Oct 23 2017 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: 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 Chair: David Newman, University of Alaska
Invited Speakers:  Dov Shvarts  

Oct 23 2017 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Ablators, Instabilities, and Asymmetries
Room: 102ABC Chair: Russell Follett, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Debra Callahan,  Andrea Kritcher,  S.X. Hu,  Suzanne Ali,  Andrew MacPhee,  Steve MacLaren  

BI3 Gyrokinetics and Plasma Turbulence
Room: 103ABC Chair: Christopher Holland, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Simon Freethy,  Tobias Goerler,  Jeronimo Garcia,  Gary Staebler,  Scott Parker,  Choongki Sung  

BO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: 201AB Chair: Ahmed Diallo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO5 Laser-Plasma Acceleration
Room: 202AB Chair: John Palastro, University of Rochester

BO6 Reconnection
Room: 202C Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics I
Room: 203AB Chair: A. Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BP11 Poster Session I: Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; FRC; PMI; Energetic Particles; Other Concepts; Measurement and Diagnostic Techniques; Laser-Plasma Instabilities
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 23 2017 12:45PM, Monday

BE1 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: 201AB Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Oct 23 2017 2:00PM, Monday

CT2 Tutorial: Classical and quantum approaches to extreme laser-plasma physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mattias Marklund  

CI3 HED
Room: 103ABC Chair: Bhuvana Srinivasan, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Kirk Flippo,  Mark May,  Taisuke Nagayama,  Yuan Shi,  Robert Kirkwood,  Joao Santos  

CO4 C-Mod
Room: 201AB Chair: Erik Trask, Tri Alpha Energy

CO5 HEDP Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 202AB Chair: Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO6 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 202C Chair: David Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College

CO7 Laser-Plasma Instabilities
Room: 203AB Chair: Lin Yin, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO8 Neutron Diagnostics and Measurement Techniques/Direct Drive ICF
Room: 203C Chair: Patrick Knapp, Sandia National Laboratories

CP11 Poster Session II: Dusty Plasmas and Sheaths; Z-Pinch, X-Pinch, Dense Plasma Focus, and HED; Stellarator, Disruptions, and MHD
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 23 2017 3:00PM, Monday

DI2 L/H, Zonal
Room: 102ABC Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Parker,  Xiang Fan,  Ahmed Diallo,  Seung-Hoe Ku  

Oct 23 2017 7:00PM, Monday

EE2 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: 102ABC

Oct 24 2017 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Physics of the Tokamak Pedestal, and Implications for Magnetic Fusion Energy
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Philip Snyder  

Oct 24 2017 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Pedestal and Low-Temperature Physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Venkattraman Ayyaswamy, University of California, Merced
Invited Speakers:  Jerry Hughes,  Robert Wilcox,  Yongkyoon In,  Michael Keidar,  Erik Wagenaars,  Yan Feng  

GI3 Hotspots, Applied Fields, and MagLIF
Room: 103ABC Chair: Ryan McBride, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Alex Zylstra,  Daniel Casey,  Louisa Pickworth,  Christopher Jennings,  David Yager-Elorriaga,  Thomas Awe  

GO4 RF, Stellarators, Stability
Room: 201AB Chair: David Anderson, University of Wisconsin

GO5 Laser Acceleration of Protons and Ions
Room: 202AB Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego

GO6 Astrophysical Plasmas and Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 202C Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado

GO7 X-Ray Diagnostics and Measurement Techniques
Room: 203AB Chair: Kelly Hahn, Sandia National Laboratories

GO8 Analystical and Computational Techniques, ICF and HED
Room: 203C Chair: Andrei Simakov, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GP11 Poster Session III: Reconnection; Laser-plasma Interactions and Acceleration; Plasma Technology; DIII-D I; Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics; Computation
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 24 2017 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: 201AB

Oct 24 2017 2:00PM, Tuesday

JT2 Tutorial: Contemporary machine learning: techniques for practitioners in the physical sciences
Room: 102ABC Chair: Seigfried Glenzer, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Brian Spears  

JI3 Rotation and Flows
Room: 103ABC Chair: Alessandro Bortolon, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Arash Ashourvan,  Alexander Lebschy,  Richard Fridstrom,  T. Stoltzfus-Dueck,  Rongjie Hong,  Sean Mattingly  

