:: EPS 2008 - Invited Speakers

Alfven Prize

L. Chen

Alfven Waves: A Journey between Space and Fusion Plasmas

[Presentation]

Magnetic Confinement Fusion

A. Becoulet	Technology and science of steady state operation in magnetically confined plasmas	[Presentation]
G. Conway	Turbulence measurements in fusion plasmas	[Presentation]
S. Pinches	The Physics of Fast Ion Driven Instabilities in Fusion Plasmas	[Presentation]
Y. Andrew	Access to H-mode on JET and implications for ITER	[Presentation]
A. Boozer	Stellarators and the path from ITER to DEMO	[Presentation]
S. Brezinsek	Material erosion and migration studies in JET and implications for ITER	[Presentation]
B. Dudson	Experiments and simulations of edge turbulence and filaments in MAST	[Presentation]
G. Falchetto	The European Turbulence Code Benchmarking Effort: Turbulence driven by Thermal Gradients in Magnetically Confined Plasmas	[Presentation]
J. Garcia	Integrated modelling of ITER steady-state scenarios	[Presentation]
O. Gruber	Compatibility of ITER scenarios with an all-W wall	[Presentation]
M. Gryaznevich	Beta Limit in JET	[Presentation]
S. Guenter	Three dimensional effects in tokamaks
S. Ide	JT-60U advanced tokamak research towards JT-60SA	[Presentation]
D. McDonald	JET confinement studies and their scaling to high ß_N scenarios	[Presentation]
J. Menard	The response of tokamak plasmas to 3D magnetic field perturbations	[Presentation]
A. Murari	Innovative Diagnostics for ITER Physics addressed in JET	[Presentation]
J. Rice	Spontaneous toroidal rotation in Alcator C-MOD plasmas	[Presentation]
S. Sakakibara	Study of Reactor-Relevant High-Beta Regime in the Large Helical Device	[Presentation]
O. Schmitz	Three dimensional transport analysis for ELM control experiments in ITER similar shape plasmas at low collisionality in D-III-D	[Presentation]
F. Tabares	Plasma performance and confinement in the TJ-II stellarator with lithium-coated walls	[Presentation]
V. Udintsev	Global Plasma Oscillations in ITBs	[Presentation]
M. Valisa	Physics issues in the new high current regimes on RFX-mod.	[Presentation]

Beam Plasmas and Inertial Fusion

M. Borghesi	Laser driven proton acceleration: source optimization and perspectives for application
M. Tabak	Fast ignition: original concept and new developments	[Presentation]
G. Tsakiris	From relativistic laser-plasma interactions to intense attosecond pulses
F. Albert	Full characterization of laser-produced keV X-ray betatron source and applications	[Presentation]
N. Blanchot	Overview of PETAL, the multi-Petawatt project on the LIL facility
T. Ceccotti	First results on ions acceleration in an ultra-short, ultra high contrast 50 TW Laser Regime	[Presentation]
A. Di Piazza	Quantum vacuum effects in strong laser beams
R. Fonseca	One-to-one direct modelling of experiments and astrophysical scenarios: pushing the envelope on kinetic plasma simulations
J. Honrubia	Electron transport in imploded fast ignition targets	[Presentation]
D. Jaroszynski	Radiation sources based on laser-plasma accelerators: current status and challenges	[Presentation]
T. Liseykina	Radiation Pressure Acceleration by Ultraintense Laser Pulses
F. Quere	Novel radiation sources using plasma mirrors
P. Renaudin	Investigating atomic properties of warm dense matter produced by laser	[Presentation]
A. Robinson	Magnetic collimation of fast electrons using structured targets	[Presentation]
B. Rus	Warm Dense Matter by X-ray laser-produced plasmas	[Presentation]
R. Singleton	An exact treatment of charged particle stopping in a plasma or The Coulomb logarithm revisited	[Presentation]
C Stoekl	Fast ignition target design and experimental concept validation at OMEGA	[Presentation]
L.Videau	Overview of on-going LIL experiments	[Presentation]

