Bulletin of the American Physical Society
65th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference
Volume 57, Number 8
Monday–Friday, October 22–26, 2012; Austin, Texas
Epitome
Oct 22 2012 8:00AM, Monday
AM1 
Workshop on Plasma Biomedicine
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: David Graves, University of California, Berkeley, and Mark Kushner, University of Michigan
Oct 22 2012 8:30AM, Monday
AM2 
Workshop on Plasma Cross Field Diffusion
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Rod Boswell, Australian National University, and Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Oct 22 2012 1:30PM, Monday
AM3 
Workshop on Verification and Validation of Low-Temperature Plasma Simulations
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Mirko Vukovic, Tokyo Electron Limited, and Miles Turner, Dublin City University
Oct 23 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday
CT1 
Plasma Sheaths I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Peter Ventzek, Tokyo Electron Limited
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Sternberg  
CT2 
Plasma Surface Interactions
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Vince Donnelly, University of Houston
CT4 
Microdischarges I
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Larry Overzet, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Toshiaki Makabe  
Oct 23 2012 10:00AM, Tuesday
DT1 
Diagnostics I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Keiichiro Urabe, University of Tokyo
DT2 
Low Pressure Plasma Sources
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Prashanth Kothnur, Applied Materials, Inc.
DT3 
Green Plasma Technologies
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Walter Lempert, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Haruaki Akashi  
DT4 
Capacitively Coupled Plasmas
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Pascal Chabert, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS
Oct 23 2012 1:30PM, Tuesday
ET1 
Nanotechnologies I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Makoto Kambara, University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:  Tatsuru Shirafuji  
ET2 
Atmospheric Pressure Nanosecond Pulsed Discharges
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Anne Bourdon, Ecole Centrale Paris - CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Starikovskiy  
ET3 
Inductively Coupled Plasmas
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Steve Shannon, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Valery Godyak  
ET4 
Ion Distribution Functions
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Svetlana Radovanov, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc
Invited Speakers:  Merritt Funk  
Oct 23 2012 3:30PM, Tuesday
FT1 
Biological and Biomedical Applications of Plasmas I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Gerrit Kroesen, Eindhoven University of Technology
FT2 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations I
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Haruaki Akashi, National Defense Academy, Japan
Invited Speakers:  Peter Ventzek  
FT3 
Electron-Impact Ionization
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Allison Harris, Henderson State University
Invited Speakers:  Lorenzo Ugo Ancarani,  Allan Stauffer  
FT4 
Advanced Laser Beam Diagnostics
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Timo Gans, University of York
Invited Speakers:  Jose Maria Palomares Linares,  Walter Lempert  
Oct 23 2012 6:00PM, Tuesday
GT1 
A Scientific Tribute to Professor Lev D. Tsendin
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Allison Harris, Henderson State University
Oct 23 2012 7:00PM, Tuesday
GT2 
Workshop on Plasma Data Exchange Project
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Annarita Laricchiuta, CNR IMIP Bari
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Buckman,  Sergey Pancheshnyi,  Annarita Laricchiuta  
Oct 24 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday
HW1 
Plasma Sheaths II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Ralf Peter Brinkmann, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Karl-Ulrich Riemann  
HW2 
Plasma Etching I
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Makoto Sekine, Nagoya University, Japan
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Overzet  
HW3 
Heavy Particle Collisions
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Don Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Fischer  
Oct 24 2012 10:00AM, Wednesday
JW1 
GEC Foundation Talk
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Biswa Ganguly, Air Force Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Bartschat  
Oct 24 2012 11:00AM, Wednesday
KW1 
Business Meeting
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Biswa Ganguly, Air Force Research Laboratory
Oct 24 2012 1:30PM, Wednesday
LW1 
Nanotechnologies II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Steven Girshick, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Makoto Kambara  
LW2 
Basic Plasma Physics Phenomena in Low-Temperature Plasmas
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
LW3 
Plasma Propulsion I
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Rod Boswell, Australian National University
Oct 24 2012 3:30PM, Wednesday
MW1 
High Pressure Discharges I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Patrick Pedrow, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Ute Ebert  
MW2 
Negative Ion and Dust Particle Containing Plasmas
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Ane Aanesland, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Ursel Fantz  
MW3 
Collisions with Biomolecules
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Michael Brunger, Flinders University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Orlando,  Marcio Varella  
Oct 24 2012 7:00PM, Wednesday
NW1 
Poster Session I (7:00-9:30PM)
Room: Salon CDE
Oct 25 2012 8:00AM, Thursday
PR1 
Poster Session II (8:00-10:00AM)
Room: Salon CDE
Oct 25 2012 10:00AM, Thursday
PR3 
Positrons and Collision Processes in Plasmas
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Tom Kirchner, York University
Invited Speakers:  Ron White,  David Cassidy  
Oct 25 2012 10:30AM, Thursday
QR1 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Thomas Mussenbrock, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Jan van Dijk  
QR2 
Non-equilibrium Kinetics
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Mirko Vukovic, Tokyo Electron Limited
QR4 
Microdischarges II
Room: Classroom 105
Chair: Julian Schulze, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Pascal Chabert  
Oct 25 2012 1:30PM, Thursday
RR2 
Thermal Plasmas: Arcs, Jets, Switches, Others
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Mark Cappelli, Stanford University
RR3 
Plasma Propulsion II
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: John Foster, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Yevgeny Raitses  
RR4 
Microdischarges III
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Jichul Shin, University of Ulsan
Invited Speakers:  Leanne Pitchford  
Oct 25 2012 3:30PM, Thursday
SR1 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations III
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Ikuo Sawada, Tokyo Electron Limited
Invited Speakers:  Denis Eremin  
SR2 
Plasma Etching II
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Ankur Agarwall, Applied Materials, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Jo\"elle Margot,  Tetsuya Tatsumi  
SR3 
Electron Collisions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Invited Speakers:  Leigh Hargreaves,  Hidetoshi Kato  
SR4 
Plasmas in Liquids
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Natalia Babaeva, University of Michigan
Oct 26 2012 9:00AM, Friday
UF1 
Biological and Biomedical Applications of Plasmas II
Room: Classroom 107
Chair: Bill Graham, Queen's University Belfast
UF2 
High Pressure Discharges II
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Brian Sands, Universal Energy Systems
UF3 
Plasma Diagnostics Techniques II
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Ed Barnat, Sandia National Laboratories
UF4 
Plasma Deposition and Photovoltaic Applications
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Masaharu Shiratani, Kyushu University
Invited Speakers:  Ante Hecimovic  
Oct 22 2012 8:00AM, Monday
AM1 
Workshop on Plasma Biomedicine
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: David Graves, University of California, Berkeley, and Mark Kushner, University of Michigan
Oct 22 2012 8:30AM, Monday
AM2 
Workshop on Plasma Cross Field Diffusion
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Rod Boswell, Australian National University, and Igor Kaganovich, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Oct 22 2012 1:30PM, Monday
AM3 
Workshop on Verification and Validation of Low-Temperature Plasma Simulations
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Mirko Vukovic, Tokyo Electron Limited, and Miles Turner, Dublin City University
Oct 23 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday
CT1 
Plasma Sheaths I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Peter Ventzek, Tokyo Electron Limited
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Sternberg  
CT2 
Plasma Surface Interactions
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Vince Donnelly, University of Houston
CT4 
Microdischarges I
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Larry Overzet, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Toshiaki Makabe  
Oct 23 2012 10:00AM, Tuesday
DT1 
Diagnostics I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Keiichiro Urabe, University of Tokyo
DT2 
Low Pressure Plasma Sources
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Prashanth Kothnur, Applied Materials, Inc.
