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IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2025), TBD 2025, Berlin, Germany

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2024), TBD 2024, Beijing, China.

50th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2023), 20-25 May 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

25th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC25) and International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC) Summer School | 21-26 May 2023 | Kyoto, Japan

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference and 2022 US-EU Transport Task Force Workshop | 4-6 April 2022 | Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country Hotel, Santa Rosa, California USA | Contact: Ben Zhu (LLNL)

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2022) | 22 – 26 May 2022 | Seattle, Washington USA | Contact: Organizing Committee

2^nd International Conference on Plasma Theory and Simulations (PTS) | 20 – 22, June 2022 | Hybrid: Department of Physics, University of Lucknow, India | Contact: pts2022conference@gmail.com

29th Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology (SSPT) | 20-23 June 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic | Contact: sppt2020@plasmaconference.cz

31st Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2022) conference | 5-9 September 2022 | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade | Contact: spig2022@ipb.ac.rs

2022 Pacific Symposium on Pulsed Power and Applications | 18-21 October  2022 | Cabo San Lucas, Mexico | Contact: John Mankowski (TTU)

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, POSTPONED from 2020; next conference 2022; Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, USA, Contact: Tony Murphy

 

 

 

Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies | Postponed to 7 – 11 September, 2021 | Harbin, China | Contact: Dr. Igor Matveev

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2019, 3 – 8 February 2019, France.

10th IAEA Technical Meeting on the Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices 27-29 March 2019, Hefei, China, Contact: Fusion Team

9th International Conference on Frontier in Plasma Physics and Technology (FPPT-9), 8-12 April 2019, Columbo, Sri Lanka, Contact: Prof. Tara Desai

20th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 9 – 12 April 2019, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA,  Contact: Dr. Yuri Ralchenko

12th International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (TRITIUM 2019), 22 – 29 April 2019, Busan, South Korea

Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy in Plasmas; 6-10 May 2019; Trieste, Italy; Contact:  Petra Krizmancic

17th International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC 2019), 20 – 24 May 2019, Eindoven, Netherlands.

24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 2019), 9 – 14 June 2019, Naples, Italy

28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE 2019), 2 – 6 June 2019, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS 2019) and 47th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 22 – 28 June 2019, Orlando, Florida USA; Contact: Ray Allen

46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS2019) 8-12 July 2019, Milan, Italy, Contact: Daniela Farina

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas (ICRAP); 15-19 July 2019; Opole, Poland, Contact: Ireneusz Książek

2019 Pacific Symposium on Pulsed Power and Applications 6-9 August 2019, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Contact: John J. Mankowski

11th International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (DZP2019); 19-23 August 2019; Beijing, China; Contact: Prof. Jianguo Wang and Prof. Jianjun Deng

12th International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-12), 2 – 5 September 2019, Yalta, Crimea, Russian Federation, Contact:  Dr. Igor Matveev

2019 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas
September 3-5, 2019; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Contact: Luis Chacon

iPlasmanano, 15-20^th September 2019, Porec, Croati, Contact:  Prof. Eva Kovacevic

14th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT 2019); 22-27th September 2019; Budapest, Hungary; Contact: Mr. Miklós Palánkai

11^th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences & Applications (IFSA); 23-27 September 2019; Osaka, Japan; Contact: Ryosuke Kodama

12^th International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA 2019); 11-14 November 2019;   University of Lucknow, India; Contact: Dr. Punit Kumar

61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics; 21-25 October  2019; Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Eleventh International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-11), 22 – 25 January 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Fifth International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT 2018), 20 – 21 March 2018, Greifswald, Germany.

22nd Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD 2018), 16 – 19 Apr 2018, San Diego, California, USA

9th  International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’18), 20 – 25 May 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Contact: Lia Merminga, TRIUMF.

15th Dusty Plasma Workshop, 29 May to 1 June 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA. Contact: Carlos Romero-Talamas, UMBC

International Congress on Plasma Physics, 4-8 June 2018, Vancouver, Canada, Contacts: Andrei Smolyakov and Richard Sydora

8th International Workshop & Summer School on Plasma Physics (IWSSPP), 10 – 17 June 2018, Kiten, Bulgaria, Contact: Assoc. Prof. Evgenia Benova

Seventh International Conference on Plasma Medicine, 17 – 22 June 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.

Twenty-Eighth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 18 – 21 June 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Jan Pichal.

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2018), 24 – 28 June 2018, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact: Tobin Munsat, University of Colorado.

45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2018), 2 – 6 Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

COSPAR 2018, 14 – 22 July 2018, Pasadena, California USA.

7th International Conference on Microelectronics and Plasma Technology (ICMAP 2018), 25-28 July 2018, Incheon, Korea, Contact: Prof. Seul Lee

2018 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 5-10 August 2018, Smithfield, RI, USA, Contact: Peter Bruggeman

Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma and Terahertz Science, 15-18 August 2018, Xi’an, China

22nd International Symposium on Heavy Ion Fusion and Beam-Driven High Energy Density Science (HIF2018), 19-24 August 2018, Daejon, Korea, Contact: H.J. Kong (KAIST)

22nd International Conference on Gas Discharges and Their Applications (GD2018), 2-7 September 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia. Contact Prof. Zoran Lj. Petrović, Dr. Nevena Puač and Dr. Saša Dujko

16th International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE 2018), 2-7 September 2018, Beijing, China.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (ICPPCF-2018), 10-13 September 2018, Kharkov, Ukraine

7th Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference with 22nd International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, 16-20 September 2018, Changsa, China

30th Symposium on Fusion Technology, 16-21 September 2018, Sicily, Italy

16th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2018), 17-21 September 2018, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

2018 International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 21-26 October 2018, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2018), 22-27 October 2018, Ahmedabad, India

9th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM 2018), 28 October – 2 November 2018, Osaka, Japan

Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics and Seventy-First Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 5 – 9 November 2018, Portland, Oregon USA.

23rd American Nuclear Society (ANS) Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2018), 11 – 15 November 2018, Orlando, Florida USA

2018 International Conference on Cold Plasma Sources and Applications (COPSA2018), 19-23 November, Ypres, Belgium, Contact: Nathalie De Geyter

Confronting MHD Theories of Accretion Disks with Observations, 9 January – 30 March 2017, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Thirty-Seventh Hirschegg Meeting on High Energy Density Physics, 29 January – 3 February 2017, Hirschegg, Austria.

Nineteenth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science, 5 February 2017, Jerusalem, Israel.

European Winter Conference on  Plasma Spectroscopy, 19 – 24 February 2017, Sankt Anton am Arlberg, Austria.

2017 Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 27 February – 3 March 2017, Trieste, Italy.

International Conference on Plasmas with Liquids (ICPL 2017), 5 – 9 March, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ninth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 20 – 23 March 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Fourth Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas Code Comparison Workshop (SLSP), 20 – 24 March 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Ninth ITER International School, “Physics of disruptions and control”, 20 – 24 March 2017, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Fourth International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT 2017), 27 – 28 March 2017, Paris, France.

Forty-Fourth Institute of Physics Plasma Physics Conference, 3 – 6 April 2017, United Kingdom.

Eighth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology (FPPT-8), 3 – 7 April 2017, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile.

Second European Conference on Plasma Diagnostics (ECPD 2017), 18 – 21 April 2017, Bordeaux, France.

Eighteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2017), 24 – 26 April 2017.

Advanced and Novel Accelerators  for High Energy Physics  Roadmap Workshop (ANAR2027), 27 – 28 April 2017, CERN, Switzerland.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 1 – 3 May 2017, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Eighth International Particle Accelerator Conference {IPAC’17), 14 – 19 May 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sixteenth International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC-16), 16 – 19 May 2017, Neuss, Germany.

Forty-Fourth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2017), 21 – 25 May 2017, Atlantic City, New Jersey USA.

Eighth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (8ICPDP),  21–26 May 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.

CHAOS 2017, 30 May – 2 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain.

Twenty-Second Topical Conference on RF Power in Plasma, 30 May – 2 June 2017, Aix-en-Provence, France.

IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 4 – 8 June 2017, Shanghai, China.

Physics of Low Temperature Plasma (PLTP-2017), 5 – 9 June 2017, Kazan, Russian Federation.

Ninth International Workshop on Microplasmas (IWM 2017), 6 – 9 June 2017, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Seventeen International Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications (17^th CPPA) and Workshop on Plasma Coatings for Medical Applications, 15 – 20 June 2017, Bucharest, Romania.

Pulsed Power Conference (2017 PPC), 18 – 22 June 2017, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Forty-Fourth European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 26 – 30 June 2017, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Twenty-First International Colloquium on Plasma Processes (CIP 2017) and Fifth Magnetron Ion Processing & Arc Technologies European Conference (MIATEC 2017), 26 – 30 June 2017, Nice, France.

Plasma Physics by Laser and Applications (PPLA 2017), 3 – 5 July 2017, Messina, Italy.

International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2017), 9 – 17 July 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.

Twelfth International Conference on Non-neutral Plasmas (NNP2017), 10 – 13 July 2017, Appleton, Wisconsin USA.

Twenty-Third International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC23), 30 July – 4 August 2017, Montréal, Canada.

High Energy Density Science Summer School, 30 July – 11 August 2017, La Jolla, California USA.

Exploratory Plasma Research Workshop, 1 – 4 August 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2017 Pacific Symposium on Pulsed Power and Applications, 8 – 11 August 2017, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

Tenth International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches, 13 – 17 August 2017, Stateline, NV USA.

Fifth International Conference on Dusty Plasmas in Applications, 25 – 30 August 2017, Odesa, Ukraine.

Seventh Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (CESPC-7), 3 – 7 September 2017, Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia.

Twelfth International Workshop on Electric Probes in Magnetized Plasmas, 4 – 7 September 2017, Naklo, Slovenia.

Active Experiments in Space: Past, Present and Future, 11 – 14 September 2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.

Tenth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2017), 11 – 15 September 2017, Saint Malo, France.

International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP 2017), 18 – 20 September 2017, Leuven, Belgium.

First Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2017), 18 – 22 September 2017, Chengdu, China.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas (Plasma 2017), 18 – 22 September 2017, Warsaw, Poland.

Eighteenth Laser Aided Plasma Diagnostics Conference (LAPD18), 24 – 28 September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.

Thirteenth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT), 25-29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan.

Sixteenth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (pet16), 27- 29 September 2017, Marseille, France.

Twenty-First International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop (ISHW2017), 2 – 6 October 2017, Kyoto 606-8315, Japan.

Thirty-Fifth International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC 2017), 8 – 12 October 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Seventeenth European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC 2017), 9 – 12 October 2017, Athens, Greece.

Fourteenth International Conference on Plasma Based Ion Implantation and Deposition (PBIL&D 2917), 17 – 20 October 2017, Shanghai, China.

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA2017), 23 – 25 October 2017, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.

Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 23 – 27 October 2017, Milwaukee, Wisconson USA.

Collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov) Equation and Modeling of Self-Gravitating Systems and Plasmas, 30 October – 3 November 2017, Marseille, France.

Eighteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-18), 5 – 10 November 2017, Aomori, Japan.

Seventieth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 6 – 10 November, 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA.

Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 10 – 16 January 2016, Tucson, Arizona USA. Contact organizers.

Monaco ITER International Fusion Energy Days (MIIFED) and ITER Business Forum (IBF), 8 – 11 February 2016, Monaco. Contact ITER Organization Communications; phone + 33 4 42 17 66 13.

Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEM 2016), 14 – 17 February 2016, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Exploratory Plasma Research Workshop, 23-26 February 2016, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama USA.

Eighteenth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 2 March 2016, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Tenth International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-10), 7 – 10 March 2016, Cancun, Mexico. Contact Igor Matveev; phone +1 (703) 340-5545, +1 (703) 560-9569; fax +1 (703) 849-8417.

US Transport Task Force Workshop, 29 March – 1 April 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Fourth International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostics Technologies (ICFDT4), 30 March – 1 April 2016, Frascati, Italy.

2016 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 4 – 6 April 2016, Madison, Wisconsin USA.

Nineteenth International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 4 – 8 April 2016, Paris, France.

Third International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT), 11 – 12 April 2016, Washington DC USA.

Workshop on Complex Systems of Charged Particles and their Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation, 13 – 15 April 2016, Moscow, Russia.

First International Workshop on Plasma Agriculture (IWOPA), 15 – 20 May 2016, Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Eleventh International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 16 – 20 May 2016, Menlo Park, CA USA.

Forty-Third IOP Plasma Physics Group Spring Conference, 23 – 26 May 2016, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, United Kingdom. Contact Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place , London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7470 4848.

Ninth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2016), 23 – 26 May 2016, London, United Kingdom.

Twenty-Second International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (22nd PSI),  30 May – 3 June 2016, Rome, Italy. Contact PSI Secretariat, ENEA Research Center, Via Enrico Fermi 44 Frascati 00044 Italy ; +39.0694005605.

Thirteenth Kudowa Summer School “Towards fusion energy”, 13 – 17 June 2016, Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland.

International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS 2016), 19 – 23 June 2016, Banff, Alberta Canada. Contact Ying Tsui; phone 1 (780 ) 492-3192; fax 1 (780) 492-1811.

Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 20 – 23 June 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal.

Second International Workshop on Models and Data for Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices (MoD-PMI 2016), 22 – 24 June 2016, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Seventh International Workshop & Summer School on Plasma Physics (IWSSPP), 26 June – 2 July 2016, Kiten, Bulgaria.

Eighteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2016), 27 June – 1 July 2016 Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Twelfth International Colloquia on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS-12), 4 – 7 July 2016, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Forty-Third European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2016), 4 – 8 July 2016, Leuven, Belgium.

Twenty-Third Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG), 12 – 16 July 2016, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2016 Joint ICTP-CAS-IAEA School and Workshop on Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices, 18 – 22 July 2016, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.

Forty-First Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR 2016), 30 July – 7 August 2016, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.

Seventeenth Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC), 31 July – 5 August 2016, National Harbor, Maryland USA.

Eleventh International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement, 8 – 12 August 2016, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation. Contact A. Ivanov.

Twenty-Second Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2016), 22 – 25 August 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Second International Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications (PPA 2016), 24 – 26 August 2016, Xi’an, China.

Twenty-Eighth Symposium and Summer School on Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2016), August 29 – 2 September 2016, Belgrade, Serbia.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 29 August – 2 September 2016, Varenna, Italy.

Summer School on Plasma Medicine, 1 – 3 September 2016, and Sixth International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-6), 4 – 9 September 2016, Bratislava, Slovakia. Contact ICPM-6, Division of Environmental Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University,  Mlynska dolina F2, 84248 Bratislava,  Slovakia ; phone +421 260295 618.

Twenty-First Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF 2016), 5 – 8 September 2016, Leysin, Switzerland.

Twenty-Ninth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2016), 5 – 9 September 2016, Prague, Czech Republic.

Eighteenth International Conferences on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI 2016), 11 – 16 September 2016, Kielce, Poland.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 12 – 15 September 2016, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Fifteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2016), 12 – 16 September 2016, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Fifteenth High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry Symposium (HAKONE XV), 12 – 16 September 2016, Brno, Czech Republic.

Sixth Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference and Twenty-First International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams and Fifteenth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation, 18 – 22 September 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.

Sixth International Conference on Microelectronics and Plasma Technology (6^th ICMAP), 26 – 29 September 2016, Gyeongju, South Korea.

Seventh International Symposium on Nonequilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion and Atmospheric Phenomena (NEPCAP 16), 2 – 7 October 2016, Sochi, Russia.

2016 North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NA-PAC’16), 9 – 14 October 2016, Chicago, Illinois USA. Contact Marion White, Argonne National Laboratory.

Sixty-Ninth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 10 – 14 October 2016, Bochum, Germany. Contact Verena Scharf, Research Department “Plasmas with Complex Interactions”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Geb. NB 7/134, Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; phone +49 234 3225173; fax +49 234 3214315.

Seventh International Plasma Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (iPlasmaNano-VII), 12 -16 October 2016, Vravrona, Greece.

Twenty-Sixth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 17–22 October 2016, Kyoto, Japan.

Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 31 October – 4 November 2016, San Jose, California USA.

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16), 13 – 18 November 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics (ECLA 2016 – Gas on the Rocks), 21 – 25 November 2016, Madrid, Spain.

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA), 28 – 30 November 2016, Langkawi Island, Malaysia.

Seventeenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RDHDM), 5 – 9 December 2016, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Sixth International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies (ICAPT-6), 11 -18 December 2016, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

AGU Fall Meeting, 12 – 16 December 2016, San Francisco, California USA.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Uncertainty Assessment and Benchmark Experiments for Atomic and Molecular Data for Fusion Applications, 19-21 December 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Third International Conference on Laser and Plasma Applications in Materials Science (LAPAMS 2015), 15 – 17 January 2015, Kolkata, India. Contact Prashant Sharma, Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, India; phone +91-9733684968.

Twentieth Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XX) & COST TD1208 Workshop on Application of Gaseous Plasma with Liquids, 17 – 22 January 2015, Taranská Lomnica, Slovakia. Contact Štefan Matejčík, Department of Experimental Physic, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone +421 2 60295686; fax +421 2 65429980.

Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe, 19 – 20 January 2015, Rome, Italy. Contact organizers. Seventeenth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (IPSTA 2017), 16 February 2015, Ariel, Israel.  Contact Local Organizing Committee.

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (EWCPS 2015), 22 – 26 February 2015, Munster, Germany. Contact Uwe Karst, University of Münster, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Corrensstr. 30, 48149 Münster, Germany; phone +49 (251) 83 33 141; fax +49 (251) 83 36 013.

2015 NSTX-U Research Forum, 24 – 27 February 2015, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Third Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas Code Comparison Workshop (SLSP), 2 – 6 March 2015, Marseille, France. Sunspot Formation: Theory, Simulations and Observations, 9 – 13 March 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Illa Losada, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden.

Second International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT2015), 16 – 17 March 2015, Nagoya, Japan. Contact Masaru Hori, Nagoya University.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 16 – 18 March 2015, New York, New York USA.  Contact Antoine Cerfon; phone (+1) 212-998-3169.

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School and Workshop on Modern Methods in Plasma Spectroscopy, 16 – 27 March 2015, Trieste, Italy. Contact J. Niemela, ICTP.

Seventh International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and Its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials and Eighth International Conference on Plasma Nanotechnology and Science (ISPlasma2015/IC-PLANTS2015), 26 – 31 March 2015, Nagoya, Japan. Contact ISPlasma2015 / IC-PLANTS2015 Secretariat, Y’s Secretary Fields, 5C, 1-1-22, Iseyama, Naka-ku, Nagoya, 460-0026 Japan; phone +81-52-332-8789; fax +81-52-332-8789.

Forty-Second IOP Plasma Physics Group Conference, 30 March – 2 April 2015, Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44(0) 20 7470 4800.

Seventh International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology (FPPT-7), 13-17 April 2015, Kochi, India. Contact Tara Desai. Novel Light Sources from Laser-Plasma Interactions, 20 – 24 April 2015, Dresden, Germany. Contact organizers.

Twenty-First Topical Conference on Radiofrequency Power in Plasmas, 27 – 29 April, 2015, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA.  Contact Robert Pinsker; phone 1-858-455-2074; fax 1-858-455-4156.

Sixth International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’15), 3 – 8 May 2015, Richmond, Virginia USA. Contact General Info Team, Jefferson Laboratory.

Seventeenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES2015), 10 – 14 May 2015, Antalya, Turkey. Contact Hacı Mehmet Şahin, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey; phone +90 (312) 202 8605/2062; fax +90 (312) 586 82 73.

Fifteenth International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC15), 18 – 22 May 2015, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Midwest Magnetic Fields Workshop (MMFW), 21 – 22 May 2015, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact organizers.

International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS 2015), 24 – 28 May 2015, Antalya, Turkey. Contact Lutfi Oksyz, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey.

Eighth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2015), 26 – 29 May 2015, Paris, France. Contact Christos Skiadas, ManLab, Technical University of Crete.

Eighth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operations of Magnetic Fusion Devices (TMSSO2015), 26-29 May 2015, Nara, Japan. Contact National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi, Toki, Gifu, 509-5292 Japan.

Fourteenth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 26 – 29 May 2015, Auburn, Alabama USA. Contact Uwe Konopka; phone 334-844-4264; fax 334-844-4613.

Pulsed Power Conference (2015 PPC) and Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE 2015), 31 May – 4 June 2015, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Mark Crawford, PPC, or Jean-Paul Allain, SOFE.

Tenth Annual International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM 2015), 8 – 12 June 2015, Avignon, France.

International Workshop on Warm Dense Matter, 8 – 13 June 2015, Kurashiki, Japan. Contact secretariat.

Twenty-First ITPA Divertor and Scrape-Off Layer TG Meeting, 9 – 12 June 2015, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA. Contact Local Organizing Committee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0451 USA; phone 1 (609) 243-2214; fax 609-243-2665.

Frontiers of Plasma Science Workshops, 30 June – 1 July 2015, Bethesda, Maryland USA. Contact Frederick Skiff, University of Iowa; phone 1-319-335-0564.

Origin, Evolution, and Signatures of Cosmological Magnetic Fields, 15 June 2015 – 10 July 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Tina Kahniashvili.

Forty-Second European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 22 – 26 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),  Av. Rovisco Pais 1,  1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351 218 417 818; fax +351 21 841 7819.

Forty-Sixth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 22-26 June 2015, Dallas, Texas, USA. Contact Azer Yalin.

Twenty-Second International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 22), 5 – 10 July 2015, Antwerp, Belgium. Contact Annemie Bogaers, University of Antwerp, Department of Chemistry; phone +32-3-265.23.77.

Theory and Simulation of Disruptions Workshop (TSDW 2015), 13 – 15 July 2015, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA.  Contact Jennifer Jones, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451,
Princeton, NJ 08543-0451.

Pacific Symposium on Pulsed Power and Applications, 5 – 7 August 2015, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact Jonathan Parson, Texas Tech University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 43102, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA; phone +1-806-834-5412; fax +1-806-742-1281.

Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas Summer School, 5 – 10 August 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Andris Vaivads.

Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas Workshop, 10 – 14 August 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Andris Vaivads.

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (24th ICNSP), 12 – 14 August 2015, Colorado USA. Contact Victoria Johnston.

Fifth International Conference on High Energy Density Physics (ICHED 2015), 23-27 August 2015, San Diego, California. Contact Sasha Doppelt; phone (858) 534-6527.

Thirteenth International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS-15), 23 – 28 August 2015, Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16, 5LX, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics,  76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800.

Thirty-Seventh International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL 2015), 23 – 28 August 2015, Daejeon, Korea.  Contact Kitae Lee, Quantum-Beam-based Radiation Research Center, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute,  1045 Daedeok-Daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-353, Korea; phone +82 42 868 8955; fax +82 42 868 2969.

Twelfth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics, 24 August – 4 September, Leuven, Belgium. Contact Kristel Crombé; phone  +32 2 742 65 89; fax +32 2 735 24 21.

2015 International Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications (PPA 2015), 25 – 27 August 2015, Shanghai, China.

Fifteenth International Conference on the Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP15), 30 August – 4 September 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Contact Mukhit Muratov, LOC Secretary, phone +7 727 377 35 11.

International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, 1 – 4 September 2015, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QU, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44(0) 20 7470 4800.

Twenty-First Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc (FSO 2015), 7 – 11 September 2015, Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. Contact Milada Bartlova, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Physics, Technicka 8, 616 00 BRNO, Czech Republic; phone +420 541 143 431.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas (Plasma 2015), 7 – 11 September 2015, Warsaw, Poland. Contact organizers.

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA2015), 8 – 10 September 2015, Isfahan, Iran. Contact Conference Secretariat, Faculty of Energy Engineering and Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave., Tehran, Iran; phone +98 21 6454 5232; fax +98 21 6649 5519.

Fourth International Workshop on Diagnostics and Simulation of Dusty Plasmas, 9 – 11 September 2015, Kiel, Germany. Contact Stephanie Thiedemann, IEAP, CAU, D-24098 Kiel, Germany.

Fifteenth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET15), 9 – 11 September 2015, Nara, Japan. Contact Atsushi Fukuyama; phone/fax +81-75-393-3826.

Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas, 10 –12 September 2015, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Peter Denner, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung – Plasmaphysik, 52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49 (0) 2461 61 5673; fax +49 (0) 2461 61 6664.

Twelfth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT 12), 14 – 18 September 2015, Jeju Island, Korea. Contact Hye-Jin Yun, LOC Administrator.

Eighth International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-8), 14- 18 September 2015, Minsk, Belarus.  Contact Irina Filatova, PPT-8 Organizing Committee,  Institute of Physics of NAS of Belarus, 8 Nezavisimosti Ave. , 20072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (+375) (17) 284-23-46; fax (+375) (17) 284-08-79.

Ninth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2015), 20 – 25 September 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact Trina Voelker; phone 1-925-423-9492.

Seventeenth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD 2015), 27 Sept – 1 October 2015, Sapporo, Japan.

First IAEA Technical Meeting on Divertor Concepts, 29 September – 2 October 2015, Vienna, Austria. Contact IAEA.

International School on Ultra-Intense Lasers (ICUIL), 4 – 9 October 2015, Moscow, Russia.  Contact Artem Korzhimanov.

Seventh Conference on Plasma Physics by Laser and Application (PPLA 2015), 5 – 7 October 2015, Frascati, Italy.

Sixteenth European Fusion Theory Conference (EFTC 2015), 5 – 8 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

Twentieth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop (ISHW), 5 – 9 October 2015, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Jutta Gauger, Wendelsteinstr. 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 88-2400; fax +49 3834 88-2409.

Thirteenth International Conference on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation & Deposition (PBII&D2015), 5 – 9 October 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact organizers.

Seventeenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-17), 11 – 16 October 2015, Aachen, Germany. Contact organizers.

Ninth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas and Sixty-Eighth Gaseous Electronics Conference and Thirty-Third Symposium on Plasma Processing, 12 – 16 October 2015, Honolulu, Hawai 96815 USA.

Twelfth International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference (ICAP’15), 12 – 16 October 2015, Shanghai, China. Contact Local Organization Committee.

Fifteenth International Workshop on H-Mode and Transport Barrier Physics, 19 – 21 October 2015,  Garching, Germany. Contact 15th H-mode workshop LOC, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Bolzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany.

Eighteenth International Spherical Torus Workshop (ISTW-2015), 3 – 6 November 2015, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Twenty-Fifth International Toki Conference (ITC-25), 3 – 6 November 2015, Toki-city, Gifu, Japan. Contact secretariat.

Magnetic Fields in Laboratory High Energy Density Plasmas, 11 – 13 November 2015, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Carol Ann Austin.

Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 16 – 20 November 2015, Savannah, Georgia USA.

International Conference on Extreme Light (ICEL 2015), 23-27 November 2015, Bucharest, Romania.

Ninth Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop, 30 November 2015 – 4 December 2015. Paris, France.

Tenth Asia Plasma and Fusion Association Conference, 14 – 18 December 2015, Gandhinagar, India. Contact AFPA.

Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 6 – 11 Jan 2014, Amelia Island, Florida USA.

Japan-U.S. Workshop on Plasma Wall Interactions/High Heat Flux Components for Fusion, 7 – 8 January 2014, Livermore, California USA. Contactorganizer.

Ninth EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing (JSPP2014) and EU COST MP1101 Workshop on Atmospheric Plasma Processes and Sources, 19 – 23 January 2014, Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia. Contact Uros Cvelbar, DVTS; phone + 386 1 4773536.

First Costa Rican Summer School on Plasma Physics, 20 – 24 January 2014, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica. Contact Celso Ribeiro; phone +506 2550 9314; fax +506 25 50 24 77.

Thirty-Fourth International Workshop on Physics of High Energy Density in Matter, 26 – 31 January 2014, Hirschegg, Austria. Contact Brigitte Schuster-Gruber, Plasma Physics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Deutschland; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-2888.

Twenty-First IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices (RUSFD), 27 – 29 January 2014,  San Jose, Costa Rica. Contact Celso Ribeiro; phone +506 2550 9314; fax +506 25 50 24 77.

Fifteenth Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP 2014), 27 – 31 January 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica. Contact Ivan Vargas-Blanco; phone +506 2550 9314; fax +506 25 50 24 77.

Second Latin American Workshop on Industrial Applications of Plasma Technology (AITP), 30 – 31 January 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica. Contact Saúl Guadamuz; phone +506 2550 9314; fax +506 25 50 24 77.

Sixth International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials (ISPlasma 2014) and Seventh International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology and Science (IC-PLANTS 2014), 2 – 6 March 2014, Nagoya, Japan. Contact ISPlasma2014 / IC-PLANTS2014 Secretariat, Inter Group Corp., Orchid Building 8F, 2-38-2, Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450-0002 Japan; phone +81-52-581-3240; fax +81-52-581-5585.

Alcator C-Mod 2014 Ideas Forum, 5 – 6 March 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact organizers.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 24 – 26 March 2014, San Diego, California USA. Contact Sergei Krasheninnikov.

First International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT), 25 – 26 March 2014, Washington, DC USA. Contact organizing committee.

Twelfth ITPA Integrated Operation Scenarios Topical Group Meeting, 31 March – 3 April 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact Amanda Hubbard; phone +1 617 253 3220.

Twelfth ITPA Transport and Confinement TG Meeting, 9 – 11 April 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact Jessica Coco; phone +1 617 253 5400.

Fusion Academy, 15 – 17 April 2014, Heeze, Netherlands.

Forty-First IOP Plasma Physics Conference, 14 – 17 April 2014, London, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800.

Fifteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2014), 22 – 24 April 2014, Monterey, California USA. Contact David Abe, Naval Research Laboratory; phone 1-202-404-4513.

First International Plasma Technologies Congress, 28 – 30 April 2014, Kayseri, Turkey. Contact Beycan Ibrahimoglu; phone +90 312 – 484 7932; fax +90 312 – 484 7934.

Tenth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA2014), 12 – 16 May 2014, Bordeaux, France. Contact Local Organizing Committee, HEDLA 2014, CEA/DPTA, Bruyères le Châtel, France.

Fifth International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM5), 18 – 23 May 2014, Nara, Japan. Contact Secretariat, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

Forty-First IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2014), 25 – 29 May 2014, Washington, DC USA. Contact Joseph Schumer.

Twenty-First International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions, 26 -30 May 2014, Kanazawa, Japan. Contact N. Ohno.

Twentieth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD 2014), 1 – 5 June 2014, Atlanta, Georgia USA. Contact Don Hillis; phone 1 865.576.3739; fax 1 865.574.1191.

IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (2014 IPMHVC), 1 – 5 June 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.

Two Hundred Twenty Fourth Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Laboratory Astrophysics Division sessions), 2 – 5 June 2014, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact AAS Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009-1231, USA; phone (202) 328-2010.

2014 FESAC Strategic Planning Panel, 3 – 5 June 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA.

Seventh Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2014), 7 – 10 June 2014 Lisbon, Portugal. Contact Conference Secretariat.

Twelfth Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy”, 9 – 13 June 2014, Kudowa Zdrój, Poland. Contact Katarzyna Jakubowska; phone +48 (22) 638 14 60 ext. 36; fax +48 (22) 638 10 05.

Fifth International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’14), 15 – 20 June 2014, Dresden, Germany. Contact Sylvia Neumann, INTERCOM Dresden GmbH, Zellescher Weg 3, 01069 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 351 32017320; fax +49 351 32017333.

Twenty-Sixth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 16 – 19 June 2014, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films, 19 June 2014, London, United Kingdom. Contact Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7637 4848.

High Tech Plasma Processes (HTPP 2014), 22 – 27 June 2014, Toulouse, France. Contact Yann Cressault, University Paul Sabatier, 118 route de narbonne, Laboratoire Laplace, 3R3 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France; phone +33 5 61 55 82 21.

Ninth International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-9). 23 – 26 June, 2014, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Contact: Igor Matveev; phone +1 (703) 340-5545, fax +1 (703) 849-8417.

Forty-First EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 23 – 27 June 2014, Berlin, Germany. ContactLocal Organizing Committee, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP), Wendelsteinstr. 1, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone ++49-(0)3834-88 1308.

Boltzmann, Vlasov And Related Equations: Last Results And Open Problems, 23 – 27 June 2014, Cartagena, Columbia.

Tenth International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference and International Conference on Emission Electronics and International Conference on Computer Technologies in Physical and Engineering Applications and International Workshop on Beam Dynamics and Optimization (IVESC-ICEE-ICCTPEA-BDO-2014), 30 June – 4 July 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. ContactAnastasya Minets; phone +7(812)347-49-79.

First WEST International Workshop, 30 June – 2 July 2014, Aix en Provence, France. Contact organizing committee.

African School on the Impact of the Sun on Ionosphere: Physics and Applications, 30 June – 11 July 2014, Kigali, Rwanda.

Twentieth International Conference on Gas Discharges and their Applications (GD 2014), 6 – 11 July 2014, Orleans, France. Contact GREMI, Université d’Orléans, 14 rue d’Issoudun, B.P. 6744, 45067 ORLEANS Cedex 2, France; fax +33 (0)2-38-41-71-54.

Seventeenth Electromagnetic Launch Technology Symposium, 7 – 11 July 2014, San Diego, California USA. Contact Melody Hummel, Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies, Austin, TX 78758 USA; phone 512-356-9757.

2014 FESAC Strategy Panel Meeting, 8 – 10 July 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA.

Sixteenth Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC 2014), 13 – 18 July 2014, San Jose, California USA. Contact Brigid Neff; phone 1-650-736-0048.

Fifty-First Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 14 – 25 July 2014, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom. Contact Andrew Wise; phone +44 (0)1235 465366.

Twenty-Second Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (ESCAMPIG XXII), 15-19 July 2014, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Andre Melzer, Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49-(0)3834-86 4790; fax +49-(0)3834-86 4701.

Plasma Processing Science: Non-Equilibrium Plasma Diagnostics, Modeling, and Applications (Gordon Research Seminar), 26 – 27 July 2014, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.

Plasma Processing Science: Many Scales, Many Applications, One Discipline (Gordon Research Conference), 27 July – 1 August 2014, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.

Fortieth Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR 2014), 2 – 10 August 2014, Moscow, Russia. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.

Ninth International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (DZP 2014), 3 – 7 August 2014, Napa, California USA. Contact Simon Bott-Suzuki; phone (858) 822-3828.

Workshop on Exploratory Topics in Plasma and Fusion Research (EPR) and US-Japan Compact Torus (CT) Workshop, 5 – 8 August 2014, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart; phone (512) 694-2320.

Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Advanced Plasma Physics, 18 – 29 August 2014, Trieste, Italy. Contact Secretariat; phone +39-040-2240281; fax +39-040-224163.

Twenty-First International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources, 24 – 28 August 2014, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Ivan Izotov; phone +79103984551.

Thirty-Sixth International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL 2014), 25 – 29 August 2014, Basel, Switzerland. Contact Silvia Bacher, Paul Scherrer Institut, OVGA/415, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland; phone+41 56 310 30 50.

ITER International School: High Performance Computing in Fusion Science, 25 – 29 August 2014, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Twenty-Seventh Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2014), 26 – 29 August 2014, Belgrade, Serbia. Contact Local Organizing Committee, Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia; phone +381 11 316-0882; fax +381 11 316-2190.

Twelfth Asia Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (APCPST) and Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Plasma Science for Materials (SPSM), 31 August – 5 September 2014, Adelaide, Australia. Contact Joanne Mielnik.

Ninteenth Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF2014), 8 – 11 September 2014, Culham, United Kingdom. Contact organizing committee; phone +44(0)1235 465007.

Fourteenth European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-14), 8 – 12 September 2014, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Local Organizing Committee.

Fifth Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference (EAPPC 2014), 8 – 12 September 2014, Kumamoto, Japan.

Thirteenth International Workshop on the Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 14 – 18 September 2014, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact IOPE Conference Management, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7637 4848.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Adjoint Workshop “Nano- and Micro- Sized Structures in Plasmas”, 15 – 18 September 2014, Kharkov, Ukraine. Contact Vadim Makhlay, Institute of Plasma Physics of the National Science Center “Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology”, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone 38-057-335-6305; fax 38-057-335-2664.

Fourteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, 15 – 19 September 2014, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Ludwig van Loyen, Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V. – EFDS, Gostritzer Straße 63, 01217 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 351 8 71-83 70; fax +49 351 8 71-84 31.

Seventeenth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2014), 15 – 19 September 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact Elsa Sousa, VERANATURA Conference and Events Organizers, Rua Augusto Macedo, 12-D Escritório 2, 1600-503 Lisbon, Portugal; phone +351 217 120 778.

Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics (QuAMP) Summer School, 15 – 19 September 2014, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom. ContactConferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Workshop on Nano- and Micro-Sized Structures in Plasmas, 15 – 20 September 2014, Kharkov, Ukraine. Contact: Vadim Makhlay, Institute of Plasma Physics, National Science Center “Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology”, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone +38-057-335-6726; fax +38-057-335-2664.

Ninth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA), 21 – 25 September 2014, Jena, Germany. Contactorganizers.

Fourteenth International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE XIV), 21 – 26 September 2014, Zinnowitz, Germany. Contact Ronny Brandenburg, INP Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49-3834-554-3969; fax +49-3834-554-301.

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA 2014), 22 – 24 September 2014, Dhulikhel, Nepal. Contact Deepak Prasad Subedi, Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal; phone +977-9841457202.

Twenty-Eighth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2014), 29 September – 3 October 2014, San Sebastian, Spain.

Sixteenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM 2014), 29 September – 3 October 2014, Vienna, Austria. Contact Richard W. Lee.

Sixth International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena (NEPCAP 2014), 6 – 10 October 2014, Sochi, Russia. Contact Alexander Starik, P. I. Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motors, 2, Aviamotornaya Str., Moscow 111116, Russia; phone (+7-495) 3616468; fax (+7-495) 3620373.

Twenty-Fifth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014), 13 -18 October 2014, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Contact Ralf Kaiser, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria; Phone +43 1 2600 21756.

ITPA Transport and Confinement Topical Group Meeting, 20 – 22 October 2014, ITER IO, Cadarache, France. Contact Celine Rossini.

Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 27 – 31 October 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana USA.

Fusion Academy, 29 – 31 October 2014, Heeze, Netherlands.

Sixty-Seventh Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2 – 7 November 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina USA. Contact Steve Shannon, North Carolina State University.

Joint ICTP-IAEA Conference on Models and Data for Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices, 3 – 7 November 2014, Trieste, Italy. ContactSecretariat, ICTP.

Twenty-Fourth International Toki Conference, 4 – 7 November 2014, Toki-city, Gifu, Japan. Contact organizers.

US-CERN-Japan-Russia Joint International Accelerator School on “Beam Loss and Accelerator Protection”, 5 – 14 November 2014, Newport Beach, California USA. Contact uspas@fnal.gov; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Twenty-First Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2014), 9 – 13 November 2014, Anaheim, California USA.

Magnetic fields from the Sun to Blackholes In Memory of Jean Heyvaerts, 17-19 November 2014, Paris, France.

The CERN Accelerator School – “Plasma Wake Acceleration”, 23 – 29 November, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland. Contact CAS Secretariat; fax +41- 22-767-5460.

MHD-Days 2014, 2 – 3 December 2014, Potsdam, Germany.

International Conference on Plasma & Nanotechnology and Twenty-Ninth National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology (PLASMA- 2014), 8 – 11 December 2014, Kottayam, Kerala, India-686560. Contact Nandakumar Kalarikkal, International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IIUCNN) & School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India- 686560; phone +91 9447671962.

Decennial IAEA Technical Meeting on Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Data for Fusion Science and Technology, 15 – 19 December 2014, Daejeon, Korea. Contact organizer.

Fusion Power Associates 35th Annual Meeting and Symposium – Fusion Energy: Recent Progress and The Road Ahead, 16-17 December 2014, Washington, DC 20001 USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879 USA.

Fusion Academy – A Crash Course in Fusion Science and Technology, 30 January – 1 February 2013, Heeze, The Netherlands.

US DOE Fusion Energy Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, 31 January 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

Fifteenth Israel Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 4 February 2012, Holon, Israel.

Workshop on Exploratory Topics in Plasma and Fusion Research (EPR2013), 12 – 15 February 2013, Fort Worth, Texas USA. Contact Michael Brown; phone: (610) 328-8648.

Worldwide Progress Toward Fusion Energy (Symposium of AAAS 2013 Annual Meeting), 16 February 2013, Boston, Massachusetts USA.

Symposium on Plasma Technology, 18 – 20 February, 2013, Greifswald, Germany.

International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-8). 18 – 21 February 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact Igor Matveev; phone +1 (703) 560-9569.

Ninth International Nonlinear Wave and Chaos Workshop (NWCW13), 3 – 8 March 2013, San Diego, California USA.  Contact Bruce Tsurutani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Sixth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 4 – 8 March 2013, Gaborone, Botswana.  Contact Tara Desai.

Eighteenth ITPA Scrape-Off-Layer / Divertor Meeting, 19 – 22 March 2013, Hefei, China.

IOP Annual Plasma Physics Spring Conference, 25 – 28 March 2013, York, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom.

Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas (RHEDP 2013), 2 – 5 April 2013, South Lake Tahoe, Nevada USA. Contact Alla Safronova.

U.S. – E.U. Joint Transport Task Force Workshop (TTF2013), 9 – 12 April 2013, Santa Rosa, California USA. Contact Sasha Doppelt.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 15 – 17 April 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Adam Shipman.

Tenth ITPA Integrated Operation Scenarios Meeting, 15 – 18 April 2013, St Paul Lez Durance, France.

Fusion Academy – A Crash Course in Fusion Science and Technology, 17 – 19 April 2013, Heeze, The Netherlands.

Twenty-Fourth ITPA Pedestal & Edge Physics Meeting, 22 – 24 April 2013, Garching, Germany.

Tenth ITPA Transport & Confinement Meeting, 22 – 25 April 2013, Garching, Germany.

Tenth ITPA Energetic Particle Physics Meeting, 22 – 25 April 2013, Culham, United Kingdom.

Twenty-First ITPA MHD, Disruption & Control Meeting, 22 – 25 April 2013, Culham, United Kingdom.

Optics and Photonics International Congress 2013 (includes conferences on High-Energy Density Science and on Laser Ignition), 23 – 26 April 2013, Yokohama, Japan.

Ninth IAEA TM on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 6 – 10 May 2013, Hefei, China. Contact Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Fourteenth International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications, 13 – 17 May 2013, Juelich, Germany. Contact Jochen Linke, Institute of Energy and Climate Research Microstructure and Properties of Materials IEK-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; phone +49 2461 61-3230; fax +49 2461 61-8312.

Seventh IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 14 – 17 May 2013, Aix en Provence, France. Contact Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Sixteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES-2013), 26 – 30 May 2013, Madrid, Spain. Contact organizers.

Sixth IAEA TM on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 27 – 29 May 2013, Vienna, Austria. Contact Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Fourth ITPA Diagnostics Meeting, 4 – 7 June 2013, San Diego, California USA.

Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE25), 10 – 14 June 2013, San Francisco, California USA. Contact SOFE 2013; phone +1-925-423-9492; fax +1-925-424-3295.

Sixth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2013), 11 – 14 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact secretariat, Conference Chair, Technical University of Crete.

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films, 12 June 2013, London, United Kingdom. Contact Dawn Stewart; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7637 4266.

IEEE International Conference on Pulsed Power and Plasma Science (PPPS2013), 16 – 22 June 2013, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Bryan Oliver.

Twentieth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 25 – 28 June 2013, Sorrento, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro, Associazione ENEA-Euratom sulla Fusione,
 Centro Ricerche Frascati,
 C.P. 65, Via Enrico Fermi, 45, 00044 Frascati, Roma,
 Italy; phone: +39.06.94005309;
 fax +39.06.94005100.

Fusion Academy – A Crash Course in Fusion Science and Technology, 26 – 28 June 2013, Heeze, The Netherlands.

Fortieth European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 1 – 5 July 2013, Espoo, Finland. Contact secretariat.

Thirty-First International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG-2013), 14 -19 July 2013, Granada, Spain. Contact F. J. Gordillo-Vazquez, IAA – CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomia s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain; phone +34-958-230-642.

Fiftieth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 15 – 26 July 2013, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom. Contact Andrew Wise; phone +44 (0)1235 465366.

Theory and Simulation of Disruptions Workshop, 17 – 19 July 2013, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact organizers.

Fifth International Conference on Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, 28 July – 2 August 2013, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Igor Kostyukov,  Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Str., 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone +7 831 416 4831; fax +7 831 436 2061.

Twenty-First International Conference on Nuclear Energy (ICONE 21), 29 July – 2 August 2013, Chengdu, China. Contact Wang Yanlin, TPC Secretary of 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering; phone +86 28 8590 7194; fax +86 28 85908889.

Twenty-First International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC21), 4 – 9 August 2013, Cairns, Australia. Contact Celeste Baker, Brisbane, Australia; phone +61 (0)7 3854 1611.

Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas Code Comparison Workshop, 5 – 9 August 2013, Vienna, Austria.

Eleventh International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS11), 5 – 9 August 2013, Mons, Belgium.

XXV IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, 20-24 August 2013, Moscow, Russia. Contact Lev Shchur, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, ul. Kosygina 2, 119334 Moscow, Russia; phone/fax +7 495 993 48 44.

Fifth Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, 25 – 29 August 2013, Balatonalmádi, Hungary. Contact Diamond Congress Ltd, H-1255 Budapest, P.O.B 48., Hungary; phone +36 1 225 0210; fax +36 1 201 2680.

Fourth International Conference on Dusty Plasmas in Applications, 25 – 29 August 2013, Odessa, Ukraine. Contact Grygorii Dragan; phone +3 8 (048) 68-43-076.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas (PLASMA-2013), 2 – 6 September 2013, Warsaw, Poland. Contact secretariat.

Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2013, 2 – 7 September 2013, Goa, India.

Eighth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Science and Applications (IFSA2013), 8 – 13 September 2013, Nara, Japan. Contact IFSA2013 Office, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

International Conference on Fusion Reactor Diagnostics, 9 – 13 September 2013, Varenna, Italy. Contact D. Pifferetti; phone/fax +39-0341-1881062.

Nineteenth International Vacuum Congress (IVC-19), 9 – 13 September 2013, Paris, France. Contact Société Française du Vide (SFV), 19 rue du Renard – 75004 Paris, France;) phone +33(0)1 53 01 90 32; fax +33(0)1 42 78 63 20.

Sixth IAEA TM on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Chambers and Targets, 9 – 13 September, Nara, Japan. Contact Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Fourth IEA International Workshop on Plasma Material Interaction Facilities for Fusion Research (PMIF 2013) and Plasma Facing Components 2013 Meeting (PFC 2013), 9 – 13 September 2013, Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA. Contact Don Hillis; phone 1-865-576-3739; fax 1-865-574-1191.

Twenty-Third International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (23rd ICNSP), 14-16 September 2013, Beijing, China. Contact Lixian He.

International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-11), 16 – 20 September 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Contact Joaquin Sanchez.

Nineteenth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop and Sixteenth IEA-Reversed Field Pinch Workshop, 16 – 20 September 2013, Padova, Italy. Contact Margherita Basso, Consorzio RFX, C.so Stati Uniti, 4, 35127 Padova, Italy; phone +39 049 829 50 00; fax +39 049 8700 718.

Thirteenth IAEA TM on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 17 – 20 September 2013, Beijing, China. Contact Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Eleventh International Conference on Gas Discharge Plasmas and Their Applications, 17 – 20 September 2013, Tomsk, Russia. Contact Nika Eremina,Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building, Solyanaya sq., 2, Building 5, office 215, 634003 Tomsk, Russia; phone +7-3822-65-25-15.

Eleventh ITPA Energetic Particle Physics TG, 22-24 September 2013, Beijing, China.

Sixteenth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, 22 – 26 September 2013, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Daniel Den Hartog, Room 3291, Chamberlin Hall, 1150 University Avenue, Madison Wisconsin 53706 USA; phone (608) 265-2743; fax (608) 262-7205.

Fifteenth European Fusion Theory Conference, 23-26 September 2013, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Lynda Lee, CCFE Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB UK; phone +44 (0)1235 465007; fax +44 (0)1235 466435.

Ninth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science, 23 – 27 September 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013 North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NA-PAC’13), 29 September – 4 October 2013, Pasadena, California USA. Contact Steve Gourlay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sixty-Sixth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 30 September – 4 October 2013, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Seventh IAEA RM on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Physics and Technology for Large fusion Devices, 1 – 3 October 2013,  Vienna, Austria. Contact <a “href=”mailto:m.linter@iaea.org” style=”font-weight: bold;”>Marion Linter, IAEA, Physics Section, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-26393; fax +43-1-26007.

Fourteenth International Workshop on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 2 – 4 October 2013 Fukuoka, Japan. Contact Itoh Research Center for Plasma Turbulence and Research, Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu Univ. 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan.

ITPA Twenty-Fifth Pedestal and Edge Physics, Eleventh Integrated Operation, and Eleventh Transport and Confinement Meetings, 7 – 10 October 2013, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact K. Hanada, Advanced Fusion Research Center, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Eighteenth International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 7 – 10 October 2013, Auburn, Alabama.

ITPA MHD, Disruption, and Control Meeting, 8 – 11 October 2013, Hefei, China.

Third International Symposium on Lithium Applications for Fusion Devices, 9 – 11 October 2013, Frascati, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro,
 Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione,
 Unità Tecnica Fusione
,
Centro Ricerche Frascati
, C.P. 65
00044, Frascati, Roma, Italy; phone+39 06 94005309
; fax +39 06 94005100.

ITPA Diagnostics Meeting, 16 – 18 October 2013, Cadarache, France.

Sixteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM16), 20 – 26 October 2013, Beijing, China. Contact Qing-Zhi Yan, University of Science & Technology Beijing (USTB), China.

Fusion Academy – A Crash Course in Fusion Science and Technology, 30 October – 1 November 2013, Heeze, The Netherlands.

Eighth Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop (NLTE-8), 4-8 November 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Yuri Ralchenko; phone +1-301-975-3210; fax +1-301-975-4779.

Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 11 – 15 November 2013, Denver, Colorado USA.

Twenty-Third International Toki Conference on Large-scale Simulation and Fusion Science (ITC-23), 18 – 21 November 2013,Toki-city, Gifu, Japan. Contact organizing committee.

Fusion Research in the UK: The Next 25 Years, 25 November 2013, London, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800.

Third International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies, 25 – 27 November 2013, Frascati, Italy. Contact Support; Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati (RM), Italy.

International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of the Vlasov Equation (Vlasovia 2013), 25 – 28 November 2013, Nancy, France. Contact local organizers, Institut Jean Lamour, Campus Sciences, Bd des Aiguillettes, BP 70239, 54 506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy CEDEX, France.

Monaco ITER International Fusion Energy Days (MIIFED 2013), 2 – 4 December 2013, Monaco. Contact ITER Organization Communication; phone +33.4.42.17.66.13.

Conference on High Intensity Laser and Attosecond Science in Israel (Chili 2013), 2 – 4 December 2013, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Contact organizers.

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA2013), 4 – 6 December 2013, Singapore. Contact Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616; phone (65) 6790-3908; fax (65) 6896-9414.

Fourth ITPA CC/CTP Meeting, 9 – 11 December 2013, St Paul Lez Durance, France.

Fusion Energy: Visions of the Future, 10 – 11 December 2013, Washington, DC 20023 USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; phone (301) 258-0545; fax (301) 975-9869.

Second IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop, 16 – 20 December 2013, Vienna, Austria. Contact Richard Kamendje, Physics Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 9 – 14 January 2012, Tucson, Arizona USA.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Divertor and SOL Topical Group Meeting, 16 – 19 January 2012, Juelich, Germany.

Eighteenth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop and Tenth Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 29 January –3 February 2012. Canberra, New South Wales, Australia. Contact secretary.

Thirty-Second International Workshop on Physics of High Energy Density in Matter, 29 January  – 3 February 2012, Hirschegg, Austria. ContactBrigitte Schuster-Gruber, Plasma Physics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-2888.

Fourteenth Israel Conference on Plasma Science and its Applications (IPSTA 2012), 28 February 2012, Rehovot, Israel.

Fusion Day 2012, 1 March 2012, Washington, DC USA. Contact: Julie Groeninger.

US-Japan MHD Workshop “Effect of 3D Magnetic Field on MHD Equilibrium and Stability: toward optimum control of toroidal plasmas”, Eighth ITPA Energetic Particle Physics Topical Group Meeting and Nineteenth ITPA Magnetohydrodynamics Stability Topical Group Meeting, 5 – 9 March 2012, NIFS, Japan. Contact Local Organizing Committee; phone +81 572 58 2149; fax +81 572 58 2618.

US Disruption Mitigation Workshop, 12 – 13 March 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact Charles Greenfield, General Atomics Energy Group, 3550 General Atomics Court, San Diego, California 92121-1194 USA; phone (858) 455-3686; fax (858) 455-4156.

Seventh Workshop on Fusion Data Processing Validation and Analysis, 26 – 28 March 2012, Frascati, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, Unità Tecnica Fusione, Centro Ricerche Frascati, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Roma, Italy; phone ** 39 06 94005309; fax **39 06 94005100.

International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, 28 – 30 March 2012, Madrid, Spain.

Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference and American Physical Society April Meeting, 31 March – 3 April 2012. Contact Chris Hegna.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Twenty-Second Pedestal and Edge Physics Topical Group Meeting and Eighth Transport and Confinement Topical Group Meeting, 2 – 5 April 2012, Heifei, China.

IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference 2012, 2 – 5 April 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom.

Spectral Line Shapes in Plasmas Workshop (SLSP), 2 – 5 April 2012, Vienna, Austria.

Eighth International Tokomak Physics Activity Integrated Operation Scenarios Topical Group Meeting, 16 – 19 April 2012, Madrid, Spain.

Eleventh Zababakhin Scientific Talks, 16 – 20 April 2012, Snezhinsk, Russia. Contact Lyudmila Emelianova; phone (351-46) 5-2362; fax (351-46) 5-2139.

Laser-Plasma Interaction at Ultra-High Intensity, 16 – 20 April 2012, Dresden, Germany. Contact Mandy Lochar, Visitors Program, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany; phone +49-351-871-2198; fax +49-351-871-2199.

Second European Energy Conference, 17-20 April 2012, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Thirteenth International Vacuum Electronics and Ninth International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVEC-IVESC 2012), 24 – 26 April 2012, Monterey, California USA.

First Conference on Inertial Fusion Energy (CIFE ’12), 25 – 27 April 2012, Yokohama, Japan. Contact Fumie@Nakanishi; phone 81-6-6879-8783.

Ninth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA2012), 30 April – 4 May 2012, Tallahassee, Florida USA. Contact Tomasz Plewa, Florida State University, 484 Dirac Science Library, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 USA; phone+1-850-644-1959; fax+1-850-644-0098.

Nineteenth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD19), 6 – 10 May 2012, Monterey, California USA. Contact Trina Voelker, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; phone +1-925-423-9492; fax +1-925-424-3295.

Seventeenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC 17), 7 – 10 May 2012, Deurne, Netherlands. Contact organizers.

Twenty-Second International Tokomak Physics Activity Diagnostics Topical Group Meeting,  14 – 17 May 2012, Kutchatov Institute, Russia.

Sixteenth International Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology (EML), 15 – 19 May 2012, Beijing, China. Contact Janet Monaco, Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies, 1908 Kramer Lane, Suite L, Austin, TX 78758 USA.

Third Annual Meeting of Plasma Science Center for Control of Plasma Kinetics, 17 – 18 May 2012, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Thirteenth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasma, 20 – 23 May 2012, Waco, Texas USA. Contact Lorin Matthews, CASPER – Baylor University, One Bear Place #97310, Waco, Texas 76798-7310 USA; (254) 710-3763.

Third International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’12), 20 – 25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Contact Vic Suller, CAMD, 6980 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge LA 70806 USA; phone +1 225 578 9366; fax +1 225 578 6954.

Twentieth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions, 21 – 25 May 2012, Aachen, Germany. Contact Jan Adamczak; Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; phone +49 2461 61-8024; fax +49 2461 61-5333.

Eleventh International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 29 – 31 May 2012, Schloss Ringberg, Germany. Contact G. Doersch; phone +49 89 3299-18.

IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference, 3 – 7 June 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact Richard Ness, Ness Engineering, Inc., P.O. Box 261501, San Diego, California 92196 USA; phone 1-858-566-2372.

Magnetic Fusion Energy – Steps to Commercialization, 5 June 2012, Washington, DC USA.

Bridging Laboratory & Astrophysics, 220th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 10 – 14 June 2012, Anchorage, Alaska USA.

Fifth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2012), 12 – 15 June 2012, Athens, Greece. Contact Conference Secretariat.

Plasmas Surfaces and Thin Films, 13 June 2012, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom. Contact Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44(0)20 7637 4266.

Fourth International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM 4), 17 – 21 June 2012, Orléans, France. Contact GREMI, Université d’Orléans, Polytech’Orleans, 14 rue d’Issoudun, B.P. 6744, 45067 ORLEANS Cedex 2; phone +33 (0)2-38-41-70-01; fax +33 (0)2-38-41-71-54.

Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 18 – 21 June 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Plasma Facing Components (PFC) Meeting and Materials Science Coordinating Organization (MASCO) meeting, 18 – 22 June 2012, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0451 USA. Contact Terry Greenberg, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 USA; phone (609) 243-3347.

Research at High Pressure (Gordon Research Seminar), 23 – 24 June 2012, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine USA. Contact Ashkan Salamat.

Research at High Pressure (Gordon Research Conference), 24 – 29 June 2012, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine USA. Contact Malcolm McMahon.

Twelfth European Plasma Conference (High-Tech Plasma Processes), 24 – 29 June 2012, Bologna, Italy. Contact Avenue Media, Via Riva Reno 61, 40122 Bologna, Italy; phone +39 051 6564300; fax +39 051 6564334.

International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology & Sustainable Energy (ISNTP-8), 25 – 29 June 2012, Camaret, France. Contact Emmanuel Odic, Département Energie – Supélec; phone +33 (0)1.69.85.15.26.

Forty-Second Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, 25 – 29 June 2012, Key West, Florida USA. Contact Chuang Ren, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hopeman 214, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 USA; phone (585)-275-2048.

Fifth International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics (IWSSPP’12), 25-30 June 2012, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, University of Sofia, 27 Kosta Loulchev Str., BG-1111 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone (+359) 878 748 837; fax (+3592) 872 3877.

Thirty-Ninth European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics and Sixteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics , 2 – 6 July 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.

Thirty-Ninth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2012), 8 – 12 July 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Contact Michael Kong, Loughborough University.

Sixth US-PRC Magnetic Fusion Collaboration Workshop, 10 – 11 July 2012, San Diego, California USA. Contact George Tynan.

Twenty-First Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (ESCAMPIG XXI), 10-14 July 2012, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Contact Vasco Guerra, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351-21 841 93 22.

Thirty-Ninth Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events, 14 – 22 July 2012, Mysore, India. ContactCOSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.

Forty-Ninth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 16 – 27 July 2012, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton; phone +44 (0)1235 466635.

Plasma Processing Science (Gordon Research Seminar), 21 – 22 July 2012, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island USA. Contact Sameer Kalghatgi.

Plasma Processing Science (Gordon Research Conference), 22 – 27 July 2012, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island USA. Contact Richard Van De Sanden.

Fourth China-Japan Joint Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Processes in Plasma, 30 July – 4 August 2012, Lanzhou, China. Contact Dong Chenzhong, Northwest Normal University, Anning East Road 967, Anning, Lanzhou, 730070, China; phone +86-(0)931-7971148; fax +86-(0)931-7971277

Third Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas, 30 July – 8 August 2012, South Orange, New Jersey USA.  Contact Jose Lopez Department of Physics, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079.

Nineteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion (HIF2012), 12 – 17 August 2012, Berkeley, California USA.

Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2012), 27 – 31 August 2012, Nashville, Tennessee USA.

Twenty-Sixth Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases, 27 – 31 August 2012, Zrenjanin, Serbia. Contact Igor Savic, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.

Tenth International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, 27 – 31 August 2012, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Anja Schulz.

Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 2 -7 September 2012, Tomsk, Russia.  Contact Efim Oks, Institute of High Current Electronics, 2/3 Akademicheskii Avenue, Tomsk, 634055 Russia; phone +7-382-2-491-776;fax +7-382-2-492-410.

Third International Symposium on Negative Ions, Beams and Sources (NIBS 2012), 3 – 7 September 2012, Jyvaskyla, Finland. Contact Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland; phone +358-40-805-4356; fax +358-14-260-2351.

Sixth International School on Fusion Technologies, 3 – 14 September 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Sibylle Mann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Nord/FTU, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; phone +49 (0) 721 608 23272; fax +49 (0) 721 608 24857.

Joint IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, 4 – 7 September 2012, Daejeon, Korea. Contact Hyun Kyung Chung, IAEA Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences.

Computational Plasma Physics, 5 – 7 September 2012, Brighton, United Kingdom. Contact Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phonr+44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax+44 (0)20 7637 4266.

Ninth International Bioelectrics Symposium, 5 – 8 September 2012, Kumamota, Japan. Contact Hidenori Akiyama, Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan; phone +81-96-342 3618; fax +81-96-342 3818.

International Symposium on Non-Thermal Plasmas for Environmental Applications, September 9 – 11 2012, Hangzhou, China. Contact LIu Zhen; phone 0086-571-88210340; fax 0086-571-88210340.

Fourteenth International Workshop on the Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP14), 9 – 14 September 2012, Rostock, Germany. Contact Philipp Sperling.

Thirteenth International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (Hakone XIII), 9 – 14 September 2012, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. Contact HAKONE XIII, Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnologies, Lubin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 38A, 20-618 Lublin, Poland; phone +48-81-5384289; fax +48-81-5384643.

Thirteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2012), 10 – 14 September 2012, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. ContactLudwig van Loyen, Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V. – EFDS, Gostritzer Straße 63, 01217 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 351 8 71-83 70; fax +49 (0) 351 8 71-84 31.

Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-7), 17 – 21 September 2012, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Irina FilatovaPPPT-7 Organizing Committee, Institute of Physics of NAS of Belarus, 68 Nezavisimosti Ave., 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (+375) (17) 284-23-46; fax (+375) (17) 284-08-79.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks, 17 – 22 September 2012, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Viktoriya Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics of the National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone +38-057-335-6726; fax +38-057-335-2664.

Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Fusion Technology, 24 – 28 September 2012, Liege, Belgium. Contact Eventis, Avenue Constantin de Gerlache, 41, B-4000 Liege, Belgium; phone +32 4 233 62 97; fax +32 4 254 97 98.

Advanced Controls and Diagnostics for Confinement Improvement of Compact Toroids, 25 – 28 September 2012, Newport Beach, California USA. Contract Tri Alpha Energy.

International Symposium on Electrohydrodynamics, 23 – 26 September 2012, Gdańsk, Poland. Contact Tomasz Izdebski, Centre for Plasma and Laser Engineering, Szewalski Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland; phone (+48 58) 6995 117; fax (+ 48 58) 341-61-44.

Fourth Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference and Nineteenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, 30 September – 4 October 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Georg Muller.

Eighth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA 2012), 30 September – 4 October 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact John Gillaspy; phone +1-301-975-3236; fax +1-301-974-4779.

Fifth International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena, 1 – 6 October, 2012, Location: Sochi, Russia.

Twenty-Fourth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference and Energy Forum, 8 – 13 October 2012, San Diego, California USA. contact Karen Morrison, Conference Services Section, Division of Conference and Document Services, IAEA-CN-197, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria; phone (+43 1) 2600 21707.

Fourteenth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (MEGAGAUSS), 14 – 19 October 2012, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact Megagauss Institute.

International Tokomak Physics Activity T&C, MHD, PEP, EP, IOS, and DSOL Topical Group Meetings, 15 – 18 October 2012, San Diego, California USA.

First IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop (DPW-2012), 15 – 18 October 2012, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Richard Kamendje, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone: +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

Sixty-Fifth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 22 – 26 October 2012, Austin, Texas USA.

Fifty-Fourth APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 29 October – 2 November 2012, Providence, Rhode Island USA.

Innovative Methods in Plasma Particle Simulations (JIFT 2012), 2 – 3 November 2012, Providence, Rhode Island USA.

Fifteenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 4 – 8 November 2012, Santa Barbara, California USA.

Twelfth International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 4 – 8 November 2012, Napa, California USA. Contact conference administrator; phone +1-925-423-3383.

International Conference on Plasma Physics and related conferences, 14 – 16 November 2012, Venice Italy.

Twenty-Second Toki Conference, “Cross-Validation of Experiments and Modeling for Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas”, 19 – 22 November 2012, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact organizers.

Sixth International ITER School (IIS2012), RF Heating and Current Drives in Plasmas, 2 – 6 December 2012, Ahmedbadad, India. Contact R Ganesh, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Near Indira Bridge, Gandhinagar 382 428, Gujarat, India. phone 91-79-2396-2189; fax 91-79-2398-2277.

Conference on High Intensity Laser and Attosecond Science in Israel. 3 – 5 December 2012, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, 5 – 6 December 2012, Washington, DC USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates.

Second Joint IAEA-ITER Technical Meeting on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies, 11 – 13 December 2012, Hansol, Ahmedabad – 382 475, Gujarat, India. Contact Richard Kamendje, Physics Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

International Conference on Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (ICNPRE 2011), 25 – 27 January 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2011 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 30 January – 4 February 2011, Zaragoza, Spain. Contact Maria Jimenez, Environmental Sciences Institute (IUCA), University of Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12. F. Ciencias, Ed. D. 1ª Planta, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; phone +34 976 76 22 57; fax +34 976 76 12 92.

Thirteenth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 10 February 2011, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel.

Thirty-Eighth Zvenigorod International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 14 – 18 February 2011, Zvenigorod, Russia. ContactIrina Grishina.

Twelfth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2011), 21 – 24 February 2011, Bangalore, India. Contact Lalit Kumar, Microwave Tube R&D Centre, BE Complex, Jalahalli, Bangalore Karnataka 560013, India; phone +91 80 2838 1831; fax +91 80 2838 1750.

International Conference on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2011), 22 – 24 February 2011, Penang, Malaysia.

AGU Chapman Conference on Relationship Between Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes, 27 February – 4 March 2011, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. Contact AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009 USA; phone +1 202 777 7330.

Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Conference, 1 – 4 March 2011, Bangalore, India. Contact K. Dwarakanath, Raman Research Institute, C V Raman Avenue, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560080 India; phone +91(080)2361 0122; fax +91(080)2361 0492.

International Tokomak Physics Activity MHD Working Group, 1 – 4 March 2011, Ahmedabad, India.

Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter, 1 – 6 March 2011, Elbrus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia. Contact Konstantin Khishchenko, Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Izhorskaya 13 Bldg 2, 125412 Moscow, Russia.

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting. 7 – 8 March 2011, Bethesda, Maryland. Contact Albert Opdenaker; phone 1-301-903-4941.

Fourth International Conference on Plasma Nanotechnology & Science (IC-PLANTS 2011), 10 – 12 March 2011, Gifu, Japan. Contact Hiroki Kondo, Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center, Nagoya University, C3-1(631) Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8603 Japan.

Lorentz Workshop: Control of Burning Plasmas, 21 – 25 March 2011, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2011 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC’11), 28 March – 1 April 2011, New York, New York USA. Contact Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Twentieth International Tokomak Physics Activity Pedestal and Edge Topical Group Meeting, 30 March – 1 April 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. Contact Jerry Hughes; phone +1-617-252-1797.

Sixth International Workshop on Microplasmas (IWM6), 3 – 6 April 2011, Paris, France.  Contact organizers.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Transport and Confinement Working Group, 4 – 5 April 2011, San Diego, California USA.

IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference, 4 – 7 April 2011, North Berwick, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact Jenny Bremner, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom.

Sixteenth EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 6 – 9 April 2011, San Diego California, USA.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Energetic Particles Working Group, 11 – 13 April 2011, Fascati, Italy.

Fifth International Workshop on Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas (SFP 2011), 11 – 14 April 2011, Julich, Germany. Contact organizers.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Integrated Operation Scenarios Working Group, 11 – 14 April 2011, Culham, United Kingdom.

Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics, 11 – 15 Apr 2011, Leiden, Netherlands. Contact Gerda Filippo; phone +31 71 5275401.

Fifth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 18 – 22 April 2011, Singapore. Contact Tara Desai.

2011 IEA Fusion Modeling Workshop on Materials, 20 – 22 April 2011, Livermore, California USA. Contact Nancy Reason; fax 925-424-6401.

Eleventh International Scientific-Practical Conference “Basic and Applied Research, Development and Application of High Technologies in Industry”, 27 – 29 April 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact organizers; phone +7(812) 574-3017.

2011 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Richard Fitzpatrick , Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin; phone; fax 512-471-6715.

Tenth International Reflectometry Workshop, 4 – 6 May 2011, Padova, Italy. Contact Roberto Cavazzana, Consorzio RFX C.so Stati Uniti, 4 35127 Padova, Italy; phone +39 049 829 50 00; fax +39 049 8700 718.

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, 7 – 8 May 2011, Bethesda, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy; phone 301-903-4941.

Ninth workshop on frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 9 – 12 May 2011, Grifswald / Zinnowitz, Germany. Contact Mario Hannemann, INP Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 554 425; fax +49 3834 554 301.

Thirteenth International Workshop on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications and First International Conference on Fusion Energy Materials Science, 9 – 13 May 2011, Rosenheim, Germany. Contact M. Mezger; phone +49 89 3299-1902.

Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES), 15 – 19 May 2011, San Francisco, California USA. Contact organizing committee; phone 1-925-423-4372; fax 1-925-424-3495.

Sixth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP), 15 – 20 May 2011, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Hubertus Thomas, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85741 Garching, Germany; phone +49-89-30000-3838; fax +49-89-30000-3399.

International Tokamak Physics Activity SOL and Divertor Working Group, 16 – 19 May 2011, Helsinki, Finland.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori, 16 – 20 May 2011, Culham, United Kingdom.  Contact Cecilia Devia Torres, IAEA.

Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces Workshop, 16 – 20 May 2011, York, United Kingdom. Contact Rachael Stephenson.

Third International Conference on High Energy Density Physics (ICHED 2011), 17 – 20 May 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.

Twentieth Meeting of the International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Diagnostics, 23 – 27 May 2011, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

MHD and Kinetic Processes in Laboratory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas – Summer School, 30 May – 4 June 2011, and Workshop, 6 – 9 June 2011, Beijing, China. Contact Liwei Liu.

Fourth Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2011), 31 May – 3 June 2011, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. ContactSecretariat.

Nineteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas and US Japan RF Physics Workshop 2011, 1 – 3 June 2011, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Contact Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

International Workshop on Warm Dense Matter 2011, 5 – 8 June 2011, Pacific Grove, California USA.

Eighth Dense Z Pinches Conference (DZP 2011), 5 – 9 June 2011, Biarritz, France. Contact Herve Calamy, CEA Gramat.

Sixth IAEA Technical Meeting on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating for Large Fusion Devices, 6 – 10 June 2011, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Cecilia Devia Torres, IAEA.

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Plasma Physics, 6 – 7 June 2011, Madrid, Spain. Contact Ana Ines Gomez de Castro, WSO-UV, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Plasmas Surfaces and Thin Films. 8 June 2011, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom. Contact Jon Mackew, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44 (0)20 7637 4266.

Tenth Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy”, 14 – 18 June 2011, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanona-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +48 22 666 8372.

WE Heraeus Seminar on Active Control of Instabilities in Hot Plasmas, 16 – 18 June 2011, Bad Honneff, Germany.

Eighteenth International Pulsed Power Conference (PPC 2011), 19 – 23 June 2011, Chicago, Illinois USA. Contact Randy Curry.

Waves and Instabilities in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas (WISAP-2011), 19 – 24 June 2011, Eilat, Israel. Contact Michael Mond, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel; phone + 972 (0) 52 68 39 3932; fax + 972 (0) 8 647 30 21.

ITER International Summer School on MHD and Energetic Particles (IISS 2011), 20 – 24 June 2011, Aix en Provence, France. Contact Sadruddin Benkadda, CNRS-Université de Provence, France.

Eighth IAEA Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 20 – 24 June 2011, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Cecilia Devia Torres, IAEA.

Physics of Low Temperature Plasma (FNTP-2011), 20 – 27 June 2011, Petrozavodsk, Russia. Contact Olga Koenen; phone (8142) 71-96-80.

Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems (SCCS-2011), 24 – 29 June 2011, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Peter Hartmann.

Thirty-Eighth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2011) and Twenty-Fourth Symposium on Fusion Science (SOFE2011), 26 – 30 June 2011, Chicago, Illinois USA. Contact Ahmed Hassanein, Purdue University, 400 Central Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA; phone (765) 496-9731; fax (765) 496-2233.

Forty-Second AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference and Eighteenth International Conference on MHD Energy Conversion (ICMHD), 27 – 30 June 2011, Sheraton Waikiki and the Hawaii Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii USA.

Thirty-Eighth European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 27 June – 1 July 2011, Strasbourg, France. Contact Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Cadarache Centre F-13108 St Paul lez Durance cédex, France; phone +33 4 42 25 64 88; fax 33 4 42 25 62 33.

Eighth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves and Terahertz Waves: Sources and Applications, 9 – 16 July 2011, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 416 4831; fax +7 831 416 0616.

Eleventh International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), 10 – 15 July 2011 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Contact Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

High-Energy-Density-Physics (HEDP) Summer School, 10 – 16 July 2011, La Jolla, California USA.

Fourth Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plant: Design and Technology, 11 – 15 July 2011, Victoria, Australia. Contact Cecilia Devia Torres, IAEA.

Forty-Eighth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 11 – 22 July 2011, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone +44 1235 466635; fax +44 (0)1235 466379.

Forty-Ninth Course: Atoms and Plasmas in Super-Intense Laser Fields. 14 – 24 July 2011, Erice, Italy. Contact Dimitri Batani, Universita di Milano Biococca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy.

Thirteenth Course: Plasma Wall Interaction in Fusion Devices: Physics and Technology, 17 – 24 July 2011, Erice, Italy. Contact Giorgio Maddaluno.

Seventeenth International Conference on Atomics Processes in Plasmas, 19 – 22 July 2011, Belfast, United Kingdom. Contact Fred Currell, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom; phone +44-28-90973547; fax +44-28-90973110.

Summer School on Plasma Chemistry, 21 – 23 July 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Contact Yelena Alexeva, Drexel Plasma Institute, 3400 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 USA; phone 1 215 895 1014; fax 1 215 895 1366.

International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 20), 24 – 29 July 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Contact Yelena Alexeva, Drexel Plasma Institute, 3400 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 USA; phone 1 215 895 1014; fax 1 215 895 1366.

US DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Openaker.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2011) and US-Japan Workshop on Compact Torus Plasmas, 16 – 19 August 2011, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact Brian Nelson.

Plasma Applications In Material Sciences (PAMS 2011), 16 – 27 August 2011, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Rainer Hippler, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Institut für Physik, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, 17487 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49-3834-864780; fax +49-3834-864701.

Thirtieth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2011), 28 August – 2 September 2011, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Contactorganizers, Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

2011 International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’11), 1 – 6 September 2011, San Sabastien, Spain.

Tenth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics, 4 – 16 September 2011, Weert, The Netherlands. Contact G. De Temmerman, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, P.O. Box 1207, 3439BE Nieuwegein, The Netherlands; phone +31 30 6096 944; fax +31 30 6031 204.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 5 – 7 September 2011, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Richard Kamendje, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, P. O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007.

Twenty Second International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, 7 – 9 September 2011, Long Branch, New Jersey USA. Contact Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

MFE Roadmapping in the ITER Era, 7 – 10 September 2011, Princeton, New Jersey USA, Contact Pamela Hampton.

Twelfth IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 7 -10 September 2011, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Richard Kamendje, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency, P. O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007.

Fourth International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies (iCAPT 2011) and 112nd IUVSTA Executive Council Meeting, 9 – 13 September 2011, Strunjan, Slovenia. Contact Uros Cvelbar; phone +386 14773536; fax +386 14773440.

Sixth Euro-Mediterranean Symposium on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (EMSLIBS’11), 11 – 15 September 2011, Izmir, Turkey. Contactsecretariat.

Tenth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-10), 11 – 16 September 2011, Portland, Oregon USA.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Energetic Particles Working Group, 12 – 13 September 2011, Austin, Texas USA.

International Topical Conference on Plasma Science (ITCPS): Strongly-Coupled Ultra-Cold and Quantum Plasmas, 12 – 14 September 2011, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact ITCPS Organizing Committee, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.

Fusion for Neutrons and Sub-critical Nuclear Fission (FUNFI), 12 – 15 September 2011, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas, 12 – 16 September 2011, Warsaw, Poland. Contact secretariat.

Fourteenth International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS 2011), 12-16 September 2011, Giardini Naxos, Italy. Contact David Mascali; phone +39 095 542336; fax +39 095 542302.

Seventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2011), 12 – 16 September 2011, Bordeaux-Lac, France. Contact organizers at web site or by Fax +33 1 69 08 12 13.

Seventh International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC), 13 -15 September 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ContactIgor Matveev, phone: +1 703 560 9569, Fax: +1 703 849 8417.

BOUT++ Workshop, 14 – 16 September 2011, Livermore, California USA.  Contact Irene Massiatt.

Thirteenth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices, 19 – 21 September 2011, South Lake Tahoe, CA USA.  Contactorganizers.

Second International Workshop on Plasma Material Interaction Facilities for Fusion Research (PMIF 2011), 19 – 21 September 2011, Jülich, Germany. Contact Sabine Küper; phone +49-2461-61-5201.

International Workshop on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas (IWEP 2011), 21 – 23 September, 2011, Iasi, Romania. Contact Claudiu Costin, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Physics, Bd. CAROL I nr. 11, Iasi – 700506, Romania; phone + 40 232 201186; fax + 40 232 201150.

Fourteenth European Fusion Theory Conference, 26 – 29 September 2011, Frascati, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, Unità Tecnica Fusione, Centro Ricerche Frascati, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Roma, Italy; phone **39 06 94005309; fax **39 06 94005100.

First European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics (ECLA2011), 26 – 30 September 2011, Paris, France.

Eighth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS ’11), 26 – 30 September 2011, Hakone, Japan. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Joining & Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone +81-(0)6-6879-8694; fax +81-(0)6-6879-8694.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori, Sixteenth International Workshop on Spherical Torus (ISTW2011), 2011 US-Japan Workshop on ST Plasma, 27 – 30 September 2011, Toki, Japan. Contact Yueng-Kay Martin Peng, ORNL, UT-Battelle, PO Box 2008, Bethel Valley Rd., Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6169 USA; phone 865-576-6743; fax 865-576-7926.

Thirty-Sixth International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2 – 7 October 2011, Houston, Texas USA. Contactsecretariat.

Joint ITER-IAEA-ICTP Advanced Workshop on Fusion and Plasma Physics, 2 – 14 October 2011, Trieste, Italy.

International Tokomak Physics Activity MHD Topical Group, 4 – 7 October 2011, Padova, Italy.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Transport and Confinement Topical Group, 5 – 7 October 2011, Cadarache, France.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Pedestal and Edge Topical Group, 5 – 7 October 2011, York, United Kingdom.

Fifteenth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD15), 9 – 13 October 2011, Jeju, Korea. Contact Hyeon Park, Center for Fusion Plasma Diagnostics & Steady-State Operation, Science Bldg III #303, Postech, San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784, Korea; fax +82-54-279-8749.

Thirteenth International Workshop on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 10 – 12 October 2011, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Elena de la Luna, EFDA JET, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)1235 46 46 60; fax +44 (0)1235 46 44 15.

Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICRFM-15), 16 – 21 October 2011, Charleston, South Carolina USA.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Diagnostics Topical Group, 17 – 20 October 2011, China.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Integrated Operational Scenarios Topical Group, 18 – 21 October 2011, Kyoto, Japan.

International Conference on Fusion and Plasma Physics (ICFPP 2011), 26 – 28 October 2011, Bali, Indonesia. Contact Secretariat; phone ++971559099620.

International Conference on Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (ICNPS 2011), 26 – 28 October 2011, Bali, Indonesia. Contact Secretariat; phone ++971559099620.

Fourth International Workshop on Plasma Science and Application (IWPSA 2011), 27 – 28 October 2011, Tehran, Iran. Contact Tahereh Niknejad.

Short Course: Thermal Plasma Processes, Fundamentals and Applications, 28 – 29 October 2011, Pretoria, South Africa. Contact Thereza Botha; phone 012 – 807 0869, 083 375 7373.

Third RCM on the CRP on Integrated Approach to Dense Plasma Applications in Nuclear Fusion Technology, 31 October – 4 November 2011, Victoria, Australia. Contact Cecelia Devia Torres, IAEA.

International School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Complex Systems (NODYCOS-2011), 31 October – 11 November 2011, Yaounde, Cameroon. ContactICTP.

ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) Programme Seminar, 7 – 11 November 2011, Tegernsee, Germany. Contact Petra Jordan.

International Conference on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2011), 14 – 16 November 2011, Mumbai, India.

Sixty-Fourth Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2011), 14 – 18 November 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah USA. Contact Patrick Pedrow, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington USA.

Fifty-Third APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 14 – 18 November 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah USA.

Investigations on Materials under High Repetition Intense Fusion Pulses, 14 – 18 November 2011, Victoria, Australia. Contact Cecelia Devia Torres, IAEA.

Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI 2011), 14 – 18 November 2011, Szeged, Hungary. Contact organizers.

Sixteenth Workshop on MHD Stability Control, 20 – 22 November 2011, San Diego, California USA.

Fourteenth Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP 2011), 20 – 25 November 2011, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Contact Luis Bilbao, Instituto de Física del Plasma, Ciudad Universitaria – Pab. I, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina; phone +54 11 4576 3371 ext 124; fax +54 11 4787 2712.

Conference on High Intensity Laser Research in Israel (CHILI), 21 November 2011, Jerusalem, Israel. Contact Ishay Pomerantz.

Plasma Conference 2011, 22 – 25 November 2011, Showa-machi20-1, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, Japan. Contact JSPF Office, 3-1-1-4F, Uchiyama, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-0073, Japan; phone 81-52-735-3185; fax 81-52-735-3485.

First International Conference on Plasma Processing of Organic Materials and Polymers, 25 – 27 November 2011, Kottayam, Kerala, India. ContactSabu Thomas.

Fourth Workshop in Plasma Technology Applications in Industry, Environment and Medicine, 26 November – 1 December 2011, Cairo, Egypt. ContactAbdou Garamoon, Center of Plasma Technology, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; phone 0020-02-0111828544; fax 0020-02-2629356.

Plasma-Assisted Catalysis: Recent Advances and Perspectives, 28 November 2011, Antwerp, Belgium. Contact Annemie Bogaerts, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, BE-2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium; phone +32-3-265.23.77; fax +32-3-265.23.43.

Second International Conference on Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies (FDT2), 28 – 30 November 2011, Frascati, Italy. Contact secretariat.

Twenty-First International Toki Conference on Integration of Fusion Science and Technology for Steady State Operation (ITC-21), 28 November – 1 December 2011, Toki, Japan. Contact organizers.

Seventh NLTE Kinetics Code Comparison Workshop, 5 – 9 December 2011, Vienna, Austria.

Physics with PETAL, 8 December 2011, Bordeaux, France. Contact Dimitri Batani, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, Université Bordeaux 1, 351, Cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence cedex, France; phone + 33 (0)5 40 00 37 53; fax + 33 (0)5 40 00 25 80.

International Tokomak Physics Activity Joint Experiments Meeting, 12 – 15 December 2011, Cadarache, France.

Fusion Power Associates Thirty-Second Annual Meeting and Symposium, 14 – 15 December 2011, Washington, DC USA. Contact FPA.

Twentieth IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 12 – 16 December 2011, Victoria, Australia. Contact Cecelia Devia Torres, IAEA.

2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 4 – 9 January 2010, Fort Myers, Florida 33908 USA. Contact phone 1-239-466-4000.

Second NIFS-CRC International Symposium on Plasma Surface Interactions, 18 – 20 January 2010, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact Yoshi Hirooka, NIFS-CRC.

Workshop on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics, 18 – 21 January 2010, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Sixth ITER Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Meeting, 18 – 21 January 2010, Cadarache, France.

Twelfth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 25 January 2010, Haifa, Israel.

Sixth Workshop on Fusion Data Processing, Validation and Analysis, 25 – 27 January 2010, Madrid, Spain. Contact secretariat.

C-Mod PAC Meeting, 27 – 29 January 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. Contact Jessica Coco.

International Conference on Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (ICNPRE 2010), 29 – 31 January 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.

Sixteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEMXVI), 31 Jan – 3 Feb 2010, Murramarang Resort, New South Wales, Australia. Contact Amanda Rider.

Twenty-Seventh NSTX PAC Meeting, 3 – 5 February 2010, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Sixth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Ion Cyclotron, 9 – 10 February 2010, Cadarache, France.

Plasma Applications, 10 Feb 2010, San Jose, California 95134 USA. Contact Valeriy Sukharev.

2010 RFX-mod Program Workshop, 10 – 12 February 2010, Padova, Italy. Contact Margherita Basso.

APS April Meeting 2010, 13 – 16 February 2010, Washington, DC USA.

Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) Meeting, 16 – 19 February 2010, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Thomas Jarboe.

Tokamak 4 Oxygen 3, 19 – 26 February 2010, Nuremburg, Germany. Contact Aaron Seigo.

First International Conference on Plasma – Fusion – Nuclear Physics (IPLAFUN’10), 20 – 22 February 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ContactWSEAS.

Research Trends in Laser Matter Interaction 2010, 26 – 28 February 2010, La Jolla, California 92037 USA. Contact secretariat.

Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, 2 – 3 March 2010, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, Maryland 20852.

Raleigh Grand Challenge Summit 2010, sessions on nuclear fusion, 3 – 5 March 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina USA.

Plasma Theory Symposium, 5 – 6 March 2010, Pleasanton, California, USA. Contact Bruce Cohen, Physical Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-630, Livermore, California 94551-9234 USA; phone 925-422-9823; fax 925-423-3484.

Second International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials (ISPlasma 2010), 7 – 10 March 2010; Nagoya, Japan. Contact Aichi Science & Technology Foundation, Aichi Trade Center West Annex, 2-4-7 Marunouchi Naka-ku Nagoya, Aichi 460-0002 Japan; phone +81-52-231-1656; fax +81-52-231-1640.

DPG Spring Meeting of the AMOP Section, 8 – 12 March 2010, Hannover, Germany. Contact Wolfgang Ertmer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Quantenoptik, Welfengarten 1 D, 30167 Hannover, Germany.

Joint Meeting of US-Japan MHD workshop and International Tokamak Physics Activity MHD Stability Topical Group, 8 – 12 March 2010, Toki, Japan. Contact secretariat; fax +81 572 58 2618.

FESAC Meeting, 9 – 10 March 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

Third International Conference on Plasma-Nanotechnology and Science (IC-PLANTS 2010), 11 – 12 March 2010, Nagoya, Japan. Contact Makoto Sekine, Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center, Nagoya University, C3-1(631) Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8603 Japan.

Ninth International Astrophysics Conference, 14 – 19 March 2010, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact Gary Zank.

Eighth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA-2010), 15 – 18 March 2010. Pasadena, California USA. Contact Connie Rodriguez; phone (626) 395-4854.

Fourth International Tokamak Physics Activity Transport and Confinement Topical Group Meeting, 22 – 25 March 2010, Culham, United Kingdom.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy, 24 – 26 March 2010, Vienna, Austria. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Thirty-Seventh IOP Annual Conference on Plasma Physics, 29 March – 1 April 2010, Windermere, United Kingdom. Contact Jenny Bremner, The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44 (0)20 7470 4900.

Sixteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating, 12 – 15 April 2010, Sanya, China. ContactShaohua Dong, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 1126, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China; phone 86-551-5591601; fax 86-551-5591310.

Fifth Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics, 12 – 16 April 2010, Saariselkä, Finland.

International Conference on Plasma Diagnostics (Plasma Diagnostics 2010), 12 – 16 April 2010, Pont-a-Mousson, France. Contact secretariat.

Workshop on TBM Impact on ITER Plasma Physics and Potential Countermeasures, 13 – 15 April 2010, Cadarache, France. Contact Joseph Snipes.

Transport Task Force Workshop, 13 – 16 April 2010, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact secretariat.

International High-Power Laser Ablation Conference, 18 – 22 April 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Pamela Myers, 2010 HPLA, c/o General Dynamics Information Technology, 5100 Springfield St., Suite 509, Dayton, Ohio 45431 USA; (937) 476-2168.

2010 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 19 – 21 April 2010, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact Charlson Kim, University of Washington.

First European Energy Conference, 19 – 23 April 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Contact secretariat.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Meeting on Integrated Operational Scenarios, 20 – 23 April 2010, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Meeting on Energetic Particles,  21 – 23 April 2010, Garching, Germany.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Meeting on Pedestal and Edge Physics, 21 – 23 April 2010, Naka, Japan.

Fourteenth IEA Reversed Field Pinch Workshop, 26 – 28 April 2010, Padova, Italy. Contact secretariat.

DIII-D PAC Meeting, 26 – 29 April 2010, La Jolla, California USA.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2 – 7 May 2010, Vienna, Austria. Contact Copernicus Meetings, Bahnhofsallee 1e, 37081 Göttingen, Germany; phone +49-551-900339-20; fax +49-551-900339-70.

Self-Organization in Turbulent Plasmas and Fluids Summer School and Workshop, 3 – 14 May 2010, Dresden, Germany. Contact secretariat.

STAC-8, 10 – 12 May 2010, Cadarache, France.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Technical Group on Diagnostics, 10 – 14 May 2010, Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA.

Eighteenth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 16 – 20 May 2010, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA. Contact Kathleen Lukazik, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA; phone (609) 243-2200; fax (609) 243-3266.

Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces, 17 – 21 May 2010, York, United Kingdom. Contact Rachael Stephenson.

Eleventh International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2010), 18 – 20 May 2010, Monterey, California USA.

IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference, 23 – 27 May 2010, Atlanta, Georgia USA. Contact Frank Hegeler, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375 USA; phone 1-202-404-4440.

First International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’10), 23 – 28 May 2010, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Yoko Hayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan; fax +81-29-864-3182.

Nineteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI2010), 24 – 28 May 2010, San Diego, California USA. Contact Anastasia Nycum; phone 858.455.2493; fax 858.455.4650.

Seventeenth Real Time Conference (RT10), 24 – 28 May 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact Bruno Soares Gonçalves, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351 21 841 7818; fax +351 21 841 7819.

Seventh International Conference of Young Scientists on Energy Issues (CYSENI 2010), 27 – 28 May 2010, Kaunas, Lithuania. Contact secretariat, Breslaujos str. 3, LT-44403 Kaunas, Lithuania; phone (+370 37) 401 981; fax (+370 37) 351 271.

Fourth ITER International Summer School “Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma Control in Magnetic Fusion Devices” (IISS 2010), 31 May – 4 June 2010, Austin, Texas USA. Contact secretariat.

Third Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2010), 1 – 4 June 2010, Chania, Crete, Greece. Contact secretariat.

Fifth Nordic Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (Nordic Plasma 2010), 6 – 9 Jun 2010, Loen, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen, National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; phone +47 23 19 53 20; fax +47 23 19 52 06.

Twentieth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes (ICSLS 20), 6 – 11 Jun 2010, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Contact secretariat.

Ninth Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy”, 8 – 12 June 2010, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +48 22 666 8372.

Fifth Annual International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM – 2010), 13 – 18 June 2010, San Diego, California USA.

Fourteenth Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, 13 – 19 June 2010, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact organizers; phone (301) 314-7884; fax (301) 314-6693.

Twenty-Fourth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 14 – 17 June 2010, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Third International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies (iCAPT-III) and Sixty-Second IUVSTA Workshop on Plasma Synthesis and Modification of Nanomaterials, 14 – 18 June 2010, Lake Bohinj, Slovenia. Contact Uros Cvelbar, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; phone +386 14773536; fax +386 14773440.

Fifth International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM-2010), 14 – 19 June 2010, San Diego, California USA. Contact Nikolai Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR/NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, Alabama 35805 USA; phone +1-256-961-7617; fax +1-256-961-7330.

Plasmas Surfaces and Thin Films, 16 June 2010, London, United Kingdom. Contact Dawn Stewart, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4910; fax +44 (0)20 7637 4266.

Thirty-Seventh IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2010), 20 – 24 June 2010, Norfolk, Virginia USA.  Contact Mounir Laroussi, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia USA. Includes Low Temperature Plasma Modeling & Simulation with Applications short course, 24 – 25 June 2010.

Thirty-Seventh EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 21 – 25 June 2010, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Sarah Hayes, National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; phone +353 1 7005948; fax +353 1 7005951.

International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology and Sustainable Energy (ISNTP-7), 21 – 25 June 2010, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Contact Glenn Harvel, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Second International Conference “Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety” (AIS-2010), 21 – 27 June 2010, Kaliningrad, Russia. Contact secretariat; phone/fax +7(495)939-71-85.

Plasma for Environmental Issues, 23 June 2010, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Elena Tatarova, Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, Lisbon, Portugal; phone:+359 21 841 9 326.

Conference on Computational Physics 2010 (CCP2010), 23 – 26 Jun 2010, Trondheim, Norway. Contact Secretariat.

Role of Arcing and Hot Spots in Magnetic Fusion Devices, 25 – 26 June 2010, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Michael Laux.

Eleventh High-Tech Plasma Processes Conference (HTPP-11), 27 June – 2 July 2010,  Brussels, Belgium. Contact M-P. Delplancke.

Workshop on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organization of Magnetized Plasmas (EFTSOMP2010), 28 – 29 June 2010, Dublin, Ireland. ContactEva Belonohy, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics Department, Konkoly Thege Miklos ut 29-33, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary.

High Energy Density Physics Workshop, 28 – 30 June 2010, La Jolla, California 92093 USA. Contact Sandy Rosas; phone 1 858 534 2554; fax 1 858 534 7716.

Fifteenth Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications (CPPA2010), 1 – 4 July 2010, Iasi, Romania. Contact Plasma Physics Laboratory, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Physics, 11 Carol I Blvd, 700506 Iasi, Romania; phone + 40 (0)232 20 11 88; fax + 40 (0)232 20 11 50.

Second International Conference on Nuclear and Renewable Energy Resources, 4 – 7 July 2010, Ankara, Turkey. Contact organizers.

Eighth International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement, 5 – 9 July 2010, Novosibirsk, Russia. Contact Konstantin Lotov, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Prospect Lavrent’eva 11, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; phone +7 (383) 329-4623; fax +7 (383) 330-7163.

Fourth International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics (IWSSPP’10), 5 – 10 July 2010, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, DLTIS, University of Sofia, 27 Kosta Loulchev Street, BG-1111 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone + 359 2 8720 733; fax + 359 2 8723 877.

International Advanced Workshop on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics, 5 – 16 July 2010, Trieste, Italy. Contact J. Niemela.

Thirteenth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (Megagauss 2010), 6 – 10 July 2010, Shanghai, China. Contact Yang Libing, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 919-108, Mianyang 621900, China; phone 86-816-2484163; cell 86-13778074758; fax 86-816-2282695.

Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on Plasma Processing Science, 10 – 11 July 2010, New London, New Hampshire USA.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 11 – 16 July 2010, New London, New Hampshire USA.

Forty-Seventh Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 12 – 23 July 2010, Abingdon, United Kingdom. Contact Kamariah Samson, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone +44 1235 466532; fax +44 (0)1235 466435.

Twentieth European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG 2010), 13 – 17 July 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia. ContactLocal Organizing Committee, Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia; phone +381 11 3713 056; fax +381 11 3162 190.

Fourth International Conference on Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics (FNP2010), 13 – 20 July 2010, Nizhny Novgorod – Saint Petersburg, Russia. Contactsecretariat, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Str., 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone +7 8314 16 4831; fax +7 8314 16 0616.

Thirty-Eighth Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR 10), 18 – 25 July 2010, Bremen, Germany. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.

Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, 19 July -13 August 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Contact W. Dorland, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111 USA.

LAWPP School on Plasma Physics, 1 – 8 August 2010, Santiago, Chile. Contact secretariat.

Tenth International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS10), 3 – 7 August 2010, Berkeley, California USA.

Fifteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2010) and Thirteenth Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP), 8 – 13 August 2010, Santiago, Chile. Contact ICPP-LAWPP-2010 Secretariat; phone +56 2 3646106.

Foundations of High Energy Density Physics, 8 – 21 August 2010, Traverse City, Michigan USA. Contact Jan Beltran.

Plasma Technology for Environment Protection, 9 – 20 August 2010, Riga, Latvia. Contact Julija Gusca.

Nonthermal Plasma Assisted Fuel Conversion for Green Chemistry (component of 40th ACS National Meeting), 22 – 26 August 2010, Boston, Massachusetts USA. Contact Tomohiro Nozaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 1528552, Japan; phone/fax +81-3-5734-2681.

Eleventh International Workshop “Plasma Electronics and New Acceleration Methods”, 23 – 27 August, 2010, Kharkov, Ukraine. Contact Valery Papkovich, Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Akademicheskaya Street, 1, Kharkov, 61108, Ukraine; phone +38(057)3356559; fax +38(057)3353564.

Third International Conference on Dusty Plasmas in Applications, 25 – 29 August 2010, Odessa, Ukraine. Contact secretariat.

Twenty-Fifth Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG), 30 August – 3 September 2010, Donji Milanovac, Serbia. Contact Nikola Cvetanovic, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade University, Serbia; phone/fax +381 11 3282582.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 30 August – 3 September 2010, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale, 85 – 23821 Abbadia Larianna (LC), Italy; phone +39-0341-732490.

Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV 2010), 30 August – 3 September 2010, Braunschweig, Germany. Contact Michael Kurrat, TU-Braunschweig Institut für Hochspannungstechnik und Elektrische Energieanlagen, Schleinitzstraße 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany; phone +49-531-391-9737; fax +49-531-391-8106.

Eighteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion (HIF 2010), 30 August – 3 September 2010 Darmstadt, Germany. Contact Brigitte Schuster-Gruber, Plasma Physics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-2888.

Fifteenth International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI 2010), 30 August – 3 September 2010, Shanghai, China. ContactInstitute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, No. 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China; phone +86 (21) 65 64 34 63; fax +86 (21) 65 64 27 87.

International Workshop on Requirements for Next Generation Plasma-Material Interaction Test Stands in Fusion Research, 31 August – 2 September 2010, Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA. Contact Ted Biewer; phone 865-574-2715; fax 865-574-1191.

Eighteenth International Conference on Gas Discharges and Their Applications (GD 2010), 5 – 10 September 2010, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, GD 2010, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3834 554 439; fax +49 (0) 3834 554 301.

Thirty-Fifth International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and THz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2010), 5 – 10 September 2010, Rome, Italy. ContactIRMMW-THz 2010 Secretariat; fax +39 – 06 – 94005661.

EFDA Real Time Diagnostics and Data Analysis Methods for Disruption Prediction, Mitigation and Recovering Strategies, 6 – 7 September 2010, Culham, United Kingdom.

Integrated Modeling Expert Group Meeting, 6 – 8 September 2010, Cadarache, France.

Advances in Plasma Astrophysics (IAU Symposium 274), 6 – 10 September 2010, Giardini-Naxos, Italy.

Thirty-First European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter (ECLIM), 6 – 10 September 2010, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Péter Dombi, Research Inst. for Solid-State Physics and Optics, Konkoly-Thege út 29-33, Budapest, Hungary; fax +36-1-392-2215.

Cold Rydberg Gases and Ultracold Plasmas Workshop, 6 – 17 September 2010, Dresden, Germany. Contact secretariat.

Third EFDA Transport Topical Group Meeting and Fifteenth EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 7 – 10 September 2010, Córdoba, Spain. ContactB. van Milligen.

Sixth International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC-6), 13 – 15 September, 2010, Heilbronn am Neckar, Germany. Contact Igor Matveev.

Workshop on RF Heating Technology of Fusion Plasmas 2010, 13 – 15 September 2010 , Como, Italy. Contact Alessandra Cazzaniga; phone +39.031.579813; fax +39.031.573395.

Twelfth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2010), 13 – 17 September 2010, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. ContactLudwig van Loyen, Gostritzer Straße 63, 01217 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 83 75; fax +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 84 31.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Fourth Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks (Alushta-2010), 13 – 18 September 2010, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Viktoriya Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics of the National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone 38-057-335-6726; fax 38-057-335-2664.

Third International Conference for Plasma Medicine (ICPM 3), 19 – 24 September 2010, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, ICPM 3, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3834 554 314; fax +49 (0) 3834 554 301.

Tenth International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (10th CMM), 19 – 24 September 2010, Tomsk, Russia. Contact Alexey Markov, Institute of High Current Electronics 2/3 Akademicheskii Ave., Tomsk, 634055 Russia; phone +7-382-2-491-695; fax +7-382-2-492-410.

IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, 20 – 24 Sep 2010; Garching, Germany. Contact Max-Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299-2239.

Eleventh Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference (SCTC), 21 – 24 September 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Cathy Griffith; phone (937) 254-7950 ext. 1139.

Twenty-Sixth Symposium on Fusion Technology, 27 September – 1 October 2010, Oporto, Portugal. Contact secretariat.

Charge Exchange Madrid, 29 September – 1 October 2010, Madrid, Spain. Contact Andy Pollock, European Space Agency.

Fifteenth Annual ADAS Workshop, 3 – 5 Oct 2010; Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland, United Kingdom. Contact Gerry Doyle, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, N. Ireland, United Kingdom; phone: +44(0)28 37 512954; fax +44(0)28 37 527174.

Fourth International Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, 3 – 9 October 2010, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti; phone +39-0341-732490; fax +39-0341- 1881062.

Sixty-Third Gaseous Electronics Conference and Seventh International Conference on Reactive Plasmas, 4 – 8 October 2010, Paris, France.  Contactsecretariat.

Fourteenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 4 – 8 October 2010, Marbella, Spain. Contact E. Mínguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu, 7 28040 – Madrid, Spain; fax +34 91 336 6211.

Joint IAEA/EC Application of Nuclear Techniques in Development of New Structural Materials for Advanced Fission and Fusion Reactor Systems, 5 – 8 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Third Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference (EAPPC 2010) and Eighteenth International Conference on High-Power Beams (BEAMS 2010), 10 – 14 October 2010, Jeju Island, Korea. Contact secretariat; phone +82-55-280-1450; fax +82-55-280-1490.

International Youth Conference on Fusion Energy, 9 – 10 October 2010, Daejon, Republic of Korea. Contact secretariat.

Twenty-Third IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 11 – 16 October 2010, Daejon, Republic of Korea. Contact Joomie Kim; phone +82 70)8280-6341.

Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) Fall Technical Conference and Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Vacuum Web Coating, October 17-20, 2010,  Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA.

Eighth IAEA Large Tokamak Workshop, 18 – 19 October 2010, Daejon, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Energetic Particles Topical Group Meeting, 18 – 20 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Transport and Confinement Topical Group Meeting, 18 – 20 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Pedestal and Edge Physics Meeting, 18 – 20 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Technical Group on Integrated Operation Scenarios, 18 – 21 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Divertor and SOL Topical Group Meeting, 18 – 21 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity MHD Topical Group Meeting, 18 – 21 October 2010, Seoul, Korea.

Nineteenth Meeting of the International Tokamak Physics Activity Technical Group on Diagnostics, 18 – 22 October 2010, Naka, Japan.

International Advanced School on Space Weather Modeling and Applications, 18-29 October 2010, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact International Centre for Theoretical Physics; phone +39-040-2240226; fax +39-040-22407226.

Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology, 24 – 29 October 2010, Nara, Japan. Contact National Institute for Fusion Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Oroshi-cho 322-6, Toki-city, GIFU, 509-5292 Japan; phone +81-572-58-2083; fax +81-572-58-2610.

Conference on Physics and Astronomy for Young Scientists of Saint Petersburg and the Northwest Russia (includes plasma sessions), 27 – 28 October 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact secretariat.

Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE), 7 – 11 November 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada USA.

Kinetic Processes in Plasma: Instabilities, Turbulence and Transport, 8-11 November 2010, Bochum, Germany. Contact Marian Lazar, NB 7/30, Institute for Theoretical Physics IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; phone +49 234 32 23799; fax +49 234 32 14177.

Fifty-Second APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 8 – 12 November 2010, Chicago, Illinois USA.

Fifteenth Workshop on MHD Stability Control: “US-Japan Workshop on 3D Magnetic Field Effects in MHD Control”, 15 – 17 November 2010, Madison, Wisconsin USA.

ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Dense Magnetized Plasma and Plasma Diagnostics, 15 – 26 November 2010, Trieste, Italy. Contact M. L. Crespo.

First Joint ITER-IAEA TM on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies, 23 – 25 November 2010, Monaco. Contact IAEA.

International Conference on Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (ICNPS 2010), 24 – 26 November 2010, Venice, Italy.

Second International Conference on Laser and Plasma Applications in Materials Science (LAPAMS’10), 27 – 30 November 2010, Algiers, Algeria. Contact secretariat, Centre de Dévelopment des Technologies Avancées CDTA, Cité du 20 août 1956, BP 17, 16303 Baba-Hassen, Algers, Algeria; phone (+213) 21 35 10 18/40/75; fax (+213) 21 35 10 39.

Seventh Conference on Modern Plasma Diagnostics and Their Applications, 30 November – 2 December 2010, Moscow, Russia.  Contact A. Savelov.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, 1 – 2 December 2010, Washington DC, USA.

MAST Research Forum, 1 – 2 December 2010, Abingdon, United Kingdom. Contact Brian Lloyd.

DAE-BRNS National laser Symposium (NLS-19), 1 – 4 December 2010, Indore, India. Contact Shri Vora, Laser System Engineering Division, Laser R&D Block C1, RRCAT, PO: CAT, Indore 452 013, M.P. , India; phone 94797 26751.

Russian-Finnish Seminar on High Temperature Plasma Physics, 2 – 5 December 2010,  St Petersburg, Russia. Contact Aleksey Gurchenko.

Eighteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 6 – 8 December 2010, Mayrhofen, Austria. Contact Siegbert Kuhn; phone +43(0)512 507 6206; fax +43(0)512 507 2919.

Sixth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 6 – 10 December 2010, Vienna, Austria. Contact IAEA.

Twentieth International Toki Conference (ITC20) on The Next Twenty Years in Plasma and Fusion Science, 7 – 10 December 2010, Toki-City, Gifu, Japan. Contact Secretariat.

URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 5 – 8 January 2009, Boulder, Colorado USA. Contact Yahya Rahmat-Samii, UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, BH 6731K, Boelter Hall, Box 951594, Los Angeles, California 90095-1594 USA; phone +1 310-206-2275; fax +1 310-206-4833.

US Particle Accelerator School, 12 – 23 January 2009, Nashville, Tennessee USA. Contact USPAS; phone 630-840-3896, fax 630-840-8500.

FESAC Meeting, 13 – 14 January 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20877 USA. Contact Al Opdenaker; 301-903-4927.

Second International Conference on Plasma Nano Technology & Science (IC-PLANTS 2009), 22 – 23 January 2009, Nagoya, Japan. Contact IC-PLANTS 2009, Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan.

Eighth Japan-Australia Plasma Diagnostics Workshop, 2 – 5 February 2009, Canberra, Australia. Contact John Howard.

Supercomputing and Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics Fluid Flow Modeling 2009, 2 – 14 February 2009, Evora, Portugal. Contact Miguel de Avillez,  University of Evora, R. Romao Ramalho 59, Evora, 7000 Portugal; phone +351 266745384; fax +351 266745393.

Sokendai Asian Winter School – Spontaneous Structure Formation in Plasmas, 3 – 6 February 2009, Toki, Japan. Contact Seiji Ishiguro, Department of Simulation Science, National Institute for Fusion Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai).

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 15 – 20 February 2009, Graz, Austria. Contact Astrid Tuider, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Institute of Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry, Universitätsplatz 1, A-8010 Graz, Austria; phone +43 316 380 5300; fax +43 316 380 9845.

Fifth IAEA TM on ECRH Physics and Technology for Large Fusion Devices, 18 – 20 February 2009, Gandhinagar, India. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2305, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter, 1 – 6 March 2009, Elbrus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia. Contact Konstantin Khishchenko, Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, Izhorskaya 13 Building 2, 125412 Moscow, Russia.

Fundamentals and Applications of Microplasmas, 1 – 6 March 2009, San Diego, California USA. Contact Engineering Conferences International.

Fourth Workshop on Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas (SFP 2009), 2 – 4 March 2009, Julich, Germany. Contact Sabine Kuper, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy Research, Plasma Physics, 52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-5200; fax +49-2461-61-5452.

ReNeW Workshop for Theme IV (Harnessing Fusion Power), 2 – 4 March 2009, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Neil Morley.

Twenty-First NNV-Symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 3 – 4 March 2009, Lunteren, The Netherlands. Contact secretariat.

ReNeW Workshop for Theme III (Plasma Materials Interface), 4 – 6 March 2009, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Neil Morley.

Workshop on Cross-Scale Coupling in Plasmas, 9 – 11 March 2009, Rende (Cosenza), Italy. Contact secretariat.

Eleventh International Conference on Energy and Environment, 15 – 18 March 2009, Hurgada, Egypt. Contact Abdullatif El-Sharkawy, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt; phone +202-3761-8332; fax +202-33370597.

ReNeW Workshop for Theme V (Optimizing a Magnetic Configuration), 16 – 19 March 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Pamela Hampton; phone (01) 609-243-2653.

Second International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-2), 16 – 20 March 2009, San Antonio, Texas USA. Contact Yelena Alekseyeva.

Sixteenth International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 22 – 26 March 2009, Monterey, California USA. Contact Conference Connection, 5344 Locksley Avenue, Oakland, California 94618 USA; phone 510-652-7691; fax 510-222-5140.

Plasma Device Workshop 2009 (PDW2009), 23 – 27 March 2009, Innsbruck, Austria. Contact John Verboncoeur.

ReNeW Workshop for Theme I (Burning Plasmas in ITER), 23 – 27 March 2009, San Diego, California USA.

ReNeW Workshop for Theme II (Integrated High-Performance Steady-State Burning Plasmas), 23 – 27 March 2009, San Diego, California USA.

Active Beam Spectroscopy for Control of Fusion Plasma, 24 – 27 March 2009, Leiden, Netherlands. Contact Auke Planjer – den Hollander, phone +31715276146.

Eighth International Workshop on Magneto-Plasma Aerodynamics, 31 March – 2 April 2009 Moscow, Russia. Contact Valentin Bityurin, Izhorskaya 13/19, 125412 Moscow, Russia; phone +7 (095) 4842844; fax +7 (095) 483 2285.

IOP Plasma Physics Conference 2009, 30 March – 2 April 2009 and Instabilities and Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas, 2 – 3 April 2009, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Contact A. G. Peeters, Physics Department, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom.

Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Transport and Confinement, 31 March – 2 April 2009, Naka, Japan.

Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Integrated Operation Scenarios, 31 March – 3 April 2009, Naka, Japan.

Fourth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Science and Technology, 6 – 10 April 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal. Contact Tara Desai.

International Conference on Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (ICNPS 2009), 13 – 15 April 2009, Hong Kong, China.

Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Workshop, 13 – 15 April 2009, Menlo Park, California USA.

Eleventh Easter Plasma Meeting on Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence in Fusion-Relevant Plasmas, 15 – 17 April 2009, Turin, Italy. ContactDaniela Grasso, CNR-INFM and Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Energetica, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy; phone +39 011 5644491; fax +39 011 5644499.

Eighth Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 19 – 23 April 2009, Blansko, Czech Republic. Contact Frantisek Krcma.

Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Pedestal & Edge Physics, 20 – 22 April 2009, Cadarache, France.

Sixteenth Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics, 20 – 24 April 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact secretariat.

Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Energetic Particles, 21 – 24 April 2009, Daejon, South-Korea.

EU-Japan Meeting on Plasma Processes and Interactions on Surfaces, 23 – 26 April 2009, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Frantisek Krcma.

Tenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2009),  28 – 30 April 2009, Rome, Italy. Contact ESA Conference Bureau, P.O. Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands; phone +31 71 565 5005; fax +31 71 565 5658.

Transport Task Force Workshop, 28 April – 1 May 2009, San Diego, California USA.

2009 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 3 – 5 May 2009, Denver, Colorado. Contact Carl Sovinec, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ninth International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW9), 4 – 6 May 2009, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact 9th IRW Local Organizing Committee, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351218417696; fax +351218417819.

Particle Accelerator Conference 2009, 4 – 8 May 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Contact PAC09, TRIUMF Conference Coordinator – Sandi Miller, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3 Canada; phone 1 604 222 7352; fax 1 604 222 1074.

International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilizations of Accelerators, 4 – 8 May 2009, Vienna, Austria. ContactGuenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Fifty-Eighth Workshop IUVSTA on Technological Challenges for New Controlled Fusion Machines, 4 – 8 May 2009, Saint-Maximin la Sainte Baume, France. Contact Societe Francaise du Vide, 19 rue du Renard, 75004 Paris, France; phone +33 (0)1 53 01 90 32; fax +33 (0)1 42 78 63 20.

Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on SOL and Divertor, 5 – 8 May 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Twelfth International Workshop on Plasma Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC-12), 11 – 14 May 2009, Julich, Germany. Contact Y. Fattah; phone +49 2461 61 3008.

Twelfth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (WPDP), 17 – 20 May 2009, Boulder, Colorado USA. Contact Scott Robertson; phone 303-492-5565.

Fourth IAEA TM on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 18 – 20 May 2009, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Second International Conference on High Energy Density Physics (ICHED 2009), 19 – 22 May 2009, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart.

Second Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science Conference (ULIS2009@Frascati), 24 – 29 May 2009, Frascati, Italy. Contact Massimo Ferrario.

Conference of Young Scientists and Post-Graduate Students (IEP-2009), 25 – 28 May 2009, Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

ITER STAC, MAC and CPWG Meetings, 25 – 30 May 2009.

Thirty-Sixth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and Twenty-Third Symposium on Fusion Engineering (ICOPS/SOFE 2009), 31 May – 4 June 2009, San Diego, California USA. Contact Farhat Beg, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, La Joya, California 92093 USA; phone 858-822-1266; fax 858-531-4543.

Second Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2009), 1 – 5 June 2009, Chiana, Crete, Greece. Contact secretariat.

First International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), 7 – 10 June 2009, Marseille, France. Contact ANIMMA_2009, CEA/DER/SPEx, Bat. 238 CEA Cadarache 13108, St Paul lez Durance Cedex, France; fax +33 (0)4.42.25.78.76.

USBPO Research Needs Workshop (ReNeW), 7 – 13 June 2009, Bethesda, Maryland USA.

Tenth International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), 8 – 12 June 2009, Djurönäset, Sweden. Contact secretariat.

Thirteenth All Russia Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 8 – 13 June 2009, Zvenigorod, Moscow region, Russia. Contactsecretariat.

Seventh IAEA TM on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 15 – 19 June 2009, Aix-en-Provence, France. Contactmeeting secretary, IAEA TM 2009, Building 506, CEA/DSM/IRFM/, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint Paul lez Durance, France; fax +33-442.256.255.

Modern Challenges in Nonlinear Plasma Physics, 15  – 19 June 2009, Halkidiki, Greece. Contact conference secretariat.

US Particle Accelerator School, 15 – 26 June 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

Fourth International Congress on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications (CAPPSA2009) and Eighteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 22 – 24 June 2009, Ghent, Belgium. Contact Christophe Leys, Ghent University, Department of Applied Physics, J. P. Lateaustraat, 22 B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; fax +32-9-264 4172.

ITER International Summer School 2009 “Plasma Surface Interaction in Controlled Fusion Devices”, 22 – 26 June 2009, Aix en Provence, France. Contact Shimpei Futatani, France-Japan Magnetic Fusion Laboratory, CNRS 336 -Universite de Provence, Centre de Saint Jerome, Case 321, F 13397, Marseille cedex 20, France; phone +33 (0)4 91 28 82 05; fax +33 (0)4 91 28 +82 25.

Seventeenth International Colloquium on Plasma Processes (CIP09), 22 – 26 June 2009, Parc Chanot, Marseille, France. Contact Caroline Vuong, Societe Francaise du Vide, 19 rue du Renard, 75004 Paris, France; phone +33 (0)1 53 01 90 32; fax +33 (0)1 42 78 63 20.

Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2009 (LPAW09), 22 – 26 June 2009, Kardamili, Greece. Contact Robert Bingham.

Nineteenth Conference on Fundamental Atomic Spectroscopy (FAS XIX), 22 – 29 June 2009, Archangelsk-Solovky, Russia. Contact Russia, 119991, Moscow, Leninskiy av., 53, RAS Scientific Council on Spectroscopy, for L. A. Bereeva; phone/fax (+7 499) 135-14-20.

Eighteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas (RF2009), 24 – 26 June 2009, Ghent, Belgium. Contact Jean-Marie Noterdaeme, Max-Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49-89-3299 1336; fax + 49-89-3299-2558.

2009 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC), 29 June – 2 July 2009,  Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC USA. Contact: Frank Peterkin, PO Box 1570, Dahlgren, Virginia 22448 USA; phone +1 540 653 2623.

Fourth International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM – 2009), 29 June – 3 July 2009, Chamonix, France. Contact Nikolai Pogorelov, Center for Space Physics and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, Alabama 35805 USA; phone 1-256-961-7617; fax 1-256-961-7730.

Fourteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems, 29 June – 3 July 2009, Ericeira, Portugal. Contact secretariat; fax 351 21 994 1995.

Thirty-Sixth EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 29 June – 3 July 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, Scientific Secretary, LOC, Sofia University, Kosta Loulchev 27, Sofia 1111, Bulgaria; phone +359 878 748 837.

Ninth International School for Space Simulations (ISSS-9), 3 – 10 July 2009, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (near Paris), France. Contact Bertrand Lembege, LATMOS-UVSQ-IPSL-CNRS, 10-12 Avenue de l’Europe, 78140 Velizy, France; phone + 33 (0) 1 39 25 47 70; fax + 33 (0) 1 39 25 49 22.

Second Workshop on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organisation in Magnetized Plasmas (EFTSOMP2009), 6 – 7 July 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. Contact Eva Belonohy; phone: +3630-2705451.

Forty-Sixth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 6 – 17 July 2009, Culham, United Kingdom. Contact Martin O’Brien.

Atoms and Plasmas in Super Intense Laser Fields, 10 – 16 July 2009, Erice, Sicily, Italy. Contact Dimitri Batani, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy; fax: +39 02 6448 2585.

Seventeenth International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-17), 12 – 16 July 2009, Brussels, Belgium.

Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPEG2009), 12 – 17 July 2009, Cancun, México. Contact secretariat.

Third IAEA TM on First Generation of Fusion Power Plant: Design and Technology, 13 – 15 July 2009, Vienna, Austria. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Meeting of the ITPA Coordinating Committee, 15 – 16 July 2009, Cadarache, France.

Eighth IAEA TM Fusion Power Plant Safety, 15 – 17 July 2009, Vienna, Austria. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

2009 International Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, 16 – 22 July 2009, Dunhaung, China.  Contact Feilu Wang; phone 0086-10-6485-3528; fax: 0086-10-6485-3528.

Nineteenth International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 19), 26 – 31 July 2009, Bochum, Germany. Contact ISPC 19 Secretary, Ruhr-University Bochum, NB 7 / 166, Universitätsstr. 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; phone: +49 (0)234 32 28757; fax +49 (0)234 32 14958.

2009 High-Energy-Density-Physics (HEDP) Summer School, 26 July – 1 August 2009, Los Angeles, California USA.

Twentieth International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, 9 – 14 August 2009, Espoo, Finland. Contact SMiRT 20 Secretariat, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland; phone +358 20 722 111; fax +358 20 722 705.

Seventh IAEA TM on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 10 – 14 August 2009, Moscow, Russia. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Third Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Kyiv, 23 – 27 August 2009, Ukraine. Contact local organizing committee.

Fourth Workshop on SBS and Phase Conjugation Workshop, 24 – 28 August 2009, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Milan Kalal, Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic; phone +420 606 945 952.

Seventh International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science, 31 August – 4 September 2009, Hamburg, Germany. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone 06-6879-8694; fax 06-6879-8689.

International Workshop on Theory and Applications of the Vlasov Equation (Vlasovia 2009), 31 August – 4 September 2009, Marseille, France. ContactYves Elskens, Université de Provence, PIIM, case 232, avenue Normandie-Niémen, 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France; phone 04 91 28 82 30; fax 04 91 28 82 25.

Ninth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics, 31 August – 11 September 2009, Herbeumont-sur-Semois, Belgium. Contact Ernesto Lerche; phone +32-2-7426587.

Third Karlsruhe International School on Fusion Technologies, 31 August – 11 September 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Sibylle Mann.

Sixth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2009), 6 – 11 September 2009, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Pamela Hawkins; phone 1-925-423-4372; fax 1-925-424-3295.

Fourteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICRFM-14), 6 – 11 September 2008, Sapporo, Japan. Contact secretariat.

Nonstationary Phenomena and Instabilities in Astrophysics (NPIA-09), 8 – 12 September 2009, Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia. ContactIlya Kovalenko, Volgograd State University; phone +7 8442 460812; fax +7 8442 460279.

Superconducting Magnets: Case Studies (Twelfth Course of International School of Fusion Reactor Technology), 8 – 16 September 2009, Erice, Italy. Contact Maria Laura Sansovini, ENEA Frascati, Italy, phone **39 06 94005602; fax **39 06 94005147.

Thirty Fourth International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW34), 11 – 15 September 2009, Busan, Korea. Contact IRMMW-THz 2009 organizer.

Thirteenth International Conference on the Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP XIII), 13 – 18 September 2009, Chernogolovka, Russia. Contactsecretariat; phone +7 (49652) 244-74.

Fifth International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC), 15 – 18 September 2009, Falls Church, Virginia USA. ContactIgor Matveev; phone 1-703-560-9569; fax 1-703-849-8417.

Second EFDA Transport Topical Group Meeting, 16 – 18 September 2009, Culham, United Kingdom. Contact Clemente Angioni.

Thirty-First International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC2009), 20 – 24 September 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. Contact Bonnie Bryant; phone (734) 764-9508; fax (734) 763-6904.

Eleventh IAEA TM on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 21 – 23 September 2009, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Fourteenth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD-14), 21 – 24 September 2009, Castelbrando, Italy. Contact Leonardo Giudicotti, Consorzio RFX, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy; phone +39 049 8295034; fax +39 049 8700718.

Eighth International Workshop on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas and International Workshop “50 Years Plasma Physics in Innsbruck”, 21 – 24 September 2009, Innsbruck, Austria. Contact Roman Schrittwieser; phone +43 512 507 6244; fax +43 512 507 2932.

Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 21 – 25 September 2009, Busan, Korea. Contact IRMMW-THz 2009 organizer.

Eighth Kudowa Summer School, “Towards Fusion Energy”, 21 – 25 September 2009, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +48 22 666 8372.

Meeting of the International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Energetic Particles, 24 – 25 September 2009, Kiev, Ukraine.

Nineteenth IAEA TM on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 28 – 30 September 2009, Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas: Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Amplification, and Radiation Signatures, 28 September – 2 October 2009, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Ivy Lane, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA; phone 609-258-2307.

Sixteenth International Summer School on Vacuum, Electron, and Ion Technologies, 28 September – 2 October 2009, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. ContactN. Guerassimov, VEIT 2009 Organizing Committee, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigradsko Chaussee, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone +359 2 974 50 13; fax +359 2 975 32 01.

Sixth International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-6), 28 September – 2 October 2009, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Larissa Krat’ko, Stepanov Institute of Physics, 68 Nezalezhnastsi Ave., 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (375) (17) 284 10 66; fax (375) (17) 284 08 79.

Second International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies and First International Plasma Nanoscience Symposium, 29 September – 2 October 2009, Piran, Slovenia. Contact Uros Cvelbar.

Twelfth International Workshop on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 30 September – 2 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact T. S. Hahm.

Fusion-Fission Research Workshop, 30 September – 2 October 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker.

Fifth IAEA TM on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 5 – 7 October 2009, San Diego, California USA. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Transport and Confinement, 5 – 7 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Pedestal and Edge Physics, 5 – 7 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Fourth International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena (NEPCAP-2009), 5 – 9 October 2009, Sochi (Dagomys), Russia. Contact Alexander Starik, P. I. Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motors, 2 Aviamotornaya Str., Moscow 111116, Russia; phone (+7-495) 3616468; fax (+7-495) 3620373.

Twenty-First International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, 6 – 9 October 2009, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact secretariat; phone +351 218 419 329; fax +351 218 464 455.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on MHD, 6 – 8 October 2009, Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Sixth Coordinated Working Group Meeting (CWGM) for Stellarator/Heliotron Studies, 8 – 9 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contactsecretariat.

Ninth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Tech. (ISFNT-9), 11 – 16 October 2009, Dalian, China. Contact J. Z. Sun, School of Physics Optoelectronic Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; phone +86 411 84706731; fax +86 411 84708389.

Thirteenth European Fusion Theory Conference, 12 – 15 October 2009, Riga, Latvia. Contact O. Dumbrajs, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, 8 Kengaraga Str., 1063 Riga, Latvia; phone +371 2635 9386.

Seventeenth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop, 12 – 16 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Pamela Hampton, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), P.O. Box 451 MS39, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Diagnostics, 12 – 16 October 2009, Pohang, Korea. Contact secretariat.

IAEA International Fusion Research Council Meeting, 13 October 2009, Vienna, Austria. Contact Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI 2009), 16 – 21 October 2009, Brasov, Romania. Contact organizers.

International Collaboration on Stellarator Theory Meeting (ICST), 19 – 20 October 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact secretariat.

Sixty-Second Gaseous Electronics Conference, 20 – 23 October 2009, Saratoga Springs, New York USA. Contact Mirko Vukovic; 1-518-320-1948.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on Integrated Operation Scenarios, 20 – 23 October 2009, Frascati, Italy.

NRL Laser Fusion Program and Perspectives on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE), 21 October 2009, College Park, Maryland USA. Contact Steve Obenschain, Naval Research Laboratory.

First Porto Workshop on Sources of Super-intense and Ultrashort Laser Pulses, 26 – 28 October 2009, Porto, Portugal. Contact Florbela Martins; phone (+351) 220 402 393; fax (+351) 220 402 406.

Third China – Japan Joint Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Processes in Plasma, 26 – 30 October 2009, Xian, China. Contact Ding Xiaobin; phone +86-(0)931-7971148.

International Workshop on Physical and Mathematical Challenges in light of ITER, 26 – 30 October 2009, Marseille, France. Contact Frank Jenko, Max-Planck-Institüt für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299 2195; fax +49 89 3299 2580.

Stability and Nonlinear Dynamics of Plasmas, 31 October 2009, Atlanta, Georgia USA. Contact Amitava Bhattacharjee.

Sixth International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion (ISBEP 6), 1 – 5 November 2009, Scottsdale, Arizona USA. Contact AIBEP Secretary.

Fifty-First APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 2 – 6 November 2009, Atlanta, Georgia USA.

Hamiltonian Approaches of ITER Physics, 2 – 6 November 2009, Marseille, France. Contact Michel Vittot, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Marseille, France; phone (+33|0)491269524.

Third Workshop & Training Program in Low Cost Plasma Technology Applications, 7 – 12 November 2009, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Contact Abdou Garamoon, Center of Plasma Technology, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; phone 0020-02-26249139; fax 0020-02-22629356.

Second IAEA RCM on Integrated Approach to Dense Magnetized Plasma, 9 – 11 November 2009, Warsaw, Poland. Guenter Mank, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21756; fax +43 1 26007-2170.

Fourteenth Workshop on MHD Stability and Control, 9 – 11 November 2009, Princeton, New Jersey 08331 USA.

Low-Temperature Plasma for Deposition of Functional Coatings, 11 – 14 November 2009, Kazan, Russia. Contact Rafael Tagirovich; fax 7 (843) 231-43-37.

High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma (HEDLP) Research Needs Workshop (ReNeW), 15 – 18 November 2009, Rockville, Maryland USA.

UCLA Symposium in Honor of Francis Chen, 16 November 2009, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Tsitsi Madziwa Nussinov, Physics Department & McDonnell Center for Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Avenue, CB 1105, St Louis, Missouri 63130 USA; phone 314 935-4493.

High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows II, 26 – 30 October 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Gustavo Romero.

First Italian Conference on Thermonuclear Fusion for Industry, 25 – 27 November 2009, Milan, Italy.

First International Conference on Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies, 25 – 27 November 2009, Frascati , Italy. Contact Donatella Pierluigi, INFN, Frascati National Laboratory, Via E. Fermi,40 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy; phone ** 39/06/94032317; fax ** 39/06/94032559.

International Workshop on Frontiers In Space and Fusion Energy Sciences (FISFES 2009), 30 November – 3 December 2009, Tainan, Taiwan. ContactGail Tseng; phone +886-6-235-4247; fax +886-6-275-3519.

FY10 National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Research Forum, 1 – 3 December 2009, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Michael Bell Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, MS34, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 USA; phone +1-609-243-3282; fax +1-609-243-2874.

Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: Interactions, Patterns, and Turbulence, 1 – 4 December 2009, Como, Italy. Contact Massimiliano Rome, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy; phone +39 02 50317665; fax +39 02 50317272.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, 2 – 3 December 2009, Washington, DC USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; fax: 301-975-9869.

Center for Plasma Edge Simulation (CPES) Meeting, 7 – 8 December 2009, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Daren Stotler (PPPL); phone 609-243-2063.

Seventeenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 7 – 9 December 2009, Valence, Hungary.

Nineteenth International Toki Conference (ITC19) on Advanced Physics in Plasma and Fusion Research December, 8 – 11 December 2009, Ceratopia Toki, Toki-City, Gifu, Japan. Contact Kenichi Nagaoka, National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi, Toki 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2177; fax +81-572-58-2619.

IAEA-ITPA Joint Meeting, 14 – 15 December 2009, Daejon, Korea.

International Tokamak Physics Activity Topical Group on SOL and Divertor, 14 – 17 December 2009, San Diego, USA.

Conference on Computational Physics 2009 (CCP09), 15 – 19 December 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Contact Zoe Chang, 4 Fl., No.158, Jingye 1st Rd., Taipei 104, Taiwan; phone +886-2-8502-7087 Ext. 15 fax +886-2-8502-7025.

ITPA SO|L and Divertor Physics Meeting, 7 – 10 January 2008, Toledo, Spain.

Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry,  7 – 12 January 2008, Temecula, California.

The U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 14 – 25 January 2008, Santa Rosa, California USA. Contact USPAS, phone 630-840-3896, fax 630-840-8500.

NSTX PAC-23, 22 – 24 January 2008, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

International Workshop on Plasma Shocks and Particle Acceleration, 24 – 26 January 2008, Osaka, Japan. Contact Aska Kageyama, Osaka University, Japan.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, 14 – 18 February 2008, Boston, Massachusetts USA. Plasma sessions on 16 February 2008.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting, 19 – 20 February 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

IAEA International Workshop on Challenges in Plasma Spectroscopy for Future Fusion Research Machines, 20 – 22 February 2008, Jaipur, India.  Contact Ram Prakash, Department of Applied Physics, Birla Institute of Technology, Jaipur Centre, 27-Malviya Industrial Area, Jaipur-302017, Rajasthan, India; phone 91-0141-4019826; fax 91-0141-2751601.

Twentieth NNV-Symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 4 – 5 March 2008, Lunteren, Netherlands. Contact CPS office, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; phone +31.40. 247 25 50; fax +31.40. 245 60 50.

Solvay Workshop – A tribute to Professor Radu Balescu, 6 – 8 March 2008, Brussels, Belgium.

Fifteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating, 9 – 13 March 2008, Yosemite National Park, California USA. Contact John Lohr, General Atomics, Box 85608, San Diego California 92186 USA; phone: 1-858-455-4519; fax 1-858-455-4190.

International Conference on Plasma Nano Technology & Science (IC-PLANTS 2008), 13 – 14 March 2008, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Contactsecretariat.

First NILES Workshop on Lasers and Plasmas, 16 – 18 March 2008, Cairo, Egypt. Contact secretariat, Cairo University Campus, Giza, Egypt; phone +202 35675243; fax +202 35708480.

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2008), 24 – 28 March 2008, Hangzhou, China.

Twenty-First US Transport Taskforce Workshop, 25 – 28 March 2008, Boulder, Colorado USA. Contact Lupe Cerda, General Atomics, Mail Stop 13-456, P. O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608 USA; phone 858.455.4155; fax 858.455.4156.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 30 March – 2 April 2008, Boulder, Colorado USA. Contact secretariat.

Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the IOP Plasma Physics Group, 1 – 4 April 2008, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom. Contact Zulfikar Najmudin, Plasma Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom; phone + 44 20 7594 7655; fax +44 20 7594 7658.

Seventh International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA-08) and First International Conference on High Energy Density Physics (HEDP), 11 – 15 April 2008, St. Louis, Missouri USA. Contact Conference Administrator.

Fourteenth Meeting of the ITPA TG on Diagnostics, 14 – 18 April 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland.

SPIE International High Power Laser Ablation Symposium, 20 – 24 April 2008, Taos, New Mexico USA.

Sixth EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, 21 – 23 April 2008, Okinawa, Japan. Contact Satoshi Hamaguchi, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; phone +81-6-6879-7913, fax +81-6-6879-7916.

Fourteenth Meeting of the ITPA TG on Diagnostics, 14 – 18 April 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sixth EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, 21 – 23 April 2008, Okinawa, Japan.

Fourth US-PRC Magnetic Fusion Collaboration Workshop, 5 – 6 May 2008, University of Texas, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Teresa Garza; phone +1-512-471-4698; fax +1-512-471-8865.

Seventeenth High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics Conference, 11 – 15 May 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Ramon Leeper, Sandia National Laboratories; phone (505) 845-7185; fax (505) 845-7820.

Sixth International Symposium on Non-Thermal Plasma Technology (ISNTPT-6), 12 – 16 May 2008, Taipei, Taiwan. Contact Moo Been Chang, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li 32001, Taoyuan County, Taiwan; phone +886-3-4226774.

Magnetics 2008 Conference, 15 – 16 May 2008, Denver, Colorado USA. Contract Marsha Hanrahan.

Fifth International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasma, 18 – 23 May 2008, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. Contact ICPDP5 Organizing Committee, Centro de Física de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.

Eighteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-18), 26 – 30 May 2008, Toledo, Spain.

Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics, 1 – 3 June 2008, St. Louis, Missouri USA.

Ninth International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 2 – 3 June 2008, Salamanca, Spain. Contact David Tafalla, Lab. Nacional de Fusion, Asociacion Ciemat/Euratom, Av. Complutense, 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain; phone 913460843; fax 913466124.

Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (Chaos2008), 3 – 6 June 2008, Chania, Crete, Greece. Contact Anthi Katsirikou.

Thirty-Fifth EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 9 – 13 June 2008, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Contact secretariat; phone +30 2810391300; fax +30 2810391305.

Tenth International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 12 – 18 June 2008, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece.

Thirty-Fifth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2008), 15 – 19 June 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Manfred Thumm, Karlsruhe Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany; phone 49-7247-82-2440. Mini Course on Microwave Processing of Materials, 19 – 20 June 2008.

Workshop on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organization in Magnetized Plasmas (EFTSOMP2008), 16 – 17 June 2008, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Contact Eva Belonohy,, KFKI, P.O.Box 49, Budapest, H-1525, Hungary; phone +36-1-3922222/1476; fax +36-1-3922598.

Twenty-Third Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 16 – 19 June 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact secretariat, Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technicka 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic.

US Particle Accelerator School, 16 – 27 June 2008, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact Susan Winchester; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Nordic Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 15 – 18 June 2008, Loen, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen, National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; phone +47 23 19 53 20; fax +47 23 19 52 06.

Innovative Confinement Concepts, 24 – 27 June 2008, Reno, Nevada USA. Contact Tom Jarboe.

Third International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics, 30 June – 5 July, 2008, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, DLTIS, University of Sofia, 27 Kosta Loulchev Street, BG-1111 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone + 359 2 8720 733; fax + 359 2 8723 877.

Seventeenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS’08), 6 – 11 July 2008, Xi’an, China. Contact Jianjun Deng, Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP, China; phone 86-816-2484153; fax 86-816-2485139.

Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety (AIS-2008), 7 – 12 July 2008, Kaliningrad, Russia. Contact M. G. Golubkov, Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Kosygin str. 4, Moscow, 119991, Russia; phone +7-401-2215606; fax +7(495)137-6130.

Forty-Fifth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 7 – 18 July 2008, Culham Science Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton,  EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone (+44) 1235 466635; fax (+44) 1235 466379.

Thirty-Seventh Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and Associated Events (COSPAR 2008), 13 – 20 July 2008, Montreal, Canada. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France; phone +33 1 44 76 75 10; fax +33 1 44 76 74 37.

Nineteenth Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG-2008), 15 – 19 July 2008, Granada, Spain. Contact F. J. Gordillo-Vazquez.

Second ITER International Summer School (IISS2008), 22 – 25 July 2008, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact S. Inagaki, RIAM Kyushu University, Kasuga-Koen 6-1, Kasuga 816-8580, Japan; phone 81+92-583-7722; fax 81+92-583-7723.

Workshop on Infrared Plasma Spectroscopy 2008 (IPS2008), 23 – 25 July 2008, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Frank Hempel, INP Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 2, D – 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 3834 – 554 425; fax +49 3834 – 554 301.

Seventh International Workshop on Strong Microwaves: Sources and Applications, 27 July – 2 August 2008, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov,, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 416 4831; fax +7 831 416 0616.

Third International School of Advanced Plasma Technology, 28 – 31 July 2008, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact K. Uchino, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan; phone +81-92-583-7077; fax +81-92-571-8013.

International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, 29 July – 2 August 2008, Camerino, Italy. Contact Fiorella Paino, University of Camerino, Camerino (MC) 62032 Italy.

Graduate Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas, 30 July – 8 August 2008, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey USA. ContactNorman Horing, Dept. of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 USA; phone (201) 216-5651; fax (201) 216-5638.

USDOE FESAC Public Meeting, 4 – 5 August 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

Seventh International Conference on Dense Z-pinches (DZP2008), 18 – 21 August 2008, Alexandria, Virginia USA. Contact David Hammer, Cornell University; phone (607) 255-3916; fax (607) 255-9072.

Modeling of Plasma Effects of Applied Resonant Magnetic Perturbations, 25 – 26 August 2008, San Diego, California USA. Contact Todd Evans; phone (858)455-4269; fax (858) 455-4156.

