Journal article
Foreword to Special Issue: Papers from the 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012
Physics of plasmas, Vol.20(5), p.55301
05/2013
DOI: 10.1063/1.4804553
Abstract
Each year, the annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) brings together a broad representation of the many active subfields of plasma physics and enjoys an audience that is equally diverse. The meeting was well attended and largely went as planned despite the interventions of hurricane Sandy which caused the city of Providence to shut-down during the first day of the conference. The meeting began on Monday morning with a review of the physics of cosmic rays, 2012 being the 100th year since their discovery, which illustrated the central importance of plasma physics to astrophysical problems. Subsequent reviews covered the importance of tokamak plasma boundaries, progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and magnetized plasma turbulence. The Maxwell prize address, by Professor Liu Chen, covered the field of nonlinear Alfvén wave physics. Tutorial lectures were presented on the verification of gyrokinetics, new capabilities in laboratory astrophysics, magnetic flux compression, and tokamak plasma start-up.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Foreword to Special Issue: Papers from the 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012
- Creators
- Fred Skiff - University of IowaRonald C Davidson - Princeton University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics of plasmas, Vol.20(5), p.55301
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4804553
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- eISSN
- 1089-7674
- Number of pages
- 1
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2013
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199699302771
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