Nov 5 2018 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: The Origins of Explosive Solar Activity
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Spiro K Antiochos  

Nov 5 2018 9:25AM, Monday

BM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research I
Room: OCC C124 Chair: J. Luc Peterson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 5 2018 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 BPP Invited I: Stix Award, Turbulence and Transport
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: David Shaffner, Bryn Mawr College
Invited Speakers:  Frederico Fiuza,  Noah C Hurst,  Drew Pitney Higginson,  Scott Karbashewski,  Martin S. Weidl,  Giovanni Rossi  

BI3 Particle Acceleration, Radiation, Relativistic Plasmas
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Dustin H Froula,  Nuno Lemos,  Derek Mariscal,  David J. Stark,  Marija Vranic,  Christopher P Ridgers  

BO4 HEDP Laboratory Astrophysics and Shocks
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Will Fox, PPPL

BO5 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Walter Guttenfelder, PPPL

BO6 Compression and Burn I
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Christopher Walsh, Imperial College London

BO7 Measurements and Diagnostics in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Dan Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO8 Space and Astrophysical Plasma Processes
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Jason TenBarge, Princeton University

BM9 Mini-Conference on Magneto-inertial Fusion Science and Technology I
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

BP11 Poster Session I: HEDP; General Stellarator; Wendelstein 7-X; Heating, Current Drive, and Energetic Ions (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 5 2018 12:45PM, Monday

OE9 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: OCC C123

Nov 5 2018 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 High Energy Density Physics I
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Louise Willingale,  Andrea Macchi,  Marko Cvejic,  Eduard L. Dewald,  Alexander Rasmus,  Kumar S. Raman  

CT3 Tutorial: Turbulent Mixing and Transition Criteria of Flows Induced by Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Channing Huntington, LLNL
Invited Speakers:  Ye Zhou  

CO4 Direct and Indirect Drive, Shock and Fast Ignition
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Wolfgang Theobald, University of Rochester

CO5 Core and Edge Transport
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Paul Terry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

CO6 Hohlraum and X-ray Cavity Physics
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Pierre Michel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CO7 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) I
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Marija Vranic, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

CO8 Dusty Plasmas, Sources, and Diagnostics
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Lorin Matthews, Baylor University

CM9 Mini-Conference on Magneto-inertial Fusion Science and Technology II
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Jonathan Davies, University of Rochester

CM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research II
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Cristina Rea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CP11 Poster Session II: Basic Plasma Physics; Boundary, PMI, Proto-MPEX; International Tokamaks; Turbulence and Transport; Other Configurations; Z-pinch, Dense Plasma Focus and MagLIF (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 5 2018 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Steve Spangler, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Tai Phan,  Emily R Lichko,  Ethan E Peterson,  E. Paulo Alves  

Nov 5 2018 5:30PM, Monday

EE14 Women in Plasma Physics Reception
Room: Hilton Broadway Chair: Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories

Nov 5 2018 7:00PM, Monday

EE3 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: David Maurer, Auburn University

Nov 6 2018 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Performance of Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator Plasmas During the First Divertor Operation Phase
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: David Gates, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wolf  

Nov 6 2018 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 DPP/GEC Joint Session: Low Temperature Plasmas I
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Deborah O'Connell,  Renaud Gueroult,  Jane Chang,  Auna Moser,  Franz Xaver Bronold,  Liang Xu  

GI3 Disruptions, Stellarators
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Jeremy Lore, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Xiaodi Du,  Steven Anthony Sabbagh,  Egemen Kolemen,  Charlson ChiSun Kim,  Matt Landreman,  Chris Hegna  

GO4 Opacity, X-ray Spectroscopy and Radiation Shocks and Flow
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Marilyn Schneider, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

GO5 SPARC, C-Mod, and High Field Tokamaks
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Carlos Paz-Soldan, General Atomics

GO6 Compression and Burn II
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Art Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GO7 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) II
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Derek Mariscal, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

GM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. I. Integrated PMI Modeling and Analysis
Room: OCC C123 Chair: IIon Joseph, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research III
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Zhehui (Jeph) Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GP11 Poster Session III: Basic Plasma Physics: General; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; ICF Measurement and Computational Techniques, Direct and Indirect Drive; MIF Science and Technology (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 6 2018 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE5 Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Eve Stenson, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics

