Salt Lake City, Utah A Division of The American Physical Society November 14-18, 2011
James Clerk Maxwell Prize He is the recipient of a number of stationed at CERN full-time since 2001. Fajans has been a Miller Fellow at for Plasma Physics important prizes and awards including He is a founding member of the ATHENA Berkeley, a National Science Foundation the Patten Prize, Bavarian Innovation antihydrogen collaboration and was the Presidential Young Investigator, and "For Pioneering, and seminal contributions Prize, Wissenschaftpreis of the German Physics Coordinator of the experiment that an Office of Naval Research Young to, the field of dusty plasmas, including “Stifterverband”, ERC research grant, produced the first cold antihydrogen atoms Investigator. He is a fellow of the work leading to the discovery of Gagarin Medal, Ziolkowski Medal, NASA at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator in American Physical Society, and served on plasma crystals, to an explanation for achievement awards, URGO Foundation 2002. He is the founder and Spokesperson the Executive Committee of the Division of the complicated structure of Saturn's for Advances in Dermatology Award of the ALPHA collaboration, which Plasma Physics. rings, and to microgravity dusty plasma (plasma treatment of chronic wounds). demonstrated trapping of antihydrogen experiments conducted first on parabolic- atoms in 2010 (the work which is being trajectory flights and then on the honored here). Hangst was elected to Mike Charlton International Space Station." Salt Lake Fun Facts: fellowship of the APS, Division of Plasma Swansea University, United Kingdom Gregor Morfill The people of Salt Lake City consume Physics, in 2005. Max-Planck Institute für more Jell-O per capita than any other city Mike Charlton Extraterrestrische Physik in the United States. Joel Fajans studied Physics The largest city between Denver and the University of California, Berkeley at University Gregor Morfill College received his B.Sc. Pacific Coast, Salt Lake City is the largest city ever to host winter Olympic games Joel Fajans London (UCL), degree in physics received his graduating with and his Ph.D. in and over seven million people visit the Salt Lake area each year. undergraduate a 1st Class space plasma degrees in Physics Honours BSc physics from and in Electrical in 1978, before Imperial College, Engineering from completing his London University, John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma the Massachusetts PhD, also at UCL, in 1967 and 1970, Institute of on the interactions respectively. Physics Research Technology in of low energy positrons in gases in After research appointments at Max "For the introduction and use of innovative 1980. He stayed 1980. He stayed at UCL for postdoctoral Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial plasma techniques which produced the at MIT for his work, being awarded a Science Research Physics (MPE), Garching, and Max Planck first demonstration of the trapping of 1985 doctoral Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1982 Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, antihydrogen." degree on Free Electrons Lasers under followed by a Royal Society Research he was appointed Director at MPE in 1984. the guidance of Professor George Bekefi, Fellowship in 1983. He held this position He holds honorary professorships at the Jeffrey Hangst where he was supported by a Hertz until 1991, when he was promoted to University of Leeds (United Kingdom) Aarhus University, Denmark Foundation Fellowship. His thesis was Reader in Physics at UCL. In 1999, he and the University of Arizona, Tucson Jeffrey S. honored by a Marshall N. Rosenbluth moved to Swansea, where he took up a (U.S.A.). In 2003 he received an Honorary Hangst is a Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Chair in Experimental Physics. He has Doctorate from the Technical University of graduate of MIT (then called the Simon Ramo Award) held the Chairmanship of the Department Berlin (Germany), in 2010 he was awarded (SB,SM) and of from the American Physical Society, and of Physics, and of the School of Physical Fellow of the Institute of Physics (United the University of by a Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Sciences, whilst at Swansea. He has Kingdom) and in 2011 he was appointed Chicago (PhD). Prize. He then went to the University of made many contributions to low energy into the Scientific Council of Bauman He worked at California, San Diego for post-doctoral positron physics, particularly in the areas University, Moscow. Fermilab and at studies under Professors John Malmberg of positronium formation, ionization and He is the author of more than 500 scientific Argonne while and Tom O’Neil on non-neutral plasmas. annihilation and in the development of low papers. His current scientific interests are doing his PhD In 1986, Fajans joined the faculty of the energy beams and related instrumentation. mostly focused on complex (dusty) plasmas at Chicago. He University of California, Berkeley, where He began antihydrogen research in – theory, laboratory and experiments on the moved to Aarhus he is now a Professor of Physics. His 1986, and this is now his main area of International Space Station (continuously University in Denmark in 1994 and has been research concentrated on non-neutral endeavour. He is currently an Engineering since the start of the ISS), planetary there since. Hangst received the European plasma physics, two-dimensional fluid and Physical Sciences Research Council and astrophysical plasmas, and plasma Physical Society's 1996 accelerator award dynamics, and non-linear dynamics. In Senior Research Fellow. He is a Fellow of applications in hygiene and medicine. for a young scientist for his work on laser 2003, he joined the newly-formed ALPHA the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the collaboration at CERN, which studies the Learned Society of Wales. Professor Morfill is a foreign member cooling of stored ion beams in the ASTRID trapping and properties of antihydrogen. of the Russian Academy of Sciences. storage ring in Aarhus. He has been
