Plasma Conferences in 2003

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 6 - 17 January 2003, Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA. Contact USPAS; phone 630-840-3896, fax 630-840-8500.

Joint Twenty-Eighth ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics and Advanced & Novel Accelerators Workshop, 7 - 11 January 2003, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. Contact Atsushi Ogata, AdSM, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan; phone: +81-824-24-7030; fax +81-824-24-7031.

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 12 - 17 January 2003, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Klaus Heumann, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55099 Mainz, Germany; Phone +49-6131-39-25882; fax +49-6131-39-24053.

Public Meeting on Fusion Development Path, 13 - 14 January 2003, General Atomics, San Diego, California USA. Contact Vincent Chan, General Atomics, PO Box 85608, San Diego, California, 92186-5608 USA; phone (858) 455-4162; fax (858) 455-3586.

Science and Technology of Radiation Sources and Particle Acceleration, 3 - 5 February 2003, La Jolla, California 92037 USA. Contact Frontier Science Research Conferences.

Third International Workshop on Basic Aspects of Non-equilibrium Plasmas Interacting with Surfaces (BANPIS'03), 7 - 8 February 2003, Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Higashiura-cho, Tsuna-gun, Hyogo 656-2301, Japan. Contact Kunihide Tachibana, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; phone +81-75-753-5304; Fax +81-75-753-3341.

Research Trends in High Energy Density Plasma Physics, 10 - 12 February  2003, La Jolla, California 92037 USA. Contact Frontier Science Research Conferences.

Fifth International Workshop on Nonlinear Waves and Chaos in Space Plasmas (NWW2003), 2 - 7 March 2003, Taj President Hotel, Mumbai, India. Contact Archana Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Nanabhai Moos Marg, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India; phone +91-22-215 1607; fax +91-22-218 9568.

Workshop on In-Vessel Tritium Inventory (IVTI03), 19 - 21 March 2003, EFDA-JET, Culham, United Kingdom.  Contact J Paul Coad, UKAEA, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom.

Eleventh International Workshop on the Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP-11), 20 - 25 March 2003, Valencia, Spain. Contact Igor Tkachenko, Polytechnic University of Valencia; phone +34963877664, ext.76646; fax +34963877179.

Fifth Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research, 23 - 28 March 2003, Washington, DC USA. Contact Emilio Panarella, Physics Essays Publication, 2012 Woodglen Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 6G4 Canada; fax (819) 457-1020.

Thirtieth IOP Plasma Physics Annual Conference and Plasma Physics and Short Time Period Physics Spring Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2003, Aachen, Germany. Contact Matthias Born, Technical Physics and Chemistry, Philips Research Laboratory, Aachen Weisshausstrasse,. 2 D-52066 Aachen, Germany; phone +49 241 6003 618; fax +49 241 6003 483.

Directed Energy Modeling and Simulation Conference, 25 - 27 March 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Contact Russ Stanton, P.O. Box 9874, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87119 USA.

Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure (ESPRIT) Workshop, 25 - 29 March 2003, Rhodes, Greece. Contact Anastasia Metallinou.

Ninth Joint US-European Transport Task Force Workshop 2003 and Sixteenth Annual US Transport Task Force Meeting, 2 - 5 April 2003, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Paul Terry; phone 608-263-0487.

Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 3 - 7 April 2003, Specchia, Italy. Contact Santolo De Benedictis, IMIP-CNR sez. Bari, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Bari, via Orabona 4, I-70126 Bari, Italy.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 5 - 8 April 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.

Simulation of Ultra Intense Laser Beams with Matter, 14-15 April 2003, Bordeaux, France. Contact V. Tikhonchuk, University of Bordeaux I.

Eighth Easter Plasma Meeting on Reconnection and Turbulence in Magnetically Confined Plasmas, 23 - 25 April 2003, Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy. Contact Organizing Committee.

Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 28 - 30 April 2003, Corpus Christi, Texas USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart; phone 512-471-4378; fax 512-471-6715.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF '03), 28 April - 2 May 2003, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Forth-Sixth Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 2 - 8 May 2003, San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Peter Martin.

U.S. ITER Forum, 8 - 9 May 2003, Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA. Contact Mike Mauel, Columbia University.

International Conference on the Physics of Low Temperature Plasma, 11 - 15 May 2003, Kyiv, Ukraine. Contact PLTP-03, Bogolubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 14b Metrologichna St., 03143, Kyiv, Ukraine; phone +(38044) 266 05 90.

