Oral Presentations

Speaker Institution Title
R. Orbach U. Texas Anatomy of a (Partial) Meltdown: Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plants
A. Bhattacharjee U. New Hampshire Onset of Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability
S. Putvinski ITER Disruption Mitigation in ITER
J.W. Berkery Columbia U. Resistive Wall Mode Kinetic Stability Theory Advancements for Refined Comparison with Experiments
A. Ishizawa NIFS Interaction of Drift Wave Turbulence and Magnetic Islands
R.P. Drake U. Michigan Basic Experimental Research in High-Energy-Density Physics
R. White PPPL Modification of Particle Distributions by MHD Instabilities
K. Hallatschek Garching Theory of External Geodesic Acoustic Mode Excitation
W.A. Cooper Lausanne Resistive Wall Mode Kinetic Stability Theory Advancements for Refined Comparison with Experiments
M. Landreman MIT Neoclassical Flow, Current, and Electric Field in a Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarator
J.A. Krommes PPPL The History and Present Status of Gyrokinetic Theory
I. Pusztai Chalmers U. Isotope Mass and Charge Effects in Tokamak Plasmas
W.X. Wang PPPL Gyrokinetic Turbulence Driven Plasma Flow and Origin of Empirical Scalings of Intrinsic Rotation
D.D. Ryutov LLNL Using the Snowflake Geometry to Mitigate Pulsed Divertor Heat Loads During the ELM Events
Z. Guo LANL Parallel Transport of Long Mean-Free-Path Plasma on Open Magnetic Fieldlines
L.J. Zheng U. Texas Investigation of Infernal Modes at Tokamak H-Mode Pedestal

Student Poster Award Winners

In order from right to left in the picture.

Student School Poster
K. Ghantous Princeton Quasilinear Modelling of Energetic Particle Interaction with TAE Modes
A. Montgomery U. Wisconsin-Madison The Effects of Applied 3D Magnetic Fields and Resistive Wall Boundary Conditions on MHD Simulations of Cylindrical Plasmas
J. King U. Wisconsin-Madison First-Order Finite-Larmor-Radius Effects on Magnetic Tearing in Pinch Configurations
G. Hagstrom U. Texas at Austin Caldeira-Leggett Model, Landau Damping, and the Vlasov-Poisson System
W. Deng U. California-Irvine Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Reversed Shear Alfven Eigenmode with Plasma Current and Comparison with DIII-D Experiment
A. Pataki New York U. High Order Methods for Computing Axisymmetric Plasma Equilibria