The DPP Chronicle Atlanta, Georgia A Division of The American Physical Society November 2-6, 2009

James Clerk Maxwell Prize John Dawson Award Marshall N. Rosenbluth Job Fair Sponsored by APS-DPP for Plasma Physics for Excellence in Plasma Outstanding Doctoral Monday, November 2 “For pioneering investigations of linear Physics Research Thesis Award 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and nonlinear plasma waves and wave- "For revolutionary, non-invasive “For the first simultaneous measurements particle interactions; fundamental spectroscopic techniques to measure of long-wavelength electron temperature Tuesday, November 3 contributions to the development of magnetic fields in dense plasmas and for and density fluctuations in the core of 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. plasma heating, current drive and resolving in detail in space and time the a high-performance plasma, Hanover AB diagnostics; and leadership in promoting implosion phase of the Z pinch." demonstrating larger than expected plasma science education and domestic temperature fluctuations; and for (Interviews to be held in Edgewood, and international collaborations.” Yitzhak Maron comparison of this data with nonlinear Atlanta Conference Center Level) Weizmann Institute of Science Miklos Porkolab gyrokinetic simulations.” The Job Fair is the best place to connect Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yitzhak Maron Anne White, with employers and job seekers from received his Ph.D. General Atomics all areas of plasma physics, beams and Education: BASc, in Physics from coherent radiation, inertial confinement and University of British the Weizmann Dr. Anne White high-energy-density plasmas, and more. Columbia,1963; Institute of received her Attendees are encouraged to visit the P h.D., Stanford Science in B.S. in Physics Job Fair to take advantage of our many University, 1967. 1977, served as and Applied recruiting services: Employment: a postdoctoral Mathematics from Princeton • Showcase your company with a fellow at the the University of Recruitment Exhibit University, Plasma Weizmann, and in Arizona in 2003. • Search our high-powered job and Physics Laboratory: the years She completed resume database Research Staff 1980-1984 became a Research Associate her Ph.D. at the • Network and interview with companies (1967-1977); Astrophysical Sciences, at the Laboratory of Plasma Studies at University of and job-candidates on site Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Cornell University. Then, as a Professor , Los Angeles in 2008. Her • Create alerts to inform you of new (1975-1977). MIT, Professor, Physics in the Faculty of Physics of the WIS, he dissertation work was performed on the resumes and jobs Department, 1977- present. Director, has been heading the Plasma Laboratory DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics, • Manage your interview calendar online Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, there. His Laboratory focuses on advised by Prof. Troy Carter, Dr. Tony 1995-present. At Princeton, Porkolab’s For additional information visit spectroscopic investigations of high- Peebles and Dr. Lothar Schmitz. Using a research concentrated on a quantitative our website: www.aps.org/careers/ correlation electron cyclotron emission employment/jobfairs.cfm or contact Alix understanding of the dispersive properties energy-density plasmas, together with diagnostic, Dr. White made measurements Brice at 301-209-3187, or email Alix at of plasma waves and instabilities in developing kinetics, line-shape, and radiation-transport computations. Among of electron temperature fluctuations. She [email protected] magnetized plasmas. This involved led an experimental campaign to make the pioneering experimental measurements the accomplishments in his studies are pioneering determination of the electric- first simultaneous measurements of the where the validity of the collisionless radial profile of electron temperature and DPP Business Meeting Boltzmann equation was verified, field distribution and ion velocities in high power ion diodes; determination of density fluctuations in a high-performance Wednesday, November 4 including nonlinear scattering of Bernstein tokamak with subsequent comparison to waves with wavelengths comparable to the magnetic field distribution in particle 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. diodes, Plasma Opening Switches, Z-pinch, gyrokinetic simulation. Dr. White's thesis the electron Larmor radius. This work work was supported by a DOE Fusion Hanover FG included an experimental verification of and laser-produced plasmas; investigations Energy Sciences Graduate Fellowship and a The business meeting of the Division nonlinear Landau damping, nonlinear of electric and magnetic fields in turbulent UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year of Plasma Physics will include reports resonant wave-wave scattering and of plasmas; demonstration of the Hall effect in magnetic field penetration; observation Fellowship, as an undergraduate at Arizona of actions undertaken by DPP on issues parametric instabilities, and a prediction she received