JO4 Spherical Tokamaks, Other
Room: 201AB Chair: Kathreen Thome, General Atomics

JO5 Particle Generation and Acceleration
Room: 202AB Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

JO6 Waves and Space Plasmas
Room: 202C Chair: Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University

JO7 Hydrodynamic Instability I
Room: 203AB Chair: C. Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO8 EOS and High-Z Multiply Ionized Atomic Physics
Room: 203C Chair: Alla Safronova, University of Neva, Reno

JP11 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; High School or Undergraduate Research; C-Mod, MST, & MFE Theoretical Methods
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 24 2017 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI2 Warm/Dense
Room: 102ABC Chair: Seigfried Glenzer, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Hansen,  Bastian B. L. Witte,  D.N. Polsin,  Mianzhen Mo  

Oct 24 2017 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Meet the APS Editors
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 24 2017 5:15PM, Tuesday

LE2 Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students in Plasma Physics
Room: 202AB

Oct 24 2017 5:30PM, Tuesday

LE3 Women in Plasma Physics
Room: Hilton Milwaukee Regency Ballroom

Oct 24 2017 6:15PM, Tuesday

LE4 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: 201CD

Oct 25 2017 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Bringing Space Down to Earth: Exploring the Physics of Space Plasmas in the Laboratory
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Amy Keesee, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory G. Howes  

Oct 25 2017 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Reconnection: Experiments and Observations
Room: 102ABC Chair: Nuno Loureiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jack Hare,  Joseph Olson,  Joel Dahlin,  Ami DuBois,  W. Fox,  Li-Jen Chen  

NI3 Disruptions and Energetic Particles
Room: 103ABC Chair: Eric Hollmann, UCSD
Invited Speakers:  David Pfefferle,  Carlos Paz-Soldan,  Cedric Reux,  Diego del-Castillo-Negrete,  Eric Fredrickson,  David C. Pace  

NO4 KSTAR
Room: 201AB Chair: Zheng Yan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NO5 Z-pinch, X-pinch, Dense Plasma Focus, and Fast Ignition
Room: 202AB Chair: Steve Richardson, Naval Research Laboratory

NO6 Laser-Matter Interactions
Room: 202C Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

NO7 Compression and Burn I
Room: 203AB Chair: Alison Christopherson, University of Rochester

NM9 Mini-Conference on Laser-Matter Interactions: The Next Generation I
Room: 202DE Chair: Felix Mackenroth, Max Planck Institute for the Complex Sysems

NP11 Poster Session V: Turbulence & Transport; DIII-D II; Compact Torus; HEDP I; Low Temperature Plasmas; Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 25 2017 12:30PM, Wednesday

OE1 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: 201AB

OE2 HEDSA Town Hall Meeting
Room: 203C Chair: Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc.

Oct 25 2017 2:00PM, Wednesday

PT2 Tutorial: Experiments and models of MHD jets and their relevance to astrophysics and solar physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Paul Bellan  

PI3 DPP Award Session and Legacy of Kaw
Room: 103ABC Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ian Chapman,  Felicie Albert,  Jonathan Squire,  Robert Goldston,  Ping Zhu,  Wojciech Rozmus  

PO4 Research in Support of ITER
Room: 201AB Chair: Chris Muscatello, General Atomics

PO5 Warm Dense Matter
Room: 202AB Chair: Alla Safranova, University of Nevada, Reno

PO6 Computation
Room: 202C Chair: Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

PO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics II
Room: 203AB Chair: Ogden Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PO8 Magneto-Inertial Fusion I
Room: 203C Chair: Uri Shumlak, University of Washington

PM9 Mini-Conference on Laser-Matter Interactions: The Next Generation II
Room: 202DE Chair: Arkady Gonoskov, Chalmers University of Technology

PP11 Poster Session VI: HEDP II; Compression and Burn; NSTX-U & Boundary; Direct, Indirect, and Polar-drive; Hydrodynamic Instability; Basic Plasmas
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 25 2017 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI2 Turbulence/Waves
Room: 102ABC Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Kunz,  Alfred Mallet,  Daniel Told,  Seth Dorfman  

Oct 25 2017 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 203C

Oct 25 2017 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 DPP Reception and Banquet
Room: Hilton Milwaukee City Center Crystal Ballroom

Oct 26 2017 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Scaling Laws for the Dynamical Plasma Phenomena
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  D. D. Ryutov, Livermore, CA 94550, USA  

