Illustration courtesy of: Sally Nava James Clerk Maxwell Prize Fun Facts Prof. Hegna is fellow of the American James D. Callen Physical Society (2003) and has served on University of Wisconsin, Madison for The Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a national hero, was fought the Division of Plasma Physics Fellowship Professor "For the invention of and development of Committee, Press Committee and Program techniques to accumulate, confine, and two weeks after the War of 1812 had ended Emeritus James Committee. Additionally, he has served as utilize positron plasmas, and for seminal and more than a month before the news of D. Callen received the Chair of the Sherwood Fusion Theory experimental studies of waves and the war's end had reached Louisiana. his B.S. (1962) and M.S. (1964) turbulence in tokamak plasmas." Executive Committee, on the USBPO research committee and council, on the Theory degrees in Nuclear Clifford Surko John Dawson Award Coordinating Committee and on various Engineering at University of California, San Diego advisory committees and review panels. Kansas State for Excellence in Plasma University. He Cliff Surko is Physics Research completed his a Distinguished "For the theoretical prediction and Hartmut Zohm Ph.D. in Nuclear Professor of Physics experimental demonstration of Max Planck Institute fur Plasmaphsik Engineering at University of neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by (Applied Plasma Physics option) at M.I.T. California, San localized electron cyclotron current drive." Prof. Hartmut in 1968. Thereafter he was: a postdoctoral Diego. He received Zohm’s main fellow with M.N. Rosenbluth at the Institute an A.B. degree in Chris Hegna fields of interest for Advanced Study in Princeton (68-69); Mathematics and University of Wisconsin, Madison are the magneto- Asst. Prof. of Aeronautics and Astronautics Physics (1964) hydrodynamic at M.I.T. (69-72); research staff member, and a Ph.D. in Chris Hegna (MHD) stability group leader and plasma theory section head Physics (1968) received his PhD of fusion plasmas in the Fusion Energy Division at ORNL from the University of California, from Columbia and their heating (72-79); Professor of Nuclear Engineering Berkeley. Following a short post doc University in by Electron and Physics (79-86), D.W. Kerst Professor at UC Berkeley, he was a staff member, 1989 and BS from Cyclotron Resonance of Engineering Physics and Physics (1986- Heating (ECRH). 2003) and now Professor Emeritus (03-) at then department head, at (AT&T) Bell the University Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, before By combining the University of Wisconsin-Madison where of Wisconsin- these two fields, he pioneered the active he established and led the Center for Plasma coming to UC San Diego in 1988. Visiting Madison in Applied research appointments include the MIT stabilisation of neoclassical magnetic Theory and Computation from 1988-2003. Mathematics, Plasma Fusion Center (1977-84), Ecole islands, which set a major performance He spent year-long research leaves at JET Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (1979), Engineering and limit to the tokamak, by ECRH. His present in England (86-87) and Princeton Plasma and University College, London (1997). Physics in 1986. field is the study of tokamak physics on Physics Laboratory (91-92). His studies and the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak which is He is a fellow of the APS and the AAAS; Following a one-year postdoctoral position research have been supported by Fulbright, working at the Princeton Plasma Physics operated by his department. Most recently, AEC, NSF Graduate and Postdoctoral, and member of Sigma Xi and the APS he became involved in the European Laboratory, he joined the University of and Guggenheim Fellowships. He is a Divisions of Atomic, Molecular and studies for a demonstration fusion power fellow of the American Physical Society Optical Physics and Plasma Physics. Wisconsin-Madison where he is currently a plant (DEMO). (Chair of Division of Plasma Physics in Professor in the Department of Engineering Professor Surko's research has ranged Prof. Zohm is member of several 1986) and the American Nuclear Society. over topics in plasma and atomic physics, Physics and serves as the Director of the committees such as the ITPA coordinating His honors include DoE Distinguished nonlinear dynamics, and condensed matter Center for Plasma Theory and Computation. committee, the IEA Implementing Associate Award, D.W. Kerst Professorship physics. With colleagues, he developed Prof. Hegna’s primary field is theoretical Agreement on Collaboration of Tokamak at UW-Madison, Fusion Power Associates small-angle laser scattering techniques to plasma physics with an emphasis on Programmes, the Programme Advisory Distinguished Career Award, and being study waves and turbulence in tokamak magnetic confinement. Current research Committees of KSTAR (Deajon, Korea), elected a member of the National Academy plasmas and invented the buffer-gas interests includes the areas of nonideal and the EU Fusion STAC as well as chair of the of Engineering (90). He has been involved positron trap, now used worldwide for a scientific advisory board of IPP.CR (Prague, in many magnetic fusion program and variety of antimatter-physics applications. nonlinear MHD instabilities, kinetic theory plasma physics activities: early appraisal modifications to fluid-like descriptions of Czech Republic) and the External Advisory Current research includes a variety of Board of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral of tokamak research (DoE WASH-1295, positron-atomic physics studies and plasmas, plasma dynamics in 3-D magnetic Training in the Science and Technology 1974), founder and initial leader (88-91) of developing plasma-based tools to utilize confinement systems and the role of magnetic of Fusion Energy in the UK. He is also U.S. magnetic fusion community Transport positrons and study positron plasmas. With geometry, symmetry and topology on a member of the board of editors of the Task Force, Chair of FESAC Scientific John Ahearne, he co-chaired the National plasma instabilities, turbulence and transport ‘Nuclear Fusion’ journal and a member of Issues Subcommittee (95-96), NRC Plasma Research Council study, "Plasma Science" properties. Prof. Hegna has also worked at the advisory board of the ‘Annalen der 2010 Decadal Study Committee Member (National Academy Press, 1995). the National Institute for Fusion Studies in Physik’ journal. (05-07) etc. His research interests have focused primarily on theory, modeling Japan and UKAEA Technologies at Culham and experimental validation of models Laboratories, Abingdon, England. of collisional effects in low collisionality The DPP Chronicle October 27-31, 2014 1

924278 APS_cx2.indd 1 10/15/14 11:22 AM magnetic fusion plasmas, such as in neutral Dr. La Haye was elected a Fellow of ion loss detector (FILD) diagnostic systems Thomas H. Stix Award beam heating, magnetic islandography the American Physical Society in 2003. at both tokamaks, leading to new studies for Outstanding Early in tokamaks, neoclassical tearing (Citation: For fundamental contributions to of loss mechanisms through wave-particle modes (NTMs), nonideal MHD models, the understanding and control of nonlinear interactions. He is a US member of the ITPA Career Contributions to neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV), resistive magnetohydrodynamic stability Energetic Particles Topical Group, and leader Plasma Physics Research magnetic flutter effects on plasma transport in high-beta tokamak plasmas, and for of the USBPO Energetic Particles Topical "For the prediction of interesting and most recently Coulomb collisional leadership in comparison of theory to Group in addition to serving as editor of the new wave effects in non-stationary effects on linear Landau damping. experimental data.) USBPO newsletter. David is presently a staff plasmas and for the elegant variational scientist with General Atomics continuing formulation of wave-particle and wave- to engage in energetic ion research topics wave interactions that generalizes the Olivier Sauter Copy Shops listed in order of anticipated to influence the operation of ITER Ecole Polytechnique and later devices. ponderomotive force theory." Federale de Lausanne proximity to the Marriott Ilya Dodin Olivier Sauter FedEx Office Print & Ship Center Princeton University Manuel Garcia-Munoz obtained the 555 Canal St. Physics Ing. (504) 654-1057 University of Seville Ilya Dodin Diploma at EPFL www.local.fedex.com Dr. Garcia graduated from in 1986 and his service rating:  Munoz obtained Nizhniy Novgorod State University PhD at CRPP- The UPS Store his Ph.D. in Physics EPFL, Lausanne, at the Ludwig- (Nizhniy Novgorod, 201 St. Charles Ave. #114 Russia) in Switzerland in (504) 523-2494 Maximilians- 1992 where a new University