PROGRAM

Invited Speakers: Please find abstracts of the invited talks here

Jeff Lestz — University of California, Irvine Experimental Evidence of Helicon Wave Heating and Current Drive in DIII-D

Shreekrishna Tripathi — University of California, Los Angeles Destabilization of Ion Cyclotron Emission and EMIC Waves by a Proton Beam in a Large Magnetized Plasma

Ehab Hassan — Oak Ridge National Laboratory Integrated Modeling as a Pathway for Designing, Optimizing, and Controlling Next Generation of Tokamaks and Stellarators by Coupling Plasma Physics to Engineering Constraints

Jalaan Avritte — Auburn University Analysis of Mixed Modes of Filament Morphologies in the MDPX Device Through a Convolutional Neural Network

Ben Antognetti — University of Wisconsin–Madison Interactions between Bursts of High-Frequency Waves and Runaway Electrons in MST Tokamak Plasmas

Krishan Kumar — West Virginia University Role of Laser Polarization in Quantum Beat Spectroscopy for Magnetic Field Measurements in Plasmas

Cameron Kuchta — University of Wisconsin–Madison Measurement of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection

Tommy Steinberger — West Virginia University Non-Perturbative Mapping of Inverted Sheaths in Low-Temperature Plasmas Using Planar LIF and QBS

Lingling Zhao — University of Alabama in Huntsville Multiscale Interaction Between Solar Wind Turbulence and Shocks

Shea Hess-Webber — Stanford University & COFFIES Science Center Connecting Laboratory Plasmas to the Solar Interior

Anna Tenerani — University of Texas at Austin 3D Spherically Polarized Alfvén Waves

Yevgeny Raitses — Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Electron-Beam-Generated E×B Plasmas and Their Applications: User and Host Team Research at the Princeton Collaborative Research Facility (PCRF)

Kristopher Klein — University of Arizona The Oblique Drift Instability: A Route to Ion Heating via Drifts in Magnetically Dominated Plasmas