Nov 6 2018 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 Boundary, Plasma Material Interactions, RF Heating
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Verhaegh,  Adam Mclean,  Tyler Abrams,  Rui Ding,  Cornwall Lau,  Seung-Gyou Baek  

JT3 Tutorial: Practical Gyrokinetics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: M.J. Pueschel, IFS/UT Austin
Invited Speakers:  Peter J Catto  

JO4 Analytical and Computational Techniques in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

JO5 MHD Equilibrium and Stability, Reconnection
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Nikolas Logan, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

JO6 Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Russell Follett, University of Rochester

JO7 Reconnection, Shocks, Jets, and Other Astrophysical Topics
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Yue Zhang, University of Washington

JO8 Radiation from Plasmas and Laser-plasma Accelerators
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Douglass Schumacher, Ohio State University

JM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. II. Boundary Effects, Plasma Dynamics, and Alternative Divertor Solutions
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Sergei Krasheninnikov, University of California, San Diego

JM10 Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas I
Room: OCC C124 Chair: David Knudsen, University of Calgary

JP11 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate or High School Research; Plasma technology, Fusion reactor Nuclear and Materials Science; Propulsion; Materials Interfaces (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 6 2018 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Magnetized-Liner Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Matthew Weis, Sandia National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Ampleford,  Adam Harvey-Thompson,  Gabriel Alan Shipley,  Jonathan Davies  

Nov 6 2018 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE13 Meet the APS Editors Reception
Room: OCC Ballroom Foyer

Nov 6 2018 5:15PM, Tuesday

LE6 Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students in Plasma Physics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204

Nov 6 2018 6:30PM, Tuesday

LE5 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: OCC B113-114

Nov 6 2018 7:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Plasma 2020 Decadal Survey Town Hall Meeting
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203

Nov 7 2018 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Will Allis Prize: Solving the Boltzmann Equation for Electrons in Weakly Ionized Gases
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: James Colgan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Leanne C Pitchford  

Nov 7 2018 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT
Invited Speakers:  Omar A Hurricane,  Arijit Bose,  Christopher Alexander Walsh,  Elizabeth Merritt,  Russell Follett,  Brian James MacGowan  

NI3 Flows, 3-D Tokamaks, Pinches
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Brian A Grierson,  Takashi Nishizawa,  Zhirui Wang,  Nikolas C Logan,  Andreas Wingen,  Kurt Tummel  

NO4 Physics of Warm Dense Matter and HEDP
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Yuan Ping, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

NO5 KSTAR
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Jong-Kyu Park, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

NO6 Z-pinch, X-pinch, Exploding Wire Plasma, Dense Plasma Focus, and Magnetized Target Fusion
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego

NO7 Turbulence and Transport and Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa

NO8 Basic Plasma Studies of Low-temperature Plasmas
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Truell Hyde, Baylor University

NM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. III. Helium and Impurity Effects on PMI
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Ane Lasa Esquisabel, University of Tennessee

NM10 Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas II
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Gregory Howes, The University of Iowa

NP11 Poster Session V: Laser-plasma Particle Acceleration; HEDP; Turbulence and Transport; DIII-D Tokamak; Machine Learning, Data Science (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 7 2018 12:30PM, Wednesday

OE5 HEDSA General Meeting
Room: OCC B113-114

Nov 7 2018 12:45PM, Wednesday

OE6 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Nov 7 2018 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Turbulent Transport
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Saskia Mordijck, College of William & Mary
Invited Speakers:  Clarisse Bourdelle,  Garth G Whelan,  Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez,  Alexander Kendl,  Zachary R Williams,  Jeff Candy  

PT3 Tutorial: So You Wanna Build an RF Driven Tokamak?
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Ahmed Diallo, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Stephen James Wukitch  

PO4 Hydrodynamic Instability
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Elizabeth Merritt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 Boundary, Plasma Materials Interactions, Stellarators
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Oliver Schmitz, University of Wisconsin

PO6 Compression and Burn III
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Hans Rinderknecht, University of Rochester

PO7 Magnetized HED Plasmas and Laborary Astrophysics
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

