Bulletin of the American Physical Society

59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 62, Number 12

Monday–Friday, October 23–27, 2017; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Invited Speakers

Affolter, Matthew University of California, San Diego	Session UI3.00003 First Test of Long-Range Collisional Drag via Plasma Wave Damping Room: 103ABC
Albert, Felicie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session PI3.00002 Katherine E. Weimer Award: X-ray light sources from laser-plasma and laser-electron interaction: development and applications Room: 103ABC
Ali, Suzanne Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session BI2.00004 Probing the seeding of hydrodynamic instabilities from non-uniformities in ablator materials using 2D velocimetry Room: 102ABC
Ashourvan, Arash Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session JI3.00001 Validation of Kinetic-Turbulent-Neoclassical Theory for Edge Intrinsic Rotation in DIII-D Plasmas Room: 103ABC
Awe, Thomas Sandia National Laboratories	Session GI3.00006 Direct observation of electrothermal instability structures on intensely Ohmically heated aluminum with current flowing in a surface skin layer Room: 103ABC
Bellan, Paul Caltech	Session PT2.00001 Experiments and models of MHD jets and their relevance to astrophysics and solar physics Room: 102ABC
Betti, R. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session TI2.00001 The One-Dimensional Cryogenic Implosion Campaign on OMEGA: Modeling, Experiments, and a Statistical Approach to Predict and Understand Direct-Drive Implosions* Room: 102ABC
Bock, Alexander Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Plasmaphysik	Session TI3.00003 Advanced Tokamak Investigations in Full-Tungsten ASDEX Upgrade Room: 103ABC
Callahan, Debra LLNL	Session BI2.00001 Exploring the limits of case-to-capsule ratio, pulse length, and picket energy for symmetric hohlraum drive on NIF Room: 102ABC
Casey, Daniel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session GI3.00002 The high velocity, high adiabat, ``Bigfoot'' campaign and tests of indirect-drive implosion scaling Room: 103ABC
Chapman, Ian UKAEA	Session PI3.00001 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research: MHD Stability and control in tokamak plasmas Room: 103ABC
Chen, Bin USTC, China; LLNL	Session YI2.00005 Progress towards modeling tokamak boundary plasma turbulence and understanding its role in setting divertor heat flux widths Room: 102ABC
Chen, Li-Jen NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland at College Park	Session NI2.00006 Diffusion region in magnetopause reconnection observed by the MMS mission Room: 102ABC
Cianchi, Alessandro University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN	Session YI3.00003 Frontiers of Beam Diagnostics in Plasma Accelerators: Measuring the Ultra-fast and Ultra-cold Room: 103ABC
Comisso, Luca Princeton University	Session UI3.00006 Plasmoid Instability in Forming Current Sheets Room: 103ABC
Dahlin, Joel NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Session NI2.00003 Electron heating and acceleration during magnetic reconnection Room: 102ABC
del-Castillo-Negrete, Diego Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session NI3.00004 Full-orbit and backward Monte Carlo simulation of runaway electrons Room: 103ABC
Diallo, Ahmed Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session DI2.00003 Energy Exchange Dynamics across L-H transitions in NSTX Room: 102ABC
Dorfman, Seth University of California, Los Angeles	Session QI2.00004 First Satellite Measurement of the ULF Wave Growth Rate in the Ion Foreshock Room: 102ABC
DuBois, Ami University of Wisconsin - Madison	Session NI2.00004 Anisotropic Electron Tail Generation during Tearing Mode Magnetic Reconnection Room: 102ABC
Fan, Xiang Univ of California - San Diego	Session DI2.00002 Cascades, "Blobby" Turbulence, and Target Pattern Formation in Elastic Systems: A New Take on Classic Themes in Plasma Turbulence Room: 102ABC
Feng, Yan Soochow University	Session GI2.00006 Equation of state for two-dimensional dusty plasma liquids and its applications. Room: 102ABC
Flippo, Kirk Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session CI3.00001 Late-time mixing and turbulent behavior in high-energy-density shear experiments at high Atwood numbers Room: 103ABC
Fox, W. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session NI2.00005 Experimental verification of the role of electron pressure in fast magnetic reconnection with a guide field Room: 102ABC
Fredrickson, Eric PPPL	Session NI3.00005 Suppression of Alfv\'{e}nic modes through modification of the fast ion distribution Room: 103ABC
Freethy, Simon Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Session BI3.00001 Experimental investigations of turbulent temperature fluctuations and phase angles in ASDEX Upgrade. Room: 103ABC
Fridstrom, Richard KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Session JI3.00003 Measurements and modeling of viscosity in a stochastic magnetic field Room: 103ABC
Garcia, Jeronimo CEA	Session BI3.00003 Non-linear isotope and fast ions effects: routes for low turbulence in DT plasmas Room: 103ABC
Gatu Johnson, M. MIT	Session TI3.00005 Exploring nuclear reactions relevant to Stellar and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis using High-Energy-Density plasmas at OMEGA and the NIF Room: 103ABC
Goerler, Tobias Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Session BI3.00002 Recent gyrokinetic turbulence insights with GENE and direct comparison with experimental measurements Room: 103ABC
Goldston, Robert Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session PI3.00004 A New Scaling for Divertor Detachment Room: 103ABC
Guo, Houyang General Atomics	Session YI2.00006 An innovative small angle slot divertor concept for long pulse advanced tokamaks Room: 102ABC
Hansen, Stephanie Sandia National Laboratories	Session KI2.00001 Fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy for warm dense matter studies and ICF plasma diagnostics Room: 102ABC
Hare, Jack Imperial College London	Session NI2.00001 Anomalous heating and plasmoid formation in pulsed power driven magnetic reconnection experiments Room: 102ABC
Hong, Rongjie Univ of California - San Diego	Session JI3.00005 Coupling of Shear Flows in a Cylindrical Plasma Device Room: 103ABC
Howes, Gregory G. University of Iowa	Session MR1.00001 Bringing Space Down to Earth: Exploring the Physics of Space Plasmas in the Laboratory Room: Ballroom C
Hu, S.X. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session BI2.00003 High-Energy-Density--Physics Studies for Inertial Confinement Fusion Applications* Room: 102ABC
Hughes, Jerry MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session GI2.00001 Prediction and realization of ITER-like pedestal pressure in the high-$B$ tokamak Alcator C-Mod Room: 102ABC
Hunter, Eric Univ of California - Berkeley	Session UI3.00001 Cavity-cooled electron plasmas Room: 103ABC
In, Yongkyoon Natl Fusion Res Inst	Session GI2.00003 Tamed stability and transport using controlled non-axisymmetric fields in KSTAR Room: 102ABC
Jennings, Christopher Sandia National Laboratories	Session GI3.00004 3D Stagnation instabilities in MagLIF loads on the Z Generator. Room: 103ABC
Johzaki, Tomoyuki Hiroshima Univ	Session TI2.00003 Demonstration of Efficient Core Heating of Magnetized Fast Ignition in FIREX project Room: 102ABC
Keidar, Michael George Washington University	Session GI2.00004 Adaptive plasma for cancer therapy: physics, mechanism and applications Room: 102ABC
Kirkwood, Robert Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session CI3.00005 A Plasma Based Beam Combiner for Very High Fluence and Energy Room: 103ABC
Kraus, Dominik Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf	Session UI3.00004 Dense plasma chemistry of hydrocarbons at conditions relevant to planetary interiors and inertial confinement fusion Room: 103ABC
Kritcher, Andrea Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session BI2.00002 Comparison of plastic, high-density carbon, and beryllium as NIF ablators Room: 102ABC
Ku, Seung-Hoe Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session DI2.00004 Gyrokinetic simulation of fast L-H bifurcation dynamics in a realistic diverted tokamak edge geometry Room: 102ABC
Kube, Ralph UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Session YI2.00003 Universality of intermittent fluctuations in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer Room: 102ABC
Kunz, Matthew Princeton University	Session QI2.00001 Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in a Collisionless Plasma Room: 102ABC
Lebschy, Alexander Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Plasmaphysik	Session JI3.00002 Characterization of the core poloidal flow at ASDEX Upgrade Room: 103ABC
Luce, T.C. General Atomics	Session VI2.00001 Experimental Challenges to Stiffness as a Transport Paradigm Room: 102ABC
Lyons, Brendan C. General Atomics, Oak Ridge Associated Universities	Session TI3.00001 Predict-first experimental analysis using automated and integrated MHD modeling Room: 103ABC
MacLaren, Steve Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session BI2.00006 A near one-dimensional 2-shock indirectly driven implosion at convergence ratio \textasciitilde 30 Room: 102ABC
MacPhee, Andrew Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	Session BI2.00005 Measurement and mitigation of X-ray shadow imprint of hydrodynamic instabilities on the surface of Inertial Confinement Fusion capsules due to the fill tube Room: 102ABC
Mallet, Alfred University of New Hampshire	Session QI2.00002 Intermittency, Anisotropy and the onset of reconnection in strong Alfv\'enic turbulence Room: 102ABC