The DPP Chronicle 1 Niels Madsen College of Science and Mathematics. He GEC joint meeting. We hope to measure Swansea University, received an NSF Young Investigator's Jonathan Wurtele how much interaction there is between United Kingdom Award in 1994 and was named a Fellow University of California, Berkeley members of the two meetings to evaluate Dr. Niels Madsen is Reader at the of the American Physical Society in 2002. the benefit of co-locating the GEC with Department of Physics, Swansea His research focuses on simulations for the DPP meeting. To accomplish this goal, the ALPHA collaboration which has Makoto Fujiwara University. He received his Ph.D. in a portion of registered participants from successfully trapped the anti-hydrogen TRIUMF physics on laser-cooling of ion beams each group will be asked to participate atom, on the behavior of highly excited in 1998 from the University of Aarhus, by wearing a small radio-frequency atoms exposed to various strong fields, and Denmark. Subsequently he was awarded identification (RFID) tag on their name on the fully quantum calculation of two- and Mobile App a CERN fellowship to work on the badge. The RFID tags emit a low-power three-electron systems. APS and DPP are pleased to announce Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. In signal that can be detected by another that we have a mobile meeting app available 2001 he started work on antihydrogen as RFID tag when they are within about a 1 to meeting attendees. After downloading part of the ATHENA collaboration, who meter range with no obstructions so that William Bertsche the app to your mobile device, you will be subsequently were the first to make low when two people wearing the tags on Swansea University, able to read the abstracts, view the speaker energy antihydrogen in 2002. In 2003 their name badges are facing one another United Kingdom index, create a personal schedule of he was awarded a Steno Fellowship by (presumably in conversation) the tags will presentations at the meeting, and see maps the National Danish Research Council Will Bertsche received his Bachelor's receive each other's signal. The contact of the Salt Palace Convention Center. For to work towards antihydrogen trapping. degree in Physics from Cornell between the two tags is then relayed to instructions on how to download the app to He identified key stumbling blocks for University in 2000. He received his an RFID reader located in a public area your mobile devices, please see the flyers the path to antihydrogen trapping in the PhD in 2007 from the University of and on to a central computer, which at the DPP Registration Desk or at the APS then standard schemes for producing California, Berkeley where he researched records the duration of the conversation. nonlinear kinetic effects in plasmas. DPP Meeting Information Booth. the antiatoms. He was furthermore part We can then determine the level of Since then, he has been employed as of the team that pioneered the ALPHA interaction between participants of the a postdoctoral research assistant for collaboration. Since 2005, where he two different meetings. If you are asked Swansea University and stationed full- Marshall N. Rosenbluth joined Swansea, he has led a group and are willing to participate, we would time with the ALPHA collaboration at Outstanding Doctoral within the ALPHA collaboration that like to remind you to return the RFID has made substantial contributions to CERN. With the ALPHA collaboration, Thesis Award he significantly contributed to the tags to the DPP Registration Desk, South the development of plasma physics "For demonstrating limitations in the design, construction, and operation of the Foyer. Thanks for your participation. techniques allowing the formation of gyrokinetic theory of the radial electric ALPHA apparatus, focusing on topics of trappable antihydrogen. In 2010, he was field for plasmas in an axisymmetric plasma manipulation and antihydrogen awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme magnetic field and formulating an Katherine E. Weimer Award production. He developed a novel Trust Senior Research Fellowship. alternative procedure-insights that have "For pioneering experiments to explore the autoresonance-based injection technique This work led to the first trapping of inspired research around the world." interaction of high-intensity laser light antihydrogen in 2010. He is now, as part that was instrumental in producing with matter, including the demonstration of of the ALPHA collaboration, focusing trappable antihydrogen atoms. Felix Parra amplification of ultrashort laser pulses by on work towards precision comparisons University of Oxford, MIT the resonant Raman scheme." of antihydrogen and hydrogen. He is a Daniel Silveira Dr. Parra studied member of the American Physical Society Yuan Ping RIKEN Aeronautical and the Institute of Physics. Lawrence Livermore Daniel de Miranda Silveira received his Engineering National Laboratory in the Escuela undergraduate degree in Physics in 1995 Tecnica Superior Dr. Yuan Ping Dirk Van der Werf from the State University of Campinas de Ingenieros Swansea University, (UNICAMP), where he also received received her B.S. Aeronauticos United Kingdom his M.Sc. degree. He then moved to the degree (1994), (ETSIA) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro M.S. degree Dirk van der Werf gained his first Universidad (1996) in physics degree at the University of Groningen, (UFRJ), where he did his doctoral studies Politecnica from University the Netherlands in 1989. His received working on cold atom spectroscopy. After de Madrid of Science and his PhD in 1995 also in Groningen on receiving his Ph.D. in 2004, he worked (UPM) from 1999 to 2004. While still an Technology of “Helium in Tungsten: A Calculational for some time as a junior post-doctoral undergraduate, he got interested in plasma China (USTC), Approach”. After a three year postdoc at researcher between UFRJ, the University physics because plasmas can be used to and Ph.D. (2002) the Royal Holloway College, University of California – Berkeley and CERN, where impulse spacecraft more efficiently using in plasma physics of London working on positron beams and he first got involved with antihydrogen what is known as electric propulsion. He postronium formation on carbon surfaces, research. In 2006 he moved to Switzerland from Princeton University. Her thesis continued his studies in plasma physics in work includes the first experimental he became involved with antihydrogen to work on the recently started ALPHA the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstration of Raman amplification research with the ATHENA collaboration Collaboration, where he worked as a senior (MIT), where his interests shifted from of short laser pulses in plasma. After in 1998, first at University College post-doctoral fellow until 2011. During this electric propulsion to nuclear fusion by London and subsequently at Swansea time, he and his colleagues demonstrated magnetic confinement. In 2009, he graduated graduation she joined