Plasma Conferences in 2002

Twelfth Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 6 - 12 January 2002, DoubleTree Paradise Valley Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona USA. Contact Ramon Barnes, ICP Information Newsletter, Inc., P.O. Box 666, Hadley, MA 01003-0666 USA; phone: 413-256-8942; fax 413-256-3746. Abstracts due 2 July 2001. Ancillary functions include continuing education short courses, 4 - 6 January 2002, and a Workshop on Plasma Instrumentation, 4 January 2002.

First Workshop on Plasma Physics, Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy & Applications, 11 - 13 January 2002, Tunis, Tunisia.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 14 - 25 January 2002, Long Beach, California. Contact Susan Winchester.

Nineteenth IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 21 - 25 January 2002, Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Contact Mary Ann Brown, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, PO Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA; phone +1 609 243 3043; fax +1 609 243 2800. Rescheduled from 2 - 5 October 2001.

Fifteenth Canberra International Physics Summer School, Dynamic Summer: Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Collective Phenomena and Complexity, 21 January - 1 February 2002, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact Heli Jackson; fax 61 (02) 6125 4676.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2002), 22 - 25 January 2002, College Park, Maryland USA. Contact Bickford Hooper, L-637, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-9900 USA; phone 925-423-1409; fax 925-424-6401. Included is the Fusion Skunkworks, which will explore novel fusion ideas; contact Jim Hammer or John Perkins for details.

Particle Beam and Plasma Interaction on Materials, 31 January - 1 February 2002, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Twelfth Gaseous Electronics Meeting, 3 - 6 February 2002, Australia. Contact Rod Boswell, Space Plasma and Plasma Processing, PRL/RSPhysSE, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia; phone 61.2.61253442; fax 61.2.61252575.

Thirteenth Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics (SASP 2002), 17 - 22 February 2002, Going, Austria. Contact T. D. Märk, Trento Institut für Ionenphysik, Technikerstr. 25, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; phone ++43-512-507-6240; fax ++43-512-507-2932.

Fourth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 23 - 25 February 2002, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. Contact Melissa Lee, Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143 USA; phone (734) 647-3395; fax (734) 763-0437.

Thirty-Sixth Nordic Plasma and Gas Discharge Symposium, 23 - 26 February 2002, M/S Polarlys (TromsØ to Bergen cruise), Norway. Contact Åshild Fredriksen.

Thirteenth International Stellarator Workshop, 25 February - 1 March 2002, Canberra, Australia. Contact Conference Secretariat, Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; phone +61 2 6125 2480; fax +61 2 6125 8316. The conference covers fusion plasma confinement in stellarator, heliotron, and related toroidal confinement geometries. Rescheduled from September 2001.

Fifth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 5 March 2002, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Contact Yuri Ralchenko, phone +972-8-9343610; fax +972-8-9343491.

Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Industrial Applications of Plasmas, 11 - 13 March 2002, Miramare, Trieste, Italy.

Twenty-Ninth Annual IoP Plasma Physics Group Conference, 25 - 28 March 2002, Belfast, United Kingdom. Contact Ciaran Lewis, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, Great Britain; phone 028 90273941; fax 028 90438918.

Intense Microwave Pulses IX, 2 - 3 April 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact Howard Brandt, Army Research Lab.

2002 U.S. Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF 2002), 3 - 6 April 2002, Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact Joanne Savino, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; phone 609-243-3379.

Sixth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-6), 8 - 12 April 2002, Hyatt Islandia Hotel, San Diego, California USA. Contact Claudia Hennessy, Center for Energy Research, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC0420, La Jolla, California 92093-0420 USA; phone 858-534-4971; fax 858-534-5440.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 9 - 12 April 2002, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact Arthur Peeters, Max Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany; phone +49-(0)89-32991658; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; fax: +43-1-26007.

Forty-Fifth Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 13 - 18 April 2002, Coronado Springs Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA. Contact Peter Martin, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory; phone (509) 375-2076; fax (509) 375-3864; or contact Society of Vacuum Coaters at (505) 856-7188 for a copy of the program.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 20 - 23 April 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 21 - 24 April 2002, Rochester, New York USA. Contact Riccardo Betti; (716) 275-5479.

Thirteenth Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 22 - 25 April 2002, Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA. Contact David Schultz; phone (865) 576-9461.

Twenty-Seventh General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, 22 - 26 April 2002, Nice, France. Contact the European Geophysical Society.