the Graesser Foundation Math important to our membership. New of upper hybrid solitons. In 1977 Porkolab of simultaneous field penetration and particle reflection, studying the implosion Scholarship. She is currently a DOE Fusion items of business will be considered in joined the MIT Physics Department and the the following order: (1) Written motions, dynamics of a Z-pinch plasma; and Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at newly established Plasma Fusion Center together with any supporting arguments, determining the energy balance in the General Atomics. Her current research where he began pioneering experiments builds on her dissertation work, focusing received by the Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. on lower hybrid current drive in tokamak stagnating plasma. His laboratory conducts on the study of turbulence and transport in William Heidbrink, at the DPP Registration plasmas. Further work included clarifying broad international collaborations, and tokamak plasmas via novel measurements Desk, Hyatt Regency Hotel, before noon the physics of ion cyclotron heating and hosts worldwide students and researchers. and detailed comparisons with models and on Monday, November 2, or which were mode conversion processes in multi-ion He is an APS Fellow (1995), an IEEE simulations. Dr. White is a member of the emailed to Dr. Heidbrink by noon on Friday, species fusion plasmas. Critical aspects Fellow (2003), and the recipient of the American Physical Society. October 23, 2009. Copies of such material of this work included measurements of IEEE PSAC Award (2007). will be displayed on a bulletin board near mode converted ion Bernstein and ion the DPP registration area in order to give cyclotron waves (ICW) using Phase APS Membership Booth members reasonable notice in case they Contrast Imaging (PCI). Recent work Registration Desk wish to participate in the discussion and The APS Membership Department staff with PCI concentrated on measuring Grand Hall Prefunction vote on such motions. (2) Written motions turbulence and Alfven wave phenomena in will be on hand to answer questions about APS submitted to the Secretary-Treasurer prior tokamak plasmas. Graduate students and Sunday, Nov. 1, 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Membership and journal subscriptions, Monday to the start of the business meeting. (3) Other through Wednesday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. collaborators played a critical role in all Monday, Nov.2, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. new business not included in (1) or (2). of this work. Honors: Fellow, APS (1976); Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Humboldt Prize (1976, Senior Scientist); Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Coffee Breaks APS Excellence in Plasma Research Award, DPP Banquet Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (1984); US Delegate, IUPAP, Comission Grand Hall Prefunction and Wednesday, November 4 Friday, Nov. 6, 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. 16, (1991-1997); Editor, Physics Letters Centennial Prefunction Reception: 6:30 p.m. A, (1991-2001); Chair, Division of Plasma Morning: Centennial Prefunction Physics, APS, (1999); Chairman of Board, Monday – Friday at 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Fusion Power Associates, (2001-2006); APS Souvenir Store Banquet: 7:30 p.m. Fellow, AAAS (2005); Karoly Simony Come browse our t-shirts, bumper Afternoon: Centennial Ballroom Monday – Thursday at 3:00 p.m–3:30 p.m. Memorial Plaque and Prize, Hungarian stickers and more, Monday through Banquet After-Dinner Entertainment Nuclear Society, 2007. 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The DPP Chronicle 1 Call for Nominations “Exploring Atlanta” Mini-Conferences Women in Plasma Physics Deadline: There is no shortage of entertaining, Luncheon educating, and just downright fun, stuff to Two mini-conferences are scheduled Monday, November 2 Thursday, April 1, 2010 Monday through Wednesday to be held do in and around Atlanta. The following 12:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. APS Fellowship are some of the best reviewed destinations. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Check the Epitome for the speaker start times. Dunwoody Maxwell Prize CNN CENTER STUDIO TOURS: John Dawson Excellence Award Inside CNN Atlanta, One CNN Center, To attend please check the appropriate space on the meeting registration form Rosenbluth Ph.D. Thesis Award Atlanta, GA 30303 Mini-conference on (404) 827-2300 or 877-4CNNTOUR to register for the luncheon. The cost for DPP Executive Committee Election Innovative Magnetic Mirror lunch is $25; graduate and undergraduate WORLD OF COCA COLA: Concepts and Applications students will pay $10. Both costs are 121 Baker Street NW,Atlanta, partially supported by the DPP. Discussions HEDSA Symposium on GA 30313-1807 Monday, November 2 on issues of interest to women in plasma High Energy Density (404) 676-5151 or 1-800-676-COKE 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. physics will be encouraged at each table. Laboratory Plasmas IMAGINE IT: & 