Lawrence Livermore University where he gained in 2005 five for the first time the magnetic trapping of from MIT with a PhD. His thesis focused National Laboratory as a recipient of E. year RCUK fellowship. He is presently antihydrogen atoms, as well as their long on self-consistently calculating the radial O. Lawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University. term confinement. In his last year at CERN, electric field in tokamaks, particularly in the fellowship, and stayed at LLNL as a staff He is a founding member of the ALPHA he was also the Technical Coordinator presence of turbulence. After graduation, physicist. She performed pioneering collaboration. He built the positron for the experiment. In 2011 he became he worked at MIT briefly as a postdoctoral research on non-equilibrium warm dense accumulator, instigated research on non- an assistant professor at UFRJ. He has associate before moving to University matter, and received “best paper by a neutral plasma stability in multipolar fields experience in the fields of Atomic and of Oxford, where he became a Junior postdoc” award in physics directorate and and designed the neutral magnetic traps in Plasma Physics, working on the following Research Fellow at Christ Church college. LLNL Science and Technology award collaboration with BNL and LBNL. subjects: traps for neutral and charged At University of Oxford, he continued his (co-winner) in 2006. Her primary research particles, non-neutral plasma Physics and research on tokamaks, working on scaling interests are in the area of high-energy- antihydrogen formation and trapping. laws for Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG) density science, including relativistic laser- Francis Robicheaux turbulence, studying transport bifurcations plasma interaction relevant to fast ignition, Auburn University due to momentum injection, and developing and materials under extreme conditions. Paul Bowe a model for spontaneous rotation. He has She is a member of American Physical Francis Robicheaux received his B.A. Aarhus University, Denmark from the University of Chicago in 1985. recently moved back to MIT, where he is Society and Optical Society of America. He received a Ph.D. from the University now an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear of Chicago in 1991 for work in theoretical Science and Engineering Department. He is atomic and molecular physics. From 1990 a member of the American Physical Society. Coffee Breaks to 1993, he was a postoctoral fellow at the Exhibit Hall A Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics. Robicheaux joined the physics faculty RFID Tag Morning: of Auburn University in 1993 where he A group from University of Wisconsin Monday-Friday at 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. is currently a professor. In 2004, he was in collaboration with Ecole Normale Afternoon: named an Alumni Professor and, in 2011, Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon (France) Monday-Thursday at 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. he received the Dean's Faculty Research will be conducting a social interaction Note: Beverages will not be replenished. Award from the Auburn University experiment at this year's APS DPP and Stay for the Invited and Postdeadline Talks... Win a Prize in a Raffle! Registration Desk When you register at the DPP Meeting Registration Desk, you will receive a numbered ticket South Foyer stub for a raffle that takes place Sunday, Nov. 13, 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. AFTER the Postdeadline Talks on Friday! Monday, Nov.14, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. After the conclusion of the Friday morning sessions, on November 18 in Ballroom BD of Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. the Convention Center, the DPP chair, Steve Allen, will draw three raffle tickets at random. The Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. winners of the drawing must be present to win. Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
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2 The DPP Chronicle DPP Banquet a physics faculty member at the University in the Directorate for Plasma Operation of Wednesday, November 16 University Fusion Association of Colorado and CEO of the Tech-X the ITER Organization, will describe the Corporation. Dr. Lindl is chief scientist latest developments with ITER and also Reception: 6:30 p.m. (UFA) General Meeting for the National Ignition Facility and discuss control systems. Dr. Rasmussen, Grand Ballroom Prefunction, Monday, November 14 Photon Science Directorate at Lawrence WBS Team Leader for Pellet Injector, ECH Marriott 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Livermore National Laboratory. Professor and ICH Systems at the US ITER Project Prager is the Director of Princeton Office, will describe the status of heating Banquet: 7:30 p.m. Ballroom BD Plasma Physics Laboratory, a professor systems for ITER. Dr. Boivin, international Grand Ballroom A-F of astrophysical sciences at Princeton leader of the ITPA Diagnostics Topical The UFA will hold its annual general Group and diagnostics head for DIII-D at Banquet After-Dinner Speaker meeting Monday night during the APS University, and Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Wisconsin, General Atomics, will describe the status Professor Alan M. Nathan, University of DPP annual meeting in Salt Lake City. The of diagnostics for ITER and open areas for Illinois at Urbana UFA general meeting typically discusses Madison. Following a brief introduction including a summary of their careers, we'll burning plasma diagnostic development. issues of relevance to fusion science Charles Greenfield, Director of the US research in U.S. universities and the status have an interview session with prepared questions, followed by questions from the Burning Plasma Organization, will review Alan Nathan of the U.S. fusion program. This year, Dr. U.S. contributions to ITER R&D and open Banquet Speaker Edmund Synakowski, Associate Director audience. This meeting will offer junior scientists the opportunity to gain some scientific opportunities. Dr. Michael Bell, Talk Title: The Physics of of Fusion Energy Sciences at DOE OFES, Vice Chair of the USBPO Council, will chair will review the status of the program and insight into factors they should consider as Baseball they make career decisions. this Town Meeting, which is sponsored by provide an update on the ITER project. the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization. Alan Nathan is His presentation will be followed