Oct 26 2017 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Direct Drive, Fast Ignition, and Kinetic Modeling
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  R. Betti,  J.A. Marozas,  Tomoyuki Johzaki,  H. Sio,  William Taitano,  Hans Rinderknecht  

TI3 Stability, Scenarios, and MHD
Room: 103ABC Chair: Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Brendan C. Lyons,  Francesca Turco,  Alexander Bock,  Joshua Reusch,  M. Gatu Johnson,  Yue Zhang  

TO4 EAST
Room: 201AB Chair: Rajesh Maingi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TO5 Strongly-coupled/Dusty Plasmas
Room: 202AB Chair: James Danielson, University of California, San Diego

TO6 Low Temperature and Technology
Room: 202C Chair: Tobin Munsat, University of Colorado

TO7 Magneto-Inertial Fusion II
Room: 203AB Chair: Matt Gomez, Sandia National Laboratories

TO8 High-Energy Density Physics, High-Field Physics, and Intense Beams
Room: 203C Chair: Erik Gilson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TM9 Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics I
Room: 202DE Chair: Kris Klein, University of Michigan

TP11 Poster Session VII: Diagnostics & Sources; Heating & Current Drive, Transport, & Diagnostics; Intense Beams, Ion Acceleration, and Laser-solid Interactions
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 26 2017 2:00PM, Thursday

UT2 Tutorial: Integrated Tokamak Modeling: When Physics Informs Engineering and Research Planning
Room: 102ABC Chair: Orso Meneghini, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Francesca Poli  

UI3 Complex Plasmas and Reconnection
Room: 103ABC Chair: Joel Fajans, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Eric Hunter,  Matthew Stoneking,  Matthew Affolter,  Dominik Kraus,  Young Dae Yoon,  Luca Comisso  

UO4 PMI & Boundary
Room: 201AB Chair: Auna Moser, General Atomics

UO5 Radiation Generation
Room: 202AB Chair: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO6 Sources and Diagnostics
Room: 202C Chair: Remington Reid, Air Force Rsch Lab-Kirtland

UO7 Compression and Burn II
Room: 203AB Chair: Jason Bates, Naval Research Laboratory

UO8 HED Hydrodynamics
Room: 203C Chair: Thomas Weber, Los Alamos National Laboratory

UM9 Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics II
Room: 202DE Chair: Jason TenBarge, Princeton University

UP11 Poster Session VIII: Non-Neutral, Antimatter and Strongly Coupled Plasmas; Waves; Conventional and Spherical Tokamaks; Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 26 2017 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Transport
Room: 102ABC Chair: Orso Meneghini, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  T.C. Luce,  Derek Thuecks,  Syun'ichi Shiraiwa,  E.H. Martin  

Oct 26 2017 7:30PM, Thursday

WE1 CANCELLED - Town Meeting on ITER Status and Plans
Room: 102ABC Chair: Charles M. Greenfield, General Atomics

Oct 27 2017 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: The Science and Technology Case for High-Field Fusion
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Earl Scime, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  D. Whyte  

Oct 27 2017 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 SOL and Divertor
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Youwen Sun,  Cameron Samuell,  Ralph Kube,  Fulvio Militello,  Bin Chen,  Houyang Guo  

YI3 Plasma Acceleration
Room: 103ABC Chair: Bernhard Hidding, University of Strathclyde
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Vieira,  Jeroen van Tilborg,  Alessandro Cianchi,  Timon Mehrling,  Paul Scherkl,  Donald A. Spong  

YO4 Energetic Particles and Transport
Room: 201AB Chair: Mario Podesta, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

YO6 Magnetized HEDP and HED Measurement/Diagnostic Techniques
Room: 202C Chair: Dan Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories

YO7 Hydrodynamic Instability II/Compression and Burn III
Room: 203AB Chair: Channing Huntington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

YP11 Poster Session IX: Supplemental; Post-Deadline Abstracts
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 27 2017 12:35PM, Friday

ZE1 Prize Drawing
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Cary, University of Colorado

Oct 23 2017 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: 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 Chair: David Newman, University of Alaska
Invited Speakers:  Dov Shvarts  

