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Foreword to Special Issue: Papers from the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 31–November 4, 2016, San Jose, California, USA Earl Scime1 and Michael Mauel2 1 2
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
(Received 10 May 2017; accepted 10 May 2017; published online 23 May 2017) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984021]
The 58th annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) was held October 31–November 4, 2016, in San Jose, California. The meeting brought together researchers (undergraduate students through retirees) from all areas of plasma physics. 1945 abstracts were included in the program, approximately 75 more than the previous year. The presentations included five invited review talks, 99 invited talks, one invited post deadline talk, and four tutorials. There were 1835 contributed presentations, with about 35% oral and 65% poster. Two mini-conferences were held concurrently. The Monday morning invited review talk was “Results from the First Operation Phase of W7-X,” given by Thomas Sunn Pedersen of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. He presented the latest results from the startup phase of the new W7-X stellarator and placed the W7X results in the context of the world magnetic fusion program. Tuesday’s review talk shifted the discussion from magnetic fusion to high-energy-density (HED) plasmas with a talk by Dr. Vladimir Smalyuk of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: “Hydrodynamic Instabilities in High-EnergyDensity Settings.” Dr. Smalyuk’s talk described the progress in probing and understanding hydrodynamic instabilities such as the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT), Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM), and Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities, in high-energy-density (HED) settings. On Wednesday, Professor John Foster of the University of Michigan gave a review talk on “Towards Plasma-Based Water Purification: Challenges and Prospects for the Future.” Dr. Foster described how plasma in contact with liquid water generates reactive species that attack and ultimately mineralize organic contaminants in solution. The research area of plasma-liquid interactions has grown significantly over the past decade as more applications are identified, and Dr. Foster’s talk highlighted many recent advances in the field. Professor Ellen Zweibel of the University of WisconsinMadison received the 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Prize and gave a review talk, “The Basis for Cosmic Ray Feedback: Written on the Wind,” on Thursday. Dr. Zweibel is the first woman to be awarded with the Maxwell Prize in the history of the Division of Plasma Physics. Her talk described the physical basis for magnetically mediated cosmic ray–thermal gas coupling, which spans scales from astronomical units to thousands of light years; in galaxies of many types as they evolve over cosmic time. Professor Phillip J. Morrison of the University of Texas–Austin gave the final review talk on Friday, “Structure and Structure-preserving Algorithms for 1070-664X/2017/24(5)/055301/2/$30.00
Plasma Physics.” Dr. Morrison reviewed the recent developments of new geometric algorithms that preserve the geometric structures resulting from the Hamiltonian and action principle form of theoretical models in plasma physics. These new algorithms have the potential to eliminate the problems associated with the accumulation of numerical errors as a function of time in conventional simulations. The five reviews and four tutorial talks were very well received by meeting attendees. Professor Ian Hutchinson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presented a tutorial titled, “Electron Holes in Phase-Space: What They Are and Why They Matter.” The second tutorial was given by Dr. Irvin Lindemuth, “The Parameter Space of Magnetized Target Fusion (aka MagnetoInertial Fusion).” Professor Alexander Pukhov (University of Dusseldorf) gave the third tutorial, “Laser Absorption in Plasmas: From Nano-targets to Near-QED Regime.” The fourth and final tutorial was given by Professor Paul Terry (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Stable Modes in Saturation of Instability-Driven Plasma Turbulence.” The two mini-conferences were “New Developments in Algorithms and Verification of Gyrokinetic Simulations” and “Physics of the Radiation Belts: Collaboration between Laboratory, Theory and Satellite Observations.” All of the talks and sessions listed earlier were in addition to the many parallel contributed oral and poster sessions that made up the bulk of the presentations. A variety of additional activities complemented the scientific program. The High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) hosted