by an Professor Emeritus open question and answer session. The Contact Congress of Physics at the UFA meeting is open to members of the Job Fair (Sponsored by APS Washington DC Office) University of community and all conference attendees. Sponsored by APS-DPP Illinois at Urbana- Monday, November 14 & Monday, November 14 Champaign, having 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. joined the faculty in Student Appreciation Reception Tuesday, November 15 1977 and retired at Tuesday, November 15 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 15 the end of 2008. He 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall A 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. was educated at the Wednesday, November 16 University of Maryland (BS) and Princeton Room 150 DEF Stop by the Contact Congress desk to sign your name to letters addressed 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Ph.D.). His primary field of research has Please plan to attend a complimentary been experimental nuclear physics, an to your Congressional delegation on the Exhibit Hall A reception in honor of high school and importance of federal funding for basic area in which he has published over 80 graduate student participants. Dr. Steve papers in scientific journals over the years. research. It takes only a minute. By doing (Interviews to be held in Room 252 AB) Allen, DPP Chair, cordially welcomes all so, you are making your voice heard in The focus of that research has been the The Job Fair is the best place to connect DPP meeting participants, and encourages Washington and helping to influence the use of Compton scattering experiments with employers and job seekers from their open discussion on topics of interest to funding levels for physics research and to elucidate the structure of nuclei and all areas of plasma physics, beams and students of plasma physics. Student Poster education. To amplify the impact, the APS nucleons. He has been a Fellow of the coherent radiation, inertial confinement Award recipients will be announced. Student Washington DC Office follows up each APS since 1992. In the past decade or so, and high-energy-density plasmas, and advisors are particularly encouraged to letter with a call or visit to congressional he has expanded his research interests to attend. Refreshments will be served. more. include the physics of baseball and has staff. The strongest and most persuasive advocates on Capitol Hill come from a Attendees are encouraged to visit the published numerous papers in the scientific Job Fair to take advantage of our many literature in this area. He has given many Town Meeting on Concerns of Senator or Representative's constituents. That means you! If you live in the United recruiting services: talks on the subject, from audiences Junior Scientists ranging from middle-school kids to Rotary States, you are qualified to write to your • Showcase your company with a Clubs to alumni associations, to hard- Chair: Dylan Brennan, members of Congress. Recruitment Exhibit nosed physicists. He has served on panels University of Tulsa If you have any questions about what is • Search our high-powered job and advising organizations such at Major happening in Washington, just stop by the resume database Tuesday, November 15 League Baseball, the National Collegiate Contact Congress desk to ask the experts. • Network and interview with companies Athletic Association, and USA Baseball 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. and job-candidates on site on issues related to bat performance. He Ballroom H • Create alerts to inform you of new has been in the forefront in the use of new USBPO Town Meeting resumes and jobs technologies for tracking the flight of a The DPP Committee on Concerns of on ITER Status baseball. He maintains an oft-visited web Junior Scientists is pleased to announce • Manage your interview calendar online site (go.illinois.edu/physicsofbaseball) the subject of this year's meeting is a Tuesday, November 15 For additional information contact Terri that many people have found to be a useful comparison between careers in private 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Gaier ([email protected]). resource on the subject. He is interviewed industry vs. the government laboratory and Ballroom BD regularly by the mainstream media on university routes for young scientists. We'll various aspects of the physics of baseball. have three prominent guests, Professor John This special town meeting will review Salt Lake Fun Facts: Cary (Tech-X, University of Colorado), Dr. the status of recent developments and The average snowfall in the mountains John Lindl (NIF, LLNL), and Professor planned activities for ITER. The four near Salt Lake City is 500 inches (over 40 DPP Business Meeting Stewart Prager (PPPL, Princeton speakers will be Joseph Snipes, David feet!) - that is nearly five times the average University, University of Wisconsin), who Rasmussen, Rejean Boivin, and Charles Wednesday, November 16 snowfall of Juneau, Alaska. will speak on the comparison of these three Greenfield. Dr. Snipes, Senior Scientific 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Officer, Plasma Operations Group Leader, Ballroom J routes in public interview. Professor Cary is The business meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics will include reports The annual OMEGA Users Group meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 5:30 to 7:00 PM in Room 151 ABCG. We will of actions undertaken by DPP on issues meet to reassess Progress on the Findings and Recommendation of our last users workshop (27-29 April 2011); to briefly discuss the important to our membership. New items of agenda and plans for the upcoming OMEGA Users Workshop (25-27 April 2012); and to address general Users issues. We look forward business will be considered in the following to your participation! order: (1) Written motions, together with any supporting arguments, received by the Secretary-Treasurer, Professor Karl Krushelnick, at the DPP Registration Desk, Salt Palace Convention Center, before noon on Monday, November 14, or which were emailed to Professor Krushelnick ([email protected]) by noon on Friday, November 4, 2011. Copies of such material will be displayed on a bulletin board near the DPP registration area in order to give members reasonable notice in case they wish to participate in the discussion and vote on such motions. (2) Written motions submitted to the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the start of the business meeting. (3) Other new business not included in (1) or (2).