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW Sunday, November 1 Atlanta, GA 30313 The Learning Center Panel Discussion: How to 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Organizers: Tom Simonen (University Survive in Science of California, Berkeley) and Xianzhu Tang Hanover F Review Talks (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Monday, November 2 A Symposium on High Energy Density Monday – Friday Description: New directions of research 7:00 p.m. Plasma Physics consisting of six invited Review talks begin at 8:00 a.m. and new results in foreign labs have Regency VI talks on topics of current interest in high Centennial I-II rekindled interest in mirror confined plasmas. energy density plasmas will be held on This new work opens up the attractive Plan to attend an early evening panel Sunday evening, starting at 7:30 p.m. The possibility of a mirror system based 14 discussion on Monday, November 17 that symposium is one of a series organized MeV neutron source for materials testing or is focused on career strategies for young every year at the APS-DPP annual meeting Companions’ Breakfast even as a fusion-fission hybrid. The goals of scientists or those considering a career by the High Energy Density Science Monday, November 2 this mini-conference are to highlight these change. The two-person panel is composed Association (HEDSA) (website: http:// 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. new results, identify key physics issues of Peter Feibelman, author of the 1993 www.hedsa.org). and applications, and to bring together U.S. popular self-help book “A PhD is Not Greenbriar and international scientists for information Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science,” The program includes the following exchange and possible collaboration. and Tudor Johnston, coauthor of “Survival presentations: Note: Breakfast is only for companions and children. Skills for Scientists.” Peter and Tudor will 7:30 p.m. Magnetically driven supersonic The complimentary Companions’ Mini-conference on Unsteady answer questions posed by a moderator as plasma jets in high energy density well as questions from the audience. The Breakfast is an opportunity to get acquainted Reconnection in Laboratory experiments, Sergey Lebedev, Imperial with other companions attending the DPP panel discussion will be of interest not College, London annual meeting. A representative from the and Nature only to graduate students and early-career 8:00 p.m. High intensity slow wave Atlanta convention and Visitors bureau will (Cosponsored by the APS Topical Group scientists, but also to mentors and advisors, structures for relativistic particle provide information about what to see and on Plasma Astrophysics and the Center for as well as to mid-career and senior scientists acceleration, Howard Milchberg, University do in Atlanta. Magnetic Self-Organization) who can reflect on the obstacles faced of Maryland, College Park, MD early in their careers and the strategies that Tuesday, November 3 worked in enhancing their careers. 8:30 p.m. Current Experiments at the Contact Congress 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. National Ignition Facility and Future & 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Peter Feibelman is Possibilities, John Kline, Los Alamos Monday – Wednesday, a solid state physicist National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM November 2 – 4 Wednesday, November 4 who has been at 9:00 p.m. STUD Pulses and KEEN 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sandia National Waves: Two Novel Ways to Control Laser- Grand Hall Prefunction & 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Laboratories since Plasma Instabilities in HEDP, Bedros Afeyan, Stop by the Contact Congress booth Regency V 1974. He is a fellow Polymath Research Inc, Pleasanton, CA to sign your name to letters to your of the American Organizer: Tom Intrator (Los Alamos Physical Society 9:30 p.m. Multicolor tomography of Congressional delegation on the importance of federal funding for basic research. It National Laboratory) and a member of high-energy density plasmas, Roberto Description: Magnetic reconnection the Division of Mancini, University of Nevada, Reno, NV takes only a minute. By doing so, you are making your voice heard in Washington and underlies magnetic activity in both space Condensed Matter Physics. In 1989 he 10:00 p.m. Magnetic Fields in High helping to influence the funding levels for and laboratory contexts. Much theoretical, received the Davisson-Germer Prize of the Energy Plasmas, James Knauer, Laboratory physics research and education. To amplify computational and experimental work APS, and in 1996 the Medard W. Welch of Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, the impact, the APS Washington DC Office has been devoted to the study of steady Award of the American Vacuum Society, Rochester, NY follows up each letter with a call or visit reconnection, but in both nature and the for outstanding research in Surface Science. laboratory reconnection is free to develop to congressional staff. The strongest and Peter received a Ph.D. in Physics from most persuasive