Technical Areas and Session Organizers

Technical Area Chairs : Grigory Kagan, ICL & Martin Rudolph, IOM Leipzig

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
1.1 Basic Phenomena and space plasmas	Grigory Kagan, ICL
1.2 Computational Plasma Physics	Mark Schmitt, LANL
1.3 Partially Ionized Plasmas	Jon Tomas Gudmundsson, Univ. of Iceland
1.4 Dusty Plasmas and Strongly Coupled Plasmas	Scott Baalrud, Univ. of Michigan
1.5 Plasma Chemistry	Nikolay Britun, Univ. of Nagoya

Technical Area Chairs: Nick Jordan, Univ. of Michigan; Colin Whyte, Univ. of Strathclyd

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
2.1 Intense Beam Microwave Generation	Xueying Lu, Northern Illinois University
2.2 Fast-Wave Devices	John Jelonnek, KIT
2.3 Slow-Wave Devices	Nick Jordan, Univ. of Michigan
2.4 Vacuum Microelectronics and THz Devices	Ricky Ang, Singapore Univ. of Tech and Design
2.5 Codes and Modeling	Igor Chernyavskiy, NRL
2.6 Non-Fusion Microwave Systems	Guido Link, KIT
2.7 Microwave Plasma Interaction	John Verboncoeur, Michigan State Univ.
2.8 Microwave Amplifier	Chao-Hai Du, EECS Peking
2.9 Solid State HPM	Tanner Hewitt, TTU

Technical Area Chairs: David Hinshelwood, NRL; Jeff Woolstrum, SNL

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
3.1 Plasma, Ion and Electron Sources	Alex Sarracino, SNL
3.2 Intense Electron and Ion Beams	Dana Duke, NRL

Technical Area Chairs: Lee Suttle, ICL; Sabrina Nagal, LLNL

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
4.1 Particle Acceleration with Laser and Beams	Charlotte Palmer, Queens Univ. Belfast
4.2 Radiation Physics & X-ray Lasers	Maximilian Böhme, HZDR
4.3 High Energy Density Matter	Simon Bolaños, UCSD
4.4 Laser Produced Plasmas	Jian Wu, Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.
4.5 Fast Z Pinches	Bruno Albertazzi, LULI
4.6 Plasma Material Interactions	Narguess Nemati, Aarhus Univ.
4.7 Magnetized HEDP	Jiayong Zhong, Beijing Normal Univ.

Technical Area Chairs: Jacob Stephens, TTU; Laurent Pecastaing, Univ. Pau

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
5.1 Closing Switches (incl. on-only solid state)	Adam Steiner, SNL
5.2 Opening Switches (incl. on-off solid state)	Anton Gusev, Univ. Pau
5.3 High Energy Density Storage	Mark Schneider, General Atomics
5.4 Transmission Line & Transformers	Ray Allen, NRL
5.5 Insulation and Dielectric Breakdown	Igor Timoshkin, Univ. Strathclyde

Technical Area Chairs: Chunqi Jiang, ODU; Allen Garner, Purdue Univ.

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
6.1 Nonequilibrium Plasma Applications	Guus Pemen, TUE Tao Shao, CAS
6.2 High-Pressure and Thermal Plasma Processing	Tony Murphy, CSIRO Ursel Fantz, IPP
6.3 Plasma Thrusters	Alex Shashurin, Purdue Univ. Ken Hara, Standford
6.4 Environmental, Industrial, and Display Applications	Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson Univ. John Foster, Univ. of Michigan
6.5 Medical and Biological Applications	Katharina Stapelmann, NC State Univ. Ravi Joshi, TTU

Technical Area Chairs: Christophe Vermare, CEA; Bucur Novac, LBU

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
7.1 Explosive Power Generators	Baptiste Cadilhon, CEA
7.2 High Current/High Power Pulsers	Bruno Cassany, CEA-CESTA
7.3 Compact Pulsed Power	Frederic Bayol, ITOPP
7.4 Linear Transformer Drivers	Benjamin Lassalle, CEA-Gramat

Technical Area Chairs: Martin Sack, KIT; Brad Hoff, AFR

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
8.1 Electromagnetic Launch	Markus Schneider, ISL
8.2 Generators & Networks	Susan Heidger, AFRL
8.3 Repetitive Systems	Villiam Senaj, CERN
8.4 Pulsed Power for Lasers	Charles Edgar Rose, SNL
8.5 Power Supplies and Modulators	Emily Schrock, SNL
8.6 Prime Power and Power System Topologies	James Schrock, AFRL

Technical Area Chairs: Richard Hoad, QinetiQ; Eric Sander Lavine, Cornell Univ.

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
9.1 Optical, X-ray, FIR and Microwave Diagnostics	Jens von der Linden, IPP
9.2 Particle and Electrical (Probe) Diagnostics	James Walsh, Univ. of York
9.3 Pulsed Power Diagnostics	Frank Hegeler, NRL

Technical Area Chairs: Stephen Bayne, TTU; Weihua Jiang, Nagaoka Univ.

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
10.1 Converters, AC and DC	Argenis Bilbao, TTU
10.2 Components, magnetics, switches, capacitors	Miguel Hinojosa, ALC
10.3 System modeling, thermal, EMI, circuits	Michael Giesselmann, TTU

Technical Area Chairs: Sophia Rocca, LLNL; Robert Kingham, ICL

Topic Sessions	Topic Session Organizers
11.1 Inertial Confinement Fusion	Clement Goyon, LLNL
11.2 Magnetic Confinement Fusion	Sarah Elmore, UKAEA
11.3 Other Fusion Schemes	Hugo Doyle, First Light Fusion
11.4 Pulsed Power for Fusion	Frank Hegeler, NRL