Women in Plasma Physics Luncheon Monday, November 14 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Ballroom J To attend the luncheon, mark the appropriate space on the registration form. The lunch ticket cost is $25 for regular attendees and $10 for graduate and undergraduate students. The lunch cost is partially subsidized by DPP.
The DPP Chronicle 3 SALT LAKE GENEALOGY Meet the Editors of While you're in Salt Lake, begin a journey R L O B G M M L U S L N U C N L R the APS Journals to discover who you are. All of us have a Tuesday, November 15 story, stretching back for generations. What I A G P D N A I P F E O N O O A J 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. mysteries can you uncover? Perhaps there B X L Y E I I H A R L I I H I N Q is a king, outlaw, or other colorful character North Foyer in your family's history. So, you don't have G R M O R D E N U A U S V E S D E to travel all over the world to trace your roots, The Editors of APS journals cordially you can start your journey of discovery in P D I O S R E T R J H S E R S A C invite you to join them for conversation and Salt Lake: the genealogy capital of the world. refreshments. Your questions, suggestions, O O T G I S A S O U D E R E E U A compliments and complaints about Maybe it's a little bold that Salt Lake the journals are welcome. All meeting makes the claim to be the Genealogy C U S C H R C Z T C B R S N S O P participants are invited. Capital of the World, but they have the T Z A T E T N I A A Z P I T Z U S facilities to back it up. Salt Lake is home to the FamilySearch Center, where friendly V L F P E G N G S I L M T J G Q O HEDSA Annual Meeting (and free) staff can help you get started on over 100 individual computer stations with P T M W Q R G E I Y H O Y G Z D E Wednesday, November 16 access to family history resources. Also D E T N A R G G S A H C G O G K G 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. in Salt Lake is the Family History Library, which is the largest library of its kind in T E L C I T R A P S P P Y T A T S Ballroom J, Salt Palace the world. That means when you plan a A N O I T P E C E R H M O M O T Y research trip to Salt Lake there's more than High Energy Density Science likely going to be something for you to Z P Q Z X W V S Y K N R A R H A V find. Founded in 1894, the Library houses Association (HEDSA) over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed D I A G N O S T I C S K U C T M T Symposium genealogical records, along with microfiche, D E N S I T Y Z F X O S C O C S R Sunday, November 13 books, serials, and other formats, and 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. periodicals. Records are available from the I G N I T I O N U T T U Y E G P A United States, Canada, British Isles, Europe, Deer Valley I-III, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Word Puzzle: Marriott Hotel Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. The Family Find the following words: History Library is open from 8am to 9pm Tuesday through Saturday, and because ASTROPHYSICS BRIGHTNESS BURNING Review Talks there is no admission charge, feel free to CAMPAIGN COHERENT COMPRESSION spend an afternoon or two! Review talks begin at 8:00 a.m. DENSITY DIAGNOSTICS FAST Monday – Friday GEOSPACE GRANT IGNITION LANDAU PARTICLE PEDESTAL Ballroom A-D Mini-Conferences POSTER RECEPTION SESSION Salt Palace Convention Center SOLAR SPHERICAL TEMPERATURE Three mini-conferences are scheduled TOKAMAK TORUS TUTORIAL Monday-Friday to be held at the Salt Palace Caregiver/Children’s Room Convention Center. Check the Epitome for UNIVERSITY the presenter start times. Monday – Thursday These mini-conferences are organized November 14 – 17 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Mini-conference on Nonlinear Mini-conference on Dense with oral presentations, time for questions and discussion, and may include a poster Room 150 AB effects in geospace plasmas quantum plasma simulation session. They will employ a question- Room 151 ABCG Room 151 ABCG orientated format to stimulate discussion A childcare room will be available to and interaction amongst the participants. parents who bring their infants and young Monday, November 14 Thursday, November 17 children to the annual meeting. The purpose at 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. at 2:00 p.m. & of the room is to provide a place where Friday, November 18 Speaker Ready Room parents and caregivers can go for relaxation Organizers: Evgeny Mishin (Kirtland and spend time with their children. The AFB) and Gurudas Ganguli (Naval at 9:30 a.m. Room 254 B room will be furnished with comfortable Research Laboratory) Organizers: Dastgeer Shaikh and Gary Sunday, Nov. 13, 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. furniture, and a limited amount of toys, a Description: The objective of this Zank (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Monday, Nov.14, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. refrigerator, snacks, and beverages. Note: workshop is to make an assessment of the Description: Dense two-component and There will not be supervised childcare contribution of nonlinear plasma processes Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. multi-component non-relativistic plasma provided by APS-DPP. to the dynamics of the magnetosphere- Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with quantum electrons and classical ions, ionosphere system with the emphasis on Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. their effects on the energy transport and possibly also neutrals Companions’ Breakfast release. Recent satellite and ground-based Motivation: Experimental progress in Friday, Nov. 18, 7:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. observations and modeling results have given dense quantum plasmas Monday, November 14 enough evidence to the important role of 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. a.) Laser compression of Coulomb matter APS Membership Booth / nonlinear plasma effects in geospace and thus at NIF