Oct 23 2017 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 Ablators, Instabilities, and Asymmetries
Room: 102ABC Chair: Russell Follett, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Debra Callahan,  Andrea Kritcher,  S.X. Hu,  Suzanne Ali,  Andrew MacPhee,  Steve MacLaren  

BI3 Gyrokinetics and Plasma Turbulence
Room: 103ABC Chair: Christopher Holland, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Simon Freethy,  Tobias Goerler,  Jeronimo Garcia,  Gary Staebler,  Scott Parker,  Choongki Sung  

BO4 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: 201AB Chair: Ahmed Diallo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO5 Laser-Plasma Acceleration
Room: 202AB Chair: John Palastro, University of Rochester

BO6 Reconnection
Room: 202C Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

BO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics I
Room: 203AB Chair: A. Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BP11 Poster Session I: Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; FRC; PMI; Energetic Particles; Other Concepts; Measurement and Diagnostic Techniques; Laser-Plasma Instabilities
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 23 2017 12:45PM, Monday

BE1 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: 201AB Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Oct 23 2017 2:00PM, Monday

CT2 Tutorial: Classical and quantum approaches to extreme laser-plasma physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mattias Marklund  

CI3 HED
Room: 103ABC Chair: Bhuvana Srinivasan, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Kirk Flippo,  Mark May,  Taisuke Nagayama,  Yuan Shi,  Robert Kirkwood,  Joao Santos  

CO4 C-Mod
Room: 201AB Chair: Erik Trask, Tri Alpha Energy

CO5 HEDP Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 202AB Chair: Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO6 Turbulence and Transport
Room: 202C Chair: David Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College

CO7 Laser-Plasma Instabilities
Room: 203AB Chair: Lin Yin, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CO8 Neutron Diagnostics and Measurement Techniques/Direct Drive ICF
Room: 203C Chair: Patrick Knapp, Sandia National Laboratories

CP11 Poster Session II: Dusty Plasmas and Sheaths; Z-Pinch, X-Pinch, Dense Plasma Focus, and HED; Stellarator, Disruptions, and MHD
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 23 2017 3:00PM, Monday

DI2 L/H, Zonal
Room: 102ABC Chair: Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Parker,  Xiang Fan,  Ahmed Diallo,  Seung-Hoe Ku  

Oct 23 2017 7:00PM, Monday

EE2 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: 102ABC

Oct 24 2017 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Physics of the Tokamak Pedestal, and Implications for Magnetic Fusion Energy
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Amanda Hubbard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Philip Snyder  

Oct 24 2017 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 Pedestal and Low-Temperature Physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Venkattraman Ayyaswamy, University of California, Merced
Invited Speakers:  Jerry Hughes,  Robert Wilcox,  Yongkyoon In,  Michael Keidar,  Erik Wagenaars,  Yan Feng  

GI3 Hotspots, Applied Fields, and MagLIF
Room: 103ABC Chair: Ryan McBride, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Alex Zylstra,  Daniel Casey,  Louisa Pickworth,  Christopher Jennings,  David Yager-Elorriaga,  Thomas Awe  

GO4 RF, Stellarators, Stability
Room: 201AB Chair: David Anderson, University of Wisconsin

GO5 Laser Acceleration of Protons and Ions
Room: 202AB Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego

GO6 Astrophysical Plasmas and Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: 202C Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado

GO7 X-Ray Diagnostics and Measurement Techniques
Room: 203AB Chair: Kelly Hahn, Sandia National Laboratories

GO8 Analystical and Computational Techniques, ICF and HED
Room: 203C Chair: Andrei Simakov, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GP11 Poster Session III: Reconnection; Laser-plasma Interactions and Acceleration; Plasma Technology; DIII-D I; Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics; Computation
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 24 2017 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE1 Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: 201AB

Oct 24 2017 2:00PM, Tuesday

JT2 Tutorial: Contemporary machine learning: techniques for practitioners in the physical sciences
Room: 102ABC Chair: Seigfried Glenzer, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Brian Spears  

JI3 Rotation and Flows
Room: 103ABC Chair: Alessandro Bortolon, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Arash Ashourvan,  Alexander Lebschy,  Richard Fridstrom,  T. Stoltzfus-Dueck,  Rongjie Hong,  Sean Mattingly  

JO4 Spherical Tokamaks, Other
Room: 201AB Chair: Kathreen Thome, General Atomics

JO5 Particle Generation and Acceleration
Room: 202AB Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

