Bulletin of the American Physical Society
58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 61, Number 18
Monday–Friday, October 31–November 4 2016; San Jose, California
Invited Speakers
| Aanesland, Ane Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique |
Session GI3.00005 Cathode-less gridded ion thrusters for small satellites Room: 210 ABEF |
| Albert, Felicie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session NI3.00004 Betatron x-rays from laser plasma accelerators: a new probe for warm dense matter at LCLS Room: 210 ABEF |
| Appelbe, Brian Imperial College London |
Session NI2.00003 Effects of inhomogeneity at stagnation in 3D simulations of ICF implosions Room: 210 CDGH |
| Bachmann, Benjamin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session TI2.00002 Generation and Characterization of States of Matter at Solar Core Conditions Room: 210 CDGH |
| Bardoczi, L. UCLA, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Session PI3.00003 Multi-field/-scale interactions of turbulence with neoclassical tearing modes and impact on plasma confinement in the DIII-D tokamak Room: 210 ABEF |
| Barnak, D.H. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester |
Session KI2.00004 Laser-Driven Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion on OMEGA Room: 210 CDGH |
| Berkery, Jack Columbia University |
Session YI2.00005 Resistive Wall Mode Stability Forecasting in NSTX and NSTX-U Room: 210 CDGH |
| Bondarenko, Anton Univ of California - Los Angeles |
Session BI3.00006 Collisionless Coupling between Explosive Debris Plasma and Magnetized Ambient Plasma Room: 210 ABEF |
| Bonde, Jeffrey University of California, Los Angeles |
Session GI3.00004 Collisionless coupling of a high-$\beta$ expansion to an ambient plasma Room: 210 ABEF |
| Bonitz, Michael ITAP, Kiel University |
Session TI2.00004 Ab initio thermodynamic results for warm dense matter Room: 210 CDGH |
| Campanell, Michael Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session YI3.00002 Plasma-Wall Interaction with Strong Electron Emission Revisited Room: 210 ABEF |
| Canik, J.M. Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Session JI3.00002 The role of atomic and molecular physics for dissipative divertor operation in helium and deuterium plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Chrystal, C. GA |
Session PI3.00005 Predicting Rotation via Studies of Intrinsic Torque and Momentum Transport in DIII-D Room: 210 ABEF |
| Crabtree, Chris U.S. Naval Research Laboratory |
Session TI3.00005 Nonlinear Whistler Wave Physics in the Radiation Belts Room: 210 ABEF |
| Creely, A. J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Session VI2.00004 Multi-Channel Validation of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations in Alcator C-Mod I-mode Plasmas Room: 210 CDGH |
| Danielson, J. R. University of California, San Diego |
Session TI3.00003 Evolution of an electron plasma vortex in a strain flow. Room: 210 ABEF |
| DeHaas, Timothy University of California, Los Angeles |
Session DI2.00001 Helicity Transformation under the Collision and Merging of Magnetic Flux Ropes Room: 210 CDGH |
| Ding, S. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Session BI2.00004 Confinement improvement in the high poloidal beta regime on DIII-D and application to steady-state H-mode on EAST Room: 210 CDGH |
| Divol, Laurent Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session UI3.00001 Progress towards a one-dimensional layered DT implosion using HDC capsules at the NIF Room: 210 ABEF |
| Duff, James Univ of Wisconsin - Madison |
Session YI2.00006 Density-Gradient-Driven trapped-electron-modes in improved-confinement RFP plasmas Room: 210 CDGH |
| Ebrahimi, Fatima Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University |
Session DI2.00004 Plasmoids formation in a laboratory and large-volume flux closure during simulations of Coaxial Helicity Injection in NSTX-U Room: 210 CDGH |
| Eidietis, N.W. General Atomics |
Session YI2.00001 Poloidal radiation asymmetries during disruption mitigation by massive gas injection on the DIII-D tokamak Room: 210 CDGH |
| Espinosa, Silvia Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC-MIT) |
Session GI2.00004 Theoretical explanation for strong poloidal impurity asymmetry in tokamak pedestals Room: 210 CDGH |
| Fernandez, Juan C. Los Alamos National Lab. |
Session QI2.00003 Intense laser-driven ion beams in the relativistic-transparency regime: acceleration, control and applications Room: 210 CDGH |
| Fiuza, Frederico SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
Session GI3.00006 Studying astrophysical particle acceleration with laser-driven plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Fletcher, Luke SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
Session TI2.00005 Ultrafast visualization of the structural evolution of dense hydrogen towards warm dense matter Room: 210 CDGH |
