A Celebration of High Temperature Plasma Physics
50 Years of Scientific Achievement


Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Lyman Spitzer Building
Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium

June 5-7, 2002

Program

PPPL 50th Program (in pdf format for printing)
Wednesday, June 5

Registration, Lyman Spitzer Building, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
9:00 A.M. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Anne Davies, Associate SC Director for Fusion Energy Sciences, US DOE
Professor Robert Goldston, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
9:15 A.M. Plasma Science Research at PPPL
Dr. Richard Hawryluk, Deputy Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M. Magnetic Reconnection
Professor James Drake, University of Maryland
11:30 A.M. Plasma Boundary
Professor Karl Lackner, European Fusion Development Agreement, Garching
12:30 P.M. Lunch (on own)
1:30 P.M. Solar Fusion and Solar Neutrinos
Professor John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study
2:30 P.M. Waves in High Temperature Plasmas: A Perspective on 50 Years of Science and the Promise of Applications
Professor Miklos Porkolab, Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30 P.M. Break
4:00 P.M. Theory of Energetic Particles in Plasmas
Professor Herb Berk, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies
5:00 P.M. MHD Stability: From Basic Understanding to Active Control
Professor Jerry Navratil, Columbia University
6:30 P.M. Banquet at PPPL (registered participants only)
Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Office of Science
Professor William Happer, Chair Princeton University Research Board
Thursday, June 6

Registration, Lyman Spitzer Building, 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
8:00 A.M. Unsolved Plasma Problems in Astrophysics
Professor Jeremy Goodman, Princeton University
9:00 A.M. Magnetic Activity of the Sun and Stars
Professor Robert Rosner, Enrico Fermi Institute
10:00 A.M. Break
10:15 A.M. Basic Plasma Physics with Trapped Nonneutral Plasmas
Professor Daniel Dubin, University of California at San Diego
11:15 A.M. IFE: Where It Came From, Where It Is Going
Dr. Jill Dahlburg, Director, Division of Inertial Fusion Technology, General Atomics
12:15 P.M. Lunch (on own)
1:00 P.M. Accomplishments and Challenges in Computational Plasma Science
Dr. William Tang, Chief Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
2:00 P.M. Results of JT-60U and JFT-2M in collaboration with PPPL
Dr. Hiro Ninomiya, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
3:00 P.M. Reception at PPPL
Dr. Robert Card, DOE Under Secretary for Energy, Science and Environment
5:00 P.M. Tour of PPPL
Friday, June 7

Registration, Lyman Spitzer Building, 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
8:30 A.M. Energetic Particles
Professor William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine
9:30 A.M. Wendelstein Stellarators
Professor Friedrich Wagner, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
10:30 A.M. Break
10:45 A.M. Future Directions in Fusion Plasma Science Research
Professor Robert Goldston, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
NOON Concluding Remarks
Dr. Anne Davies, Associate SC Director for Fusion Energy Sciences, US DOE
Professor Robert Goldston, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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