and other facilities. New powerful Alta/Snowbird, Marriott Hotel warrant a focused discussion between the geo- Souvenir Store facilities will appear within the next 5 years Note: Breakfast is only for companions and plasma-physical communities. Speakers (such as ELI in Europe) Monday, November 14– will summarize recent progress in theory/ and their children. b.) Ion beam compression experiments: Wednesday, November 16 modeling/observations of nonlinear wave The complimentary Companions’ processes in geospace plasmas and discuss new facilities in the U.S., new facility FAIR 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (GSI Darmstadt) under construction Breakfast is an opportunity to join other further development and possible applications. South Foyer companions attending the DPP annual c.) New x-ray free electron laser facilities meeting. A representative from the Salt (LCLS at SLAC, FLASH at DESY and the Stop by the APS Membership booth to Lake area will provide information about Mini-conference on future facility XFEL) become a new APS and DPP member and ask what to see and do while visiting the city. Understanding astrophysical Continuing interest in dense astrophysical questions about journal subscriptions. Browse dynamos plasmas with similar parameters (e.g. white our selection of t-shirts, caps, and more. dwarfs, neutron star crust). Career Development Workshop Room 151 ABCG Expanding interest and results for high DPP Soccer Game Improving Work-Life Tuesday, November 15 energy density and warm dense matter state Satisfaction conditions. East vs. West at 2:00 p.m. & Sponsored by the Committee for Women in Wednesday, November 16 Theoretical challenge: There is a current Wednesday, November 16 Plasma Physics and the Committee for the at 9:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. need for ab initio-based treatment of strongly 12:30 p.m. Concerns of Junior Scientists mass-asymmetric plasmas, including strong Organizers: Mark Nornberg and Ellen ionic correlations and quantum degeneracy The annual DPP soccer match will be held Presented by: Amy M. Keesee, Ph.D. Zweibel (University of Wisconsin), Benjamin of electrons and formation of bound states. mid-day on Wednesday. Meet at the DPP Chandran (University of New Hampshire) Registration Desk after the morning session, Research Assistant Professor, There exist solutions to some aspects of the West Virginia University Description: One of the major areas problem including quantum electrons and and we will take taxis or cars to a nearby of research in plasma astrophysics strongly correlated classical ions, but no soccer field. Bring your soccer clothes, shoes, President, Association for Women in is understanding the generation and working computer codes treating the entire etc. Everyone is welcome! At the field we Science, West Virginia Chapter sustainment of magnetic fields through plasma with strong electron-ion correlations. will form teams. Typically we are back by dynamo processes. Dynamos are ubiquitous There exist activities in various groups, the start of the afternoon session. Monday, November 14 in nature spanning the range of astrophysical and the mini-conference aims at bringing 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. objects including planetary, stellar, and Sign Up: If you would like to sign-up, or these together to foster exchange and new if you have questions, please email Andrew Ballroom J galactic systems. Although a dynamo can be developments. constructed as a simple linear instability in Zwicker ([email protected]). Goal: There exists partial experience Given the work environments and magnetohydrodynamic flows, complications expectations in science, and the fact that a in diverse fields of physics including due to turbulence, non-linear effects, and career in science is very often a way of life condensed matter physics (treating the initial GPAP Business Meeting plasma processes quickly make application and far more than a job, work-life balance target material), quantum chemistry (treating of dynamo theories to real astrophysical Wednesday, November 16, satisfaction can be elusive. While advocating the atoms) and nonideal plasmas. Our goal systems quite difficult. The mini-conference 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. for change in policies and systems continues addresses current developments in dynamo is to bring together experts from those fields to be important, scientists must find the research including laboratory experiments, to come closer to an integrated simulation of Room 150 DE personal work-life balance strategies astrophysical observation, numerical dense quantum plasmas, which will have to that work for them within the systems in simulation, and theory. be multidisciplinary and multi-scale. which they work. This interactive program
4 The DPP Chronicle and follow-up web-based materials and Samar Guharay, Deepak Gupta, Adil University of Wisconsin Reunion resources will help participants: Hassam, Abhay Ram, Raj Roy, Abhijit Sen, Call for Nominations Surja Sharma. Tuesday, November 15 • Define for themselves what work-life 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. satisfaction is and is not Deadline: Location: Squatter's Brew Pub Monday, April 2, 2012 • Understand how incongruence between Housing Information priorities and actions can drain energy and 147 West Broadway (300 South) APS Fellowship negatively impact work-life satisfaction Marriott Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, UT 84101 DPP Executive Committee Election Downtown (801) 363-2739 • Examine how their current choices Maxwell Prize impact work-life balance and identify (75 South West Temple) Calling all Wisconsin alums, past and John Dawson Excellence Award changes that will have the biggest impact Hilton Salt Lake City Center present faculty and researchers. on personal and professional satisfaction (255 South West Temple) Rosenbluth Ph.D. Thesis Award • Identify 7 keys to achieving and Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Call