Virtual 2020 DPP (CST) A Division of The American Physical Society November 9-13, 2020 plasmas, inertial fusion science, and high magnetospheres. He is also involved energy density science. He is the coauthor in the design and analysis of laboratory Hi, I'm J-D Nava, I've been the APS DPP Annual Meeting of more than 400 publications on a variety astrophysics experiments in high energy desginer for the DPP Chronicle since 2004 Start Here of topics in plasma and computational density plasmas. He has been a Sloan and wanted to share a moment I had while physics. He is a fellow of both APS (1997) Foundation Fellow and is currently a working on the cover image. This is my and IEEE (2009) and is a current member Simons Foundation Investigator in Physics. favorite part of working on the DPP, and James Clerk Maxwell Prize of both societies. In 1995 he received the considering the location is the main theme, for Plasma Physics International Center for Theoretical Physics this year was a challange. "For leadership in and pioneering Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Christoph Niemann Nothing felt quite right, until I saw the contributions to the theory and kinetic Physics by a Young Researcher and was University of California Los Angeles photo above. "Earthrise," which was first the recipient of the Advanced Accelerator simulations of nonlinear processes Professor Niemann shared during a live brodcast from the in plasma-based acceleration, and Concepts Prize in 2016 for, “ his leadership Apollo 8 crew in December of 1968. The and pioneering contributions in theory and received his diploma relativistically intense laser and beam (B.A. and M.A.) image and moment is pretty inspirational plasma interactions." particle-in-cell code simulations of plasma to me. When I saw it, I recalled part of a based particle acceleration.” from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, quotation from Carl Sagan while speaking Warren Bicknell Mori of the image below, sent back from the University of California, Los Angeles Germany in 1998, and a PhD inphysics Voyager I mission in February of 1990. Warren B. Mori is John Dawson Award for Excellence in from the Technische a Distinguished Universitaet Darmstadt, Professor in the Plasma Physics Research Germany in 2002. departments of "For generating Weibel-mediated From 2002 to 2005 he was a postdoc and Physics and Astronomy collisionless shocks in the laboratory, research scientist at the LLNL National and of Electrical impacting a broad range of energetic Ignition Facility. He has been an assistant and Computer astrophysical scenarios, plasma physics, professor in the Department of Physics Engineering at and experiments using high energy and & Astronomy at UCLA since 2005 and UCLA. He received high power lasers conducted at basic became a full professor in 2012. his B.S. from UC plasma science facilities." Berkeley in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. His research focuses on experimental from UCLA in 1984 and 1987, respectively. Anatoly Spitkovsky laser-plasma physics in the areas of laboratory astrophysics and high-energy He has been at UCLA from 1981 until the Princeton University present. He served as the Director of the density physics. He has led a small team of UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Anatoly Spitkovsky researchers and students to design and build Education from 2006 until 2020. This got his Bachelors a kilojoule class laser at UCLA, which Institute leads a campus wide effort in of Science degree has recently produced the very first laser- the use computational and data science, in Physics from driven collisionless shocks in the Large and digital technologies for advancing Caltech in 1995 Plasma Device (LAPD). Highlights of this knowledge and making discovery. He is and PhD in Physics research include the direct observation of also the Director of the UCLA Particle- from UC Berkeley collisionless Larmor coupling between "... That's home. That's us. On it everyone you in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software in 2002. He is currently the laser and the LAPD plasma, the first love, everyone you know, everyone you ever Center and Plasma Simulation Group. His a Professor of observation of electromagnetic ion-ion heard of, every human being who ever was, current research interests are in advanced Astrophysical Sciences beam instabilities responsible for parallel lived out their lives. ..." computing, particle-in-cell simulations at Princeton University. His research is shock formation, and measurements of the As I thought of Carl's words and of plasmas, basic plasma physics, in the area of high energy astrophysics, three-dimensional structure and evolution Earthrise, I found myself wondering if one high intensity laser and beam plasma particularly on particle acceleration in of collisionless shocks in high-repetition year, Attendees of this annual meeting, will interactions, plasma based accelerators astrophysical environments, collisionless rate laser experiments. see the Earthrise with their own eyes. and light sources, nonlinear optics of shocks, supernova remnants, and