Plasma Fest agenda

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

8:30-12:30 Symposium
Location: Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) Room 1-425

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• 8:15-8:30 Coffee
• 8:30-8:40 Welcome by Joe Rudnick, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences
• 8:40-9:00 Opening remarks by Frank Jenko, Director of PSTI
• 9:00-9:20 Math for Plasma Science: Russ Caflisch (Mathematics)
• 9:20-9:30 Simulating Plasmas for Fusion Science: Jeff Hittinger (Center for Applied Scientific Computing, LLNL)
• 9:30-9:50 Overview of the Basic Plasma Science Facility: Troy Carter (Physics and Astronomy)
• 9:50-10:00 Diagnostic Development and Physics on the DIII-D and NSTX-U Tokamaks: Terry Rhodes (Physics and Astronomy)
• 10:00-10:20 Plasma-Material Interaction Research for Space Propulsion and Pulsed Power: Nasr Ghoniem (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
• 10:20-10:30 Plasma Propulsion Research: Richie Wirz (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-11:20 Space Plasmas: From the Origins of the Heliosphere to Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions: Marco Velli (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
• 11:20-11:30 Space Plasmas: The Earth’s Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System: Larry Lyons (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
• 11:30-11:50 Outstanding Problems in Astrophysical Plasmas and Magnetic Fields on All Scales: Mark Morris (Physics and Astronomy)
• 11:50-12:10 Electron and Positron Acceleration Using Plasmas: Chan Joshi (Electrical Engineering)
• 12:10-12:30 The Particle Beam Physics Lab: Research at the Intersection of Relativistic Beam and Plasma Physics: Jamie Rosenzweig (Physics and Astronomy)

12:45-5:30 Lunch, Poster Session, and Discussion groups
Location: Covel Commons 3rd Floor

12:45-2:00 Lunch (will be provided!) and Poster Session
Location: West Coast Room & Lobby
2:00-5:30 Discussion Groups (two parallel tracks in separate rooms)

Track 1: Bounded Plasmas
Location: South Bay Room

• 2:00-3:00 Physics of Bounded Plasmas
• 3:00-4:00 Math for Plasma Science
• 4:00-4:30 Coffee break
• 4:30-5:30 After Plasma Fest - Next Steps

Track 2: Plasma Astrophysics
Location: North Ridge Room

• 2:00-3:00 Aspects of Plasma Astrophysics
• 3:00-4:00 Labratory Astrophysics
• 4:00-4:30 Coffee break
• 4:30-5:30 Space Plasma Turbulence