their annual symposium on Sunday evening. On Monday evening, the Women in Plasma Physics reception featured a display describing the progress of women in plasma physics. The University Fusion Associates (UFA) held their general meeting later in the same evening. The Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists was held on Tuesday, chaired by Dr. Richard Magee (Tri-Alpha Energy) and Dr. Eve Stenson (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics). Over 500 people attended the DPP banquet on Wednesday evening. The new APS Fellows were recognized and awarded with the APS/DPP prizes. The 2016 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research was awarded to Dr. James Bailey of Sandia National Laboratory. The Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award recipient was Dr. Michael J. Rosenberg (University of Rochester). The Thomas H. Stix Award for
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Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research was presented to Tammy Ma (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The joint USA-Europe Landau-Spitzer Award recipients were Dr. Holger Reimerdes (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Dr. John Berkery (Columbia University), Dr. Steven Sabbagh (Columbia University), and Yueqiang Liu (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy). The after-dinner speaker was Jean Marie Deken, Archivist and Manager of the Archives History and Records Office and Research Library of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She spoke about the history of the SLAC facility. The Science Education and Public Outreach Subcommittee (Paul Miller, Chair) organized a successful Teacher’s Day and Plasma Expo for San Jose area students and teachers. On Tuesday, Science Teachers’ Day morning and afternoon workshops on topical areas of plasma and fusion sciences along with technology applications were held, and the opportunity to discuss plasma physics with poster presenters. The workshop topics and content align with national science standards and the regional academic standards. The Plasma Sciences Expo (Thursday and Friday) offered middle school and high school students, teachers, parents, and the general public an opportunity to talk with scientists while visiting a variety of exhibits and interactive displays, which include making arcs of lightning, manipulating plasma with magnets, observing fluctuating body temperature, playing fusion video games, and exploring optics using a laser. The U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DoE) national labs, industry, and universities from across the country hosted exhibit booths. The 2016 APS/DPP Program Committee chose the review, invited, and tutorial talks, and developed the schedule for the meeting. Its members were Earl Scime (Program
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Chair), Cameron Geddes (Local Arrangements Coordinator); Ex Officio: David Meyerhofer, John Cary, Daniel Dubin, Richard Dendy, Yasushi Ono; Basic Plasma Physics: Bill Amatucci, Franc¸ois Anderegg, Sam Cohen, Cami Collins, Bart Van Compernolle, Tiffany Desjardins Hayes, M. Umair Siddiqui; Particles, Beams and Coherent Radiation: Alexey Arefiev, Brian Beaudoin, Sven Steinke, Louise Willingale; ICF: John Kline, Maria Alejandra Barrios Garcia, Omar Hurricane, Kyle Peterson, Sean Regan; HEDP: Carolyn Kuranz, James Bailey, Arati Dasgupta, Forrest Doss, Siegfried Glenzer, Andrew Ng; Low Temperature and Dusty Plasmas: Mitchell Walker, Kristina Lemmer, Bob Merlino, David Ruzic, Selma Mededovic Thagard; MFE Experiments: Brian Nelson, David Maurer, Amanda Hubbard, George McKee, Richard Magee; MFE Theory: Saskia Mordijck, David E. Newman, Wayne Solomon, Carl Sovinec; Science Education and Public Outreach: Paul Miller; Space Plasmas: Greg Howes, Gurudas Ganguli, Yu Lin; and Astrophysics: Frank Jenko, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Adam Sefkow. Many individuals were essential to the success of the meeting, including staff from some of the participating institutions and the APS Meetings Department, Terri Olsen, Ebony Adams, Donna Greene, Don Mewha, Vinaya Sathyasheelappa, and Donald Wise. Lee Warren and the Freeman Team provided the audiovisual support. A special thanks to Saralyn Stewart, DPP Administrator, for her comprehensive assistance. Without her extensive knowledge and work, the meeting could not have been pulled off. We thank the editors and staff of the Physics of Plasmas, including Michael Mauel, Igor Kaganovich, Jason Myatt, Andre Melzer, David Baker, Benita Hammer, and Deborah Doherty, for their efforts in preparing this special issue, containing approximately 54 articles, tutorial, and review papers across the important topical areas of plasma physics.
