ICNSP '03 Program

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Link to Day:	Link to Event:	Link to Session:
Sun., 9/7/2003	Registration and Reception	Oral Session I
Mon., 9/8/2003	Opening and Review Talk	Poster Session I
Tues., 9/9/2003	Sea Cruise	Oral Session II
Wed., 9/10/2003	Banquet	Oral Session III
		Oral Session IV
		Poster Session II

Sunday, September 7th

14:00	Registration opens at the Sea Crest Resort
19:00-21:00	Reception - Ballroom II

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Monday, September 8th

8:00-9:00	Opening and Review Talk - Ballroom I
8:00-8:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks [Batishchev]
8:15-9:00	Beyond Benchmarking-How Experiments and Simulations Can Work Together [Greenwald]
9:00-12:05	Oral Session I - Ballroom I Chair: Gregory Hammett [PPPL, USA]
9:00-9:30	Comprehensive suite of codes for plasma-edge modeling [Schneider]
9:30-10:00	Turbulence, transport and self-consistent profiles via global Eulerian gyrokinetic simulations [Candy]
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break
10:15-10:45	Structure formation and dynamical behavior of kinetic plasmas controlled by magnetic reconnection [Horiuchi]
10:45-11:05	Collisionless magnetic reconnection [Grasso]
11:05-11:25	A Kinetic Model for Laboratory and Space Observation of Fast Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection [Egedal]
11:25-11:45	Free-boundary Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of DIII-D Tokamak Plasmas with NIMROD [Kruger]
11:45-12:05	MHD Simulations with Resistive Wall and Magnetic Separatrix [Strauss]
13:00-15:00	Cape Cod Sea Cruise [or Poster Session II if rain...]
16:00-18:30	Poster Session I - Ballroom II, III [Posters remain up till Tues. afternoon]
17:00	A Conference picture will be taken at the Sea Crest beach.

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Tuesday, September 9th

8:00-12:10	Oral Session II - Ballroom I Chair: Kurt Appert [CRPP, Switzerland]
8:00-8:30	Some discoveries in teaching plasma simulation [Birdsall]
8:30-9:00	High power microwave tube verification and design using the ICEPIC 3D parallel, electromagnetic PIC code [Mardahl]
9:00-9:20	A Hybrid DSMC-PIC Model of The Near-Field Plume of a Hall Thruster [Boyd]
9:20-9:40	Four Dimensional Fokker-Planck Solver for Electron Kinetics in Collisional Gas Discharge Plasmas [Kolobov]
9:40-10:00	Numerical Simulation of a colloidal thruster in the mixed ion-droplet regime [Carretero]
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break
10:15-10:45	Recent Advances in Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulation [Allfrey]
10:45-11:15	The Particle-Continuum Method: An Algorithmic Unification of Particle-In-Cell and Vlasov Methods [Vadlamani]
11:15-11:35	Recent gyrokinetic results on ETG modes [Jenko]
11:35-11:55	Semi-Lagrangian scheme for the Vlasov on an unstructured mesh of phase space [Besse]
11:55-12:15	Vlasov simulations on an adaptive phase-space grid [Sonnendrucker]
13:30-17:15	Oral Session III - Ballroom I Chair: Ritoku Horiuchi [NIFS, Japan] [Poster Session II posters can be posted]
13:30-14:00	3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Pellet Injection in Tokamaks [Samtaney]
14:00-14:30	Self-gravitational Collapse of a Magnetized Cloud Core: High Resolution Simulations with Three-dimensional MHD Nested Grid [Matsumoto]
14:30-14:50	The SEL Macroscopic Modeling Code [Glasser]
14:50-15:10	Fragmentation, Merging, and Internal Dynamics for PIC Simulation with Finite Size Particles [Hewett]
15:10-15:30	Implicit Hybrid Simulation Techniques for the Modeling of Intense Laser-Matter Interactions [Mason]
15:30-15:50	Coffee Break
15:50-16:10	Global gyrokinetic simulation of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in plasmas with canonical Maxwellian distribution [Idomura]
16:10-16:30	Thermodynamic and Numerical Properties of a Gyrokinetic Plasma [Lee]
16:30-16:50	ICRF Wave Simulation in the VASIMR Plasma [Ilin]
16:50-17:10	Numerical simulation of the early plasma spread stage in the large-scale plasma ionospheric experiments [Repin]
19:00-22:00	Banquet - Nauset I, II

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Wednesday, September 10th

8:00-11:45	Oral Session IV - Ballroom I Chair: John Verboncoeur [UCB, USA]
8:00-8:30	Numerical simulation of plasma-wall interactions in weakly collisional plasmas [Manfredi]
8:30-9:00	Study of Fast Electron Beam Transport in High Density Plasma using 3D Hybrid-Darwin Code [Taguchi]
9:00-9:30	Two Dimensional Particle-In-Cell for Simulation of Quantum Plasmas [Tonge]
9:30-9:45	Coffee Break
9:45-10:05	Toroidal Simulations of Nonlinear Thresholds and Saturations of Classical and Neoclassical Tearing Instabilities [Lutjens]
10:05-10:25	Two-Fluid Simulations of 2D Magnetic Reconnection [Breslau]
10:25-10:45	Self-Organization of Plasmas with Flows [Numata]
10:45-11:05	Mesh Refinement for Particle-In-Cell Plasma Simulations: Application to Heavy Ion Fusion [Vay]
11:05-11:25	A Grid-Free Treecode Field Solver for Plasma Simulations with Application to a Confined Electron Column in a Penning-Malmberg Trap [Christlieb]
11:25-11:45	A Maximum Likelihood Method for Linking of Particle-in-Cell and Monte Carlo Simulations [Bowers]
13:00-15:00	Poster Session II - Ballroom II, III

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