Eleventh International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (ISEM), 12 - 14 May 2003, Palais des Congrès Versailles, France. Contact ISEM 2003, LGEP, 11 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France. Includes laser and particle beams, plasmas.

Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC2003), 12 - 16 May 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA. Contact Maura Chatwell, SLAC, M/S 07, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 95025 USA; phone 650-926-4931; fax 650-926-2525.

New Themes in Plasma and Fluid Turbulence, 13 - 14 May 2003, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. Contact Martin O'Brien; phone (44) 1235 466595; fax (44) 1235 466209.

Fourth General Scientific Assembly of Asia Plasma & Fusion Association (APFA2003), 13 - 16 May 2003, Hangzhou, China. Contact Shaohua Dong, phone +86-551-5591601; fax +86-551-5591310.

Thirteenth IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT2003), 18 - 23 May 2003, Montréal, Canada. Contact conference secretary.

Fifteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 19 - 21 May 2003, Jackson Lake Lodge, Moran, Wyoming, USA. Contact Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin; phone 608-263-0486; fax 608-262-7205.

Sixteenth IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, IAEA Headquarters, 19 - 21 May 3003, Vienna, Austria. Contact J. Pucadyil, International Atomic Energy Agency, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5,A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Fourth IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 28 - 30 May 2003, Hotel Lotte, Seoul, Korea. Contact Gun-Sik Park, School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; phone 82-2-880-7749; fax 82-2-882-9374. This meeting will be held in tandem with the ICOPS2003 (1 - 4 June 2003). A minicourse will be offered at Seoul National University, 31 May - 1 June 2003.

Innovative Confinement Concepts 2003 Workshop (ICC2003), 28 - 30 May 2003, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact Jan Kvamme; 866-791-1275 (toll-free) or 206-685-9636; fax 206-543-2352.

Seventh International Conference on Electron Beam Technologies (EBT'2003), 1 - 6 June 2003, Varna, Bulgaria. Contact Katia Vutova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigradsko shosse, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone :+359 2 7144680; fax +359 2 9753201.

Thirtieth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2003), 2 - 5 June 2003, Lotte Hotel Jeju, Cheju, Korea. Contact Kyu-Sun Chung, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791 Korea; phone +82-2-2290-0465; fax +82-2-2299-1908.

IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT '03), 6 - 15 June 2003, Penn Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Contact Mr. Richard V. Snyder, c/o RS Microwave, 22 Park Pl Butler, NJ 07405, USA; phone (201) 492-1207; fax (201) 492-2471.

Third International Symposium on Nonthermal Medical/Biological Treatments Using Electromagnetic Fields and Ionized Gases (ElectroMed2003), 11 - 13 June 2003, Westin River Walk Hotel, San Antonio, Texas USA.  Contact Michael Murphy; phone 210-536-4833; fax 210-536-3977.

Seventh International Symposium on  Sputtering and Plasma Processes, 11 - 13 June 2003, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan. Contact Eiji Kusano.

IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, 15 - 19 June 2003, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas USA. Contact DaLana Williamson, ECE-Dept. MS 43102, Texas Technical University, Lubbock, Texas 70409-3102 USA; phone +1 806 742 1255; fax +1 806 742 1281.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 16 - 27 June 2003, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact USPAS Office; phone 630-840-3895; fax 630-840-8500.

Tenth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 18 - 21 June 2003, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.  Contact Edward Thomas, Physics Department, Auburn University; phone 334-844-4126; fax 334-844-4613. Topics include basic and applied dusty plasma studies, laboratory experiments, space observations, theory, simulations, and microgravity experiments.

RF 2003, 22 - 26 June 2003, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, USA. Contact Janet Wolfsheimer, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, 3324 A. V. Williams Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3511 USA; phone (301) 405-1796; fax (301) 405-1678.

Thirty-Third Anomalous Absorption Conference, 22 - 27 June 2003, Lake Placid, New York 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.

Sixteenth International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, 22 - 27 June 2003, Congress Centre, Taormina, Italy. Contact Grazia Retto, Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy; phone +39 080 5442519; fax +39 080 5443405.

Thirty-Fourth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 23 - 26 June 2003, Hilton Walt Disney World Hotel, Orlando, Florida USA.

Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Objects, 24 - 28 June 2003, Krakow, Poland. Contact Michal Ostrowski, Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, ul. Orla 171, 30-244 Kraków, Poland; phone +48 12 4251294 ext. 46.

South African Institute of Physics 48th Annual Conference, 25 - 27 June 2003, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Hydrogen in Condensed Matter (HINM 2003), 25 - 28 June 2003, Helsinki, Finland. Contact Walter Rydman, P.O. Box 64, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; phone +358-9-19150644.

