Meeting Schedule

Monday, May 18

All times in EDT

BREAKFAST available from 7:30am

8:00am Registration

8:30am Welcome (University of Michigan, NSF, Org Committee)

9:00am Uwe Kortshagen (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities): Reactive dusty plasmas for the controlled growth of quantum dots

9:30am Muni Zhou (Dartmouth College): Genesis, amplification, and decay of cosmic magnetic fields

10:00am BREAK

10:30am Lorin Matthews (Baylor University): Asymmetry in Action: Direction-Dependent Forces Shaping Collective Behavior

11:00am Bonggu Shim (Binghamton University): Investigation of wavelength- and intensity-dependent laser plasma interactions using ultrafast single-shot visualization

11:30am Thomas Underwood (University of Texas at Austin): Fundamental Reaction Mechanisms in Plasma-Assisted Catalysis

12:00pm Mark Moldwin (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor): Creating Opportunities for All to Promote the Progress of Science

12:30pm WORKING LUNCH

1:30pm Robert Lysak (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities): Auroral Acceleration Processes at Earth and Jupiter

2:00pm Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University): Measurements and simulations of interface dynamics in kinetic plasmas

2:30pm Gina Noh (Pennsylvania State University - University Park): Toward understanding metal nanoparticle size effects in plasma-enhanced CO2 hydrogenation: A case study of Ni

3:00pm Chris Hansen (Columbia University): Identifying and Bridging the Workforce Gap for the Emergent Fusion Energy Industry

3:30pm BREAK

4:00pm Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet (University of Arizona): Leveraging partial differential equations and integral equations for efficient equilibrium computations

4:30pm Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago): The Astroplasma Physics of Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Transport

5:00pm Alexey Arefiev (University of California - San Diego): Generation of energetic electrons, gamma rays, and positrons in ultra-high-intensity laser–plasma interactions