Plasma Conferences in 2012
2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 9 – 14 January 2012, Tucson, Arizona USA.
International Tokomak Physics Activity Divertor and SOL Topical Group Meeting, 16 - 19 January 2012, Juelich, Germany.
Eighteenth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop and Tenth Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 29 January –3 February 2012. Canberra, New South Wales, Australia. Contact secretary.
Thirty-Second International Workshop on Physics of High Energy Density in Matter, 29 January - 3 February 2012, Hirschegg, Austria. Contact Brigitte Schuster-Gruber, Plasma Physics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-2888.
Fourteenth Israel Conference on Plasma Science and its Applications (IPSTA 2012), 28 February 2012, Rehovot, Israel.
Fusion Day 2012, 1 March 2012, Washington, DC USA. Contact: Julie Groeninger.
US-Japan MHD Workshop "Effect of 3D Magnetic Field on MHD Equilibrium and Stability: toward optimum control of toroidal plasmas", Eighth ITPA Energetic Particle Physics Topical Group Meeting and Nineteenth ITPA Magnetohydrodynamics Stability Topical Group Meeting, 5 - 9 March 2012, NIFS, Japan. Contact Local Organizing Committee; phone +81 572 58 2149; fax +81 572 58 2618.
US Disruption Mitigation Workshop, 12 - 13 March 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact Charles Greenfield, General Atomics Energy Group, 3550 General Atomics Court, San Diego, California 92121-1194 USA; phone (858) 455-3686; fax (858) 455-4156.
Seventh Workshop on Fusion Data Processing Validation and Analysis, 26 - 28 March 2012, Frascati, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, Unità Tecnica Fusione, Centro Ricerche Frascati, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Roma, Italy; phone ** 39 06 94005309; fax **39 06 94005100.
International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, 28 - 30 March 2012, Madrid, Spain.
Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference and American Physical Society April Meeting, 31 March - 3 April 2012. Contact Chris Hegna.
International Tokomak Physics Activity Twenty-Second Pedestal and Edge Physics Topical Group Meeting and Eighth Transport and Confinement Topical Group Meeting, 2 - 5 April 2012, Heifei, China.
IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference 2012, 2 - 5 April 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom.
Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas Workshop (SLSP), 2 - 5 April 2012, Vienna, Austria.
Eighth International Tokomak Physics Activity Integrated Operation Scenarios Topical Group Meeting, 16 - 19 April 2012, Madrid, Spain.
Eleventh Zababakhin Scientific Talks, 16 - 20 April 2012, Snezhinsk, Russia. Contact Lyudmila Emelianova; phone (351-46) 5-2362; fax (351-46) 5-2139.
Laser-Plasma Interaction at Ultra-High Intensity, 16 - 20 April 2012, Dresden, Germany. Contact Mandy Lochar, Visitors Program, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany; phone +49-351-871-2198; fax +49-351-871-2199.
Second European Energy Conference, 17-20 April 2012, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Thirteenth International Vacuum Electronics and Ninth International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVEC-IVESC 2012), 24 - 26 April 2012, Monterey, California USA.
First Conference on Inertial Fusion Energy (CIFE '12), 25 - 27 April 2012, Yokohama, Japan. Contact Fumie@Nakanishi; phone 81-6-6879-8783.
Ninth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA2012), 30 April - 4 May 2012, Tallahassee, Florida USA. Contact Tomasz Plewa, Florida State University, 484 Dirac Science Library, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 USA; phone+1-850-644-1959; fax+1-850-644-0098.
Nineteenth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD19), 6 - 10 May 2012, Monterey, California USA. Contact Trina Voelker, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; phone +1-925-423-9492; fax +1-925-424-3295.
Seventeenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC 17), 7 - 10 May 2012, Deurne, Netherlands. Contact organizers.
Twenty-Second International Tokomak Physics Activity Diagnostics Topical Group Meeting, 14 - 17 May 2012, Kutchatov Institute, Russia.
Sixteenth International Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology (EML), 15 - 19 May 2012, Beijing, China. Contact Janet Monaco, Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies, 1908 Kramer Lane, Suite L, Austin, TX 78758 USA.
Third Annual Meeting of Plasma Science Center for Control of Plasma Kinetics, 17 - 18 May 2012, Princeton, New Jersey USA.
Thirteenth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasma, 20 - 23 May 2012, Waco, Texas USA. Contact Lorin Matthews, CASPER - Baylor University, One Bear Place #97310, Waco, Texas 76798-7310 USA; (254) 710-3763.
Third International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'12), 20 - 25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Contact Vic Suller, CAMD, 6980 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge LA 70806 USA; phone +1 225 578 9366; fax +1 225 578 6954.
Twentieth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions, 21 - 25 May 2012, Aachen, Germany. Contact Jan Adamczak; Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; phone +49 2461 61-8024; fax +49 2461 61-5333.
