Schedule (2022)

Registration

Welcome and meeting logistics: Selma Mededovic
Introductory remarks: Sean Jones (NSF Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences)
Susan Margulies (NSF Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering)

Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin): Co-evolution of cosmic rays and thermal plasma in clusters of galaxies
Thomas Killian (Rice): Laser-driven and magnetized ultracold neutral plasmas

Coffee break

Katharina Stapelmann (NC State): Plasma-liquid interactions in different solutions relevant for plasma medicine
Earl Scime (West Virginia): Recent results from the PHAse Space MApping (PHASMA) Experiment
Andrew Christlieb (Michigan State): The role of advanced algorithms in understanding plasmas
Gregory Howes (Iowa): Catching the media wave: How to market your research to the press and the public

Lunch

Gilbert “Rip” Collins (Rochester): Extreme matters: Pressure to explore new worlds and revolutionary states of matter
Walter Gekelman (UCLA): The LAPD story
Uri Shumlak (Washington): Investigating sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch physics through modeling and experiments
Franklin Dollar (UC Irvine): Establishing community: Research as a broader impact

Coffee break

Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton): Multiscale plasmas in high-energy astrophysics: From shocks to magnetospheres
Petros Tzeferacos (Rochester): Laser-driven experiments shed new light on magnetized turbulence and fluctuation dynamo in astrophysical plasmas
Julia Mikhailova (Princeton): Ultrafast high-field science with plasma optics

End of day 1

Louise Willingale (Michigan): The 3-Petawatt ZEUS Laser Facility
Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley): Challenges and opportunities in the new era of multi-messenger astrophysics
David Go (Notre Dame): Low-temperature plasma catalysis: Uncovering synergies and opportunities

Coffee break

Peter Bruggeman (Minnesota): Plasma-biofilm interactions at the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering
Anna Tenerani (UT Austin): Exploring the origin and evolution of Alfvénic fluctuations in the solar wind: Discoveries from Parker Solar Probe
Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia): Frontiers of radiative relativistic plasma physics in astrophysical non-thermal sources
John Cary (CU Boulder, Tech-X): First life of a scientific research company, from creation to transition

Lunch

Enrico Camporeale (CU Boulder & NOAA): Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainty (SWQU) using machine learning and ensembles
Evdokiya Kostadinova (Auburn): Frontiers of dusty plasma: Monolayers, turbulence, and liquid crystals
Lorenzo Mangolini (UC Riverside): Recent advances at the intersection of plasma and materials science
David Schaffner (Bryn Mawr): Space turbulence in a small space: Plasma research within the Small College Plasma Consortium

Coffee break

Posters

End of day 2

Edward Thomas, Jr (Auburn): Anomalous heating of complex plasmas in microgravity experiments on the International Space Station
Frederico Fiuza (SLAC): Frontiers of high-energy-density physics: Connecting plasma simulations, experiments, and astrophysics models
Oliver Schmitz (Wisconsin): Plasma physics for the particle-driven wakefield experiment AWAKE at CERN
Eray Aydil (NYU): The role of plasmas in the decarbonization of chemical manufacturing

Coffee break

Jonathan Zuegel (Rochester): MP3 Workshop: An international focus on promising new science enabled by ultra-intense lasers
Maria Kazachenko (CU Boulder): Toward improved understanding of solar eruptive events: Perspectives with the largest telescope to observe the Sun
Gregory Severn (San Diego): Adventures in sheath physics with Noah Hershkowitz, and current work in this area at USD and UW-Madison
Cliff Surko (UCSD): Physics with antimatter — the plasma connection

Lunch

Multi-agency roundtable discussion led by Mark J. Kushner (Michigan) and Gary Zank (Alabama Huntsville)

Closing remarks

End of meeting