USDOE FESAC Public Meeting on High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma, 25 – 27 August 2008, Washington, DC USA.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 25 – 29 August 2008, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale, 85 – 23821 Abbadia Lariana (LC), Italy; fax +39-0341-732490.

Twenty-Fourth Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2008), 25 – 29 August, 2008, Novi Sad, Serbia. Contact Luka Popovic; phone +381113089079; fax +381112419553.

Thirteenth EU-US TTF Workshop, 1 – 4 September 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact Volker Naulin,, Risoe National Laboratory Technical University of Denmark, Optics and Plasma Research, OPL-129, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark; phone +45 46 77 45 38; fax +45 46 77 45 65.

Second Karlsruhe International Summer School on Fusion Technologies, 1 – 12 September 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Sibylle Mann, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/FTU, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; phone +49 (0) 7247 82 3272; fax +49 (0) 7247 82 4857.

Fifth International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Plasma Chemistry (ISTARC-2008), 3 – 8 September 2008, Ivanovo, Russia.

International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gaseous and Liquid Plasmas (ISGLP 2008), 5 – 6 September 2008, Sendai, Japan. Contact Rikizo Hatakeyama, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-05 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku Sendai 980-8579, Japan; phone +81-22-795-7045; Fax +81-22-263-9375.

Eleventh International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE 11), 7 – 12 September 2008, Oleron Island, France. Contact HAKONE XI Office, Bat 3R2, Laplace Laboratory, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France; phone 33 (0) 561 556 201; fax 33 (0) 561 558 680.

International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2008), 8 – 12 September 2008, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact secretariat.

International Workshop on Microwave Laser Diagnostics and Particle Mirror Interaction for Burning Plasma Experiment, 12 – 13 September 2008, Shikanoshima, Japan.

ITPA SOL/Divertor Meeting, 15 – 18 September 2008, Nagasaki, Japan.

Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2008), 15 – 19 September 2008, Rostock, Germany. Contact Beate Kemnitz, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Teilinstitut Greifswald, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, D – 17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone / fax +49 / (0)3834 – 881308 / 1309.

Eleventh International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2008), 15 – 19 September 2008, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. ContactLudwig van Loyen, Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V., Gostritzer Str. 61 – 63, D-01314 Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 351 8 71-83 72; fax +49 (0) 351 8 71-84 31.

Thirty-Third Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 15 – 19 September 2008, Pasadena, California USA. Contact Nuria Llombart Juan, Jet Propulsion laboratory, MS 168-314, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA; phone 1-818-354-4488; fax 1-818-393-4683.

Fourth International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC), 16 – 19 September 2008, Falls Church, Virginia USA. ContactIgor Matveev; phone: 1-703-560-9569; fax: 1-703-849-8417.

Workshop on the Theory of Magnetic Confinement for Fusion in commemoration of Les Woods, 22 September 2008, Oxford, United Kingdom. ContactJohn Allen.

IPP Summer University on Plasma Physics and Fusion Research, 22 – 26 September 2008, Garching, Germany. Contact Hans Werner Mueller, IPP Garching, Bereich E2, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone Germany / 089 / 3299-2232; fax Germany / 089 / 3299-1001.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Third Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks, 22 – 27 September 2008, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Vadim Makhlay, Institute of Plasma Physics NSC KIPT; phone 38-057-335-6726; fax 38-057-335-2664.

Eighteenth IAEA Technical Meeting on Research using Small Fusion Devices, 25 – 27 September 2008, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Artur Malaquias, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2305, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone: +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Eighteenth Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-18), 28 September – 2 October 2008, San Francisco, California USA. ContactWayne Meier.

Kinetic Modeling of Astrophysical Plasmas, 5 – 9 October 2008, Krakow, Poland. Contact Jacek Niemiec, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, Krakow, 31-342; phone +48 12 6628292; fax +48 12 6628458.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori and Fourteenth International Workshop on Spherical Torus, 7 – 10 October 2008, ENEA, Frascati, Roma, Italy. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Sixty-First Gaseous Electronics Conference, 13 – 17 October 2008, Dallas, Texas USA. Contact Larry Overzet, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas USA.

Twenty-Second IAEA Fusion Energy Conference – 50th Anniversary of Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 13 – 18 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland. Contact IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21755; fax +43-1-26007.

ITPA Confinement, Transport, and Pedestal Physics Meeting, 20 – 22 October 2008, Milan, Italy.

ITPA MHD Stability, Energetic Particles, and Integrated Operation Meeting, 20 – 22 October 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Eleventh International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation (ICESP-XI), 20 – 25 October 2008, Hangzhou, China. Contact Keping Yan.

Fifth All-Russian Conference on Physical Electronics (FE-2008), 26 – 30 October 2008, Makhachkala, Russia.

Physical Processes for Energy and Plasma Transport across Magnetic Boundaries, 26 – 31 October 2008, Huntsville, Alabama USA. Contact Dennis Gallagher, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, National Space Science & Technology Center, VP62, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35805 USA.

Sixth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA), 28 – 31 October 2008, Beijing, China. ContactSecretarial Staff; phone +86-10-62014411(ext. 3101)(O).

Thirteenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM’08), 10 – 14 November 2008, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Contact Roberto Mancini, Department of Physics / 220; University of Nevada; Reno, Nevada 89557 USA; phone +1 775 784 6959.

Fiftieth APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 17 – 21 November 2008, Dallas, Texas USA.

Fifteenth Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics, 17 – 21 November 2008, Ghandinagar, India.

Thirteenth Workshop on MHD Stability Control, 23 – 25 November 2008, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart; fax 512-471-6715.

Sixteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 1 – 3 December 2008, Cork, Ireland.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, “Fusion Energy: Countdown to Ignition and Gain”, 3 – 4 December 2008, Livermore, California USA.  Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; phone (301) 258-0545; fax 301-975-9869.

Eighteenth International Toki Conference (ITC18), 9 – 12 December 2008, Toki-City, Japan. Contact Sakiko Oi, ITC18 Secretary, RF Plasma Heating Division, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2191; fax +81-572-58-2622.

International HHFC Workshop on Readiness to Proceed from Near Term Fusion Systems to Power Plants, 10 – 12 December 2008, La Jolla, California USA. Contact Cynthia Escobedo.

ITPA/IEA Joint Experiment Coordination Meeting, 11 – 13 December 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.

DIII-D Research Opportunities Forum, 16 – 18 December 2008, San Diego, California USA. Contact Max Fenstermacher; phone 858-455-4159; fax 858-455-4156.

Plasma Turbulence and Transport: Commonalities between Lab, Space and Astrophysics, 8 – 13 January 2007, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, California USA.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 15 – 26 January 2007, Houston, Texas, USA. Contact uspas@fnal.gov; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Sixteenth Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XVI), 20 – 25 January 2007, Grand Hotel Permon, Podbanské, Slovakia. Contact SAPP XVI, Department of Experimental Physics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone: +421 2 60295398; fax +421 2 65412305.

Symposium on Plasma Physics and Material Science (SPPMS-2007), 24 – 26 January 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal. Contact Deepak Prasad Subedi, Department of Natural Sciences, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal, P.O. Box 6250; phone 00977-11-661399; fax 00977-11-661443.

US Burning Plasma Organization Workshop on Diagnostics, 6 – 8 February 2007, San Diego, California USA. Contact General Atomics Corp.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2007), 12 – 15  February 2007, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. Contact Tom Jarboe, University of Washington, AERB; phone 1 (206) 685-3427; fax 1 (206) 543-4719.

Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 18 – 23 Feb 2007, Taormina, Italy.

DIII-D Advanced Tokamak Workshop, 27 – 28 February 2007, San Diego, California USA. Contact General Atomics Corp.

Public Meeting of USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 1 – 2 March 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact Al Opdenaker; phone 301-903-4927.

Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas (SFP2007), 5 – 7 March 2007, Juelich, Germany. Contact K. Finken.

Third International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 5 – 9 March 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact Tara Desai, Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Universitá degli studi Milano-Bicocca, 20126-Milano, Italy.

Nineteenth NNV / CPS-symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 7 – 8 March 2007, Lunteren, Netherlands. Contact CPS office, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; phone +31.40. 247 25 50; fax +31.40. 245 60 50.

Sixth International Astrophysics Conference on Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas, 16 – 22 March 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii USA. Contact Dastgeer Shaikh.

Fifteenth International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 19 – 22 March 2007, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Contact Teresa Vicente, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 107, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1071 USA; phone (301) 975-3883; fax (301) 948-2067.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 26 – 28 March 2007, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom. ContactHoward Wilson, Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York. YO10 5DD. United Kingdom; phone 01904 432297.

Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2007), 26 – 30 March 2007, Beijing, China. Contact J. A. Kong, Room 26-305, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA; fax +86-571-8820-6587.

Twelfth ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics Meeting, 26 – 30 March 2006, PPPL, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Seventh Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 1 – 5 April 2007, Beverley, United Kingdom.

Thirty-Fourth IoP Annual Conference on Plasma Physics, 2 – 5 April 2007, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Sarah Hayes, National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology, School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; phone +353-1-700 5948; fax +353-1-700 5951.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 15 – 20 April 2007 Vienna, Austria. Contact Copernicus Meeting Office, Max-Planck-Str. 13, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; phone +49-5556-99555-20; fax +49-5556-99555-70.

Twelfth US-EU Transport Taskforce Workshop, 17 – 20 April 2007, San Diego, USA.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 23 – 25 April 2007, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact Valerie Censabella.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF ’07), 23 – 27 April 2007, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; phone 703-266-3287; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Inertial Fusion Energy Strategy Workshop, 24 – 27 April 2007, San Ramon, California USA. Contact Ed Synakowski.

High Average Power Laser (HAPL) Meeting, 2 – 3 May 2007, Washington, DC USA. Contact John Sethian.

Eighth International Reflectometer Workshop, 2 – 4 May 2007, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Evgeniy Gusakov, Ioffe Institute, Polytechnicheskya Str.26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia; phone 7 812 2927389; fax 7 812 2975416.

Seventeenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 7 – 9 May 2007, Sheraton Sand Key Hotel, Clearwater, Florida USA. ContactPhilip  Ryan, Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6169 USA; phone 865-574-1133; fax 865-576-7926.

ITPA Topical Group on Transport and CDBM Meeting, 7 – 10 May 2007, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. ContactOlivier Sauter.

ITPA Topical Group on Pedestal and Edge Physics Meeting, 7 – 10 May 2007, Garching, Germany. Contact Kamada Yutaka.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 14 – 17 May 2007, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Contact Yong-Su Na, National Fusion Research Center (NFRC), 52 Eeoeundong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; phone +82-(0)42-870-1603; fax:+82-(0)42-870-1939.

First International Symposium on Edge-Plasma and Surface Component Interactions in Steady State Magnetic Fusion Devices, 20 -22 May  2007, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact Hirooka Yoshihiko.

Eleventh International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET11), 23 – 25 May 2007, Hida Center, Takayama-city, Japan. ContactYukihiro Tomita, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-(0)572-58-2378; fax +81-(0)572-58-2626.

International Youth Conf. on Energetics (IYCE2007), 31 May – 2 June 2007, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Student Association of Energy, Egry J. u. 18., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary; fax +36 1 463 32 31.

Thirteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2007), 3 – 8 June 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact Bakhus Tourism Industry & Trading Inc., Göreme Sok. 8/5 Kavaklidere 06680, Ankara, Turkey; phone +90 (312) 466 15 00; fax +90 (312) 466 15 25.

Twelfth All-Russia Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 3 – 8 June 2007, Zvenigorod, Russia. Contact organizing committee.

Sixth IAEA Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 4 – 8 June 2007, Inuyama, Japan. ContactMeeting Secretary, IAEATM 2007, National Institutes for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi, Toki 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2153; fax +81-572-58-2771.

Chaos, Complexity and Transport: Theory and Applications, 4 – 8 June 2007, Marseilles, France. Contact Xavier Leoncini, Centre de Physique Theorique, Universite de Provence – CNRS, Luminy Case 907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9 France; phone (33)(0)4-91-26-95-49; fax (33)(0)4-91-26-95-53.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 4 – 15 June 2007, Lansing, Michigan USA. Contact USPAS; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on ECRH Physics and Technology for ITER, 6 – 8 June 2007, IAEA Headquarters, Wargamer Strasse, 5, 1400, Vienna, Austria. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section International Atomic Energy Agency Office A2309 Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Symposium on Recent Advances in Plasma Physics, 10 – 12 June 2007, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Twenty-Second Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2007), 17 – 21 June 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Dennis Youchison, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS-1129, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1129 USA; phone +1 505 845 3138; fax +1 505 845-3130.

IEEE International Conference on Pulsed Power and Plasma Science (PPPS2007), 17 – 22 June 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Edl Schamiloglu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA; phone 505-277-4423; fax 505-277-1439.

ITPA-CC Meeting, 18 – 20 June 2007, Cadarache, France.

Plasmas Surfaces and Thin Films, 20 June 2007, London, United Kingdom. Contact Jodie Cartwright, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)20 7470 4800; fax +44 (0)20 7470 4900.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants – Design and Technology, 20 – 22 June 2007, IAEA HQ, Vienna, Austria. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section International Atomic Energy Agency Office A2309 Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Sixteenth International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, 24 – 28  June 2007, Aachen, Germany. Contact Petra Jonas-Astor, Institute of Electrical Machines, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstr. 4, D-52056 Aachen, Germany; phone +49 (0) 241 80 97636; fax +49 (0) 241 80 92270.

Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC2007), 25 – 29 June 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Contact Lorraine Stanford, phone (505) 665-2044.

Third International Conference on Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, 28 June – 5 July 2007, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Igor Kostyukov, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Str., 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone +7 8312 16 4831; fax +7 8312 36 2061.

ITER-LMJ-NIF  Components in Harsh Environments, 27 – 29 June 2007, Cadarache, France. Contact Roger Reichle.

Seventeenth International Vacuum Congress (IVC-17) and Thirteenth International Conference on Surface Science (ICSS-13)  and International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICN+T), 2 – 6 July 2007, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Congrex Sweden AB, Attn: IVC – Vacuum, PO Box 5619, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden; phone +46 8 459 66 00; fax +46 8 661 91 25.

Thirty-Fourth EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 2 – 6 July 2007, Warsaw, Poland. Contact Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM) – Euratom Association; 23 Hery Str., 01-497 Warsaw, Poland; phone +48 22 638-14-60, fax +48 22 666-83-72.

Tenth Workshop on Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Plasmas (EFSRP), 8 – 9 July 2007, Warsaw, Poland. Contact Jana Brotankova, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, CZ – 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 26605 2942, 2940; fax (+420) 286 890 448.

Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop (LPAW07), 9 – 13 July 2007, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal. Contact secretariat; phone +351 218 419 329; fax +351 218 464 455.

Forty-Fourth Culham Plasma Physics School, 9 – 20 July 2007, Culham, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton.

Third International Workshop on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications (CAPPSA 2007), 10 – 13 July 2007, Ghent, Belgium. Contact C. Leys, Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; fax +32-9-264 4172.

Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG2007), 15 – 20 July 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Milan Simek, Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, Za Slovankou 3, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic; phone +420 266 052 886; fax +420 286 586 389.

First ITER Summer School: Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas, 16 – 20 July 2007, Aix en Provence, France. Contact S. Benkadda; phone 33 4 91 28 83 19; fax 33 4 91 28 82 25.

Summer School in High Energy Density Physics, 29 July – 4 August 2007, University of California, San Diego, California USA.

Tenth International Symposium on Electron Beam Ion Sources and Traps and Their Applications (EBIS/T 2007), August 1 – 4 2007, Heidelberg, Germany.

Ninth International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, 7 – 10 August 2007, Lund, Sweden. Contact Lund Observatory – ASOS9, Box 43, SE 221 00 Lund, Sweden.

Eighth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics, 2 – 14 September 2007, Bad Honneff, Germany. Contact K. Finken.

International Summer School on Fusion Technologies, 3 – 14 September 2007, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. Contact Sibylle Mann, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/FTU, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; phone +49 (0) 7247 82 3272; fax +49 (0) 7247 82 4857.

Symposium on Vacuum-Based Science and Technology, 5 – 7 September 2007, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Rainer Hippler, University of Greifswald, Institute of Physics, Felix – Hausdorff – Straße 6, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone + 49 (0) 3834 86 47 80; fax + 49 (0) 3834 86 47 01.

Conference on Computational Physics (CCP 2007), 5 – 8 September 2007, Brussels, Belgium. Contact Quentin Knaepen, Physique des Polymères, ULB Campus Plaine – CP 223, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium; phone +32 (0)2 650 57 32; fax +32 (0)2 650 56 75.

Frontiers in FEL Physics and Related Topics, 8 – 14 September 2007, Elba Island-La Biodola, Italy. Contact Francesca Casarin; phone + 39 06 49766833.

Fifth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2007), 9 – 14 September 2007, Kobe, Japan. Contact Kazuo Tanaka, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; phone +81-(0)6-6879-8703; fax +81-(0)6-6877-4799.

Energy Conversion Systems in Tokamak Reactor, 9 – 15 September 2007, Erice, Italy. Contact Maria Laura Sansovini, ENEA Frascati, Italy, phone **39 06 94005602; fax **39 06 94005147.

Eighth International Conference on Electric Fuses and their Applications (ICEFA), 10 – 12 September 2007, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Contact William Bussiere, Laboratory of Electric Arc and Thermal Plasmas, CNRS UMR 6069 – Phys Bat 5, 24 Av des Landais, F63177 Aubiere Cedex, France; phone +33 (0)4 73 40 73 20; fax +33 (0)4 73 40 76 50.

US-EU-JA Workshop of RF Heating Technology, 10 – 12 September 2007, Heidelberg, Germany. Contact Roland Heidinger.

European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2007), 10 – 13 September 2007, Nurnberg, Germany. ContactCongress and Exhibition Office, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde, Senckenberganlage 10, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; phone +49 -69-75306 747; fax +49 -69-75306 733.

Ninth Zababakhin Scientific Talks, 10 – 14 September 2007, Snezhinsk, Russia. Contact T. N. Gorbatova; phone (351-46) 5-23-50; fax (351-46) 5-22-33.

European Summer School in Plasma Physics in Science and Technology (PPST), 10 – 21 September 2007, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Rainer Hippler, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald Institut für Physik, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6 17487, Greifswald, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3834/864780.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 13 September 2007, Kobe, Japan. ContactGuenter Mank.

Zababakhin Scientific Talks, 10 – 14 September 2007, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia. Contact T. N. Gorbatova, RFNC – VNIITF Editorial and Publishing Group; phone (351-46) 5-23-50; fax (351-46) 5-22-33.

Eighth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology, 16 – 21 September 2007, Rochester, New York USA. Contact Jean Steve; phone 1-585-275-5286.

Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, 16 – 26 September 2007, çeşme, Turkey. Contact Katie Gibson; phone 1-215-895-2210; fax 1-215-895-4929.

Pulsed Power 2007, 17 – 19 September 2007, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom. Contact Elizabeth Jarvis; phone +44(0) 141 427 0735.

Tokamak Workshop, 17 – 19 September 2007, Boston, Massachusetts USA; Contact: Earl Marmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Twelfth Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, 17 – 22 September 2006, Caracas, Venezuela. Contact organizing committee.

Thirteenth Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, 18 – 21 September 2007, Takayama, Gifu, Japan. Contact National Institute for Fusion Science, Attn : Kenji Tanaka, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki-shi, 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2226; fax +81-572-58-2624.

Third International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC-3), 18 – 21 September 2007, 6650 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church, Virginia 22042 USA. Contact Igor Matveev, Applied Plasma Technologies; phone 703-560-9569; fax 703-849-8417.

Twelfth European Fusion Theory Workshop, 24 – 26 September 2007, Madrid, Spain.

Fourth Alfven Conference: Importance of Plasma Processes in Planetary Physics and Astrophysics, 24 – 27 September 2007, Arcachon, France. ContactJean Andre Sauvaud, CESR (UPS/CNRS), 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, Toulouse cedex 4, France, 31028; phone 33 5 61 55 66 76; fax 33 5 61 55 67 01.

IPP Summer University on Plasma Physics and Fusion Research, 24 – 28 September 2007, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Hans Werner Mueller, IPP Garching, Bereich E1, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone ++49-(0)89-3299-1803; fax ++49-(0)89-3299-2580.

Sixth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science, 24 – 28 September 2007, Nikko, Japan. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Joining & Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone 06-6879-8694; fax 06-6879-8694.

International Workshop on Burning Plasma Diagnostics, 24 – 28 September  2007, Villa Monastero, Varenna (Lc), Italy. Contact D. Pifferetti.

H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 26 – 28 September 2007, Tsukuba, Japan. Contact T. Takizuka, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka Fusion Institute, 801-1 Mukouyama, Naka 311-0193, Japan; phone +81 29 270 7518; fax +81 29 270 7419.

Eighth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-8), 30 September – 5 October 2007, Heidelberg, Germany. Contact Symposium Secretariat, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Fusion Programme, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Leopoldshafen, Germany; phone +49 (0)7247 825466; fax +49 (0)7247 825467.

MHD Laboratory Experiments for Geophysics and Astrophysics, 1 – 3 October 2007, Museo Diocesano, Catania, Italy. Contact secretariat.

ITPA Transport Physics, Confinement Database & Modeling, and Pedestal and Edge Meetings, 1 – 3 October 2007, Naka, Japan.

First International Conference on Ultra-intense Laser Interaction Sciences (ULIS2007), 1 – 5 October 2007, Bordeaux, France. Contact S. Aussel, CELIA, Université Bordeaux 1,Domaine du Haut Carré, 43, rue Pierre Noailles, 33405 Talence cedex, France; phone +33 (0)5 40 00 61 81; fax +33 (0)5 40 00 25 80.

Sixtieth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2 – 5 October 2007, Arlington, Virginia USA. Contact Darrin Leonhardt, Fusion UV Systems Inc, 910 Copper Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA; phone 301) 990-8700 X8751; fax (301) 527- 2661.

Second EFDA Fusion Programme Workshop, 8 – 9 October 2007, Cadarache, France.

Tenth IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 8 – 10 October 2007, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section International Atomic Energy Agency Office A2309 Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

US-Japan Simulation Science Workshop and International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP), 8 – 12 October 2007, Austin, Texas USA.  Contact Saralyn Stewart.

ITPA MHD Meeting, 10 – 12 October 2007, Garching, Germany.

Seventeenth International Toki Conference on Physics of Flows and Turbulence in plasmas and Sixteenth International Stellarator/Heliotron Workshop, 15 – 19 October 2007, Toki, Japan. Contact Tomohiro Morisaki, National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi, Toki, Gifu 509-5292 Japan; phone +81-572-58-2146; fax +81-572-58-2618.

Eleventh International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (ICALEPS2007), 15 – 19 October 2007, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.

International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas and Fourth German-Polish Conference on Plasma Diagnostics for Fusion and Applications and Sixth French-Polish Seminar on Thermal Plasma in Space and Laboratory  (PLASMA-2007), 16 – 19 October 2007, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Organizing Committee for PLASMA-2007, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Division W7X-PH, Wendelsteinstr. 1, D-17491 Greifswald , Germany.

Seventeenth IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 22 – 24 October 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section International Atomic Energy Agency Office A2309 Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

ASDEX Upgrade Program Seminar, 22 – 25 October 2007, Kloster Seeon, Chiemgau, Bavaria, Germany. Contact Josef Schweinzer, IPP Garching Bereich E1, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299 1209; fax +49 89 3299 2380.

Public Meeting of USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 23 – 24 October 2007, Gaithersburg, MD USA. Contact Al Opdenaker; phone 1-301-903-4927.

New Perspectives of Plasma Science and Technology, 23 – 25 October 2007, Brno, Czech Republic. Contact Hana Bezděková, Hlinky 48, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic; phone/fax +420 543 211 134.

Thirteenth ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics Meeting, 29 October – 2 November 2007, Chengdu, China.

Tenth Annual Directed Energy Symposium and DE Education Workshop, 5 – 9 November 2007, Huntsville, Alabama USA. Contact Cynnamon Spain; phone (505) 998-4910.

Fifth Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop, 5 – 9 November 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Yuri Ralchenko, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8422 USA; +1-301-975-3210; fax +1-301-990-1350.

Second Workshop and Training Program in Cheap Plasma Technology Applications in Industry and Environment, 10 – 15 November 2007, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Contact Abdou Garamoon, Plasma Technology Center, Faculty of Science, University of Al-Azhar, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; phone 0020-02-6249139; fax 0020-02-2629356.

Fifth International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion (ISBEP 5), 12 – 15 November 2007, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 USA. Contact Andrew Pakhomov, Department of Physics, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama 35899 USA; phone (256) 509-4888; fax (256) 824-6873.

Forty-Ninth APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, 12 – 16 November 2007, Orlando, Florida USA.

AVS Fifty-Fourth International Symposium, 15 – 19 November 2007, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Improved MHD Control Configurations, 18 – 20 November 2007, Columbia University, New York City, New York USA.

National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Research Forum, 27 – 29 November 2007, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ USA. Contact Michael Bell, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, MS34, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 USA; phone +1-609-243-3282; fax +1-609-243-3233.

ITPA/IEA Joint Experiments Meeting, 29 – 30 November 2007, Culham, United Kingdom.

Fifteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 3 – 5 December 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, 4 – 5 December 2007, Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates.

ITPA TG Meeting on Steady State Operation, 10 – 12 December 2007, Garching, Germany.

Thirteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-13), 10 – 14 December 2007, Nice, France. Contact Martine Pailliot, CEA.

2006 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 8 – 14 January 2006, Tucson, Arizona USA. Contact Ramon Barnes; phone (413) 256-8942; fax (413) 256-3746.

Winter School 2006: Physics of Magnetic Reconnection, 9 – 13 January 2006, University of California, Los Angeles, California USA.

Taiwan-Korea Plasma Conference, 16 – 18 January 2006, Taipei, Taiwan. Contact conference secretary.

Nineteenth International Canberra Physics Summer School, Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Granular Flows, 16 – 20 January 2006, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact Helen Hawes, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia; phone: 02 612 52480; fax 02 612 58316.

US Particle Accelerator School, 16 – 27 January 2006, Phoenix, Arizona USA. Contact US Particle Accelerator School, Fermilab, MS 125, Kirk Road and Wilson Streets, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA; phone (630) 840-3896; fax (630) 840-8500.

Sixth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-6) and Twenty-Third Symposium on Plasma Processing (SPP-23), 24 – 27 January 2006, Hotel Taikanso, Matsushima/Sendai, Japan. Contact S. Samukawa, Intelligent Nano-Process Laboratory, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; phone/fax +81-22-217-5240.

Fourteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEM XIV), 5 – 9 Feb 2006, Murramarang, NSW, Australia. Contact Brian James; phone +61 2 9351 2537; fax +61 2 9351 7726. Includes Workshop on dynamics and statistics of complex multi-component systems in ionized gases.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop, 13 – 16 February 2006, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Tom Jarboe, University of Washington; phone: 1 (206) 685-3427.

NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, 14 – 16 February 2006, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada USA. Contact Cara Loomis, Department of Physics, UNLV, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4002 USA; phone 1 (702) 895-0868; fax 1 (702) 895-0804.

International Conference on Superhard Coatings, 27 February – 1 March 2006 at Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel. Contact Reuven Boxman, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, POB 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; phone 972-3-640-7364; fax 972-3-641-0189.

Ninth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 2 March 2006, Kibbutz Ein-Gedi, Israel. Contact Amnon Fruchtman.

Sixth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 11 – 14 March 2006, Rice University, Houston, Texas USA. ContactUmbe Cantu, Rice University, Physics & Astronomy Department, MS 108, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas 77005-1892 USA; phone 1 (713) 348-4939, fax 1 (713) 348-5143.

Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, 27 – 30 March 2006, Doral Desert Princess Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA. Contact Nikolai Pogorelov, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California 92521 USA; phone +1-951-827-5640; fax +1-951-827-4509.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2 – 7 April 2006. Vienna, Austria. Contact COSIS.

International Workshop on Fast Neutron Detectors and Applications, 3 – 6 April 2006, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact Margie Maich, Centre for Research in Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; phone +27 21 650-2759; fax +27 21 715-5078.

Energy… for the Future, 10 – 11 April 2006, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom.  Contact The Royal Society.

Thirty-Third IoP Annual Conference on Plasma Physics, 10 – 13 April 2006, Crieff, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact A. W. Cross, Department of Physics, John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland, United Kingdom.

APS April Meeting and International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 22 – 25 April 2006, Dallas Texas USA. Contact Jim Drake, University of Maryland.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF ’06), 24 – 28 April 2006, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; phone 703-266-3287; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Eighth International Conference on Advanced Surface Engineering (8th ICASE), 25 – 26 April  2006, Tokyo, Japan. Contact Y. Tsukamoto, EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; phone +81-52-789-3259; fax +81-52-789-3260.

Sixteenth Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 7 – 11 May 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia 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.

International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006), 8 – 11 May 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Contact IEE.

Fourteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Heating (EC14), 9 – 12 May 2006, Santorini, Greece. ContactAvrilios Lazaros; phone ++30-210-772-3684; fax ++30-210-772-3513.

Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Control of Plasmas in Magnetic Fusion, 11 – 12 May 2006, General Atomics, San Diego, California USA. Contact Eugenio Schuster, Lehigh University, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-3085 USA; phone 610-758-5253; fax 610-758-6224.

Thirteenth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2006), 22 – 26 May 2006, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact Olha Kocherga, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 14-B Metrolohichna Str, Kiev 03143 Ukraine; phone 38 044 492 14 28; fax 38 044 526 59 98.

Seventeenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interaction in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-17), 22 – 26 May 2006, Hefei Anhui, China. Contact Shaohua Dong; phone +86-551-5591601; fax +86-551-5591310.

Eighth International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 29 – 30 May 2006, Tunxi, Huangshan City, China. Contact Rion Causey, Sandia National Laboratories.

FESAC Fusion Plan Discussion, 1 – 2 June 2006, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersberg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker.

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2006), 4 – 8 June 2006, Traverse City, Michigan USA. Contact Jes Asmussen, Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48224 USA; phone 517-355-4620; fax 517-353-1980.

Thirty-Seventh AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 5 – 8 June 2006, San Francisco, California USA.

Nordic Plasma 2006, 11 – 14 June 2006, Loen, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen,  National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; phone +47 23 19 53 20; fax +47 23 19 52 06.

Twenty-Ninth European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter (29 ECLIM), 11 – 16 June 2006, Madrid, Spain.

Thirty-Third European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 19 – 23 June 2006, Rome, Italy. Contact: Maria Polidoro, ENEA, Frascati, Italy; phone **39 06 94005309; fax **39 06 94005100.

Tenth International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation (ICESP X), 25 – 29 June 2006, Cairns, Australia. Contact ICESP X, 13 Monarch Drive, Hamlyn Terrace, NSW 2259, Australia; phone/fax 61 2 43931114.

Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, 25 – 29 June 2006, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Contact Grete Flarup, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1522, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; phone (+45) 8942 3732.

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing 2006 Conference (SciDAC 2006), 25 – 30 June 2006, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact Bill Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University; phone (609) 243-2612; fax (609) 243-2662.

Ninth Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 26 – 27 June 2006, Rome, Italy. Contact Jana Brotankova, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, CZ – 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 26605 2942; fax (+420) 286 890 448.

Twenty-Second Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 26 – 29 June 2006, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal.

Matter in Super-Intense Laser Fields, 27 June – 5 July 2006, Erice, Sicily, Italy.  Contact Dimitri Batani, Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy; fax +39 02 6448 2585.

Eleventh Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 28 June – 1 July 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia USA. Contact Bill Amatucci.

Waves and Turbulence Phenomena in Space Plasmas, 1 – 9 July 2006, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Technical Secretary.

Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (APCPST), 2 – 5 July 2006, Novotel Palm Cove Resort, Cairns, Australia. ContactAlbert Meige, SP3 / PRL / RSPhysSE, Oliphant Building, Australian National University, 0200 Canberra ACT, Australia; phone +61 (0)2 6125 2828; fax +61 (0)2 6125 8316.

Second International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics, 3 – 9 July 2006, Kiten, Bulgaria. Contact Evgenia Benova, 27 Kosta Loulchev Street, Sofia BG-1111, Bulgaria; phone +359 2 8720 733; fax +359 2 8723 877.

Sixteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF06), 9 – 14 July 2006, Saint-Malo, France. Contact Marie-Madeleine Gombert, Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Batiment 210, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

DIII-D Diagnostics Mini-Workshop, 11 July 2006, San Diego, California USA. Contact Boivin.

Anomalous Transport: Experimental Results and Theoretical Challenges, 12 – 16 July 2006, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Rainer Klages.

Thirty-Sixth COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 16 – 23 July 2006, Beijing, China. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; phone +33 1 45 25 06 79; fax: +33 1 40 50 98 27. Includes “Space Applications of Dusty Plasma”.

Sixth Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement (OS2006), 17 – 21 July 2006, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Contact M. Ichimura.

Forty-Third Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 17 – 28 July 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Kamariah Samson, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone: (44) 1235 466532; fax: (44) 1235 466435.

Lighting Workshop and Academic/Industrial Debate, 19 July 2006, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Contact UK Displays & Lighting Network, Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre, Sherwood Drive, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB, United Kingdom; phone +44(0)1908 276665.

Attosecond Science Workshop, 31 July – 15 September 2006, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact Andre Bandrauk.

Foundations of High Energy Density Physics, 6 – 20 August 2006, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan USA. Contact Jan Beltran.

First Asian Summer School on Laser Plasma Acceleration and Radiation, 7 – 11 Aug 2006, Beijing, China. Contact Y. Gao, Institute of Physics, CAS, PO Box 603-33, Beijing, 100080, China; phone +86-10-82649356; fax +86-10-82649356.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 28 August – 1 September 2006, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale, 85 – 23821 Abbadia Lariana (LC), Italy; fax +39-0341-732490.

Twenty-Third Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2006), 28 August – 1 September, 2006, Kopaonik, Serbia and Montenegro. Contact Dragutin Sevic, Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 68, Pregrevica 118, Zemun, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; phone +381 11 3160882; fax +381 11 3162190.

Conference on Computational Physics, 29 August – 1 September 2006, Gyeongju, South Korea. Contact Jai Sam Kim.

Utilization of Signal Control from Plasma Measurements to Establish Process Control, 4 – 6 September 2006, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Contact Vic Law, NCPST, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; phone +353-1-700-7667; fax +353-1-700-5951.

Eleventh EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 4 – 7 September 2006, Sofitel Vieux Port, Marseille, France. Contact Clarisse Bourdelle, CEA, France.

South American Conference on Astrophysics, Plasma Physics and Numerical Modeling, 4 – 8 September 2006, National University of Asuncion, Paraguay. Contact: Petr Kulhanek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 224 352 321; fax (+420) 233 337 031.

Twelfth Conference on Physics of Non-Ideal Plasmas (PNP12), 4 – 8 September 2006, Darmstadt, Germany. Contact Brigitte Schuster, Plasma Physics Department, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49-(0)6159-71-2694; fax +49-(0)6159-71-28.

Eleventh Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics, 4 – 8 September 2006, Sendai, Japan. Contact A. Donne.

IEE Megagauss XI Conference (MG-XI), 10 – 14 September 2006, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Contact Elizabeth Jarvis; fax 0141 429 0812.

Eighth International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows, 10 – 15 September 2006,  Tomsk, Russia. ContactNikolay Sochugov, Institute of High Current Electronics, 2/3 Akademicheskii Ave., Tomsk 634055 Russia; phone +7-3822-491-651; fax +7-3822-492-410.

Tenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2006), 10 – 15 September 2006, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. ContactLudwig van Loyen, Gostritzer Straße 61 63, Dresden, Germany; phone +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 83 75; fax +49 (0) 3 51 8 71- 84 31 D-01217.

IEA Large Tokamak IA Workshop on Edge Transport in Fusion Plasmas, 11 – 13 September 2006, Kraków, Poland. Contact Roman Zagórski, IPPLM, Poland.

Twenty-fourth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2006), 11 – 15 September 2006, Warsaw, Poland. Contact Katarzyna Kolys. Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Design Division, Woloska 141, 02-507 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax + 48 (22) 856 92 56.

Twelfth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM-06), 11 – 15 September 2006, Albufeira, Portugal. Contact Marta Fajardo, Centro de Física dos Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal; phone +351 21 841 92 02.

Eleventh International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Second Alushta International Workshop on the Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement in Stellarators and Tokamaks, 11 – 16 September 2006, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Vika Garkusha.

Diagnostics and Simulation of Dusty Plasmas, 13 – 15 September 2006, Kiel, Germany. Contact IEAP, CAU, D-24098 Kiel, Germany; phone 431-880-3807.

Fifth International Conference on Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology (PPPT-5), 18 – 22 September 2006, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Larissa Krat’ko, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 Nezalezhnastsi Prospect, 220072 Minsk, Belarus; phone (375) (172) 84 23 46; fax (375) (172) 84 00 30.

Sixth International Workshop and Summer School towards Fusion Energy – Plasma Physics, Diagnostics, Spin-offs, 18 – 22 September 2006, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +48 22 666 8372.

Joint Thirty-first International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and Fourteenth International Conference on Terahertz Electronics (IRMMW-THz2006), 18 – 22 September 2006, Shanghai, China. Contact IRMMW-THz 2006 Secretariat, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 500 Yu Tian Road, Shanghai, China 200083; phone 86-21-65420850; fax 86-21-63248028.

Second International Workshop and Exhibition on Plasma Assisted Combustion (IWEPAC-2), 19 – 20 September 2006, 6650 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church, Virginia 22042 USA. Contact Igor Matveev, Applied Plasma Technologies; phone 703-560-9569; fax 703-849-8417.

Power Beams and Material Processing (PBAMP), 20 – 21 September 2006, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, India. Contact N. K. Joshi, Laser & Plasma Technology Division, BARC, Mumbai-400085, India; phone (022) 25590512.

IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, 25 – 29 September 2006, Garching, Germany. Contact Hans Werner Mueller, IPP Garching, Bereich E1, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Fusion: Pathways to the Future, 27 – 28 September 2006, Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; fax 301-975-9869.

Interaction of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas with Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses, 1 – 5 October 2006, Szeged, Hungary. Contact secretariat.

Physics of the Chromospheric Plasma, 9 – 13 October 2006, Coimbra, Portugal. Contact Ivan Dorotovic, Astronomical Observatory, Santa Clara, Coimbra, P-3040, Portugal; phone +351 239 802 370; fax +351 239 802 379.

Eleventh International Workshop on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC-11), 10 – 12 October 2006, Griefswald, Germany. Contact Anne Eggeling, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Postfach 1322, D-85741 Garching bei München, Germany; phone +49-89-3299-1846; fax +49-89-3299-1212.

Fifty-Ninth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 10 – 13 October 2006, Columbus, Ohio USA. Contact Walter Lempert, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University 650 Ackerman Road, 130-F, Columbus, Ohio 43202 USA; phone (614) 292-2736; fax (614) 292-3163.

Pulsed Power 2006, 11 – 12 October 2006, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Contact Bruce McLelland; phone +44 (0) 01438 76 56 34.

Twelfth International Workshop on Spherical Torus (ISTW 2006),  11 – 13 October 2006, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Contact Yexi He; phone 86-10-62776446; fax 86-10-62772658.

Fifth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA), 15 – 19 October 2006, Meudon, France. ContactSylvie Gordon, ICAMDATA 05, Luth, Observatoire de Paris, 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France.

Twenty-First IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 16 – 22 October 2006, Chengdu, China. Contact IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21755; fax +43-1-26007.

Second IAEA Research Coordinating Meeting on Joint Research Using Small Tokamaks, 23 – 26 October 2006, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Contact Yexi He, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; phone 86-(0)10-62791874; 86-(0)10-62782658.

Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 30 October – 3 November 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, RLM 11.214, Austin, TX 78712, USA; phone +1 512 471 4378; fax +1 512 471 6715.

US-Japan Workshop on Compact Torus Plasmas, 2 – 4 November 2006, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, Philadelphia USA. Contact Michael Brown.

2006 International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics, 5 – 10 November 2006, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Janet Neff-Shampine.

Active MHD Control in ITER, 6 – 8 November 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Seventeenth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE2006), 13 – 15 November 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

AVS Fifty-Third International Symposium, 13 – 17 November 2006, San Francisco, California USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Enhancement of X-Ray / Particle Emission from Plasmas Produced by Laser Irradiating Nano-Structured Targets, 20 November- 3 December 2006, Laboratory of Lasers and New Materials, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Contact Laboratory of Lasers and New Materials, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; fax 002 02 5676193.

Eighth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-8), 23 – 24 November 2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact A. Loonen.

Moscow Workshop on Non-ideal Plasma Physics (NPP-2006), 29 – 30 November 2006, Moscow, Russia. Contact Iya Shakhova, IHED RAS, Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, 125412 Russia; phone (+7095) 4842355; fax (+7095) 4857990.

Collective Phenomena in Macroscopic Systems, 4 – 6 December 2006, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. Contact Chiara Stefanetti, Centro di Cultura Scientifica “A. Volta”, Villa Olmo – Via Cantoni 1, 22100 Como, Italy; fax +39.031.573395.

Fourteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 4 – 6 December 2006, Greoux-les-bains, France.

Sixteenth Toki Conf. on Advanced Plasma Diagnostics and Imaging, 5 – 8 December 2006, Toki, Japan.

NSTX Research Forum, 4 – 7 December 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Michael Bell.

NCSX Research Forum, 7 – 8 December 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Mike Zarnstorff; phone (609) 243-3581.

Solar Physics Winter Institute, 10 – 22 December 2006, Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India. Contact K. E. Rangarajan, 2006 Solar Physics Winter School, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore – 560034, India.

Coronae of Stars and Accretion Discs, 12 – 13 December 2006, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. Contact secretariat.

Technological Plasma Workshop 2006 (TPW20060), 14 – 15 December 2006, Chancellors’ Conference Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Contact Christopher Whitehead, University of Manchester.

Seventh Workshop on Fine Particle Plasmas, 15 – 16 December 2006, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan. Contact Yasuaki Hayashi, Department of Electronics, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan; phone +81-75-724-7415; fax +81-75-724-7400.

Dynamics Days 2005, 7 – 10 January 2005, Coast Hotel, Long Beach, California USA. Contact Robert Rios, University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2117 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, California 92697-4575 USA; phone 949-824-4680; fax 949-824-2174.

Multiscale Processes in Fusion Plasmas, 10 – 14 January 2005, Los Angeles, California USA. Contact Mark Green, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California USA.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 10 – 21 January 2005, University of California, Berkeley, California USA.  Contact USPAS; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Fifteenth Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XV) and Third EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, 15 – 20 January 2005, Grand Hotel Permon, Podbanske, Slovakia. Contact Joint Symposium of SAPPXV and EUJJSPP’05, Department of Plasma Physics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone +421-2-6029-5398; fax +421-2-6541-2305.

International Workshop on Physics of High Energy Density in Matter, 30 January – 4 February 2005, Waldemar-Petersen-Haus, Hirschegg, Austria. Contact Brigitte Schuster, Plasma Physics Department, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; phone +49 6159 71 2694; fax +49 6159 71 2888.

Plasma Science and Technology Conference (held in conjunction with Australian Institute of Physics Sixteenth Biennial Congress), 31 January – 4 February 2005, Canberra, Australia. Contact AINSE, Private Bag Mail 1, Menai NSW 2234, Australia; fax + 61 02 9717 9268.

Fourth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady-State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices and MHD of Advanced Scenarios Institute for Plasma Research, 1 – 5 February 2005, Bhatt, India. Contact Y. C. Saxena, Institute for Plasma Research Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382428, India; phone +91-79- 23969029; fax +91-79-23969017; Guenter Mank, IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

IEA Workshop on Shape and Aspect Ratio Optimization for High-Beta Steady-State Tokamak, 14 – 15 Februrary 2005, San Diego, California USA. Contact xavier.litaudon@cea.fr.

Second International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 21 – 25 February 2005, Goa, India. Contact conference secretary.

Seventeenth NNV/CPS-Symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 1 – 2 March 2005, Lunteren, The Netherlands. Contact CPS-office, Eindhoven University of Technology, Cyclotron Building B 2.08, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; phone + 31 (0)40 – 247 4048; fax + 31 (0)40 – 243 8060.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on the Theory of Plasma Instabilities: Transport, Stability and their Interaction, 2 – 4 March 2005, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact ICTP.

Workshop on Plasma Physics: Capacity Building in Plasma Applications and Diagnostic Techniques, 7 – 11 March 2005, Trieste, Italy. Contact ICTP.

Sixth Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research, 7 – 11 March 2005, Washington, DC USA. Contact Emilio Panarella, Physics Essays Publication, 2012 Woodglen Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 6G4 Canada; fax (819) 457-1020.

Workshop on Physics at EBIT and Advanced Research Light Sources (PEARL 2005), 9 – 13 March 2005, Hainan, China. Contact Xiaofeng Zhu.

MHD Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Plasma, 14 – 15 March 2005, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. Contact Sarah Emberson; phone +44 20 7451 2581, fax +44 20 7451 2543.

Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas, 15 – 17 March 2005, Jülich, Germany. Contact M. von Hellermann.

Thirty-Second Annual IoP Plasma Physics Conference, 21 – 24 March 2005, Oxford, Great Britain. Contact Philip Andrew.

Ninth Easter Plasma Meeting on Stability and Confinement of Magnetized Plasmas, 30 March – 1 April 2005, Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy. Contact Franco Porcelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; phone +39 011 564 4446; fax +39 011 564 4499.

Transport Task Force, 6 – 9 April 2005, Napa, California USA. Contact Bill Nevins.

Sixteenth Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 11 – 13 April 2005, Park City, Utah USA. Contact Paul Bonoli; fax 617-253-7227.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 11 – 13 April 2005, Stateline, Nevada USA. Contact Tom Rognlien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-630, Livermore, California 94550 USA; phone 925-422-9830; fax 923-423-3484.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 16 – 19 April 2005, Tampa, Florida USA.

Sixth Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 17 – 21 April 2005, Les Houches, France.

Forty-Eighth Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 23 – 28 April 2005, Adam’s Mark Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact Ric Shimshock; phone 650-938-3705; fax 650-938-3113.

