Plasma Conferences in 2006

2006 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 8 - 14 January 2006, Tucson, Arizona USA. Contact Ramon Barnes; phone (413) 256-8942; fax (413) 256-3746.

Winter School 2006: Physics of Magnetic Reconnection, 9 - 13 January 2006, University of California, Los Angeles, California USA.

Taiwan-Korea Plasma Conference, 16 - 18 January 2006, Taipei, Taiwan. Contact conference secretary.

Nineteenth International Canberra Physics Summer School, Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Granular Flows, 16 - 20 January 2006, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact Helen Hawes, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia; phone: 02 612 52480; fax 02 612 58316.

US Particle Accelerator School, 16 - 27 January 2006, Phoenix, Arizona 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.

Sixth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-6) and Twenty-Third Symposium on Plasma Processing (SPP-23), 24 - 27 January 2006, Hotel Taikanso, Matsushima/Sendai, Japan. Contact S. Samukawa, Intelligent Nano-Process Laboratory, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; phone/fax +81-22-217-5240.

Fourteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEM XIV), 5 - 9 Feb 2006, Murramarang, NSW, Australia. Contact Brian James; phone +61 2 9351 2537; fax +61 2 9351 7726. Includes Workshop on dynamics and statistics of complex multi-component systems in ionized gases.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop, 13 - 16 February 2006, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Tom Jarboe, University of Washington; phone: 1 (206) 685-3427.

NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, 14 - 16 February 2006, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada USA. Contact Cara Loomis, Department of Physics, UNLV, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4002 USA; phone 1 (702) 895-0868; fax 1 (702) 895-0804.

International Conference on Superhard Coatings, 27 February - 1 March 2006 at Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel. Contact Reuven Boxman, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, POB 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; phone 972-3-640-7364; fax 972-3-641-0189.

Ninth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 2 March 2006, Kibbutz Ein-Gedi, Israel. Contact Amnon Fruchtman.

Sixth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 11 - 14 March 2006, Rice University, Houston, Texas USA. Contact Umbe Cantu, Rice University, Physics & Astronomy Department, MS 108, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas 77005-1892 USA; phone 1 (713) 348-4939, fax 1 (713) 348-5143.

Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, 27 - 30 March 2006, Doral Desert Princess Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA. Contact Nikolai Pogorelov, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California 92521 USA; phone +1-951-827-5640; fax +1-951-827-4509.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2 - 7 April 2006. Vienna, Austria. Contact COSIS.

International Workshop on Fast Neutron Detectors and Applications, 3 - 6 April 2006, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact Margie Maich, Centre for Research in Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; phone +27 21 650-2759; fax +27 21 715-5078.

Energy... for the Future, 10 - 11 April 2006, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom.  Contact The Royal Society.

Thirty-Third IoP Annual Conference on Plasma Physics, 10 - 13 April 2006, Crieff, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact A. W. Cross, Department of Physics, John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland, United Kingdom.

APS April Meeting and International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 22 - 25 April 2006, Dallas Texas USA. Contact Jim Drake, University of Maryland.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF '06), 24 - 28 April 2006, 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.

Eighth International Conference on Advanced Surface Engineering (8th ICASE), 25 - 26 April  2006, Tokyo, Japan. Contact Y. Tsukamoto, EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; phone +81-52-789-3259; fax +81-52-789-3260.

Sixteenth Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 7 - 11 May 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia USA. Contact Jean Steve, University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299 USA; phone 585-275-5286; fax 585-256-2586.

International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006), 8 - 11 May 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Contact IEE.

Fourteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Heating (EC14), 9 - 12 May 2006, Santorini, Greece. Contact Avrilios Lazaros; phone ++30-210-772-3684; fax ++30-210-772-3513.

Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Control of Plasmas in Magnetic Fusion, 11 - 12 May 2006, General Atomics, San Diego, California USA. Contact Eugenio Schuster, Lehigh University, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-3085 USA; phone 610-758-5253; fax 610-758-6224.

Thirteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2006), 22 - 26 May 2006, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact Olha Kocherga, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 14-B Metrolohichna Str, Kiev 03143 Ukraine; phone 38 044 492 14 28; fax 38 044 526 59 98.

Seventeenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interaction in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-17), 22 - 26 May 2006, Hefei Anhui, China. Contact Shaohua Dong; phone +86-551-5591601; fax +86-551-5591310.

Eighth International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 29 - 30 May 2006, Tunxi, Huangshan City, China. Contact Rion Causey, Sandia National Laboratories.

FESAC Fusion Plan Discussion, 1 - 2 June 2006, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersberg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker.

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2006), 4 - 8 June 2006, Traverse City, Michigan USA. Contact Jes Asmussen, Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48224 USA; phone 517-355-4620; fax 517-353-1980.

Thirty-Seventh AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 5 - 8 June 2006, San Francisco, California USA.

Nordic Plasma 2006, 11 - 14 June 2006, Loen, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen,  National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; phone +47 23 19 53 20; fax +47 23 19 52 06.

Twenty-Ninth European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter (29 ECLIM), 11 - 16 June 2006, Madrid, Spain.

Thirty-Third European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 19 - 23 June 2006, Rome, Italy. Contact: Maria Polidoro, ENEA, Frascati, Italy; phone **39 06 94005309; fax **39 06 94005100.

Tenth International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation (ICESP X), 25 - 29 June 2006, Cairns, Australia. Contact ICESP X, 13 Monarch Drive, Hamlyn Terrace, NSW 2259, Australia; phone/fax 61 2 43931114.

Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, 25 - 29 June 2006, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Contact Grete Flarup, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1522, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; phone (+45) 8942 3732.

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing 2006 Conference (SciDAC 2006), 25 - 30 June 2006, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact Bill Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University; phone (609) 243-2612; fax (609) 243-2662.

Ninth Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 26 - 27 June 2006, Rome, Italy. 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; fax (+420) 286 890 448.

Twenty-Second Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 26 - 29 June 2006, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal.

Matter in Super-Intense Laser Fields, 27 June - 5 July 2006, Erice, Sicily, Italy.  Contact Dimitri Batani, Dipartimento di Fisica "G.Occhialini", Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy; fax +39 02 6448 2585.

Eleventh Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 28 June - 1 July 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia USA. Contact Bill Amatucci.

Waves and Turbulence Phenomena in Space Plasmas, 1 - 9 July 2006, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Technical Secretary.

Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (APCPST), 2 - 5 July 2006, Novotel Palm Cove Resort, Cairns, Australia. Contact Albert Meige, SP3 / PRL / RSPhysSE, Oliphant Building, Australian National University, 0200 Canberra ACT, Australia; phone +61 (0)2 6125 2828; fax +61 (0)2 6125 8316.

Second International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics, 3 - 9 July 2006, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, 27 Kosta Loulchev Street, Sofia BG-1111, Bulgaria; phone +359 2 8720 733; fax +359 2 8723 877.

Sixteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF06), 9 - 14 July 2006, Saint-Malo, France. Contact Marie-Madeleine Gombert, Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Batiment 210, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

DIII-D Diagnostics Mini-Workshop, 11 July 2006, San Diego, California USA. Contact Boivin.

Anomalous Transport: Experimental Results and Theoretical Challenges, 12 - 16 July 2006, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Rainer Klages.

Thirty-Sixth COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 16 - 23 July 2006, Beijing, China. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; phone +33 1 45 25 06 79; fax: +33 1 40 50 98 27. Includes "Space Applications of Dusty Plasma".

Sixth Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement (OS2006), 17 - 21 July 2006, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Contact M. Ichimura.

Forty-Third Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 17 - 28 July 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Kamariah Samson, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone: (44) 1235 466532; fax: (44) 1235 466435.

Lighting Workshop and Academic/Industrial Debate, 19 July 2006, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Contact UK Displays & Lighting Network, Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre, Sherwood Drive, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB, United Kingdom; phone +44(0)1908 276665.

Attosecond Science Workshop, 31 July - 15 September 2006, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact Andre Bandrauk.

Foundations of High Energy Density Physics, 6 - 20 August 2006, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan USA. Contact Jan Beltran.