advocates on Capitol Hill along quasi-static, intermittent, or even turbulent paths. The goal of this mini- the University of California, San Diego Child Care Room come from a Senator or Representative's conference is to gather the interests and in 1967, did postdoctoral research at the constituents. That means you! If you live in competencies of the experts in space, C.E.N. Saclay (France) and the University Monday, Nov. 2 – Thursday, Nov. 5 the , you are qualified to write 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. astrophysical, and laboratory reconnection of (Urbana), and then spent three to your members of Congress. to review the current theoretical, years as Assistant Professor of Physics at Friday, November 6 If you have any questions about what is experimental, and computational S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, before coming to 8:00 a.m. – 12 noon happening in Washington, just stop by the understanding of the conditions leading Sandia, where he is a Senior Scientist. Contact Congress desk to ask the experts. to unsteady reconnection. The organizers Harris invite meeting attendees to submit oral and Tudor Johnston A Child Care Room will be available poster contributed abstracts. is a long-time Need copies, faxing, or document...ing. member of the APS to parents who bring their infants and Here are some close office solutions. These mini-conferences are organized young children to the annual meeting. with several talks and time for questions and Division of Plasma The purpose of the room is to provide a AlphaGraphics 428 discussion. They will employ a question- Physics and has place where parents and caregivers can 34 Peachtree St NW- (404) 302-9161 orientated format to stimulate discussion been a Fellow for go for relaxation and spend time with Minuteman Press of Atlanta and interaction amongst the participants. most of that time. their children. The room will be furnished 1389 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 100, H e h a s w o r k e d with comfortable furniture, and a limited (404) 874-1443 The city was named Terminus in 1842 mostly on plasmas amount of toys, snacks, and beverages. Copy Shop and later changed to Marthasville, in honor induced by re-entry There will not be supervised child care 270 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA of Governor Wilson Lumpkin's daughter, vehicles, on laser-plasma interactions and provided by APS-DPP. (678) 510-1495 and then to Atlanta in 1848. on electron kinetics in plasmas. He is the author of more than 160 publications in plasma physics and a coauthor of the 1966 monograph “Particle Kinetics of Plasmas.” Win a Bose QC15 "Quiet Comfort" noise cancelling Tudor received a Bachelor in Engineering Physics from McGill University in 1953 headphones, a Wester Digital My Passport 320 GB USB and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University Portable Hard-drive, or Garmin nuvi 255WT audible GPS! in 1958. He worked for ten years in industry with RCA Victor in Montreal and worked Dear DPP Member, briefly at the University of Houston. Since DPP is sponsoring a prize drawing to give extra incentive, beyond the excellent 1973 he has been at INRS Center for Energy, scientific content, to participants for the full meeting. The prizes are a Bose QC15 Materials, and Telecommunications, a "Quiet Comfort" noise cancelling headphones, a Wester Digital My Passport 320 GB Research Institute in the Université du USB Portable Hard-drive, or Garmin nuvi 255WT audible GPS. The drawing will Québec system, staying well past the usual be held immediately after the Friday, November 6 technical sessions. retirement age. In 2006 he became the Each DPP 2009 participant who checks in at the DPP Meeting Registration second author (to Federico Rosei) of the Desk on Sunday, November 1 or Monday, November 2 will receive a ticket stub “Survival Skills for Scientists,” for which with a number. The matching ticket stub will be held at the DPP Registration the second edition is now being prepared. Desk for the Friday drawing. At 12:35 p.m., after the conclusion of the Friday This event is sponsored by the Committee morning sessions, on November 6 in Centennial I of the Hyatt Hotel, the DPP on Women in Plasma Physics and the program chair, Tom Antonsen will draw ticket numbers at random. To encourage Committee on Concerns of Junior Scientists. attendance through Friday, the winners of the drawing must be present to win.