| Foster, John Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
Session MR1.00001 Towards Plasma-Based Water Purification: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Room: Exhibit Hall 2 |
| Giroud, Carine CCFE |
Session GI2.00003 On the recovery of pedestal temperature of JET-ILW plasmas with injection of low-Z impurities Room: 210 CDGH |
| Goers, Andy University of Maryland, College Park |
Session NI3.00001 Kilohertz laser wakefield accelerator using near critical density plasmas and millijoule-level drive pulses Room: 210 ABEF |
| Goree, John Univ of Iowa |
Session BI3.00005 Statistical Physics Experiments Using Dusty Plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Goumiri, Imene Princeton University |
Session BI2.00005 A plasma rotation control scheme for NSTX and NSTX-U Room: 210 CDGH |
| Gregor, M.C. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester |
Session TI2.00003 The Shock and Release Behavior of Diamond Compressed to 25 Mbar Room: 210 CDGH |
| Harding, Eric Sandia National Laboratories |
Session KI2.00002 Diagnosing the Stagnation Conditions of MagLIF Implosions Using High-Resolution Spectroscopy Room: 210 CDGH |
| Heidbrink, W.W. University of California Irvine |
Session BI2.00001 Critical Gradient Threshold for Alfv\'en Eigenmode Induced Fast-Ion Transport* Room: 210 CDGH |
| Huntington, Channing Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
Session CI3.00004 Rayleigh Taylor growth at an embedded interface driven by a radiative shock Room: 210 ABEF |
| Hutchinson, I H MIT |
Session CT2.00001 Electron Holes in phase-space: what they are and why they matter Room: 210 CDGH |
| Igumenshchev, I.V. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester |
Session CI3.00002 Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of OMEGA Implosions Room: 210 ABEF |
| Izzo, V.A. University of California |
Session YI2.00002 Parallel Impurity Spreading During Massive Gas Injection. Room: 210 CDGH |
| Jara-Almonte, Jonathan Princeton University / PPPL |
Session DI2.00003 Experimental Demonstration of Resistive Electron Plasmoids in a Reconnecting Current Sheet Room: 210 CDGH |
| Ji, Liangliang Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA |
Session QI2.00002 Exploring novel structures for manipulating relativistic laser-plasma interaction. Room: 210 CDGH |
| Jones, Ogden Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session UI3.00003 Progress towards a more predictive model for hohlraum radiation drive and symmetry Room: 210 ABEF |
| Joshi, Tirtha Raj Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Session TI2.00006 Observation of Interspecies Ion Separation in Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Implosions via Imaging X-ray spectroscopy Room: 210 CDGH |
| Kazakov, Yevgen Laboratory for Plasma Physics, LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels, Belgium |
Session NI3.00005 Plasma heating and generation of energetic ions with novel three-ion ICRF scenarios on Alcator C-Mod and JET tokamak facilities Room: 210 ABEF |
| King, Jacob Tech-X Corporation |
Session GI2.00006 MHD modeling of DIII-D QH-mode discharges and comparison to observations Room: 210 CDGH |
| Klein, Kristopher University of MIchigan |
Session BI3.00003 A Field-Particle Correlation Technique to Explore the Collisionless Damping of Plasma Turbulence Room: 210 ABEF |
| Laggner, Florian M. Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Fusion@\"OAW, 1040 Vienna, Austria |
Session GI2.00001 Pedestal shape, stability and inter-ELM evolution for different main ion species in ASDEX Upgrade Room: 210 CDGH |
| Lanctot, Matthew J. General Atomics |
Session YI2.00004 Impact of toroidal and poloidal mode spectra on the control of non-axisymmetric fields in tokamaks Room: 210 CDGH |
| Lehmann, Goetz Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany |
Session QI2.00004 Plasma-based amplification and manipulation of high-power laser pulses Room: 210 CDGH |
| Li, Bo Peking University |
Session YI3.00006 Transport Bifurcation in Plasma Interchange Turbulence Room: 210 ABEF |
| Lindemuth, Irvin Retired |
Session JT2.00001 The Parameter Space of Magnetized Target Fusion (aka Magneto-Inertial Fusion) Room: 210 CDGH |
| Liu, Chang Princeton University |
Session YI2.00003 Radiation effects on the runaway electron avalanche Room: 210 CDGH |
| Liu, Yueqiang CCFE Culham Science Centre |
Session BI2.00003 Comparative investigation of ELM control based on toroidal modelling of plasma response to RMP fields Room: 210 CDGH |
| Loisel, Guillaume Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA |
Session TI2.00001 Building a laboratory foundation for interpreting spectral emission from x-ray binary and black hole accretion disks. Room: 210 CDGH |
| Ma, Tammy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session NI2.00001 Stix Award Talk: Hot spot mix in ICF implosions on the NIF Room: 210 CDGH |
| Majeski, Dick Princeton Plasma Physics Lab |