Eleventh International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 29 - 31 May 2012, Schloss Ringberg, Germany. Contact G. Doersch; phone +49 89 3299-18.
IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference, 3 – 7 June 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact Richard Ness, Ness Engineering, Inc., P.O. Box 261501, San Diego, California 92196 USA; phone 1-858-566-2372.
Magnetic Fusion Energy – Steps to Commercialization, 5 June 2012, Washington, DC USA.
Bridging Laboratory & Astrophysics, 220th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 10 - 14 June 2012, Anchorage, Alaska USA.
Fifth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2012), 12 - 15 June 2012, Athens, Greece. Contact Conference Secretariat.
Plasmas Surfaces and Thin Films, 13 June 2012, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom. Contact Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7637 4266.
Fourth International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM 4), 17 - 21 June 2012, Orléans, France. Contact GREMI, Université d'Orléans, Polytech’Orleans, 14 rue d'Issoudun, B.P. 6744, 45067 ORLEANS Cedex 2; phone +33 (0)2-38-41-70-01; fax +33 (0)2-38-41-71-54.
Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 18 - 21 June 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Plasma Facing Components (PFC) Meeting and Materials Science Coordinating Organization (MASCO) meeting, 18 - 22 June 2012, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0451 USA. Contact Terry Greenberg, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 USA; phone (609) 243-3347.
Research at High Pressure (Gordon Research Seminar), 23 - 24 June 2012, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine USA. Contact Ashkan Salamat.
Research at High Pressure (Gordon Research Conference), 24 - 29 June 2012, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine USA. Contact Malcolm McMahon.
Twelfth European Plasma Conference (High-Tech Plasma Processes), 24 - 29 June 2012, Bologna, Italy. Contact Avenue Media, Via Riva Reno 61, 40122 Bologna, Italy; phone +39 051 6564300; fax +39 051 6564334.
International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology & Sustainable Energy (ISNTP-8), 25 - 29 June 2012, Camaret, France. Contact Emmanuel Odic, Département Energie - Supélec; phone +33 (0)1.69.85.15.26.
Forty-Second Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, 25 - 29 June 2012, Key West, Florida USA. Contact Chuang Ren, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hopeman 214, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 USA; phone (585)-275-2048.
Fifth International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics (IWSSPP'12), 25-30 June 2012, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, University of Sofia, 27 Kosta Loulchev Str., BG-1111 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone (+359) 878 748 837; fax (+3592) 872 3877.
Thirty-Ninth European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics and Sixteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics , 2 - 6 July 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.
Thirty-Ninth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2012), 8 - 12 July 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Contact Michael Kong, Loughborough University.
Sixth US-PRC Magnetic Fusion Collaboration Workshop, 10 - 11 July 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact George Tynan.
Twenty-First Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (ESCAMPIG XXI), 10-14 July 2012, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Contact Vasco Guerra, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351-21 841 93 22.
Thirty-Ninth Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events, 14 - 22 July 2012, Mysore, India. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.
Forty-Ninth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 16 - 27 July 2012, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton; phone +44 (0)1235 466635.
Plasma Processing Science (Gordon Research Seminar), 21 - 22 July 2012, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island USA. Contact Sameer Kalghatgi.
Plasma Processing Science (Gordon Research Conference), 22 - 27 July 2012, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island USA. Contact Richard Van De Sanden.
Fourth China-Japan Joint Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Processes in Plasma, 30 July - 4 August 2012, Lanzhou, China. Contact Dong Chenzhong, Northwest Normal University, Anning East Road 967, Anning, Lanzhou, 730070, China; phone +86-(0)931-7971148; fax +86-(0)931-7971277
Third Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas, 30 July - 8 August 2012, South Orange, New Jersey USA. Contact Jose Lopez Department of Physics, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079.
Nineteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion (HIF2012), 12 - 17 August 2012, Berkeley, California USA.
Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2012), 27 - 31 August 2012, Nashville, Tennessee USA.
Twenty-Sixth Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases, 27 - 31 August 2012, Zrenjanin, Serbia. Contact Igor Savic, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
Tenth International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, 27 - 31 August 2012, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Anja Schulz.
Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 2 -7 September 2012, Tomsk, Russia. Contact Efim Oks, Institute of High Current Electronics, 2/3 Akademicheskii Avenue, Tomsk, 634055 Russia; phone +7-382-2-491-776;fax +7-382-2-492-410.
Third International Symposium on Negative Ions, Beams and Sources (NIBS 2012), 3 - 7 September 2012, Jyvaskyla, Finland. Contact Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland; phone +358-40-805-4356; fax +358-14-260-2351.
Sixth International School on Fusion Technologies, 3 - 14 September 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Sibylle Mann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Nord/FTU, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; phone +49 (0) 721 608 23272; fax +49 (0) 721 608 24857.