Workshop on Socio-Economics Aspects of Fusion Power, 25 – 27 April 2005, Culham, United Kingdom. Contact Kamariah Samson.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on ECRH Physics and Technology for ITER, 2 – 4 May 2005, Societ?del Casino, Como, Italy. Contact Sante Cirant, Istituto di Fisica del Plasma – CNR, via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy; phone +39 02 66173 263; fax +39 02 66173 239; Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF ’05), 2 – 6 May 2005, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; phone 703-266-3287; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Seventh International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW7), 9 – 11 May 2005, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany. Contact Garrard Conway, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299-2177; fax +49 89 3299-1313.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Negative Ion Based Neutral Beam Injectors, 9 – 11 May 2005, Padova, Italy. Contact Vanni Antoni or Guenter Mank.

ElectroMed 2005, 15 – 18 May 2005, Portland, Oregon USA. Contact conference secretary.

Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC2005), 16 – 20 May 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee USA. Contact Kathy Rosenbalm, 701 Scarboro Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 6477 USA; phone +1 865 574 0558; fax +1 865 576 3041.

Thirteenth International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE13), 16 – 20 May 2005, Beijing, China.

Electric Fields and Discharges for Microbiology and Health Care Applications, 19 May 2005, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom. Contact Dawn Stewart.

Seventh International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-7), 22 – 27 May 2005, Tokyo, Japan. Contact H. Takatsu, Department of Fusion Engineering Research, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Mukoyama 801-1, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 311-0193 Japan; phone +81-(0)29-270-7581; fax +81-(0)29-270-7489.

Sixth International Conference on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas (IWEP 2005), 23 – 25 May, 2005, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.  Contact Kyu-Sun Chung, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haendang-dong, Seongdong-gu. Seoul 133-791, Korea; phone +82-2-2290-0465; fax +82-2-2299-1908.

Fourteenth IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT 2005), 4 – 10 June 2005, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact Richard Jacobsson, CERN; phone +41 22 767 36 19.

Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators: New Sources of Energetic Particles and Radiation, 6 – 7 June 2005, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. Contact Katherine Hardaker; phone +44 (0)20 7451 2518; fax +44 (0)20 7451 2543.

Thirty-Sixth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 6 – 9 June 2005, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact David Carroll, CU Aerospace, 60 Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, Illinois 61820-7460 USA; phone 217-333-8274; fax 217-333-4050.

Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP 2005), 13 – 17 June 2005, Orleans, France. Contact M. Mikikian, GREMI Laboratory; phone +33 2 38 49 48 81; fax +33 2 38 41 71 54.

Seventh International High Energy Density and High Power RF Workshop (RF 2005), 13 – 17 June 2005, Kalamata, Greece. Contact Lynette Lombardo, University of California, Davis, California USA.

IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC2005), 13 – 17 June 2005, Monterey, California USA. Contact John Maenchen.

High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 13 – 18 June 2005, Troitsk, Russia. Contact Valentina Shabarina; phone (095) 334-05-38; fax (095) 334-55-10.

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films, 15 June 2005, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom. Contact Vanessa Pink.

IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2005), 20 – 23 June 2005, Monterey, California USA.  Contact Robert Cauble, L-55, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550 USA. Includes collocated Minicourse on the Physics of Z-Pinches, 18 – 19 June 2005; contact Christopher Deeney, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA; phone 505-845-3657; fax 505-845-7685.

Second Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2005), 20 – 24 June 2005, Singapore. Contact Cheng-Hoon Khoo, Meeting Matters International, 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224; phone +65 6466 5775; fax +65 6467 7667.

US Particle Accelerator School, 20 June – 1 July 2005, Ithaca, New York USA. Contact US Particle Accelerator School, Fermilab, MS 125, Kirk Road and Wilson Streets, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA; phone (630) 840-3896; fax (630) 840-8500.

Thirty-Fifth Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, 26 June – 1 July 2005, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Contact Jesse Strauss; (703) 797-4516.

Thirty-Second EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2005), 27 June – 1 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain.

Eighth Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 29 June – 1 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain.

Eighth Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 3 – 4 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain. Contact Jana Brotankova, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, CZ – 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420) 26605 2942, 2940; fax (+420) 286 890 448.

Burning Plasma Physics and Simulation, 4 – 5 July 2005, Tarragona, Spain. Contact Bruno Goncalves; fax +44 1235 464800.

Eighth International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS 2005), 4 – 8 July 2005, Tromso, Norway.  Contact ?hild Fredriksen, Dept. Physics, University of TromsØ, N-9037 TromsØ, Norway; phone +47 7764 5133; fax +47 7764 5580.

First IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation Of Fusion Power Plant – Design & Technology, 5 – 7 July 2005, Vienna, Austria. Contact Artur Malaquias, NAPC Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Nineteenth International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP) and Seventh Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference (APPTC), 12 – 15 July  2005, Nara, Japan. Contact Osamu Motojima, National Institute for Fusion Science, Director-General National Institute of Natural Sciences, Oroshi-cho, Toki-shi 509-5292, Japan.

Fifth IAEA Technical Meeting (IAEA-TM) on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 12 – 15 July 2005, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Piroska Giese, KFKI-Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, POB 49, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary; phone (36-1) 392-22 79; fax (36-1) 395-9151, or Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone: +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG-27), 17 – 22 July 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Forty-Second Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 18 – 29 July 2005, Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Kathy Patton, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone 44 1235 466635; fax 44 1235 466379.

The Future of Integrated Modeling (Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Arnold H. Kritz), 19 – 20 July 2005, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.  Contact Glenn Bateman, Physics Department, Lehigh University, 16 Memorial Drive East, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 USA; phone (610) 758 5733; fax (610) 758 5730.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting. 19 – 20 July 2005, Gaithersburg, MD.

Twenty-FifthEuropean Dynamics Days, 25 – 28 July 2005, Berlin, Germany. Contact Eckehard Schoell, Institut für Theoretische Physik Technische, Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany; phone +49-30-314-23500; fax +49-30-314-21130.

Sixth International Conference on Dense Z-pinches, 25 – 28 July 2005, The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Alison McCann, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, Great Britain; phone 44 20 7594 7657; fax 44 20 7594 7658.

Sixth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 25 July – 1 August 2005, Nizhny Novgorod – St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 216 4831; fax +7 831 216 0616.

Intense Laser-Matter Interaction and Pulse Propagation (LMIPP05), 1 – 24 August 2005, Dresden, Germany. Contact Visitors Program, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany; phone +49-351-871-2198; fax +49-351-871-2199.

Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 3 – 6 August 2005, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. ContactJohn Constello.

Summer School in High Energy Density Physics, 7 – 13 August 2005, Berkeley, California, USA.

Twelfth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2005), 21 – 26 August 2005, Brussels, Belgium. Contact Hamid Ait Abderrahim, SCK CEN Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium; phone +32 14 33 22 77.

Symposium on Applied Physics in honor of Norman Rostoker’s 80th Birthday, 22 August 2005, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California USA. Contact Frank Wessel.

Plasma Technology Training School, 29 August – 2 September 2005, Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact Declan Diver, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom; phone 0141 330 5686; fax 0141 330 5183.

Second International Workshop on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications (CAPPSA2005), 30 August – 2 September 2005, Bruges, Belgium. Contact CAPPSA 2005, Department of Applied Physics – TW17, Ghent University, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; fax +32-9-264 4172.

Fourth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA05), 4 – 9 September 2005, Biarritz, France. Contact Jean-Claude Gauthier; fax +33 540002580.

European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes  (EUROMAT 2005) (Symposium C32: Materials for Fusion Applications), 5 – 8 September 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

Sixteenth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc (SFO 2005), 5 – 9 September 2005, Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. Contact M. Bartlova, Department of Physics, UFYZ FEKT VUT, Technicka 8, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic; phone ++420 541 143 431; fax ++420 541 142 464.

Zababkhin Scientific Talks, 5 – 10 September 2005, Snezhinsk, Russia. Contact T. N. Gorbatova, RFNC – VNIITF; phone (351-46) 5-23-50.

Seventh Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics, 5 – 16 September 2005, Mechelen, The Netherlands. Contact R. Jaspers, Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), D-52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-3765; fax +49-2461-61-4038.

Autumn College on Plasma Physics: “Collective Processes”, 5 – 30 September 2005, Miramare, Trieste, Italy. Contact B. Stewart, ICTP; phone +39-040-2240544; fax +39-040-224163.

International Conference PLASMA-2005 on Research and Applications of Plasmas, combined with Third German-Polish Conference on Plasma Diagnostics for Fusion and Applications and Fifth French-Polish Seminar on Thermal Plasma in Space and Laboratory, 6 – 9 September 2005, Opole, Poland. Contact PLASMA-2005, Institute of Physics, Opole University, Ul. Oleska 48, 45-055 Opole, Poland.

IEE Pulsed Power Symposium, 8 September 2005, Apollo Hotel, Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Fourteenth International Summer School on Vacuum, Electron and Ion Technologies (VEIT2005), 12 – 16 September 2005, 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.

Fifth Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, 12 – 16 September 2005, Qingdao City, China. Contact X. D. Sun; phone +(00)86-10-62773816; fax +(00)86-(0)10-62772850.

Joint 30th International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and 13th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 19 – 23 September 2005, Radisson Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center, Williamsburg, Virginia USA. Contact program committee.

Eighth European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 19 – 23 September 2005, Cape d’Agde, France. Includes short course on “New Challenges for Radiation Tolerance Assessment – from Deep Space Environments to Fusion Reactor Environments” on 19 September 2005. Contact secretariat.

Third International Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, 19 – 24 September 2005, Villa Monastero, Varenna (Lc), Italy. Contact D. Batani; fax +39-02-6448 2585.

Eleventh European Fusion Theory Conference, 26 – 28 September 2005, Aix-en-Provence, France. Contact Maurizio Ottaviani, DRFC/SCCP Bat. 513/148, CEA Cadarache, 13108 St Paul lez Durance, France; phone +33 (4) 42 25 22 34; fax +33 (4) 42 25 62 33.

Twelfth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD-12), 26 – 29 September 2005, Snowbird, Utah, USA. Contact Neville Luhmann, University of California, Davis, California USA.

Twenty-First Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2005), 26 – 29 September 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.  Contact Nermin Uckan; phone 1-865-574-1354; fax 1-865-241-8231.

Fifth International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS 05), 26 – 30 September 2005, Hilo, Hawaii USA. Contact Akira Kobayashi, Joining & Welding Res. Inst. Osaka Univ, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone 06-6879-8694; fax 06-6879-8689.

IAEA Technical Meeting on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 28 – 30 September 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Artur Malaquias.

Summer School on Fine Structure and Turbulence in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind, 3 – 6 October 2005, Florence, Italy. Contact Marco Velli, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori and Eleventh International Workshop on Spherical Torus, 3 – 6 October 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact Artur Malaquias, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Fifteenth International Stellarator Workshop, 3  – 7 October 2005, Madrid, Spain. Contact E. Ascasibar, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion, CIEMAT Av. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain; phone +34 91 3466369(6159); fax +34 913466124.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, 10 – 11 October 2005, Madrid, Spain. Contact Guenter Mank, IAEA Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21756; fax +43-1-26007.

Tenth International Workshop on Experimental Performance of KTM Tokamak and Research Program, 10 – 12 October 2005, Astan, Kazakhstan. Contact Tatiana Smirnova.

Tenth International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPS 2005), 10 – 14 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland. Contact Danièle Lajust, Building: 60/3-017 Mailbox L00810, CERN, CH – 1211 Geneve-23, Switzerland; phone + 41 22 767 57 43; fax + 41 22 767 95 45.

ASDEX Upgrade Programme Seminar, 10 – 14 October 2005, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany. Contact Josef Schweinzer, IPP Garching Bereich E1, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium “Fusion and Energy Policy”, 11 – 12 October 2005, Washington, DC USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA; phone (301) 258-0545; fax (301) 975-9869.

Tenth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET10), 16 – 19 October 2005, Jülich, Germany. Contact Detlev Reiter, Institute of Plasma Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-5841; fax +49-2461-61-2970.

Fifty-Eighth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 16 – 20 October 2005, San Jose, California USA.

Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 24 – 28 October 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA. Includes miniconferences on Astrophysical Explosions: From Engines to Remnants, Reconnection and Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas, Fast Ignition Status and Prospects, and Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Tubes in Space and Laboratory Plasmas. Contact Saralyn Stewart, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, RLM 11.214, Austin, TX 78712 USA; phone +1 512 471 4378; fax +1 512 471 6715.

AVS Fifty-Second International Symposium, 30 October – 4 November 2005, Boston, Massachusetts USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Tenth Active Control of MHD Stability Workshop, 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2005, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact John Sarff, 3289 Chamberlin Hall, Thomas C, 1150 University Ave, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA; phone (608) 262-7742.

Fourth IEA Large Tokamak Workshop and Joint Workshop of Large Tokamak, Poloidal Divertor and TEXTOR IA’s, 1 – 2 November 2005, San Diego, California USA.

Workshop on Cheap Plasma Technology in Industry, Environment and Medicine, 5 – 7 November 2005, Plasma Technology Center, University of Al-Azhar, Nasr Cty, Cairo, Egypt. Contacts Abdou Garamoon, Plasma Technology Center, University of Al-Azhar, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; phone 0020-02-6249139; fax 0020-02-2629356. Training school follows on 8 -14 November 2005.

Global and Local Control of Tokamak Plasmas, 8 – 14 November 2005, Erice, Italy.  Contact Maria Laura Sansovini, ENEA Frascati, Italy; phone **39 06 94005602 ; fax **39 06 94005147.

Ninth IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 9 – 11 November 2005, Takayama, Japan. Contact Artur Malaquias.

Eighth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-8), 24 – 25 November 2005, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact A. Loonen.

Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Dry Process (DPS 2005), 28 – 30 November 2005, Jeju, Korea. Contact: Hideo Sugai; phone 81 52 789 4697; fax 81 52 782 6702.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Use of Small Fusion Devices, 30 November – 2 December 2005, Mexico City, Mexico. Contact Artur Malaquias,  International Atomic Energy Agency, Office A2309, Wagramer Str. 5, P.O. Box 100, A1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600-21707; fax +43 1 26007-21707.

Twelfth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-12), 4 – 9 December 2005, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact Robert Odette.

Twentieth National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA 2005), 5 – 7 December 2005, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India. Preceded by tutorial on laser-produced plasma, 4 December 2005. Contact P Radhakrishnan, International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin 682 022, India; phone +91-484-2575848; fax +91-484-2576714.

AGU Fall Meeting, 5 – 9 December 2005, Moscone Center West, 800 Howard Street, San Francisco, California USA. Session on Nonlinearity, Stochasticity, Scaling, and Self-Organization in Solar System Plasmas. Contact Sandra Chapman, Space and Astrophysics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, 5 – 9 December 2005, Mexico City, Mexico. Contact Julio Herrera-Velázquez, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 70-543, Ciudad Universitaria Del. Coyoacán, 04511 México, D. F. Mexico; phone +52-55-56224672; fax +52-55-56162233.

Fifteenth International Toki Conference, 6 – 9 December 2005, Ceratopia Toki, Toki Gifu, Japan. Contact secretariat.

National Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, 7 – 9 December 2005, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA.

Seventh Japan-Australia Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics, 12 – 14 December 2005, Toki, Japan. Contact conference secretary.

Thirteenth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 14 – 16 December 2005, Montegrotto Therme, Italy. Contact Elisa Carlini; phone +39.049.82950001; fax+39.049.8700718

Sixth Workshop on Fine Particle Plasmas, 15 -16 December 2005, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Toki, Japan. Contact Y. Hayashi; phone +81-75-724-7415; fax+81-75-724-7400.

2004 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 5 – 10 January 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA. Contact Ramon Barnes, Director, University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry, 85 N. Whitney Street, Amherst, MA 01002-1869 USA; phone +1 413-256-8942; fax +1 413-256-3746.

International Workshop on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications (CAPPSA 04), 14 – 16 January 2004, Ghent, Belgium. ContactCAPPSA 2004, Department of Applied Physics – TW17, Ghent University, Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; fax +32-9-264 4172.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 19-30 January 2004, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Contact Susan Winchester; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Public Meeting of the USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 22 – 23 January 2004, Gaithersburg, MD USA. Contact: Albert Opdenaker.

Seventh Israel Plasma Science and Applications Conference, 1 February 2004, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Contact Raymond Boxman, Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel; phone 972-3-640-7364; fax 972-3-641-0189.

Thirteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEM XIII), 1 – 5 Feb 2004, Murramarang Resort, New South Wales, Australia. Contact Richard Mildren, Physics Dept, Macquarie University.

Fourteenth Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics (SASP 2004), 1 – 6 February 2004, Planibel Hotel (La Thuile, Aosta, Italy. Contact Piero Casavecchia.

Fourth International Symposium on Plasma Polarization Spectroscopy (PPS), 4 – 6 February 2004, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Atsushi Iwamae, Dept. of Engineering Physics and Mechanics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; phone +81-75-753-4860; fax +81-75-753-4732.

International Workshop on Plasma Nanotechnology and Its Future Vision, 4 – 6 February 2004, Tokyo and Gifu, Japan.

Fourth Asian Pacific Laser Symposium (APLS 2004), 1 – 6 March 2004, Yongpyong Resort, Yongpyong, Korea. Contact Jae Wan Kim, Optical Metrology Division, Korea Research Institute of Standards & Science, Doryong-dong, Yusong-gu, Daejon, Korea 305-340; phone + 82-42-868-5107; fax: + 82-42-868-5608.

Fifth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 10 – 13 March 2004, Tucson, Arizona. Contact Adam Frank, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, New York USA; phone (585) 275-1717; fax (585) 273-3237.

Explosive Phenomena in Magnetized Plasmas – New Development in Reconnection Research, 17 – 19 March 2004, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Kazunari Shibata, Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; phone +81-75-581-1235; fax +81-75-593-9617.

Novel Materials Processing by Advanced Electromagnetic Energy Sources (MAPEES’04), 19 – 22 March 2004, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan. Contact Yukio Makino, Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan; phone +81-6-6879-8651; fax -81-6-6879-8641.

Sixty-Eighth Physicists’ Meeting and 2004 Spring Meeting of the Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas Section of the German Physical Society, 22 – 26 Mar 2004, Muenchen (Munich), Germany. Contact Barbara Podolski, LMU Muenchen, Sektion Physik, Tagungsgeschaeftsfuehrung, Oettingenstr. 67, D-80538 Muenchen, Germany.

Symposium on Fusion Energy, 24 March 2004, Riso National Laboratory, Frederiksborggvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.

Public Meeting of USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 29 – 30 March 2004, Marriott-Rio Hotel, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact Albert Opendaker.

EFDA-JET Workshop on Neutron Diagnostics: Present Status and Future Prospects, 1 – 2 April 2004, Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. ContactAndrea Murari.

International COE Forum on Plasma Science and Technology, 5 – 7 April 2004 Nagoya, Japan. Contact COE Forum Secretary, Nagoya University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; phone 81 52 789 4698; fax 81 52 789 3152.

Thirty-First Annual IoP Plasma Physics Group Conference, 5 – 8 April 2004, University of York, York, United Kingdom. Contact Paddy Barr; phone +44 (0) 1904 432275; fax +44 (0) 1904 432214.

Fourteenth Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 19 – 22 April 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Stephane Mazevet.

Fifteenth Topical Conference High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 19 – 22 April 2004, San Diego, California.  Contact Réjean Boivin, General Atomics, Mail Stop 13-453, P. O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608 USA; phone 858-455-4736; fax 858-455-4156.

Fifth International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics (CEM 2004), 19 – 22 April 2004, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. Contact CEM 2004, IEE Event Services, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2AY, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)1438 765653; fax +44 (0)1438 765659.

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF ’04), 19 – 23 April 2004, San Diego, California USA. Contact Mary Gray, 14001-C Saint Germain Drive, Centreville, Virginia 20121 USA; phone 703-266-3287; fax 702-968-8877. Includes focus sessions on pulsed plasmas.

Forth-Seventh Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 23 – 29 April 2004, Adam’s Mark Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas USA.

Fast Ignition and High Field Physics (FIHEP2004), 25 – 29 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.  Contact Kaori Kurokawa, ILE, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; phone +81-6-6879-8730; fax +81-6-6877-4799.

Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 26 – 28 April 2004, Missoula, Montana USA. Contact Andrew Ware, University of Montana; phone 406-243-6221; fax 406-243-2085.

Seventeenth US Transport Task Force Workshop,  29 April – 2 May 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah USA. Contact Paul Terry.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 1 – 4 May 2004, Denver, Colorado USA.

Thirty-Fourth Anomalous Absorption Conference, 2 – 7 May 2004, Gleneden Beach, Oregon USA. Contact Estelle Miller, University of California, Department of Applied Science, P.O. Box 808, L-0794, Livermore, California 94551 USA; phone 925-422-9787.

Fourth International Symposium on Non Thermal Plasma Technology for Pollution Control and Sustainable Energy Development (ISNTPT 4), 10 – 14 May 2004, Panama City Beach, Florida USA. Contact Bruce Locke, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Florida State University and Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32310-6046 USA; phone 850-410-6165; fax 850-410-6150.

Thirteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC 13), 17 – 20 May 2004, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Alexander Shalashov, Institute of Applied Physics, Ulyanov str. 46, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone +7 (8312) 164966, 160623; fax +7 (8312) 160616, 362061.

Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union and the Canadian Geophysical Union, 17 – 21 May 2004, Montreal, Canada. Includes session SM03, Double Layers in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas.

Seventh International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 20 – 21 May 2004, Portland, Maine USA. Contact conference secretary.

Power Modulator Conference (2004-PMC), 23 – 26 May 2004, San Francisco, California. Contact Hulya Kirkici, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5201 USA; phone (334) 844 1822; fax (334) 844 1809.

Sixteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI16), 24 – 28 May 2004, Portland, Maine USA. Contact Valerie Censabella; phone +1-617-253-5456; fax +1-617-253-0627.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2004), 25 – 28 May 2004, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Bick Hooper.

Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS 24), 30 May – 6 June 2004, Miyazaki, Japan. Contact Secretariat, 1-18-2 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan; phone +81-3-3519-4808; fax +81-3-3519-9998.

International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion, 7 – 11 June 2004, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Ronald Davidson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 USA; phone +1 (609) 243-3552; fax +1 (609) 243-2418.

Nordic Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 6 – 9 Jun 2004, Loen, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen, National Institute of Occupational Health, P O Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway.

International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion, 7 – 11 June 2004, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Ronald Davidson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey, 08543-0451 USA; phone (609) 243-3552; fax (609) 243-2418.

IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT ’04), 7 – 12 June 2004, Tarrant Count Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas USA. Contact Karl Varian, Texas Instruments, 13500 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75243 USA; phone (972) 344-2616; fax (972) 344-2712.

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films, 9 June 2004, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom. Contact Dawn Stewart.

Fifth International Symposium on Ion Implantation and other Applications of Ions and Electrons (ION 2004), 14 – 17 June 2004, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.

Twenty-First Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 14 – 17 June 2004, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, CVUT FEL Praha, Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic; phone +420 (2) 24 35 30 81; fax +420 (2) 24 35 23 31.

International Workshop on Chaotic Transport and Complexity in Fluids and Plasmas, 20 -25 June 2004, Carry le Rouet (30km west of Marseilles), France.  Contact J. Durand, PIIM, Service 321, Centre Universitaire de St-Jerome, F1397 Marseille cedex 20, France;  phone (+33) 4 91 28 83 19; fax (+33) 4 91 28 82 25.

US Particle Accelerator School, 21 June – 2 July 2004, Madison, Wisconsin USA.

Seventeenth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, 21 – 25 June 2004, Paris, France. Contact Conference Secretary; fax +33144277537.

Thirty-Fifth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 28 June – 1 July 2004, Doubletree Jantzen Beach and Columbia River, Portland, Oregon USA. Contact Basil Hassan, Sandia National Laboratories, Mail Stop 0825, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-0825 USA; phone +1 (505) 844-4682; fax +1 (505) 844-4523.

Thirty-First IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2004), 28 June – 1 July 2004, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Contact Robert Commisso, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA; phone (202) 404-8984.  A Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Town Meeting, a Symposium on Thermal Plasma Processing, and a  short course on Non-Thermal Medical/Biological Applications of Ionized Gases and Electromagnetic Fields will be held in conjunction with the conference.

Thirty-First EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 28 June – 2 July 2004, London, United Kingdom. Contact Katharine Horton, CLF Administration, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0)1235 445655; fax +44 (0)1235 445888.

Sixteenth International Vacuum Conference (ICV-16), 28 June – 2 July 2004, Venice, Italy. Contact conference secretary.

Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (7th APCPST) and Seventeenth Symposium on Plasma Science for Materials (17th SPSM), 29 June – 2 July 2004, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact H. Muta, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan; phone +81-92-583-7650; fax +81-92-571-8894.

Eighth International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference (ICAP 2004), 29 June – 2 July 2004, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Contact ICAP 2004, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Control Processes, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskij pr., 28, Saint-Petersburg, 198504, Russia; phone +7(812)4287179; fax +7(812)4287189.

Fifth International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement (OS2004), 5 – 9 July 2004, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia. Contact Konstantin Lotov, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Prospect Lavrent’eva 11, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; phone 7 3832 302613; fax 7 3832 342163.

Second International Conference on Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics (FNP 2004), 5 – 12 July 2004, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Alexander Litvak, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia; fax +7 831 236 2061.

Workshop on Theoretical Plasma Physics, 5 – 16 July 2004, Abdus Salam ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy.  Contact workshop secretary; phone +39-040-2240544; fax +39-040-2240585.

Eighth European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMP VIII) and Thirty-sixth Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 6 – 10 July 2004, Rennes, France. Contact conference secretary.

Tenth International Symposium on Science and Technology of Light Sources (LS:10), 18 – 22 July 2004, University of Toulouse, France. ContactGeorges Zissis; phone +33-5-61556996; fax +33-5-61556332.

Tenth International Conference on Megagauss Field Generation and Related Topics (MegagaussX), 18 – 23 July 2004, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Contact M. von Ortenberg, Institute of Physics, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, D – 12489 Berlin, Germany; phone (+49)-30-2093-7730; fax (+49)-30-2093-7737.

Thirty-Fifth COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 18 – 25 July 2004, Paris, France. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; phone +33 1 45 25 06 79; fax +33 1 40 50 98 27. Includes session C5.1/4.1, ‘Applications of Active Experiments for Space and Dusty Plasmas’.

Forty-First Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 19 – 30 July 2004, Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Georgina Dawes, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom; phone (+44) 1235 465028; fax (+44) 1235 465102.

Thirteenth International Symposium on High Current Electronics and Seventh International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows, 25 – 30 July 2004, Tomsk, Russia. Contact Alexander Shishlov; phone +7-3822-492-133; fax +7-3822-259-410.

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) public meeting, 26 – 27 July 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker.

Ninth Course on Technology of Fusion Tokamak Reactors, 26 July – 1 August 2004, Erice, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro, ENEA, Via E. Fermi 45, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy; phone **39 0694005309; fax **39 0694005100.

Chapman Conference on Solar Energetic Plasmas and Particles, 2 – 6 August 2004, Turku, Finland. Contact Jarmo Torsti, Space Research Laboratory, Turku University, Vesilinnantie 5, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland; Phone +2-333 5751; fax +2-333 5993.

Eighth International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS), 8 – 12 August 2004, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact James Lawler.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 15 – 20 August 2004, Holderness, New Hampshire USA. Contact Gordon Research Conferences, 3071 Route 138, P O Box 984, Kingston, RI 02281, USA; phone +1 (401) 783-4011; fax +1 (401) 783-7644.

Ninth International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (Hakone IX),  23 – 26 August 2004, Padova, Italy. Contact Local Organizing Committee, Hakone 9, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy; phone +39 049 8277577; fax +39 049 8277599.

Twenty-Second Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2004), 23 – 27 August 2004, National Park Tara, Serbia and Montenegro. Contact Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, P.O. Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

Dusty Plasmas in Applications, 25 – 28 August 2004, Odessa, Ukraine. Contact V. Vishnyakov.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 30 August – 3 September 2004, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, Via Nazionale, 85 – 23821 Abbadia Lariana (LC), Italy; fax +39-0341-732490.

2004 Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2004), 1 – 4 September 2004, Genoa, Italy. Contact Claudia Valentini, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Corso Perrone 24, Genova, Italy; phone +39 010 6598718; fax +39 010 6506302.

Seventeenth Europhysics Conference on Atomic & Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG), 1 – 5 September 2004, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. Contact Geavit Musa or Rodica Vladoiu, Bvd. Mamaia 124, Constanta, 8700, Romania; phone/fax 0040 241 618 372.

Fifteenth International Conference on Gas Discharges and their Applications (GD 2004), 5 – 10 September 2004,Toulouse France.

Tenth EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop (TTF04), 6 – 9 September 2004, Varenna, Italy.

Plasma Technology Training School, 6 – 9 September 2004, Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact Declan Andrew Diver, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom; phone 0141 330 5686; fax 0141 330 5183.

Twenty-Eighth European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter, 6 – 10 September 2004, Rome, Italy.

Seventh International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology, 12 – 17 September 2004, Baden-Baden, Germany. Contact Conference Secretariat, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Fusion Programme, Post Office Box 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany; phone +49 (0)7247 825461; fax +49 (0)7247 825467.

Ninth International Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry, 12 – 17 September 2004, Durham, United Kingdom. Contact Grenville Holland, University of Durham, Geological Sciences, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.

Twenty-Fourth European Dynamics Days, 13 – 17 September 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.  Contact Julyan Cartwright.

Ninth International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE 2004), 13 – 18 September 2004, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact Karin Reichel, Graf-Recke-Str. 84, D-40239 Duesseldorf, Germany; phone +49 211 6214 401; fax +49 211 6214 484.

Tenth International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 13 – 18 September 2004, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. ContactIgor Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics, National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaya St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone 38-0572-356122; fax 38-0572-352664.

Sixteenth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE2004), 14 – 16 September 2004, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Gerald Kulcinski; phone (608) 263-1601.

US-Japan Workshop on New Developments in Compact Torus Research, 20 – 22 September 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contactintrator@lanl.gov.

Second European Pulsed Power Symposium (EPPS 2004), 20 – 23 September 2004, Hamburg, Germany. Contact Conference Secretary, Neidenburger Str. 10, D-45877 Gelsenkirchen, Germany; phone +33 (0) 389 69-5197; fax +33 (0) 389 69-5193.

Twenty-Third Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2004), 20 – 24 September 2004 Venice, Italy. Contact Maria Teresa Orlando, Consorzio RFX Corso, Stati Uniti, 4, 35127 Padova, Italy; phone +39.049.829.5979; fax +39.049.829.5979.

Dusty and Space Plasma Physics Workshop, 22 – 24 September 2004, Ghent, Belgium. Contact Frank Verheest, Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium; phone +32 9 264 4799; fax +32 9 264 4989.

Fifty-Seventh Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), 26 – 29 September 2004, Bunratty, Ireland. Contact Bill Graham, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; phone +44 28 9097 3941.

International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, 26 September – 1 October 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.

Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications and Master Class: Biotechnical and Medical Applications, 26 September – 8 October 2004, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Marc Böke, Center for Plasma Science and Technology (CPST); phone +49 234 32 28576; fax +49 234 32 08576.

Twenty-First International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 27 September – 1 October 2004, Yalta, Ukraine. Contact secretariat.

Magnetized Plasma in Galaxy Evolution, 27 September – 1 October 2004, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Contact Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur, Astronomical Observatory of Jagiellonian University, ul. Orla 171, 30-244 Krakow, Poland.

Second International School of Advanced Plasma Technology, 27 September – 1 October 2004, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact H. Fujiyama, Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Bunkyo-machi, 1-14, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan; phone 095-819-2538; fax 095-819-2538.

Summer University for Plasma Physics, 27 September – 1 October 2004, Garching bei Muenchen (Munich), Germany. Contact Ch. Stahlberg, Max-Planck-Institut f Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany; phone +49 89 3299 2232; fax +49 89 3299 1001.

Analysis Techniques for Turbulent Plasmas, 27 September – 2 October 2004, Copanello, Calabria, Italy. Contact Francesco Malara.

Third International Conference on Laser-Induced Plasma Spectroscopy and Applications, 28 September – 1 October 2004, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain. Contact J J Laserna, Dept of Analytical Chemistry, University of Malaga, E-29071 Malaga, Spain.

Tenth International Spherical Tokomak Workshop (STW2004), 29 September – 1 October 2004, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Takashi Maekawa, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University; phone 075 753 4730; fax 075 753 4732.

Fourth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA 2004) and Fourteenth International Toki Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (ITC14), 5 – 8 October 2004, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact secretariat.

Second International Workshop on Microplasmas (IWM 2004), 6 – 8 October 2004, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey USA. Contact Kurt Becker.

Eighteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2004), 10 – 15 October 2004, Fort Worth, Texas USA. Contact: Jerome Duggan, PO Box 311427, Denton, Texas 76203-1427 USA; phone 940.565.3250; fax 940.565.2227.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 11 – 15 October 2004 Yousung Hotel, Daejon, Republic of Korea. Contact Hong Jin Kong, Dept. Physics, KAIST Gusong-dong, 373-1 Yusong-gu, Daejon, 305-701 S. Korea; phone +82 42 869 2521; fax +82 42 863 9570.

Hamiltonian Systems, Control and Plasma Physics, 21 – 23 October 2004, Frejus, France. Contact HSCoPP’04, Centre de Physique Theorique – CNRS, Luminy – case 907, F-13288 Marseille cedex 9, France; phone +33 (0)4 91 26 95 22; fax +33 (0)4 91 26 95 53.

Twelfth International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2004), 25 – 29 October 2004, Acropolis Conference Center, Nice, France. Contact C. Laviron, Association Euratom-CEA, 13108 Cadarache, France; fax +33(0)442 256 233.

Workshop on the Electric Fields, Structures, and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, 26 – 27 October 2004, Nice, France. Contact Martin Hron, Za Slovankou 3, Institute of Plasma Physics, EURATOM Association, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone +420 2 6605 3947; fax +420 2 6605 2907.

Eleventh International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM’04), 1 – 4 November 2004, Santa Barbara, California USA. Contact R. C. Mancini, Physics Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada89557 USA.

Twentieth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 1 – 6 November 2004, Tivoli Marinotel, Vilamoura, Portugal. Contact Conference Services, IAEA, P O Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21310; fax +43 1 26007.

Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 15 – 19 November 2004, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart. Associated mini-conferences include Plasma Propulsion; Astrophysical Jets; Scattering, Acceleration and Propagation of Energetic Charged Particles in Space and Astrophysics; ICF and HEDP Target Fabrication Current Developments; and Ion Beam Treatment of Materials.

AVS Fifty-First International Symposium, 15 – 19 November 2004, Anaheim, California USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures, 28 November – 3 December 2004, Angra dos Reis, Brazil. ContactElisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciencias Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, 05508-900 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; phone 55 – 11- 3091-2710; fax 55 – 11- 3091-2860.

Fifth Workshop on Fine Particle Plasmas, National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), 6 – 7 December 2004, Toki, Japan. Contact Yasuaki  Hayashi; phone +81-75-724-7418; fax +81-75-724-7400.

Twelfth European Fusion Physics Workshop, 6 – 8 December 2004, Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact Hendrik Meyer; phone 44 (0) 1235 466484; fax 44 (0) 1235 466379.

Reactive Sputtering Processes and Related Phenomena III, 9 – 10 December 2004, Ghent, Belgium. Contact Diederik Depla, phone +32 9 2644342; fax +32 9 2644696.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, “The Fusion Energy Option”, 13 December 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact FPA.

Public Meeting of the USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 14 – 15 December 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact:Albert Opdenaker.

Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Society, 13 – 17 December 2004 , San Francisco, California USA.

Strongly Coupled Plasmas: Electromagnetic, Nuclear and Atomic, 16 – 17 December 2004, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York USA.

Technological Plasmas Workshop 2004 (TPW2004), 20 – 21 December 2004, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Contact Robin Devonshire, High Temperature Science Laboratories, Chemistry Department, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S3 7HF, United Kingdom; phone 0114 222 9403.

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. ContactValentin 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. ContactReinhold 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. ContactShannon 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. ContactValentina 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; orScientific 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. ContactWeihua 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. Contactsmr1523@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; orRicardo 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. ContactAGU 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.

Twelfth Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 6 – 12 January 2002, DoubleTree Paradise Valley Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona USA. Contact Ramon Barnes, ICP Information Newsletter, Inc., P.O. Box 666, Hadley, MA 01003-0666 USA; phone: 413-256-8942; fax 413-256-3746. Abstracts due 2 July 2001. Ancillary functions include continuing education short courses, 4 – 6 January 2002, and a Workshop on Plasma Instrumentation, 4 January 2002.

First Workshop on Plasma Physics, Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy & Applications, 11 – 13 January 2002, Tunis, Tunisia.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 14 – 25 January 2002, Long Beach, California. Contact Susan Winchester.

Nineteenth IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 21 – 25 January 2002, Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Contact Mary Ann Brown, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, PO Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA; phone +1 609 243 3043; fax +1 609 243 2800. Rescheduled from 2 – 5 October 2001.

Fifteenth Canberra International Physics Summer School, Dynamic Summer: Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Collective Phenomena and Complexity, 21 January – 1 February 2002, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact Heli Jackson; fax 61 (02) 6125 4676.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC2002), 22 – 25 January 2002, College Park, Maryland USA. Contact Bickford Hooper, L-637, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-9900 USA; phone 925-423-1409; fax 925-424-6401. Included is the Fusion Skunkworks, which will explore novel fusion ideas; contact Jim Hammer or John Perkins for details.

Particle Beam and Plasma Interaction on Materials, 31 January – 1 February 2002, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Twelfth Gaseous Electronics Meeting, 3 – 6 February 2002, Australia. Contact Rod Boswell, Space Plasma and Plasma Processing, PRL/RSPhysSE, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia; phone 61.2.61253442; fax 61.2.61252575.

Thirteenth Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics (SASP 2002), 17 – 22 February 2002, Going, Austria. Contact T. D. Märk, Trento Institut für Ionenphysik, Technikerstr. 25, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; phone ++43-512-507-6240; fax ++43-512-507-2932.

Fourth International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 23 – 25 February 2002, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. Contact Melissa Lee, Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143 USA; phone (734) 647-3395; fax (734) 763-0437.

Thirty-Sixth Nordic Plasma and Gas Discharge Symposium, 23 – 26 February 2002, M/S Polarlys (TromsØ to Bergen cruise), Norway. Contact Åshild Fredriksen.

Thirteenth International Stellarator Workshop, 25 February – 1 March 2002, Canberra, Australia. Contact Conference Secretariat, Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; phone +61 2 6125 2480; fax +61 2 6125 8316. The conference covers fusion plasma confinement in stellarator, heliotron, and related toroidal confinement geometries. Rescheduled from September 2001.

Fifth Israeli Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 5 March 2002, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Contact Yuri Ralchenko, phone +972-8-9343610; fax +972-8-9343491.

Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Industrial Applications of Plasmas, 11 – 13 March 2002, Miramare, Trieste, Italy.

Twenty-Ninth Annual IoP Plasma Physics Group Conference, 25 – 28 March 2002, Belfast, United Kingdom. Contact Ciaran Lewis, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, Great Britain; phone 028 90273941; fax 028 90438918.

Intense Microwave Pulses IX, 2 – 3 April 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact Howard Brandt, Army Research Lab.

2002 U.S. Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF 2002), 3 – 6 April 2002, Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, Maryland USA. Contact Joanne Savino, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; phone 609-243-3379.

Sixth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-6), 8 – 12 April 2002, Hyatt Islandia Hotel, San Diego, California USA. ContactClaudia Hennessy, Center for Energy Research, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC0420, La Jolla, California 92093-0420 USA; phone 858-534-4971; fax 858-534-5440.

IAEA Technical Meeting on Theory of Plasma Instabilities, 9 – 12 April 2002, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact Arthur Peeters, Max Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstrasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany; phone +49-(0)89-32991658; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; fax: +43-1-26007.

Forty-Fifth Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference, 13 – 18 April 2002, Coronado Springs Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA. ContactPeter Martin, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory; phone (509) 375-2076; fax (509) 375-3864; or contact Society of Vacuum Coaters at (505) 856-7188 for a copy of the program.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 20 – 23 April 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 21 – 24 April 2002, Rochester, New York USA. Contact Riccardo Betti; (716) 275-5479.

Thirteenth Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 22 – 25 April 2002, Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA. Contact David Schultz; phone (865) 576-9461.

Twenty-Seventh General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, 22 – 26 April 2002, Nice, France. Contact the European Geophysical Society.

International Conference On Metallurgical Coatings And Thin Films (ICMCTF 2002), 22 – 26 April 2002, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. Contact Sundarajan Mutialu, Altimut International, Inc., P.O. 7089, Capistrano Beach, California 92624 USA; phone 949-493-3468; fax 949-496-4002.

Third IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 23 – 25 April 2002, Doubletree Hotel, Monterey California USA. Contact Dick True, Northrop Grumman Electron Devices, 960 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California 94070-4194 USA; phone 650 591-8411 x2272; fax 650 508-1956.

NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, 1 – 3 May 2002, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California USA. Contact Farid Salama, NASA-Ames Research Center, Space Science Division MS: 245-6, Moffett Field, California 94035-1000 USA; phone (650) 604-3384; fax (650) 604-6779.

Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady-State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 2 – 3 May 2002, Greifswald, Germany (technology part) and 6 – 7 May 2002, Arles, France (physics part). Contact Manfred Wanner, Max-Planck-Insitut für Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstraße 1, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany; Didier van Houtte, Association EURATOM-CEA, Département de Recherches sur la Fusion Contrólée, CEA/Cadarache, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, France; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

Society of Automotive Engineers International Spring Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Non-Thermal Plasmas sessions, 6 – 8 May 2002 Reno Hilton Reno, Nevada, USA. Contact Melissa Jena; phone (724) 772-4008; or John Hoard, Ford Motor Company, 2101 Village Road, P.O. Box 2053, MD3083SRL, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053 USA; phone (313) 594-1316; fax (313) 594-2923.

Twelfth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Heating (EC-12), 13 – 16 May 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France. ContactG. Giruzzi, Association Euratom-CEA sur la Fusion, DRFC/CEA/Cadarache, F-13108 St. Paul-lez-Durance, France; phone +33 4 42 25 7344; fax +33 4 42 25 6233.

The John Dawson Celebration, 16 – 18 May 2002, De Neve Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Contact Warren Mori,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 USA; phone (310) 206-0372; fax (310) 825-4057.Includes US-Japan Workshop “Simulations of Plasmas” on 16 -17 May 2002.

Thirty-Third AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference and Fourteenth AIAA International Conference on MHD Power Generation and High Temperature Technologies, 20 – 23 May 2002, Maui, Hawaii USA. Contact (for plasmadynamics and lasers) Brian Landrum, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center, Technology Hall S234, Huntsville, Alabama 35899 USA; phone 256-824-7207; fax 256-824-7205; and (for power generation) Motoo Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Systems, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan; phone 81298535140; fax 81298535207.

Third International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP-2002), 20 – 24 May 2002, Durban, South Africa. Contact Richard Mace, Discipline of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban, South Africa; phone +27-31-204-4225; fax +27-31-204-4795.

International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials, 22 – 24 May 2002, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Contact Tetsuo Tanabe, Nagoya University; phone +81-52-789-5157; fax +81-52-789-5177.

First International Workshop on Innovative Concepts for Plasma-Interactive Components in Fusion Devices (1st IWIC-PIC), 23 – 25 May 2002, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Contact Yoshi Hirooka.

Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Plasma Science, 27 – 30 May 2002, Banff Center, Banff, Alberta Canada. Contact Robert Fedosejevs, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7 Canada; phone (780) 492-5330; fax (780) 492-1811. Abstract due 11 January 2002. Topics include basic processes in fully and partially ionized plasmas, microwave generation and microwave/plasma interactions, intense electron and ion beams, high energy density plasmas and their interactions, industrial and commercial applications of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, pulsed power and other plasma technology applications.

Fifteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-15), 27 – 31 May 2002, Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan. Contact Hiroaki Yasuda, National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5292 Japan; phone +81-572-58-2022; fax +81-572-58-2626. Topics include surface physics of materials exposed to plasmas; plasma facing materials, coatings, and conditionings; erosion and deposition; fueling, recycling and tritium inventory; plasma surface interaction in future fusion devices; plasma edge diagnostics; plasma boundary physics; plasma properties near surfaces; impurities, their transport and control; and control of the plasma boundary, e.g. by divertors, pumping, and biasing.

Eighth International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 27 – 31 May 2002, Aspen, Colorado USA. Contact Cathy Smith, College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA; phone (970) 491-5914; fax (970) 491-2828.

International Conference on Warm Dense Matter and FEL Experiments Planning Workshop, 2 – 7 June 2002, DESY, Hamburg, Germany. ContactSusanne Weigert, HASYLAB at DESY Notkestraße, 85 D-22607 Hamburg, Germany; phone (+49)-40-8998-2304; fax (+49)-40-8998-4475. Includes high-density strongly coupled plasma physics. Registration and brief abstract due 15 March 2002.

School of Plasma Diagnostics and Technology, 4 – 8 June 2002, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Micro-Fusion, Hery 23 P.O.Box 49, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone and fax +(4822) 6668372.

Seventh International Conference on Plasma-and-Process-Induced Damage (P2ID 2002), 5 – 7 June 2002, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Contact AVS West, 1265 El Camino Real, Suite 109, Santa Clara, California 95050 USA; phone 408-246-3600; fax 408-246-7700.

Celebration of High Temperature Plasma Physics, 5 – 7 June 2002, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Dolores Lawson, MS37, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA; 609-243-3554; fax 609-243-2749.

Ringberg Workshop on Astro-Plasma Physics, 9 – 14 June 2002, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany. Contact Alex Lazarian, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA; phone +1-608-262-1715; fax +1-608-263-6386.

U.S. Tokamak Planning Workshop, 10 – 12 June 2002, General Atomics Corp., San Diego, California USA. Contact Marion Stav.

Twentieth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 10 – 13 June 2002, Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technicka 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal, K 302, Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic; phone +420 (2) 24 35 30 81; fax +420 (2) 24 35 23 31. Topics include tokamaks and other magnetic confinement devices, short living plasmas (laser plasma, plasma focus, z-pinch, particle beam – plasma interaction, X-ray sources), low temperature plasmas, and plasma technology.

U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 10 – 21 June 2002, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA. Contact Susan Winchester; phone 630-840-3896; fax 630-840-8500.

Fifteenth International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources (ECRIS’02), 12 – 14 June 2002, Accelerator Laboratory / Department of Physics (JYFL), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Contact Juha ärje.

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 17 – 19 June 2002, San Diego, California USA. Contact Dan Goodin, General Atomics, 3483 Dunhill Street, San Diego, California 92121-1200 USA or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

Twenty-Ninth EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 17 – 21 June 2002, Montreux, Switzerland. Contact J. B. Lister, CRPP-EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; phone +41 21 693 3405; fax +41 21 693 5176. Includes Conference on Laser Plasma Particle Acceleration, 17 – 18 June 2002, and Sixth European Workshop on Dusty and Colloidal Plasmas, 20 -21 June 2002.

Seventh European Conference on Thermal Plasma Processing, 18 – 21 June 2002, Congress Center, Strasbourg, France. Contact P. Siffert, E-MRS, BP 20, 67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France; phone +33 3 88 10 65 43; fax +33 3 88 10 62 93.

Fifth Workshop on Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 23 – 24 June 2002, Montreux, Switzerland. Contact Jiri Adamek.

Tenth Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, 23 – 28 June 2002, Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, California 93035 USA. Contact Maria Guerrero; fax (310) 206-8220.

Fourteenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams and the Fifth International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches, 23 – 28 June 2002, Hilton Inn, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.  Contact Jeff Quintenz, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1190 USA; phone 505-845-7482; fax 505-845-7464. Topics include pulsed-power technology, z-pinch physics, electrical and z-pinch diagnostics, plasma instabilities, electrodynamic modeling, high-power microwaves, imploding liners, plasma focus, pulsed-power generators, electron and ion beam physics, x-ray spectroscopy, radiation hydrodynamics, free electron and x-ray lasers, radiography, lithography, and industrial and astrophysical applications of particle beams and z pinches. Deadlines are January 18 (abstract), April 1 (preregistration), May 1 (hotel), and June 28 (manuscript).

IEA Workshop on ELMs, 24 – 26 June 2002, JET Facility, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3EA, United Kingdom. Contact ELMs-Workshop.

Ninth International Workshop on Beam Dynamics & Optimization (BDO’2002), 24 – 27 June 2002, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia. Contact E. D. Kotina, V. I. Zubov Institute of Computational Mathematics & Control Processes, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskij pr. 28, Saint-Petersburg, 198504, Russia; phone +7(812)4284729; fax +7(812)4287189.

Third Workshop on Inductively Coupled Plasmas (WICP 2002), 27 – 29 June 2002, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany. Contact Ralf Brinkmann, Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany; phone 0234-32-26336; fax 0234-32-14479.

International Power Modulator Conference and High Voltage Workshop, 30 June – 3 July 2002, Hollywood Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, California USA. Contact Noreen Tamanaha, Department of EE-Electrophysics, Powell Hall 610, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 USA; phone 213-740-7874; fax 213-740-8677.

Twentieth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 30 June – 5 July 2002, Tours, France. Contact Société Française du Vide, 19 rue du Renard, 75004 Paris, France; phone 33(0)1 53 01 90 30; fax 33(0)1 42 78 63 20.

Fourth International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement (OS2002), 1 – 4 July 2002, Jeju Lotte Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea. Contact T. Lho; phone 82-42-865-3656; fax 82-42-865-3459.

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2002), 1 – 5 July 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact J. A. Kong, Room 26-305, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA; fax +1-617-258-8766.

International Conference on Laser Probing, 7 – 12 July 2002, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.  Contact Conference Secretariat, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; phone ++ 32 16 32 72 04; fax ++ 32 16 32 79 83.

Ninth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (MG-IX), 7 – 14 July 2002, Moscow – St. Petersburg (river voyage), Russia. Contact Conference Coordinator, RFNC-VNIIEF, 37 Mira Ave., Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, 607188, Russia; phone +7-831-3045584; fax +7-831-3045584. Registration deadline is 1 April 2002.

Fourteenth Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 8 – 11 July 2002, Madison, Wisconsin USA. Contact Raymond Fonck, University of Wisconsin-Madison; phone (608) 263-7799; fax (608) 265-2364.

2002 Fusion Energy Sciences Summer Study, 8 – 19 July 2002, Snowmass, Colorado USA. Contact Roger Bangerter; phone 925-831-1453.Contributions to the conference discussion page are welcome.

Thirty-Ninth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 8 – 19 July 2002, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Contact George Dawes, Euratom/UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14, 3DB, United Kingdom; phone +44 1235 465028; fax +44 1235 465102.

Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS), 9 – 13 July  2002, Sofia, Bulgaria. Contact conference secretary or K. Blagoev.

Sixteenth Europhysics Conference on Atomic & Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG) and Fifth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP), 14 – 18 July 2002, World Trade Center, Grenoble, France. Contact Nader Sadeghi, Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d’Heres, France; phone (33) 476 51 47 44; fax (33) 476 63 54 95.

Eleventh International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2002), Twenty-Fourth AINSE Plasma Science and Technology Conference, and Sixth Asia-Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 15 – 19 July 2002, Manly Pacific Parkroyal Hotel, Sydney, Australia. Contact Ian Falconer, School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia; phone +61 (02) 9351- 2599; fax +61 (02) 9351-7727.

Eighth International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE-8), 21 – 25 July 2002, Tartu, Estonia. Contact Ants Haljaste, Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology, University of Tartu, Tähe 4, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; phone +372-(0)7-375565, +372-(0)7-375564; fax +372-(0)7-375858. Topics include fundamental problems, modeling and diagnostics, molecular synthesis and decomposition, ozone generation and applications, generation of radiation in high-pressure discharges, environmental applications, surface processing, and technology. Abstract deadline is 10 December 2001; paper deadline is 30 March 2002.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 21 – 26 July 2002, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire USA. Contact Javad Mostaghimi, University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 5 King’s College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8 Canada.

Gordon Research Conference on Laser Interactions with Materials, 21 – 26 July 2002, Proctor Academy, Andover New Hampshire USA. Contact James Horwitz, Code 6370, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA; phone (202) 767-5680; fax (202) 767-5301.

Thirty-Second Anomalous Absorption Conference, 21 – 26 July 2002, Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu, Hawaii USA. Contact Warren Mori.

First World Space Environment Forum, 22 – 25 July 2002, Adelaide, Australia. Contact World Institute for Space Environment Research. The conference will review space environment research and identify the key problems to be addressed by the international space science and plasma physics community, with emphasis on theory, data analysis, modeling and prediction.

Fifth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 1 – 9 August 2002, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Kirill Rybakov, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov St., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia; phone +7 831 238 4331; fax +7 831 236 2061.

High Energy Density Physics Summer School, 4 – 16 August 2002, University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA. Contact HEDP.

Fifth Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 5 – 30 August 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Adolfo Rodrigo. This four week course will include lectures and experiments on plasma processing. The course is limited to 16 Latin American professionals active in the field, who will receive fellowships.

Twenty-Seventh General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, 17 – 24 August 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contact Leon P. J. Kamp, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; phone +31 40 2474292; fax + 31 40 2445253.

Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2002) and Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP02), 25 – 28 August 2002, San Diego, California USA. Contact Robert Peterkin, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/DEH, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776 USA.

Twenty-First Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG2002), 26 – 30 August 2002, Sokobanja, Yugoslavia. Contact Conference Secretary, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, P.O. Box 224, 18001 Nis, Yugoslavia.

Theory of Fusion Plasmas (Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop), 27 – 30 August 2002, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti, International School of Plasma Physics “Piero Caldirola”, Via Celoria, 16 20133 Milano, Italy; fax +39-2-2392205.

Eleventh International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions, 1 – 6 September 2002, Caen, France. Contact Sylviane Lamotte, CIRIL, CEA-CNRS-ISMRA, BP5133, 14070 Caen cedex 5, France; phone +33 (0) 2 31 45 46 01; fax +33 (0) 2 31 45 47 14.

2002 International Conference On Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, 2 – 6 September 2002, Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. ContactJohn Benage, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

German-Polish EURO-Conference on Plasma Diagnostics for Fusion and Applications, 4 – 6 September 2002, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Anne Eggeling, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone ++49 3834-88-2005; fax ++49 3834-88-2009.

Eighth International Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry, 8 – 13 September 2002, University of Durham, Durham City, United Kingdom. Contact Grenville Holland, Department of Geological Sciences, South Road, Durham City DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; phone (0) 191 374 2526; fax (0) 191 374 2510. Deadline for presentation titles is 1 August 2002, for abstracts is 15 August 2002, and for registration is 1 September 2002.

Course on Low Temperature Plasma Physics and Applications (CLTPP-7) and Master Class on Hot Topics in Plasma Physics and Technology: Modeling of Reactive Plasmas, 8 – 17 September 2002, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Jorg Winter; phone +49 234 32 23800; fax +49 234 32 14171.

Ninth EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop, 9 – 12 September 2002, Córdoba, Spain. Contact TTF2002.

Eighth International Conference on Plasma and Surface Engineering (PSE 2002), 9 – 13 September 2002, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. ContactKarin Reichel, Graf-Recke-Str. 84, D-40239 Duesseldorf, Germany; phone +49 211 6214 401; fax +49 211 6214 484.  Includes the tutorial Fundamentals and Trends of Plasma Surface Processing, 7 – 8 September 2002.

Twenty-Second Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2002),  9 – 13 September 2002, Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland. Contact Merja Asikainen, P.O. Box 1704 FIN-02044 VTT Finland; phone +358 9 456 6854; fax +358 9 456 7002.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) public meeting, 11 – 12 September 2002, Marriott Hotel, 9715 Washingtonian Blvd, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact albert.opdenaker@science.doe.gov.

Tenth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter (RPHDM-10), 16 – 20 September 2002, Saint Malo, France. ContactChenais-Popovics, Laboratoire LULI, Ecole Polytechnique 91128, Palaiseau, France.

Turbulence, Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma (NATO Advanced Research Workshop), 16 – 20 September 2002, Normafa (Budapest), Hungary. Contact K. Petrovay, Eötvös University, Pf. 32, Budapest, Hungary, H-1518; phone +36 1 2090555/6621; fax +36 1 3722940.

IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, 16 – 20 September 2002, Greifswald, Germany.  Contact Christina Stahlberg, MPI für Plasmaphysik, Teilinstitut Greifswald, Wendelsteinstr. 1, D-17491 Greifswald; Germany; phone 89 299-2232; fax 89 3299-1001.

International Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 16 – 21 September 2002, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. Contact Igor Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaja St., 1, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone (057-2) 35-67-26; fax (057-2) 35-26-64.

Fusion Simulation Project Workshop (ISOFS), 17 – 18 September 2002, Hyatt Islandia hotel, San Diego, California USA. This workshop is chartered by the US Department of Energy to help define a possible fusion simulation research initiative.

Twenty-Seventh IEEE International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW 2002), 22 – 26 September 2002, San Diego, California, USA. Contact Program Committee; fax 1-617-253-6078.

Sixth International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows, 23 – 28 September 2002, Tomsk, Russia.

Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy and Applications 2002 (LIBS 2002), 24 – 28 September 2002, Caribe Royale, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.

Power Beams and Materials Processing – 2002, 25 – 28 September 2002, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400 085, India. Contact A. K. Das, Laser and Plasma Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400 085, India; phone (022) 5593823; fax +91 22 5505151.

Eleventh International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2002), 29 September – 4 October 2002, Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 USA. Contact Barbara Daniels; phone (505) 272-7214; fax (505) 272-7203.

Eighteenth Conference on Charged Particle Accelerators (RUPAC-2002), 1 – 4 October 2002, Obninsk, Russia. Contact Valentin Romanov, SSC RF IPPE, 1, Bondarenko Sq., Obninsk, Kaluga Region, 249033, Russia; phone (7 08439) 9 82 70 9 88 92 9 85 05; fax (7 095) 230 23 26 883 31 12.

Thirty-Fourth COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 10 – 19 October 2002, Houston, Texas, USA. Contact COSPAR Secretariat, 51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; phone +33 1 45 25 06 79; fax +33 1 40 50 98 27.

Nineteenth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (CN94), 14 – 19 October 2002, Lyon, France. Contact Hilde Schmid, IAEA, Conference Service, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21316; fax +43-26007; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, Wagramer Str. 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43-1-2600-21707; fax +43-1-26007.

Fifty-Fifth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 15 – 18 October 2002, Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. Contact conference secretary.

European Pulsed Power Symposium 2002, 22 – 24 October 2002, French German Research Institute, Saint Louis, France. Contact Pulsed Power 2002, IEE Event Services, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, United Kingdom; phone +44 (0) 207 344 5398; fax +44 (0) 207 497 3633.

International Conference on High-Power Electron Beam Technologies, 27 – 29 October 2002. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina USA. Contact:Siegfried Schulz, Surface Solutions Inc., 120 Post Road, Enfield, Connecticut 06082-5690 USA; phone (860) 745 8462; fax (860) 745 8459.

Seventh International Conference on Engineering Problems of Thermonuclear Reactors, 28 – 31 October 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact EPTR Organizing Committee, Efremov Institute, 196641, Metallostroy, St. Petersburg, Russia; phone (812) 462-7644; fax (812) 464-4623.

International Workshop on Recent Progress of Induction Accelerators, 29 – 31 October 2002, Tsukuba, Japan. Contact RPIA2002.

AVS Forty-Ninth International Symposium, 4 – 8 November 2002, Denver, Colorado USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

First International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion, 5 – 7 November 2002, Huntsville, Alabama. Contact Cecil G. Stokes; phone (256) 881-2578.

International Workshop on Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonextensivity, 6 – 9 November 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Roderick Garcia; phone (505) 667-1444.

Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 11 – 15 November 2002, Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. ContactSaralyn Stewart. Three mini-conferences will be held in parallel with the conference: Blending of Plasma and Neutral Gas in the Sun, the Heliosphere, and the Interstellar Medium; Singularities in Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics; and Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Methods in Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

Seventeenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2002), 12 – 16 November 2002, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA. Contact Margaret Hall, 940-565-3250.

Fifth Annual Directed Energy Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2002, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. Contact Directed Energy Professional Society, P.O. Box 9874, Albuquerque, NM 87119-9874; phone 505-998-4910; fax 505-998-4917.

Sixth International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 16 – 19 November 2002, St. Pete Beach, Florida USA. Contact Warren Mori, UCLA; phone 310-206-0372; fax 310-825-4057.

Eighth International Spherical Torus Workshop and US – Japan Exchange Meetings on Spherical Torus and Numerical Simulation of Spherical Torus Stability, 16 – 19 November 2002, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA. Contact Joanne Savino.

Fifteenth ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17 – 21 November 2002, Washington, D.C. USA.  Contact Roger Stoller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; phone (865) 576-7886.

International Symposium on Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy, 19 – 21 November 2002, Yokohama, Japan. Contact J. Shimizu, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama 223-8521 Japan; phone +81-45-566-1306; fax +81-45-566-1306.

USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting, 25 November 2002, Marriott Hotel, 9715 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact: Albert Opdenaker.

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium, 3 – 4 December 2002, Capitol Hill Club, Washington, DC USA. Contact FPA.

International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, 9 – 14 December 2002, Estate Club, Bangalore, India. Contact B. S. Krishnamurthy, National Research Institute for Applied Mathematics (NRIAM), 7th cross, 7th block, 492/G, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560081, India; phone 0091 80 676 4356.

First IPM International Workshop on Plasma Dynamics, 15 – 20 December 2002, Qeshm, Iran. Contact Hossein Abbasi; phone +98 (21) 229 09 34; fax +98 (21) 228 04 15.

FY-2001 National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Research Forum, 15 – 19 January 2001 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Contact Martin Peng, PPPL, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA; phone (609) 243-2305; fax (609) 243-2222.

Thirteenth Symposium on Application of Plasma Processes, 15 – 20 January 2001, Tale, Low Tatras, Slovakia. Contact Stefan Matejcik.

US Particle Accelerator School, 15 – 26 January 2001, Rice University, Houston, Texas USA. Contact Susan Winchester, USPAS.

Laser Plasma Generation and Diagnostics II, as part of High Power Lasers and Applications (LASE 2001), 23 January 2001, San Jose, California USA.

Mini-Summer School in Plasma Physics, 29 January – 2 February 2001, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Regional College on Plasma Physics, 29 January – 3 February 2001, Islamabad, Pakistan. Contact conference secretary.

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 4 – 8 February 2001, Quality Hafjell Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway. Contact Yngvar Thomassen, National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; phone +47 23 19 53 20; fax +47 23 19 52 06.

Fourth Israeli Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, 15 February 2001, Haifa, Israel. Contact Yakov Krasik; phone +972-4-829-2608.

USDOE Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee (FESAC) Public Meeting, 27 – 28 February 2001, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Contact Albert Opdenaker.

International Symposium on Low Energy Electron-Molecule Interactions (LEEMI 2001), 4 – 7 March 2001, Going/Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria. ContactTilmann Märk, Institut für Ionenphysik, Universität Innsbruck. Techniker str. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; phone +43-512-507-6240; fax +43-512-507-2932.

Fifth Reflectometry Workshop, 5 – 7 March 2001, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan. Contact Kazuo Kawahata, Department of Large Helical Devices, National Institute for Fusion Science, Oroshi-cho, Toki-shi, 509-5292 Japan; phone +81-572-58-2235; fax +81-572-58-2624.Topics include experimental results in reflectometry (profile and fluctuations studies), technological developments, theory, and simulation codes.

New Century of X-Ray Astronomy, 6 – 8 March 2001, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Contact Hideyo Kunieda, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 229-8510 Japan; fax 81-42-759-8133. Includes plasma diagnostics of stellar corona.

Workshop on Non-equilibrium Transitions in Plasmas, 8 – 10 March 2001, Hotel Fortune Landmark, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad, India. Contact Surja Sharma, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA, or Predhiman Kaw, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India. Topics include application of nonequilibrium phase transitions and self-organized criticality to space and laboratory plasmas. The Hotel can be contacted by phone 91-79-7552929 or fax 91-79-7552919.

Environmental Impacts of Plasma-Aided Processes, as part of Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics, Meeting of the American Physical Society, 12 – 16 March 2001, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact Sebastien Raoux, Environmental Solutions Product Division, Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers Avenue, MS 0103, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA; phone (408) 563 4923; fax (408) 563 1696. Abstract deadline is 13 October 2000.

Current Trends in International Fusion Research: A Review, 12 – 16 March 2001, Washington, DC USA. Contact Ronald Kirkpatrick, MS B229, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA; fax (505) 665-3456. Abstracts due 30 November 2000.

International Seminar on Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, 12 – 16 March 2001, Klyazma, Moscow Region, Russia. Contact Maxim Golubkov, N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin str. 4, Moscow 117977, Russia; fax +7 095 1376130.

Institute of Physics (IOP) Conference: Future of Technological Plasmas, 19 – 21 March 2001, Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK. Contact M. Rahman, Dept Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow University, Glagsow G12 8QQ, UK; phone +44 141 330 6439.

International Workshop on Blanket and Fusion Concept for the Transmutation of Actinides, 21 – 23 March 2001, General Atomics, San Diego, California, USA. Contact E. T. Cheng, TSI Research, Inc., 312 S. Cedros Avenue, Suite 309, Solana Beach, California 92075 USA; phone (858) 793-3567; fax (858) 793-0569.

Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics IV, 25 – 29 March 2001, Rolduc Conference Centre, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Contact Richard Engeln; phone 0031-40-2474880; fax 0031-40-2456442.

Symposium on Cold Atmospheric Plasma Technologies as part of the 199th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society, 25 – 30 March 2001, Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, Washington DC, USA. Contact Hana Barankova, Uppsala University, Box 534, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden; phone +46-18-4713118; fax +46-18-555095.

Seventh Congress of the Plasma Division of the French Physical Society, 27 – 30 March 2001, Piriac sur Mer, France. Contact sfp-plasmas@cnrs-imn.fr

2001 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 2 – 4 April 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Contact Carl Sovinec, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-15, MS K717, Los Alamos NM 87545 USA; phone 505-667-4394; fax 505-665-7150.

Second IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2001), 2 – 4 April 2001, Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Contact ESTEC Conference Bureau, P.O. Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands; phone +31 (0)71-565 5005; fax +31 (0)71-565 5658.

Twenty-Eighth Annual IOP Plasma Physics Group Conference, 2 – 5 April 2001, Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Contact Kieran Gibson.

Seventh European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMP7), 2 – 6 April 2001, Berlin, Germany. Held in conjunction with the 2001 Spring meeting of the AMOP group (Atomic-, Molecular-, and Plasma Physics, Quantum Optics, Mass Spectrometry and Short-Time Physics) of the German Physical Society.

Low-Latitude Boundary Layer and Its Dynamic Interaction with the Solar Wind and Magnetosphere, 16 – 20 April 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Contact Ann Singer, American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA; phone +1-202-777-7340.

Plasma Processing, Forty-Fourth SVC Technical Conference, 23 – 25 April 2001, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. ContactRic Shimshock, Southwall Technologies, Inc.; phone 650 962-9111; fax 650 964-5986.

Plasmas in Space and in the Laboratory, 23 – 26 April 2001, Poznan, Poland. Contact Aniéla Kaminska, Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Poznan Univ. of Technology, ul Piotrowo 3A, 60-965 Poznan, Poland; phone (48.61) 782 667; fax (48.61) 782 280.

Seventh Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, 23 – 27 April 2001, ESTEC Conference Centre, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Contact ESTEC Conference Bureau, P.O. Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands; phone +31 (0)71-565 5005; fax +31 (0)71-565 5658.

Third International Symposium on Nonthermal Plasma Technology for Polution Control, 23 – 27 April 2001, Seogwipo, Korea. Contact Seok Joon Kim.

Hypersonic and Aerothermic Flows and Shocks, and Lasers, 23 – 27 April 2001, Observatoire de Paris [Meudon], France. Contact Jean-Pierre J. Lafon, Observatoire de Paris – DASGAL, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France; phone 33 – 1 45 07 78 58; fax 33 – 1 45 07 78 72.

Sheffield Space Physics Conference, 24 – 26 April 2001, Sheffield, UK. Contact Simon Walker; phone +44 (0)114 222 5235; fax +44 (0)114 273 1729.

Pulsed Plasma Surface Technologies (PPST2001), 26 – 28 April 2001, DoubleTree Guest Suites, Dana Point, California.  Contact Yvonne Perano, P.O. Box 7358 Capistrano Beach, California 92624 USA; phone (949) 493-3468; fax (949) 496-4002. Topics include applications, processes, equipment and fundamental research papers, including focused tutorial workshops in pulsed plasma surface technologies and related areas. Abstract deadline is 26 February 2001.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 29 April – 1 May 2001, Washington, DC, USA. Contact Martin Lampe.

Pulsed Plasma Deposition Symposium, as part of International Conference On Metallurgical Coatings And Thin Films (ICMCTF 2001), 30 April – 4 May 2001, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.

Burning Plasma Science Workshop II, 1 – 3 May 2001, General Atomics, San Diego, California USA. Contact John Wesley, General Atomics.

Fourteenthth Topical Conference on Applications of Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, 7 – 9 May 2001, Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, California, USA. Contact John deGrassie, General Atomics, USA, or Tak Kuen Mau, UC-San Diego, Fusion Energy Research Program, Rm. 460, EBU-II, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, Calfornia 92093-0417 USA; phone 858-534-2880 fax 858-534-7716. Topics include various areas of wave interaction with plasma, including fusion plasma science, astrophysics, plasma processing, and space propulsion.

Sixth International Symposium on Plasma- and Process-Induced Damage (P2ID’01), 13 – 15 May 2001, Doubletree Hotel Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California USA. Contact NCCAVS Business Office, 1265 El Camino Real, California 95050 USA; fax 408-246-7700.

Plasma-based Thermal Treatment System, International Conference on Incineration and Thermal Treatment Technologies (IT3), 14 – 18 May 2001, Adams Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Second International Symposium on Nonthermal Medical/Biological Treatments Using Electromagnetic Fields and Ionized Gases (ElectroMed2001), 21 – 23 May 2001, Renaissance Portsmouth Hotel, Portsmouth, Virginia USA. Contact Marcie Blanchard, KDH 231 – Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529 USA; phone (757) 683-4825; fax (757) 683-3220. Abstracts due 8 January 2001.

Ninth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 21 – 23 May 2001, Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, Iowa USA. Contact Marcia Rogers, University of Iowa; phone (319) 335-2756; fax (319) 335-1735. Topics include laboratory experiments, space observations, theory, simulations, and microgravity experiments.

Ninth International Symposium on Gaseous Dielectrics, 21 – 25 May 2001, Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center, Ellicott City, Maryland 21042 USA. Contact Teresa Vicente, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3461, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-3461 USA; phone (301) 975-3883; fax (301) 948-2067.

Non- Extensive Thermodynamics and Physical Applications (next2001), 23 – 30 May 2001, Villasimius (Cagliari), Italy. Contact Marcello Lissia. Plasma topics include quasi-two-dimensional turbulence in pure-electron plasma, bremsstrahlung in Argon plasma, and stellar plasmas.

2001 International Conference on Computational Science, 28 – 30 May 2001, San Francisco, California USA. Contact Kenneth Tan, School of Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom, phone 44-289-027-4636; fax 44-289-068-3890.

Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators (ICTS), 28 – 31 May 2001 Kyiv, Ukraine. Contact Vadym Lutsenko; fax (380)-44-2651368. Topics include plasma stability, transport processes, physics of energetic particles, reactor aspects, and innovative concepts. Registrations due 1 March 2001; abstracts due 1 April 2001.

Thirty-First Anomalous Absorption Conference, 3 – 8 June 2001, Doubletree Sedona Resort, Sedona, Arizona 86351 USA. Contact Juan Fernández, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS E526, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA; phone (505) 667-6575; fax: (505) 665-6386. Topics include absorption, parametric instabilities, ultra short pulse inter-actions, energy transport, hohlraum physics, hydrodynamics, implosions, x-ray lasers, particle accelerators, ionospheric phenomena, and associated diagnostics.

Twelfth IEEE Conference on Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, 4 – 8 June 2001, Palacio De Congresos, Valencia, Spain. Contact Enrique Sanchis, Dept. De Informatica y Elec., Avda Dr. Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain; phone +34 96 316 04 53; fax +34 96 386 45 81.

US Particle Accelerator School, 4 – 15 June 2001, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA. Contact USPAS.

Fourteenth International Conference on Electrostatic Accelerators and Beam Technologies (ESU-2001), 6 – 9 June 2001, Obninsk, Russia. ContactValentin Romanov, SSC Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, 1 Bondarenko Sq., Obninsk, Kaluga Region, 249020 Russia; phone 007 (08439) 98270; fax 007 (095) 2302326.

Thirty-Second AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 11  – 14 June 2001, Hilton Anaheim Hotel, Anaheim, California USA. Contact Herman Krier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 140 Mech. Eng. Bldg., 1206 Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801-2906 USA; phone (217) 333-0529; fax (217) 244-6907.

Fourth Weakly Ionized Gases (WIG) Workshop, 12 – 14 June 2001, Hilton Anaheim Hotel, Anaheim, California USA. Contact John Lineberry, ERC Inc., 1940 Elk River Dam Road, PO Box 1581, Tullahoma, TN 37388 USA; phone (931) 393-4500; fax (931) 454-2042.

Twenty-Eighth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and Thirteenth IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (PPPS-2001), 17 – 22 June 2001, Rio Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada USA. Contact Janet Neff-Shampine, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop D420, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; phone (505) 665-9413; fax (505) 665-2828. Abstract deadline is 12 January 2001.

2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, 18 – 22 June 2001, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact Catherine Eyberger, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 Cass Ave., Bldg. 401, Argonne, Illinois 60439 USA; phone (630) 252-7575; fax (630) 252-1512.

Twenty-Eighth European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 18 – 22 June 2001, Madeira Tecnopolo Conference Centre, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal. Contact Maria Pinto, Centro de Fusão Nuclear, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; phone +351 21 8417818; fax: +351 21 8417819.  Includes satellite meetings, Fourth Europhysics Workshop on Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 24 – 25 June 2001, and Fifth Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets.

Ninth Workshop on Plasma Technology, 20 – 21 June, 2001, Hotel Heyda, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany. Contact Gabriele Nutsch, PF 100565, D-98684 Ilmenau, Germany; phone 03677 – 692835, fax 03677 – 691533. Topics include plasma spraying; and thermal plasmas and non-thermal plasmas, especially atmospheric plasmas. Deadlines for abstracts and papers are 30 March and 30 May 2001.

Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 24 – 29 June 2001, Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact Alita Roach, Los Alamos National Laboratory; phone (505) 665-6277.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Research using Small Fusion Devices, 25 – 27 June 2001, São Paulo, Brazil. Contact Ivan Nascimento, Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Praca do Oceanografico s/n., 05508-900 Sao Paulo, Brazil; phone +55-11-3818-7001; fax +55-11-3818-7014; or Thomas Dolan, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756. Abstract deadline is 1 May 2001.

Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Computational Physics, 25 – 28 June 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. Contact Jim Gubernatis, MS B262, T-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; phone (505) 667-6727; (505) 665-4063.

Plasma Based Ion Implantation (PBII 2001), 26 – 28 June 2001, Grenoble, France. Contact PBII Secretariat, CNRS – LEMD BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France; phone (33) 4 76 88 78 84; fax (33) 4 76 88 79 45.

Sixth International Workshop on Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and Space (IPELS2001), 1 – 6 July 2001, Hotel Nikko Annupuri (phone 0136-58-3366), Niseko, Niseko-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido 048-1511, Japan. Contact IPELS; phone +(81)-572-58-2186; fax +(81)-572-58-2619. Topics include potential and structural formation in fusion and basic plasma physics, such as transport barrier, double layer, radial and field-aligned electric field, bifurcation and transition in electric field structure, and rotation and shear flow.

Third International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS ’01), 2 – 6 July 2001, The Wedgewood Resort, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. ContactAkira Kobayashi, Osaka Univ.; phone 81-6-6879-8694; fax 81-6-6879-8689. Topics include plasma sources, propulsion, plasma diagnostics, modeling and simulations, plasma surface interactions, plasma processing such as surface modifications, cutting and welding, deposition, and plasma spraying, applications in microelectronics, environmental applications, advanced materials and characterizations, high energy processing using laser, ion beam, electron beam, and other industrial applications. The deadline for submission of paper titles and abstracts is 15 February 2001, and for registration and submission of camera ready manuscripts is 15 April 2001.

Progress in Nonlinear Science, including Topical Conferences: Mathematical Problems of Nonlinear Dynamics, Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, and Nonlinear Oscillations, Control and Information, 2 – 6 July 2001, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Contact Alexander Malekhanov, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, 46 Ulyanov Str., 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone/fax +7 (8312)367804.

Superhard Tool Materials on the Turn of the Centuries: Production, Properties, Applications, 4 – 6 July 2001, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact SHTM-2001Institute for Superhard Materials 2, Avtozavodskaya St., Kiev, 04074 Ukraine. Includes laser and plasma techniques for production of materials, coatings and combined physicochemical treatment of metals and nonmetals.

International Summer School on Plasma Chemistry, 4 – 6 July 2001, Orleans, France. Contact Pascal Brault.

Fifteenth International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, 9 – 13 July 2001, Orleans, France. Contact ISPC15, GREMI-ESPEO Université d’Orléans, 14 rue d’Issoudun, BP 6744, 45067 Orleans cedex 2, France; phone 33 2 38 56 97 30; fax 33 2 38 56 97 35. Also includes school on 4 – 6 July 2001 and workshop on 7 July 2001.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 16 – 19 July 2001, Padova, Italy. Contact Meeting Secretary, Consorzio RFX, Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35127 Padova, Italy; phone +39-049-829-5219; fax +39-049-870-0718; orUrsula Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

Thirty-Eighth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 16 – 27 July 2001, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Contact Kathy Patton, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK; phone 44 1235 463635; fax 44 1235 464192.Application deadline is 25 May 2001.

Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG XXV), 17 – 21 July 2001, Nagoya Congress Center, 1-1, Atsuta-nishimachi, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Japan. Contact Prof. T. Goto, Dept of Quantum Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464 8603 Japan.

Twenty-Second International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 2001), 18 – 24 July 2001, Santa Fe, NM, USA. ContactICPEAC 2001, Bldg 5500, MS-6377, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6377 USA; phone +1-865-574-4779; fax +1-865-574-1118.

Thirteenth International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics (VUV-XIII), 23 – 27 July 2001, Trieste, Italy. Contact Sincrotrone Trieste.The conference encompasses theoretical and experimental studies of the interaction of ultraviolet and soft x-ray radiation with matter over a photon-energy range of 5 eV to several keV. Major tools of investigation such as synchrotron radiation, lasers, laboratory sources, and plasma sources are important topics.

Nonneutral Plasma Physics Workshop, 30 July – 3 August 2001, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA. Contact C. Fred Driscoll, Physics Dept. 0319, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319 USA; phone (858) 534-2489; fax (858) 534-0173.

Second IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Spherical Tori and Seventh International Spherical Torus Workshop, 1 – 3 August 2001, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. Contact Gerson Ludwig, Laboratory of Plasma Physics, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), 12201-970 Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil; phone +55-12-345-6698; fax +55-12-345-6710; or U. Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, 1 – 4 August 2001, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan. Contact AP-RASC ’01 Secretariat, c/o REALIZE Inc., 4 – 1 – 4 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; phone +81-3815-8552; fax +81-3815-8529.

Seventh International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS 7), 5 – 9 August 2001, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. Contact Alan Hibbert, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN UK; phone +44-2890-273171, +44-2890-273189; fax +44-2890-239182. Current spectroscopic data needs for specific astrophysical and laboratory plasma applications will be featured.

Fourth Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 6 – 31 August 2001, Argentine Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Adolfo Rodrigo.  The course is intended particularly for residents of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Second International Workshop on Magnetized Target Fusion, 7 – 9 August 2001, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA. Contact Lucy Maestas.The workshop will consist of a day of overview presentations, followed by two days contributed papers. Abstract deadline is 6 July 2001.

Waves and Wave Turbulence, 12 – 15 August 2001, Hotel Nyborg Strand, Nyborg, Denmark. Contact Mogens Levinsen, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; phone +45 35 32 52 95; fax +45 35 32 54 25.

Ninth International Symposium on Science and Technology of Light Sources (LS:9), 12 – 16 August 2001, Statler Hotel, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA. Contact Rolf Bergman.

Seventh European Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Technology, 21 – 25 August 2001, Guildford, United Kingdom. ContactBrian Sealy, School of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, UK; phone +44 (0)1483 879139; fax +44 (0)1483 534139.

Fifth European Workshop on Dusty and Colloidal Plasmas,  23 – 25 August 2001, Potsdam, Germany. Contact Andre Melzer; phone +49-431-880-3841; fax +49-431-880-3809. Topics include laboratory experiments, space observations, theory, simulations, and microgravity experiments.

Second International Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, 27 August – 1 September 2001, Milan, Italy. Contact Maurizio Lontano, Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, R. Cozzi, 53, Milano, Italy 20125; phone +39-02-66173260; fax +39-02-66173239.

Twelfth European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-Like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide (Diamond 2001), 2 – 7 September 2001, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Liz Reed, Elsevier Science, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AS, UK; phone +44 (0) 1865 843721; fax +44 (0) 1865 843958.

International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: New Plasma Horizons, 3 – 7 September 2001, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. Contact Tahir Farid, ITCPP–2001, Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; phone 49 234 32 23729; fax 49 234 32 14177.

International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS), 3 – 7 September 2001, Oakland, CA USA. Contact Martha Condon, phone 510-486-7135; fax 510-486-5788.

International Conference on Advanced Diagnostics for Magnetic and Inertial Fusion, 3 – 7 September 2001, Varenna, Italy. Contact Giuseppe Gorini, Istituto di Fisica del Plasma “Piero Caldirola”, CNR, via Cozzi 53, I-20125 Milano, Italy; phone +39 02 66173257; fax +39-02 66173239.

The Sixth International School/Symposium for Space Plasma Simulations (ISSS-6), 3 – 7 September 2001, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany. Contact Copernicus Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Str. 13 D-37191, Katlenburg-Lindau Germany; phone +49-5556-91099; fax +49-5556-4709.

Conference on Computational Physics (CCP 2001), 4 – 8 September 2001, Aachen, Germany. Contact CCP 2001 Secretariat, Research Center Juelich, John von Neumann Institute for Computing , D-52425 Juelich, Germany; phone +49-2461-61-4402; fax +49-2461-61-6656.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on H-Mode Physics and Transport Barriers, 5 – 7 September 2001, Toki, Japan. Contact Katsumi Ida, National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho Toki, 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2182; fax +81-572-58-2619; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on High Average Power Drivers, 9 – 14 September 2001, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Katunobu Nishihara, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; phone +81 6-6879-8725; fax +81 6-6877-4799; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756. To be held in conjunction with

Second International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2001), 9 – 14 September 2001, Kyoto, Japan. Contact K. Tanaka, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.

Eighth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices, 10 – 12 September 2001, Dipoli Congress Center, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. Contact Seppo Sipilä, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FIN-02015 Hut, Finland; phone +358-9-4513203; fax +358-9-4513195.

Fourteenth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arc, 10 – 14 September 2001, Ski Hotel – Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. Contact J. Bartl.

Fifth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics, 10 – 21 September 2001, Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact K.H. Finken, Institut für Plasmaphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Euratom Association, D-52425 Jülich, Germany; phone +49 2461 61 5646; fax +49 2461 61 5452.

Computation as a Tool for Discovery in Physics, 11 – 12 September 2001, Science and Software National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Ballston Metro Center Office Tower, 901 North Stuart Street, Suite 800, Arlington, Virginia 22203. Contact phone (703) 248-0072; fax (703) 248-0100.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Divertor Concepts, 11 – 14 September 2001, Aix-en-Provence, France. Contact Philippe Ghendrih, Association Euratom-CEA, DRFC, CEA Cadarache, F-13108 St. Paul lez-Durance, Durance, France; phone +33-4-42-25-2993; fax +33-4-42-25-4990; orUrsula Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

A Celebration of High Temperature Plasma Physics, 12 – 14 September 2001, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Contact Dolores Lawson; phone 609-243-3554; fax 609-243-2749.

Twelfth International School on Vacuum, Electron and Ion Technologies, 17 – 21 September 2001, Varna, Bulgaria. Contact N. Guassiermov.

International Symposium PLASMA-2001: Research and Applications of Plasmas, 19 – 21 September 2001, Warsaw, Poland. Contact PLASMA-2001, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, P.O. Box 49, PL-00-908 Warsaw 49, Poland; phone (+48 22) 638 1460; fax (+48 22) 666 8372.

FY-2002 National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Results Review, 19 – 21 September 2001. Contact Martin Peng, PPPL, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA; phone (609) 243-2305; fax (609) 243-2222.

Course on Low Temperature Plasma Physics and Applications (CLTPP- 6) and Master Class on Hot Topics in Plasma Physics and Technology: Dusty Plasmas, 23 September – 2 October 2001, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (phone +49 (0) 2224 9232-0; fax +49 (0) 2224 9232-15), Hauptsr. 5, D-53604 Bad Honnef, Germany. Contact Jorg Winter; phone +49 234 32 3800; fax +49 234 14171.

High Current Plasma Experiments and Diagnostics, 24 – 28 September 2001, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Irena Ivanova-Stanik, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23 P.O.Box 49, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland; phone/fax +(4822) 6668372. This school will cover a broad spectrum of experiments on high-current carrying plasmas (e.g. Plasma-Focus, Z-pinch, Q-Pinch, etc.) as well as different diagnostic methods used for such studies. Registration deadline is 30 June 2001.

Tenth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, 24 – 28 September 2001, Hotel Umino-Nakamichi, Fukuoka, Japan. ContactLAPD10 Conference. Topics include laser diagnostics and diagnostics aided by lasers for fusion plasmas, industrial process plasmas, environmental plasmas, and other plasma applications and processes. Registration deadline is 17 June 2001.

Frontiers in Fusion Research, Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting,  25 – 26 September 2001, Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC USA. ContactStephen O. Dean, Fusion Power Associates.

Matter in Super-Intense Laser Fields: Short Pulse, Superstrong Laser-Plasma Interactions, 29 September – 4 October 2001, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain. Contact J. Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, F-67080 Strasbourg, France; phone +33 388 76 71 35; fax +33 388 36 69 87.

Fourth MHD-Day, 1 – 2 October 2001, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Contact Frau Buhr; phone +49 234 3223459.

Seventh IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 8 – 11 October 2001, Gothenburg, Sweden. Contact Mietek Lisak, Swedish Fusion Research Unit, Association EURATOM-NFR, Department for Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden; phone +46-31-772-1565; fax +46-31-772-1573; or Ursula Schneider, IAEA Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

Max Planck International Research School on Bounded Plasmas, 8 – 12 October 2001, Greifswald, Germany. Contact Antje Zornow, International Max Planck Research School, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany; phone +493834-88-2510; fax +493834-88-2009.

Autumn College on Plasma Physics, 8 October – 2 November 2001, Trieste, Italy. Contact A. Lusenti, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, I-34014 Trieste, Italy; phone +39 040 2240544; fax +39 040 224163.

Fifty-Fourth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 9 – 12 October 2001, Nittany Lion Inn, The Pennsylvania State University,  State College, Pennsylvania USA. Contact Terry Reed; phone (814) 865-7643; fax (814) 865-3969. Topics include basic phenomena and plasma processes in partially ionized gases, and  the theory and measurement of basic atomic and molecular collision processes.

Tenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-10), 14 – 19 October 2001, Baden-Baden, Germany. Contact Conference Secretary, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Fusion Program, P.O. Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany; phone +49(0) 7247/82 6460; fax +49(0) 7247/82 6461.

Ninth European Fusion Theory Conference, 17 – 19 October 2001, Elsinore, Denmark. Contact Poul Michelsen, Risoe National Laboratory, OFD-128, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark; phone +45 4677 4540; fax +45 4677 4565.

Applications of High Field & Short Wavelength Sources IX 2001 Topical Meeting, 21 – 24 October 2001, Wyndham Palm Springs Hotel, Palm Springs, California USA. Contact Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1023 USA; fax  (202) 416-6140.

Frontiers of Surface Engineering 2001 (FSE2001), 28 October – 1 November 2001, Nagoya, Japan. Contact Y. Sakuma, Department of Materials Processing Engineering, Nagoya University, Fro-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; phone +81-(0)52-789-3259; fax +81-(0)52-789-3260. Abstract deadline is 10 May 2001.

AVS Forty-Eighth International Symposium, 29 October – 2 November 2001, Moscone Center and Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 29 October – 2 November 2001, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart. Mini-conferences include Applications of Helicon Plasma Sources (Earl Scime; phone 304-293-3422, x1437; fax 304-293-5732) and Reconnection in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas (Peter Gary; phone 505-667-3807; fax 505-665-7395).Abstract deadline is 20 July 2001.

First Euro-Mediterranean Symposium on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (EMSLIBS I), 2 – 6 November 2001, Helnan Royal Beach Resort, Ras-Sudr, South Sinai, Egypt. Contact M. Abdel Harith.

Ninth International Conference on Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology Nuclear Science Centre (HIAT 2001), 5 – 9 November 2001, New Delhi, India. Contact Amit Roy, Nuclear Science Centre, PO 10502, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India; fax +91-11-689-3666.

Nouvelles Tendances en Procédés Magnétron et Arc pour le Dépôt de Couches Minces, 15 – 16 November 2001, Bâtiment des Colloques, Université Paris-Sud Orsay, France. Contact Irène Pariso au LPGP, Université Paris XI – Bât. 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; phone +33 (0) 1 69 15 81 96.

FTU Workshop, 22 – 23 November 2001, Frascati, Italy. Contact Maria Polidoro; phone ++39 06 94005309; fax ++39 06 94005100. RF physics, Transport, MHD, Deep Fuelling, and High Density Operation will be covered.

Eighth International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics and Control Systems (ICALEPCS2001), 27 – 30 November 2001, San Jose, California USA. Contact Centennial Conferences, 4800 Baseline Road, Ste. A-112, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA; phone (303) 499-2299; fax (303) 499-2599. Topics include control and operation of particle accelerators, detectors, telescopes, fusion devices, nuclear reactors and other large experimental facilities.

Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Plasma Science and Fusion Research, 27 – 30 November 2001, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact NIFS.

Modern Facilities for Plasma Diagnostics and Their Application for Materials and Environmental Control, 28 – 30 November 2001, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia. Contact Alexandre Sergeevich Savjolov, Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow 115409, Russia; fax 7-095-324-7024.

International School on Fundaments and Frontier Problems in Plasma Physics, 3 – 14 December 2001, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. Contact Pablo Martin.

Eighth International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), 9 – 14 December 2001, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California USA. Contact Kathy Evans, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-048, Livermore, California 94551 USA; phone (925) 423-0813.

Third Meeting of the Venezuelan Physical Society, Caracas, Venezuela, 10 – 14 December 2001. Contact Alejandro Chataing.

Twelfth International Toki Conference and Third General Scientific Assembly of Asia Plasma and Fusion Association, 11 – 14 December 2001, Ceratopia Toki Conference Hall, Takayama 4, Tokitsu-cho, Toki-shi, Gifu-ken, 509-5121 Japan. Contact T. Kamimura, National Institute for Fusion Science, Oroshi-cho, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan; fax +81-572-58-2618. Abstract deadline is 31 August 2001.

Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics (Dynamic Days 2000), 5 – 8 January 2000, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, NM, USA. Contact Rod Garcia.

2000 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 10- 15 January 2000,  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Tenth International Toki Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (ITC-10), 18 – 21 January 2000, Ceratopia Toki Conference Hall, Toki City, Japan. Contact Nobuaki Noda, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki City 509-5292, Japan; phone +81-572-58-2152; fax +81-572-58-2618.

International Workshop on Basic Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Plasmas Interacting with Surfaces (BANPIS-2000), 28 – 30 January 2000, Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki, Japan. Contact K. Tachibana; phone 81-75-753-5304.

Eleventh Gaseous Electronics Meeting, 31 January – 2 February 2000, Armidale, NSW, Australia. Contact Gerry Woolsey, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia; phone +61 2 6773 3450; fax +61 2 6773 3413.

Interball Symposium, 1 – 4 February 2000, Kiev, Ukraine.  Contact Olga Verkhoglyadova. From solar corona through interplanetary space, into Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere: Interball, ISTP satellites, and ground-based observations.

Third Israeli Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, 9 February 2000, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Contact Michael Mond, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.

Fifth International Workshop on Advanced Plasma Tools and Process Engineering, 10 – 11 February 2000, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, USA. Contact AVS West, 1265 El Camino Real, Suite 109, Santa Clara, California 95050 USA; phone 408-246-3600; fax 408-246-7700.The abstract deadline is 3 November 1999.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop (ICC-2000: Progress and New Ideas), 22 – 24 February 2000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Contact Rob Goldston.

Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas (MR2000), 29 February – 4 March 2000, Tokyo, Japan. Contact University of Tokyo Symposium 2000; phone 03-5841-6686; fax 03-5841-6724.

Third High Tech Plasma Symposium, 7 March 2000, Institute of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. Contact Tsuguhiro Inaba.

Washington Fusion Day, 9 March 2000, Washington, DC, USA. Contact Mark Haynes.

Thirteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion, 13 – 17 March  2000, San Diego, California, USA. Contact HIF2000 Symposium Secretary, MS 47-112, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; phone (510) 486-6372; fax (510) 486-5392.

Twelfth APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 19 – 23 March, Reno, Nevada, USA. Contact R. C. Mancini, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557 USA; phone 775-784-6595; fax 775-784-1398. Abstracts due 15 Februsry 2000. Topics include atomic and molecular processes in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, atomic theory and experiment, atomic data compilation, plasma atomic kinetics, atomic processes in dense plasmas, line profiles, radiation transport, and plasma spectroscopy diagnostics.

Third International Workshop on Fluorocarbon Plasmas, 20 – 22 March 2000, Grenoble, France. Contact Jean-Paul Booth, Laboratoire de Spectromrie Physique, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, B.P. 87, 38402 Saint-Martin-d’Hes Cedex, France; phone +33 476.51.47 50; fax: +33 476 51 45 44.

Chapman Conference on Space Weather: Progress and Challenges in Research and Applications, 20 – 24 March 2000, Belleview Biltmore Resort and Spa, Clearwater, Florida USA. Contact Paul Song, University of Michigan, Space Physics Research Laboratory, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143 USA.

Second International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA), 26 – 30 March 2000, Keble College, Oxford, UK. Contact ICAMDATA. Applications to be discussed include astrophysics, gaseous electronics, industrial plasmas, and fusion.

Sherwood International Fusion Theory Conference (Sherwood 2000), 27 – 29 March 2000, University of California, Los Angeles California, USA. Contact Sherwood 2000, Physics & Astronomy, Box 951547, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 USA; phone 310-825-4789; fax 310-825-4057.The early registration deadline is 28 January 2000.

Twenty-Seventh Annual IOP Plasma Physics Conference, 27 – 30 March 2000, Brighton Conference Centre, Brighton, UK. Contact Rebecca Chapple, The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1N 3DH, UK; phone +44 (0)207 470 4800, fax +44 (0)207 470 4900.

Third International Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense Lasers, 30 March – 1 April 2000, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. Contact Edison Liang, Rice University, MS108, Dept. of Space Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX 77005-1892 USA; phone (713) 527-8750, ext. 3524, fax (713) 285-5143. The conference is intended to foster common areas of research between the fields of high energy-density plasma physics (accessed by intense lasers and pulsed power facilities) and astrophysics. Topics include Hydrodynamic instabilities in astrophysics; supernovae and supernova remnant evolution; astrophysical shocks, blast waves, and jets; relativistic plasmas; stellar opacities; equations of state; radiation and thermal transport; dense plasma atomic physics; x-ray photoionized plasmas; and ultrastrong magnetic field generation. The abstract deadline is 15 February 2000.

Third International Pulsed Plasma Surface Technologies Workshop and Tutorial, 4 – 8 April 2000, San Diego, California, USA.   Contact PPST 2000.

High Power Laser Ablation Conference, 23 – 28 April 2000, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Contact Claude Phipps.

Tenth Electromagnetic Launch Technology Symposium, 25 – 28 April 2000, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact Michelle Ramsey, Institute for Advanced Technology, University of Texas at Austin, 4030 W. Braker Lane, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78759-5329 USA; phone 512-232-4451; fax 512-471-1379.

Eighth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 26 – 28 April 2000, Bishop Lodge, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Contact Dan Winske, Plasma Physics Applications Group, Applied Theoretical and Computational Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; 505-667-2868.

Thirteenth US Transport Task Force Workshop, 26 – 29 April 2000, Radisson Hotel, Burlington, Vermont, USA. Contact Valerie Censabella, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 175 Albany St., NW17-107 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; phone 617-253-5456; fax 617-253-0627.

American Physical Society April Meeting, 29 April – 2 May 2000, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, USA.

Workshop on Physics Issues for Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE), 1 – 3 May 2000, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Contact Autumn Percival, phone 609-243-2653, fax 609-243-3315.

First IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2 – 4 May 2000, Doubletree Hotel, Monterey, California 93940-2490 USA. Contact Ralph Nadell, IVEC 2000, Palisades Institute for research Services, 411 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10003 USA; phone (212) 460-9700; fax (212) 460-5460. Formerly, Monterey Power Tube Conference.

Regional Conference on Plasma Research in 21st Century, 7 – 12 May 2000, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact Rattachat Mongkolnavin, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; phone 66 2 218 5307; fax 66 2 253 1150. The abstract deadline is 1 February 2000, and the registration deadline is 1 March 2000.

Tenth International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10), 14 – 19 May 2000. Contact Shohei Kato.

Seventeenth International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, 22 – 24 May 2000, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Contact Richard Sydora, U. Alberta, Canada. The abstract, preregistration, and housing registration deadline is 10 April 2000.

Fourteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactons in Controlled Fusion Devices (PSI-14), 22- 26 May 2000, Rosenheim, Germany. Contact Conference Secretary; phone 0572-58-2152; fax 0572-58-2618. The registration deadline is 2 May 2000.

Workshop on Waves in Dusty, Solar and Space Plasmas, 22 May – 26 May 2000, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.  Contact: Frank Verheest, Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Gent, Belgium; Phone: +32 9 264 4799; fax: +32 9 264 4989. The abstract deadline is 10 December 1999.

International Workshop on Warm Dense Matter, 29 – 31 May 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Contact Andrew Ng, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada.

Fourth International Workshop on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas, 30 May – 1 June 2000, Harnack-Haus, Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Contact Marlis Blaschke; phone +(49-30) 20366-101; fax +(49-30) 20366-111. Registration and abstract deadline is 17 March 2000. Topics include mechanisms of electron current saturation, accuracy of electron temperature measurements, techniques for measuring  ion temperature, application of multiple electrodes, robust probe tip constructions for high power loads, fluctuation measurements using probes, detection and consequences of non-thermal distributions, sheath and pre-sheath physics, and probes in recombining plasmas.

EUROEM 2000, 30 May – 2 June 2000, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Contact Conference Secretariat. This conference incorporates the 13th High Powered Electromagnetics (HPEM) Conference, the 5th Ultrawideband, Short-Pulse (UWB-SP) Conference, and the 5th Unexploded Ordnance and Range Remediation Conference. The registration deadline is 20 May 2000.

Fourth European Workshop on  Dusty and  Colloidal Plasmas, 3 – 5 June 2000, Costa da Caparica (Lisbon), Portugal. Contact G.M.W. Kroesen, phone +351 212948562, fax +351 212948558.

Twenty-Seventh IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 4 – 7 June 2000, Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Contact Michael Mazzola, Dept. of E&CE, Mississippi State University, PO Box 9571, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762 USA; phone 601-325-3658; fax (662) 325-2298. Topics include basic plasma processes, microwave generation and interactions, intense electron and ion beams, high energy density plasmas, industrial and commercial applications, diagnostics, and pulsed power.

Eighth Joint Vacuum Conference (JVC-8), 4 – 9 June 2000, Pula, Croatia. Contact M. Milun, Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 304, 10001 Zagreb, Croatia; phone (+385)-1-4680211; fax (+385)-1-4680399.

International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP-2000), 5 – 9 June 2000, Firenze, Italy. Contact Ennio Arimondo.

Nineteenth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 6 – 9 June 2000, Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technick2, Prague 6, Czech Republic. Contact Jan Pichal. Topics include tokamaks and other magnetic confinement devices, pulsed plasmas (laser plasma, plasma focus, z-pinch, particle beam – plasma interaction, X-ray sources), low temperature plasma, plasma technology, plasma diagnostics, and plasma theory and modelling.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Targets and Chambers, 7 – 9 June 2000, Madrid, Spain. Contact Guillermo Velarde, Instituto de Fusion Nuclear (DENIM), Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (E.T.S.I.I.), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Jose Gutierrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain; phone +34 91 336 3108; fax +34 91 336 3002; or U. Schneider, IAEA, Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21707; fax +43 1 26007.

Surface Analysis 2000, 7 – 9 June 2000, University Park, PA USA. Contact Jeffrey R. Shallenberge, 196 MRI Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA, phone 814-865-0337, fax 814-863-8561. Includes  short course on Plasma Etching and RIE.

IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT ’00), 11 – 17 June 2000, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact: Mr. Richard Sparks, 8 Richard Rd., Bedford, MA 01730 USA; phone (617) 862-3000; fax (617) 275-8179.

Twenty-Seventh EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 12 – 16 June 2000, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Sandor Zoletnik, KFKI-Research Institute for Partice and Nuclear Physics, P.O.B. 49, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary.

Twenty-Sixth European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter (ECLIM), 12 – 16 June 2000, Hotel Pyramida, Prague, Czech Republic. ContactECLIM 2000 Secretary, Institute of Physics, Czech Republic’s Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic; fax ++420-2-688 07 29. Topics include Inertial Confinement Fusion, Plasma Instabilities and Parametric Processes, Ultrashort Ultraintense Laser-Matter Interactions, Numerical Simulations of Laser-Produced Plasmas, X-Ray and Particle Laser-Plasma Sources, Nuclear Processes in Laser Produced Plasmas, High-Power Laser Engineering, and New High-Power Laser Facilities. The abstract deadline is 15 March 2000.

Seventh IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Fusion Reactor Safety, 13 – 16 June 2000, Cannes, France. Contact Pierre Sardain, DER/SERSI CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France; phone +33 4 4225 3759; fax +33 4 4225 7187; or T. Dolan, IAEA, Physics Section, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone +43 1 2600 21756; fax +43 1 26007 21756.

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP 2000), 14 – 17 June 2000, Storrs, CT, USA. Contact: Stephen Lundeen, Dept. of Physics, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA.

Third Europhysics Workshop on Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 18 – 19 June 2000, Stefania Palace, Budapest, Hungary. Contact Martin Hron, 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) 688 30 28; fax (+420 2) 6605 2907. Abstract deadline is 7 April 2000.

Thirteenth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 18 – 22 June 2000, Sherator El Conquistador Resort, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Contact Cris W. Barnes, P-24 MS-E526, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545 USA; phone (505) 665-5687; fax (505) 665-4409.

Thirty-First AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 19 – 22 June 2000, Denver Marriott Tech Center, Denver, Colorado, USA. Contact Wheeler K. McGregor Jr., Sverdrup Technology, Inc., 939 Avenue C, Arnold AFB, TN 37389-9900 USA; phone (931) 454-5964; fax (931) 454-4611. The abstract deadline is 8 October 1999.

Seventh International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 19 – 23 June 2000, Palais du Grand Large, Saint Malo, France. Contact Maurice Berland, LSAI, Bat 350, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; fax (33) 01 69 15 58 11.

Eighth Workshop on Plasma Technology, 22 – 23 June 2000, Hotel “Zur Talsperre”, Heyda,  Ilmenau, Germany. Contact Gabriele Nutsch, Ilmenau Technical University; phone ++ (0)3677-69-2835, fax ++ (0)3677-69-1533. Topics include plasma generation, fundamentals of thermal plasmas, plasma diagnostics, plasma modeling, thermal spraying, powder treatment by plasmas, and plasma CVD / PVD. Registration deadline is 10 June 2000.

Plasma and Astronomical Workshop (PAW 2000), 23 – 26 June 2000, Kitzbuehel, Austria. Contact Petr Kulhanek,  Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Physics, Technicka 2 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic; fax +4202 2435 2331. This workshop will treat behavior of the space and laboratory plasma and its modeling. Registration deadline is 30 April 2000.

Thirteenth International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (Beams ‘2000), 25 – 30 June 2000, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Contact Weihua Jiang, Extreme Energy Density Research Institute, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan; fax +81-258-47-9890. The abstract deadline is 20 December 1999.

IEE Plasma Technology Training School, 26 – 29 June 2000, Palace Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Contact Helen Pope, Groups Officer, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL; phone +44 (0)20 7344 5439; fax +44 (0)20 7497 3633.

International Workshop on Chaotic Transport and Complexity, 26 – 30 June 2000, Carry le Rouet, France. Contact  J. Durand, PIIM, Service 321, Center of University of St. Jerome, F1397 Marseille cedex 20, phone (+33) 4 91 28 8319, fax (+33) 4 91 28 8225.

Third International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement, 3 – 6 July 2000, Tsukuba, Japan. Contact T. Saito.

International Topical Conference on Colloidal Plasma Science, 3 – 7 July 2000, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Contact Tahir Farid, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; phone +49 234 700 3676; fax +49 234 709 4177. The conference covers collective processes in colloidal and dusty plasma sciences as well in strongly coupled systems with high-Z impurities.

Thirty-Second EGAS Meeting, 4 – 7 July 2000, Vilnius, Lithuania. Contact Zenonas Rudzikas, State Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, A.Gostauto 12, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania; phone +3702 225 361; fax +3702 225 361.

IEEE International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVESC 2000), 10 – 13 July 2000, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact Edwin Wintucky; phone (216) 433-3510. Abstract deadline is 31 March 2000.

Thirty-Seventh Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 10 – 21 July 2000, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Contact Kathy Patton, Summer School Administrator, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK; phone 44 1235 463635; fax 44 1235 464192. Application deadline is 19 May 2000.

Thirty-Third COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 16 – 23 July 2000, Warsaw, Poland. Contact COSPAR 2000, Max-Planck-Str. 13, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; phone (49)-5556-91376; fax (49)-5556-4709.

Science and Technology for Fusion Power, 17 July 2000, Institute of the Americas, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA.

Tenth International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI 2000), July 30 – August 3 2000, Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. Contact Donna Vercelli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, L-414, Livermore CA 94550 USA; phone (925) 422-8018; fax (925) 422-5940. Abstract submission and guaranteed housing deadline is 15 April 2000.

Third Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 31 July – 25 August 2000, Argentine Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Fabian Alvarez. The course will include surface processing and characterization techniques, tribological applications of plasma processing, production and characterization of hard coatings, country reports presented by the course participants, and visits to industrial establishments involved in plasma processing and in the use of plasma processed materials.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 13 – 18 August 2000, Tilton School, New Hampshire USA. Contact Darlene Graveline, Gordon Research Conferences, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, West Kingston, Rhode Island 02892-0984 USA; phone (401) 783-7644 ext. 105; fax (401) 783-7644.

Fifteenth Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, 26 – 30 August 2000, Miskolc-Lillafured, Hungary. ContactConference Secretary, Eotvos Lorand Physical Society, H-1371 Budapest, PO Box 433, Hungary; phone/fax +36-1-201-8682.

Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop on Theory of Fusion Plasmas, 28 August – 1 September 2000, Varenna, Italy.   Contact International School of Plasma Physics “Piero Caldirola”, Via Celoria, 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy; fax +39-2-64474212.

Twenty-First Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT), 1 – 15 September 2000, Madrid, Spain. Contact I. Garrido.

PPARC Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas, 3 – 7 September 2000, Warwick, UK. Contact S. Beaufoy, Physics Dept., Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. Registration deadline is 15 June 2000.

Thirteenth International Conference on Gas Discharges and their Applications (GD2000), 3 – 8 September 2000, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Contact A. Aked.

Eleventh European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide (Diamond 2000), 3 – 8 September 2000, Porto, Portugal. Contact Liz Reed.

Joint US-EU Transport Task Force Meeting, 4 – 7 September 2000, Varenna, Italy. Contact Donatella Pifferetti; fax +39 0341 732 490. Topics include transport barriers, turbulence, MHD instabilities and core transport. Registration and abstract deadline is 15 June 2000.

Twentieth Summer School and Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG2000), 4 – 8 September 2000, Yugoslavia. Contact Gordana Malovic, Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; phone +381-11-3160-598; fax +381-11-3160-190. Topics include atomic collision processes, particle and laser beam interaction with solids, low temperature plasmas, and general plasmas.

Tenth International Workshop on the Physics of Nonideal Plasmas (PNP10), 4 – 9 September 2000, Greifswald, Germany. Contact PNP10. The registration deadline in 1 January 2000.

Nonlinear Structures in Magnetized Plasmas, 6 – 9 September 2000, Tarusa, Kaluga region, Russia. Contact Semen Moiseev, Institute of Space Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117810 Russia; fax 007-095-310-70-23.

Matter in Super-Intense Laser Fields: EuroConference on Atoms and Molecules in Super-Intense Laser Fields, 9 – 12 September 2000, Acquafredda di Maratea (near Naples), Italy. Contact: Josip Hendekovic; phone +33 388 76 71 35; fax +33 388 36 69 87. Application deadline is 2 May 2000.

Seventh International Symposium on High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE VII), 10 – 13 September 2000, Greifswald, Germany. Contact HAKONE7. The registration deadline in 1 March 2000.

Twenty-First Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2000), 11 – 15 September 2000, Madrid, Spain. Contact I. Garrido, Asociación Euratom-CIEMAT para Fusión, Avenida Complutense 22, Edificio 6, E-28040 Madrid Spain; phone +34 913 466 636; fax +34 913 466 124. Topics include design, construction, and operation of fusion experiments, and technology for next generation experiments and for power plant devices. Abstract and registration deadlines are 31 March and 30 June 2000.

Eighth Ukrainian Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion,11 – 16 September 2000, Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine. ContactIgor Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics, National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaja St., 1, 310108 Bharkov, Ukraine; phone (057-2) 35-67-26; fax (057-2) 35-26-64. Abstract deadline is 30 Jun3 2000. The conference language is English.

Seventh International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE2000), 17 – 21 September 2000, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact H.-P. Wilbert, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und Oberflächentechnik e.V., Horionplatz 6, D-40213 Düsseldorf, Germany; phone + 49/(0) 211/132381; fax + 49/(0) 211/327199.

Thirteenth International Symposium on Gas Flow & Chemical Lasers – High Power Laser Conference (GCL-HPL 2000), 18 – 22 September 2000, Florence, Italy. Contact GCL-HPL 2000 Organizing Committee, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, ITALY; phone +39 55.23081; fax +39 55.2337755.

Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology, 18 – 22 September 2000, Minsk, Belarus. Contact Larissa Krat’ko.

Workshop on the Production of Intense Beams of Highly Charged Ions (PIBHI-2000),   24 – 27 September 2000, Catania, Italy.

First International Congress on Radiation Physics, High Current Electronics, and Modification of Materials, 24 – 29 September 2000, Tomsk, Russia. Contact Igor V. Pegel, Institute of High Current Electronics, 4 Akademichesky Ave., Tomsk 634055, Russia. Abstract and paper deadlines are 31 March and 30 June 2000.

Tenth International Conference Emerging Nuclear Energy System (ICENES 2000), 25 – 28 September 2000, Petten, The Netherlands. Contact M. Hofman; phone +31 324 56 4193; fax +31 224 56 3490.

Second ULIA Euroconference on Ultraintense Laser Interactions and Applications, September 29 – October 3, 2000, Pisa, Italy. Contact Leonida Gizzi, ULIA Scientific Secretariat, IFAM-CNR, Via del Giardino, 7-56127 Pisa, Italy; phone +39 050 3139031; fax +39 050 3139035. Topics include fast ignition inertial confinement fusion, propagation of intense fs pulses in plasmas, magnetic field generation,   x-ray and gamma-ray generation and applications, relativistic interactions and particle acceleration, and laboratory astrophysics.

AVS Forty-Seventh National Symposium, 2 – 6 October 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10005 USA; phone (212) 248-0200; fax (212) 248-0245.

Eighteenth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 4 – 10 October 2000, Sorrento, Italy. Contact Hildegard Schmid, MTCD Division, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-CN-77, Vienna International Center, P.O. Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; phone (+43) 1-2600-21316 (or -21311). See local web site for hotel and site information.

World Conference on Industrial Applications of Electrical Energy, 8 – 12 October 2000, Sheraton Roma Hotel, Rome, Italy. Contact Georges Zissis, C. P. A. T., Universite Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, 118 rte de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, FRANCE; phone +33 5 61556996; fax +33 5 61558447 or +33 5 61556332. Registration deadline is 31 March 2000. Plasma-related topics include Corona and Discharge Phenomena, Gas and Liquid Breakdown, Discharge Reactors; and Electrohydrodynamics.  Also may include tutorial on light sources.

International Workshop on Dense Magnetised Plasmas, 12 – 14 October 2000, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact Marek Scholz, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland.

Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Industrial Applications of Plasmas, 12 – 14 October 2000, Trieste, Italy. Contact Alan Wootton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, MS 488, Livermore, CA 94550 USA, phone (925) 422 6533, fax (925) 423 1076. Topics include various plasma diagnostic techniques, how to develop plasma diagnostic instruments, industrial applications of plasmas and plasma diagnostics, with emphasis on small plasma R&D programs, especially in developing countries.

Workshop on Confinement and Stability of Alternative Fusion Concepts, 12 – 16 October 2000, Villa Monastero Varenna, Italy. Contact SAIC, 10260 Campus Point Drive, San Diego, CA 92121 USA.

ANS Fourteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 15 – 19 October 2000, Park City, Utah. Contact Brad Merrill.

Forty-Second APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting and Tenth International Congress on Plasma Physics, 23 – 27 October 2000, Centre des Congres de Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Contact (for DPP) Allen Boozer, Dept. of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Columbia University, 500 W. Twelfth St., New York, New York 10027 USA; phone (212) 854-4785; or (for ICPP) Real Decoste, Hydro-Quebec, 1804 Blvd. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Quebec, Canada J3X 1S1.

Lithium Walls and Low Recycling Regimes in Tokamaks, held in conjunction with Forty-Second APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting. Contact Leonid Zakharov, Princeton University; phone. (609)-243-2630; fax (609)-243-2662. The focus will be on creation of edge temperature pedestals, suppression of energy transport, enhancement of stability, and improvement in tokamak performance by a low recycling plasma edge using lithium conditioning.

Plasma Propulsion Physics, held in conjunction with Forty-Second APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting.

Fifty-Third Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC00), 24 – 27 October 2000, Houston, Texas, USA. Contact Demetre Economou, University of Houston, Plasma Processing Laboratory, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas 77204-4792 USA; phone (713) 743-4320; fax (713) 743-4323.

Society of Automotive Engineers International Fall Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition, Non-Thermal Plasmas sessions, 27 – 28 October 1999, Sheraton Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact John Hoard, Ford Motor Company 2101 Village Road, P.O. Box 2053, MD3083SRL, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053 USA; phone (313) 594-1316; fax (313) 594-2923.

IEA Workshop W45-Fuelling: Core and Edge Density Control, 30 – 31 October 2000, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey USA.

Ninth International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 30 October – 3 November 2000, DoubleTree Resort, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Contact C. F. Hooper, Jr, Department of Physics, University of Florida, P. O. Box 118440, Gainesville, FL 32611-8440 USA.

Third Annual Directed Energy Symposium, 30 October – 3 November 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Registration deadline is 2 October 2000. Not all sessions are open to the public.

First IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Applications of Fusion Energy Research to Science and Technology, 30 October 30 – 3 November 2000, Chengdu, China. Contact Dai Bin, Southwestern Institute of Physics, P. O. Box 432, Chengdu 610041 China; fax +86-28-2932202. The meetings is to provide a forum for discussion of applications of fusion energy research to science and technology. This platform may strengthen the linkages and interactions between plasma, fusion and materials scienctists and engineers in both developing and developed countries.

Sixteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2000), 1 – 4 November 2000, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA. Contact Jerome Duggan; phone 940-565-3252.

Ninth Latin American Workshop in Plasma Physics, 6 – 17 November 2000, La Serena, Chile. Contact IXLAWPP.

NASA Advanced Propulsion Workshop in Fusion Propulsion, 8 – 10 November 2000, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama USA. Contact Paula Carden.

The Challenge of High Resolution X-Ray through IR Spectroscopy of Photoionized Plasmas, 15 – 18 November 2000, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky USA.

Hypersonic and Aerothermic Flows and Shocks, and Lasers: Plasma-Radiation-Surface Interactions, 20 – 24 November 2000, Meudon, France. ContactJean-Louis Bobin, UPMC T12-E3-4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 5, France.

Conference on Computational Physics 2000 (CCP2000), 3 – 8 December 2000, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Contact Peter Drummond, Department of Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia; phone +61 – 7 – 3365 3405; fax +61 – 7 – 3365 1242.

Eleventh International Toki Conference on Potential and Structure in Plasmas (ITC-11), 5 – 8 December 2000, Ceratopia Toki Conference Hall, Toki City, Japan. Contact National Institute for Fusion Science, Oroshi-cho 322-6, Toki City 509-5292 Japan; fax +81-572-58-2619.

Self-Organised Criticality and Turbulence in the Solar System, 8 December 2000, Burlington House, Picadilly, Central London, UK. Contact Sandra Chapman. Topics include recent theoretical developments and observations from solar and magnetospheric plasmas, and more general work in turbulence, self organization and self-organized criticality.

Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, 11 – 13 December 2000, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas USA. Contact Gerald Navratil, Columbia University.

Quantum and Classical Chaos, 11 – 22 January 1999, Canberra, Australia. Contact Heli Jackson.

Workshop on Cost-Effective Steps to Fusion Power, 25 – 27 January 1999, Marina del Rey Hotel (310 301-1000), Marina del Rey, California, USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA. Topics will include how to cost-effectively resolve critical issues for the tokamak concept, alternative magnetic concepts, inertial fusion energy, nuclear and plasma technologies, materials, power plant designs and development pathways. The deadline for submitting presentation summaries has been extended to 31 Deadline 1998.

Twenty-Second Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA ’99), 8 – 9 February 1999, Manning Clarke Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact Margaret Lanigan, Conference Manager, PMB 1, Menai NSW 2234, Australia; phone +61 (02) 9960 3603; fax +61 (02) 9969 9721. Applications include fusion energy, reactor studies, dusty plasmas, plasma sources, industrial applications, plasma surface interactions, and plasma diagnostic techniques. The deadline for submission of paper titles is 26 October 1998, and for registration and submission of camera ready copy of 2 or 4 page abstracts is 7 December 1998.

Twelfth Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes, 9 -13 February 1999, Liptovsky Jan, Slovakia. Contact Prof. Jan Skalny, Plasma Physics Department, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. The deadline for preliminary registration is 15 October 1998.

Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics III, 15 – 19 February 1999, Saillon (Valais), Switzerland. Contact Dr. Christoph Hollenstein; phone (+41) 21 693.34.71; fax (+41) 21 693.51.76.

Eleventh International School on Microwave Electronics and Radiophysics (MER’99), 20 – 25 February1999, Saratov, Russia. Contact Organizing Committee of MER’99, College of Applied Science, Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya, Saratov 410026, Russia; phone +7 (8452) 514294; fax +7 (8452) 514298. Topics include interaction between charged particles and electromagnetic fields, electrodynamics of microwaves, vacuum microelectronics, plasma microwave devices, relativistic microwave devices, and related nonlinear phenomena. The conference languages are Russian and English.

Bundesdeutsche Fachtagung fuer Plasmatechnologie (BFPT-9), 3 – 5 March 1999, University Stuttgart, Germany.

Third Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research: Review and Assessment, 8 – 12 March 1999, Washington, DC, USA. Contact Dr. Ronald Kirkpatrick, MS B229, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA; fax (505) 665-3456, or Dr. Julio Herrera, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, A.P. 70-543, Ciudad Universitaria, 04511 Mexico, D.F., Mexico; fax (52-5) 616-2233. The objective of these Symposia is to assess the benefits, applications, and spinoffs of nuclear fusion research, including both conventional and alternative approaches.

International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 22 – 24 Mar 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Contact Saralyn Stewart or Nermin Uchkan.

in conjunction with

APS Centennial Meeting, 22 – 26 March 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact APS Meetings Department, 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA; phone (301) 209-3286; fax (301) 209-0866. Details of special Centennial activities can be found at http://www.aps.org/centennial.

and

Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting. Contact Paul Neill, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA;.phone (702) 784-1307; fax (702) 784-1398.

IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference, 29 March – 1 April 1999, Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, UK. Contact R Alan Cairns, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK; phone +44 1334 463707; fax +44 1334 463748. Registration Deadline is 15 Jan 1999.

1999 Particle Accelerator Conference, 29 March – 2 April 1999, New York Marriott Marquis, New York, New York, USA. Contact Dr. W-T (Bill) Weng, Brookhaven National Laboratory, AGS Div., Bldg. 911-B, Upton, NY 11973-5000 USA; phone (516) 344-2135; fax (516) 344-5954.

Nonthermal Medical/Biological Treatments Using Electromagnetic Fields and Ionized Gases, 12 – 14 April 1999, Norfolk Waterside Marriott, Norfolk, Virginia USA. Contact Marcie Blanchard, KDH 231 – Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA; phone (757) 647-6497; fax (757) 588-3527. Abstracts due 11 January 1999.

Thirteenth Topical Conference on Applications of Radio Frequency Power to Plasmas, 12 – 14 April 1999, Annapolis, Maryland, USA. ContactStefano Bernabei.

Second International Symposium on Heat and Mass Transfer under Plasma Conditions, 19 – 23 April 1999, Antalya, Turkey. Contact: Prof. Pierre Fauchais, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Limoges, 123 Ave. A. Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France; phone +33 555457421; fax +33 5 55457211. Topics include Turbulence Phenomena in Thermal Plasmas, Plasma Transport Properties of Complex Mixtures Including Diffusion, Radiative Transport under Plasma Conditions, Non-Equilibrium Effects in Thermal Plasma Systems, Plasma-Wall Boundary Layers and Electrode Erosion Phenomena, Electromagnetically Induced Flow Effects in Plasma Systems, Plasma Particulate Interactions, Transport Processes in Dusty Plasmas, Rapid Solidification During Plasma Deposition, Particle Nucleation and Growth in Plasma Reactors, Waste Treatments and On-line Controls in Connection with Environmental Regulations, Material Behaviour under Extremely High Heat Fluxes (> 10⁹ W/m²), Flash Evaporation, Diagnostic Techniques in Plasma Chemical Applications, in Dusty Plasmas, in Particle Flattening and Splat Cooling, On-line Control in Plasma Processes, and New Branches of Plasma Physics and Transport Phenomena.

Process Control, Diagnostics, and Modeling in Semiconductor Manufacturing III, 195th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, 2 – 7 May 1999, Seattle, Washington USA. Contact M. Meyyappan.

Ultraintense Laser Interactions and Applications-1, 7 – 11 May 1999, Elounda, Crete, Greece. Contact Istituto di Fisica Atomica e Molecolare, CNR Pisa, Italy. Topics include generation of high power femtosecond laser pulses, interactions with atoms, molecules and clusters, propagation of intense fs pulses in plasmas, high harmonic generation and applications, x-ray generation and applications, and particle acceleration.

Fourth International Symposium on Plasma Process-Induced Damage (P2ID’99), 9 – 11 May 1999, DoubleTree Hotel and Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California, USA. Contact NCCAVS Business Office, 150 West Iowa Ave., Suite 104, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA; 408-737-0767; fax 408-737-2403. The Symposium will cover all plasma process-induced phenomena that cause changes in the electrical behavior of a silicon device or circuit. Discussion of damage caused by plasma-specific factors, such as charging, radiation (ions, photons, and electrons), reactive chemicals, contamination, and the synergistic interaction among these mechanisms will be included. Phenomena such as pattern- or location-dependent abnormal etch or deposition profiles, abnormal contact resistance, unusual dopant loss, and high levels of mobile ions are within the scope of the conference.

Solar Plasma Physics: Prospects for the Next Century, 10 – 14 May 1999, Birmingham, UK. Contact Vlahos, fax 30/31995384.

Second International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 24 – 28 May 1999, Hotel Kowaki-en, Hakone, Japan. Contact Dr. Toshiaki Yokota, Scientific Secretary, Faculty of Science, Ehime University, Bunkyo, Matsuyama, 790-77 Japan; fax 81-89-927-9606; or Y. Nakamura, Institute of Space and Astronomical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan. Topics include basic physics of dust-plasma interaction, dynamics of charged dust grains, charged dust grains in astrophysics, geophysics and space plasma, collective effects in dusty plasmas, strongly coupled dusty plasmas, dust in plasma processing and microelectronics, high-Z impurities in fusion plasma, plasma crystals, and charged dust grains in environmental research. The conference language is English.

Second International Symposium on Plasma Polymerization/Deposition: Fundamental and Applied Aspects, 27 -28 May 1999, Newark, NJ, USA. Contact Robert Lacombe, C4 Technologies, Inc., 3 Hammer Dr., Hopewell Junction, NY 12533, USA.

Scientific Symposium to Honor Harold P. Furth, 6 – 7 June 1999, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

in conjunction with

Status and Promising Directons for Field Reversed Configuration Research Workshop, 8 – 9 June 1999, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

IEE Plasma Technolgy Training School, 6 -11 June 1999, Palace Hotel, Buxton, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, England. Contact Helen Popeor R.I.Cherry, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5QD, United Kingdom; phone 0161-247 3572; fax 0161-247 6337. The school is aimed at PhD students, new graduates in companies who will be making routine use of plasma processing and established workers who are ‘Continuing Professional Development’. Topics include introduction to gas discharges and plasma processes, plasma systems – techniques and applications, plasma diagnostics and process monitoring, modelling and system engineering, and management of plasma technology. The registration deadline is 31 May 1999.

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG XXIV), 11 – 16 June 1999, Warsaw, Poland.

IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT ’99), 13 – 18 June 1999, Anaheim, California, USA. Contact Dr. Robert Eisenhart, 5982 Ellenview Ave., Woodland Hills, California 91367 USA, phone (818) 716-1995; fax (818) 713-1161.

Twenty-Ninth Anomalous Absorption Conference, 13 – 18 June 1999, Asilomar Conference Center, Asilomar, California, USA. Contact Mary Ann Soby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-411, Livermore, CA 94550; phone (925) 423-1102; fax (925) 423-2463. Abstracts due 10 April 1999; registrations due 30 April 1999.   Conference encompasses theoretical, computational, and experimental work relevant to high intensity electromagnetic waves in plasmas.

Eleventh IEEE Conference on Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, 14 – 18 June 1999, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, USA. Contact Thomas Kozlowski, MS H805, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; phone (505) 667-7747; fax (505) 665-2676.

Twenth-Sixth European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 14 – 18 June 1999, Maastricht Congress Centre (MACC), Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contact A.J.H. Donne.

in conjunction with

Second Workshop on Role of Electric Field in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 19 – 20 June 1999, Maastricht Congress Centre (MACC), Maastricht, The Netherlands.  Contact Ivan Duran, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, P.O.B. 17, 182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone (+420 2) 688 30 28; fax (+420 2) 6605 2907. Topics include formation and structure of edge and internal transport barriers, the role of ExB flow velocity shear as a trigger mechanism for improved confinement, mechanisms to generate and control sheared electric fields externally, the role of ExB drifts in SOL plasmas with divertor-imposed electric fields to manipulate the edge and SOL profiles and flows, and electric fields near RF antennas. The abstract deadline  is 20 March 1999.

Fourth International Conference on Dissociative Recombination: Theory, Experiment and Applications, 16 – 20 June 1999, Nässlingen, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. Contact Mats Larsson, phone +46 8 16 46 25, fax +46 8 34 78 17.

IAEA TCM on First Principle-Based Transport Theory, 21 – 23 June 1999, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact Dieter Biskamp.

Twenty-Sixth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 21 – 24 June 1999, Doubletree Hotel, Monterey, California, USA. Contact Christopher Deeney, Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1194, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1194; phone (505) 845-3657; fax (505) 845-7864. Abstract deadline is 18 January 1999. Two minicourses will be held in conjunction with the conference, Computational Methods in Plasma Physics and Plasma Processes for Thin Film Liquid Crystal Displays.

in conjunction with

Twelfth IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, 27 – 30 June 1999. Contact Teresa Montero, Maxwell Physics International, 2700 Merced St, PO Box 5010, San Leandro, CA 94577-0599, USA; phone (510) 577-7121; fax (510) 577-7108; or Hugh Kirbie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, L-535, Livermore, California 94550, USA; phone (510) 423-8224; fax (510) 423-2664. Abstracts due 18 December 1998.

Eighth SOHO Workshop: Plasma Dynamics and Diagnostics in the Transition Region and Corona, 22 – 25 June 1999, Orsay, France. Contact Jean-Claude Vial, Inst. d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Bat. 121, Univ. Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France; phone 33 1 69 85 86 31, fax 33 1 69 85 87 01.

International Workshop on Second Generation Plasma Accelerators, 27 June – 2 July 1999, Kardamyli, Greece. Contact smistry@mizar.usc.edu.

Thirtieth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 28 June – 1 July 1999, Marriot Convention Center, Norfolk, Virginia. Contact: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 500, Reston, VA 20191 USA; phone: 703-264-7500 or 800-639-2422.Topics include plasmadynamics, lasers, electromagnetics, diagnostics, and related topics in nonequilibrium, reacting flows.

GA of APFA’99 and APPTC’99 Conference, 5 – 7 July 1999, Seoul, Korea. Contact Kang-Ok Lee, KAPRA, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National Univ., San 56-1, Shinrim-dong, Kwanak-ku, Seoul 151-742, Korea; phone 82-2-883-0904; fax 82-2-887-6327. Topics include theoretical and experimental aspects basic plasmas, fusion plasmas, space plasmas, plasma processing and applications, beam physics, and related areas. The abstract deadline is 28 February 1999.

International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, 5 – 9 July 1999, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Thirty-Sixth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 5 – 16 July 1999, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Contact Julie Bright, Culham Summer School, UKAEA, Culham Division, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK; phone 44 1235 463773; fax 44 1235 463288. This international school is for students near the start of postgraduate courses, covering general plasma physics and controlled fusion research. No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed. Lecturers are drawn from laboratories and universities across Europe. Topics include plasma particle dynamics, waves in plasmas,kinetic theory, MHD, transport, computational techniques, chaos, fusion plasmas, space plasmas, laser plasmas, solar plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, gravitational plasmas, physical paradigms, diagnostics, industrial applications, and fusion engineering. The course language is English. The registration deadline is 21 May 1999.

CEMRACS 99 Summer School, 5 – 17 July 1999, Orsay, France. Contact Stephane Cordier. The registration deadline is 31 March 1999.

Thirty-First European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS) Conference, 6 – 9 July 1999, Université de Provence, Centre Saint-Charles, Marseille, France. Contact EGAS99.

Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas (IAU Symposium 195), 6 – 10 July 1999, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA. Contact Sachiko Tsuruta, Montana State University, Department of Physics, EPS 264, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA; phone (406) 994-3614; fax (406) 994-4452.

Enrico Fermi International School of Physics on Plasma Astrophysics, 6 – 16 July 1999, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy. Contact Elio Sindoni, Department of Physics, University of Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy; phone +39-02-2393.267, 6447.4210; fax +39-02-2392.205, 6447.4212.

PLASMA ’99: Research and Applications of Plasmas, 7 – 9 July 1999, Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. ContactLocal Organizing Committee for PLASMA’99, Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland; fax: (+48) 22 40 3131. Topics include elementary processes and general theory, tokamaks and tokamak-related experiments, Z-pinch and Plasma-Focus discharges, intense laser beam-generated plasmas, microwave and glow discharge plasmas, spark- and arc-discharges, space (ionospheric, planetary, and solar) plasmas, diagnostic methods and experimental facilities, applications of quasi-stationary and pulse plasmas. The deadline for registration is 1 December 1998, and for the 4-page camera-ready papers is 1 April 1999.

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG XXIV), 11 – 16 July 1999, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland. ContactJ.Wolowski, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., 00-908 Warsaw, P.O. Box 49, Poland; fax ( + 48 22) 666 83 72. Topics include kinetics, thermodynamics and transport phenomena; elementary processes; low-pressure glows; coronas, sparks, surface discharges and high-pressure glows; arcs; high-frequency discharges; ionospheric, magnetospheric, and astrophysical plasmas; plasma diagnostic methods; plasma wall interactions, electrode and surface effects; physical aspects of plasma chemistry, plasma processing of surfaces, and thin film technology; generation and dynamics of plasma flows; non-ideal plasmas (lusters and dusty plasmas); waves and instabilities, including shock waves; nonlinear phenomena, self-organization and chaos; particle and laser beam interaction with plasmas; plasma sources of radiation; numerical modelling; plasmas for environmental issues; highly ionized, low-pressure plasmas (plasma thrusters, ion sources and surface treatment); and high-pressure, non-thermal plasmas. A special topic to be emphasized ishigh-current discharges (Z-pinches, plasma-focus, plasma X-ray sources, etc.). The Conference Workshop on applications of plasma physics, open to all registered participants, is scheduled for the afternoon of 11 July.

1999 Fusion Summer Study, 11 – 23 July 1999, Snowmass, Colorado, USA. Contact Michael Mauel, Department of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA; phone (212) 854-4455; fax (212) 854-8257. This workshop, entitled “Opportunities and Directions in Fusion Energy Science for the Next Decade,” is open to the international fusion community, including experts in all approaches to magnetic and inertial fusion energy. The Summer Study will focus on key issues for plasma science, technology, and energy and environment for fusion energy development, and on opportunities and potential contributions of existing and possible future facilities and programs to reduce fusion development costs and achieve attractive economic and environmental features.

Second IAEA Technical Committe Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research, 19 – 21 July 1999, Lisboa, Portugal. Contact C. Varandas. The abstract deadline is 30 April 1999.

Fifth International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA 99), 19 – 23 July 1999, Goettingen, Germany. Contact Michael Stuke. The registration deadline is 31 Mar 1999.

Twenty-First Internatinal Conference on Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC XXI), 22 – 27 July 1999, Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan. Contact Michio Matsuzawa, Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182, Japan.

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International Seminar on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 22 – 30 July 1999, Toki, Gifu, Japan. Contact Takako Kato.

Fourth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 1 – 8 August 1999, Volga River cruise (Nizhny Novgorod to Saratov and back), Russia. Contact Dr.Anatoly Vikharev, Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; phone (8312) 365810; fax (8312) 362061; telex 151129 FIZIK SU. Deadlines are preregistration, 15 December 1998; 1-page abstracts, 30 March 1999; articles, 1 August 1999. Topics include high-power microwave sources, microwave current drive and heating of fusion plasmas, microwave discharges, non-linear plasmas processes (theory and microwave experiment), and other high-power microwave applications.

Workshop on Nonneutral Plasmas, 2 – 5 August 1999, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Contact Terry Greenberg or Dolores Lawson; phone (609) 243-3347.

Fourteenth International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC-14), 2 – 6 August 1999, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Viktor Sember.

Second Latin American Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 2 – 27 August 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact Adolfo Rodrigo, CNEA-JICA.

Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space, 9 – 13 August 1999, Hotel zur Post, Kreuth, Germany.   Contact Fritz Wagner, Max-Planck-Institut for Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2 85748, Garching, Germany; phone 089-3299-1961; fax 089-3299-2584. Registrations are due 8 March 1999, and abstracts 10 May 1999. Topics include  reconnection and magnetic helicity, solitary waves and related nonlinear plasma dynamics, vortex structures in laboratory, space, solar and other cosmical plasmas, energy transport and conversion in partially ionized plasmas, auroral physics, and dusty plasmas in laboratory, space, and the universe.

Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (MOP ’99), 9 – 14 August 1999, Paris, France. Contact DESPA – Observatoire de Paris, MOP 1999 Registration 5, Place J. Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex, France; fax: +33-1-4507-2806.

Eighteenth International Conference on X-ray and Inner-Shell Processes (X-99), 23 – 27 August 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact x99@anl.gov.

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics, 26 – 28 August 1999, University of Ghent, Belgium. Contact Christophe Leys, Department of Applied Physics, University of Ghent, Belgium.

Fourth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics, 30 August – 10 September 1999, Maasticht, The Netherlands. Contact Dr. E. Westerhof, FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica ‘Rijnhuizen’, PO Box 1207, 3430 BE; Nieuwegein, The Netherlands; phone +31 30 609 6960; fax +31 30 604 9326.The summer school will provide introductions to the theoretical and experimental aspects ofhigh-temperature plasma physics. It is primarily intended for PhD students and for undergraduate students in their last year. Participants areinvited to present their own work during two special eveningposter sessions. The conference language is English.

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 5 – 10 September 1999, Monterey, California, USA. Contact J. Heritage,University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 95616 USA; phone 1-530-752-6289; fax 1-530-752-8428. The conference will cover sources: lasers, free electron lasers, gyrotrons, synchrotrons, frequency mixing, calibration and standards; detectors: receivers, mixers, amplifiers, thermal and photon detectors; Schottky diodes, Josephson and SIS devices, imaging arrays, FET amplifiers; guided propagation and components: waveguides and other structures, Gaussian beams, integrated devices, optical fibres; spectroscopic techniques: interferometric, laser and heterodyne spectroscopy; spectroscopy of solids, liquids and gases; astronomy and atmospheric physics: techniques, results and interpretation; applications in biology and medicine; plasma interactions and diagnostics; and technical and industrial applications: imaging, remote sensing, non-destructive testing. The deadline for papers in 18 June 1999.

Eighth International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS’99), 6 – 10 September 1999, Kyoto, Japan. Contact Prof. Junzo Ishikawa, Dept. of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan; phone 81-75-753-5325; fax 81-75-753-5324.

International Topical Conference on Plasma, 6 – 10 September 1999, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. Contact Mr. Rui Guerra, ITCPP–99 Scientific Secretary, A. D. Fisica, UCEH, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8000 Faro, Portugal; phone 351 89 800914, ext 7636; fax: 351 89 818560. Topics include Waves in Fluids, Plasmas, and Optical Media; Wave-Wave Interactions and Nonlinear Structures; Waves in Random Media and Turbulence; Coherent Processes in Nonlinear Media; Physics of Non-Ideal and Dusty Plasmas; Generation of Coherent Radiation; Novel Methods for Charged Particle Acceleration; Nonlinear Problems in Astrophysics; Quantum-like models in Physics; and Transport Processes: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments. The conference language is English.