PO8 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) III
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

PM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. IV. Hydrogen Retention/Release and Neutron Issues for PMI
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Karl Hammond, University of Missouri

PP11 Poster Session VI: Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Beam Physics; Boundary; MHD and Stability, Transients; FRC; Dusty Plasmas; Basic Studies; Computational and Diagnostic Methods (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 7 2018 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 High Energy Density Physics II
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Thomas Mattsson, Sandia National Labs
Invited Speakers:  Mohamed Zaghoo,  Raymond C Clay,  Sheng Jiang,  Robert Henchen  

Nov 7 2018 5:30PM, Wednesday

RE14 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Broadway

Nov 7 2018 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE15 Reception
Room: Hilton Galleria

Nov 7 2018 7:30PM, Wednesday

RE16 DPP Banquet
Room: Hilton Grand Ballroom

Nov 8 2018 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Sheared ExB Flow Produces Self-Organized, Improved Confinement States In Magnetized Plasmas
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: D.D. Ryutov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Keith Burrell  

Nov 8 2018 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Pedestal, LH Transition, Non-Inductive Startup
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Jerry Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Marinoni,  Samuli Saarelma,  Kshitish Barada,  Zheng Yan,  Ephrem Delabie,  Kenneth Hammond  

TI3 Marshall Rosenbluth Award, Inertial Confinement Fusion and Education
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Debbie Callahan, LLNL
Invited Speakers:  Seth Davidovits,  Varchas Gopalaswamy,  Jim A Gaffney,  Laurent Pierre Masse,  Nobuhiko Izumi,  Mark E Koepke  

TO4 Hydrodynamics in HED Plasmas
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Heather Johns, Los Alamos National Lab

TO6 Laser-Plasma and Beam-Plasma Interactions in HED systems
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Michael Rosenberg, University of Rochester

TO7 Waves and Basic Computational and Theoretical Methods
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Dustin Fisher, University of New Mexico

TO8 Plasma Acceleration: Computation, Beam Driven, Mid-IR lasers
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Jessica Shaw, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY

TM9 Mini-conference on the Crossover between High Energy Density Plasmas and Ultracold Neutral Plasmas: I
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Liam Stanton, San Jose State University

TP11 Poster Session VII: Basic Plasma Physics: Pure Electron Plasma, Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Self-Organization, Elementary Processes, Dusty Plasmas, Sheaths, Shocks, and Sources; Mini-conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas - Posters; MHD and Stability, Transients (2), Runaway Electrons; NSTX-U; Spherical Tokamaks; Analytical and Computational Techniques; Diagnostics (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 8 2018 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 BPP Invited II: Waves, Particles, Reconnection, and Ball Lightning
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Steve Vincena, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Francois Anderegg,  Daniel Dubin,  Feng Chu,  Jongsoo Yoo,  Shreekrishna Tripathi,  Hui-Chun Wu  

UT3 Tutorial: Physics Principles Behind a Compact Advanced Tokamak Power Plant
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Samuel Lazerson, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Richard J Buttery  

UO4 Direct and Indirect Drive
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Laurent Masse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO5 Research in Support of ITER
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Francesca Turco, Columbia University

UO6 HEDP with Short Pulse Laser
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Mingsheng Wei, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY

UO7 Equation of State
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Peter Celliers, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

UO12 DPP/GEC Joint Session: Low Temperature Plasmas II
Room: OCC A105 Chair: Pascal Chabert, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique

UM9 Mini-conference on the Crossover between High Energy Density Plasmas and Ultracold Neutral Plasmas: II
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Jacob Roberts, Colorado State University

UP11 Poster Session VIII: MST; DIII-D Tokamak; SPARC, C-Mod, and High Field Tokamaks; HBT-EP; Transport and LPI in ICF Plasmas, Hydrodynamic Instability; HEDP Posters; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 8 2018 3:00PM, Thursday

VI3 Invited Post-Deadline Talks
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Masakatsu Murakami,  Roxana Tarkeshian,  George J Wilkie,  Andrey Lvovskiy  

Nov 8 2018 7:30PM, Thursday

WE3 Town Meeting on ITER Research Plan
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics

Nov 9 2018 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: Matter at Extreme Energy Density: Exotic Solids to Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: John Cary, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Gilbert W Collins  

Nov 9 2018 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Energetic Particles, Heating
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Cami Collins, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Jozef P ONGENA,  Michael A Van Zeeland,  Alessandro Di Siena,  P. J. Bonofiglo,  Nikolai Gorelenkov,  Markus Weiland  

YI3 BPP Invited III: Gyrokinetic Modeling, Basic Shocks, EOS, and Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Manaure Francisquez,  Samuel Langendorf,  Manjit Kaur,  Yao Zhou,  Nathaniel R Shaffer,  Erik P Gilson  

YO4 Transport in HED Plasmas
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Matthew Hill, AWE Plc, Aldermaston UK

YO5 Spherical Tokamaks, Scenarios, Alternate Configurations
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Theodore Golfinopoulous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YO6 Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

YO7 Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

YO8 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard

YP11 Poster Session IX: The crossover between high-energy-density plasmas and ultracold neutral plasmas ; Supplemental; Post-Deadline Abstracts (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 9 2018 12:35PM, Friday

ZE3 Door Prize Drawing
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: David Newman, University of Alaska

Nov 5 2018 8:00AM, Monday

AR1 Review: The Origins of Explosive Solar Activity
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Spiro K Antiochos  

Nov 5 2018 9:25AM, Monday

BM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research I
Room: OCC C124 Chair: J. Luc Peterson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nov 5 2018 9:30AM, Monday

BI2 BPP Invited I: Stix Award, Turbulence and Transport
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: David Shaffner, Bryn Mawr College
Invited Speakers:  Frederico Fiuza,  Noah C Hurst,  Drew Pitney Higginson,  Scott Karbashewski,  Martin S. Weidl,  Giovanni Rossi  

BI3 Particle Acceleration, Radiation, Relativistic Plasmas
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Dustin H Froula,  Nuno Lemos,  Derek Mariscal,  David J. Stark,  Marija Vranic,  Christopher P Ridgers  

BO4 HEDP Laboratory Astrophysics and Shocks
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Will Fox, PPPL

BO5 DIII-D Tokamak
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Walter Guttenfelder, PPPL

BO6 Compression and Burn I
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Christopher Walsh, Imperial College London

BO7 Measurements and Diagnostics in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Dan Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BO8 Space and Astrophysical Plasma Processes
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Jason TenBarge, Princeton University

BM9 Mini-Conference on Magneto-inertial Fusion Science and Technology I
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

BP11 Poster Session I: HEDP; General Stellarator; Wendelstein 7-X; Heating, Current Drive, and Energetic Ions (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 5 2018 12:45PM, Monday

OE9 GPAP Business Meeting
Room: OCC C123

Nov 5 2018 2:00PM, Monday

CI2 High Energy Density Physics I
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Louise Willingale,  Andrea Macchi,  Marko Cvejic,  Eduard L. Dewald,  Alexander Rasmus,  Kumar S. Raman  

CT3 Tutorial: Turbulent Mixing and Transition Criteria of Flows Induced by Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Channing Huntington, LLNL
Invited Speakers:  Ye Zhou  

CO4 Direct and Indirect Drive, Shock and Fast Ignition
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Wolfgang Theobald, University of Rochester

CO5 Core and Edge Transport
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Paul Terry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

CO6 Hohlraum and X-ray Cavity Physics
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Pierre Michel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CO7 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) I
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Marija Vranic, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

CO8 Dusty Plasmas, Sources, and Diagnostics
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Lorin Matthews, Baylor University

CM9 Mini-Conference on Magneto-inertial Fusion Science and Technology II
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Jonathan Davies, University of Rochester

CM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research II
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Cristina Rea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CP11 Poster Session II: Basic Plasma Physics; Boundary, PMI, Proto-MPEX; International Tokamaks; Turbulence and Transport; Other Configurations; Z-pinch, Dense Plasma Focus and MagLIF (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 5 2018 3:00PM, Monday

DI3 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Steve Spangler, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Tai Phan,  Emily R Lichko,  Ethan E Peterson,  E. Paulo Alves  