Session JI3.00005 Compatibility of lithium plasma-facing surfaces with high edge temperatures in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX) Room: 210 ABEF |
| Mantica, Paola EUROfusion Consortium, JET,UK & IFP-CNR, Milano, Italy |
Session VI2.00003 Impact of electro-magnetic stabilization, small- scale turbulence and multi-scale interactions on heat transport in JET Room: 210 CDGH |
| Martin, Matthew Sandia National Labs |
Session NI2.00005 Direct measurement of the confinement time in a magnetically driven liner stagnation Room: 210 CDGH |
| Meier, Eric The College of William and Mary |
Session JI3.00004 A fluid modeling perspective on the tokamak power scrape-off width using SOLPS-ITER Room: 210 ABEF |
| Menard, Jonathan Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Session TI3.00004 Impact of physics and technology innovations on compact tokamak fusion pilot plants Room: 210 ABEF |
| Mikellides, Ioannis Jet Propulsion Lab |
Session GI3.00002 Theory and Numerical Simulation of Plasma-wall Interactions in Electric Propulsion Room: 210 ABEF |
| Morrison, P. J. Department of Physics and IFS, The University of Texas at Austin |
Session XR1.00001 Structure and structure-preserving algorithms for plasma physics Room: Exhibit Hall 2 |
| Morton, Lucas Univ of Wisconsin, Madison |
Session PI3.00002 Electron turbulence and transport in large magnetic islands Room: 210 ABEF |
| Moyer, R.A. UCSD |
Session BI2.00002 Validation of the Model for ELM Suppression with 3D Magnetic Fields Using Low Torque ITER Baseline Scenario Discharges in DIII-D Room: 210 CDGH |
| Munro, David Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session NI2.00002 Impact of temperature-velocity distribution on fusion neutron peak shape Room: 210 CDGH |
| Myatt, J.F. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester |
Session UI3.00004 A Wave-Based Model for Cross-Beam Energy Transfer in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions Room: 210 ABEF |
| O'Neil, Thomas M. University of California, San Diego |
Session TI3.00006 A mechanistic interpretation of the wave-particle interaction of Landau Room: 210 ABEF |
| Pablant, Novimir Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Session PI3.00004 Core Radial Electric Field and Transport in Wendelstein 7-X Plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Pak, Arthur Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session UI3.00002 Examining the radiation drive asymmetries present in implosion experiments at the National Ignition Facility Room: 210 ABEF |
| Pedersen, Thomas Sunn Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics |
Session AR1.00001 Results from the first operation phase of W7-X Room: Exhibit Hall 2 |
| Pueschel, M.J. University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Session VI2.00001 New Frontiers In Trapped-Electron-Mode Turbulence Room: 210 CDGH |
| Pukhov, Alexander University of Dusseldorf |
Session PT2.00001 Laser absorption in plasmas: from nano-targets to near-QED regime Room: 210 CDGH |
| Qiao, Bin Peking University |
Session QI2.00001 Brilliant gamma-ray emission from near-critical plasma interaction with ultraintense laser pulses Room: 210 CDGH |
| Qin, Hong Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and University of Science and Technology of China |
Session TI3.00002 How do classical particle-field systems become unstable? -- The last physics problem that Ronald Davidson studied. Room: 210 ABEF |
| Quataert, Eliot UC Berkeley |
Session BI3.00001 Models of Dilute Relativistic Plasmas Around Black Holes Room: 210 ABEF |
| Ram, Abhay K. MIT |
Session PI3.00001 Scattering of radio frequency waves by turbulence in fusion plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Reinke, Matthew Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Session GI2.00005 Experimental pathways to understand and avoid high-Z impurity contamination from ICRF heating in tokamaks Room: 210 CDGH |
| Riva, Fabio \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
Session YI3.00001 A methodology for the rigorous verification of plasma simulation codes Room: 210 ABEF |
| Rosenberg, M.J. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester |
Session KI2.00001 Demonstration of Ion Kinetic Effects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions and Investigation of Magnetic Reconnection Using Laser-Produced Plasmas Room: 210 CDGH |
| Ruiz, D. E. Princeton University |
Session YI3.00005 Extending geometrical optics: A Lagrangian theory for vector waves Room: 210 ABEF |
| Sanz-Orozco, David University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Fusion Studies |
Session YI3.00004 Explosive attractor solutions to a universal cubic delay equation Room: 210 ABEF |
| Sauppe, Joshua Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Session YI3.00003 Extended MHD Modeling of Tearing-Driven Magnetic Relaxation Room: 210 ABEF |