for Nominations for 2012 maintaining work-life satisfaction Salt Lake City Attractions • Craft a personalized plan to improve Downtown Prize and Awards work-life balance satisfaction (215 West South Temple) A prize or award presented by APS DPP If you're thinking of taking some time to is one of the highest honors a physicist see the sights in Salt Lake, check out the Crystal Inn Downtown “Connect Pass” available through www. (230 West 500 South) can receive. The DPP annually solicits Invited Speaker Poster Sessions nominations for one prize and two awards. visitsaltlake.com/visit/connectpass or at Shilo Inn Hotel the Salt Lake Visitors Information Center. Exhibit Hall A The deadline for receipt of all nominations (206 South West Temple) is Monday, April 2, 2012. Please take time Purchasing the pass gets you free admission Poster versions of review, invited, to nominate exceptional DPP colleagues. to several of Salt Lake's most famous and Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 fascinating attractions, including: and tutorial papers are optional and are Anyone other than a member of the scheduled Monday through Friday, in the Non-Government Rates selection committee may submit one Utah's Hogle Zoo: Located on 42 acres following half-day session, in a designated Marriott Salt Lake City Downtown nomination or seconding letter for each at the mouth of Emigration Canyon in area of Exhibit Hall A. For example, the Salt Lake City’s eastern foothills, the Zoo $150 single, $150 double, $160 triple, prize or award in any given year. Monday morning review and invited is one of the top visited attractions in the Go to this web address: http://www.aps. talks may also be presented as posters $160 quadruple, plus 12.72% tax state. Visit the rare cats of Asian Highlands org/programs/honors/nomination.cfm for in the Monday afternoon poster session. Hilton Salt Lake City Center or the magnificent pachyderms of Elephant nomination guidelines. This option will be available on Monday $168 single, $183 double, $198 triple, Encounter and nearly 900 other animals morning for invited papers scheduled on $213 quadruple, plus 12.72% tax The nomination package must be from around the world! Friday morning, November 18. submitted by Monday, April 2, 2012. Open daily from 9am-5pm. Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Acknowledgement of receipt can be Downtown 2600 East Sunnyside Avenue requested. The DPP dissertation award (801)582-1631 www.hoglezoo.org Internet Pavilion $115 single, $115 double, $130 triple, has other requirements in addition to those $145 quadruple, plus 12.72% tax listed on the APS website, so check for Tracy Aviary: Over 400 birds representing about 135 different species in Exhibit Hall A Government Rates descriptions of the prize and awards for Note: DPP offers internet access to which you are making a nomination. a tranquil wooded setting. Year-round free- These hotels offer the prevailing rate on flight bird shows. attendees as a service. the day of check-in: James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Open daily from 9am-5pm. Sunday, Nov. 13, 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Hilton, Radisson, Crystal Inn, and Shilo Inn 589 East 1300 South Monday, Nov. 14, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mark Koepke, Chair (801)596-8500 www.tracyaviary.org The current government rate is $95 per West Virginia University Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. night, plus tax. Phone: 304-293-3422 ext 1456 Clark Planetarium: Explore 10,000 Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Email: [email protected] square feet of free exhibits and experience incredible visuals in the ATK 3D IMAX® Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. John Dawson Award for Excellence Plasma Science Christian Theatre or Hansen Dome Theatre. Friday, Nov. 18, 7:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in Plasma Physics Research Fellowship Open Friday and Saturday from Troy Carter, Chair 10:30am-11pm, and Sunday through Wednesday, November 16 University of California, Los Angeles Wireless Access 6:45 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Thursday from 10:30am-10pm. Phone: 310-825-4770 110 South 400 West Available in Exhibit Hall A (compliments Cottonwood, Marriott Email: [email protected] (801)456-7827 www.clarkplanetarium.org of DPP). The Plasma Science Christian Fellowship Marshall N. Rosenbluth Red Butte Garden: Utah's only (PSCF) is an informal affiliation of students Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Arboretum. Featuring 11 themed botanical in Plasma Physics Ballooning modes, drifts, and scientists working in plasma and fusion Gardens including an Orangerie (warm) shears, flocks, and collective energy research. Formed in 2006, the Mark Gilmore, Chair Garden and classes for adults and kids. PSCF seeks to provide a forum to discuss University of New Mexico Open daily from 9am-7:30pm. complex systems how our faith connects to our workplace Phone: 505-277-2579 300 Wakara Way A Scientific tribute to experience and life as scientists. Please Email: [email protected] (801)581-4747 www.redbuttegarden.org join us in Cottonwood, at the Marriott, for Parvez Guzdar an hour on Wednesday morning before the Thursday, November 17 opening session review talk. Bring your own Plasma Sciences Expo 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. coffee. Contact Darren Craig (darren.craig@ Thursday and Friday, wheaton.edu) if you have questions or need November 17 and 18, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Room 150 DE, Salt Palace additional information. Hope to see you there. for students, teachers and DPP meeting participants In a scientific career spanning Exploratory Plasma Thursday, November 17, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. several decades, Research Meeting for students, teachers and DPP meeting participants Dr. Parvez Guzdar made seminal Wednesday, November 16 Exhibit Hall C contributions to 