in 1998/2000 with www.theupsstorelocal.com method, at the Munich in BA/MA degrees base of present service rating:  2006. Following in physics. In most powerful 2D Sir Speedy his thesis 2005, he obtained full wave codes used for burning plasmas, 343 Carondelet St. work, he was a PhD in plasma was developed. A following post-doc at (504) 586-9812 a post doctoral physics from General Atomics in 92-93, contributed www.sirspeedy.com researcher at Princeton University. He then continued to the Fokker-Planck CQL3D and CQLP service rating: IPP and, after 2 years, became a research working at Princeton as postdoctoral  scientist on a permanent position. In 2012 codes, where the Fokker-Planck equation is research associate and associate Copy Doc he began teaching at the University of solved along the magnetic field line. These research scholar in the Department of 701 Poydras St. Seville, Spain. He is involved in numerous codes were employed to deduce generic Astrophysical Sciences. Since 2009, he (504) 527-6254 collaborations on fast-ion physics in the coefficients to calculate the bootstrap current also teaches, as lecturer, a course on www.copydoc.com field, which comprise, besides the DIII-D density in tokamak plasmas, in worldwide plasma waves and instabilities within the use to the present day. In 95/96 he spent 18 service rating: not available collaboration, work on fast-ion detectors in Princeton Graduate Program in Plasma months with the ITER Joint central team in JET, KSTAR, MAST-U and TJ-II, as well San Diego working on MHD in long pulse as modelling of fast-ion behaviour with Physics. Since 2011, Ilya Dodin's primary discharges, for ITER scenarios, initiating Landau-Spitzer Award several plasma physics theory groups. occupation is at Princeton Plasma Physics his contributions to NTM physics. In 1999- Laboratory, where he is employed as 2001 he was Task Force leader of the JET "For greater understanding of energetic staff research . His research is particle transport in tokamaks through Michael Van Zeeland mainly analytical and is focused on the MHD task force. He led the experiments General Atomics demonstrating the direct role of sawteeth collaborative research." fundamental Lagrangian physics of waves and wave-particle interactions, particularly on triggering NTMs in low beta long pulse Benedikt Geiger Dr. Michael discharges. He is a member of the Swiss Van Zeeland including various manifestations of the Max Planck Institute fur Plasmaphsik Physical Society, a Maître d'Enseignement received his B.S. in ponderomotive effect and its relation to et de Recherches (MER) at the Polytechnic Dr. Benedikt engineering physics properties of linear and nonlinear waves school in Lausanne, Switzerland and has Geiger studied from the University in plasmas. In 2011, Ilya Dodin received directed several PhD thesis. He is active physics at the Ludwig- of Arizona in 1997. Young Scientist Medal and Prize from the on the TCV tokamak in Lausanne in the Maximilians- He earned his Ph.D. International Union of Pure and Applied domains of MHD stability, heat/particle Universität (LMU) at the University Physics, Commission on Plasma Physics. transport and heating and current drive. He in Munich graduated of California, He is also a recipient of Harold W. Dodds contributed to the demonstration of the cum laude in 2009. Los Angeles in Fellowship from Princeton University effectiveness of electron cyclotron current His studies included 2003 working (2003) and an APS member since 2000. drive and the role of reverse shear on internal two semesters abroad with Professor electron barriers using ohmic current drive at the Université Walter Gekelman perturbations. Recent activities include real- Joseph Fourier in on the Large Plasma Device (LAPD). His Haunted New Orleans time control of tokamaks demonstrating the Grenoble/France with thesis focused on the radiation of Alfvén importance of physics-based control and an internship at the European Synchrotron waves from a dense, rapidly expanding, laser Named the most haunted city in the of a non-stiff edge region with respect to Radiation Facility (ESRF) Grenoble. He produced plasma embedded in a ambient United States, it is not unusual to hear the turbulence, indicating a new paradigm for wrote his diploma thesis at the Max Planck background plasma. In 2003 he joined the local residents of this colorful city talking heat and particle transport. Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Garching/ DIII-D tokamak group at General Atomics about the resident ghost in their house. Not Munich on the subject “Optimization of ion first as a postdoctoral researcher, then as a staff all of the ghosts are the scary kind, in fact, temperature and rotation measurements by scientist in 2006. At DIII-D, Dr. Van Zeeland's many of the ghost stories that float around Robert J. LaHaye CXRS”. From 2009 to 2012 Dr. Benedikt work focuses on fast ion physics, Alfvén speak of sad, ambivalent, or friendly ghosts. General Atomics Geiger worked on his Ph. D. thesis “Fast-Ion eigenmodes, and fusion plasma diagnostic Here are a few of the tales from New Scientist VIII Transport Studies using FIDA spectroscopy development. Dr. Van Zeeland received the Orleans’s rich history of hauntings. 2008 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Plasma (Senior Specialist) at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak” at IPP Friar Antonio de Sedella traveled Physics, UCLA Chancellor’s fellowship, and Garching. For his Ph. D. thesis he received to New Orleans around 1744 with the Experimental the degree of “summa cum laude” and was has been the recipient of both the graduate and Spanish Inquisition in Louisiana. Never Science Division, awarded with the Otto Hahn medal of the post-doctoral DOE Fusion Science fellowship. Energy Group, Max-Planck Society. In 2012 Mr. Geiger an enthusiastic inquisitor it didn't take General Atomics was the winner of the EPS Poster Prize long for Father Sedella to become beloved B.S. (Physics) and received high recommendation by the Queens College, 1968 Itoh Project. Since 2013 he is employed M.S. (Physics) as Post-Doc at the IPP in Garching and Queens College, 1970 is working on the further extension of Ph.D. (Physics) the fast-ion diagnostic capabilities at the City University of New York, 1975 (Dissertation ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. topic: Nonlinear wave propagation in a Job Fair magnetic mirror plasma device) David Pace Dr. La Haye is currently the co-leader General Atomics Sponsored by APS DPP of the DIII-D topical area on Stability and Disruption Avoidance. His interests are David completed Monday – Wednesday, October 27-29, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on the experimental behavior of nonlinear his B.Sc. in Physics Thursday, October 30, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, at University of particularly neoclassical tearing modes that the Pacific in his Grand Ballroom Foyer, 3rd Floor limit beta in ITER-like plasmas. Dr. La hometown of Interviews will be held in Iberville, 4th floor. Haye has taken many assignments abroad. Stockton, CA in He participated in experiments on lower- 2002. His desire Are you an employer looking to hire a physicist for your science and technology hybrid wave heating in the FT-1 tokamak to work in fusion jobs? Are you a physicist looking to connect with potential employers to learn about at the Ioffe Institute, Leningrad (1976), in was set following opportunities, or interview for a job? Then you will not want to miss the APS DPP Job electron-cyclotron heating in the JFT-2 participation in the Fair during the DPP annual meeting. ERULF (present tokamak at the Japanese Atomic Energy Participating employers can: Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai (1981), day NUF) program • Showcase your company with a Recruitment Booth and in electron-cyclotron heating in the T-10 at PPPL in 2001, tokamak at the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow where a mega-Ampere shot from NSTX • Receive unlimited job board postings during the meeting inspired excitement for tokamak research. (1986). He has also taken part in thin-shell • Search the resume database for promising candidates reversed field pinch stability experiments David went on to earn a Ph.D. (2009) in • Interview with potential candidates or employers on-site on the HBTX1C device (Culham), in error- experimental plasma physics working in the Large Plasma Device laboratory at UCLA. field experiments on both the COMPASS-C Job seekers will be able to: (Culham) and JET tokamaks, and in long- He then completed postdoctoral assignments pulse beta limit experiments (dominated by focused on energetic ion transport in • Search the job database to identify recruiters attending and interviewing neoclassical tearing modes) on JET, all on tokamaks, first at the DIII-D National Fusion • Schedule private interviews with recruiters Facility through UC Irvine, and then at the numerous visits between 1988 and 2006. • Store multiple copies of your résumé to share with participating employers He is currently the principal investigator Alcator C-Mod National Tokamak Facility for the General Atomics grant in support of as an ORISE Fellow. Working with teams at To register for the APS DPP Job Fair stop by the information desk or visit research on NSTX at PPPL. these facilities and collaborators from ASDEX http://www.aps.org/careers/employment/jobfairs/dpp/index.cfm Upgrade, David helped to commission fast

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924278 APS_cx2.indd 2 10/15/14 11:22 AM “Pere Antoine”. He worked with Marie Physics Division, led by Dr. R. D. Petrasso, Anne is the recipient of the Junior Bose Dr. Omar Hurricane, Laveaux, a known practitioner of Voodoo, of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Award for Excellence in Teaching, MIT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mario's dissertation research focused School of Engineering; PAI Outstanding and together with her did much for the “Where in ignition parameter space are we on the development of a monoenergetic Faculty Award, MIT student chapter of slave population in New Orleans. Many with indirect-drive implosions on the NIF proton radiography system to make the first the ANS; Norman C. Rasmussen Career stories are told of his life, during which he and how do we evolve our designs to move experimental measurements of magnetic Development Assistant Professor in was particularly loved by the poor for his forward?” kind deeds, and all signs point to the fact fields induced by Rayleigh-Taylor growth the Department of Nuclear Science and that he still loves the city that loved him in laser-produced plasmas. Engineering; the DoE Early Career Award; Dr. Daniel Sinars, so well. People report seeing Pere Antoine In 2013, Mario was awarded an and the APS DPP Marshall N. Rosenbluth Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque walking slowly down the alley named for Einstein Fellowship, through the Harvard- Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Anne “Magneto-inertial Fusion Research at Sandia” him beside his St. Louis Cathedral, in the Smithsonian Center for , to is a member of APS and ANS. early morning when the French Quarter is 'Explore Astrophysical Hydrodynamics in Professor Alec Thomas, quiet. At Midnight Mass at the Cathedral, University of Michigan the Laboratory'. Currently working with Review Talks some have reported seeing Pere Antoine Dr. R. P. Drake's group at the University of “Magnetic Field Dynamics in Collisional Plasma” walking near the left side of the main altar, Michigan, Mario is focusing his research Review talks begin at 8:00 a.m. holding a candle. on the dynamics of magnetized outflows Monday – Friday The Lalaurie house at 1140 Royal Street in accretion systems and radiation- Companions’ Breakfast is notorious even by the bizarre traditions hydrodynamic interactions of stellar winds Acadia/Bissonet, 3rd Floor of the French Quarter. Built in 1831, the in progenitors. Mario has been Monday, October 27 three-story home was occupied by Dr. an APS DPP member since 2006. 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Louis Lalaurie and his fashionable wife With present-day high-power laser Coffee Breaks St. Charles, 41st Floor Delphine, esteemed for her elegant balls as facilities, astrophysically-relevant HED Grand Ballroom Foyer Note: Breakfast is only for companions and well as for her charitable work among the plasma environments may be readily 3rd Floor their children. sick and the poor. In 1834, a fire broke out created in a controlled laboratory in the Lalaurie residence. Firemen smashed setting. Many astrophysical systems Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Join other companions who are attending open a locked interior door and came upon can be properly scaled and reproduced & the annual meeting for a DPP-sponsored a scene surpassing horror: There, chained at these facilities thereby providing a Monday-Thursday 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. complimentary breakfast at the New Orleans and suffocating in the heat and smoke, were new experimental window in which to Marriott Hotel. You will have an opportunity seven starved and severely beaten slaves. Preservation Prefunction probe these phenomena and directly 2nd Floor to join other companions and reacquaint That was the tip of the macabre iceberg; compare to numerical models. Mario will with friends from past DPP meetings. A stories of terror, torture and mysterious continue promoting the field of laboratory Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. representative from the New Orleans deaths abound. Delphine and Louis astrophysics and hopes to encourage other & Convention and Visitors Bureau will attend disappeared before any charges could be scientists to think about their astrophysical Monday-Thursday 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. the breakfast to talk about tours offered and brought against them, but a host of haunting systems and whether some piece of physics Note: Beverages will not be replenished. sites to see while visiting the city. is still to be found at the historic home. may be recreated in the lab. A paranormal research team identified four ghosts at LePavillon Hotel, including DPP Registration Desk APS DPP Membership Booth a 19th century teenage girl, a young Katherine E. Weimer Award for and Souvenir Store aristocratic couple from the 1920’s, and Women in Plasma Science Galerie Prefunction a dapper gentleman from the same era 2nd Floor Monday – Wednesday, “For fundamental contributions to the October 27-29 who likes to play pranks on the cleaning understanding of turbulent transport Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. staff. With a history stretching back to the in tokamaks through development and Monday, Oct. 27, 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Gilded Age and impeccable French décor application of electron cyclotron emission throughout, Le Pavillon Hotel of New Tuesday, Oct. 28, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Preservation Prefunction diagnostics and insightful comparison 2nd Floor Orleans piques the imagination and tickles of plasma fluctuations with gyrokinetic Wednesday, Oct. 29, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. the curious mind! simulation predictions.” Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. The APS Membership Department staff Friday, Oct. 31, 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. will be on hand to answer questions about Anne White APS and DPP membership. Stop by for Marshall N. Rosenbluth Massachusetts Institute of Technology information on how to become a member Outstanding Doctoral Anne White HEDSA Symposium on High or renew your membership, how to receive Thesis Award received her BS Energy Density Laboratory journal subscriptions, and purchase fun “For first observations of Rayleigh- in 2003 in Physics Plasma Research and practical items. Joining APS and DPP Taylor-induced magnetic fields in laser- and Mathematics is a perfect way to stay connected with the produced plasmas using both xrays and from the Sunday, October 26 most recent developments in the physics monoenergetic 14.7 MeV protons to University of 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. world. Browse the selection of t-shirts, caps, and more. accurately measure the amplitude and Arizona and Galerie 6, 2nd Floor evolution of the induced fields.” PhD in 2008 in Physics from The High Energy Density Science APS Corporate Reform Booth Mario Manuel UCLA, working Association (HEDSA) will hold its annual University of Michigan on correlation symposium on Sunday prior to the APS DPP Sponsored by APS electron cyclotron annual meeting. The HEDSA symposium is Mario Monday - Thursday Manuel grew emission (CECE) measurements of open to all conference attendees. October 27-30 up in Spanaway, plasma turbulence and validation of Opening Speaker: Dr. Donald Cook, Washington gyrokinetic codes at the DIII-D tokamak Deputy Administrator for 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at General Atomics, where she was also and attended Defense Programs, Preservation Prefunction the University a DoE ORISE FES postdoctoral fellow. National Nuclear Security Administration of Washington, Currently Anne is the Cecil and Ida 2nd Floor Seattle, where he Green Career Development Associate “High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma APS staff members will be on-site at graduated from in Professor in the Department of Nuclear Research and inertial confinement fusion – the DPP annual meeting to distribute 2006 with B.S.'s Science and Engineering at MIT. Anne’s the NNSA Perspective” information on the governance and research is on core turbulent transport in Aerospace Technical Speakers in alphabetical order leadership restructures being proposed for Engineering, Physics, and Astronomy. in tokamaks. At C-Mod, her team has the APS Corporate Reform, and encouraging Dr. Peter Amendt, Exposure to scientific research in Giessen, deployed a CECE diagnostic and a fast people to vote. Brochures and other Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Germany during a Physics Department two-color interferometer for turbulence informational materials to be made available exchange program, led Mario to seek a measurements, and is performing “Paths forward for achieving indirect-drive for DPP members. The materials contain graduate education in experimental research. gyrokinetic simulations for detailed ignition: A survey of candidate physics vital information about proposed changes comparisons with experiment. The Mario attended the Massachusetts issues and demonstration platforms” in the way your Society is governed-the first group is studying relationships between Institute of Technology where he earned a comprehensive changes in 100 years. Stop momentum and particle transport, and Dr. Katerina Falk, S.M. in Aerospace Engineering (2008) and by on the way to your next session. ion/electron heat transport across ITG/ Los Alamos National Laboratories his Ph.D. in Applied Plasma Physics (2013) TEM boundary crossings, as part of multi- through the High Energy Density (HED) “The Use of X-ray Thomson Scattering for channel transport model validation efforts. the Study of Warm Dense Matter” Free Fun Watch the ships pass on the Mississippi Stay for the Invited and Postdeadline Talks... Win a Prize in a Raffle! River from Woldenberg Riverfront Park at At the DPP Meeting Registration Desk ask for a numbered ticket stub for the raffle that takes place. 1 Canal Street and listen for the Steamboat Natchez's calliope. If you find yourself AFTER the Invited sessons on Friday! strolling through the French Quarter at 11 am After the conclusion of the Friday morning sessions, on October 31 in Acadia, Marriott Hotel. or 2 pm you are likely to hear the lively music The DPP chair, Mark Koepke, will draw three raffle tickets at random. The winners of the drawing of a uniquely American instrument, the Steam must be present to win. Calliope. Follow the music to the Toulouse Street Wharf and see the music coming from the Steam Calliope of the Steamboat Natchez, in the form of steam plumes, shooting from each whistle played. An exact replica of the original instruments that first came into use over 100 years ago, the Natchez's Calliope also has synchronized colored lights which light each time a note is struck. The concerts take place each day (except Sunday Apple Ipad III 32GB WiFi Bose QC3 Headphones G-RAID mini 1 TB Hard Drive mornings) just before one of the Natchez's Impress your peers with your style! 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924278 APS_cx2.indd 3 10/15/14 11:22 AM Description: Interactions of flows of Costume Shops partially ionized, magnetized plasma are Science Education and New Orleans is famous for its costumes, frequently accompanied by the presence of Outreach Activities whether it's Mardi Gras, Halloween or just both thermal and nonthermal components Saturday night! But, what if you don’t have For over the past two decades, the in the ion distribution function. Such one? No problem. One of the city’s many DPP annual meeting has featured interactions cannot be modeled using costume shops will be happy to fix you up Science Teachers’ Day and the traditional MHD or fluid equations and for the occasion. You can get anything from Plasma Sciences Expo as a way to require more advanced approaches to treat cat ears and bat wings and vampire fangs increase awareness of plasma science them. This is a common technique in present to the most over-the-top outfits you’ve in the classroom and help inspire the fusion experiments and ITER. The purpose ever seen anywhere. Including feather boas, next generation of plasma scientists. of this mini-conference is to bring together multicolored wigs and masks for those who In 2014, DPP hopes to draw a space , astrophysicists, and desire a more glamorous look. number of local teachers, students, fusion scientists to share their experience in and public participants. modeling such flows both theoretically and Bootsy's Funrock'n, The DPP recognizes that no-cost numerically. 3109 Magazine St, (504)895-4102, education and outreach events like these All mini-conferences are organized with funrockn.com are invaluable resources to local schools, oral presentations plus time for questions particularly during tough economic and discussion, and may include poster Le Garage Antiques and Clothing, times. With help from New Orleans presentations. They will employ a question- 1234 Decatur St, area teachers, the 2014 education ad hoc oriented format to stimulate discussion and (504)522-6639 committee has developed an outstanding interaction amongst the attendees. LCD set of interactive events for middle and Miss Claudia's Vintage Clothing, projectors will be used in all oral sessions at 4204 Magazine St, high school students and teachers, DPP the expense of DPP. attendees and the general public. (504)897-6310, missclaudias.com Résumé Help Desk Sushans, Contact Congress Van Allen 100: Radiation Belt 536 St. Peter St, Monday – Thursday, (504)586-1188, (Sponsored by APS Washington DC Office) Physics and Van Allen 100: October 27-30 shushans.com Cosmic Ray Transport Monday – Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Maskarade, October 27-29 Salon ABC Grand Ballroom Prefunction 630 St. Ann St, Tuesday, October 28 at 3rd Floor (504)568-1018, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. themaskstore.com Preservation Prefunction 9:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. During the DPP annual meeting we are once again hosting a résumé writing help Stop by the Contact Congress desk to Organizers: Gregory Howes and Craig Kletzing (University of Iowa), Mikhail desk as a complimentary service to meeting Women in Plasma Physics sign your name to letters addressed to your attendees. The help desk is located in the Congressional delegation on the importance Medvedev (University of Kansas), Alex Reception Lazarian (University of Wisconsin) Grand Ballroom Prefunction, 3rd Floor. To of federal funding for basic research. It sign up for a 30-minute time slot with a Monday, October 27 Description: The collisionless takes only a couple of minutes. By doing DPP scientist for advice and information interaction between electromagnetic waves 5:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. so, you are making your voice heard in on constructing an effective résumé stop by and plasma particles is a fundamental Washington and helping to influence the the Help Desk. Time slots will be filled on a Balcony K mechanism at the heart of kinetic plasma funding levels for physics research and first come, first served basis. Stop by today! physics and plays a key role in a wide Plan to attend a complimentary reception education. To amplify the impact, the APS for Women in Plasma Physics. There will Washington DC Office will follow-up each variety of space and astrophysical plasma environments. Exploring these interactions be a brief talk by Dr. Kathleen Alexander, letter with a call or visit to congressional Women in Plasma National Nuclear Security Administration. staff. The strongest and most persuasive is particularly crucial to understanding the physics of Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Physics Luncheon Discussions on topics of interest to women advocates on Capitol Hill come from a will be encouraged. Senator or Representative's constituents. Belts and to determining the transport of Monday, October 27, That means you! If you live in the United cosmic rays throughout the heliosphere. 