| Schaeffer, Derek Princeton University, UCLA |
Session CI3.00006 Laser-Driven Magnetized Collisionless Shocks Room: 210 ABEF |
| Sefkow, A. B. Sandia National Laboratories |
Session UI3.00006 On the helical instability and efficient stagnation pressure production in thermonuclear magnetized inertial fusion Room: 210 ABEF |
| Seyler, Charles Cornell University |
Session KI2.00003 Extended MHD Effects in High Energy Density Experiments Room: 210 CDGH |
| Sheehan, J. P. University of Michigan |
Session GI3.00001 The X3: A 200 kW Class Nested Channel Hall Thruster Room: 210 ABEF |
| Shumlak, Uri University of Washington |
Session CI3.00003 Increasing Plasma Parameters using Sheared Flow Stabilization of a Z-Pinch Room: 210 ABEF |
| Shvets, Gennady The University of Texas at Austin |
Session NI3.00002 Synergistic Direct/Wakefield Acceleration of Plasma Electrons In the Plasma Bubble Regime Using Tailored Laser Pulses Room: 210 ABEF |
| Smalyuk, Vladimir Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab |
Session FR1.00001 Hydrodynamic Instabilities in High-Energy-Density Settings Room: Exhibit Hall 2 |
| Smirnov, Artem Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. |
Session BI2.00006 C-2-Upgrade Field Reversed Configuration Experiment. Room: 210 CDGH |
| Smolyakov, Andrei University of Saskatchewan |
Session GI3.00003 Instabilities and transport in Hall plasmas with ExB drift Room: 210 ABEF |
| Squire, Jonathan Caltech |
Session BI3.00002 Generation of large-scale magnetic fields by small-scale dynamo in shear flows Room: 210 ABEF |
| Stephey, Laurie Univ of Wisconsin, Madison |
Session JI3.00001 Control of neutral particle fueling and exhaust by plasma edge topology optimization in Wendelstein 7-X and HSX Room: 210 ABEF |
| Stoeckl, C. Laboratory for Laser Energetics,U. of Rochester |
Session NI2.00004 Backlighting Direct-Drive Cryogenic DT Implosions on OMEGA Room: 210 CDGH |
| Tamura, Naoki National Institute for Fusion Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
Session GI2.00002 Observation and Calculation of the ECRH Effect on the Tracer Impurity Accumulation in LHD Room: 210 CDGH |
| Tanabe, Hiroshi Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo |
Session DI2.00002 Recent progress of magnetic reconnection research in the MAST spherical tokamak Room: 210 CDGH |
| Terry, P.W. University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Session UT2.00001 Stable Modes in Saturation of Instability-Driven Plasma Turbulence Room: 210 CDGH |
| Thomas, Alec G. R. University of Michigan / Lancaster University / Cockcroft Institute |
Session NI3.00003 Ultrafast science using Laser Wakefield Accelerators Room: 210 ABEF |
| Thomas, Cliff Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session NI2.00006 BigFoot, a program to reduce risk for indirect drive laser fusion* Room: 210 CDGH |
| Tronko, Natalia Max Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik |
Session VI2.00002 Verification of Gyrokinetic codes: theoretical background and applications. Room: 210 CDGH |
| Tzeferacos, Petros University of Chicago |
Session CI3.00001 Turbulent Dynamo Amplification of Magnetic Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas Room: 210 ABEF |
| Umansky, Maxim LLNL |
Session JI3.00003 Attainment of a stable, fully detached plasma state in innovative divertor configurations. Room: 210 ABEF |
| Waltz, R.E. General Atomics |
Session NI3.00006 A critical gradient model for energetic particle transport from Alfven eigenmodes: GYRO verification, DIII-D validation, and ITER projection Room: 210 ABEF |
| Wan, Willow University of Michigan |
Session CI3.00005 Supersonic, shockwave-driven hydrodynamic instability experiments at OMEGA-EP Room: 210 ABEF |
| Wang, Weixing Princeton University Plasma Physics Lab |
Session PI3.00006 Understanding and Predicting Profile Structure and Parametric Scaling of Intrinsic Rotation Room: 210 ABEF |
| Weber, Christopher Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Session UI3.00005 Improved ICF implosion performance through precision engineering features Room: 210 ABEF |
| Weisberg, David UW Madison (currently ORAU) |
Session BI3.00004 Laboratory astrophysics using differential rotation of unmagnetized plasma at large magnetic Reynolds number Room: 210 ABEF |
| Wurtele, Jonathan S. UC Berkeley |
Session TI3.00001 A perspective on the contributions of Ronald C. Davidson to plasma physics Room: 210 ABEF |
| Zhu, Ben Dartmouth College |
Session JI3.00006 Global 3D Two-Fluid Simulations of Turbulent Transport in the Tokamak Edge Region: Turbulence, Profile Evaluation and Spontaneous E $\times$ B rotation Room: 210 ABEF |
| Zweibel, Ellen University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Session SR1.00001 James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: The Basis for Cosmic Ray Feedback: Written on the Wind Room: Exhibit Hall 2 |
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