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Join the Plasma Sciences Expo for hands-on activities! During two days of the APS a broad range of Ballroom E, Salt Palace DPP meeting the Expo offers middle and high school students, teachers, parents and the topics in plasma general public an opportunity to talk with scientists while visiting a variety of exhibits and physics and There will be a lunchtime meeting of interactive displays designed to teach about plasma. Special Thursday evening hours are nonlinear dynamics. the Innovative Confinement Concepts offered so DPP participants and the Dr. Guzdar passed away in July 2011. To (ICC) community, now organized under general public can more easily join honor his scientific achievements, a special a broader name: Exploratory Plasma in the fun. DPP participants are also satellite session will take place during the Research. New chair of the group, Mike welcomed to participate during the 2011 APS DPP meeting in Salt Lake City. Brown of Swarthmore College, would day if their schedules allow. The session will broadly cover research like to discuss future directions for the areas of interest to Dr. Guzdar. These community. A broader community would include magnetic and laser fusion science, include not only U.S. DoE Fusion Energy nonlinear dynamics, and space plasma Sciences sponsored projects but privately physics. The talks, tutorial in nature and of funded groups, materials scientists, and appeal to both experts and non-experts in computational plasma scientists. We these fields, will be given by three eminent recognize that privately funded exploratory scientists who have been co-workers of Dr. fusion endeavors are growing and our Guzdar. The speakers are community could provide them a scientific home. We support for the mainstream Professor Predhiman Kaw, Institute for fusion program including ITER, but we Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India feel that a wise program should include Professor James Drake, University of some risk mitigation and have an active Maryland, College Park, Maryland university component. Professor Edward Ott, University of The group met in Seattle, Washington the Maryland, College Park, Maryland week of August 16-19 for our 2011 meeting Following the scientific session, a under the ICC name. There were 5 sessions dinner get-together is planned at a of 6 talks each broken into broad scientific nearby restaurant to celebrate the many areas (3D magnetic fields, high beta, first wall, humanitarian contributions of Dr. Guzdar. computational modeling, etc). There was If you plan to join the self-paid dinner a a strong Japanese contingent participating sign-up sheet will be available at the DPP through the US-Japan Collaboration. We are Registration Desk. planning the next scientific meeting of the group for early 2013. The ad-hoc organizing committee for this session is: John Finn, Guru Ganguli,
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts: Your Palace Convention Center in the heart of Notes/Doodles passport to a world of art and culture. Utah's downtown, Red Rock Brewing Company premier art museum, UMFA showcases an was established in 1994 out of an old dairy encyclopedic collection of over 17,000 warehouse. Red Rock has since become a objects. Visitors enjoy traveling exhibitions, staple in the downtown restaurant scene, artist talks, films, family activities, free with plenty of beer and soda on tap to events, and educational programs. quench any thirst. 254 South 200 West, Open Tuesday through Sunday 801-521-7446 from 10am-5pm. Think landlocked Salt Lake City doesn't 410 Campus Center Drive do sushi? Think again! At Takashi, owner (801)581-7332 www.umfa.utah.edu and sushi chef Takashi Gibo uses only the freshest fish to create his artistic sushi and sashimi plates. 18 West Market Street 350 Salt Lake Fun Facts: South, 801-519-9595 Know any famous Utahans? Let me SugarHouse Barbeque Company is spark your memory: Butch Cassidy a family owned and operated restaurant (outlaw), John Moses Browning specializing in delicious indigenous (gunsmith), Willard Marriott (hotel American Cuisine. From award chain founder), Donny & Marie Osmond winnning Memphis Style Barbeque, to (singers), James Woods (actor), Brigham Cajun specialties like Jambalaya or our Young (governor and religious leader), scrumptious Smoked Chicken Wings, they Loretta Young (actress). have something to please any palate. 2207 South 700 East, (801)463-4800 Dining out in Salt Lake City In the mood for fine dining? Check out Salt Lake Fun Facts: Bambara Restaurant, adjacent to Hotel In 1875, with the intention of creating a Monaco in downtown Salt Lake City. Chef money-making tourist attraction, James Nathan Powers was named “Best Utah Wickham decided to bring whales to Great Chef 2010,” and is known for blending Salt Lake. He had two 35-foot Australian tradition with culinary artistry. 15 West whales shipped to Great Salt Lake (by boat 200 South, (801) 595-0000 to San Francisco and then by rail to Salt The Copper Onion, located in the heart Lake City) wherein he released them. Off of downtown Salt Lake City, is one of the they swam, never to be seen again! Though new additions to the growing Utah "foodie" there have been several alleged whale scene. Serving a wide array of vegetable sightings, scientists believe that they could side dishes and keeping focus on freshness, not have survived the lake's high salt content. their menu is designed to explore and Answers to Word Puzzle. share. Highlights are fresh baked bread and ice cream that is made in house. 111 E Broadway # 170, (801) 355-3282 Designed by: Described as the “ultimate steakhouse”, Spencer's for Steaks and Chops features USDA prime grade steaks that are aged, hand cut and seared to perfection. If you prefer the sea to the plains, try the fresh seafood such as the sashimi grade Ahi tuna, wild caught Salmon or cold-water Australian lobster tail. 255 S. West Temple, (801) 238-4748 Located just steps from the Salt
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