Organizers/Committees

Technical Program Committee

Technical Program Chair
Allen Garner, Purdue University

1.0 Basic Processes in Fully and Partially Ionized Plasmas
Agust Valfells, Reykjavik University
Sedina Tsikata, Georgia Tech

1.1 Basic Phenomena
Renaud Guerolt, Laplace
Carmen Guerra-Garcia, MIT

1.2 Computational Plasma Physics
Asif Iqbal, University of Michigan
Amanda Lietz, North Carolina State University

1.3 Space Plasmas

1.4 Partially Ionized Plasmas
Ken Hara, Stanford University

1.5 Dusty & Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Saikat Thankur, Auburn University
Scott Baalrud, University of Michigan

1.6 Plasma Chemistry
Renwu Zhou, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Katharina Stapelmann, North Carolina State University

2.0 Microwave Generation and Plasma Interactions
Marcus Pearlman, Boise State University
Fernanda Yamasaki, National Institute for Space Research

2.1 Intense Beam Microwave Generation
Adam Darr, Sandia National Laboratories
Xueying Lu, Northern Illinois University

2.2 Fast-Wave Devices
Ioannis G. Pagonakis, ETH Zurich
José Osvaldo Rossi, National Institute for Space Research

2.3 Slow-Wave Devices
Andrey Andreev, University of New Mexico

2.4 Vacuum Microelectronics and THz Devices
N. R. S. Harsha, University of Rochester
Ricky Ang, Singapore University of Technology and Design

2.5 Codes and Modeling
Andrew Yue, Silvaco
Dale Welch, Voss Scientific

2.6 Non-Fusion Microwave Systems
Nicholas M. Jordan, University of Michigan
Steve Exelby, Air Force Research Laboratory

2.7 Microwave Plasma Interaction
Peng Zhang, University of Michigan

3.0 Plasma Diagnostics, Charged Particle Beams and Sources
Patrick Wong, IPulse
Alex Shashurin, Purdue University

3.1 Plasma, Ion, and Electron Sources
Lee Organski, Purdue University
Trevor Smith, Ipulse ABQ

3.2 Intense Electron and Ion Beams
Adam Patel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Emma Guerin, Syntek Technologies

3.3 Advanced Concepts, Novel Materials, and New Applications
Alex Sarracino, Sandia National Laboratories

4.0 High Energy Density Plasmas and Applications
Louise Willingale, University of Michigan
Amina Hussein, University of Alberta

4.1 Particle Acceleration with Laser and Beams
Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Stony Brook University

4.2 Radiation Physics and X-Ray Lasers
Pia Valdivia, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

4.3 High Energy Density Matter
Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Pawel Kozlowski, Los Alamos National Laboratory

4.4 Laser Produced Plasmas
Enam Chowdhury, Ohio State University
Robert Fedosejevs, University of Alberta

4.5 Fast Z Pinches
Matthew Weis, Sandia National Laboratories
Kyoung-Jae Chung, Seoul National University

5.0 Industrial, Commercial, and Medical Plasma Applications
Selma Mededovic, Clarkson University
Ursel Fantz, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

5.1 Nonequilibrium Plasma Applications
Peter Bruggeman, University of Minnesota
Tomahiro Nozaki, Institute of Science Tokyo

5.2 High-Pressure and Thermal Plasma Processing
Juan Pablo Trelles, UMass Lowell
Tony Murphy, CSIRO

5.3 Plasma Aerodynamics (Thrusters, Flow Control, Ignition and Combustion)
Luca Vialetto, UCLA

5.4 Environmental and Industrial Applications
Sarah Wu, University of Idaho

5.5 Medical and Biological Applications
Chunqi Jiang, Old Dominion University

5.6 Plasma Enabled Energy Conversion
R. Mohan Sankaran, University of Illinois
Xin Tu, University of Liverpool

6.0 Pulsed Power and Other Plasma Applications
Mark Johnston, Sandia National Laboratories
Tom Huiskamp, Eindhoven, University of Technology

6.1 Insulation and Dielectric Breakdown
imothy Wong, University of Strahclyde

6.2 Opening and Closing Switches
Anton Gusev, Pau University

6.3 Pulsed Generators and Compact Pulsed Power
Michael Osemann, Research Instruments

7.0 SPECIAL TOPIC: Plasma Semiconductor Processing
Jane Chang, UCLA
Haruka Suzuki, Nagoya University

7.1 Plasma Enhanced Deposition

7.2 Plasma Etching

7.3 Plasma-Surface Interactions

7.4 Plasma Simulation and Modeling

8.0 SPECIAL TOPIC: Fusion Plasmas
Remington Reid, Terra Fusion Energy Corporation
Daniel Andruczyk, University of Illinois

8.1 Confinement Concepts
Jenny Smith, Air Force Research Laboratory

8.2 Plasma Facing Components and First Wall Interactions
Bruce Koel, Princeton University

8.3 Stability and Transport
Jan Cecrdle, University of Illinois

8.4 Reactor Scale Modeling

8.5 Plasma Diagnostics
Bill Young, Zap Energy

8.6 Heating Scenarios for Fusion Plasma
Patrick Knap, Pacific Fusion

8.7 AI For Fusion
Justin Angus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory