Plasma Conferences in 2005

Dynamics Days 2005, 7 - 10 January 2005, Coast Hotel, Long Beach, California USA. Contact Robert Rios, University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2117 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, California 92697-4575 USA; phone 949-824-4680; fax 949-824-2174.

Multiscale Processes in Fusion Plasmas, 10 - 14 January 2005, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Mark Green, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California USA.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 10 - 21 January 2005, University of California, Berkeley, California USA.  Contact USPAS; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Fifteenth Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XV) and Third EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, 15 - 20 January 2005, Grand Hotel Permon, Podbanske, Slovakia. Contact Joint Symposium of SAPPXV and EUJJSPP'05, Department of Plasma Physics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone +421-2-6029-5398; fax +421-2-6541-2305.

International Workshop on Physics of High Energy Density in Matter, 30 January - 4 February 2005, Waldemar-Petersen-Haus, Hirschegg, Austria. Contact Brigitte Schuster, Plasma Physics Department, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49 6159 71 2694; fax +49 6159 71 2888.

Plasma Science and Technology Conference (held in conjunction with Australian Institute of Physics Sixteenth Biennial Congress), 31 January - 4 February 2005, Canberra, Australia. Contact AINSE, Private Bag Mail 1, Menai NSW 2234, Australia; fax + 61 02 9717 9268.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady-State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices and MHD of Advanced Scenarios Institute for Plasma Research, 1 - 5 February 2005, Bhatt, India. Contact Y. C. Saxena, Institute for Plasma Research Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382428, India; phone +91-79- 23969029; fax +91-79-23969017; Guenter Mank, IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

IEA Workshop on Shape and Aspect Ratio Optimization for High-Beta Steady-State Tokamak, 14 - 15 Februrary 2005, San Diego, California USA. Contact xavier.litaudon@cea.fr.

Second International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 21 - 25 February 2005, Goa, India. Contact conference secretary.

Seventeenth NNV/CPS-Symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 1 - 2 March 2005, Lunteren, The Netherlands. Contact CPS-office, Eindhoven University of Technology, Cyclotron Building B 2.08, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; phone + 31 (0)40 - 247 4048; fax + 31 (0)40 - 243 8060.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on the Theory of Plasma Instabilities: Transport, Stability and their Interaction, 2 - 4 March 2005, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact ICTP.

Workshop on Plasma Physics: Capacity Building in Plasma Applications and Diagnostic Techniques, 7 - 11 March 2005, Trieste, Italy. Contact ICTP.

Sixth Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research, 7 - 11 March 2005, Washington, DC USA. Contact Emilio Panarella, Physics Essays Publication, 2012 Woodglen Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 6G4 Canada; fax (819) 457-1020.

Workshop on Physics at EBIT and Advanced Research Light Sources (PEARL 2005), 9 - 13 March 2005, Hainan, China. Contact Xiaofeng Zhu.

MHD Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Plasma, 14 - 15 March 2005, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. Contact Sarah Emberson; phone +44 20 7451 2581, fax +44 20 7451 2543.

Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas, 15 - 17 March 2005, Jülich, Germany. Contact M. von Hellermann.

Thirty-Second Annual IoP Plasma Physics Conference, 21 - 24 March 2005, Oxford, Great Britain. Contact Philip Andrew.

Ninth Easter Plasma Meeting on Stability and Confinement of Magnetized Plasmas, 30 March - 1 April 2005, Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy. Contact Franco Porcelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; phone +39 011 564 4446; fax +39 011 564 4499.

Transport Task Force, 6 - 9 April 2005, Napa, California USA. Contact Bill Nevins.

Sixteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 11 - 13 April 2005, Park City, Utah USA. Contact Paul Bonoli; fax 617-253-7227.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 11 - 13 April 2005, Stateline, Nevada USA. Contact Tom Rognlien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-630, Livermore, California 94550 USA; phone 925-422-9830; fax 923-423-3484.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 16 - 19 April 2005, Tampa, Florida USA.

Sixth Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 17 - 21 April 2005, Les Houches, France.

Forty-Eighth Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 23 - 28 April 2005, Adam's Mark Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact Ric Shimshock; phone 650-938-3705; fax 650-938-3113.

Workshop on Socio-Economics Aspects of Fusion Power, 25 - 27 April 2005, Culham, United Kingdom. Contact Kamariah Samson.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on ECRH Physics and Technology for ITER, 2 - 4 May 2005, Societ?del Casino, Como, Italy. Contact Sante Cirant, Istituto di Fisica del Plasma - CNR, via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy; phone +39 02 66173 263; fax +39 02 66173 239; Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF '05), 2 - 6 May 2005, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; phone 703-266-3287; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Seventh International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW7), 9 - 11 May 2005, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany. Contact Garrard Conway, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299-2177; fax +49 89 3299-1313.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Negative Ion Based Neutral Beam Injectors, 9 - 11 May 2005, Padova, Italy. Contact Vanni Antoni or Guenter Mank.

ElectroMed 2005, 15 - 18 May 2005, Portland, Oregon USA. Contact conference secretary.

Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC2005), 16 - 20 May 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee USA. Contact Kathy Rosenbalm, 701 Scarboro Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 6477 USA; phone +1 865 574 0558; fax +1 865 576 3041.

Thirteenth International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE13), 16 - 20 May 2005, Beijing, China.

Electric Fields and Discharges for Microbiology and Health Care Applications, 19 May 2005, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom. Contact Dawn Stewart.

Seventh International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-7), 22 - 27 May 2005, Tokyo, Japan. Contact H. Takatsu, Department of Fusion Engineering Research, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Mukoyama 801-1, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 311-0193 Japan; phone +81-(0)29-270-7581; fax +81-(0)29-270-7489.

Sixth International Conference on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas (IWEP 2005), 23 - 25 May, 2005, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.  Contact Kyu-Sun Chung, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haendang-dong, Seongdong-gu. Seoul 133-791, Korea; phone +82-2-2290-0465; fax +82-2-2299-1908.

Fourteenth IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT 2005), 4 - 10 June 2005, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Richard Jacobsson, CERN; phone +41 22 767 36 19.

Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators: New Sources of Energetic Particles and Radiation, 6 - 7 June 2005, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. Contact Katherine Hardaker; phone +44 (0)20 7451 2518; fax +44 (0)20 7451 2543.

Thirty-Sixth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 6 - 9 June 2005, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact David Carroll, CU Aerospace, 60 Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, Illinois 61820-7460 USA; phone 217-333-8274; fax 217-333-4050.

Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP 2005), 13 - 17 June 2005, Orleans, France. Contact M. Mikikian, GREMI Laboratory; phone +33 2 38 49 48 81; fax +33 2 38 41 71 54.

Seventh International High Energy Density and High Power RF Workshop (RF 2005), 13 - 17 June 2005, Kalamata, Greece. Contact Lynette Lombardo, University of California, Davis, California USA.

IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC2005), 13 - 17 June 2005, Monterey, California USA. Contact John Maenchen.

High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 13 - 18 June 2005, Troitsk, Russia. Contact Valentina Shabarina; phone (095) 334-05-38; fax (095) 334-55-10.

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films, 15 June 2005, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom. Contact Vanessa Pink.

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2005), 20 - 23 June 2005, Monterey, California USA.  Contact Robert Cauble, L-55, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550 USA. Includes collocated Minicourse on the Physics of Z-Pinches, 18 - 19 June 2005; contact Christopher Deeney, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA; phone 505-845-3657; fax 505-845-7685.

Second Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2005), 20 - 24 June 2005, Singapore. Contact Cheng-Hoon Khoo, Meeting Matters International, 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224; phone +65 6466 5775; fax +65 6467 7667.

US Particle Accelerator School, 20 June - 1 July 2005, Ithaca, New York USA. Contact US Particle Accelerator School, Fermilab, MS 125, Kirk Road and Wilson Streets, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA; phone (630) 840-3896; fax (630) 840-8500.

Thirty-Fifth Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, 26 June - 1 July 2005, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Contact Jesse Strauss; (703) 797-4516.

Thirty-Second EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2005), 27 June - 1 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain.

Eighth Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 29 June - 1 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain.

Eighth Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 3 - 4 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain. Contact Jana Brotankova, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, CZ - 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 26605 2942, 2940; fax (+420) 286 890 448.

Burning Plasma Physics and Simulation, 4 - 5 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain. Contact Bruno Goncalves; fax +44 1235 464800.

Eighth International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS 2005), 4 - 8 July 2005, Tromso, Norway.  Contact ?hild Fredriksen, Dept. Physics, University of TromsØ, N-9037 TromsØ, Norway; phone +47 7764 5133; fax +47 7764 5580.

First IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation Of Fusion Power Plant - Design & Technology, 5 - 7 July 2005, Vienna, Austria. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Nineteenth International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP) and Seventh Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference (APPTC), 12 - 15 July  2005, Nara, Japan. Contact Osamu Motojima, National Institute for Fusion Science, Director-General National Institute of Natural Sciences, Oroshi-cho, Toki-shi 509-5292, Japan.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting (IAEA-TM) on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 12 - 15 July 2005, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Piroska Giese, KFKI-Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, POB 49, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary; phone (36-1) 392-22 79; fax (36-1) 395-9151, or Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone: +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG-27), 17 - 22 July 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Forty-Second Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 18 - 29 July 2005, Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone 44 1235 466635; fax 44 1235 466379.

The Future of Integrated Modeling (Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Arnold H. Kritz), 19 - 20 July 2005, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.  Contact Glenn Bateman, Physics Department, Lehigh University, 16 Memorial Drive East, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 USA; phone (610) 758 5733; fax (610) 758 5730.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting. 19 - 20 July 2005, Gaithersburg, MD.

Twenty-FifthEuropean Dynamics Days, 25 - 28 July 2005, Berlin, Germany. Contact Eckehard Schoell, Institut für Theoretische Physik Technische, Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany; phone +49-30-314-23500; fax +49-30-314-21130.

Sixth International Conference on Dense Z-pinches, 25 - 28 July 2005, The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Alison McCann, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, Great Britain; phone 44 20 7594 7657; fax 44 20 7594 7658.

Sixth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 25 July - 1 August 2005, Nizhny Novgorod - St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 216 4831; fax +7 831 216 0616.

Intense Laser-Matter Interaction and Pulse Propagation (LMIPP05), 1 - 24 August 2005, Dresden, Germany. Contact Visitors Program, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany; phone +49-351-871-2198; fax +49-351-871-2199.

Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 3 - 6 August 2005, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Contact John Constello.

Summer School in High Energy Density Physics, 7 - 13 August 2005, Berkeley, California, USA.

Twelfth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2005), 21 - 26 August 2005, Brussels, Belgium. Contact Hamid Ait Abderrahim, SCK CEN Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium; phone +32 14 33 22 77.

Symposium on Applied Physics in honor of Norman Rostoker’s 80th Birthday, 22 August 2005, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California USA. Contact Frank Wessel.

Plasma Technology Training School, 29 August - 2 September 2005, Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact Declan Diver, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom; phone 0141 330 5686; fax 0141 330 5183.

Second International Workshop on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications (CAPPSA2005), 30 August - 2 September 2005, Bruges, Belgium. Contact CAPPSA 2005, Department of Applied Physics - TW17, Ghent University, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; fax +32-9-264 4172.

Fourth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA05), 4 - 9 September 2005, Biarritz, France. Contact Jean-Claude Gauthier; fax +33 540002580.

European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes  (EUROMAT 2005) (Symposium C32: Materials for Fusion Applications), 5 - 8 September 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

Sixteenth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc (SFO 2005), 5 - 9 September 2005, Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. Contact M. Bartlova, Department of Physics, UFYZ FEKT VUT, Technicka 8, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic; phone ++420 541 143 431; fax ++420 541 142 464.

Zababkhin Scientific Talks, 5 - 10 September 2005, Snezhinsk, Russia. Contact T. N. Gorbatova, RFNC - VNIITF; phone (351-46) 5-23-50.

Seventh Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics, 5 - 16 September 2005, Mechelen, The Netherlands. Contact R. Jaspers, Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), D-52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-3765; fax +49-2461-61-4038.

Autumn College on Plasma Physics: "Collective Processes", 5 - 30 September 2005, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact B. Stewart, ICTP; phone +39-040-2240544; fax +39-040-224163.

International Conference PLASMA-2005 on Research and Applications of Plasmas, combined with Third German-Polish Conference on Plasma Diagnostics for Fusion and Applications and Fifth French-Polish Seminar on Thermal Plasma in Space and Laboratory, 6 - 9 September 2005, Opole, Poland. Contact PLASMA-2005, Institute of Physics, Opole University, Ul. Oleska 48, 45-055 Opole, Poland.

IEE Pulsed Power Symposium, 8 September 2005, Apollo Hotel, Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Fourteenth International Summer School on Vacuum, Electron and Ion Technologies (VEIT2005), 12 - 16 September 2005, Varna, Bulgaria. Contact N. Guerassimov, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigradsko Chaussee, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone +359 2 9745013; fax +359 2 9753201.

Fifth Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, 12 - 16 September 2005, Qingdao City, China. Contact X. D. Sun; phone +(00)86-10-62773816; fax +(00)86-(0)10-62772850.

Joint 30th International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and 13th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 19 - 23 September 2005, Radisson Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center, Williamsburg, Virginia USA. Contact program committee.

Eighth European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 19 - 23 September 2005, Cape d'Agde, France. Includes short course on "New Challenges for Radiation Tolerance Assessment - from Deep Space Environments to Fusion Reactor Environments" on 19 September 2005. Contact secretariat.

Third International Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, 19 - 24 September 2005, Villa Monastero, Varenna (Lc), Italy. Contact D. Batani; fax +39-02-6448 2585.

Eleventh European Fusion Theory Conference, 26 - 28 September 2005, Aix-en-Provence, France. Contact Maurizio Ottaviani, DRFC/SCCP Bat. 513/148, CEA Cadarache, 13108 St Paul lez Durance, France; phone +33 (4) 42 25 22 34; fax +33 (4) 42 25 62 33.

Twelfth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD-12), 26 - 29 September 2005, Snowbird, Utah, USA. Contact Neville Luhmann, University of California, Davis, California USA.

Twenty-First Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2005), 26 - 29 September 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.  Contact Nermin Uckan; phone 1-865-574-1354; fax 1-865-241-8231.

Fifth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS 05), 26 - 30 September 2005, Hilo, Hawaii USA. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Joining & Welding Res. Inst. Osaka Univ, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone 06-6879-8694; fax 06-6879-8689.

IAEA Technical Meeting on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 28 - 30 September 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Artur Malaquias.

Summer School on Fine Structure and Turbulence in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind, 3 - 6 October 2005, Florence, Italy. Contact Marco Velli, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori and Eleventh International Workshop on Spherical Torus, 3 - 6 October 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Artur Malaquias, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Fifteenth International Stellarator Workshop, 3  - 7 October 2005, Madrid, Spain. Contact E. Ascasibar, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion, CIEMAT Av. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain; phone +34 91 3466369(6159); fax +34 913466124.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, 10 - 11 October 2005, Madrid, Spain. Contact Guenter Mank, IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Tenth International Workshop on Experimental Performance of KTM Tokamak and Research Program, 10 - 12 October 2005, Astan, Kazakhstan. Contact Tatiana Smirnova.

Tenth International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPS 2005), 10 - 14 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland. Contact Danièle Lajust, Building: 60/3-017 Mailbox L00810, CERN, CH - 1211 Geneve-23, Switzerland; phone + 41 22 767 57 43; fax + 41 22 767 95 45.

