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Mini-Conferences

There are three exciting mini-conferences this year.
Exotic Plasmas, Plasma Applications and Plasma Diagnostics

  • Anti-atoms on the borderline (131k)
  • Decontamination with plasma jet (1.2M)
  • A large-format gated X-ray framing camera (1.8M)
  • MHD spectroscopy (13k)

Fusion Advances

  • National Fusion Collaboratory (273k)
  • Controlling transport in high performance tokamak plasmas (50k)
  • Good beta scaling predicted for ITER (17k)
  • New operating scenario for ITER (16k)
  • Doing it with mirrors (216k)
  • Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (187k)
  • Plasma injector for magnetized target fusion (6.0M)
  • The Ignitor Project (48k)

Accelerator Physics

  • Laser-produced particle beams: A new tool for science (138k)
  • Simulation suite for accelerators (168k)

High Energy Density Physics

  • Measurements of shock-induced compression in titanium (68k)
  • X-Ray Scattering as a Microscopic Probe for Solid Density Plasmas (78k)
  • Measuring basic material properties with laser-driven shocks (1.8M)
  • Mixing instability in high energy density plasma (1.7M)

Plasma Structure and Control

  • Locked modes controlled on MIT tokamak (140k)
  • New control coils improve plasma stability (59k)
  • Spin stabilization of MHD instabilities (1.2M)
  • Rotation Without Momentum Input (13k)
  • New waves observed in MIT tokamak (309k)
  • Nature provides a beneficial fluctuation (130k)

Magnetic reconnection and self-organization

  • New NSF Center to study plasma self-organization (315k)
  • Experimental observation of turbulence during fast reconnection (56.5k)
  • Reconnection Experiments at LANL (1.6M)
  • Liquid Metal Dynamo (59.5k)

Education and Communication

  • Mr. Magnet Invites Students to Discover Plasma (37k)

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