Foreword to Special Issue: Papers from the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 31–November 4, 2016, San Jose, California, USA Earl Scime1 and Michael Mauel2 1 2
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
(Received 10 May 2017; accepted 10 May 2017; published online 23 May 2017) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984021]
The 58th annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) was held October 31–November 4, 2016, in San Jose, California. The meeting brought together researchers (undergraduate students through retirees) from all areas of plasma physics. 1945 abstracts were included in the program, approximately 75 more than the previous year. The presentations included five invited review talks, 99 invited talks, one invited post deadline talk, and four tutorials. There were 1835 contributed presentations, with about 35% oral and 65% poster. Two mini-conferences were held concurrently. The Monday morning invited review talk was “Results from the First Operation Phase of W7-X,” given by Thomas Sunn Pedersen of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. He presented the latest results from the startup phase of the new W7-X stellarator and placed the W7X results in the context of the world magnetic fusion program. Tuesday’s review talk shifted the discussion from magnetic fusion to high-energy-density (HED) plasmas with a talk by Dr. Vladimir Smalyuk of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: “Hydrodynamic Instabilities in High-EnergyDensity Settings.” Dr. Smalyuk’s talk described the progress in probing and understanding hydrodynamic instabilities such as the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT), Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM), and Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities, in high-energy-density (HED) settings. On Wednesday, Professor John Foster of the University of Michigan gave a review talk on “Towards Plasma-Based Water Purification: Challenges and Prospects for the Future.” Dr. Foster described how plasma in contact with liquid water generates reactive species that attack and ultimately mineralize organic contaminants in solution. The research area of plasma-liquid interactions has grown significantly over the past decade as more applications are identified, and Dr. Foster’s talk highlighted many recent advances in the field. Professor Ellen Zweibel of the University of WisconsinMadison received the 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Prize and gave a review talk, “The Basis for Cosmic Ray Feedback: Written on the Wind,” on Thursday. Dr. Zweibel is the first woman to be awarded with the Maxwell Prize in the history of the Division of Plasma Physics. Her talk described the physical basis for magnetically mediated cosmic ray–thermal gas coupling, which spans scales from astronomical units to thousands of light years; in galaxies of many types as they evolve over cosmic time. Professor Phillip J. Morrison of the University of Texas–Austin gave the final review talk on Friday, “Structure and Structure-preserving Algorithms for 1070-664X/2017/24(5)/055301/2/$30.00
Plasma Physics.” Dr. Morrison reviewed the recent developments of new geometric algorithms that preserve the geometric structures resulting from the Hamiltonian and action principle form of theoretical models in plasma physics. These new algorithms have the potential to eliminate the problems associated with the accumulation of numerical errors as a function of time in conventional simulations. The five reviews and four tutorial talks were very well received by meeting attendees. Professor Ian Hutchinson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presented a tutorial titled, “Electron Holes in Phase-Space: What They Are and Why They Matter.” The second tutorial was given by Dr. Irvin Lindemuth, “The Parameter Space of Magnetized Target Fusion (aka MagnetoInertial Fusion).” Professor Alexander Pukhov (University of Dusseldorf) gave the third tutorial, “Laser Absorption in Plasmas: From Nano-targets to Near-QED Regime.” The fourth and final tutorial was given by Professor Paul Terry (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Stable Modes in Saturation of Instability-Driven Plasma Turbulence.” The two mini-conferences were “New Developments in Algorithms and Verification of Gyrokinetic Simulations” and “Physics of the Radiation Belts: Collaboration between Laboratory, Theory and Satellite Observations.” All of the talks and sessions listed earlier were in addition to the many parallel contributed oral and poster sessions that made up the bulk of the presentations. A variety of additional activities complemented the scientific program. The High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) hosted