DT3 
Green Plasma Technologies
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Walter Lempert, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Haruaki Akashi  
DT4 
Capacitively Coupled Plasmas
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Pascal Chabert, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS
Oct 23 2012 1:30PM, Tuesday
ET1 
Nanotechnologies I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Makoto Kambara, University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:  Tatsuru Shirafuji  
ET2 
Atmospheric Pressure Nanosecond Pulsed Discharges
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Anne Bourdon, Ecole Centrale Paris - CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Starikovskiy  
ET3 
Inductively Coupled Plasmas
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Steve Shannon, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Valery Godyak  
ET4 
Ion Distribution Functions
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Svetlana Radovanov, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc
Invited Speakers:  Merritt Funk  
Oct 23 2012 3:30PM, Tuesday
FT1 
Biological and Biomedical Applications of Plasmas I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Gerrit Kroesen, Eindhoven University of Technology
FT2 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations I
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Haruaki Akashi, National Defense Academy, Japan
Invited Speakers:  Peter Ventzek  
FT3 
Electron-Impact Ionization
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Allison Harris, Henderson State University
Invited Speakers:  Lorenzo Ugo Ancarani,  Allan Stauffer  
FT4 
Advanced Laser Beam Diagnostics
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Timo Gans, University of York
Invited Speakers:  Jose Maria Palomares Linares,  Walter Lempert  
Oct 23 2012 6:00PM, Tuesday
GT1 
A Scientific Tribute to Professor Lev D. Tsendin
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Allison Harris, Henderson State University
Oct 23 2012 7:00PM, Tuesday
GT2 
Workshop on Plasma Data Exchange Project
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Annarita Laricchiuta, CNR IMIP Bari
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Buckman,  Sergey Pancheshnyi,  Annarita Laricchiuta  
Oct 24 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday
HW1 
Plasma Sheaths II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Ralf Peter Brinkmann, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Karl-Ulrich Riemann  
HW2 
Plasma Etching I
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Makoto Sekine, Nagoya University, Japan
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Overzet  
HW3 
Heavy Particle Collisions
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Don Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Fischer  
Oct 24 2012 10:00AM, Wednesday
JW1 
GEC Foundation Talk
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Biswa Ganguly, Air Force Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Bartschat  
Oct 24 2012 11:00AM, Wednesday
KW1 
Business Meeting
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Biswa Ganguly, Air Force Research Laboratory
Oct 24 2012 1:30PM, Wednesday
LW1 
Nanotechnologies II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Steven Girshick, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Makoto Kambara  
LW2 
Basic Plasma Physics Phenomena in Low-Temperature Plasmas
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
LW3 
Plasma Propulsion I
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Rod Boswell, Australian National University
Oct 24 2012 3:30PM, Wednesday
MW1 
High Pressure Discharges I
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Patrick Pedrow, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Ute Ebert  
MW2 
Negative Ion and Dust Particle Containing Plasmas
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Ane Aanesland, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Ursel Fantz  
MW3 
Collisions with Biomolecules
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Michael Brunger, Flinders University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Orlando,  Marcio Varella  
Oct 24 2012 7:00PM, Wednesday
NW1 
Poster Session I (7:00-9:30PM)
Room: Salon CDE
Oct 25 2012 8:00AM, Thursday
PR1 
Poster Session II (8:00-10:00AM)
Room: Salon CDE
Oct 25 2012 10:00AM, Thursday
PR3 
Positrons and Collision Processes in Plasmas
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Tom Kirchner, York University
Invited Speakers:  Ron White,  David Cassidy  
Oct 25 2012 10:30AM, Thursday
QR1 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations II
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Thomas Mussenbrock, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Jan van Dijk  
QR2 
Non-equilibrium Kinetics
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Mirko Vukovic, Tokyo Electron Limited
QR4 
Microdischarges II
Room: Classroom 105
Chair: Julian Schulze, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Pascal Chabert  
Oct 25 2012 1:30PM, Thursday
RR2 
Thermal Plasmas: Arcs, Jets, Switches, Others
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Mark Cappelli, Stanford University
RR3 
Plasma Propulsion II
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: John Foster, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Yevgeny Raitses  
RR4 
Microdischarges III
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Jichul Shin, University of Ulsan
Invited Speakers:  Leanne Pitchford  
Oct 25 2012 3:30PM, Thursday
SR1 
Plasma Modeling and Simulations III
Room: Amphitheatre 204
Chair: Ikuo Sawada, Tokyo Electron Limited
Invited Speakers:  Denis Eremin  
SR2 
Plasma Etching II
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Ankur Agarwall, Applied Materials, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Jo\"elle Margot,  Tetsuya Tatsumi  
SR3 
Electron Collisions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Invited Speakers:  Leigh Hargreaves,  Hidetoshi Kato  
SR4 
Plasmas in Liquids
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Natalia Babaeva, University of Michigan
Oct 26 2012 9:00AM, Friday
UF1 
Biological and Biomedical Applications of Plasmas II
Room: Classroom 107
Chair: Bill Graham, Queen's University Belfast
UF2 
High Pressure Discharges II
Room: Classroom 203
Chair: Brian Sands, Universal Energy Systems
UF3 
Plasma Diagnostics Techniques II
Room: Classroom 202
Chair: Ed Barnat, Sandia National Laboratories
UF4 
Plasma Deposition and Photovoltaic Applications
Room: Salon DE
Chair: Masaharu Shiratani, Kyushu University
Invited Speakers:  Ante Hecimovic  
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