Fifteenth International Conference on Electrostatic Accelerators and Beam Technologies (ESU-2003), June 2003, Obninsk, Russia. Contact Valentin Romanov, SSC Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, 1 Bondarenko Sq., Obninsk, Kaluga Region, 249020 Russia; phone 007 (08439) 98270; fax 007 (095) 2302326.

Atoms and Plasmas in Superintense Laser Fields, 5-15 July 2003, Erice-Sicily, Italy. Contact Giovanni Petrocelli, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Fisiche ed Energetiche, Universit� di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via di Tor Vergata n. 110, I-00133 Rome, Italy; phone +39 06 7259 7211; fax +39 06 7259 7145.

Thirtieth EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 7 - 11 July 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Andrey Lebedev, Ioffe Institute, 26 Politekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021, Russia; phone (812) 247 4224, fax (812) 247 1017.

Joint Sixth ICFA Advanced & Novel Accelerators and Twenty-Ninth ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Laser-Beam Interactions, 7 - 11 July 2003, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, England. Contact Katherine Horton, Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX England; phone 44-1235-445655; fax 44-1235-445888.

Fifth International Workshop on Microwave Discharges: Fundamentals and Applications, 8 - 12 July 2003, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Gerhard Babucke, Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik (INP), Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 19, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 554 445; fax +49 3834 554 301.

Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 13 - 14 July 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Radomir Panek, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, P.O.B. 17, CZ - 182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420 2) 6605 2942; fax: (+420 2) 6605 2907.

Fourteenth Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, 13 - 18 July 2003, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. Contact Secretariat.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on ECRH Physics and Technology for ITER, 14 - 16 July 2003, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact H. Zohm, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49-89-3299-1925; or Scientific Secretary, Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Fortieth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 14 - 25 July 2003, Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Georgina Dawes, Summer School Administrator, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone 44 1235 465028; fax 44 1235 465102.

Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 15 - 18 July 2003, Brussels, Belgium. Contact M. Godefroid, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (XXVI ICPIG), 15 - 20 July 2003, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Juergen Meichsner, Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Domstrasse 10a, D-17487 Greifswald; phone +49(0)3834 864740; fax +49(0)3834 864701.

Sixth International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP6) and 2003 Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2003), 20 - 25 July 2003, Xi'an, China. Contact Jun Chen, IAPCM, P.O.Box 8009-26, Beijing100088, China;  phone (86)(10)62014411-2451; fax (86)(10) 62057289.

Shock Compression in Condensed Matter, 20 - 25 July 2003, Doubletree Hotel--Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon USA. Contact Alita Roach; 505-665-6277.

Fifth International Workshop on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas, 21 - 23 July 2003, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Michael Endler, Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Teilinstitut Greifswald, Bereich E5, Wendelsteinstrase 1, D-17491 Greifswald Germany; phone +49-3834-88-2340; fax +49-3834-88-2009.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 21 - 23 July 2003, San Diego, California, USA. Contact B. McHarg, Fusion Computer Systems, General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186 USA; phone +1-858-455-4249; or Scientific Secretary, Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Third International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC-2003), 23 - 39 July 2003, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Reinhold Schuch; phone +46 8 5537 8621; fax +46 8 5537 8601.

Laser-Generated and other Laboratory X-Ray and EUV Sources, Optics, and Applications (AM303), 3 - 8 August 2003, San Diego, California, USA.

Sixth Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 4 - 29 August 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Adolfo Rodrigo, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, CAC Avda. del Libertador 8250, Buenos Aires 1429, Argentina; phone (+54-11) 6772-7239; fax (+54-11) 6772-7378.

Plasma Technology Training School, 11 - 14 August 2003, Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact Declan Andrew Diver, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom; phone 0141 330 5686; fax 0141 330 5183.

Physics and Control 2003, 20 - 22 Aug 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Alexander Fradkov, Bolshoy Ave. V.O., St. Petersburg 199178, Russia; phone +7(812)321-4766; fax +7(812)321-4771.

Fourth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS '03), 1 - 5 September 2003, Rihga Royal Hotel, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Osaka University; phone 81-6-6879-8694; fax 81-6-6879-8689.

Sixth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics, 1 - 12 September 2003, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. Contact Michael Van Schoor, Laboratory for Plasma Physics, Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire, Association "Euratom - Belgian State", Renaissancelaan 30, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; phone +32 2 737 65 78; fax +32 2 735 24 21.