pulsar 1 November 9-13, 2020 The DPP Chronicle was a senior scientist at the Rutherford including the Versatile Toroidal Facility at Dmitri Ryutov Appleton Laboratory, in the Central Laser James Steven Ross MIT, Magnetic Reconnection Experiment Lawrence Livermore National Facility, where he continued to work Lawrence Livermore (MRX) at PPPL, the DIII-D Fusion Facility on X-ray characterization of strongly at General Atomics, as well high-energy- Laboratory, retired National Laboratory coupled plasmas. In 2007 he moved to the density laser facilities including the Omega Dmitri Ryutov Department of Physics at the University of James “Steven" Laser Facility at the University of Rochester received his M.S. Oxford, and the college of Lady Margaret Ross is the Optical Laboratory for Laser Energetics, and the in nuclear physics Hall. In 2012 He became Lecturer in Diagnostic and National Ignition Facility at Lawrence from the Moscow Physics and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Measurement Science Livermore National Laboratory. He is a Institute of Physics and in 2013 he was promoted to Professor Group leader in the member of the American Physical Society and Technology in in Physics. While in Oxford, Gianluca has NIF HED S&T (APS) and winner of the APS 2019 Thomas 1962, and his Ph.D. run a research group focussing on both organization at H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career in plasma theory the microscopic measurement of highly Lawrence Livermore Contributions to Plasma Physics Research. from the Kurchatov compressed matter and the generation and National Laboratory Institute of Atomic amplification of magnetic fields by plasma and co-lead of the Energy in 1966. After the breakup of the turbulent processes. More recently he has National Diagnostic Working Group. Youichi Sakawa Soviet Union, Ryutov moved to the U.S. and also expanded his interests in laboratory Steven received a B.A. in Physics from Institute of Laser Engineering, worked for 22 years at Lawrence Livermore astroparticle physics. In 2014 he won the Pomona College in 2003 and a PhD in Osaka University National Laboratory, where, since 2012 Edouard Fabre International Scientific 2010 from the University of California, San Youichi Sakawa he has been a Distinguished Member of prize for contribution to the physics of Diego, in Engineering Physics. His thesis received B.S. in 1984 Technical Staff. He contributed to many inertial fusion and laser-produced plasmas. work focused on relativistic effects in and M.S. in 1986 areas of plasma physics, including mirrors, Gianluca was previously awarded the John collective Thomson scattering at electron from Department tokamak divertors, high-power particle Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma temperatures less than 1 keV. He joined of Electrical beams, Z-pinches, laboratory astrophysics, Physics in 2019 for his work on turbulent LLNL as a Lawrence Scholar graduate Engineering, Osaka solar and space physics, as well as to the dynamo. He was elected Fellow of the student in 2004 and became a full-time University, studying x-ray optics and magnetic levitation. For the American Physical Society in 2016, and staff member in 2013. His research has laser fusion at last ten years he closely collaborated with Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2017. focuses on understanding high temperature Institute of Laser the LLNL team that worked on collisionless plasma interactions relevant to laboratory Engineering. Early shocks mediated by Weibel instability. He astrophysics and inertial confinement Hideaki Takabe in 1992 he received Ph.D. from Department developed general scaling relations for fusion hohlraum plasmas. of Electrical Engineering, UCLA. He this phenomenon, assessed constraints Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) joined Nagoya University as an Assistant imposed by electron and intra-stream ion Professor in 1992. At Nagoya he worked collisions, and actively participated in the R Paul Drake Professor, Institute University of Michigan on basic plasma physics experiments, experimental planning. His distinctions of Radiation Physics, such as helicon wave discharge, laser include: Academician of the Russian Helmholtz Zentrum Professor R cooling of Ca ions in a rf trap, strongly- Academy of Sciences, American Physical Dresden Rossendorf Paul Drake is an coupled dusty plasma, and pulsed-laser Society Fellow, Institute of Physics Fellow, (HZDR), Dresden, international leader ablation of hydrogen-implanted graphite LLNL Edward Teller Fellow; APS DPP Germany and in the emerging target. In 2006 he returned to Institute of Maxwell Prize recipient; and Fusion Power Professor-Emeritus, field of high-energy- Laser Engineering, Osaka University as Associates Distinguished Career awardee. Osaka University, density physics, an Associate Professor, where he started He is a co-recipient of three R&D100 awards, Japan. He received which studies the laboratory astrophysics research using including for Inductrack; LCLS x-ray a Ph.D. degree properties of matter power-lasers as a leader of experimental diagnostics; and the Snowflake divertor.