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James Clerk Maxwell Prize (2010). He is a co-recipient of three fellow at Queen’s University in Belfast, and for Physics R&D100 awards, including for Inductrack a visiting professor at the University of Fredrick H. Séguin in 2004; LCLS x-ray diagnostics in 2010; Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 2008, he became "For many outstanding contributions to the and the Snowflake divertor in 2012. a fellow of the American Physical Society. Massachusetts Institute of Technology theoretical plasma physics of low and high "For pioneering use of proton radiography energy density plasmas, open and closed to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, magnetic configurations, and laboratory John Dawson Award Chikang Li and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." and astrophysical systems." for Excellence in Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fredrick Séguin Plasma Physics Research "For pioneering use of proton radiography Dmitri Ryutov received a B.S. in to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, Lawrence Livermore "For pioneering use of proton radiography physics from MIT and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." National Laboratory to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, in 1969. His thesis and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." Chikang Li was on group Dmitri Ryutov earned his Ph.D. theory, and he received his M.S. Andrew James MacKinnon spent two summers in nuclear physics Lawrence Livermore in applied plasma physics in 1993 at building particle from the National Laboratory detectors at the Institute of Physics the Massachusetts Andrew MacKinnon Institute of Stanford Linear and Technology in Accelerator Center. 1962, and his Ph.D. received his B.Sc. in Technology after physics with laser receiving a B.S. He finished his in plasma theory Ph.D. in physics at Caltech in 1974, with from the Kurchatov science, from Heriot from Sichuan Watt University in University in 1982. a thesis on stellar hydrodynamics in Institute of Atomic relativistic gravity. After a postdoctoral Energy in 1966. 1988. From 1989- He is a senior fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian From 1968 to 1993, he worked at Russia’s 1991, he worked scientist at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, on the development Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, Center for Astrophysics, Fredrick worked where from 1979 to 1988, he significantly of high power where he is also the associate head of the in x-ray astronomy, plasma physics and strengthened a fusion program and initiated Nd: glass lasers High-Energy-Density Physics Division, imaging science. With Richard Petrasso, a gas dynamic trap experiment. Dr. Ryutov at the Atomic which he co-founded. His research interests he developed x-ray imaging diagnostics was first to chair the Department of Weapons Research are in experimental and theoretical studies at MIT’s Alcator-A Tokamak, studying Plasma Physics at Novosibirsk University, Establishment in the UK. He then joined the of high-energy-density physics and inertial- impurity transport and plasma disruptions. with many of his students now working plasma physics group at Imperial College confinement-fusion (ICF) implosions. After He undertook projects for other institutions in Russia, USA and Europe. After the in London, and was awarded his Ph.D. in developing theoretical models for charged such as the International Atomic breakup of the Soviet Union, Dr. Ryutov 1996. Andrew carried out his post-doctoral particles interacting with dense plasmas, Dr. Energy Agency and the Smithsonian moved to the U.S. and worked for 22 research at Imperial College, studying Li helped design and build charged-particle Conservation-Analytical Laboratory. For years at Lawrence Livermore National relativistic self-focusing and magnetic field diagnostics for laser-produced plasmas at 25 years he has worked at MIT’s Plasma Laboratory, where since 2012 he has been generation in laser-produced plasmas, using the Omega Laser Facility and at the National Science and Fusion Center, studying a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. the Vulcan laser at the Rutherford Appleton Ignition Facility (NIF). He went on to use plasma dynamics in experiments at the Laboratory. Between 1999 and 2015, He contributed to many areas of plasma these technologies to delineate dynamics University of Rochester’s Omega Laser Andrew was an experimental physicist at physics, including mirrors, tokamak and critical parameters of ICF implosions. Facility and the Lawrence Livermore divertors, high-power particle beams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Laboratory’s National Ignition studying the production and application His recent research has focused on using Z-pinches, laboratory astrophysics, solar proton radiography to study the generation, Facility. Fredrick developed proton and space physics, as well as to the x-ray of laser-driven MeV ions and the creation spectrometers and proton-emission of high-energy-density plasmas by x-ray evolution, reconnection and instability of optics and magnetic levitation. Dr. Ryutov spontaneously generated magnetic fields; imaging for studying 3-D distributions has authored and co-authored influential driven implosions. Between 2015 and 2017, of plasmas and nuclear reactions in them. he was the department head for the Matter the evolution of areal density and internal reviews and tutorials in publications such electric fields in ICF implosions; the With Richard Petrasso and Chikang Li, he as Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics in Extreme Conditions station at Linac developed monoenergetic-charged-particle Coherent Light Source at the Stanford evolving fields and flows in laser-driven of Plasmas, Uspekhi, Nuclear Fusion, and hohlraums; the evolution of astrophysical radiography and applied it with students other journals. His distinctions include: Linear Accelerator National Laboratory, and collaborators to the observation supporting high energy density experiments jets in laboratory scaled experiments; and Corresponding Member of the Soviet the stopping powers in Warm Dense Matters and measurement of laboratory plasma (later Russian) Academy of Sciences using high power optical and x-ray lasers. Andrew returned to LLNL in March 2017 and classic plasmas. He has authored or phenomena and associated fields. Subjects (1976); Academician (1992); American coauthored more than 280 peer-reviewed include plasma jet propagation scaled Physical Society Fellow (1998); Institute to become a section leader at the National Ignition Facility at LLNL. He was awarded journal papers. Dr. Li chaired the High- from astrophysical contexts (e.g. the Crab of Physics Fellow (2004); LLNL Edward Energy-Density Science Association from Nebula), magnetic reconnection and Teller Fellow (2007); and Fusion Power the Wallace Prize for best undergraduate 2011-2012 and has been an American inertial-confinement-fusion experiments. Associates Distinguished Career awardee research project while at Heriot-Watt University, and has been a visiting research Physical Society fellow since 2006. The DPP Chronicle October 23 - 27, 2017 1 2011, Nuclear Fusion in 2012, Physics of Marco Borghesi Richard D. Petrasso Plasmas in 2012) and one of his papers Fun Milwaukee Fact The Queen's University, Belfast Massachusetts Institute of Technology was included in the shortlist for the "For pioneering use of proton radiography "For pioneering use of proton radiography Nuclear Fusion Award in 2013. Ian has Milwaukee is the only major American to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, published more than 110 journal papers, city to have been run by socialist mayors