International Conference On Metallurgical Coatings And Thin Films (ICMCTF 2002), 22 - 26 April 2002, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. Contact Sundarajan Mutialu, Altimut International, Inc., P.O. 7089, Capistrano Beach, California 92624 USA; phone 949-493-3468; fax 949-496-4002.

Third IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 23 - 25 April 2002, Doubletree Hotel, Monterey California USA. Contact Dick True, Northrop Grumman Electron Devices, 960 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California 94070-4194 USA; phone 650 591-8411 x2272; fax 650 508-1956.

NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, 1 - 3 May 2002, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California USA. Contact Farid Salama, NASA-Ames Research Center, Space Science Division MS: 245-6, Moffett Field, California 94035-1000 USA; phone (650) 604-3384; fax (650) 604-6779.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady-State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 2 - 3 May 2002, Greifswald, Germany (technology part) and 6 - 7 May 2002, Arles, France (physics part). Contact Manfred Wanner, Max-Planck-Insitut für Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstraße 1, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany; Didier van Houtte, Association EURATOM-CEA, Département de Recherches sur la Fusion Contrólée, CEA/Cadarache, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, France; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

Society of Automotive Engineers International Spring Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Non-Thermal Plasmas sessions, 6 - 8 May 2002 Reno Hilton Reno, Nevada, USA. Contact Melissa Jena; phone (724) 772-4008; or John Hoard, Ford Motor Company, 2101 Village Road, P.O. Box 2053, MD3083SRL, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053 USA; phone (313) 594-1316; fax (313) 594-2923.

Twelfth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Heating (EC-12), 13 - 16 May 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France. Contact G. Giruzzi, Association Euratom-CEA sur la Fusion, DRFC/CEA/Cadarache, F-13108 St. Paul-lez-Durance, France; phone +33 4 42 25 7344; fax +33 4 42 25 6233.

The John Dawson Celebration, 16 - 18 May 2002, De Neve Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Contact Warren Mori, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 USA; phone (310) 206-0372; fax (310) 825-4057. Includes US-Japan Workshop "Simulations of Plasmas" on 16 -17 May 2002.

Thirty-Third AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference and Fourteenth AIAA International Conference on MHD Power Generation and High Temperature Technologies, 20 - 23 May 2002, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact (for plasmadynamics and lasers) Brian Landrum, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center, Technology Hall S234, Huntsville, Alabama 35899 USA; phone 256-824-7207; fax 256-824-7205; and (for power generation) Motoo Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Systems, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan; phone 81298535140; fax 81298535207.

Third International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP-2002), 20 - 24 May 2002, Durban, South Africa. Contact Richard Mace, Discipline of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban, South Africa; phone +27-31-204-4225; fax +27-31-204-4795.

International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 22 - 24 May 2002, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Contact Tetsuo Tanabe, Nagoya University; phone +81-52-789-5157; fax +81-52-789-5177.

First International Workshop on Innovative Concepts for Plasma-Interactive Components in Fusion Devices (1st IWIC-PIC), 23 - 25 May 2002, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Contact Yoshi Hirooka.

Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Plasma Science, 27 - 30 May 2002, Banff Center, Banff, Alberta Canada. Contact Robert Fedosejevs, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7 Canada; phone (780) 492-5330; fax (780) 492-1811. Abstract due 11 January 2002. Topics include basic processes in fully and partially ionized plasmas, microwave generation and microwave/plasma interactions, intense electron and ion beams, high energy density plasmas and their interactions, industrial and commercial applications of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, pulsed power and other plasma technology applications.

Fifteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-15), 27 - 31 May 2002, Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan. Contact Hiroaki Yasuda, National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5292 Japan; phone +81-572-58-2022; fax +81-572-58-2626. Topics include surface physics of materials exposed to plasmas; plasma facing materials, coatings, and conditionings; erosion and deposition; fueling, recycling and tritium inventory; plasma surface interaction in future fusion devices; plasma edge diagnostics; plasma boundary physics; plasma properties near surfaces; impurities, their transport and control; and control of the plasma boundary, e.g. by divertors, pumping, and biasing.

Eighth International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 27 - 31 May 2002, Aspen, Colorado USA. Contact Cathy Smith, College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA; phone (970) 491-5914; fax (970) 491-2828.