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Professor Mark Koepke, DPP chair, States, you are qualified to write to your Yet the separate research communities welcomes all meeting participants to this members of Congress. addressing these different scientific Balcony JK, 4th Floor talk and reception. problems rarely interact with each other If you have any questions about what is To attend the luncheon, mark the Reception Speaker happening in Washington, just stop by the or with the fundamental plasma physics appropriate space on the Registration Contact Congress desk to ask the experts. community, even though the underlying Form. The lunch tickets are $25 for Dr. Kathleen B. Alexander physics has many commonalities. The APS regular attendees and $10 for graduate Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics is and undergraduate students. The lunch Dr. Kathleen dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary cost is partially subsidized by DPP. The Alexander, a Mini-Conferences interaction among plasma physicists, space luncheon speaker is Professor Anne White, member of the physicists, and astrophysicists, and we Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Senior Executive Four mini-conferences are scheduled believe this mini-conference will serve to recipient of the DPP Katherine E. Weimer Service, is the Monday afternoon-Wednesday to be held at encourage communication between these Award for Women in Plasma Science. Assistant Deputy the Marriott Hotel. Check the Epitome for distinct communities. Discussion on issues of interest to women Administrator the presenter start times. in plasma physics will be encouraged at for Research, each table. The luncheon is open to all Development, Test, Nonlinear Effects in conference attendees. and Evaluation The Magnetic Universe- Geospace Plasmas for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) A Mini-Conference in Honor Salon FGH of Stirling Colgate Halloween Celebrations Office of Defense Programs. Previously she was the Director of Interagency Work Wednesday, October 29 at Parades Salon FGH 9:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. for the NNSA, at the Department of Monday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m., The Official Halloween Parade of New Energy. In that position, she oversaw work Organizers: Evgeny Mishin and Vladimir with other agencies, technology transfer Tuesday, October 28 at 9:30 a.m. Orleans, Krewe of Boo, is scheduled this Sotnikov (Air Force Research Laboratory) year for Thursday, October 30th, at 6:30pm. and other cooperative work agreements. and 2:00 p.m. and Gurudas Ganguli and William The parade features amazing full-size She also served as the sponsor of the Organizers: Hui Li, Fausto Catteneo, Amatucci (Naval Research Laboratory) floats and the route is walking distance Defense Programs Science Council, and Angelar Olinto, Don Lamb, Mikhail Description: The objective of this from the Marriott. The beautifully horrific Executive Secretary for the Mission Medvedev (Los Alamos National workshop is to assess the contribution of props and sculptures “come to life” as Executive Council – a four-part agreement Laboratory) nonlinear plasma processes to the dynamics 3-dimensional fiberglass or papier mache between Departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, and the Office of Description: Stirling Colgate was a of the Earth’s space plasma environment props that excite and frighten parade goers the Director of National Security. Prior pioneer in Plasma Astrophysics and has (geospace) subjected to natural and with their imaginative artistic style. For a to that position, she was on assignment had a large impact in a number of areas of man-made disturbances. Satellite and map of the route and more information, visit from Los Alamos National Laboratory plasma astrophysics, including dynamo, ground-based observations provided kreweofboo.com. (LANL), as Senior Advisor to Dr. Steven reconnection, astrophysical jets, cosmic enough evidence to the important role Halloween on Bourbon Street Koonin, the Under Secretary of Science rays, and gamma-ray bursts, etc. He has of nonlinear plasma effects in geospace Bourbon Street is always wild, but from for the Department of Energy. Kathleen also pioneered several laboratory liquid warranting a joint discussion between the the weekend before, all the way through was at LANL for over 13 years. At Los metal and plasma experiments that were geo- and plasma-physical communities. Halloween, it's wild even by Bourbon Street Alamos, she held nuclear weapons program aimed at understanding astrophysics Presenters will summarize recent progress standards. Wear your favorite costume and management positions as well as several problems. His continuous emphasis on in observations, theory, and numerical and come down to see the sights! division-level management positions in understanding key plasma astrophysics laboratory modeling of nonlinear wave Materials Science & Technology, Applied problems through laboratory experiments, processes in natural and artificial geospace Haunted Tours Physics, and Hydrodynamic Experiments observations, theory and simulations has plasmas and discuss future directions. You might want to start your Halloween Divisions. Nuclear weapons programmatic inspired generations of astrophysicists adventure with one of the many haunted management positions included: and plasma physicists. Although Stirling Nonthermal Ions in Space and tours through the French Quarter or Hydrodynamic Testing, Pit Certification, Colgate has had many fundamental some other spooky part of the city Dynamic Materials Properties, Advanced contributions in many areas, this mini- Laboratory Plasmas (voodooboneladytours.com, freetoursbyfoot. Radiography, Enhanced Surveillance and conference will focus on his legacy in Salon ABC com, bloodymarystours.com). And then, Dynamic Plutonium Experiments. From plasma astrophysics, especially the of course, there are the world-famous July 2009 to December 2010, she was a generation, dynamics and consequence Wednesday, October 29 cemeteries where the dearly departed are technical advisor in the Office of Defense of cosmic magnetic fields associated with at 2:00 p.m. buried in tombs aboveground. Hundreds of Sciences of the NNSA. astrophysical compact objects. (Stirling Organizers: Choong-Seock Chang stories abound in which the ghosts of these Prior to joining Los Alamos, Kathleen Colgate was born November 14, 1925, and (PPPL), Nikolai Pogorelov (University of “Cities of the Dead” make their presence deceased December 1, 2013.) was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Alabama, Huntsville), Ming Zhang (Florida known, some of which have actually been over 11 years. She was the group leader Institute of Technology) documented and visually captured. of the Microscopy and Microanalytical 4 October 27-31, 2014 The DPP Chronicle

924278 APS_cx2.indd 4 10/15/14 11:22 AM Sciences Group. Prior to being named Speaker Ready Room Hours organic snacks, and beverages for young Science Teachers’ Day Group Leader, she was a technical staff children. Note that neither APS nor DPP In past years, Science Teachers’ Day member performing high-resolution Galerie 4 will assume responsibility for providing included Tuesday morning and afternoon imaging and analytical electron microscopy Monday, Oct. 27, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. supervised child care. workshops on topical areas of plasma and studies of metals and ceramics. Tuesday, Oct 28, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Child Care Room hours: fusion sciences along with technology Kathleen obtained her Ph.D. from applications, and the opportunity to discuss Wednesday, Oct 29, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University in plasma physics with poster presenters during Thursday, Oct 30, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Tuesday, Oct. 28, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. the Tuesday afternoon poster session in Science, after receiving her B.S. and M.S. Friday, Oct 31, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Preservation Hall. The workshop topics and in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Thursday, Oct. 30, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. content align with national science standards Carnegie Mellon University. Kathleen and the regional academic standards. The performed postdoctoral research as a Housing Information Friday, Oct. 31, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. day typically includes continental breakfast, NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge New Orleans Marriott Hotel a lunch with plasma scientists and raffle University, Cambridge, UK. DPP Banquet prizes. Teachers leave the daylong events Kathleen was named a Fellow of ASM 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, with valuable information and experience International in 1996 and the American Louisiana 70130 Wednesday, October 29 and tools created in the workshops that they can take back to their classroom. Ceramic Society in 2001. In 1997, the ($188 single/double; $208 triple; $228 Reception: 6:30 p.m. U.S. Jr. Chamber of Commerce named her Quad; $154 gov’t rate) Science Teachers’ Day will be held on one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans. Bissonet Tuesday, October 28 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 Kathleen has also been awarded multiple All guest room rates are subject to 13% 3rd Floor p.m., with the general session in Balcony applicable state and local tax plus $3.00 Defense Programs Awards of Excellence Banquet: 7:30 p.m. JK, 4th Floor. Teachers’ Day workshops will (team awards). She has served on the occupancy tax per room per night. also be held on the 4th Floor. The Tuesday American Society for Metals International Carondelet, 3rd Floor afternoon DPP poster session will take place Board of Trustees (2000-2003) and