ASDEX Upgrade Programme Seminar, 10 - 14 October 2005, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany. Contact Josef Schweinzer, IPP Garching Bereich E1, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium "Fusion and Energy Policy", 11 - 12 October 2005, Washington, DC USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; phone (301) 258-0545; fax (301) 975-9869.

Tenth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET10), 16 - 19 October 2005, Jülich, Germany. Contact Detlev Reiter, Institute of Plasma Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-5841; fax +49-2461-61-2970.

Fifty-Eighth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 16 - 20 October 2005, San Jose, California USA.

Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 24 - 28 October 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA. Includes miniconferences on Astrophysical Explosions: From Engines to Remnants, Reconnection and Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas, Fast Ignition Status and Prospects, and Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Tubes in Space and Laboratory Plasmas. Contact Saralyn Stewart, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, RLM 11.214, Austin, TX 78712 USA; phone +1 512 471 4378; fax +1 512 471 6715.

AVS Fifty-Second International Symposium, 30 October - 4 November 2005, Boston, Massachusetts USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Tenth Active Control of MHD Stability Workshop, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2005, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact John Sarff, 3289 Chamberlin Hall, Thomas C, 1150 University Ave, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA; phone (608) 262-7742.

Fourth IEA Large Tokamak Workshop and Joint Workshop of Large Tokamak, Poloidal Divertor and TEXTOR IA's, 1 - 2 November 2005, San Diego, California USA.

Workshop on Cheap Plasma Technology in Industry, Environment and Medicine, 5 - 7 November 2005, Plasma Technology Center, University of Al-Azhar, Nasr Cty, Cairo, Egypt. Contacts Abdou Garamoon, Plasma Technology Center, University of Al-Azhar, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; phone 0020-02-6249139; fax 0020-02-2629356. Training school follows on 8 -14 November 2005.

Global and Local Control of Tokamak Plasmas, 8 - 14 November 2005, Erice, Italy.  Contact Maria Laura Sansovini, ENEA Frascati, Italy; phone **39 06 94005602 ; fax **39 06 94005147.

Ninth IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 9 - 11 November 2005, Takayama, Japan. Contact Artur Malaquias.

Eighth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-8), 24 - 25 November 2005, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact A. Loonen.

Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Dry Process (DPS 2005), 28 - 30 November 2005, Jeju, Korea. Contact: Hideo Sugai; phone 81 52 789 4697; fax 81 52 782 6702.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Use of Small Fusion Devices, 30 November - 2 December 2005, Mexico City, Mexico. Contact Artur Malaquias,  International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Twelfth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-12), 4 - 9 December 2005, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact Robert Odette.

Twentieth National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA 2005), 5 - 7 December 2005, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India. Preceded by tutorial on laser-produced plasma, 4 December 2005. Contact P Radhakrishnan, International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin 682 022, India; phone +91-484-2575848; fax +91-484-2576714.

AGU Fall Meeting, 5 - 9 December 2005, Moscone Center West, 800 Howard Street, San Francisco, California USA. Session on Nonlinearity, Stochasticity, Scaling, and Self-Organization in Solar System Plasmas. Contact Sandra Chapman, Space and Astrophysics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, 5 - 9 December 2005, Mexico City, Mexico. Contact Julio Herrera-Velázquez, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 70-543, Ciudad Universitaria Del. Coyoacán, 04511 México, D. F. Mexico; phone +52-55-56224672; fax +52-55-56162233.

Fifteenth International Toki Conference, 6 - 9 December 2005, Ceratopia Toki, Toki Gifu, Japan. Contact secretariat.

National Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, 7 - 9 December 2005, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA.

Seventh Japan-Australia Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics, 12 - 14 December 2005, Toki, Japan. Contact conference secretary.

Thirteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 14 - 16 December 2005, Montegrotto Therme, Italy. Contact Elisa Carlini; phone +39.049.82950001; fax+39.049.8700718

Sixth Workshop on Fine Particle Plasmas, 15 -16 December 2005, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Toki, Japan. Contact Y. Hayashi; phone +81-75-724-7415; fax+81-75-724-7400.