International Conference on Warm Dense Matter and FEL Experiments Planning Workshop, 2 - 7 June 2002, DESY, Hamburg, Germany. Contact Susanne Weigert, HASYLAB at DESY Notkestraße, 85 D-22607 Hamburg, Germany; phone (+49)-40-8998-2304; fax (+49)-40-8998-4475. Includes high-density strongly coupled plasma physics. Registration and brief abstract due 15 March 2002.

School of Plasma Diagnostics and Technology, 4 - 8 June 2002, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Micro-Fusion, Hery 23 P.O.Box 49, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone and fax +(4822) 6668372.

Seventh International Conference on Plasma-and-Process-Induced Damage (P2ID 2002), 5 - 7 June 2002, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Contact AVS West, 1265 El Camino Real, Suite 109, Santa Clara, California 95050 USA; phone 408-246-3600; fax 408-246-7700.

Celebration of High Temperature Plasma Physics, 5 - 7 June 2002, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Dolores Lawson, MS37, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA; 609-243-3554; fax 609-243-2749.

Ringberg Workshop on Astro-Plasma Physics, 9 - 14 June 2002, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany. Contact Alex Lazarian, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA; phone +1-608-262-1715; fax +1-608-263-6386.

U.S. Tokamak Planning Workshop, 10 - 12 June 2002, General Atomics Corp., San Diego, California USA. Contact Marion Stav.

Twentieth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 10 - 13 June 2002, Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technicka 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, K 302, Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic; phone +420 (2) 24 35 30 81; fax +420 (2) 24 35 23 31. Topics include tokamaks and other magnetic confinement devices, short living plasmas (laser plasma, plasma focus, z-pinch, particle beam - plasma interaction, X-ray sources), low temperature plasmas, and plasma technology.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 10 - 21 June 2002, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA. Contact Susan Winchester; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Fifteenth International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources (ECRIS’02), 12 - 14 June 2002, Accelerator Laboratory / Department of Physics (JYFL), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Contact Juha ärje.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 17 - 19 June 2002, San Diego, California USA. Contact Dan Goodin, General Atomics, 3483 Dunhill Street, San Diego, California 92121-1200 USA or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Ninth EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 17 - 21 June 2002, Montreux, Switzerland. Contact J. B. Lister, CRPP-EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; phone +41 21 693 3405; fax +41 21 693 5176. Includes Conference on Laser Plasma Particle Acceleration, 17 - 18 June 2002, and Sixth European Workshop on Dusty and Colloidal Plasmas, 20 -21 June 2002.

Seventh European Conference on Thermal Plasma Processing, 18 - 21 June 2002, Congress Center, Strasbourg, France. Contact P. Siffert, E-MRS, BP 20, 67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France; phone +33 3 88 10 65 43; fax +33 3 88 10 62 93.

Fifth Workshop on Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 23 - 24 June 2002, Montreux, Switzerland. Contact Jiri Adamek.

Tenth Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, 23 - 28 June 2002, Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, California 93035 USA. Contact Maria Guerrero; fax (310) 206-8220.

Fourteenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams and the Fifth International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches, 23 - 28 June 2002, Hilton Inn, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.  Contact Jeff Quintenz, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1190 USA; phone 505-845-7482; fax 505-845-7464. Topics include pulsed-power technology, z-pinch physics, electrical and z-pinch diagnostics, plasma instabilities, electrodynamic modeling, high-power microwaves, imploding liners, plasma focus, pulsed-power generators, electron and ion beam physics, x-ray spectroscopy, radiation hydrodynamics, free electron and x-ray lasers, radiography, lithography, and industrial and astrophysical applications of particle beams and z pinches. Deadlines are January 18 (abstract), April 1 (preregistration), May 1 (hotel), and June 28 (manuscript).

IEA Workshop on ELMs, 24 - 26 June 2002, JET Facility, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3EA, United Kingdom. Contact ELMs-Workshop.

Ninth International Workshop on Beam Dynamics & Optimization (BDO'2002), 24 - 27 June 2002, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia. Contact E. D. Kotina, V. I. Zubov Institute of Computational Mathematics & Control Processes, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskij pr. 28, Saint-Petersburg, 198504, Russia; phone +7(812)4284729; fax +7(812)4287189.

Third Workshop on Inductively Coupled Plasmas (WICP 2002), 27 – 29 June 2002, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany. Contact Ralf Brinkmann, Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany; phone 0234-32-26336; fax 0234-32-14479.