Ninth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET-9), 3 - 5 September 2003, San Diego, California USA. Contact PET-9.

Eighteenth International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP'03) and US-Japan simulation workshop "Scope of Simulation Science", 7 - 10 September 2003, Cape Cod, Massachusetts USA. Contact Rachel Batista, 18th ICNSP, MIT, NW14-2209, 150 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA; phone +1-617-253-0494; fax +1-617-253-0760.

Third International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2003), 7 - 12 September 2003, Monterey, California USA. Contact Shannon Hornstein; fax (925) 422-8725.

Tenth European Fusion Theory Conference, 8 - 10 September 2003, Unitas Congress Centre, Helsinki, Finland. Contact Auli Kajatie, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland; phone +358-9-451 3203; fax +358-9-451 3195.

Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium (ITCPP 2003), 8 - 12 September 2003, Santorini Island, Greece. Contact Ingmar Sandberg, Theoretische Physik IV, Space and Astrophysics, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.

Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Free Electron Lasers, 8 - 12 September 2003, Tsukuba, Japan.

Tenth International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS 2003), 8 - 13 September 2003, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. Contact Valentina Novikova; phone 7 09621 65170; fax 7 09621 65891.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas (PLASMA-2003),  9 - 12 September 2003, Warsaw, Poland. Contact PLASMA-2003, Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland; phone (+48) 22 40 3131; fax (+48) 22 40 3131.

Magnetospheric Response to Solar Activity, 9 - 12 September 2003, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jana Safrankova, KEVF MFF UK, V Holesovickach 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone +420 221 912 301; fax +420 284 685 095.

Spherical Tokamak Workshop 2003, 15 - 17 September 2003, Culham Science Centre, Culham, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Alan Sykes, D3/108, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon Oxon. OX14 3DB United Kingdom; phone 01235 466473.

Thirteenth International Summer School on Vacuum, Electron and Ion Technologies (VEIT 2003), 15 - 19 September 2003, 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.

Fourth International Conference Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT4), 15 - 19 September 2003, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Larissa Krat'ko, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 F. Skaryna av., 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone: (375) (172) 84 23 46; fax (375) (172) 84 00 30.

Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: New Insights and New Challenges, 16 - 19 September 2003, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. Contact Giuseppe Bertin, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy; phone ++39 02 5031 7619; fax ++39 5031 7205.

Tenth International Workshop on Carbon Materials for Fusion Application (Carbon-10), 17 - 19 September 2003, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. Contact Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Plasmaphysik; fax 49-2461-612660.

Structure Formation in Plasma and Fluid Turbulence, 19 - 23  September 2003, San Diego, California USA.

International WE-Heraeus Summer School: Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications and Master Class: Electronegative Plasmas, 21 - 30 September 2003, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Center for Plasma Science and Technology; phone +49 234 32 23800; fax +49 234 32 14171.

Fourteenth International Stellarator Workshop, 22 - 26 September 2003, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Friedrich Wagner, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald Branch, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 88 2005; fax +49 3834-88-2009.

Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas, 22 -  27 September 2003, Chalkidiki, Greece. Contact Loukas Vlahos, Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54006 Greece; phone +30-2310-998044; fax +30-2310-995384.

Pulsed Power 2003 Symposium, 23 September 2003, Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Contact S. Gillingham.

Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas, 23 - 28 September 2003, Chalkidiki, Greece.

Ninth IAEA Technical Meeting on H Mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 24 - 26 September 2003, San Diego, California USA. Contact R. Groebner, Fusion Group, DIII-D Division, General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186 USA; phone +1-858-455-3000; or Scientific Secretary, Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Fourth Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering and First International Industrial Plasma Technology Fair, 28 September -2 October 2003, JeJu Island, Korea.

Eleven International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD11), 28 September - 2 October 2003, Les Houches, France. Contact Nader Sadeghi, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, 140 Avenue de la Physique, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France; fax (33) 476 63 54 95.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, 29 September - 1 October 2003,  Greifswald, Germany. Contact F. Wagner, Max-Planck-Insitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstr. 1, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 88 2005; fax +49 3834 88 2009; or Scientific Secretary, Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Workshop on Laser and Plasma Accelerators, 29 September - 3 October 2003, Portovenere (La Spezia), Italy. Contact Paolo Tomassini, Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, Area della Ricerca del CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy; phone +39 0503152256; fax +39 0503152230.