Joint IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, 4 - 7 September 2012, Daejeon, Korea. Contact Hyun Kyung Chung, IAEA Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences.
Computational Plasma Physics, 5 – 7 September 2012, Brighton, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phonr+44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax+44 (0)20 7637 4266.
Ninth International Bioelectrics Symposium, 5 - 8 September 2012, Kumamota, Japan. Contact Hidenori Akiyama, Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan; phone +81-96-342 3618; fax +81-96-342 3818.
International Symposium on Non-Thermal Plasmas for Environmental Applications, September 9 - 11 2012, Hangzhou, China. Contact LIu Zhen; phone 0086-571-88210340; fax 0086-571-88210340.
Fourteenth International Workshop on the Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP14), 9 - 14 September 2012, Rostock, Germany. Contact Philipp Sperling.
Thirteenth International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (Hakone XIII), 9 - 14 September 2012, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. Contact HAKONE XIII, Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnologies, Lubin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 38A, 20-618 Lublin, Poland; phone +48-81-5384289; fax +48-81-5384643.
Thirteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2012), 10 - 14 September 2012, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Ludwig van Loyen, Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V. - EFDS, Gostritzer Straße 63, 01217 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 351 8 71-83 70; fax +49 (0) 351 8 71-84 31.
Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-7), 17 - 21 September 2012, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Irina Filatova PPPT-7 Organizing Committee, Institute of Physics of NAS of Belarus, 68 Nezavisimosti Ave., 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (+375) (17) 284-23-46; fax (+375) (17) 284-08-79.
International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks, 17 - 22 September 2012, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Viktoriya Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics of the National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone +38-057-335-6726; fax +38-057-335-2664.
Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Fusion Technology, 24 - 28 September 2012, Liege, Belgium. Contact Eventis, Avenue Constantin de Gerlache, 41, B-4000 Liege, Belgium; phone +32 4 233 62 97; fax +32 4 254 97 98.
Advanced Controls and Diagnostics for Confinement Improvement of Compact Toroids, 25 - 28 September 2012, Newport Beach, California USA. Contract Tri Alpha Energy.
International Symposium on Electrohydrodynamics, 23 - 26 September 2012, Gdańsk, Poland. Contact Tomasz Izdebski, Centre for Plasma and Laser Engineering, Szewalski Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland; phone (+48 58) 6995 117; fax (+ 48 58) 341-61-44.
Fourth Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference and Nineteenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, 30 September - 4 October 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Georg Muller.
Eighth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA 2012), 30 September - 4 October 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact John Gillaspy; phone +1-301-975-3236; fax +1-301-974-4779.
Fifth International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena, 1 - 6 October, 2012, Location: Sochi, Russia.
Twenty-Fourth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference and Energy Forum, 8 - 13 October 2012, San Diego, California USA. contact Karen Morrison, Conference Services Section, Division of Conference and Document Services, IAEA-CN-197, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria; phone (+43 1) 2600 21707.
Fourteenth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (MEGAGAUSS), 14 - 19 October 2012, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact Megagauss Institute.
International Tokomak Physics Activity T&C, MHD, PEP, EP, IOS, and DSOL Topical Group Meetings, 15 - 18 October 2012, San Diego, California USA.
First IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop (DPW-2012), 15 - 18 October 2012, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Richard Kamendje, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone: +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.
Sixty-Fifth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 22 - 26 October 2012, Austin, Texas USA.
Fifty-Fourth APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 29 October - 2 November 2012, Providence, Rhode Island USA.
Innovative Methods in Plasma Particle Simulations (JIFT 2012), 2 - 3 November 2012, Providence, Rhode Island USA.
Fifteenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 4 - 8 November 2012, Santa Barbara, California USA.
Twelfth International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 4 - 8 November 2012, Napa, California USA. Contact conference administrator; phone +1-925-423-3383.
International Conference on Plasma Physics and related conferences, 14 - 16 November 2012, Venice Italy.
Twenty-Second Toki Conference, “Cross-Validation of Experiments and Modeling for Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas”, 19 - 22 November 2012, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact organizers.
Sixth International ITER School (IIS2012), RF Heating and Current Drives in Plasmas, 2 - 6 December 2012, Ahmedbadad, India. Contact R Ganesh, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Near Indira Bridge, Gandhinagar 382 428, Gujarat, India. phone 91-79-2396-2189; fax 91-79-2398-2277.
Conference on High Intensity Laser and Attosecond Science in Israel. 3 - 5 December 2012, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, 5 - 6 December 2012, Washington, DC USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates.
Second Joint IAEA-ITER Technical Meeting on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies, 11 - 13 December 2012, Hansol, Ahmedabad – 382 475, Gujarat, India. Contact Richard Kamendje, Physics Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.