fusion
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dustin Froula, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  David S. Montgomery  

PI3 Invited MHD and Rotation
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Guo-yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  B.J. Tobias,  John Rice,  Jong-Kyu Park,  Stefano Munaretto,  Yang Chen,  Gunsu Yun  

PO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion II
Room: 105/106 Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 Baryonic Mix & Neutron Diagnostics
Room: 200 Chair: Leslie Welser Sherrill, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO6 Pegasus, NSTX-U, and International Experiments
Room: 201/202 Chair: Ted Strait, General Atomics, Inc.

PO7 High Field Physics and Relativistic Plasmas
Room: 203 Chair: Thomas Grismayer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

PM11 Mini-Conference: Measuring and Modeling of Plasma Material Interactions III
Room: 103/104 Chair: David Ruzic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PP12 Poster Poster Session VI (Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization-Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales, Turbulence and Transport, Transport, Transients, ITER and Next-Steps)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 18 2015 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI2 Invited Rosenbluth Award, ICF Instabilities and Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dustin Froula, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Cami Collins,  David Martinez,  Kyle Peterson,  Kevin Schoeffler  

Nov 18 2015 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 203 Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester

Nov 18 2015 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 DPP Reception and Banquet
Room: Westin Hotel Grand Ballroom Foyer and Grand Ballroom Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester

Nov 19 2015 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 Invited James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Plasma: How It Works and Energizes Plasma Particles
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Masaaki Yamada  

Nov 19 2015 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Invited Low Temperature Plasmas, Stellarator, and Disruptions
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Koichi Sasaki,  Dmytro Sydorenko,  M. Umair Siddiqui,  Hiroshi Kasahara,  Shaun Haskey,  D. Shiraki  

TI3 Invited Particle Beams
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Brian Beaudoin,  Alexey Arefiev,  Igor D. Kaganovich,  Stepan Bulanov,  Cedric Thaury,  Sven Steinke  

TO4 X-Ray Sources and Diagnostics
Room: 105/106 Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory

TO5 Solar Wind, Turbulence, Particle Motion
Room: 200 Chair: Bart Van Compernolle, University of California, Los Angeles

TO6 Research in Support of ITER
Room: 201/202 Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TO7 Dusty Plasma, Multi-Phase Media, and Anti-Matter Plasma
Room: 203 Chair: Edward Thomas, Auburn University

TO8 Warm Dense Matter
Room: 103/104 Chair: Dayne Fratanduono, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TP12 Poster Session VII (ICF, Mathematical and Simulation Methods, Basic Theory, DIII-D II, Boundary and Plasma-Material Interactions)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 19 2015 2:00PM, Thursday

UT2 Invited Tutorial: Divertor Detachment
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: David Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Krasheninnikov  

UI3 Invited Quantum & HED Plasmas
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Alec Thomas, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Arati Dasgupta,  Edmund Yu,  Swadesh Mahajan,  George Swadling,  Anthony Link,  Thomas Grismayer  

UO4 Inertial Confinement Fusion III
Room: 105/106 Chair: Brian Spears, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO5 MHD and Transport
Room: 200 Chair: Nathaniel Ferraro, General Atomics

UO6 Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 201/202 Chair: David Martinez, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics
Room: 203 Chair: Sebastien Lapape, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UP12 Poster Session VIII (Pinches, Diagnostics, Codes and Modeling, One Component, Laser-Plasma Ions, Strongly Coupled and Dusty Plasmas)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Nov 19 2015 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Invited Divertor and Boundary
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: David Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  A.G. McLean,  Wouter Vijvers,  I.C. Faust,  Federico Halpern  

Nov 19 2015 7:30PM, Thursday

UE2 Town Meeting on the Fusion Energy Science Workshops
Room: 105/106 Chair: Mark Foster, U.S. Department of Energy

Nov 20 2015 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Invited Review: Synergy Between Experiments and Simulations in Laser and Beam-Driven Plasma Acceleration and Light
Room: Chatham Ballroom AB Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Warren B. Mori  

Nov 20 2015 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Invited Stix Award, RFP, FRC, and Postdeadline Invited
Room: Chatham Ballroom C Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Nuno Loureiro,  E. Parke,  Daniel Fulton,  Keith Burrell,  Satyabrata Kar,  Thomas Kluge  

YI3 Invited Eruptions and Jets
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium Chair: Auna Moser, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Clayton E. Myers,  Joaquim Loizu,  Chikang Li,  Merav Opher,  Drew Higginson,  J.W.R. Schroeder  

YO4 Z-Pinches and Dense Plasma Focus
Room: 105/106 Chair: George Swadling, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

YO5 Computer Simulation Methods
Room: 200 Chair: Gian Luca Delzano, Los Alamos National Laboratory

YO6 Fast Ignition and Electron Transport
Room: 201/202 Chair: Chris McGuffey, University of California, San Diego

YP12 Poster Poster Session IX (Supplemental and Postdeadline)
Room: Exhibit Hall A