was (Session JP8) highlighting education-related the elected Treasurer of the Microscopy 2015 Call for Nominations work in Preservation Hall. The DPP also Society of America (1998-2004). Kathleen Deadline: Wireless Access invites participating teachers to attend any part of the annual meeting. DPP meeting has over 100 peer-reviewed publications Wednesday, April 1, 2015 WiFi will be available in the Marriott participants are invited to attend the Science in archival journals and conference public space and meeting rooms on the 2nd APS Fellowship Teachers’ Day opening session. proceedings, with over 1300 citations. She and 3rd floors. also has two patents as well as a technology DPP Executive Committee Election transfer and licensing support award (1993). Maxwell Prize Science Teachers’ Day and She became a member of the federal Senior John Dawson Excellence Award Review, Tutorial and Invited Executive Service in 2011. Plasma Sciences Expo Sponsors Marshall Rosenbluth Ph.D. Thesis Award Speaker Poster Sessions The APS Office of Education and Thomas Stix Early Career Award Preservation Hall, 2nd Floor Fun Facts Diversity, the DPP, the U.S. DoE Office of Poster versions of review, invited, Fusion Energy Sciences, and DPP member The city of New Orleans was originally Mobile App and tutorial papers are optional and are and DPP institutional contributions sponsor founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne for the scheduled Monday through Friday, in the Science Teachers’ Day and the Plasma sole purpose of being safe from hurricanes. APS DPP is pleased to announce following half-day session, in a designated Sciences Expo. that the DPP 2014 mobile app for your area of Preservation Hall. For example, The DPP education and outreach Android device or iOS device will again the Monday morning review and invited ad hoc committee includes members University Fusion Association be available. This useful app contains the talks may also be presented as posters from Auburn University; Contemporary (UFA) General Meeting scientific program, which can be viewed by in the Monday afternoon poster session. Physics Education Project; General day. You'll also be able to read the abstracts, This option will be available on Monday Atomics; Lawrence Livermore National Monday, October 27 view the speaker index, view maps of the 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. morning for invited papers scheduled on Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute hotel, create your own personal session Friday morning, October 31. of Technology; Oak Ridge Institute for Acadia schedule, and more! Science & Education; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; University of The UFA is an organization For instructions on how to download the app, please see the flyers at the DPP Basic Plasma Science Facility California, San Diego; University of New of approximately 200 university York; University of Rochester; University professors and scientists interested in Registration Desk or at the APS DPP Users Group Meeting Information Booth. of Wisconsin, University of Texas; West promoting fusion energy science (http:// Tuesday, October 28 Virginia University; the U.S. Department universityfusion.org/). The UFA has been 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. of Energy Headquarters; and various other at work for over 25 years (the original universities and industrial organizations. UFA constitution was formulated in March Child Care Room St. Charles, 41st Floor 1989). The role of the UFA is to support Bonaparte, 4th Floor The second meeting of the users group for plasma science and technology in the the UCLA Basic Plasma Science Facility Outreach Volunteer development of a new, environmentally A child care room is available located in Bonaparte on the 4th Floor for parents/ that includes the Large Plasma Device will Opportunities attractive energy source using controlled be held in St. Charles. Remote connection thermonuclear fusion energy. The current caregivers to use at no cost to attendees. To learn about how you can start an The room is intended for parents/caregivers to the meeting will be available. Both outreach program in your community, president of UFA is Dr. Dylan Brennan, current and potential users are welcome. Princeton University. He will be replaced who have brought infants or young children work with colleagues on existing outreach to the annual meeting. The room will be See http://plasma.physics.ucla.edu/ for programs, or support the DPP education in 2014 by the vice president Professor Uri details or contact [email protected] Shumlak, University of Washington. furnished with comfortable furniture and activities, please contact Paul Miller at paul. with a limited amount of toys, natural [email protected]. The UFA supports the study of the science of matter under extreme conditions typical of that required for sustained thermonuclear reactions. In addition, the OMEGA Users Group UFA promotes the development of the Monday, October 27, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. knowledge and technology necessary for the production of fusion reactivity for Salon ABC commercial applications and electrical The annual OMEGA Laser Users Group meeting will be held on October 27 at 5:00 p.m. in Salon ABC. We will meet to discuss the power production. UFA officers and Spring 2015 workshop plans (22-24 April 2015) and especially the OLUG Findings and Recommendations from the last workshop. executive committee members meet regularly to evaluate the role of academic Come join us on October 27 for this spirited event! We look forward to your participation! research in the U.S. fusion program. The UFA president represents the interests of the academic fusion energy science research community at meetings with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences and other groups. Information is disseminated to UFA membership via electronic newsletters and an annual general meeting. On Monday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m., the UFA will hold its annual general meeting during the APS DPP annual meeting in New Orleans in Acadia, 3rd Floor. The UFA general meeting typically discusses issues of relevance to fusion science research in U.S. universities and the status of the U.S. fusion program. The UFA meeting is open to all conference attendees.

Fun Facts The highest elevation in Louisiana is Driskill Mountain in Bienville Parish at 535 feet above sea level, while the lowest elevation is New Orleans at eight feet below sea level.

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924278 APS_cx2.indd 5 10/15/14 11:22 AM Town Meeting on Concerns of Free Fun Dr. John Edwards, and conference papers and has chaired “Progress and Challenges in Indirect and organized technical sessions for IEEE Junior Scientists Take in the sights and sounds of Jackson Drive Ignition Research on the NIF International Pulsed-Power Conferences Square at 175 Decatur Street. Grab coffee Chair: Timothy Tharp, University of and the International Conference on and beignets at Cafe du Monde and people Dr. Craig Sangster, California, Berkeley Plasma Science (ICOPS). watch during your breakfast, or stroll “Progress and Plans for Polar Direct Tuesday, October 28 through the shops that occupy the first Drive ICF from OMEGA to NIF” 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. floor of many apartment buildings in the square. Also the location of an open-air Dr. Mark Herrmann is the Carondelet artist colony, artists often display their Dr. Donald Lamb is Director of the 3rd Floor work on the outside of the iron fence the Robert A. Millikan National Ignition around the park. As a visitor you have Distinguished The DPP Committee on the Concerns Facility at LLNL, as the opportunity to see artists at work and Service Professor of Junior Scientists (COJS) is pleased to of October 2014. In perhaps even have your portrait drawn in the Department announce an informal panel discussion with Jackson Square as the backdrop! this role, Mark has of Astronomy & centered on the theme of "Well Balanced line management Careers for Plasma Physicists." Please join Astrophysics and the responsibility for the us on Tuesday, October 28 at 1:00 p.m. in Enrico Fermi Institute Town Meeting on National operations, facility Caroldelet. Following a brief introduction, at the University of use plan, and activities on the NIF. In attendees will have the opportunity to Ignition Facility (NIF) Chicago. He is also addition, Mark is responsible for working discuss career options with each of the chair of the NIF User Group. His current Tuesday, October 28 closely with users and programs to ensure panelists in small groups. Our panelists research interests include HED physics 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. the optimal use of the facility to enable this year come from a wide variety of and supernovae. He is the author of more the various missions supported by the backgrounds, including: Crystal Bailey Acadia, 3rd Floor than 400 papers. He has made seminal NIF. Prior to this appointment, Mark (APS), Mike Brown (Swarthmore College), contributions to our understanding of The National Ignition Facility (NIF), worked in a number of roles at Sandia Diane Demers (Xantho Technologies), supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray located at Lawrence Livermore National National Laboratories on the application David Maurer (Auburn University), and bursts, and stellar structure and evolution. Laboratory (LLNL), together with the of the Z Facility to HED science and ICF. Matthew Thompson (Tri-Alpha Energy). He played a key role in founding the Omega Laser Facility at the University Before joining Sandia in 2005, Mark was This meeting will offer junior scientists new Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He was Mission of Rochester and the Z Facility at Sandia a physicist at LLNL. His research interests perspectives about potential career paths. Scientist for the NASA High Energy National Laboratories make up 3 world include innovative approaches to HED Transient Explorer-2 and is an Associate class facilities for performing High Energy science and ICF. Dr. Herrmann is a fellow Scientist for the NASA Swift mission. He Density (HED) Science in support of the of the American Physical Society and he Meet the Editors of the directs the Flash Center for Computational National Nuclear Security Administration’s received his undergraduate degrees from APS Journals Science at the University of Chicago. He (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship Program. Washington University in St. Louis, and his was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Tuesday, October 28 The NIF is the world’s largest laser with Ph.D. from Princeton University. 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 192 beams that can deliver over 1.8 MJ of Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American ultraviolet energy to a target and achieve Physical Society and a Member of the Grand Ballroom Foyer, 3rd peak powers of 500 TW. NIF experiments American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Floor allow the study of physical processes at Dr. Bruce temperatures approaching 100 million Remington is the The Editors of APS journals cordially Acting Discovery kelvins, radiation temperatures of more than Dr. Keith LeChien invite you to join them for conversation and Science Program 3.5 million kelvins, densities greater than is the Acting Director refreshments. Your questions, suggestions, 1,000 g/cm3 and pressures of more than 100 Manager at LLNL. compliments and complaints about of the Office of billion atmospheres. In this Town Meeting Bruce has been the journals are welcome. All meeting ICF within the we will focus on the current state of the NIF a staff physicist at attendees are invited. Department of as a national tool for enabling experimental Energy’s NNSA LLNL in the ICF access to unique regimes of HED science and and performs the program since Student Appreciation Reception provide information on various opportunities functions of the 1988, and a group for the scientific community to participate Associate Deputy leader since 1996. His research focus is on the NIF. Presenters will provide brief Tuesday, October 28 Administrator laser-driven, HED fluid instabilities, HED updates on NIF’s status and capabilities, the 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. for Research, Development, Test and laboratory astrophysics, and solid-state application of NIF to scientific discovery, Evaluation. Prior to joining the federal dynamics at high pressures and strain rates. Napoleon, 41st Floor and progress and challenges in indirect and He received his B.S. degree from Northern direct drive Inertial Confinement Fusion government, Dr. LeChien was a Principal Please plan to attend a complimentary Member of Technical Staff with the Michigan University in 1975 and his Ph.D. (ICF) research. The evening will kick off degree in from Michigan reception in honor of high school and Advanced Accelerator Physics Group with a talk discussing NNSA’s view on the State University in 1986. He is a recipient of undergraduate students. Professor Mark at Sandia National Laboratories. He field of HED science. the American Physical Society John Dawson Koepke, DPP Chair, cordially welcomes all developed advanced components for the DPP meeting participants, and encourages Speakers Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics study of materials, radiation effects sciences Research for his work on ablation-front their open discussion on topics of interest to and fusion at Sandia’s Z Accelerator. Dr. students of plasma physics. Student Poster Dr. Donald Lamb, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, and is an APS Town Meeting Presiding Chair LeChien served as a Brookings Institution fellow and the Medal by the Award recipients will be announced. Student Congressional Fellow with the U.S. Senate advisors are particularly encouraged to Dr. Keith LeChien, American Nuclear Society. Dr. Remington on the Energy and Water Development has served as chair and co-founder of the attend. Refreshments will be served. “NNSA View on High Subcommittee on Appropriations advising APS Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics, Energy Density Science” staff and members on science matters is a member of the National Academy Fun Facts Dr. Mark Herrmann, for defense and non-defense accounts. of Sciences Committee on HED Plasma “NIF Status and Capabilities” Dr. LeChien completed a B.S., M.S. and Physics, and has authored or coauthored over The now-famous drink, the Hurricane, was Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (EE) at 300 publications in the technical literature. created at Pat O'Brien's Bar in the 1940's. Dr. Bruce Remington, the University of Missouri, Columbia. He “Discovery Science on the NIF” has authored or co-authored 40 journal

DPP Reaching out to New at the University of Texas at Austin, Orleans Educators Loyola University of New Orleans, and Tulane University of Louisiana. In May of this year members of the APS DPP Education Outreach Planning Local teachers will have their first Committee, led by DPP Education Chair chance to experience DPP education Paul Miller, headed to the National Science with Science Teachers Day on Tuesday, Teachers Association (NSTA) conference October 30, where they will spend the being held in New Orleans. The group has morning learning about the fundamentals found that attending a science teacher- of fusion energy and plasma science. oriented event in the host city can be a great They will spend the remainder of the day way of promoting the DPP education events in workshops of their choosing, focusing associated with the fall meeting. Setting up on such subjects as the nature of matter, a booth at the STEM Forum and Expo in the cosmology, principles of mechanics, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Miller lasers, the electromagnetic spectrum, and former DPP Chair Rick Lee encouraged and Newton’s Laws. local attendees to learn more about plasma The Plasma Sciences Expo, at the at the Teachers Day and Plasma Sciences Morial Convention Center, will be Expo being offered during the 56th annual open for school groups on October APS DPP Meeting. 30 and 31 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and The committee also took the opportunity for the general public on October 30 to explore some of the other science from 4 to 6 p.m. The Expo, which booths at the Expo, inviting a number features hands-on experiments from of these organizations to join DPP in national and international institutions presenting hands-on demos at the 2014 and laboratories, is being held earlier Plasma Sciences Expo. As a result the than usual so as not to compete with a Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave scheduled Halloween parade that will pass in front of the Convention Center. From left to right, DPP Education Chair Paul Miller, former Education Chair Rick Lee, Local Observatory (LIGO) and Harmony Public Chair Jim Hanson and Chair-Elect Riccardo Betti promote plasma education at the General Schools, which had booths at this event, Members of the DPP are encouraged to visit during the afternoon hours, and Atomics/APS booth during the National Science Teachers Association Conference in New will be joining other local exhibitors in New Orleans this past May. Over three days, Miller, Lee and members of the DPP Education Orleans, including Auburn University, The then catch the 6:30 p.m. Halloween parade – a double treat. (No trick!) Planning Committee presented plasma demonstrations to encourage local science teachers Center for High Energy Density Science attending the meeting to sign up for DPP education events in October.