Dusty and Low Temperature Plasmas

S. Krasheninnikov	Recent progress in understanding the behaviour of dust in fusion devices	[Presentation]
V. Pasko	Lighting-related transient luminous events at high altitude in the Earth’s atmosphere	[Presentation]
A. Piel	Complex plasmas: forces and dynamical behaviour	[Presentation]
K. Bergmann	Present Status of Pinch Plasmas for EUV and Soft X-ray Radiation	[Presentation]
J.P. Borra	Charging of aerosols and nucleation in atmospheric pressure electrical discharges	[Presentation]
L. Boufendi	Particle growth and detection in low temperature plasmas	[Presentation]
T. Gans	Phase resolved emission spectroscopy: Multi-frequency discharges and atmospheric pressure plasmas
W. Goedheer	Simulation of dust voids in complex plasmas	[Presentation]
A. Ivlev	New phenomena in liquid complex plasmas
D. Karabourniotis	Diagnostics of dense dispersive plasmas from line reversal	[Presentation]
U. Kortshagen	Plasma synthesis of silicon quantum dots for printed electronics and photovoltonics	[Presentation]
G. Kroesen	Electrical Breakdown: Experiments and Modeling	[Presentation]
M. Kushner	Modelling plasma modification on surfaces at low and high pressure. Achieving high control of reactants.	[Presentation]
V. Nosenko	Monolayer complex plasma experiments
C. Oehr	Plasma deposition of ultrathin films for biomedical use	[Presentation]
O. Petrov	Dusty plasmas under effect of external forces: basic phenomena and applications
S. Ratynskaia	In-situ dust detection in fusion devices	[Presentation]
P. Rocca	Low temperature plasma synthesis of silicon nanocrystals: the way for high deposition rate and efficient polymorphous and microcrystalline solar cells	[Presentation]

Basic Plasmas and Space and Astrophysical Plasmas

J.-P. Boeuf	Hall Effect Thrusters for Satellite Propulsion	[Presentation]
T. C. Killian	Watching Ions Dance Near Absolute Zero	[Presentation]
F. Moreno-Insertis	Magnetized plasma eruptions in the solar atmosphere	[Presentation]
K.H. Spatschek	Aspects of stochastic transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas	[Presentation]
R. Bamford	Star Trek plasma shields: Measurements and Modelling of a diamagnetic cavity	[Presentation]
D. Escande	When can Fokker-Planck equation describe anomalous or chaotic particle transport?	[Presentation]
D. Gericke	Temperature Equilibration in Dense Strongly Coupled Plasmas
C. Gregory	Astrophysical jet experiments	[Presentation]
Hansen Freddy	Experiments on interstellar cloud evolution following shock passage	[Presentation]
M. Marklund	Vaccum and plasma QED nonlinearities	[Presentation]
S. Muller	Studies of blob formation, propagation and transport mechanisms in basic experimental plasmas (TORPEX and CSDX)
F. Paganucci	MHD instabilities in Magneto-Plasma-Dynamic Thrusters	[Presentation]
F. Peano	Expansion of nanoplasmas in ultraintense laser-matter interactions
K. Ronald	Laboratory Investigations of Auroral Cyclotron Emission Processes	[Presentation]
A. Schekochihin	Kinetic phase-space turbulence in space and laboratory Plasmas	[Presentation]
H. Takabe	High-Mach Number Collsionless Shock and Photo-ionized Non-LTE Plasmas for Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense Lasers	[Presentation]
V. Tikhonchuk	Laboratory Modeling of supersonic radiative jets propagation in plasmas and their scaling to astrophysical conditions	[Presentation]
R. Trines	The magnetopause is really a transport barrier like in tokamaks	[Presentation]
G. Vatistas	The Dynamics Similarity Between Polygonal Satellite Vortices and Electron Columns in a Malberg-Penning Trap

Joint Session

F. Alladio	Rotating twisted flux tubes buoyancy: comparison between the convective region of the Sun and the edge of a tokamak plasma	[Presentation]
F. Casse	Vertical angular momentum transport in astrophysical turbulent MHD accretion disks and the formation of large-scale collimated jets	[Presentation]
P. Diamond	Anti-friction, Homogenization and Angular Momentum Transport in Tokamaks, Planets and the Solar Tachocline	[Presentation]
D. Hughes	Turbulent Transport and Coherence in MHD	[Presentation]