International Power Modulator Conference and High Voltage Workshop, 30 June - 3 July 2002, Hollywood Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, California USA. Contact Noreen Tamanaha, Department of EE-Electrophysics, Powell Hall 610, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 USA; phone 213-740-7874; fax 213-740-8677.

Twentieth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 30 June - 5 July 2002, Tours, France. Contact Société Française du Vide, 19 rue du Renard, 75004 Paris, France; phone 33(0)1 53 01 90 30; fax 33(0)1 42 78 63 20.

Fourth International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement (OS2002), 1 - 4 July 2002, Jeju Lotte Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea. Contact T. Lho; phone 82-42-865-3656; fax 82-42-865-3459.

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2002), 1 - 5 July 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact J. A. Kong, Room 26-305, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA; fax +1-617-258-8766.

International Conference on Laser Probing, 7 - 12 July 2002, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.  Contact Conference Secretariat, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; phone ++ 32 16 32 72 04; fax ++ 32 16 32 79 83.

Ninth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (MG-IX), 7 - 14 July 2002, Moscow - St. Petersburg (river voyage), Russia. Contact Conference Coordinator, RFNC-VNIIEF, 37 Mira Ave., Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, 607188, Russia; phone +7-831-3045584; fax +7-831-3045584. Registration deadline is 1 April 2002.

Fourteenth Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 8 - 11 July 2002, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Raymond Fonck, University of Wisconsin-Madison; phone (608) 263-7799; fax (608) 265-2364.

2002 Fusion Energy Sciences Summer Study, 8 - 19 July 2002, Snowmass, Colorado USA. Contact Roger Bangerter; phone 925-831-1453. Contributions to the conference discussion page are welcome.

Thirty-Ninth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 8 - 19 July 2002, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact George Dawes, Euratom/UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14, 3DB, United Kingdom; phone +44 1235 465028; fax +44 1235 465102.

Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 9 - 13 July  2002, Sofia, Bulgaria. Contact conference secretary or K. Blagoev.

Sixteenth Europhysics Conference on Atomic & Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG) and Fifth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP), 14 - 18 July 2002, World Trade Center, Grenoble, France. Contact Nader Sadeghi, Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres, France; phone (33) 476 51 47 44; fax (33) 476 63 54 95.

Eleventh International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2002), Twenty-Fourth AINSE Plasma Science and Technology Conference, and Sixth Asia-Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 15 - 19 July 2002, Manly Pacific Parkroyal Hotel, Sydney, Australia. Contact Ian Falconer, School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia; phone +61 (02) 9351- 2599; fax +61 (02) 9351-7727. 

Eighth International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE-8), 21 - 25 July 2002, Tartu, Estonia. Contact Ants Haljaste, Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology, University of Tartu, Tähe 4, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; phone +372-(0)7-375565, +372-(0)7-375564; fax +372-(0)7-375858. Topics include fundamental problems, modeling and diagnostics, molecular synthesis and decomposition, ozone generation and applications, generation of radiation in high-pressure discharges, environmental applications, surface processing, and technology. Abstract deadline is 10 December 2001; paper deadline is 30 March 2002.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 21 - 26 July 2002, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire USA. Contact Javad Mostaghimi, University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8 Canada.

Gordon Research Conference on Laser Interactions with Materials, 21 - 26 July 2002, Proctor Academy, Andover New Hampshire USA. Contact James Horwitz, Code 6370, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA; phone (202) 767-5680; fax (202) 767-5301.

Thirty-Second Anomalous Absorption Conference, 21 - 26 July 2002, Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu, Hawaii USA. Contact Warren Mori.

First World Space Environment Forum, 22 - 25 July 2002, Adelaide, Australia. Contact World Institute for Space Environment Research. The conference will review space environment research and identify the key problems to be addressed by the international space science and plasma physics community, with emphasis on theory, data analysis, modeling and prediction.

Fifth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 1 - 9 August 2002, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 238 4331; fax +7 831 236 2061.

High Energy Density Physics Summer School, 4 - 16 August 2002, University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA. Contact HEDP.

Fifth Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 5 - 30 August 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Adolfo Rodrigo. This four week course will include lectures and experiments on plasma processing. The course is limited to 16 Latin American professionals active in the field, who will receive fellowships.