and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." including three topical review papers, (for almost 38 years). and has given 30 invited lead-author After initial studies Richard D. Petrasso presentations at international conferences. His research has been recognized with Katherine E. Weimer Award for in Italy, leading received his B.S. Women in Plasma Science to a laurea in from Oregon State many international awards, including physics from Pisa University in 1967 the European Physical Society Early "For pioneering development and University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Career Prize in 2014, the Plasma Physics characterization of x-ray sources from and a postgraduate Brandeis University Young Scientist Prize from the Institute laser-wakefield accelerators and Compton certificate in in 1972. His research of Physics Paterson Medal in 2013, the scattering gamma-ray sources for optical technologies has focused on International Union of Pure and Applied applications in high energy density science from Associazione high-energy-density Physics in 2012 and the Cavendish and nuclear resonance fluorescence." Istituzione Libera Medal for Best early career UK physicist (HED) and inertial- Félicie Albert Università, in Nuoro awarded by SET for Britain in 2011. He confinement-fusion Lawrence Livermore in 1993, Marco was made a fellow of the Institute of (ICF) plasmas. In the late 1980s, National Laboratory Borghesi ultimately obtained his Ph.D. Dr. Petrasso collaborated with Ph.D. Physics in 2013 and became a visiting in 1998 from the Blackett Laboratory at student Chikang Li to study the professor at Durham University in 2015. Dr. Félicie Albert Imperial College in London, under the slowing of energetic charged particles has been a scientist supervision of Prof. Oswald Willi. After at the Lawrence in HED plasmas in order to determine Marshall N. Rosenbluth a brief postdoctoral period at Imperial plasma properties. Together with Livermore National College, he became a lecturer in the researchers from the Laboratory Outstanding Doctoral Laboratory in the School of Mathematics and Physics at for Laser Energetics, the Lawrence Thesis Award National Ignition Queen’s University in Belfast in 1999. Livermore National Laboratory, Los Facility and He was promoted to a reader in 2005 and "For fundamental contributions to Alamos National Laboratory, the Sandia Photon Science became a professor in 2008. Professor dynamo theory, particularly the analytical National Laboratories and several MIT directorate since Borghesi held the Mitsuyuki Abe Chair and computational elucidation of the students and staff, Dr. Petrasso helped 2008. She earned at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency from magnetic shear current effect." create diagnostics and analyses used at her Ph.D. in physics in 2007 from the 2008 to 2011, and held other visiting Jonathan Squire Ecole Polytechnique in France, her positions with the ELI Beamlines Omega Laser Facility and the National Ignition Facility at LLNL. This included California Institute of Technology M.S. in Optics from the University of Institute and the Institute of Physics of Central Florida in 2004, and her B.S. in the Czech Republic from 2012 and 2015. the multiple monoenergetic particle Jonathan Squire source (MMPS), based on imploding received a B.Sc. engineering from the Ecole Nationale His extensive publication record -more Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, than 275 refereed publications -includes thin-shelled (~ 2 mic) capsules (~ 400 in physics from mic diam) filled with D and 3He. Through the University France, in 2003. Dr. Albert’s areas 42 papers in Physical Review Letters of expertise include the generation (PRL), two in Science, four in Nature this high-temperature (~10 keV), shock- of Otago in New and applications of novel sources of Physics/Communications and an invited driven implosion, fusion products of 14.7 Zealand in 2009. electrons, x-rays and gamma-rays review in the Journal of Modern Physics. MeV and 3.0 MeV protons, 3.6 MeV During this time, through laser-plasma interaction, laser- Professor Borghesi’s research interests alphas, 1.0 MeV T and 0.8 MeV 3He he carried out wakefield acceleration, and Compton lay in the area of intense laser-plasma ions are isotropically emitted (~10**9) various research interactions, with particular expertise in in ~75 ps. The MMPS is being used projects into scattering. She has conducted many laser-driven acceleration of ion beams. by the HED community to radiograph cold atoms and experiments using high-intensity lasers, He has served as principal investigator and analyze fields and plasma evolution, atom optics. In 2010, Jonathan attended including NIF, LLNL’s Jupiter Laser in projects such as LIBRA 2007- and to study stopping power in classical graduate school at the Princeton Plasma Facility, OMEGA-EP and LCLS. She is 2012 and since 2013, A-SAIL, aimed and WDM plasmas. The MMPS Physics Laboratory on a Fulbright science the recipient of a 2016 DOE Early Career at advancing laser-ion acceleration was utilized by the 2014 and 2016 and technology fellowship, working with Research Program Award, and has been towards future medical applications. Outstanding several groups on both experimental leading several Laboratory Directed He has contributed to the development Thesis awardees, Drs. Mario Manuel and theoretical plasma physics projects Research and Development Projects at of innovative ion acceleration schemes, and Michael Rosenberg. Dr. Petrasso before joining Amitava Bhattacharjee’s LLNL. She is the recipient of the 2017 and pioneered the application of is currently researching equilibration group in 2013. Jonathan’s dissertation Edouard Fabre Prize for contributions to laser-driven proton beams to plasma between electrons, impurity ions and fuel research centered on turbulent plasmas the physics of laser-produced plasmas, radiography as well as to high-dose rate ions in HED plasmas (this conference). in astrophysics, focusing on the and was selected by the APS as an radiobiology. Professor Borghesi is a In 2013, Dr. Petrasso received the magnetorotational instability and the outstanding referee in 2015. She serves fellow of the Institute of Physics. Edward Teller Medal for development of behavior of dynamos in the presence of on several technical panels, conference novel HED/ICF diagnostics and analyses. strong shear flows. Jonathan is now a committees, and editorial boards He heads the HED Physics Division in Sherman Fairchild postdoctoral fellow and is regularly involved in outreach Oswald Willi in the theoretical astrophysics group the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion activities. She has more than 65 refereed Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf at Caltech. His recent interests span a Center, and is a fellow of the American publications and has given more than 30 "For pioneering use of proton radiography variety of topics relevant to plasmas in Physical Society. invited talks at international conferences. to reveal new aspects of flows, instabilities, different space and astrophysical regimes, and fields in high-energy-density plasmas." including the dynamics of weakly Thomas H. Stix Award for collisional high-beta plasmas, accretion Fun Milwaukee Fact disks, turbulence in the interstellar Oswald Willi The Rocky Horror Picture Show has Outstanding Early Career medium and the behavior of solid read physics at played at the Oriental Theatre every month Contributions to Plasma particles entrained in fluids and plasmas. the University since January 1978. of Innsbruck Physics Research between 1973 "For groundbreaking experimental and and 1977 and theoretical studies in tokamak stability" obtained a Master's (1978) and a Ian Chapman D.Phil. degree Culham Centre for Fusion (1980) from the Energy, United