smr1161/Programme

			AUTUMN COLLEGE ON PLASMA PHYSICS
 			25 October - 19 November 1999

Directors:  B. Buti (India), S.M. Mahajan (U.S.A.), P.H. Sakanaka (Brazil) and Z. Yoshida (Japan)

VENUES:

MORNING LECTURES :	MAIN LECTURE HALL, MAIN BUILDING

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 

COMPUTER EXERCISES in	Computer Lab. (formerly Laser Lab.), Main Building

WORKING GROUPS in 	Main Lecture Hall
			room 239, second floor, Main Building
			room C,Terrace level, Main Building



			Preliminary  Programme
				WEEK 1
			   25 - 29 October

Monday, 25 October

09.00			Registration & Administrative Procedures
10.30- 12.30		Introduction
			Informal Planning of the College
	Lunch Break
14.30	 		Informal Sessions

Tuesday, 26 October

09.00 - 10.00	M. WAKATANI
		Magnetic confinement and pressure-driven instabilities
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	S. CHATTOPADHYAY
		Matter and Light under Extreme Conditions. Collective and
		Nonlinear Interaction of Lasers, Particle Beams and 
		Plasmas - High Fields
11.30 - 12.30	M. KONO
		Vortical Motions in Magnetized Plasmas I
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Wednesday, 27 October

09.00 - 10.00	M. WAKATANI
		Edge turbulence and drift instabilities - I
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	M. KONO
		Vortical Motions in Magnetized Plasmas II
11.30 - 12.30	Z. YOSHIDA
		Mixing Phenomena in Plasmas I
	Lunch Break
14.30		 Informal Sessions

18.30           	SMALL RECEPTION (Main Building Cafeteria)

Thursday, 28 October

09.00 - 10.00	Z. YOSHIDA
		Mixing Phenomena in Plasmas II
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	S. CHATTOPADHYAY
		Matter and Light under Extreme Conditions. Collective and
 		Nonlinear Interaction of Lasers, Particle Beams
		and Plasmas - Low Temperatures
11.30 - 12.30	M. KONO
		Vortical Motions in Magnetized Plasmas III
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Friday, 29 October

09.00 - 10.00 	M. WAKATANI
		Edge turbulence and drift instabilities - II
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	S. CHATTOPADHYAY
		Matter and Light under Extreme Conditions. Collective and
		Nonlinear Interaction of Lasers, Particle Beams and Plasmas 
		- High Densities
11.30 - 12.30	M. KONO
		Vortical Motions in Magnetized Plasmas IV
	Lunch Break
14.30		Poster Session


				WEEK 2
			   1 - 5 November
Monday, 1 November

09.00 - 10.00	J. MENARD
		The Physics Basis for Spherical Tokamak Research
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	B. DORLAND
		Turbulence and Tokamak Energy Confinement
11.30 - 12.30	J. MENARD
		MHD Stability Limits of Advanced Tokamak Regimes
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Tuesday, 2 November

09.00 - 10.00 	J. MENARD
		Absorption Physics of High-Frequency Fast Magnetosonic Waves
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	C. FOREST
		Electron Cyclotron Heating, Current Drive and Emission 
		from Overdense Plasmas Using Mode Converted Electron
		Bernstein Waves.
11.30 - 12.30	M.A. BEER
		Fundamentals of Toroidal Gyrofluid Simulations
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Wednesday, 3 November

09.00 - 10.00	M.A. BEER
		Dynamics of Turbulence Driven Zonal ExB Flows
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	M. HERRMANN
		An overview of inertial fusion energy.
11.30 - 12.30	B. DORLAND
		Microinstability in High Beta Plasmas
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Thursday, 4 November

09.00 - 10.00	C. FOREST
		An Introduction to the MHD Dynamo Problem
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	M. HERRMANN
		Generalized Scaling of the Energy Threshold 
		for Ignition and Efficient Burn of ICF Targets
11.30 - 12.30	M.A. BEER
		Turbulence Suppression with Reversed Magnetic Shear
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal Sessions

Friday, 5 November

09.00 - 10.00	M. HERRMANN
		Fast ignition of ICF targets
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	B. DORLAND
		Secondary Instabilities in Plasma Turbulence
11.30 - 12.30	C. FOREST
		Experiments to Address Issues in Dynamo Research
	Lunch Break
14.30		Poster Session