Twenty-Seventh General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, 17 - 24 August 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contact Leon P. J. Kamp, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; phone +31 40 2474292; fax + 31 40 2445253.

Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2002) and Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP02), 25 - 28 August 2002, San Diego, California USA. Contact Robert Peterkin, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/DEH, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776 USA.

Twenty-First Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG2002), 26 - 30 August 2002, Sokobanja, Yugoslavia. Contact Conference Secretary, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, P.O. Box 224, 18001 Nis, Yugoslavia.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas (Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop), 27 - 30 August 2002, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, International School of Plasma Physics "Piero Caldirola", Via Celoria, 16 20133 Milano, Italy; fax +39-2-2392205.

Eleventh International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions, 1 - 6 September 2002, Caen, France. Contact Sylviane Lamotte, CIRIL, CEA-CNRS-ISMRA, BP5133, 14070 Caen cedex 5, France; phone +33 (0) 2 31 45 46 01; fax +33 (0) 2 31 45 47 14.

2002 International Conference On Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, 2 - 6 September 2002, Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact John Benage, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

German-Polish EURO-Conference on Plasma Diagnostics for Fusion and Applications, 4 - 6 September 2002, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Anne Eggeling, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone ++49 3834-88-2005; fax ++49 3834-88-2009.

Eighth International Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry, 8 - 13 September 2002, University of Durham, Durham City, United Kingdom. Contact Grenville Holland, Department of Geological Sciences, South Road, Durham City DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; phone (0) 191 374 2526; fax (0) 191 374 2510. Deadline for presentation titles is 1 August 2002, for abstracts is 15 August 2002, and for registration is 1 September 2002.

Course on Low Temperature Plasma Physics and Applications (CLTPP-7) and Master Class on Hot Topics in Plasma Physics and Technology: Modeling of Reactive Plasmas, 8 - 17 September 2002, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Jorg Winter; phone +49 234 32 23800; fax +49 234 32 14171.

Ninth EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 9 - 12 September 2002, Córdoba, Spain. Contact TTF2002.

Eighth International Conference on Plasma and Surface Engineering (PSE 2002), 9 - 13 September 2002, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Karin Reichel, Graf-Recke-Str. 84, D-40239 Duesseldorf, Germany; phone +49 211 6214 401; fax +49 211 6214 484.  Includes the tutorial Fundamentals and Trends of Plasma Surface Processing, 7 - 8 September 2002.

Twenty-Second Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2002),  9 - 13 September 2002, Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland. Contact Merja Asikainen, P.O. Box 1704 FIN-02044 VTT Finland; phone +358 9 456 6854; fax +358 9 456 7002.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) public meeting, 11 - 12 September 2002, Marriott Hotel, 9715 Washingtonian Blvd, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact albert.opdenaker@science.doe.gov.

Tenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM-10), 16 - 20 September 2002, Saint Malo, France. Contact Chenais-Popovics, Laboratoire LULI, Ecole Polytechnique 91128, Palaiseau, France.

Turbulence, Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma (NATO Advanced Research Workshop), 16 - 20 September 2002, Normafa (Budapest), Hungary. Contact K. Petrovay, Eötvös University, Pf. 32, Budapest, Hungary, H-1518; phone +36 1 2090555/6621; fax +36 1 3722940.

IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, 16 – 20 September 2002, Greifswald, Germany.  Contact Christina Stahlberg, MPI für Plasmaphysik, Teilinstitut Greifswald, Wendelsteinstr. 1, D-17491 Greifswald; Germany; phone 89 299-2232; fax 89 3299-1001.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 16 - 21 September 2002, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Igor Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaja St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone (057-2) 35-67-26; fax (057-2) 35-26-64.

Fusion Simulation Project Workshop (ISOFS), 17 - 18 September 2002, Hyatt Islandia hotel, San Diego, California USA. This workshop is chartered by the US Department of Energy to help define a possible fusion simulation research initiative.

Twenty-Seventh IEEE International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW 2002), 22 - 26 September 2002, San Diego, California, USA. Contact Program Committee; fax 1-617-253-6078.

Sixth International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows, 23 - 28 September 2002, Tomsk, Russia.

Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy and Applications 2002 (LIBS 2002), 24 - 28 September 2002, Caribe Royale, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.