First Asian Summer School on Laser Plasma Acceleration and Radiation, 7 - 11 Aug 2006, Beijing, China. Contact Y. Gao, Institute of Physics, CAS, PO Box 603-33, Beijing, 100080, China; phone +86-10-82649356; fax +86-10-82649356.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 28 August - 1 September 2006, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale, 85 – 23821 Abbadia Lariana (LC), Italy; fax +39-0341-732490.

Twenty-Third Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2006), 28 August - 1 September, 2006, Kopaonik, Serbia and Montenegro. Contact Dragutin Sevic, Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 68, Pregrevica 118, Zemun, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; phone +381 11 3160882; fax +381 11 3162190.

Conference on Computational Physics, 29 August - 1 September 2006, Gyeongju, South Korea. Contact Jai Sam Kim.

Utilization of Signal Control from Plasma Measurements to Establish Process Control, 4 - 6 September 2006, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Vic Law, NCPST, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; phone +353-1-700-7667; fax +353-1-700-5951.

Eleventh EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 4 - 7 September 2006, Sofitel Vieux Port, Marseille, France. Contact Clarisse Bourdelle, CEA, France.

South American Conference on Astrophysics, Plasma Physics and Numerical Modeling, 4 - 8 September 2006, National University of Asuncion, Paraguay. Contact: Petr Kulhanek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 224 352 321; fax (+420) 233 337 031.

Twelfth Conference on Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP12), 4 - 8 September 2006, Darmstadt, Germany. Contact Brigitte Schuster, Plasma Physics Department, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-28.

Eleventh Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics, 4 - 8 September 2006, Sendai, Japan. Contact A. Donne.

IEE Megagauss XI Conference (MG-XI), 10 - 14 September 2006, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Contact Elizabeth Jarvis; fax 0141 429 0812.

Eighth International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows, 10 - 15 September 2006,  Tomsk, Russia. Contact Nikolay Sochugov, Institute of High Current Electronics, 2/3 Akademicheskii Ave., Tomsk 634055 Russia; phone +7-3822-491-651; fax +7-3822-492-410.

Tenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2006), 10 - 15 September 2006, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Ludwig van Loyen, Gostritzer Straße 61 63, Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 83 75; fax +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 84 31 D-01217.

IEA Large Tokamak IA Workshop on Edge Transport in Fusion Plasmas, 11 - 13 September 2006, Kraków, Poland. Contact Roman Zagórski, IPPLM, Poland.

Twenty-fourth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2006), 11 - 15 September 2006, Warsaw, Poland. Contact Katarzyna Kolys. Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Design Division, Woloska 141, 02-507 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax + 48 (22) 856 92 56.

Twelfth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM-06), 11 - 15 September 2006, Albufeira, Portugal. Contact Marta Fajardo, Centro de Física dos Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal; phone +351 21 841 92 02.

Eleventh International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Second Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks, 11 - 16 September 2006, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Vika Garkusha.

Diagnostics and Simulation of Dusty Plasmas, 13 - 15 September 2006, Kiel, Germany. Contact IEAP, CAU, D-24098 Kiel, Germany; phone 431-880-3807.

Fifth International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-5), 18 - 22 September 2006, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Larissa Krat'ko, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 Nezalezhnastsi Prospect, 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (375) (172) 84 23 46; fax (375) (172) 84 00 30.

Sixth International Workshop and Summer School towards Fusion Energy - Plasma Physics, Diagnostics, Spin-offs, 18 - 22 September 2006, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +48 22 666 8372.

Joint Thirty-first International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and Fourteenth International Conference on Terahertz Electronics (IRMMW-THz2006), 18 - 22 September 2006, Shanghai, China. Contact IRMMW-THz 2006 Secretariat, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 500 Yu Tian Road, Shanghai, China 200083; phone 86-21-65420850; fax 86-21-63248028.

Second International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC-2), 19 - 20 September 2006, 6650 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church, Virginia 22042 USA. Contact Igor Matveev, Applied Plasma Technologies; phone 703-560-9569; fax 703-849-8417.

Power Beams and Material Processing (PBAMP), 20 - 21 September 2006, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, India. Contact N. K. Joshi, Laser & Plasma Technology Division, BARC, Mumbai-400085, India; phone (022) 25590512.

IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, 25 - 29 September 2006, Garching, Germany. Contact Hans Werner Mueller, IPP Garching, Bereich E1, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Fusion: Pathways to the Future, 27 - 28 September 2006, Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; fax 301-975-9869.