				WEEK  3
			   8 - 12 November

Monday, 8 November

09.00 - 10.00	E. SMITH
		Solar Wind Physics - I
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	HANTAO JI
		Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory
11.30 - 12.30	V. CADEZ
		Gravitational Instability - "Jeans Swindle" - for
		Self-gravitating Astrophysical Plasmas
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal session
		 C.K. BIRDSALL - COMPUTER EXERCISES

Tuesday, 9 November

09.00 - 10.00 	E. SMITH
		Solar Wind Physics - II
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	V.M. NAKARIAKOV
		Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves in Solar Coronal 
		Structures - I
11.30 - 12.30	HANTAO JI
		Study of Dynamo Effects in Laboratory
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal session
		 C.K. BIRDSALL - COMPUTER EXERCISES

Wednesday, 10 November

09.00 - 10.00	HANTAO JI
		Helicity, Reconnection and Dynamo Effects
10.00 - 10.15 	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	B. BUTI
		Alfvenic Wave Packets I
11.15  - 12.15	S. POEDTS
		Computational Linear MHD: Different Approaches
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal session
		C.K. BIRDSALL - COMPUTER EXERCISES

Thursday, 11 November

09.00 - 10.00	E. SMITH
		The 3d Heliosphere: Ulysses results and expectations 
		for solar maximum.
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	S. POEDTS
		Resonance Heating of Coronal Loops: Advanced Models
11.30 - 12.30	V.M. NAKARIAKOV
		Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves in Solar Coronal 
		Structures - II
	Lunch Break
14.30		Informal session
		C.K. BIRDSALL - COMPUTER EXERCISES

Friday, 12 November

09.00 - 10.00	B.BUTI
		Alfvenic Wave Packets II
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	M. VELLI 
		Dynamics of the Solar Wind Flow: Hydrodynamics
11.30 - 12.30	S. POEDTS
		Complex MHD Shock Interactions
	Lunch Break
14.30 		Informal session
		C.K. BIRDSALL - COMPUTER EXERCISES
	
				WEEK 4
			   15 - 19 November

Monday, 15 November

09.00 - 10.00	M. VELLI 
		Heating and Acceleration of the Solar Wind: the Role
		of Waves and Kinetic Theories of the Wind Expansion I
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	V.M. NAKARIAKOV
		Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves in Solar Coronal 
		Structures - III
11.30 - 12.30	T.M. O'NEIL 
		Trapped Nonneutral Plasmas, Liquids, and Crystals 
		(The thermal equilibrium states)
	Lunch Break
14.30           Informal Sessions

Tuesday, 16 November

09.00 - 10.00	T.M. O'NEIL
		Collisional Transport in Nonneutral Plasmas
10.00 - 10.15 	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	A. RUKHADZE
		Non-Resonance Radiative Pierce Instability 
		and its Saturation-Chaos I
11.30 - 12.30	S.M. MAHAJAN
		Strongly Sheared Flows - Bernoulli Confinement
	Lunch Break
14.30           Informal Sessions

Wednesday, 17 November

09.00 - 10.00	M. VELLI
		Heating and Acceleration of the Solar Wind: the Role
		of Waves and Kinetic Theories of the Wind Expansion II
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	T.M. O'NEILL
		2D Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence in Nonneutral Plasmas
11.30 - 12.30	A. RUKHADZE
		Non-Resonance Radiative Pierce Instability 
		and its Saturation-Chaos II 		

	Lunch Break
14.30           Informal Sessions

Thursday, 18 November

09.00 - 10.00	A. RUKHADZE
		Non-Resonance Radiative Pierce Instability 
		and its Saturation-Chaos III
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30	A. ROGAVA		
		Wave Transformations in Astrophysical Plasma Flows:
		Solar Wind, Solar Jets, Pulsar Magnetosphere 
		and Galactic Gaseous Disks.
11.30 - 12.30	S.M. MAHAJAN
		H-mode Layer as an Example
	Lunch Break
14.30           Informal Sessions

Friday, 19 November

09.00 - 12.30	Summing up 
Poster Session