2 The DPP Chronicle University Fusion Association Internet cafe B H K C Y C Z E K Q X B X Z E G L (UFA) General Meeting Grand Hall Prefunction R O L Y A T H G I E L Y A R T O E Monday, November 2 Note: DPP offers internet access to 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. S S P F W P L S V P T L U H A V N attendees as a service. Hanover CDE R Q C J U A S I K N C N S Y T E A Sunday, Nov. 1, 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. The UFA will hold its annual general Monday, Nov. 2, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. B E E I C S S U E N S Q O B S R P meeting Monday night during the Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. APS-DPP annual meeting in Atlanta. The E T G I T L I M L T I L M R Y N N UFA general meeting typically discusses Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. issues of relevance to fusion science O Q L B U E E O E E A K A I D M O Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. research in U.S. universities and the status Friday, Nov. 6, 7:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. of the U.S. fusion program. This year, Dr. X E U P F N N A N B S S N D A E I Edmund Synakowski, Associate Director H E M I I R D I O F I C Y V E N T of Fusion Energy Sciences at DOE OFES, Housing Information will review the status of the program Y I L F L Y R R K H M T D R T T A and discuss directions of the U.S. fusion Hyatt Regency Atlanta program in the burning plasma era. In M J N P D I A G N O S T I C S J D 265 Peachtree Street NE addition, there will be brief presentations Z O F J M T B Z Q H R Y K K U N I Atlanta, Georgia 30303 on the MFE, Fission-Fusion Hybrid, and 404-577-1234 HEDLP ReNeW efforts, followed by an C W N I O O M R K L Z Y V Q M J L open question and answer session. The Non-Government Rates D M U R H Z C J I R F B G B I U A UFA meeting is open to members of the $176 single, $176 double, plus 15% tax community and all conference attendees. G B Y W B Z S E V A W O R C I M V Government Rates (These rates will be the prevailing rate at the time of check-in R A D I A T I O N U A T N A L T A at the Hyatt.) Town Meeting on HEDLP S O C I E T Y H B M W E I V E R U $140 single, $140 double, plus 15% tax Monday, November 2 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Word Puzzle: Hanover CDE Find the following words: Invited Speaker Poster Sessions ATLANTA CAPSULES COMPLEX Grand Hall East There will be a town meeting on the CONFINEMENT DIAGNOSTICS DYNAMOS HEDLP ReNeW at the APS-DPP annual EQUILIBRIA FUSION GOVERNMENT Poster versions of review, invited, meeting in Atlanta, at which the goals and GYROKINETICS HELICAL HOHLRAUM and tutorial papers are optional and are methods of the workshop will be discussed HYBRID IMPULSIVE KINKS scheduled Monday through Friday, in the and many panelists will be present to LABORATORY MICROWAVES PANEL following half-day session, in a designated receive your suggestions and hear your RADIATION RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR REVIEW area of Grand Hall East. For example, comments. The town meeting is scheduled SOCIETY STEADY-STATE UNSTEADY the Monday morning review and invited immediately following the University VALIDATION talks may also be presented as posters Fusion Association General Meeting. in the Monday afternoon poster session. This option will be available on Monday Student Appreciation Reception Dr. Koonin joined BP in 2004 following morning for invited papers scheduled on Town Meeting on Concerns for a 29-year career at the California Institute Friday morning. Junior Scientists Tuesday, November 3 of Technology as a Professor of Theoretical 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Physics. He has published more than 200 Tuesday, November 3 Fairlie scholarly papers and supervised more than 25 Plasma Science Expo 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Please plan to attend a complimentary Ph.D. theses in such diverse fields as nuclear The Learning Center and many-body theory, nuclear astrophysics, Thursday – Friday, Nov. 5 – 6 reception in honor of the student 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Chair: Tim Gray, Swarthmore College participants of the 2009 DPP annual atomic and computational physics, and meeting. Students and student advisors are global environmental science. In a twenty- for students, teachers, and The DPP Committee on Concerns of particularly encouraged to attend. Punch year teaching career, he educated hundreds DPP meeting participants Junior Scientists is pleased to announce and an assortment of cookies will be of undergraduate and graduate students a Town Meeting on outreach and policy. served. Professor Amitava Bhattacharjee, in advanced physics topics and authored Thursday, November 5 Several speakers will discuss the impact DPP Chair, cordially welcomes all DPP a seminal text on Computational Physics 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. that educational outreach and scientific meeting participants to this reception, and in 1985. Koonin also served as Caltech’s policy activities such as Fusion Day for the general public and encourages their open discussion on topics Provost from 1995-2004, helping to hire can have. This meeting will provide an DPP meeting participants of interest to students of plasma physics. some 100 of the Institute’s professors and opportunity to show junior scientists how forming initiatives in biology, astronomy, Grand Hall West they can become involved in these activities the earth sciences, the social sciences, and The Expo offers middle and high school and help influence the public perception of Town Meeting: A conversation information science. the plasma physics community. Please students, teachers, parents and the public join us for this event. with Dr. Steven Koonin During the past 25 years, Dr. Koonin an opportunity to talk with scientists (Undersecretary for Science, has served on numerous advisory bodies while visiting a variety of exhibits and U.S. DoE) for the US Government and its national interactive displays, which include making OMEGA Users Group Meeting Tuesday, November 3 laboratories, including terms on the Defense arcs of lightning, manipulating plasma Tuesday, November 3 Science Board, the CNO’s Executive Panel, with magnets, observing fluctuating body 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. and the University of California President’s temperature, playing fusion video games, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Centennial I Council on the National Laboratories. He and exploring optics using a laser. Exhibitor Hanover FG Dr. Koonin will give a talk on the is a member of the Trilateral Commission booths are hosted by U.S. Department of topic: "How can we Accelerate Scientific and the Council on Foreign Relations, and Energy (DOE) national labs, industry, and Join us at the OMEGA Users Group was a twenty-year member and former universities from across the country. meeting to discuss the agenda for the 2nd Progress Towards Fusion Energy," and take Chair of the JASON advisory group. His OMEGA Users Group Workshop to be questions from the audience. The Plasma Science Expo for students work in that latter capacity has included held April 29-30, 2010. Bring your ideas, and teachers will be held in the Grand Hall studies on stockpile stewardship, civilian suggestions, enthusiasm, and a friend or West on Thursday and Friday, November 5 biodefense, radiological terrorism, and colleague who may not know about our Dr. Steven E. o and 6, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The general Users Group! We especially encourage Koonin became the DOD basic research. public is invited to the expo evening session students and postdocs to attend this Under Secretary Koonin was born in Brooklyn, NY. He on Thursday, November 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. meeting and the workshop. Some travel for Science in the holds an undergraduate degree in Physics DPP meeting participants are invited to support will be provided by NNSA to US Department of from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Theoretical attend any session that fits their schedule. attend the 2nd Workshop in April (as was Energy on May 20, Physics from MIT. He and his wife Laurie done for the previous workshop). 2009. In that capacity, have been married for 34 years and have he is responsible Plasma Science Christian At the Users Group meeting, we will three children, Anna, Alyson, and Benjamin. Fellowship update the on-going improvements and for guiding and changes at OMEGA made in response coordinating Wednesday, November 4 to recommendations in the Reports technical activities across the Department, Speaker Ready Room overseeing its basic research activities, and 6:45 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. and Findings of the 1st Workshop. All AB presentations from the previous workshop providing technical advice to the Secretary Fairlie (31 by students and postdocs!) and of Energy. DOE activities are essential to the Sunday, Nov. 1, 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Administration’s goals of promoting basic The Plasma Science Christian Fellowship workshop pictures can be found in the Monday, Nov.2, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. science, providing clean and secure energy, (PSCF) is an informal affiliation of students workshop proceedings: and scientists working in plasma and fusion and enhancing nuclear security. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. http://ouw.lle.rochester.edu energy research. Formed in 2006, the PSCF Prior to his government appointment, Dr. Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. seeks to provide a forum to discuss how our We are looking forward to seeing you Koonin was the Chief Scientist for BP, plc. Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. faith connects to our workplace experience and hearing your ideas on Tuesday. Koonin’s understanding of energy trends and Friday, Nov. 6, 7:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. and life as scientists. Please join us for The Omega Users Group Executive technologies, widely communicated to the an hour on Wednesday morning before Committee public, underpinned BP’s recent investments the opening session review talk. Bring in alternative and renewable energy sources, Famous individuals from the city of your own coffee. Contact Darren Craig including the Energy Biosciences Institute Atlanta have included; civil rights activist ([email protected]) or David formed in collaboration with the University Martin Luther King, Jr., golfer Bobby Hill ([email protected]) if you have of California at Berkeley, the University Jones, comedian Nipsey Russell and author questions or need additional information. of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and of Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell. We hope to see you Wednesday morning. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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