Nov 5 2018 5:30PM, Monday

EE14 Women in Plasma Physics Reception
Room: Hilton Broadway Chair: Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories

Nov 5 2018 7:00PM, Monday

EE3 University Fusion Association General Meeting
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: David Maurer, Auburn University

Nov 6 2018 8:00AM, Tuesday

FR1 Review: Performance of Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator Plasmas During the First Divertor Operation Phase
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: David Gates, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wolf  

Nov 6 2018 9:30AM, Tuesday

GI2 DPP/GEC Joint Session: Low Temperature Plasmas I
Room: OCC Ballroom 203 Chair: Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Deborah O'Connell,  Renaud Gueroult,  Jane Chang,  Auna Moser,  Franz Xaver Bronold,  Liang Xu  

GI3 Disruptions, Stellarators
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Jeremy Lore, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Xiaodi Du,  Steven Anthony Sabbagh,  Egemen Kolemen,  Charlson ChiSun Kim,  Matt Landreman,  Chris Hegna  

GO4 Opacity, X-ray Spectroscopy and Radiation Shocks and Flow
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Marilyn Schneider, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

GO5 SPARC, C-Mod, and High Field Tokamaks
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Carlos Paz-Soldan, General Atomics

GO6 Compression and Burn II
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Art Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GO7 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) II
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Derek Mariscal, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

GM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. I. Integrated PMI Modeling and Analysis
Room: OCC C123 Chair: IIon Joseph, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

GM10 Mini-Conference on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Research III
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Zhehui (Jeph) Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory

GP11 Poster Session III: Basic Plasma Physics: General; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas; ICF Measurement and Computational Techniques, Direct and Indirect Drive; MIF Science and Technology (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 6 2018 12:45PM, Tuesday

HE5 Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Eve Stenson, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics

Nov 6 2018 2:00PM, Tuesday

JI2 Boundary, Plasma Material Interactions, RF Heating
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Verhaegh,  Adam Mclean,  Tyler Abrams,  Rui Ding,  Cornwall Lau,  Seung-Gyou Baek  

JT3 Tutorial: Practical Gyrokinetics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: M.J. Pueschel, IFS/UT Austin
Invited Speakers:  Peter J Catto  

JO4 Analytical and Computational Techniques in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester

JO5 MHD Equilibrium and Stability, Reconnection
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Nikolas Logan, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

JO6 Laser Plasma Interactions
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Russell Follett, University of Rochester

JO7 Reconnection, Shocks, Jets, and Other Astrophysical Topics
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Yue Zhang, University of Washington

JO8 Radiation from Plasmas and Laser-plasma Accelerators
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Douglass Schumacher, Ohio State University

JM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. II. Boundary Effects, Plasma Dynamics, and Alternative Divertor Solutions
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Sergei Krasheninnikov, University of California, San Diego

JM10 Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas I
Room: OCC C124 Chair: David Knudsen, University of Calgary

JP11 Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate or High School Research; Plasma technology, Fusion reactor Nuclear and Materials Science; Propulsion; Materials Interfaces (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 6 2018 3:00PM, Tuesday

KI3 Magnetized-Liner Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Matthew Weis, Sandia National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Ampleford,  Adam Harvey-Thompson,  Gabriel Alan Shipley,  Jonathan Davies  

Nov 6 2018 5:00PM, Tuesday

LE13 Meet the APS Editors Reception
Room: OCC Ballroom Foyer

Nov 6 2018 5:15PM, Tuesday

LE6 Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students in Plasma Physics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204

Nov 6 2018 6:30PM, Tuesday

LE5 Student Appreciation Reception
Room: OCC B113-114

Nov 6 2018 7:00PM, Tuesday

LE1 Plasma 2020 Decadal Survey Town Hall Meeting
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203

Nov 7 2018 8:00AM, Wednesday

MR1 Review: Will Allis Prize: Solving the Boltzmann Equation for Electrons in Weakly Ionized Gases
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: James Colgan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Leanne C Pitchford  

Nov 7 2018 9:30AM, Wednesday

NI2 Inertial Confinement Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT
Invited Speakers:  Omar A Hurricane,  Arijit Bose,  Christopher Alexander Walsh,  Elizabeth Merritt,  Russell Follett,  Brian James MacGowan  