Kingdom Atomic University of Energy Authority Oxford, where he Ian Chapman APS DPP Job Fair 2017 stayed on through 1982 as a postdoctoral became CEO of Monday - Wednesday researcher at the Clarendon Laboratory. the UK Atomic From 1982 until 1984, he was postdoctoral Energy Authority Oct. 23 - 25, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. fellow at the Los Alamos National and head of the Laboratory. In 1984 he became a lecturer Thursday Culham Centre for and a reader at the Imperial College of October 26, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. London before he was elevated in 1993 to Fusion Energy in a professor in Plasma Physics. Dr. Willi October 2016. He Wisconsin Center, Exhibit Hall D headed one of the major user groups of received his M.S. Are you an employer looking to hire a physicist for your science and technology the Central Laser Facility (CLF) at the from Durham jobs? Are you a physicist looking to connect with potential employers to learn about Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where University in 2004 opportunities, or interview for a job? If so, you will not want to miss the APS DPP he performed measurements in the area of and a Ph.D. from Imperial College in 2017 Job Fair. inertial confinement fusion. In 2001, Dr. 2008. His primary research interest Willi moved to the University Düsseldorf is understanding and controlling Participating employers can: to set up a new laboratory in high-intensity macroscopic instabilities in fusion • Showcase your company with a recruitment booth femtosecond laser-plasma interactions, plasmas. Ian has experimented on a • Receive unlimited job board postings during the event including the acceleration of particles and number of fusion devices worldwide • Search the resume database for promising candidates the generation of intense photon sources for and has developed leading numerical • Interview with potential candidates on-site various applications. Under his leadership, modelling tools. His work is the ARCTURUS Laser System (two laser characterised by a close coupling of Job seekers will be able to: beams with a power of 200TW in each experimental data that uses numerical • Do a targeted search of the job database to identify recruiters attending beam) has been established. Dr. Willi has modelling to explicate the underlying and interviewing at the meeting been the coordinator of two important plasma physics and, in so doing, develop • Schedule private interviews with recruiters during the meeting German research programs: the SFB/TR18 techniques for plasma control. A number • Store multiple copies of your résumé to share with participating employers and GRK1203. of his journal publications have been included in highlights collections To register for the event, please stop by the Job Fair information desk in Hall D. (Plasma Physics Controlled Fusion in

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Print Shops HEDSA Symposium on Speaker Ready Caregiver/Children's Room High Energy Density Digicopy Milwaukee, Erie St. Room Hours Wisconsin Center, Laboratory Plasmas 222 E Erie St, Wisconsin Center, Green Room (414)291-4050 Sunday, October 22 www.dcopy.net Room 102E Monday - Thursday, Oct. 23 - 26 Monday-Thursday, 7am-10pm 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Friday, 7am-7pm Wisconsin Center, Room 203C Tuesday, Oct. 24, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 27 Saturday, 9am-6pm Wednesday, Oct. 25, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Noon-6pm The High Energy-Density Science Thursday, Oct. 26, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Association (HEDSA) will hold its Annual Friday, Oct. 27, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. A caregiver/children's room will be FedEx Office Print & Ship Center Symposium on High Energy Density available for parents and caregivers to use at 312 E Wisconsin Ave, no cost to attendees. The room is intended Laboratory Plasmas in Milwaukee. Six for parents or caregivers who have brought (414)270-0404 half-hour invited talks will be given Review Talks local.fedex.com infants or young children to the annual focusing on the most exciting elements of meeting. The room will be furnished with Monday-Friday, 7:30am-9pm Review talks start at 8:00 a.m. comfortable furniture and with a limited Saturday & Sunday, Closed the field. All attendees of the conference, Monday - Friday especially young graduate students and amount of toys, natural organic snacks and Digital Edge Copy & Print Centers post docs, are encouraged to attend for Ballroom C, Street Level beverages for young children. 75 N Jackson St, this exciting opportunity to learn about the (414) 272-3343 trending directions of HED plasma physics Companions’ Breakfast www.digitaldgecc.com research. The HEDSA symposium is free Housing Information Monday-Friday, 7am-5:30pm to all conference attendees. Monday, October 23 Saturday & Sunday, Closed Hilton Milwaukee City Center Hotel 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 509 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Action Digital Document Solutions, Wisconsin, 53203 Hilton Hotel, Juneau, 5th Floor LLC Résumé Help Desk ($169 single/double) 757 N Broadway #200, Guest room rates are subject Note: Breakfast is only for companions (414)276-2679 Monday - Wednesday to 18.9% tax per night. and their children. www.actiondds.com October 23 - 25, Join other companions who are attending The prevailing government the annual meeting for a DPP-sponsored Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. rate is $120 plus tax, per room per night. Saturday & Sunday, Closed complimentary breakfast at the Hilton Thursday, October 26 Milwaukee City Center Hotel. Join other companions and reacquaint with friends 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. from past DPP meetings. A representative APS DPP Membership from Milwaukee will attend the breakfast DPP Registration Wisconsin Center, Booth and Store Desk Hours Exhibit Hall D and share tour and site information while Monday - Wednesday visiting the city. Wisconsin Center, Concourse Back by popular demand, DPP is hosting October 23-25 Sunday, Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. a résumé help desk as a FREE service to 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. meeting attendees! The Résumé Help Desk Morning Coffee Breaks Monday, Oct. 23, 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. is located in the Job Fair area. Interested Wisconsin Center, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, attendees should stop by the Job Fair desk 102 Prefunction 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. to sign up for a 30-minute time slot to meet The APS Membership Department staff Exhibit Hall D, Upper Level and Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. with a professional scientist for advice on will be on hand to answer questions about Ballroom C Pre-Function, Street Level Friday, Oct. 27, 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. how to construct an effective résumé. Slots APS and DPP membership. Stop by for will be filled on a first-come, first-served information on how to become a member, Afternoon Coffee Breaks basis, so don't delay! renew lapsed membership and purchase Monday-Thursday, Fun Milwaukee Fact some fun and practical items. Joining APS 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. and DPP is a perfect way to stay connected Echibit Hall D, Upper Level and North Point Light’s beacon was the Fun Milwaukee Fact with the most recent developments in the Room 102 Foyer, Street Level tallest on the Great Lakes when the physics community. Browse the selection Note: Beverages will not be replenished. lighthouse was built in 1855. The city has 15,000 acres of park land. of t-shirts, caps and more.