their annual symposium on Sunday evening. On Monday evening, the Women in Plasma Physics reception featured a display describing the progress of women in plasma physics. The University Fusion Associates (UFA) held their general meeting later in the same evening. The Town Meeting on the Concerns of Junior Scientists was held on Tuesday, chaired by Dr. Richard Magee (Tri-Alpha Energy) and Dr. Eve Stenson (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics). Over 500 people attended the DPP banquet on Wednesday evening. The new APS Fellows were recognized and awarded with the APS/DPP prizes. The 2016 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research was awarded to Dr. James Bailey of Sandia National Laboratory. The Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award recipient was Dr. Michael J. Rosenberg (University of Rochester). The Thomas H. Stix Award for
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Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research was presented to Tammy Ma (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The joint USA-Europe Landau-Spitzer Award recipients were Dr. Holger Reimerdes (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Dr. John Berkery (Columbia University), Dr. Steven Sabbagh (Columbia University), and Yueqiang Liu (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy). The after-dinner speaker was Jean Marie Deken, Archivist and Manager of the Archives History and Records Office and Research Library of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She spoke about the history of the SLAC facility. The Science Education and Public Outreach Subcommittee (Paul Miller, Chair) organized a successful Teacher’s Day and Plasma Expo for San Jose area students and teachers. On Tuesday, Science Teachers’ Day morning and afternoon workshops on topical areas of plasma and fusion sciences along with technology applications were held, and the opportunity to discuss plasma physics with poster presenters. The workshop topics and content align with national science standards and the regional academic standards. The Plasma Sciences Expo (Thursday and Friday) offered middle school and high school students, teachers, parents, and the general public an opportunity to talk with scientists while visiting a variety of exhibits and interactive displays, which include making arcs of lightning, manipulating plasma with magnets, observing fluctuating body temperature, playing fusion video games, and exploring optics using a laser. The U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DoE) national labs, industry, and universities from across the country hosted exhibit booths. The 2016 APS/DPP Program Committee chose the review, invited, and tutorial talks, and developed the schedule for the meeting. Its members were Earl Scime (Program
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Chair), Cameron Geddes (Local Arrangements Coordinator); Ex Officio: David Meyerhofer, John Cary, Daniel Dubin, Richard Dendy, Yasushi Ono; Basic Plasma Physics: Bill Amatucci, Franc¸ois Anderegg, Sam Cohen, Cami Collins, Bart Van Compernolle, Tiffany Desjardins Hayes, M. Umair Siddiqui; Particles, Beams and Coherent Radiation: Alexey Arefiev, Brian Beaudoin, Sven Steinke, Louise Willingale; ICF: John Kline, Maria Alejandra Barrios Garcia, Omar Hurricane, Kyle Peterson, Sean Regan; HEDP: Carolyn Kuranz, James Bailey, Arati Dasgupta, Forrest Doss, Siegfried Glenzer, Andrew Ng; Low Temperature and Dusty Plasmas: Mitchell Walker, Kristina Lemmer, Bob Merlino, David Ruzic, Selma Mededovic Thagard; MFE Experiments: Brian Nelson, David Maurer, Amanda Hubbard, George McKee, Richard Magee; MFE Theory: Saskia Mordijck, David E. Newman, Wayne Solomon, Carl Sovinec; Science Education and Public Outreach: Paul Miller; Space Plasmas: Greg Howes, Gurudas Ganguli, Yu Lin; and Astrophysics: Frank Jenko, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Adam Sefkow. Many individuals were essential to the success of the meeting, including staff from some of the participating institutions and the APS Meetings Department, Terri Olsen, Ebony Adams, Donna Greene, Don Mewha, Vinaya Sathyasheelappa, and Donald Wise. Lee Warren and the Freeman Team provided the audiovisual support. A special thanks to Saralyn Stewart, DPP Administrator, for her comprehensive assistance. Without her extensive knowledge and work, the meeting could not have been pulled off. We thank the editors and staff of the Physics of Plasmas, including Michael Mauel, Igor Kaganovich, Jason Myatt, Andre Melzer, David Baker, Benita Hammer, and Deborah Doherty, for their efforts in preparing this special issue, containing approximately 54 articles, tutorial, and review papers across the important topical areas of plasma physics.