Marklund, Mattias Chalmers Univ of Tech	Session CT2.00001 Classical and quantum approaches to extreme laser-plasma physics Room: 102ABC
Marozas, J.A. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session TI2.00002 Wavelength Detuning Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Mitigation Scheme for Direct-Drive: Modeling and Evidence from National Ignition Facility Implosions Room: 102ABC
Martin, E.H. ORNL	Session VI2.00004 Lower Hybrid Wave Electric Field Vector Measurements Using Non-Perturbative Dynamic Stark Effect Optical Spectroscopy on Alcator C-Mod Room: 102ABC
Mattingly, Sean University of Iowa	Session JI3.00006 Velocity Space Degrees of Freedom of Plasma Fluctuations Room: 103ABC
May, Mark Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session CI3.00002 Development of High Fluence, High Conversion Efficiency X-Ray Sources at the National Ignition Facility Room: 103ABC
Mehrling, Timon Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY	Session YI3.00004 Mechanisms for the mitigation of the hose instability in plasma-wakefield accelerators Room: 103ABC
Militello, Fulvio Culham Centre for Fusion Energy	Session YI2.00004 Density profiles in the Scrape-Off Layer interpreted through filament dynamics Room: 102ABC
Mo, Mianzhen SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab	Session KI2.00004 Visualization of the ultrafast structural phase transitions in warm dense matter. Room: 102ABC
Nagayama, Taisuke Sandia National Laboratories	Session CI3.00003 Systematic measurements of opacity dependence on temperature, density, and atomic number at stellar interior conditions Room: 103ABC
Olson, Joseph University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session NI2.00002 Experimental demonstration of collisionless plasmoids at the electron scale during high Lundquist number magnetic reconnection. Room: 102ABC
Pace, David C. General Atomics - San Diego	Session NI3.00006 Manipulating Energetic Ion Velocity Space to Control Instabilities and Improve Tokamak Performance Room: 103ABC
Parker, Jeffrey Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session DI2.00001 Rethinking wave-kinetic theory applied to zonal flows Room: 102ABC
Parker, Scott Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder	Session BI3.00005 Multiscale Full Kinetics as an Alternative to Gyrokinetics Room: 103ABC
Paz-Soldan, Carlos General Atomics	Session NI3.00002 Spatio-Temporally Resolved Measurement of Runaway Electron Momentum Distributions during Controlled Dissipation Room: 103ABC
Pfefferle, David PPPL	Session NI3.00001 The ins and outs of modelling vertical displacement events Room: 103ABC
Pickworth, Louisa Lawrence Livermore National Lab	Session GI3.00003 Development of new platforms for hydrodynamic instability and asymmetry measurements in deceleration phase of indirectly-driven implosions on NIF Room: 103ABC
Poli, Francesca Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session UT2.00001 Integrated tokamak modeling: when physics informs engineering and research planning Room: 102ABC
Polsin, D.N. Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester	Session KI2.00003 Observation of a New High-Pressure Solid Phase in Dynamically Compressed Aluminum Room: 102ABC
Reusch, Joshua University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session TI3.00004 Non-Inductively Driven Tokamak Plasmas at Near-Unity Toroidal Beta in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment Room: 103ABC
Reux, Cedric CEA, IRFM, 13108, Saint-Paul-les-Durance, France	Session NI3.00003 Physics of the interaction between runaway electrons and the background plasma of the current quench in tokamak disruptions Room: 103ABC
Rinderknecht, Hans Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session TI2.00006 Measurements of ion species separation in strong plasma shocks Room: 102ABC
Rozmus, Wojciech Univ of Alberta	Session PI3.00006 Ion acoustic instability, turbulence, anomalous resistivity and enhanced laser light absorption in ICF plasmas Room: 103ABC
Ryutov, Livermore, CA 94550, USA, D. D. Retired	Session SR1.00001 Maxwell Prize Talk: Scaling Laws for the Dynamical Plasma Phenomena Room: Ballroom C
Samuell, Cameron Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Session YI2.00002 Imaging Main-Ion and Impurity Velocities for Understanding Impurity Transport in the Tokamak Boundary Room: 102ABC
Santos, Joao CELIA - Universite de Bordeaux	Session CI3.00006 Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics Room: 103ABC
Scherkl, Paul Univ of Strathclyde	Session YI3.00005 Experimental realization of underdense plasma photocathode wakefield acceleration at FACET. Room: 103ABC
Shi, Yuan Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Session CI3.00004 Laser-Plasma Interactions in Magnetized Environment Room: 103ABC