The DPP Chronicle October 23 - 27, 2017 3 Women in Plasma Professor Michael Keidar University Fusion Association Meet the Editors of the Physics Luncheon recipient of the 2017 Ronald (UFA) General Meeting APS Journals Monday, October 23 C. Davidson Award for Plasma Monday, October 23 Tuesday, October 24 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Physics from AIP Publishing 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Hilton Hotel, Michael Keidar, Wisconsin Center, 102ABC Wisconsin Center, Regency Ballroom, 5th Floor the A. James Clark The University Fusion Association Ballroom Foyer Professor of Engineering The guest speaker is Dr. Félicie (universityfusion.org) is a nonprofit The editors of APS journals cordially at the School of Albert of Lawrence Livermore National organization focused on the development invite you to join them for conversation and Engineering and Laboratory, the recipient of the 2017 of plasma science and technology for refreshments at a reception. Your questions, the long-term development of a new, Applied Science at suggestions, compliments and complaints Katherine E. Weimer Award for Women environmentally attractive energy source in Plasma Science. Her talk title is “From George Washington about the journals are welcome. All meeting University, has won using controlled thermonuclear fusion. The failures to perseverance, how do you UFA advocates for university fusion energy attendees are invited. overcome obstacles as an early career the 2017 Ronald C. Davidson Award and plasma science research and education plasma physicist? by representing universities and university for Plasma Physics. Fellowship Opportunities To attend the luncheon, mark the researchers to congressional policymakers The award is provided by AIP Publishing and funding agencies, organizing planning for Graduate Students in appropriate space on the DPP on-site in honor of Ronald Davidson’s exception registration form. The lunch tickets are $25 workshops and providing community Plasma Physics contributions as Editor-in-Chief of Physics for regular attendees and $10 for graduate leadership. The UFA General Meeting of Plasmas for 25 years. The annual award Tuesday, October 24 and undergraduate students. Limited seating discusses issues of relevance to fusion of $5,000 is presented in collaboration with energy and plasma science research in U.S. 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. is available. The lunch cost is partially the APS Division of Plasma Physics and universities. The UFA meeting is open subsidized by DPP. Wisconsin Center, 202AB recognizes outstanding plasma physics to all members of the community and all research by a Physics of Plasmas author. conference attendees. Graduate students and undergraduates thinking about graduate school are Town Meeting on Plasma Professor Michael Keidar was selected The current president of UFA is Professor especially welcome to attend this info from among the most highly cited and most David Maurer, Auburn University (term Physics at the National ends 2018). He will be replaced by the session on fellowship opportunities. highly downloaded articles from Physics Science Foundation vice president and Professor John Sarff, Representatives from DOE, NSF and of Plasmas during the past five years. The Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, University of Wisconsin-Madison. NASA will be presenting on programs paper, “Cold atmospheric plasma in cancer designed to support students at different National Science Foundation therapy,” Phys. Plasmas, 20, 057101 stages of their academic careers. Monday, October 23 (2013), was co-authored with Drs. Alex Edge Coordinating Committee Recipients of these fellowships may also Shashurin, Olga Volotskova, Mary Ann Annual Technical Meeting share their experiences. 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Stepp, Priya Srinivasan, Anthony Sandler Tuesday, October 24 Wisconsin Center, 201AB and Barry Trink. The paper presented progress in creating and understanding 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. The Town Meeting on Plasma Physics Women in Plasma cold plasmas with ion temperature close to Wisconsin Center, 203AB Physics Reception at the National Science Foundation will room temperature, as well as the application provide an opportunity for Q&A about the of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) in “The Impact of Wall Material on Pedestal Tuesday, October 24 variety of NSF programs and solicitations Performance” cancer therapy. This invited paper was 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. relevant to a broad cross-section of the presented during the 2012 Annual Meeting Speakers: Michael Kotschenreuther, academic plasma science community, from of the APS Division of Plasma Physics University of Texas; Hilton Hotel, graduating college seniors to senior leaders and has motivated physicists around the Livia Casali, ORAU/DIII-D Regency Ballroom, 5th Floor in the field, and from plasma astrophysics to basic physics to plasma engineering world in their continued exploration of The members of the Committee on communities. We will discuss recent NSF- cold atmospheric plasmas and plasma Women in Plasma Physics invite you to applications to medicine. Michael Keidar Town Meeting on Concerns join them for a panel discussion regarding hosted events, research awar and multi- of Junior Scientists agency partnerships aimed at enabling the and Eric Robert (CNRS, Paris) were Guest women physicists. The panelists are: progress of science in plasma science and Editors of the Special Topic on Plasmas for Hosts: Eve Stenson and Dr. Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research engineering. Future outlook, for plasma Medical Applications that appeared in the Elizabeth Merritt Laboratory, Dr. Tammy Ma, Lawrence physics and broader plasma science support December 2015 issue of Physics of Plasmas. Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. at NSF, with an emphasis on how you can During this meeting, Professor Keidar Tuesday, October 24 Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan help NSF to help the community, will be will present his invited lecture, “Adaptive 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. and Dr. Auna Moser, General Atomics. speculated on within the uncertainty of the Plasma for Cancer Therapy: Physics, Information will be on display representing federal budgeting process. Mechanism and Applications.” Wisconsin Center, 201AB the progress of women in plasma physics. This year’s award selection committee, This event offers junior scientists the All DPP attendees are welcome. consisting of Greg Howes (representing opportunity to hear from more established Physics of Plasmas Reception researchers in a Q&A panel discussion the APS-DPP) and Hiroshi Azechi, S. Student Appreciation Reception in Honor of All Authors and Peter Gary, Thomas Klinger and John about career choices and trajectories. Topics in the past have included choosing Verboncoeur from the Physics of Plasmas Tuesday, October 24 Invited Speakers which area to seek employment, making Editorial Board, reviewed the top articles oneself an attractive applicant, achieving 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Monday, October 23 and nominated several authors from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. healthy work-life balance, managing career Wisconsin Center, 201CD across the topical focus areas of Physics of transitions,and everything in between. Plasmas. The final selection was made by Hilton Hotel, We are pleased to announce this year's panel: Please plan to attend a complimentary Crystal Ballroom, 5th Floor vote of the full Editorial Board. reception in honor of high school and • Gregory G. Howes, Associate Professor, undergraduate students. Professor Earl The presentation of the 2017 Ronald C. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Editors of Physics of Plasmas and Davidson Award for Plasma Physics will Scime, DPP chair, cordially welcomes all AIP Publishing invite you to a reception in University of Iowa be presented to Professor Michael Keidar DPP meeting attendees, and encourages honor of the Invited, Tutorial, and Review • Carolyn C. Kuranz, Project Director, during the Physics of Plasmas Reception in open discussion on topics of interest speakers and the authors and referees who Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysical honor of the invited speakers, authors and to students of plasma physics. Student have contributed to the published record of Research, University of Michigan referees at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, October Poster Award recipients will be announced the many advancements of plasma physics • Samuel Lazerson, Stellarator Computational 23, Crystal Ballroom Foyer (on 5th Floor of during the reception. Student advisors during the past year. Physicist/Staff Research Physicist, are particularly encouraged to attend. the Hilton Milwaukee City Center). In recognition of Ronald Davidson’s 25 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments will be served. years of exceptional service as Editor-in- • Tammy Ma, Staff Physicist and Chief of Physics of Plasmas, AIP Publishing Fun Milwaukee Fact X-Ray Analysis Group Leader for Inertial is also pleased to present the 2017 Ronald Confinement