Power Beams and Materials Processing - 2002, 25 - 28 September 2002, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400 085, India. Contact A. K. Das, Laser and Plasma Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400 085, India; phone (022) 5593823; fax +91 22 5505151.

Eleventh International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2002), 29 September - 4 October 2002, Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 USA. Contact Barbara Daniels; phone (505) 272-7214; fax (505) 272-7203.

Eighteenth Conference on Charged Particle Accelerators (RUPAC-2002), 1 - 4 October 2002, Obninsk, Russia. Contact Valentin Romanov, SSC RF IPPE, 1, Bondarenko Sq., Obninsk, Kaluga Region, 249033, Russia; phone (7 08439) 9 82 70 9 88 92 9 85 05; fax (7 095) 230 23 26 883 31 12.

Thirty-Fourth COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 10 - 19 October 2002, Houston, Texas, USA. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; phone +33 1 45 25 06 79; fax +33 1 40 50 98 27.

Nineteenth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (CN94), 14 - 19 October 2002, Lyon, France. Contact Hilde Schmid, IAEA, Conference Service, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21316; fax +43-26007; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

Fifty-Fifth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 15 - 18 October 2002, Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. Contact conference secretary.

European Pulsed Power Symposium 2002, 22 - 24 October 2002, French German Research Institute, Saint Louis, France. Contact Pulsed Power 2002, IEE Event Services, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0) 207 344 5398; fax +44 (0) 207 497 3633.

International Conference on High-Power Electron Beam Technologies, 27 - 29 October 2002. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina USA. Contact: Siegfried Schulz, Surface Solutions Inc., 120 Post Road, Enfield, Connecticut 06082-5690 USA; phone (860) 745 8462; fax (860) 745 8459.

Seventh International Conference on Engineering Problems of Thermonuclear Reactors, 28 - 31 October 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact EPTR Organizing Committee, Efremov Institute, 196641, Metallostroy, St. Petersburg, Russia; phone (812) 462-7644; fax (812) 464-4623.

International Workshop on Recent Progress of Induction Accelerators, 29 - 31 October 2002, Tsukuba, Japan. Contact RPIA2002.

AVS Forty-Ninth International Symposium, 4 - 8 November 2002, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

First International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion, 5 - 7 November 2002, Huntsville, Alabama. Contact Cecil G. Stokes; phone (256) 881-2578.

International Workshop on Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonextensivity, 6 - 9 November 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Roderick Garcia; phone (505) 667-1444.

Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 11 - 15 November 2002, Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart. Three mini-conferences will be held in parallel with the conference: Blending of Plasma and Neutral Gas in the Sun, the Heliosphere, and the Interstellar Medium; Singularities in Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics; and Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Methods in Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

Seventeenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2002), 12 - 16 November 2002, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA. Contact Margaret Hall, 940-565-3250.

Fifth Annual Directed Energy Symposium, 12 - 15 November 2002, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. Contact Directed Energy Professional Society, P.O. Box 9874, Albuquerque, NM 87119-9874; phone 505-998-4910; fax 505-998-4917.

Sixth International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 16 - 19 November 2002, St. Pete Beach, Florida USA. Contact Warren Mori, UCLA; phone 310-206-0372; fax 310-825-4057.

Eighth International Spherical Torus Workshop and US - Japan Exchange Meetings on Spherical Torus and Numerical Simulation of Spherical Torus Stability, 16 - 19 November 2002, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Joanne Savino.

Fifteenth ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17 - 21 November 2002, Washington, D.C. USA.  Contact Roger Stoller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; phone (865) 576-7886.

International Symposium on Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy, 19 - 21 November 2002, Yokohama, Japan. Contact J. Shimizu, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama 223-8521 Japan; phone +81-45-566-1306; fax +81-45-566-1306.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting, 25 November 2002, Marriott Hotel, 9715 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact: Albert Opdenaker.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, 3 - 4 December 2002, Capitol Hill Club, Washington, DC USA. Contact FPA.

International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 9 - 14 December 2002, Estate Club, Bangalore, India. Contact B. S. Krishnamurthy, National Research Institute for Applied Mathematics (NRIAM), 7th cross, 7th block, 492/G, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560081, India; phone 0091 80 676 4356.

First IPM International Workshop on Plasma Dynamics, 15 - 20 December 2002, Qeshm, Iran. Contact Hossein Abbasi; phone +98 (21) 229 09 34; fax +98 (21) 228 04 15.