JO6 Waves and Space Plasmas
Room: 202C Chair: Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University

JO7 Hydrodynamic Instability I
Room: 203AB Chair: C. Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JO8 EOS and High-Z Multiply Ionized Atomic Physics
Room: 203C Chair: Alla Safronova, University of Neva, Reno

JP11 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; High School or Undergraduate Research; C-Mod, MST, & MFE Theoretical Methods
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 24 2017 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI2 Warm/Dense
Room: 102ABC Chair: Seigfried Glenzer, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Hansen,  Bastian B. L. Witte,  D.N. Polsin,  Mianzhen Mo  

Oct 24 2017 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Meet the APS Editors
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 24 2017 5:15PM, Tuesday

LE2 Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students in Plasma Physics
Room: 202AB

Oct 24 2017 5:30PM, Tuesday

LE3 Women in Plasma Physics
Room: Hilton Milwaukee Regency Ballroom

Oct 24 2017 6:15PM, Tuesday

LE4 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: 201CD

Oct 25 2017 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Bringing Space Down to Earth: Exploring the Physics of Space Plasmas in the Laboratory
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Amy Keesee, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory G. Howes  

Oct 25 2017 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Reconnection: Experiments and Observations
Room: 102ABC Chair: Nuno Loureiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jack Hare,  Joseph Olson,  Joel Dahlin,  Ami DuBois,  W. Fox,  Li-Jen Chen  

NI3 Disruptions and Energetic Particles
Room: 103ABC Chair: Eric Hollmann, UCSD
Invited Speakers:  David Pfefferle,  Carlos Paz-Soldan,  Cedric Reux,  Diego del-Castillo-Negrete,  Eric Fredrickson,  David C. Pace  

NO4 KSTAR
Room: 201AB Chair: Zheng Yan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NO5 Z-pinch, X-pinch, Dense Plasma Focus, and Fast Ignition
Room: 202AB Chair: Steve Richardson, Naval Research Laboratory

NO6 Laser-Matter Interactions
Room: 202C Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

NO7 Compression and Burn I
Room: 203AB Chair: Alison Christopherson, University of Rochester

NM9 Mini-Conference on Laser-Matter Interactions: The Next Generation I
Room: 202DE Chair: Felix Mackenroth, Max Planck Institute for the Complex Sysems

NP11 Poster Session V: Turbulence & Transport; DIII-D II; Compact Torus; HEDP I; Low Temperature Plasmas; Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 25 2017 12:30PM, Wednesday

OE1 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: 201AB

OE2 HEDSA Town Hall Meeting
Room: 203C Chair: Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc.

Oct 25 2017 2:00PM, Wednesday

PT2 Tutorial: Experiments and models of MHD jets and their relevance to astrophysics and solar physics
Room: 102ABC Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Paul Bellan  

PI3 DPP Award Session and Legacy of Kaw
Room: 103ABC Chair: Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ian Chapman,  Felicie Albert,  Jonathan Squire,  Robert Goldston,  Ping Zhu,  Wojciech Rozmus  

PO4 Research in Support of ITER
Room: 201AB Chair: Chris Muscatello, General Atomics

PO5 Warm Dense Matter
Room: 202AB Chair: Alla Safranova, University of Nevada, Reno

PO6 Computation
Room: 202C Chair: Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

PO7 Hohlraum and X-Ray Cavity Physics II
Room: 203AB Chair: Ogden Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PO8 Magneto-Inertial Fusion I
Room: 203C Chair: Uri Shumlak, University of Washington

PM9 Mini-Conference on Laser-Matter Interactions: The Next Generation II
Room: 202DE Chair: Arkady Gonoskov, Chalmers University of Technology

PP11 Poster Session VI: HEDP II; Compression and Burn; NSTX-U & Boundary; Direct, Indirect, and Polar-drive; Hydrodynamic Instability; Basic Plasmas
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 25 2017 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI2 Turbulence/Waves
Room: 102ABC Chair: Mike Brown, Swarthmore College
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Kunz,  Alfred Mallet,  Daniel Told,  Seth Dorfman  

Oct 25 2017 5:15PM, Wednesday

RE1 DPP Business Meeting
Room: 203C

Oct 25 2017 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE2 DPP Reception and Banquet
Room: Hilton Milwaukee City Center Crystal Ballroom