NI3 Flows, 3-D Tokamaks, Pinches
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Brian A Grierson,  Takashi Nishizawa,  Zhirui Wang,  Nikolas C Logan,  Andreas Wingen,  Kurt Tummel  

NO4 Physics of Warm Dense Matter and HEDP
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Yuan Ping, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

NO5 KSTAR
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Jong-Kyu Park, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

NO6 Z-pinch, X-pinch, Exploding Wire Plasma, Dense Plasma Focus, and Magnetized Target Fusion
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego

NO7 Turbulence and Transport and Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa

NO8 Basic Plasma Studies of Low-temperature Plasmas
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Truell Hyde, Baylor University

NM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. III. Helium and Impurity Effects on PMI
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Ane Lasa Esquisabel, University of Tennessee

NM10 Mini-Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas II
Room: OCC C124 Chair: Gregory Howes, The University of Iowa

NP11 Poster Session V: Laser-plasma Particle Acceleration; HEDP; Turbulence and Transport; DIII-D Tokamak; Machine Learning, Data Science (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 7 2018 12:30PM, Wednesday

OE5 HEDSA General Meeting
Room: OCC B113-114

Nov 7 2018 12:45PM, Wednesday

OE6 Town Meeting on Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Nov 7 2018 2:00PM, Wednesday

PI2 Turbulent Transport
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Saskia Mordijck, College of William & Mary
Invited Speakers:  Clarisse Bourdelle,  Garth G Whelan,  Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez,  Alexander Kendl,  Zachary R Williams,  Jeff Candy  

PT3 Tutorial: So You Wanna Build an RF Driven Tokamak?
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Ahmed Diallo, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Stephen James Wukitch  

PO4 Hydrodynamic Instability
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Elizabeth Merritt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PO5 Boundary, Plasma Materials Interactions, Stellarators
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Oliver Schmitz, University of Wisconsin

PO6 Compression and Burn III
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Hans Rinderknecht, University of Rochester

PO7 Magnetized HED Plasmas and Laborary Astrophysics
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

PO8 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) III
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan

PM9 Mini-Conference on Plasma–Material Interactions in Fusion Devices: ITER and Beyond. IV. Hydrogen Retention/Release and Neutron Issues for PMI
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Karl Hammond, University of Missouri

PP11 Poster Session VI: Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Beam Physics; Boundary; MHD and Stability, Transients; FRC; Dusty Plasmas; Basic Studies; Computational and Diagnostic Methods (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 7 2018 3:00PM, Wednesday

QI3 High Energy Density Physics II
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Thomas Mattsson, Sandia National Labs
Invited Speakers:  Mohamed Zaghoo,  Raymond C Clay,  Sheng Jiang,  Robert Henchen  

Nov 7 2018 5:30PM, Wednesday

RE14 DPP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Broadway

Nov 7 2018 6:30PM, Wednesday

RE15 Reception
Room: Hilton Galleria

Nov 7 2018 7:30PM, Wednesday

RE16 DPP Banquet
Room: Hilton Grand Ballroom

Nov 8 2018 8:00AM, Thursday

SR1 James Clerk Maxwell Prize Address: Sheared ExB Flow Produces Self-Organized, Improved Confinement States In Magnetized Plasmas
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: D.D. Ryutov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Keith Burrell  

Nov 8 2018 9:30AM, Thursday

TI2 Pedestal, LH Transition, Non-Inductive Startup
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Jerry Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Marinoni,  Samuli Saarelma,  Kshitish Barada,  Zheng Yan,  Ephrem Delabie,  Kenneth Hammond  

TI3 Marshall Rosenbluth Award, Inertial Confinement Fusion and Education
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Debbie Callahan, LLNL
Invited Speakers:  Seth Davidovits,  Varchas Gopalaswamy,  Jim A Gaffney,  Laurent Pierre Masse,  Nobuhiko Izumi,  Mark E Koepke  

TO4 Hydrodynamics in HED Plasmas
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Heather Johns, Los Alamos National Lab

TO6 Laser-Plasma and Beam-Plasma Interactions in HED systems
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Michael Rosenberg, University of Rochester