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924278 APS_cx2.indd 6 10/15/14 11:22 AM DPP Soccer Game Dr. John Edwards Plasma Sciences Expo is the Associate NIF East vs. West The Plasma Sciences Expo offers Director for ICF middle school and high school students, and HED Science Wednesday, October 29 12:30 p.m. teachers, parents and the general public and leader of the an opportunity to talk with scientists ICF Program at The annual DPP soccer match will be while visiting a variety of exhibits and the LLNL. In this held mid-day on Wednesday. Meet at the interactive displays, which include making role Dr. Edwards is DPP Registration Desk after the morning arcs of lightning, manipulating plasma responsible for the sessions, and we will take taxis or cars to with magnets, observing fluctuating body direction of the x-ray a nearby soccer field. Bring your soccer temperature, playing fusion video games, drive ignition effort on the NIF. Prior to clothes, shoes, etc. Everyone is welcome! At and exploring optics using a laser. The U.S. joining LLNL in 1998 John spent 5 years the field we will form teams. Typically we Department of Energy (U.S. DoE) national at the Atomic Weapons Establishment are back by the start of the afternoon session. labs, industry, and universities from across in the UK where he was group leader for Sign Up: the country host exhibit booths. HED Research and Alternate Concepts. If you would like to sign-up, or if you The Plasma Science Expo for students Dr. Edwards is a Fellow of the American have questions, please email Andrew and teachers will be held in the New Physical Society with over 25 years Zwicker ([email protected]). Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention experience in HED/ICF physics and is Center, Exhibit Hall D on Thursday and author of over 100 journal publications. Friday, October 30 and 31, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The general public is invited John received his B.Sc. in Physics with Topical Group on Plasma to the expo evening session on Thursday, October 30, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. All meeting Astrophysics from the University of Astrophysics (GPAP) Business participants are invited to attend any session that fits their schedule. Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and Meeting his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London. Wednesday, October 29 use optical observations of Earth's aurora, Eric lives in Brentwood with his wife 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. taken from the ground and from space, to Jo-Anne, their 4-year-old son Sean, and Dr. T. Craig explore how this remarkable phenomena their Au Pair Kate. Although he has not Sangster is the Galerie 2/3, 2nd Floor is not only beautiful, awe inspiring, and pursued the sports in several years, Eric Experimental GPAP will hold its annual business spiritual, but also a remarkable scientific has been an avid whitewater kayaker and Division Director at meeting during the DPP annual meeting in instrument for studies of fundamental squash player. His other avocations include the Laboratory for New Orleans. The GPAP meeting is open plasma physical processes that we are just sailing, hiking, and cross-country skiing. Laser Energetics to all conference attendees. beginning to understand. (LLE). Dr. Sangster Eric Donovan is responsible for 2014 DPP Election Results is an Associate the direct and polar- HEDSA Annual Professor in Vice-Chair: Earl E. Scime, drive ICF programs Business Meeting the Department West Virginia University at LLE and is deeply Wednesday, October 29 of Physics and Councilor: Cary B. Forest, involved in the planning and development Astronomy at University of Wisconsin of diagnostic instrumentation for the major 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. the University HED facilities. Prior to joining LLE as Executive Committee Members: Galerie 6, 2nd Floor of Calgary. His the OMEGA Experiments Group Leader The High Energy Density Science research is on Mark A. Gilmore, in 2001, he was a staff scientist at LLNL Association (HEDSA) will hold its annual mass and energy University of New Mexico with group leader responsibilities in the business meeting on Wednesday, October transport in ICF and Heavy Ion Fusion programs. He is Carolyn C. Kuranz, 29 during the APS DPP annual meeting. the near Earth plasma environment and a fellow of the American Physical Society University of Michigan The HEDSA meeting is open to all involves observations of the aurora using and a native of Texas where he earned a conference attendees, and we especially ground- and space-based digital imagers. Anne E. White, BS degree in physics at Baylor University encourage all HEDSA members and others Eric holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology before heading north to Purdue University working in high energy density laboratory and was recently awarded an NSERC for his PhD in high energy nuclear physics. plasma research to attend. There will be Discovery Accelerator Supplement. open discussion. Call for Nominations for 2015 The overall theme of Dr. Donovan's Prize and Awards DPP Business Meeting research is energy and mass transport in the magnetosphere, with focus on using Deadline: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Wednesday, October 29 DPP Banquet optical and riometer data to remote sense A prize or an award presented by APS 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 29 magnetospheric dynamics. His most recent DPP is one of the highest honors a physicist Galerie 2, 2nd Floor Reception: Bissonet, 6:30 p.m. work has involved investigations of the can receive. Membership in the APS or second-scale evolution of the substorm DPP is not required for nomination or The business meeting of the Division Dinner: Carondelet, 7:30 p.m. expansive phase, as well as the nature of selection for a prize or an award. DPP of Plasma Physics will include reports The official banquet of the DPP will be held the diÆuse aurora. Dr. Donovan has been annually solicits nominations for one of actions undertaken by DPP on issues on Wednesday evening. A cash-bar reception the author or co-author of over 90 refereed prize and three awards. The deadline for important to our membership. New items of preceding the evening banquet at 6:30 publications, 20 non-refereed publications, receipt of all nominations is Wednesday, business will be considered in the following p.m. will be held in Bissonet. A subsidized and has given over 50 invited talks, colloquia, April 1, 2015. Please take time to nominate order: (1) Written motions, together with exceptional DPP colleagues in 2015. banquet ticket can be purchased for $40 at and seminars. This includes invited GEM any supporting arguments, received by the registration desk Tuesday, October 28 tutorials in 2007 and 2008, as well as a Anyone other than a member of the the Secretary-Treasurer, Professor Daniel up to 5:00 p.m. Tickets will be sold on a multidisciplinary plenary talk at COSPAR selection committee may submit one Dubin, at the DPP Registration Desk, New space-available basis and are non-refundable. in 2008. His students have between them nomination or seconding letter for each Orleans Marriott Hotel, before noon on Tickets must be presented for admission at more than thirty publications and four AGU prize or award in any given year. Monday, October 27, or which were emailed the door to the banquet hall. Tickets will not Outstanding Student Paper Awards. Go to this web address: http://www.aps. to Professor Dubin ([email protected]. be sold at the door. The banquet program Dr. Donovan is the PI of the Canadian org/programs/honors/nomination.cfm for edu) by noon on Friday, October 24, 2014. will include presentation of the James Clerk Space Agency funded Canadian GeoSpace Nomination Guidelines. Copies of such material will be displayed on Maxwell Prize, the John Dawson Award Monitoring All-Sky Imager and Riometer The nomination package must be a bulletin board near the DPP registration for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, arrays. His group deployed, operates, submitted by Wednesday, April 1, 2015. area in order to give members reasonable the Landau-Spitzer Award, the Thomas H. and recovers the data from the 16 white Acknowledgement of receipt can be notice in case they wish to participate in the Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career light ASIs located in Canada as part of requested. The DPP dissertation award has discussion and vote on such motions. (2) Contributions to Plasma Physics Research, NASA's THEMIS mission. Together with other requirements in addition to those listed Written motions submitted to the Secretary- the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Trond Trondsen, and Leroy Cogger, he is on the APS Nomination Guidelines website, Treasurer prior to the start of the business Doctoral Thesis Award in Plasma Physics, developing the concept of Ravens, a two- so check for descriptions of the awards to meeting. (3) Other new business not the Katherine E. Weimer Award for Women satellite auroral imaging mission. This led which you are making a nomination. included in (1) or (2). in Plasma Science and recognition of newly directly to the Chinese KuaFu-B satellite James Clerk Maxwell Prize elected APS Fellows. The after-dinner pair which, if it flies, will carry auroral for Plasma Physics speaker will be Professor Eric Donovan, imagers from Dr. Donovan's group. Dr. Marty Goldman, Chair Plasma Science Christian University of Calgary, Canada. University of Colorado Fellowship Donovan is on the KuaFu Mission Design team, ESA's SWARM Mission Advisory [email protected] Group, and the GEM Steering Committee, Wednesday, October 29 Banquet After-Dinner Presentation by John Dawson Award for Excellence in 6:45 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Eric Donovan and has served on two NSERC Grant Plasma Physics Research Selection Committees as well as the Salon ABC, 3rd Floor Denise Hinkel, Chair Eric Donovan CEDAR Steering Committee. Together Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Plasma Science Christian University of Calgary with John Samson and Igor Voronkov, [email protected] Fellowship (PSCF) is an informal Department of Physics and Astronomy he wrote the science plan for the second affiliation of students and scientists Abstract: The aurora is a permanent phase of the CANOPUS project, which led Marshall N. Rosenbluth working in plasma and fusion energy feature of the environment of any planet directly to the foundation of the Canadian Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award research. Formed in 2006, the PSCF seeks with an atmosphere and an intrinsic GeoSpace Monitoring (CGSM) Program. in Plasma Physics to provide a forum to discuss how faith magnetic field. These northern and He is currently working with researchers Truell Hyde, Chair connects to the workplace experience and southern lights are produced by plasma at SRI to establish a new incoherent Baylor University life as scientists. Please join in for an hour physical processes at work in near space scatter radar facility at Resolute Bay in the [email protected] on Wednesday morning before the opening and powered by the interaction of the Canadian High Arctic solar wind and the planet's magnetic Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding session review talk. Bring your own field. Its dynamics and structure are In the 2008 General Election, Eric Early Career Contribution to Plasma coffee and breakfast, if desired. Contact caused by the constantly changing solar Donovan ran as a candidate for the Green Physics Research Darren Craig ([email protected]) wind driver and plasma processes in the Party of Canada in the riding of Calgary Greg Hammett, Chair if you have questions or need additional planet's magnetosphere. Observations of Centre-North. Eric came third in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory information. We hope to see you there! the aurora provide profound insights into election, 14 votes shy of the second- [email protected] those plasma processes. In this talk, I will place candidate.

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