Interaction of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas with Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses, 1 - 5 October 2006, Szeged, Hungary. Contact secretariat.

Physics of the Chromospheric Plasma, 9 - 13 October 2006, Coimbra, Portugal. Contact Ivan Dorotovic, Astronomical Observatory, Santa Clara, Coimbra, P-3040, Portugal; phone +351 239 802 370; fax +351 239 802 379.

Eleventh International Workshop on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC-11), 10 - 12 October 2006, Griefswald, Germany. Contact Anne Eggeling, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Postfach 1322, D-85741 Garching bei München, Germany; phone +49-89-3299-1846; fax +49-89-3299-1212.

Fifty-Ninth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 10 - 13 October 2006, Columbus, Ohio USA. Contact Walter Lempert, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University 650 Ackerman Road, 130-F, Columbus, Ohio 43202 USA; phone (614) 292-2736; fax (614) 292-3163.

Pulsed Power 2006, 11 - 12 October 2006, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Contact Bruce McLelland; phone +44 (0) 01438 76 56 34.

Twelfth International Workshop on Spherical Torus (ISTW 2006),  11 - 13 October 2006, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Contact Yexi He; phone 86-10-62776446; fax 86-10-62772658.

Fifth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA), 15 - 19 October 2006, Meudon, France. Contact Sylvie Gordon, ICAMDATA 05, Luth, Observatoire de Paris, 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France.

Twenty-First IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 16 - 22 October 2006, Chengdu, China. Contact IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21755; fax +43-1-26007.

Second IAEA Research Coordinating Meeting on Joint Research Using Small Tokamaks, 23 - 26 October 2006, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Contact Yexi He, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; phone 86-(0)10-62791874; 86-(0)10-62782658.

Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 30 October - 3 November 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. 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.

US-Japan Workshop on Compact Torus Plasmas, 2 - 4 November 2006, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, Philadelphia USA. Contact Michael Brown.

2006 International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics, 5 - 10 November 2006, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Janet Neff-Shampine.

Active MHD Control in ITER, 6 - 8 November 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Seventeenth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE2006), 13 - 15 November 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

AVS Fifty-Third International Symposium, 13 - 17 November 2006, San Francisco, California USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Enhancement of X-Ray / Particle Emission from Plasmas Produced by Laser Irradiating Nano-Structured Targets, 20 November- 3 December 2006, Laboratory of Lasers and New Materials, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Contact Laboratory of Lasers and New Materials, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; fax 002 02 5676193.

Eighth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-8), 23 - 24 November 2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact A. Loonen.

Moscow Workshop on Non-ideal Plasma Physics (NPP-2006), 29 - 30 November 2006, Moscow, Russia. Contact Iya Shakhova, IHED RAS, Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, 125412 Russia; phone (+7095) 4842355; fax (+7095) 4857990.

Collective Phenomena in Macroscopic Systems, 4 - 6 December 2006, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. Contact Chiara Stefanetti, Centro di Cultura Scientifica “A. Volta”, Villa Olmo – Via Cantoni 1, 22100 Como, Italy; fax +39.031.573395.

Fourteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 4 - 6 December 2006, Greoux-les-bains, France.

Sixteenth Toki Conf. on Advanced Plasma Diagnostics and Imaging, 5 - 8 December 2006, Toki, Japan.

NSTX Research Forum, 4 - 7 December 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Michael Bell.

NCSX Research Forum, 7 - 8 December 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Mike Zarnstorff; phone (609) 243-3581.

Solar Physics Winter Institute, 10 - 22 December 2006, Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India. Contact K. E. Rangarajan, 2006 Solar Physics Winter School, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore - 560034, India.

Coronae of Stars and Accretion Discs, 12 - 13 December 2006, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. Contact secretariat.

Technological Plasma Workshop 2006 (TPW20060), 14 - 15 December 2006, Chancellors' Conference Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Contact Christopher Whitehead, University of Manchester.

Seventh Workshop on Fine Particle Plasmas, 15 - 16 December 2006, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan. Contact Yasuaki Hayashi, Department of Electronics, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan; phone +81-75-724-7415; fax +81-75-724-7400.