Fusion, Lawrence Livermore LGBTQ Networking Dinner C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics to Milwaukee's Festa Italiana is one of the National Laboratory largest Italian festivals in the U.S., and the Tuesday, October 24 Professor Michael Keidar of the School of Please plan to arrive a few minutes early, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Engineering and Applied Science at George city also hosts the world's largest Irish Fest so the panel can start promptly at 12:45 pm. Washington University. and North America's largest German Fest! Hope to see you there! Join fellow LGBTQ plasma physicists and their families for an informal networking dinner on Tuesday evening. We'll meet in front of the DPP Meeting Stay for the Invited Talk Session on Friday… Win a Prize in a Raffle! Registration Desk at the Wisconsin Center at 7:00 p.m. and walk to a local restaurant. At the DPP Meeting Registration Please bring a method of payment for your Desk ask for a numbered ticket stub for dinner. RSVP encouraged, but not required. the raffle that takes place Organizers: AFTER the Invited sessions on Friday! Derek Schaeffer ([email protected]) After the conclusion of the Eli Parke ([email protected]). Friday morning sessions, on October 27 in room 102ABC Earl Scime and Fun Milwaukee Fact John Cary will draw three raffle tickets at random. Ever wondered where to find the world’s The winners of the drawing largest dinosaur skull? Try the Milwaukee must be present to win. Public Museum, where a 9-foot-by-8-foot Torosaurus cranium, along with a partial Apple iPad with EVEREST™ ELITE 750NC Western Digital 512GB skeleton, is on display. WiFi 128GB Wireless NC headphones USB 3.1 Portable SSD

4 October 23 - 27, 2017 The DPP Chronicle Please join us at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics to review the Findings and Recommendations of the 2017 OMEGA Laser Users Group Workshop Tuesday, October 24 at 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wisconsin Center, Room 203C

Fun Milwaukee Fact Fun Milwaukee Fact Mini-Conference on Bridging Basic Plasma Science Facility The Pryor Avenue Iron Well was dug The U.S. Bank Center is the tallest the Divide Between Space and Users Group Meeting in 1882. Anyone can stop and fill up building in the state, standing at 601 feet. Laboratory Plasma Physics Wednesday, October 25 or containers of mineral water for free, though it tastes heavily of iron. (Officials still Room 202DE Thursday, October 26 check the water regularly for safety.) Mini-Conferences Wednesday, October 25 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Wisconsin Center, 202AB LET THERE BE LIGHT Two mini-conferences are scheduled Wednesday and Thursday, to be held in the Poster Session NP11 The Users Group of the Basic Plasma A Documentary Directed by Mila Wisconsin Center. Check the Epitome for Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA will Aung-Thwin and Van Royko the presenter start times. Thursday, October 26 hold a meeting to discuss current status 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and and plans for the user facility and the Produced by EyeSteelFilm All mini-conferences are organized Large Plasma Device (LAPD). A brief with oral presentations plus time for Q&A. 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. presentation will be made by Professor Tuesday, Oct.24, 8:00 p.m. They employ a question-oriented format Oral Sessions TM9 and UM9 Troy Carter, the facility director, discussing Wednesday, Oct. 25, 12:30 p.m. to stimulate discussion and interaction machine status and opportunities for among attendees. Audio visual equipment Organizer: Jason TenBarge Ballroom C experimental time on the facility. The Chair and meeting space will be used in all oral (University of Maryland) of the BaPSF Users Group, Professor Fred “A futuristic energy source that could sessions at the expense of DPP. (Sponsored by: GPAP) Skiff (University of Iowa), will facilitate indefinitely supply the world’s power the opportunity for feedback to the facility requirements provides the backdrop for The APS Topical Group in Plasma Mini-Conference on Astrophysics is dedicated to fostering director from current and potential users. this absorbing documentary.” Current users, those interested in becoming cross-disciplinary interaction among - The Hollywood Reporter Laser-Matter Interactions: users of the facility and those just curious plasma physicists, space physicists and The Next Generation to learn about BaPSF are welcome to "Let There Be Light" has been igniting astrophysicists, and this mini-conference audiences since its world premiere at Room 202DE attend. It is suggested that attendees bring will serve to encourage communication lunch to the meeting. SXSW and then followed up with a between these distinct communities. Canadian premiere this past spring. The Wednesday, October 25 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and The guiding principle is to promote film opened across Canada beginning in these cross-disciplinary interactions in Montreal in September 2017. Fun Milwaukee Fact 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. the design of this mini-conference. The For decades, fusion has been delayed North Point Light’s beacon was the Oral Sessions NM9 and PM9 oral sessions will cover similar physics tallest on the Great Lakes when the and thwarted by failure, miscalculation, topics but from different points of view; fraud and politics. It has been maddeningly Organizers: Alexey Arefiev (University lighthouse was built in 1855. of California, San Diego), Stepan observational, laboratory and theory. The always just out of reach, which seems to space physics sessions will include some make people obsess over it all the more. Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Mattias Marklund of the exciting new results from recent Mobile App Today, fusion is being pursued with a (Chalmers University, Sweden) and forthcoming missions. Oral talks APS DPP is pleased to announce that the renewed zeal, mostly because we’ve never from laboratory plasma physicists will needed it like we do now, and there are 37 The interaction of charged particles with DPP 2017 mobile app for your Android or present space physics-relevant results and iOS device will again be available. This countries currently collaborating to build ultraintense electromagnetic (EM) pulses experiments and opportunities available the biggest experiment ever, in order to is the cornerstone of a newly emerging useful app contains the scientific program. to the space community for collaboration. You'll be able to read the abstracts, view prove that fusion is viable. area of research, high-intensity particle Presentations from a plasma physics physics, located at the intersection of the speaker index, view facility maps, Will this finally succeed? Or will the perspective will cover the fundamental create your own personal session schedule project collapse under its own massive quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the physics common to space and laboratory theory of strong EM background fields. and more! complexity? The film chronicles the plasma physics. The aim is the common The latter significantly alters the physics of For instructions on how to download work of the passionate scientists who are themes will encourage significant struggling to make it work. typical QED processes, leading to effects the app, please see the flyers at the DPP not encountered in perturbative quantum interactions between plasma physicists Registration Desk or at the APS DPP “It's rare to find people who work on and space physicists. Meeting Information Booth. projects that are designed to last decades, and field theory. Recently, there has been a these scientists would be happy if it worked surge of interest in these processes because of the planning and realization of new in a century from now,” says Co-Director Wireless Access Topical Group on Aung-Thwin. “So on a personal level, this is laser facilities, such as the Extreme Light WiFi will be available in the Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics (GPAP) a deep sacrifice — but they are doing it for Infrastructure (ELI) and the European the chance that it helps all of humanity.” Xray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The new Center and in public space in the Hilton Business Meeting facilities will offer unparalleled capabilities Milwaukee City Center Hotel. to diagnose previously unexplored regimes Wednesday, October 25 Fun Milwaukee Fact of lightmatter interactions. To facilitate 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. the development of an approach and a Fun Milwaukee Fact Wisconsin Center, 201 AB Schlitz earned the slogan “The Beer development of a broad collaboration, That Made Milwaukee Famous" during this mini-conference will bring plasma The beloved Milwaukee Brewers were GPAP will hold their annual business the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, when theorists, modelers and experimentalists originally based in Seattle, and were called meeting during the DPP annual meeting in numerous shipments were sent to the together with experts from the strongfield the Seattle Pilots. Milwaukee Wisconsin. The GPAP meeting devastated and thirsty in Chicago. physics community. is open to all annual meeting attendees.