Oct 26 2017 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Scaling Laws for the Dynamical Plasma Phenomena
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  D. D. Ryutov, Livermore, CA 94550, USA  

Oct 26 2017 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Direct Drive, Fast Ignition, and Kinetic Modeling
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  R. Betti,  J.A. Marozas,  Tomoyuki Johzaki,  H. Sio,  William Taitano,  Hans Rinderknecht  

TI3 Stability, Scenarios, and MHD
Room: 103ABC Chair: Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Brendan C. Lyons,  Francesca Turco,  Alexander Bock,  Joshua Reusch,  M. Gatu Johnson,  Yue Zhang  

TO4 EAST
Room: 201AB Chair: Rajesh Maingi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TO5 Strongly-coupled/Dusty Plasmas
Room: 202AB Chair: James Danielson, University of California, San Diego

TO6 Low Temperature and Technology
Room: 202C Chair: Tobin Munsat, University of Colorado

TO7 Magneto-Inertial Fusion II
Room: 203AB Chair: Matt Gomez, Sandia National Laboratories

TO8 High-Energy Density Physics, High-Field Physics, and Intense Beams
Room: 203C Chair: Erik Gilson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

TM9 Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics I
Room: 202DE Chair: Kris Klein, University of Michigan

TP11 Poster Session VII: Diagnostics & Sources; Heating & Current Drive, Transport, & Diagnostics; Intense Beams, Ion Acceleration, and Laser-solid Interactions
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 26 2017 2:00PM, Thursday

UT2 Tutorial: Integrated Tokamak Modeling: When Physics Informs Engineering and Research Planning
Room: 102ABC Chair: Orso Meneghini, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Francesca Poli  

UI3 Complex Plasmas and Reconnection
Room: 103ABC Chair: Joel Fajans, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Eric Hunter,  Matthew Stoneking,  Matthew Affolter,  Dominik Kraus,  Young Dae Yoon,  Luca Comisso  

UO4 PMI & Boundary
Room: 201AB Chair: Auna Moser, General Atomics

UO5 Radiation Generation
Room: 202AB Chair: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO6 Sources and Diagnostics
Room: 202C Chair: Remington Reid, Air Force Rsch Lab-Kirtland

UO7 Compression and Burn II
Room: 203AB Chair: Jason Bates, Naval Research Laboratory

UO8 HED Hydrodynamics
Room: 203C Chair: Thomas Weber, Los Alamos National Laboratory

UM9 Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma Physics II
Room: 202DE Chair: Jason TenBarge, Princeton University

UP11 Poster Session VIII: Non-Neutral, Antimatter and Strongly Coupled Plasmas; Waves; Conventional and Spherical Tokamaks; Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 26 2017 3:00PM, Thursday

VI2 Transport
Room: 102ABC Chair: Orso Meneghini, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  T.C. Luce,  Derek Thuecks,  Syun'ichi Shiraiwa,  E.H. Martin  

Oct 26 2017 7:30PM, Thursday

WE1 CANCELLED - Town Meeting on ITER Status and Plans
Room: 102ABC Chair: Charles M. Greenfield, General Atomics

Oct 27 2017 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: The Science and Technology Case for High-Field Fusion
Room: Ballroom C Chair: Earl Scime, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  D. Whyte  

Oct 27 2017 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 SOL and Divertor
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Canik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Youwen Sun,  Cameron Samuell,  Ralph Kube,  Fulvio Militello,  Bin Chen,  Houyang Guo  

YI3 Plasma Acceleration
Room: 103ABC Chair: Bernhard Hidding, University of Strathclyde
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Vieira,  Jeroen van Tilborg,  Alessandro Cianchi,  Timon Mehrling,  Paul Scherkl,  Donald A. Spong  

YO4 Energetic Particles and Transport
Room: 201AB Chair: Mario Podesta, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

YO6 Magnetized HEDP and HED Measurement/Diagnostic Techniques
Room: 202C Chair: Dan Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories

YO7 Hydrodynamic Instability II/Compression and Burn III
Room: 203AB Chair: Channing Huntington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

YP11 Poster Session IX: Supplemental; Post-Deadline Abstracts
Room: Exhibit Hall D

Oct 27 2017 12:35PM, Friday

ZE1 Prize Drawing
Room: 102ABC Chair: John Cary, University of Colorado