PPPL Hosts Scientific Symposium in Honor of Former Director Ronald C. Davidson
June 11-12, 2007

Monday, June 11, 2007
Session I - AM
Session II - AM
Session I - PM
Session II - PM
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Session I - AM
Session II - AM
Session I - PM
Session II - PM

June 11 - Session I - AM - [Video]
"Opening Remarks" - Nathaniel Fisch
"Welcome" - Dean David Dobkin
"Congratulatory Remarks" - The Hon. Rush Holt (NJ-12)
"Fusion: Why, Whence and Whither?" - Robert Goldston (PPPL)
"Results from Alcator C-Mod and Future Directions" - Miklos Porkolab (MIT)
"Results from DIII-D and Future Directions" - Vincent Chan (GA)
"Properties of D-T Plasmas Learned from TFTR" - Richard Hawryluk (PPPL)

June 11 - Session II - AM - [Video]
"Recent Advances in Laser Plasma Interaction Physics" - Chuan Sheng Liu (U of Maryland)
"Edge Turbulence and Blob Transport" - Dan D'Ippolito (Lodestar)
"Odd-Parity RMF-Heated FRCs" - Samuel A. Cohen (Princeton)
"From Early-Day Gyrokinetic Theory to Present-Day Perturbative Simulation" - Wei-li W. Lee (Princeton)

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June 11 - Session I - PM - [Video]
"High Energy Density Physics - Recent Developments with Z-Pinches" - Norman Rostoker (UC Irvine)
"Progress in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion" - Robert L. McCrory (U of Rochester)
"Recent Progress in Heavy Ion Fusion and High Energy Density Physics" - B. Grant Logan (US HIF Sciences VNL, LBNL)
"High Energy Density Physics: A Developing Frontier" - David D. Meyerhofer (U of Rochester)
"NIF Ignition Campaign" - John Lindl (Livermore)

June 11 - Session II - PM - [Video]
"Pulsed Power High Energy Density Physics" - David Hammer (Cornell U)
"A Pulsed-Power HED Plasma Radiographic Source" - David Mosher (NRL)
"Material Properties at High Energy Density from Quantum Molecular Dynamics" - Michael Desjarlais (SNL)
"Collective Instabilities of High-Current Electron Beams in the Context of Fast Ignition" - Gennady Shvets (U of Texas)
"Two-Step ICF Ignition" - Riccardo Betti (U of Rochester)

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June 12 - Session I - AM - [Video]
"Nonneutral Plasma Physics and Anti-Hydrogen" - Joel Fajans (UC Berkeley)
"X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers" - Jonathan Wurtele (UC Berkeley)
"Echoes of Plasma Physics in the World of Synchrotrons" - Patrick Colestock (LANL)
"Landau Damping in Weakly Collisional Plasmas and BGK Waves: New Results on Old Problems" - Amitava Bhattacharjee (U of New Hampshire)
"Beam-Plasma-Based Advanced Accelerator Concepts" - Chan Joshi (UCLA)

June 12 - Session II - AM - [Video]
"New Tools for Antimatter Studies - Positron Plasmas and Trap-Based Beams" - Cliff Surko (UCSD)
"Diocotron Modes: From Fluids to Vlasov Echoes to Separatrix Damping" - C. Fred Driscoll (UCSD)
"The University of Maryland Electron Ring Experiment" - Rami Kishek (U of Maryland)
"Adiabatic Thermal Equilibrium of an Axisymmetric Charged-Particle Beam" - Chiping Chen (MIT)

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June 12 - Session I - PM - [Video]
"Finding Promising Alternatives in Magnetic Fusion Research" - T. Kenneth Fowler
"Research in Communications" - Adam Drobot (Telcordia)
"HED Science with Ultrarelativistic Beams" - Tom Katsouleas (University of Southern California)
"Plasma Physics Issues in High Energy Astrophysics: Rotating Ring Structures Rather than Gaseous Disks" - Bruno Coppi (MIT)
"The Paul Trap Simulator Experiment" - Erik Gilson (Princeton)

June 12 - Session II - PM - [Video]
"Theory and 3D MHD Simulations of Accretion to Rotating Magnetized Stars" - Richard Lovelace (Cornell U)
"Defense Against Biological Weapons by Making Use of Plasmas and Electrical Discharges" - Han Sup Uhm (Ajou University, Korea)
"Advances in Plasma Turbulence after the 1972 Publication of Davidson's Book, Methods in Nonlinear Plasma Theory" - John Krommes (Princeton)
"Initial Vlasov Distributions for Simulation of Charged Particle Beams with High Space-Charge Intensity" - Steve Lund (US HIF Sciences VNL, LLNL)