The DPP Chronicle October 23 - 27, 2017 5 effort will pull in the HAZMAT team from the Milwaukee Fire Department, which will discuss how plasmas are used for detection in that line of work. Local teachers will have their first chance to experience APS-DPP education when they arrive at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center Hotel for Science Teachers Day on Tuesday, October 24. They will spend the morning learning about the fundamentals of fusion energy and plasma science. For the remainder of the day they will attend workshops about content of their choosing, focusing on such subjects as the nature of matter, the electromagnetic spectrum, Newton’s Laws and how to bring hands-on plasma activities into the classroom. Teachers attending past events have praised the DPP Education Events Ready workshops and the collegial environment. A lunch with The Expo features hands-on experiments from scientists and other teachers, sponsored by APS-DPP, is a for Milwaukee national and international institutions, as well as local highlight, providing a kind of networking rarely available education and industrial venues. Local exhibitors joining “Milwaukee is already excited about what APS-DPP to them. this year include Carthage College Society of Physics has in store for the city.” The Plasma Sciences Expo, at the Wisconsin Center, Students, Marquette University, Madison West Rocket DPP Education Chair Arturo Dominguez is referring will be open for school groups on October 26 and 27 Club, University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin- to the series of education events APS-DPP is bringing to from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and for the general public on Milwaukee Astronomy Club. The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee during the annual meeting in October. The October 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. APS-DPP members are Wonder of Physics booth, a popular anchor of the Expo DPP Education Outreach Planning Committee visited welcome to stop in and check out the Expo at any time it for many years, will have a strong presence. is open. the conference city in April to meet local educators and Arturo Dominguez wants APS-DPP members to know discuss the education events held in conjunction with the that the committee is always looking for new people to annual meeting. Dominguez (Princeton Plasma Physics help maintain these important educational programs. Laboratory), Committee Chair Paul Rivenberg (MIT Members can participate in planning, creating new Plasma Science and Fusion Center) and Committee workshops or manning an exhibit at the Expo. They Member Julie Harris (General Atomics) met with local are also looking for financial support. For the first time, education contacts to discuss ways of exciting the local a donation box for DPP education activities will be community about plasma science education opportunities. available at registration. There are many ways to support Even before official education events begin, the program. Dominguez will be giving a tutorial on fusion for an after- The Education Committee invites all to visit the Expo school group at Bay View High School. Science teacher to experience why one teacher described it simply as: Dana Timm, who attended the planning-meeting, has “Awesome event.” been in touch with the committee all summer, creating a new curriculum for his class and deciding upon ways to Interested in the APS-DPP outreach efforts? Find out more. bring plasma science into his classroom. The after-school Please contact Arturo Dominguez at [email protected].

a repertoire of pieces suitable for any Fun Milwaukee Fact occasion. Many of these pieces come from Milkwaukee's Essential Eats DPP Banquet the classical genre, but also versions of Sanford Actor Gene Wilder was born Jerome Wednesday, October 25 popular hits. 1547 N. Jackson St. Silberman in Milwaukee in 1933. The Milwaukee String Quartet is not a (414)276-9608, sanfordrestaurant.com Reception: Hilton Crystal contracting agency: the four members are With a chef's tasting menu of upscale Ballroom Foyer, 6:30 p.m. the people who will play for the banquet. "New American" fare, Sanford has been HEDSA Annual Dinner: Crystal Ballroom, The group prefers to play as a quartet, called the best restaurant in Milwaukee. General Meeting which provides the richest sound for any New owners have breathed new life and 7:30 p.m. special event. award-winning food into this old standby. Wednesday, October 25 The official banquet of the DPP will be The menu changes seasonally, or you can 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. spring for the tasting menu and put all your held on Wednesday evening. A cash-bar trust in the chef! Wisconsin Center, 203C reception preceding the evening banquet Fun Milwaukee Fact HEDSA will hold its Town Hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. will be held in the Hilton Milwaukee is located on Lake Michigan, Blue's Egg in Milwaukee. The purpose of this meeting Crystal Ballroom Foyer. A subsidized the second largest of the five Great Lakes 317 N. 76th St. is to announce the new steering committee banquet ticket can be purchased for $50 with 22,300 square miles of fresh water. (414) 299-3180, bluesegg.com members and HEDSA leadership. A report at the registration desk up to 5:00 p.m. on Enjoy carry out coffee and pastries at will be given regarding 2017 HEDSA Tuesday, October 24. Tickets will be sold this breakfast and lunch only spot, or wait activities. Program managers from Federal on a space-available basis and are non- Review, Tutorial and Invited for a table and dine on customer favorites Funding Agencies such as OFES, NNSA, refundable. Tickets must be presented for Speaker Poster Sessions like the crispy pulled ham-stuffed hash AFOSR and NSF will provide updates on admission at the door to the banquet hall. browns and Bloody Marys. the state of sponsored research in HED Tickets will not be sold at the door. The Wisconsin Center, Exhibit Hall D plasmas, and to engage the community banquet program will include presentation Solly's Grille of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize, the Poster versions of review, invited 4629 N. Port Washington Rd. in an open dialogue. Current members and tutorial papers are optional and are of HEDSA and all graduate students are John Dawson Award for Excellence in (414) 332-8808, sollysgrille.com Plasma Physics Research, the Thomas H. scheduled Monday through Friday, in the Serving their signature butter burger (yes, strongly encouraged to attend. To join following half-day session, in a designated HEDSA, please visit HEDSA.org.. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career you read that right-butter burger) since Contributions to Plasma Physics Research, area of Exhibit Hall D. For example, the 1936, Solly's is a historic diner with plenty the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Monday morning review and invited of flavor. The friendly restaurant is family Division of Plasma Physics Doctoral Thesis Award in Plasma Physics, talks may also be presented as posters run and listed as one of the top 15 places to in the Monday afternoon poster session. eat in Milwaukee. (DPP) Business Meeting the Katherine E. Weimer Award for Women in Plasma Science and recognition of newly This option will be available on Monday Ardent Wednesday, October 25 elected APS Fellows. morning for invited papers scheduled on 1751 N. Farwell Ave. 