Eighth IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 6 - 8 October 2003,  San Diego, California USA. Contact W. Heidbrink, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 USA; phone +1-949-824-5398; fax +1-949-824-2174 or Scientific Secretary, Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Ultrashort Hgh-Eergy Radiation and Matter, 7 - 10 October 2003, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale 85, 23821 Abbadia Lariana (LC), Italy; fax +39-0341-732490.

First Cairo Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, 11 - 15 October 2003, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority Bldg., 3 Ahmed El-Zomor St., El-Zohoor Dist., Nasr City 11787, Cairo, Egypt. Contact T. El-Khalafawy, Plasma and Nuclear Fusion Department, N.R.C., Atomic Energy Authority, Atomic Energy 13759, Cairo, Egypt; fax 002-02-2876031.

Applications of High Field and Short Wavelength Sources X, 12 - 15 October 2003, Biarritz, France. Contact Anne Soumaré, Terres Basques 1, Allée Robinson, F 64200 Biarritz, France; fax +33 559 411 474.

Long-Lived Structures and Self Organization in Plasmas, 13 October - 17 November 2003, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact smr1521@ictp.trieste.it.

Twentieth Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2003), 14 - 17 October 2003, San Diego, California, USA. Contact Kristin Kidney, General Atomics, PO Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608 USA.

Fourth International Symposium on Pulsed Power and Plasma Applications, 19 - 22 October 2003, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. Contact Weihua Jiang, Extreme Energy-Density Research Institute, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan; phone +81-258-47-9892; fax +81-258-47-9890.

Eighth Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, 20 - 24 October 2003, Huntsville Marriott Hotel, Huntsville, Alabama USA. Contact Jody Minor, NASA Space Environments and Effects Program; phone (256) 544-4041.

Sixth Annual Directed Energy Symposium, 20 - 24 October 2003, Marriott Pyramid North Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact program committee.

Fifty-Sixth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 21 - 24 October 2003, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Helen Hwang, NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 230-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA; phone (650) 604-1368; fax (650) 604-0350.

Second International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion, 21 - 24 October 2003, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 27 - 31 October 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart.

Workshop on Plasma-Assisted Combustion, 3 - 5 November 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Louis Rosocha, P-24, MS E526, Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 USA; phone 505-667-8493; fax 505-665-3552.

AVS Fiftieth International Symposium, 3 - 7 November 2003, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Workshop on Plasma Physics, 10 - 15 November 2003, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact smr1523@ictp.trieste.it.

Forum on the Future of Fusion, 19 - 21 November 2003, Capital Hill Club, Washington, DC USA Contact Fusion Power Associates.

Nouvelles Tendances en Procédés Magnétron et Arc pour le Dép�t de Couches Minces, 24 - 25 November 2003, Ghent, Belgium. Contact Roger De Gryse, Vakgroep Vaste-stofwetenschappen, Krijgslaan 281/S1, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; phone +32 (0)9 264 43 63; fax +32 (0)9 264 49 96.

First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of the Vlasov Equation, 26 - 28 November 2003, Nancy, France. Contact Giovanni Manfredi, University of Nancy, France; phone +33 3 83 68 49 02; fax +33 3 83 68 49 33.

Sixth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-6), 27 - 28 November 2003, old convent Rolduc, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact Richard Engeln, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; phone +31.(0)40.2475786/4880; fax +31.(0)40.2456442.

Tenth Latin American Workshop On Plasma Physics (X LAWPP) and Seventh Brazilian Meeting on Plasma Physics (7th EBFP ), 1 - 5 December 2003, Hotel Leao da Montanha,Campos do Jordao, SP, Brazil. Contact Virginia Alves - LAP - INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil for X LAWPP; or Ricardo Viana, IF-UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil for 7th EBFP.

Third Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop, 1 - 5 Dec 2003, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 USA. Contact Yuri Ralchenko; phone 301-975-3210; fax 301-990-1350.

Eleventh International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-11), 7 - 12 December 2003, Kyoto, Japan. Contact secretariat; phone +81-774-38-3597, fax +81-774-38-3467.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 8 - 12 December 2003, Moscone Center West, 800 Howard Street, San Francisco, California USA. Contact AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 USA; phone +1-800-966-2481, ext. 333 or +1-202-777-7333; fax +1-202-328-0566.

Thirteenth Toki International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (ITC-13), 9 - 12 December 2003, Japan. Contact T. Hayashi, National Institute for Fusion Science, Oroshi-cho, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan; fax +81-572-58-2630.

Technological Plasmas Workshop, 15 - 16 December 2003, University of Birmingham, Great Britain. Contact Chris Mayhew; phone 0121- 414 6467.