Shiraiwa, Syun'ichi PSFC, MIT	Session VI2.00003 From core to coax: extending core RF modelling to include SOL, Antenna, and PFC Room: 102ABC
Shvarts, Dov Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Israel	Session AR1.00001 In search of late time evolution self-similar scaling laws of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov hydrodynamic instabilities - recent theorical advance and NIF Discovery-Science experiments. Room: Ballroom C
Sio, H. MIT	Session TI2.00004 Exploring the dynamics of kinetic/multi-ion effects and ion-electron equilibration rates in ICF plasmas at OMEGA Room: 102ABC
Snyder, Philip General Atomics	Session FR1.00001 Physics of the Tokamak Pedestal, and Implications for Magnetic Fusion Energy Room: Ballroom C
Spears, Brian Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	Session JT2.00001 Contemporary machine learning: techniques for practitioners in the physical sciences Room: 102ABC
Spong, Donald A. Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session YI3.00006 First direct observation of runaway electron-driven whistler waves in tokamaks Room: 103ABC
Squire, Jonathan Caltech	Session PI3.00003 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award: Magnetorotational turbulence and dynamo Room: 103ABC
Staebler, Gary General Atomics	Session BI3.00004 Transport Barriers in Bootstrap Driven Tokamaks Room: 103ABC
Stoltzfus-Dueck, T. Princeton University	Session JI3.00004 Parasitic momentum flux in the tokamak core Room: 103ABC
Stoneking, Matthew Lawrence University, Appleton, WI	Session UI3.00002 Progress toward magnetic confinement of a positron-electron plasma: nearly 100\% positron injection efficiency into a dipole trap Room: 103ABC
Sun, Youwen Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Session YI2.00001 Dynamic ELM and divertor control using resonant toroidal multi-mode magnetic fields in DIII-D and EAST Room: 102ABC
Sung, Choongki University of California, Los Angeles	Session BI3.00006 Physics of thermal transport and increased electron temperature turbulence in the edge pedestal of ELM-free, H-mode regimes on DIII-D Room: 103ABC
Taitano, William Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session TI2.00005 Understanding Yield Anomalies in ICF Implosions via Fully Kinetic Simulations Room: 102ABC
Thuecks, Derek Washington College	Session VI2.00002 Drift waves in the turbulence of reversed field pinch plasmas Room: 102ABC
Told, Daniel Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany	Session QI2.00003 Kinetic Alfvén Wave Turbulence: New Insight from Gyrokinetics and beyond Room: 102ABC
Turco, Francesca Columbia University	Session TI3.00002 Understanding the stability of the low torque ITER Baseline Scenario in DIII-D Room: 103ABC
van Tilborg, Jeroen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Session YI3.00002 Single-shot measurements of low emittance beams from laser-plasma accelerators comparing two triggered injection methods. Room: 103ABC
Vieira, Jorge GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal	Session YI3.00001 Particle acceleration and exotic light emission in structured plasma wakefields Room: 103ABC
Wagenaars, Erik York Plasma Institute, University of York, York, UK	Session GI2.00005 Novel diagnostics for direct measurements of radical densities in atmospheric pressure plasma jets Room: 102ABC
Whyte, D. MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center	Session XR1.00001 The Science and Technology Case for High-Field Fusion. Room: Ballroom C
Wilcox, Robert Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session GI2.00002 Toroidally asymmetric density profiles and turbulence induced by applied 3D fields in DIII-D Room: 102ABC
Witte, Bastian B. L. University of Rostock, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	Session KI2.00002 Warm Dense Matter Demonstrating Non-Drude Conductivity from Observations of Nonlinear Plasmon Damping Room: 102ABC
Yager-Elorriaga, David University of Michigan	Session GI3.00005 Experiments on helical modes in magnetized thin foil-plasmas* Room: 103ABC
Yoon, Young Dae Caltech	Session UI3.00005 A generalized two-fluid picture of non-driven collisionless reconnection and its relation to whistler waves Room: 103ABC
Zhang, Yue Univ. of New Mexico	Session TI3.00006 Dynamics of Plasma Jets and Bubbles Launched into a Transverse Background Magnetic Field Room: 103ABC
Zhu, Ping University of Science and Technology of China, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Session PI3.00005 Effects of Density and Impurity on Edge Localized Modes in Tokamaks Room: 103ABC
Zylstra, Alex Los Alamos National Laboratory	Session GI3.00001 First liquid-layer implosion experiments at the NIF Room: 103ABC

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59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 62, Number 12

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