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. The Milwaukee String Quartet will Friday morning, October 27. (414) 897-7022, ardentmke.com Wisconsin Center, 203C entertain banquet attendees. If you're looking for something more on the hip, upscale dining scene, visit Ardent The business meeting of the Division Plasma Science for some fascinating molecular-gastronomy. of Plasma Physics will include reports Milwaukee String Quartet Christian Fellowship In a delightfully bizarre flip, head over of actions undertaken by DPP on issues Wednesday, October 25 after 11:30 p.m. on Saturday nights when important to our membership. New items of it changes into Red Light Ramen, serving business will be considered in the following 6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. homemade ramen, PBR and booze slushies. order: (1) Written motions, together with Wisconsin Center, 202AB Leon's Frozen Custard any supporting arguments, received by the Secretary-Treasurer, Hui Chen, at the DPP The Plasma Science Christian Fellowship 3131 S. 27th St. (PSCF) is an informal affiliation of students (414) 383-1784, leonsfrozencustard.us Registration Desk, Wisconsin Center, before noon on Monday, October 23, or which were and scientists working in plasma and fusion This family-run, cash-only diner is emailed to Dr. Chen ([email protected]) by energy research. Formed in 2006, the PSCF rumored to be the inspiration for Arnold's seeks to provide a forum to discuss how Drive-In on "Happy Days". The frozen noon on Friday, October 20, 2017. Copies of The Milwaukee String Quartet is such material will be displayed on a bulletin comprised of four professional musicians faith connects to the workplace experience custard is so good, the place stays open and life as scientists. Please join us for an year-round so locals can get their fix. The board near the DPP registration area to give dedicated to providing the very best in menu features shakes, malts, sundaes and members reasonable notice in case they music for every occasion. hour on Wednesday morning before the cones as well as some hot sandwiches to go. wish to participate in the discussion and The members have been or are currently opening session review talk. Bring your vote on such motions. (2) Written motions performers in various orchestras and coffee and join us. Contact Darren Craig Five O'Clock Steakhouse submitted to the Secretary-Treasurer prior to chamber groups in the Greater Milwaukee ([email protected]) if you have 32416 W. State St. the start of the business meeting. (3) Other area, including the Milwaukee Symphony, questions or need additional information. (414) 342-3553, fiveoclocksteakhouse.com new business not included in (1) or (2). Festival City Symphony, Kenosha We hope to see you there! Self-described as "rich in tradition and Symphony, Wisconsin Philharmonic free of trends," the menu at this classic and many others. The quartet has been steakhouse boasts old school meat and Fun Milwaukee Fact performing together in the area for more Fun Milwaukee Fact potatoes on a grand scale. For quintessential The first Harley-Davidson motorcycle Wisconsin fare, this supper-club steakhouse Christopher Latham Sholes invented the than 20 years. should be first on your list! first typewriter in Milwaukee in 1867. Over the years of playing numerous was built in the city in 1903. events, the string quartet has established

6 October 23 - 27, 2017 The DPP Chronicle unprecedented international effort, seven DPP annually solicits nominations for partners—China, the European Union, one prize and three awards. The deadline One Modeling Framework for India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United Code of Conduct for for receipt of all nominations is Monday, Integrated Tasks (OMFIT) States—have pooled their financial and APS Meetings April 2, 2018. Please take time to nominate scientific resources to build the biggest It is the policy of the American Physical exceptional DPP colleagues in 2018. Thursday, October 26 fusion reactor in history. ITER will not Society (APS) that all participants, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. produce electricity, but it will resolve Anyone except a member of the selection including attendees, vendors, APS staff, critical scientific and technical issues in committee may submit one nomination or Wisconsin Center, 203C order to take fusion to the point where volunteers and all other stakeholders at seconding letter for each prize or award in APS meetings will conduct themselves in OMFIT (One Modeling Framework industrial applications can be designed. any given year. a professional manner that is welcoming for Integrated Tasks) is an integrated By producing 500 MW of power from an Go to http://www.aps.org/programs/ to all participants and free from any modeling and experimental analysis input of 50 MW—a "gain factor" of 10— honors/nomination.cfm for additional form of discrimination, harassment or software framework. Users and developers ITER will open the way to the next step: a Nomination Guidelines. demonstration fusion power plant. retaliation. Participants will treat each other of OMFIT currently reside in many parts The nomination package must be of the world. The OMFIT User Group with respect and consideration to create submitted by Monday, April 2, 2018. Meeting at APS DPP will provide an a collegial, inclusive and professional Acknowledgement of receipt can be opportunity to meet face to face with other Beginning PlasmaPy: An open environment at APS Meetings. Creating users and developers. During the meeting, source Python package for a supportive environment to enable requested. The DPP dissertation award has other requirements in addition to the current status of OMFIT will be gauged plasma physics scientific discourse at APS meetings is the through soliciting feedback, and future responsibility of all participants. those listed on the APS Nomination plans will be discussed. Future users of In recent years, scientists in numerous Participants will avoid any inappropriate Guidelines website, so check for OMFIT or other interested persons are disciplines have collaboratively developed actions or statements based on individual descriptions of the awards to which you also welcome. www.gafusion.github.io/ open-source packages such as Astropy characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, are making a nomination. OMFIT-source/ and SunPy that are transforming the sexual orientation, gender identity, gender James Clerk Maxwell Prize way scientific research is done in their expression, marital status, nationality, respective fields. We have recently begun for Plasma Physics political affiliation, ability status, open development of PlasmaPy: a package Stewart Prager, Chair Town Meeting on ITER educational background or any other with the ambitious goal of becoming a Princeton University Status and Plans characteristic protected by law. Disruptive similar, fully open-source community- [email protected] or harassing behavior of any kind will not Thursday, October 26 driven Python ecosystem for plasma be tolerated. Harassment includes but is 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. physics that uses modern best practices John Dawson Award for Excellence in for scientific computing (http://journals. not limited to inappropriate or intimidating Plasma Physics Research Winconsin Center, 102ABC plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/ behavior and language, unwelcome jokes Walter Gekelman, Chair or comments, unwanted touching or Speaker: Dr. Bernard Bigot, ITER journal.pbio.1001745). University of California, Los Angeles attention, offensive images, photography Organization Director-General [email protected] If you would like to participate in this without permission and stalking. The US Burning project in its early stages and help guide Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding its development, feel free to contact Nick Violations of this code of conduct Plasma Organization policy should be reported to meeting Doctoral Thesis Award is pleased to welcome Murphy ([email protected]) Plasma Physics with any questions or ideas. organizers, APS staff, or the APS Director Dr. Bernard Bigot, of Meetings. Sanctions may range from Hye-Sook Park, Chair who will give an verbal warning, to ejection from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory update on progress meeting without refund, to notifying [email protected] in the ITER Project. 2017 DPP Election Results appropriate authorities. Retaliation for Dr. Bigot took Vice-Chair: Thomas H. Stix Award for over as Director complaints of inappropriate conduct will Outstanding Early Career Ellen Zweibel, not be tolerated. If a participant observes General of the ITER University Wisconsin-Madison Contribution to Plasma Organization in early inappropriate comments or actions and Physics Research 2015 following a distinguished career that Executive Committee Members: personal intervention seems appropriate Cameron Geddes, Chair included serving as Chairman and CEO Boris Breizman, and safe, they should be considerate of all Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of Texas parties before intervening. of the French Alternative Energies and [email protected] Atomic Energy Commission and as High Richard Buttery, Commissioner for ITER in France. During General Atomics Landau-Spitzer Award his tenure at ITER, the project has moved Call for Nominations for 2018 David Meyerhofer, Chair into high gear, with rapid progress evident Tammy Ma, Prize and Awards Los Alamos National Laboratory on the construction site and preparation of a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [email protected] staged schedule and a research plan leading Deadline: Monday, April 2, 2018 Note: The deadline for this award is from where we are today through all the A prize or an award presented by APS way to full DT operation. Fun Milwaukee Fact DPP is one of the highest honors a physicist Thursday, March 8, 2018. Based on the award regulations, it will be given to an German Fest serves 20,000 bratwursts can receive. Membership in APS or DPP ITER (the Latin word for "the way") early career researcher in 2018. If it is is a large-scale scientific experiment and 15,000 pieces of strudel to hungry is not required for nomination or selection awarded to a team, not all members need to intended to prove the viability of fusion as Milwaukeeans each summer. for a prize or an award unless specified in an energy source. ITER is currently under the criteria of a particular prize/award. The be early career researchers. construction in the south of France. In an nominator does have to be an APS member.

Things to Do in Milwaukee! 2CELLOS Comedy Sports Matches American Science and Surplus Thursday, October 26th Friday, October 27th 6901 W. Oklahoma Ave. FANTASTIC: Four Contemporary BMO Harris Bradley Center, ComedySportz Milwaukee, (414) 541-7777, Illustration Artists 1001 North Fourth Street 420 S. 1st St. www.sciplus.com October 20 - December 2, 2017 This event is FREE Tickets are $8.50-$12 In the words of the owner, “Our items Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic If you come to see ComedySportz, you'll are great gifts, inexpensive supplies, 273 E. Erie St. and Stjepan Hauser, together known as see one Referee and two teams of players, and an endless reason for a giggle or a This event is FREE 2CELLOS, have achieved international one red and one blue- competing against 'Gee whiz!' We take pride in our product each other in improv games based on the FANTASTIC is an exhibition of four success by taking the cello to a new selection and try to be scrupulously of the United States’ finest contemporary suggestions of the fans watching the match! level with their incredible talent and honest in presenting our knowledge of illustration artists: Henrik Drescher, undeniable passion. Their playing There are seven to ten games per match, with the occasional willing volunteer what we have.” Frances Jetter, Katherine Streeter and Carl style has broken down the boundaries joining us up on the field to help the hilarity Dunn. This exhibition will present recent between different genres of music, from drawings, paintings, collages and books ensue! Everything is made up totally on Milwaukee Art Museum classical and film music to pop and the spot. Nothing is rehearsed. Our players by these four artists. FANTASTIC reveals rock. 2CELLOS have no limits when it 700 N. Art Museum Dr. their art well beyond the purview of the are trained to be quick-witted, funny and comes to performing live and are equally compete as hard as they can to make sure (414) 224-3200, newspapers and magazines, informed by a as impressive when playing Bach and the fans in our audience are laughing! Visit www.mam.org personal vision of the world and a fearless Vivaldi as they are when rocking out to www.csmke.com for details. If the magnificent structure wasn’t commitment to the unbridled expression AC/DC and Iron Maiden. compelling enough, the collection at of that vision through their art. Milwaukee Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the MAM is everything you want out of Institute of Art & Design's Frederick Layton Sunday, October 22 - San Remy Galley :: Fall Colors a small museum - comprehensive but Gallery. Please note that gallery hours are Saturday, October 28th Friday, October 27th precise with famous work alongside new Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Marcus Todd Wehr Theater, San Remy Gallery, pieces by great contemporary artists. 207 Buffalo St., suite 16 929 N. Water St. Gothic Milwaukee Historic Tickets are $14 and up Haunted Walking Tour This event is FREE The American Geographical Tuesday, October 24th - San Remy Gallery proudly represents Take a fantastic musical adventure with an out-of-this-world car that flies through Saturday, October 28th Society Library an eclectic mix of original art, both the air and sails the seas. Cheer on the Cathedral Square Park, contemporary and traditional, from 2311 E. Hartford Ave. devoted father and eccentric inventor, (414) 229-6282, www.uwm.edu 825 N. Jefferson St. some of the most talented artists in the Caractacus Potts, and his children, Jemima Tickets are $15 per walker Greater Milwaukee area; showcases and Jeremy, as they plot to rescue Grandpa Within the campus of the University of Join us for a glimpse of Milwaukee's unique hand-crafted artisan pieces that Potts and the children of Vulgaria from Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a geographer’s past lead by your own costumed tour includes paintings, sculpture, furniture, the dastardly Baron Bomburst. Based treasure trove: more than a million guide for this historical tour of downtown wearable fiber art, jewelry, mixed on the beloved 1968 film based on Ian artifacts from the American Geographical Milwaukee. Discover the dark secrets and media and much more! Located in the Fleming's children's book and featuring Society and one of the most incredible eerie sightings lurking in the shadows of lower level of the Marshall building in an unforgettable score, this is one family- collections of maps, atlases and globes to the city. The outdoor tour runs rain or shine the Third Ward. For more information friendly blockbuster that audiences be found anywhere in America. Highlights and is approx 90 minutes. Reservations are contact [email protected] or will find "truly scrumptious." More of the collection include a map from 1452 recommended. More information at www. (414) 519-7369. information at www.firststage.org. and a 700-pound globe. gothicmilwaukee.com.

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