TO7 Waves and Basic Computational and Theoretical Methods
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Dustin Fisher, University of New Mexico

TO8 Plasma Acceleration: Computation, Beam Driven, Mid-IR lasers
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Jessica Shaw, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY

TM9 Mini-conference on the Crossover between High Energy Density Plasmas and Ultracold Neutral Plasmas: I
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Liam Stanton, San Jose State University

TP11 Poster Session VII: Basic Plasma Physics: Pure Electron Plasma, Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Self-Organization, Elementary Processes, Dusty Plasmas, Sheaths, Shocks, and Sources; Mini-conference on Nonlinear Waves and Processes in Space Plasmas - Posters; MHD and Stability, Transients (2), Runaway Electrons; NSTX-U; Spherical Tokamaks; Analytical and Computational Techniques; Diagnostics (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 8 2018 2:00PM, Thursday

UI2 BPP Invited II: Waves, Particles, Reconnection, and Ball Lightning
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Steve Vincena, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Francois Anderegg,  Daniel Dubin,  Feng Chu,  Jongsoo Yoo,  Shreekrishna Tripathi,  Hui-Chun Wu  

UT3 Tutorial: Physics Principles Behind a Compact Advanced Tokamak Power Plant
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Samuel Lazerson, PPPL
Invited Speakers:  Richard J Buttery  

UO4 Direct and Indirect Drive
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Laurent Masse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

UO5 Research in Support of ITER
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Francesca Turco, Columbia University

UO6 HEDP with Short Pulse Laser
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Mingsheng Wei, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY

UO7 Equation of State
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Peter Celliers, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

UO12 DPP/GEC Joint Session: Low Temperature Plasmas II
Room: OCC A105 Chair: Pascal Chabert, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique

UM9 Mini-conference on the Crossover between High Energy Density Plasmas and Ultracold Neutral Plasmas: II
Room: OCC C123 Chair: Jacob Roberts, Colorado State University

UP11 Poster Session VIII: MST; DIII-D Tokamak; SPARC, C-Mod, and High Field Tokamaks; HBT-EP; Transport and LPI in ICF Plasmas, Hydrodynamic Instability; HEDP Posters; Space and Astrophysical Plasmas (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 8 2018 3:00PM, Thursday

VI3 Invited Post-Deadline Talks
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Masakatsu Murakami,  Roxana Tarkeshian,  George J Wilkie,  Andrey Lvovskiy  

Nov 8 2018 7:30PM, Thursday

WE3 Town Meeting on ITER Research Plan
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Charles Greenfield, General Atomics

Nov 9 2018 8:00AM, Friday

XR1 Review: Matter at Extreme Energy Density: Exotic Solids to Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 201-203 Chair: John Cary, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Gilbert W Collins  

Nov 9 2018 9:30AM, Friday

YI2 Energetic Particles, Heating
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 203 Chair: Cami Collins, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Jozef P ONGENA,  Michael A Van Zeeland,  Alessandro Di Siena,  P. J. Bonofiglo,  Nikolai Gorelenkov,  Markus Weiland  

YI3 BPP Invited III: Gyrokinetic Modeling, Basic Shocks, EOS, and Laboratory Astrophysics
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Manaure Francisquez,  Samuel Langendorf,  Manjit Kaur,  Yao Zhou,  Nathaniel R Shaffer,  Erik P Gilson  

YO4 Transport in HED Plasmas
Room: OCC B110-112 Chair: Matthew Hill, AWE Plc, Aldermaston UK

YO5 Spherical Tokamaks, Scenarios, Alternate Configurations
Room: OCC B113-114 Chair: Theodore Golfinopoulous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YO6 Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Room: OCC B115-116 Chair: Kyle Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories

YO7 Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Room: OCC B117-119 Chair: Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

YO8 Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Room: OCC C120-122 Chair: Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard

YP11 Poster Session IX: The crossover between high-energy-density plasmas and ultracold neutral plasmas ; Supplemental; Post-Deadline Abstracts (9:30am-12:30pm)
Room: OCC Exhibit Hall A1&A

Nov 9 2018 12:35PM, Friday

ZE3 Door Prize Drawing
Room: OCC Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair: David Newman, University of Alaska