Plasma Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Astrophshysics, 6 – 10 September 1999, Kracow, Poland. Contact M. Ostrowski, Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, ul. Orla 171, Krakow, Poland 30-244.

First International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA ’99), 12 – 17 September 1999, University Bordeaux, France. ContactIFSA*99, ADERA Service Centre, Condorcet 162, Avenue Dr. Schweitzer, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France.

Fourth International Symposium “Radiation from Relativistic Electrons in Periodic Structures (RREPS’99)”, 13 – 16 September 1999, Baikal Lake, Russia. Contact rreps@npi.tpu.ru. The registration deadline is 15 Jul 1999.

Progress in Cosmic Gas Dynamics, 13 – 17 September 1999, Moscow, Russia. Contact Vladislav Izmodenov. The registration deadline is 15 May 1999.

First Euroconference on Atomic Phusics at Accelerators: Laser Spectroscopy and Applications(APAC99), 19 – 24 September 1999, Mainz – Budenheim, Germany.

Second International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS ’99), 20 – 24 September 1999, Osaka Sun Palace, Suita, Osaka, Japan. ContactAkira Kobayashi, Osaka Univ., phone 81-6-6879-8694, fax 81-6-6879-8689.

Eleventh International School on Vacuum, Electron and Ion Technologies (VEIT ’99), 20 – 25 September 1999, Varna, Bulgaria. Contact N. Guerassimov, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tzarigradsko Chaussee 72, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria; phone +359 2 750 757 or +359 2 7144 681; fax +359 2 9753 201. Topics include electron and ion beam sources, plasma physics, plasma processing and diagnostics, elementary processes in plasma and fluids, interaction of accelerated particles with matter, electron and ion beam modification of materials, ion-assisted and sputter deposition film growth, plasma and ion etching techniques, ion implantation and radiation effects in solids, microfocused electron and ion beam lithographic techniques, high-temperature superconducting thin films and applications, and surface and thin film analysis. The registration deadline is 19 September 1999.

Ninth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, 26 September – 1 October 1999, Tahoe City, California, USA.  Contact Lynette Lombardo. Topics include laser diagnostics and diagnostics aided by lasers for fusion plasmas, industrial process plasmas, environmental plasmas, and other plasma applications and processes related to plasmas. Hardware developments related to laser-aided plasma diagnostics also will be covered. The registration deadline is 17 June 1999.

Seventh IAEA TCM on H-mode Physics/Transport Barriers, 27 – 29 September 1999, Wadham College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact Gabriella Saibene.

International Stellarator Workshop, 27 September – 1 October 1999, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Contact J. F. Lyon, Fusion Energy Division, 9201-2, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2009, MS 8072, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8072, USA; phone +1-423-574-1179; fax +1-423-574-1191.

Frontier Science at the National Ignition Facility: Episode I, 4 – 6 October 1999, Pleasanton, California, USA. Much of the workshop will focus on plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics.

Seventh International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices, 4 – 6 October 1999, Toki, Gifu, Japan.

IAEA TCM on ECRH Physics and Technology for Fusion Devices, 4 – 8 October 1999, Oorai, Japan. Contact Tsuyoshi Imai.

Fifty-Second Gaseous Electronics Conference, 5 – 8 October 1999, Sheraton Waterside Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Contact Leposava Vuskovic, Old Dominion University; phone1-757-683-4611.

New Frontiers in Laboratory Astroplasma Physics, 8 October 1999, Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, Savile Row, London, United Kingdom. Contact Bob Bingham or Steve Rose, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Ninth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 10 – 15 October 1999, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Contact R. H. Jones, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory P.O. Box 999 Richland, Washington 99352 USA; phone 509-376-3701; fax 509-376-0418.

Sixth IAEA TCM on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems, 12 – 14 October 1999, Naka, Ibaraki, Japan. Contact H. Ninomya; phone 81-29-270-7324; fax 81-29-270-7419. The meeting will cover the experimental and theoretical status of alpha particle physics, energetic particle effects, Alfven eigenmodes and runaway electrons in fusion physics, and diagnostic developments.

Thirteenth IAEA TCM on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 18 – 20 October 1999, Chengdu, China. Contact Dai Bin, Southwestern Institute of Physics, P. O. Box 432, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China; fax +86-28-5581053. The meeting will cover approaches to fusion research based on small- and medium-scale devices, such as small tokamaks, reversed field pinches (RFP), helical devices, linear discharge machines, etc. The meeting also will cover non-magnetic confinement devices, devices using beams or lasers, and new trends or innovation concepts for fusion research.

Fusion Power for the 21st Century: Science and Technology for the New Millenium, 19 – 21 October 1999, Washington, DC, USA. Contact Fusion Power Associates, 2 Professional Drive, Suite 249, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA. Hotel rooms should be reserved before 18 September 1999 at The Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001 USA; phone (800) 321-3010.

Second Workshop on Fusion-Related Physics and Engineering in Small Devices, 20 – 22 October 1999, Miramare – Trieste, Italy. Contact Alan Wootton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, MS 488, Livermore, CA 94550 USA; phone (925) 422 6533; fax (925) 423 1076. The workshop will focus on the exchange of ideas and experiences to promote cooperation and collaboration between the largest established programs and smaller programs, particularly those from developing countries.

Eighteenth Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 25 – 29 October 1999, Hotel Sheraton Uptown, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Contact Michael A. Ulrickson, Sandia National Laboratory, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1129, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA; phone (505) 845-3020; fax (505) 845-3130.

Forty-Sixth International Symposium of American Vacuum Society, 25 – 29 October 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact American Vacuum Society, 120 Wall St., 32nd Fl., New York, NY 10005 USA; phone 212-248-0200; fax 212-248-0245.

Second IAEA TCM on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices, 25 – 29 October 1999, Fukuoka, Japan. Contact Satoshi Itoh; phone +81-92-583-7696; fax +81-92-573-6899. Topics include long pulse tokamak and stellarator discharges and advanced configurations, technologies for long-pulse operation of magnetic fusion devices, plasma-facing components, heating and current drive scenarios, control systems, diagnostics for long pulse operation, theory and modeling. The abstract deadline is 15 July 1999.

Astrophysical Plasmas: Codes, Models and Observations, 25 – 29 October 1999, Mexico City. Contact Jane Arthur, UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-264, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico; phone (52-43) 236162; fax (52-43) 236165.

Autumn College on Plasma Physics, 25 October – 19 November 1999, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Miramare – Trieste, Italy. Contact Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Autumn College on Plasma Physics, P. O. Box 586, Strada Costiera 11, I-34100 Trieste, Italy; phone +39 040 2240544; telex: 460392; fax: +39 040224163. The theme is Plasmas – a Paradigm for Collective Phenomena. Scientists and students from all countries that are members of the UN, UNESCO or IAEA can attend the College. The college language is English.

Eighth European Fusion Theory Conference, 27 – 29 October 1999, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. Contact C. Allocchio; phone +39 02 66173 260; fax +39-02-66173 239. Topics include multidimensional equilibria and operational limits, magnetic topology, macroinstabilities and magnetic reconnection, microinstabilities, turbulence and transport processes, plasma rotation and radial electric fields, alpha particle physics, RF heating, current drive, helicity injection and non resonant forces, plasma edge and divertor physics, and computational methods in magnetic fusion research and related areas. The abstract deadline is 30 June 1999.

Twenty-First Dry Process Symposium, 11 – 12 November 1999, Waseda University, International Conference Center Tokyo, Japan. Contact N. Ikegami, c/o Office Sofiel, Miyazawa Bldg. 601, 1-6-7 Iwamoto-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0032, Japan; phone +81-3-5821-7120; fax +81-3-5821-7439.

Forty-First APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, 15 – 19 November 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact Saralyn Stewart. Includes Mini-Conferences on Turbulence in the Intersteller Medium and Solar Wind, Plasma Propulsion Physics, Dusty Plasmas, and Computational Studies of Complexity in Turbulent Plasmas.

First European Symposium on Plasma Process Induced Damage (ESPID’1), 25 – 26 November 1999, Toulouse, France. Contact SFV, 19 Rue du Renard, 75 004 Paris, France; phone +33(0)1 53 01 90 30; fax +33(0)1 42 78 63 20.

Plasma Symposium, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 29 November – 3 December 1999, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact Francis Gitzhofer University of Sherbrooke, Plasma Technology Research Center, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; phone 819-821-8000 x-3112; fax 819-821-7903.

Electrical Discharges for Lighting, 3 December 1999, London, UK. Contact IEE.

1998 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 5 – 10 January 1998, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Mission Earth ’98: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, 11 – 14 January 1998, Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California. Contact: Jin-Yi Yu, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA; phone (310) 825-9205; fax (310) 206-5219.
Held in conjunction with the 1998 Society for Computer Simulation International Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation.

Second “Guillermo Haro” Astrophysics Conference on Intersteller Turbulence, 12 – 16 January 1998, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico. Contact: Intersteller Turbulence, Astrofisica, INAOE, Luis Enrique Erro 1, Tonantzintla, Puebla 72840, Mexico; phone: (52-22) 472-011; fax: (52-22) 472-231.

The U.S. Particle Accelerator School, 19-30 January 1998, Austin, Texas, USA. Contact: Susan Winchester.

Second Europhysics Topical Conference on RF Heating and Current Drive of Fusion Devices, 20 – 23 January 1998, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: M.C. Houzet or G.Van Oost (ERM/KMS), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.

Tenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting, 28 – 30 January 1998, National Measurement Laboratory, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, Lindfield (Sydney), NSW, Australia. Contact: Dr Tony Murphy, CSIRO Telecommunications & Industrial Physics, P.O. Box 218, Lindfield NSW 2070; phone: (02) 9413 7150; fax: (02) 9413 7204.

Sixteenth International Conference on the Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP), 10 – 12 February 1998, Santa Barbara, CA. Contact: Viktor Decyk.

Atmospheric Pressure Discharges for Chemical Synthesis, 18 February 1998, Savoy Place, London, UK. Contact: Dr. R. I. Cherry, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5QD, UK; phone: 0161-247 3572; fax: 0161-247 6337. Registration: IEE; phone: 44 (0) 171 240 1871, ext. 2205/2206. The meeting will cover research, development, and application of near atmospheric pressure plasmas for varied applications, including chemical synthesis, deposition, waste treatment and surface modification.

First Israeli Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, 28 February 1998, Tel Aviv, Israel. Contact: Prof. Michael Mond.

Numerical Astrophysics 1998, 10 – 13 March 1998, National Olympic Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Dr. Kazunari Shibata, National Astronomical Observatory; fax: +81-422-34-3700.

IEA Workshop on: Tritium Experience in Large Tokamaks; Applications to ITER, 16 – 18 March 1998, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Second International Workshop on Fluorocarbon Plasmas, 16 – 20 March 1998, Grenoble, France. Contact: Jean-Paul Booth, Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier-Grenoble; phone: +33 4 76 51 47 50; fax: +33 4 76 51 45 44.

Eleventh APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 22 – 26 March 1998, Auburn, Alabama, USA. Contact: Prof. Eugene Oks, APP98, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849; phone: (334) 844-4264.

1998 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 23 – 25 March 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact: James Hanson, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849 USA; phone: 334-844-5044.

International Topical Conference on Non-Ideal Plasmas, 23 – 27 March 1998, Goa, India. Contact: H. C. Pant.

Laboratory Space Science Workshop, 1 – 3 April 1998, Cambridge, MA, USA. Contact: plsmith@cfa.harvard.edu

Seventh Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 5 – 9 April 1998, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Contact: Mihaly Horanyi, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0392, USA; phone: (303) 492-6903; fax: (303) 492-6946. Topics will include dusty plasma theory and laboratory experiments (charging, charged dust dynamics, waves and instabilities, strong coupling); atmospheric, space and astrophysical applications; and industrial and environmental applications.

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop, 6 – 9 April 1998, The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, New Jersey, U.S.A. Contact: Dolores Lawson, Office of the Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P. O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA; phone: 609-243-3554; fax: 609-243-2749.Note that the workshop Oral Sessions will be broadcast over the Internet using both CU-SeeMe and MBONE tools.

Twenty-Fifth Annual Institute of Physics Plasma Physics Conference, 6 – 9 April 1998, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact: Dr. A. W. Morris.

Fifth International Conference on Charged Particle Optics, 14 – 17 April 1998, Delft, The Netherlands. Contact: Elly van der Most, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands; phone: 31-15-2781497.

1998 Joint APS/AAPT April Meeting, 18 – 21 April 1998, Columbus, OH.

SPIE International Symposium on High-Power Laser Ablation, 26 – 30 April 1998, Santa Fe Hilton Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contact: Claude R. Phipps, Photonic Associates; phone: 505-983-7556.

Fifth Open Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, 27 – 30 April 1998, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact: Olena Petrova.

Forum for Major Next-Step Fusion Experiments, 27 Apr – 1 May 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Contact: James W. Van Dam, Institute for Fusion Studies, RLM 11.222, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1068, USA; phone: +1-512-471-6129; fax: +1-512-471-6715. The objectives of the forum are to identify a range of options and objectives for major next-step experiments in support of fusion energy development with broad community involvement; establish a broad consensus within the community around the pursuit of a few options whose implementation would be contingent on domestic and international budget developments; and issue a report summarizing the areas where consensus has been reached, establish a context and strategy for pursuit of any next-step options, and identify issues which remain unresolved with a plan for addressing them at a follow-on meeting tentatively planned for May or June.

Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics (IBER98-III), 4 – 7 May 1998, Mira, Coimbra, Portugal. Contact: Prof. A.J.C. Varandas.

International Workshop on Cyclotron-Resonance Masers and Gyrotrons, 18 – 21 May 1998, Kibbutz Ma’ale Hachamisha, Israel.

Thirteenth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices, 18 – 22 May 1998, San Diego, California. Contact:M. A. Mahdavi, General Atomic Corp.

Advanced Technologies Based on Wave and Beam Generated Plasmas (NATO Advanced Study Institute), 22 May – 1 June 1998, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Contact: Prof. Dr. H. Schlüter, Ruhr-University Bochum, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, NB 5/67, 44780 Bochum Germany; fax: +(49) 234-7094 643.

Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Plasma Tools and Process Engineering, 26 – 27 May 1998, Clarion Hotel, Millbrae, California, USA. Contact: PLASMA WORKSHOP 98, NCCAVS, 150 West Iowa Ave., Suite 104, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA; fax: (408) 737-2403. Sponsored by the Plasma Etch Users Group of the American Vacuum Society. Topics include plasma sources; processes, chemistries & manufacturability; process control, diagnostics & monitoring; tool subsystems; and cleaning and emission abatement.

The Forty-Second International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 26 – 29 May 1998, Westin Hotel, 909 North Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, USA. Contact: Al Wagner; phone 914-945-1962.

1998 Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP98), 27 – 30 May 1998, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Contact: James S. Cohen, T-4, MS B212, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; phone: (505) 667-5751; fax: (505) 665-6229.

Twenty-Fifth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 1 – 4 June 1998, North Raleigh Hilton Hotel and Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina. Contact: John Gilligan, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University, PO Box 7901, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695; phone (919) 515-3939; fax: (919) 515-7951. The program, “New Diversity of Plasma Science,” will commemorate the 25th anniversary of ICOPS. A two-day minicourse by Prof. Reece Roth on Industrial Plasma Engineering will be held on 4 – 5 June in conjunction with the conference.

Fourth International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation, 2 – 4 June 1998, Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Contact: Joseph V. Mantese; phone: 810-986-0886.

Eighth International Symposium on Gaseous Dielectrics, 2 – 5 June 1998, Virginia, USA. Contact: Loucas G. Christophorou.

Fusion Power Associates Conference, 3 – 5 June 1998, Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Contact: Stephen O. Dean.

Third International Symposium On Plasma Process-Induced Damage (P2ID ’98), 3 – 5 June 1998, Hilton Hawaii Village Hotel, Honolulu, HI, USA. Contact: Della Miller; phone: (408) 737-0767; fax: (408) 737-2403.

Twelfth Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 7 – 11 June 1998, Princeton, NJ. Contact: Robert Kaita, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451; phone: (609) 243-3275; fax: (609) 243-2418.

Twelfth International Conference on High Power Particle Beams (BEAMS’98), 7 – 12 June 1998, Haifi, Israel. Contact: The Secretariat, BEAMS’98, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500 Israel; phone: 972 3 514 0000; fax: 972 3 517 5674.

1998 International Microwave Symposium (IEEE/MTT-S), 7 – 12 June 1998, Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact: Mr. Steven Stitzer, Westinghouse Electric Corp. P.O. Box 1521, MS 3T15, Baltimore, MD 21203; phone: (410) 765-7348; Fax:(410) 993-7747.

Modern Facilities for Plasma Diagnostics and Their Application for Materials and Environmental Control, 8 – 9 June 1988, Moscow State Engineering and Physics Institute, MEPhI, Moscow, Russia. Contact: A. S. Savjolov; phone: (095) 323-9321, (095) 323-9319; fax: (095) 324-7024.

58th Annual Conference on Physical Electronics (PEC ’98), 14 – 17 June 1998, University Park, Pennsylvania. Contact: Renee Diehl, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Eleventh International Conference on High Power Electromagnetics (EUROEM ’98), 14 – 19 June 1998, Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Contact:Secretariat EUROEM ’98, P.O. Box 50006, Tele-Aviv, Israel; phone: (972)-3-5140000; fax: (972)-3-5140077.

Twenty-Ninth AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 15 – 18 June 1998, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Contact: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 500, Reston, VA 20191 USA; phone: 703-264-7500 or 800-639-2422. Topics include aero-optics, computational electromagnetics, nonequilibrium plasma kinetics and radiation, magneto hydrodynamics, optical and laser-based diagnostics, chemical oxygen iodine lasers, plasma materials processing, hydrogen fluoride lasers, plasma propulsion, application of plasma to RF/microwave system design; and high enthalpy aerothermodynamics.

Conference on Crossed Field Devices and Applications (CFDA 98), 17 – 19 June 1998. Contact: Joe Genevich Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA; fax: 617-373-5185.

Ninth International Symposium on Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy, 21 – 25 June 1998, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Twelvth International Conference on Ion Inplantation Technology, 22 – 26 June 1998, Kyoto, Japan. Contact: Isao Yamada.

Eleventh Symposium on Elementary Processes and Chemical Reactions in Low Temperature Plasma, 22 – 26 June 1998, Liptovsky Jan, Low Tatras, Slovakia.

Fourteenth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, June 22 – 26 1998, State College, Pennsylvania USA.

Ninth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES’98), 28 June – 2 July 1998, Tel Aviv, Israel. Contact: Louis Tepper.

Workshop on Remote Participation in Fusion Experiments, 28 – 29 June 1998, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University, 7 Brehova str., Prague 1, Czech Republic. Sponsored by the Remote Participation Working Group of the IEA Fusion Power Coordinating Committee, and held in conjunction with:

1998 International Congress on Plasma Physics and Twenty-Fifth EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 29 June – 3 July 1998, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: J. Stockel, Institute of Plasma Physics.

Beam Dynamics & Optimization (BDO’98), 29 June – 3 July 1998, St.Petersburg, Russia. Contact: Alexander Ovsyannikov.

Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, 6 – 8 July 1998, Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Ivan Duran, Institute of Plasma Physics, PO BOX 17, Za Slovankou 3, 182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic; phone: +420.2.688 30 28; fax: +420.2.6605 29 07.

International Workshop on Plasma-Focus Research (PF’98), 6 – 8 July 1998, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Contact: Dr. R. Miklaszewski, PF’98 Organizing Committee, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, P. O. Box 49, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland. Topics include breakdown phenomena, plasma dynamics, pinch phase, electron and ions beams, X-rays emission, fusion products, plasma instabilities, technological applications, and numerical modeling.

Edge-Plasma Theory and Simulation Workshop (EPTSW), 6 – 8 July 1998, Victor Franz Hess Building, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Contact: Siegbert Kuhn, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; phone: (#43-512) 507-6206; fax: (#43-512) 507-2919. The workshop will focus on inhomogeneous plasmas in the interface between bulk plasma regions and material surfaces or vacuum, including edge plasmas in areas such as fusion, industrial discharges, fundamental plasma-physics experiments, and satellite design. Emphasis is on theory and modeling with experimental comparison strongly encouraged. The workshop will be followed by

Edge-Plasma Simulation Course, 9 – 10 July 1998, Innsbruck University Computer Center. Contact: C. K. Birdsall, EECS Dept., Cory Hall #1770, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-1770 USA; phone: (510) 643-6631; fax (510) 642-6330.

Eighth Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts, 6 – 11 July 1998, Renaissance Harbor Place Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. Contact: Victor Granatstein, Chair; c/o Carol Bellamy, Institute for Plasma Research, Building #223, Paint Branch Drive, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3511 U.S.A; phone: (301) 405-4964; fax: (301) 314-9437. Topics include Novel Collider Concepts and Beam Physics at Very High Energy Densities; Plasma-Based Acceleration Concepts; Novel Structure-Based Acceleration Concepts; Beam Generation, Monitoring, Conditioning, Control at High Frequency and Ultrafast Time Scales; Particle Beam Sources; and Radiation Sources.

Thirty-Second COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Plenary Meeting, 6 – 11 July 1998, Nagoya, Japan. Contact: Atsuhiro Nishida; phone: +81-427-51-3911

Thirty-Fifth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 6 – 17 July 1998, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Contact: Mrs. Julie Bright, UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 DB, UK; phone: 44 1235 463773; fax: 44 1235 463288. The School is intended for students near the start of postgraduate courses. No previous knowledge of plasma physics is assumed. It covers a broad curriculum: Plasma particle dynamics, Waves in plasmas, Kinetic theory, MHD, Transport, Computational techniques, Chaos, Fusion plasmas, Space plasmas, Laser plasmas, Solar plasmas, Astrophysical plasmas, Gravitational plasmas, Physical paradigms, Diagnostics, Industrial applications, and Fusion engineering. Laboratory tours are included.

Seventh International Workshop on Laser Physics (LPHYS’98), 6 – 17 July 1998, Berlin, Germany.

Second International Vacuum Electron Sources Conf. (IVESC ’98), 7 – 10 July 1998, AIST-Tsukuba Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan. Contact: Mr. M. Yoshikawa, Tsukuba Information Lab; phone/fax: +81-298-58-1111/52-0844.

Sixth European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, 14 – 18 July 1998, Siena, Italy.

Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology (APCPST’98) and Eleventh Symposium on Plasma Science for Materials (SPSM’98), 27 – 29 July 1998, Holiday Inn, Coogee, Sydney, NSW Australia. Contact: R.W. Boswell, RSPhysSE, The Australian National University, Canberra 0200 Australia; phone: (06) 249 3442; fax: (06) 249 2575. Topics include Plasma Surface Interaction, Inductively Coupled Plasmas, Thermal Plasmas and Plasma Spraying, Corona Discharges and Environmental Issues, Plasma Diagnostics, Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation, Gas Phase Collisions, Theory of Discharges, Modeling and Simulation, Pulsed Plasmas, Plasma Synthesis, and Plasma Generation.

International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement, 27 – 31 July 1998, Novosibirsk, Russia. Contact: E. P. Kruglyakov, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics; phone: (3832) 359772; fax: (3832) 352163; OS98@inp.nsk.su

Chapman Conference on Magnetic Helicity in Space and Laboratory Plasmas, 28 – 31 July 1998, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Contact: AGU Meetings Department.

Sixteenth International Conference on Atomic Physics, 3 – 7 August 1998, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Course on Plasma Processing of Materials, 3 – 28 August 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact: Dr. Adolfo Rodrigo, Argentine Atomic Energy Commission. Open to sixteen participants from Latin American R & D laboratories and official organizations active in surface processing or related fields. The selected applicants will receive a fellowship to cover their travel, insurance and living expenses during the course. The course will include basic and  topical lecture modules as well as a practical hands-on training on the production of hard metallurgical coatings by plasma CVD and PVD techniques and on multiple surface characterization techniques.

Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 9 – 14 August 1998, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire, USA. Registration: Darlene Armstrong, Gordon Research Conferences, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, West Kingston, RI 02892-0984, USA; phone: 401-783-4011, ext. 105; fax: 401-783-7644. Abstract submission: Dr. G. M. W. Kroesen, Faculty of Physics, University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; phone: +31-40-2474357 or 2472550; fax +31-40-2456050.

Eighteenth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV), 17 – 21 August 1998, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Contact: Dr. Carla L.A. Schreurs, Congress Office, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; phone: (31)-41-247-4849; fax: (31)-40-245-8195.

Surface Engineering for Protechtion of Metals and Alloys: Surface State of Metals and Alloys and its Modification for Protection, 21 – 26 August 1998, Granada, Spain. Contact: J. Hendekovic.

Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics in Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG98), 26 – 29 August 1998, Dublin, Ireland. Contact: Sam Fahy.

Hong Kong Electron Devices Meeting, 29 August 1998, Hong Kong Univ. of Technology, Hong Kong, China. Contact: Dr. Charles Surya, Dept. of EE, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, China; phone: (852) 2766-6220; fax: (852) 2362-8439.

Eighth International Symposium on Light Sources (LS-8), 30 August – 3 September 1998, Greifswald, Germany. Contact: Gerd Babucke, Institute for Low Temperature Plasma Physics, Robert-Blum-Str. 8-10, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany; phone: (+49)-(0) 3834-554411; fax (+49)-(0) 3834-554302.

Theory of Fusion Plasma (Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop), 31 August – 4 September 1998, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Contact: Dr. J. Vaclavik, CRPP/EPFL, PPB-Ecublens, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; or Prof. E. Sindoni, ISPP, 16 Via Celoria, 20133 Milano, Italy; phone; + 39-2-2392267; fax; +39-2-2392205. Topics include Anomalous Transport (Turbulence, Coherent Structures, and Microinstabilities), RF Heating and Current Drive, Non Axisymmetric Configurations, Macroinstabilities and Magnetic Reconnections, and Theoretical Aspects of Plasma-Edge Physics and Divertors.

Ninteenth Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG ’98), 31 August – 4 September 1998, Cigota Hotel, Zlatibor, Yugoslavia. Contact: Nikola Konjevic or Ivan Videnovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics, Studentski trg 12-16, P. O. Box 368, 11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia; phone: (+381-11) 630-152 ext.124; fax: (+381-11) 328-2619. Scientific topics include Electron and Photon Interactions with Atomic Particles, Heavy Particle Collisions, Swarms and Transport Phenomena, Atomic Collisions in Solids, Sputtering and Deposition, Laser and Plasma Interaction with Surfaces, Plasma Spectroscopy and Other Diagnostics Methods, Gas Discharges, Plasma Applications and Devices, Fusion Plasmas, Astrophysical Plasmas, and Collective Phenomena.

International Symposium On Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, 31 August – 5 September 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: Anatoly Boreisho.

Sixteenth ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop on Nonlinear and Collective Phenomena in Beam Physics, 1 – 5 September 1998, Arcidosso, Italy. Contact:Melinda Laraneta.

Ninth International Workshop on the Physics of Nonideal Plasmas (PNP-9), 6 – 11 September 1998, Rostock, Germany. Contact: Ronald Redmer; phone: +381-498-1615; fax: +381-498-2857.

US-European Transport Task Force Workshop “Transport in Fusion Plasmas”, 7 – 10 September 1998, Göteborg, Sweden.

Twentieth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT98), 7 – 11 September 1998, Marseille, France.

Seventh Workshop on Fast Ion-Atom Collisions, 9 – 11 September 1998, Debrecen, Hungary.

MFE-IFE Workshop, 14 – 16 September, 1998, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 USA. A Technical Workshop to bring together researchers from the Magnetic Fusion Energy (MFE) and Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) communities.

Sixth Ukrainian Conference and School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 14 – 20 September 1998, Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine. Contact: Dr. Igor Garkusha, Institute of Plasma Physics, National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaja St., 1, 310108 Kharkov, Ukraine; phone: (057-2) 35-67-26; fax: (057-2) 35-26-64. Topics include magnetic confinement (stellarators, tokamaks, etc.), ITER and fusion reactor aspects, electromagnetic waves in plasmas, plasmadynamics and plasma-wall interaction, plasma electronics, plasma technologies, plasma diagnostics, and collisional processes. The official conference language is English.

International Kharkov Symposium Physics and Engineering of Millimeter and Sciences Sub-Millimeter Waves (MSMW), 15 – 17 September 1998, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine. Contact: Dr. Alexander I. Nosich, IRE of National Academy of Sciences, ul Proskury 12, Kharkov 310085, Ukraine; phone: (380)-572-44-1105; fax: (380)-572-44-1105.

Fifth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Tecnology, 19 – 24 September 1998, Rome, Italy. Contact: Maria Polidoro; phone: +39-6-94005309; fax: +39-6-94005100.

First General Assembly of the Asian Plasma and Fusion Association (APFA’ 98) and Third Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference (APPTC’ 98), 21 – 25 September 1998, Beijing, China. Contact: Dr. Jing-Hong Li or Dr. Shao-Ping Zhu, Conference Secretary, P. O. Box 8009-12, Beijing 100088, China.

International Workshop on Advanced Quantum-like Models, Semi-Classical Physics and Coherence, 21 – 25 September 1998, ASICTP, Trieste, Italy. Contact: Dr. S. Khan, Scientific Secretary, AQSC–98, INFN Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy; phone: +39-49-8277137; fax: +39-49-8277112. The conference will focus on common models that are relevant to particle accelerator physics, plasma physics, nonlinear dynamics, quantum optics, superconductivity, mesoscopic gravitation, stochastic mechanics, and semi-classical physics.

Fifth Zababakhin Scientific Talks on High Energy Density Physics, 21 – 25 September 1998, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia. Contact: B.K. Vodolaga, Deputy Director, VNIITF; fax: 7-351-72-32070.

Physics at the Turn of the 21st Century, 28 September – 2 October 1998, St Petersburg, Russia. Contact: B. Egorov.

Twenty-Eighth European Microwave Conference, 5 – 9 October 1998, RAI Congress Center. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Contact: Prof. D. Vanhoenacker-Janvier, Universite Catholique de Louvain, EMIC (Microwave Lab.), Batiment Maxwell, B-1340 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium; phone: (32)-10472304; fax: (32)-10478705.

Workshop on Fusion Related Physics and Engineering in Small Devices, 7 – 9 October 1998, Miramare – Trieste, Italy. Contact: International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy; phone: +39 40 2240111. The workshop is intended for experimental groups involved in relevant research on small devices. The workshop language is English.

Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Plasma Technologies and Applications, 9 – 10 October 1998, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Contact: Prof. Kwang-cheol Ko, School of Electrical & Computer Eng., Hanyang University, Seongdong-ku, Seoul, 133-791, Rep. of Korea; phone: +82-2-290-0348; fax: +82-2-296-0228. The official language of the workshop is English.

International Workshop on Hydrogen Recycle at Plasma Facing Materials, 15 – 16 October 1998, Sanjo Kaikan Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Prof. M. Yamawaki, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; phone: +81-3-3812-2111, ext. 7422; fax: +81-3-5684-0229. The workshop aims to bring together experts in plasma physics, solid state physics and material engineering to discuss phenomena of the plasma surface interaction relevant to hydrogen recycling in fusion devices.

Eighth International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics (Megagauss VIII), 18 – 23 October 1998, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Contact: Ysonde Jensen, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32310; phone: (904) 644-0311; fax: (904) 644-0867. The conference is to provide the latest results on generation of magnetic fields at the megagauss level and higher, and to present up-to-date highlights of state-of-the-art research in these extremely high magnetic fields. The program includes topics such as generation of megagauss fields, production of non-destructive megagauss fields, handling of extremely high power densities in the range of terawatts, application of ultra-high fields in technology, and others. The scientific contributions include solid state physics, atomic physics, chemistry, theory, and others. One session will be devoted to the results of the Dirac-series that convincingly demonstrated the importance of the availability of fields to and about 100 T to science.

Society of Automotive Engineers Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, 19 – 22 October 1998, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: John Hoard, Ford Research Laboratory, Mail Drop 3083 SRL, P.O. Box 2053, Dearborn, Michigan, 48121, USA; phone: (313) 594-1316; fax: (313) 594-2923. Includes sessions covering the use of electrical discharge plasmas or plasma-catalyst systems for reduction of NOx, hydrocarbon, or particulate emissions from diesel and gasoline engine vehicles.

Fifty-First Gaseous Electronics Conference and Fourth International Conference on Reactive Plasmas, 19 – 22 October 1998, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Contact: Charles Fleddermann, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EECE Building, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; phone: (505) 277-5628; fax: (505) 277-1439.

Seventeenth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 19 – 24 October 1998, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: Dr. Masafumi Azumi, Department of Fusion Plasma Research, Naka Fusion Research Establishment, JAERI, Mukoyama, Naka-Machi, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan; phone: 81-292-70-7300; fax: 81-292-70-7419; or T. Dolan, IAEA.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Spherical Tori and Fourth International Workshop on Spherical Tori, 26 – 28 October 1998, University of Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Dr. Toshifumi Itagaki, Katsurai Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656  Japan; fax : 81 +3-5684-3985. Each IAEA TCM participant must be nominated by his or her government. The official language of the joint meeting is English.

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 26 – 28 October 1998, Shonan-Village Center, Japan. Contact:Ryuichi Shimada.

IV Escuela Venezolana De Relatividad, Campos Y Astrofísica, 1 – 6 November 1998, Mérida, Venezuela.

Sixth Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, 2 – 6 November 1998, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, USA. Contact: Dr. Shu T. Lai, Air Force Research Laboratory, VSBS, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-3010 USA; phone: 781-377-2932; fax: 781-377-3160.

Forty-Fifth International Symposium of American Vacuum Society, 2 – 6 November 1998, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact:AVS98@avsSymposium.org.

Fifteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, 4 – 7 November 1998, Denton, TX. Contact:Jerome L. Duggan, Accelerator Conference, University of North Texas, Department of Physics, P O Box 5368, Denton, TX 76203-0368 USA.

Fortieth APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, 16 – 20 November 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Contact: Saralyn Stewart,University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, 26th & Speedway, RLM 11.214, Austin, TX 78712, USA; phone: (512) 471-4378; fax: (512) 471-6715.

Eighth Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP98), 24 – 28 November 1998, Tandil, Argentina. Contact: Local Organizing Committee.Minicourses will be conducted on 16 – 20 November 1998 in conjunction with the conference.

Fifth Brazilian Conference on Physics of Plasmas (EBFP), 30 November – 4 December 1998, Águas de Lindóia – SP, Brazil.

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 6 – 9 December 1998, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: Ms. Phyllis Mahoney, Widerkehr & Associates, 101 Lakeforest Blvd., Suite 270 Gaithersburg, MD; phone: 20877 (301) 527-0900;fax: (301) 527-0994.

Ninth International Toki Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (ITC-9), 7 – 11 December 1998, Ceratopia Toki Conference Hall, Toki City, Japan. Contact: Prof. Yukihiro Tomita, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki City 509-5292, Japan; phone: +81-572-58-2261 or 2246; fax: +81-572-58-2626. The working language of the Conference will be English.

Twelvth National Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, 29 December 1998 – 2 January 1999, Udaipur, India.

Soft X-Rays in the Twenty-First Century, 9 – 11 January 1997, Midway, Utah. Contact: R. Steven Turley, Brigham Young University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 263 FB, P.O. Box 24360, Provo, UT 84602-4360; phone: (801) 378-3095; fax: (801) 378-2265; email: turley@volta.byu.edu

Seventh Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, 20 – 31 January 1997, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. Contact: Julio Puerta, email: jpuerta@usb.ve or LAWPP97@fis.usb.ve

Industrial & Academic Research on Laser Ablation, 20 – 21 January 1997, Belfast, UK. Contact: Dr R M Bowman; email: r.m.bowman@qub.ac.uk

Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Physics II, 17 – 21 February 1997, Bad Honnef, Germany.

Second International Workshop on Laser Plasma Interaction Physics, 19 – 22 February 1997, Banff, Canada. Contact: Hector Baldis: phone: 510-422-0101; fax: 510-423-0238; email: baldis1@llnl.gov

Second Workshop on Plasma Polarization Spectroscopy, February/March 1997, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Contact: Peter Beiersdorfer; email:beiersdorfer@llnl.gov

Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop, 3 – 6 March 1997, Courtyard by Marriott, Marina del Ray, California 90292 (Voice: 310/822-8555, Fax: 310/823-2996). Contact: Rob Goldston; phone: 609-243-3172; email: rgoldston@pppl.gov or Ron Kirkpatrick; phone: 505-667-7208; email:rck@lanl.gov. The purpose of the workshop is to advance the plasma and fusion science of innovative confinement concepts, through active dialog, free discussion, and structured focus on the full range of scientific issues.

US-Japan Joint Institute for Fusion Theory (JIFT) Workshop on Large-Scale Plasma Simulation and Visualization, 5 – 7 March 1997, Boulder, Colorado.

Second Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research, 10 – 14 March 1997, Washington, D.C. Contact: Ronald C. Kirkpatrick; fax: 505-665-3456; email: rck@lanl.gov

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Drivers and Ignition Facilities for Inertial Fusion, 10 – 14 March 1997, Osaka, Japan.  Contact: T. J. Dolan; phone: +43-1-2060-21756; email: dolan@ripol.iaea.or.at

FUSION ’97 – International Workshop on Heavy-Ion Collisions at Near-Barrier Energies, 17 – 21 March 1997, New South Wales, Australia.

Twenty-fourth Annual U.K. Plasma Physics Conference, 24 – 27 March 1997, Leeds, United Kingdom. Contact: Glen Harris; phone: +44-0114-2738673; email: g.r.harris@sheffield.ac.uk

Twelfth Topical Conference on RF Power in Plasmas ,1 – 3 April 1997, Savannah, GA. Contact: Philip M. Ryan, Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2209, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8071; phone: 423-574-1133; fax: 423-576-7926; email: ryan@ornl.gov

Fourth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-4), Tokyo, Japan.  Contact: T. Tanaka; email:isfnt4@hooker.gen.utokyo.ac.jp

Tenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating, 6 – 11 April 1997, Ameland, Netherlands. Contact: Mrs. Jeanne Marie Hamers; phone: 31-30-609-6999; fax: 31-30-603-1204; email: ec10@rijnh.nl

Atoms and Molecules in Strong External Fields, 8 – 11 April 1997, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany.

Fourth Open Young Scientists’ Conference at Kiev Shevchenko University – Astronomy and Space Physics, 9 – 12 April 1977, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact: Yuri Khotyaintsev; email: astdept@astrophys.ups.kiev.ua

Thirteenth International Conference on Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena, 13 – 18 April 1997, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calfornia. Contact: George H. Miley or Celia M. Elliott, LIRPP’97 — Fusion Studies Laboratory, 100 NEL, 103 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801-2984; phone: (217) 333-3772; fax: (217) 333-2906; email: g-miley@uiuc.edu or cmelliot@uiuc.edu

American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics Meeting. Contact: Rich Lingenfelter, University of California, San Diego, Center for Astrophysics, 0111 La Jolla, California 92093; phone: (619) 534-2464; fax: (619) 534-2294; email: rlingenfelter@ucsd.edu

in conjunction with

1997 Joint April APS/AAPT Meeting, 18 – 21 April 1997, Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC. Contact: APS Meetings Department, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844; phone: (301) 209-3286; fax: (301)209-0866; email: meetings@aps.org

1997 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 28 – 30 April 1997, The Wisconsin Center, Madison, Wisconson. Contacts: James Callen, University of Wisconson at Madison; phone (608) 263-8142; fax: (608) 262-6707; email: callen@engr.wisc.edu; and Barbara Griffith, conference secretary; email: griffith@engr.wisc.edu

in conjunction with

Transport Task Force Meeting, 23 – 26 April 1997. Contact: Jim Callen; email: callen@engr.wisc.edu

and

Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Workshop, 30 April – 1 May 1997. Contact: Bruce Cohen; email: bcohen@llnl.gov

and

Nonlinear MHD and Extended-MHD Workshop, 30 April – 2 May 1997. Contact: Wonchull Park; phone: (609) 243-2637; email: wpark@pppl.gov

Second International Symposium on Plasma Process-Induced Damage, 12 – 14 May 1997, Monterey, California. Contact: NCCAVS Business Office; phone: 408-737-0767; fax 408-737-2403; email: nccavs@technicalmarketing.com

1997 Particle Accelerator Conference, 12 – 16 May 1997, The Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, B.C. Contact: Elly Driessen, Triumf, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 2A3; (604) 222-7352; fax: (604) 222-1074; email: pac97@triumf.ca  The program now is available on the internet.

Twenty-Fourth IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 19 – 22 May 1997, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California. Contact: Jay Hyman; phone: (310) 317-5495; fax: (310) 317-5840; email: jhyman@hrl.com, and ICOPS ’97 Registration Manager; phone: (619) 535-0052; fax: (619) 535-8252; email: planners@conceptsmeet.com

CIP 97: Eleventh International Colloquium on Plasmas Processes, 25 – 29 May 1997, Le Mans, France.  Topics include polymers, deposition, etching, metallurgical coatings, and plasma cleaning.  Short courses, an exhibition, and lab visits will be held in conjunction with the conferences.  The language of the conference is English.  Contact: D. Celier, SFV, 19 Rue du Renard, Paris, France; phone: +33 1 53 01 90 30; fax:  +33 1 42 78 63 20; email: sfv@club-internet.fr

Seventh Joint Vacuum Conference of Hungary, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia, 26 – 29 May 1997, Debrecen, Hungary. Contact: Dr. Sandor Bohatka; email: bohatka@atomki.hu

Forty-First International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 27 – 30 May 1977, Dana Point, Calfornia.  Contact: Anthony Novembre, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Room 1C-261, 700 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ 07974; phone: 908-582-3304; fax: 908-582-2300; email: aen@bell-labs.com

Fourth International Conference on High-Density Z-Pinches, 28 – 30 May 1997, University of British Columbia Conference Center, Vancouver, Canada. Contact: N. R. Pereira; email: zp4@ppdu.nrl.navy.mil

Thirty-Seventh Cracow School of Theoretical Physics: “Dynamics of Strong Interactions”, 30 May – 10 Jun 1997, Zakopane, Poland. Contact: Jan Czyzewski; email: zakopane@if.uj.edu.pl

Third Volga International Summer School on Space Plasma Physics, 1 – 11 June 1997, Nizhniy Novgorod/Volga River, Russia. Contact: Lev Erukhimov; phone: +7-8312-36-01-88, fax: +7-8312-36-99-02; email: iss97@nirfi.sci-nnov.ru

Fifth International Conference on Electron Beam Technologies, 2 – 5 June 1997, Varna, Bulgaria. Contact: Prof. G.Mladenov, Institute of Electronics, 72 Tsarigradsko shose, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria; phone: 3592 74-31-377; 47-78-08; fax: 3592 9753201 ; 477808; email:MLADENOV@BGEARN.ACAD.BG

Fourth International Symposium on Sputtering and Plasma Processes (ISSP ’97), 4 – 6 June 1997, Kanazawa, Japan. Contact: Minoru Inoue; phone: +81-594-24-5507; fax: +81-594-24-1576; email: iinoue@mie.ed.fujitsu.co.jp

IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT ’97), 8 – 13 June 1997, Denver Convention Center, Denver, Colorado.  Contact: John Dunn, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Campus Box 425, Boulder, Colorado 80309; phone: (303) 492-5920; fax: (303) 492-5323; email: dunn@boulder.colorado.edu

Twenty-Fourth European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 9 – 14 June 1997, Berchtesgaden, Germany. Contact: Michael Schittenhelm; phone: +89-3299-4154; fax: +89-3299-4313; email: Schittenhelm@ipp-garching.mpg.de or Mrs. Anne Eggeling; email:eggeling@ipp-garching.mpg.de

Los Alamos Summer School in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 9 June – 1 August 1997, Los Alamos, NM.

International Workshop on High Power Microwave Generation and Pulse Shortening, 10 – 12 June 1977, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinbourgh UK.  Contact: PPL Ltd., Savoy Place London WC2R OBL; phone: 00 44 (0)171 344 5477; fax: 00 44 (0)171 240 8830; email:hpm@iee.org.uk

International Symposium on Plasma Research and Application (PLASMA ’97), 10 – 12 June 1997, Jarnoltowek, Poland.  Contact: Marek Sadowski , email: plasma97@uni.opole.pl.

Two-Dimensional Turbulence in Plasmas and Fluids, 16 June – 11 July 1997, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Contact: Prof. Robert L. Dewar; email: robert.dewar@anu.edu.au

Eighteenth Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, 17 – 20 June 1997, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Jan Pichal; email: pichal@feld.cvut.cz

The Interrelationship Between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and Space (IPELS97), 23 – 27 June 1997, Maui, Hawaii. Contact: Walter Gekelman, UCLA; email: gekelman@physics.ucla.edu

Eleventh IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, 29 June – 2 July 1997, Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, Maryland. Contact: Ms. Linley Conroy, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6770, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375-5346; phone: (202) 767-0449; fax: (202) 767-2012; email:ppc97@ppc97-www.nrl.navy.mil; or Gerald Cooperstein, Conference Chair; phone: (202) 767-2290; fax: (202) 767-0436; email:cooperstein@nrl.navy.mil

Thirty-Fourth Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 7 – 18 July 1997, Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Contact: Mrs Julie Bright; phone: +44-1235-463773; fax: +44-1235-463474; email: julie.bright@ukaea.org.uk

International Symposium on Plasma and Flow Simulation for Materials Processing (ISPFS’97), 10 – 11 July 1997, Sendai, Japan. Contact: email:ISPFS97@ifs.tohoku.ac.jp

Twenty-Ninth European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy Annual Meeting, 15 – 18 July 1997, Berlin, Germany. Contact: H.-D. Kronfeldt; phone: +49-30-3142-4807; fax: +49-30-3142-2742; email: kf@mail.physik.tu-berlin.de

International Workshop on Positron Interactions with Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters, 16 – 18 July 1997, Nottingham, United Kingdom. Contact: Edward A. G. Armour; email: eaga@maths.nott.ac.uk)

Twenty-Third International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG XXIII), 17 – 22 July 1997, Toulouse, France. Contact: Marie-Claude Bordage; phone: +33-5-61-55-86-80; fax: +33-5-61-55-63-32; email: icpig@cpa22.ups-tlse.fr

International Symposium on Electron- and Photon-Molecule Collisions and Swarms, 19 – 22 July 1997, Engelberg, Switzerland. Contact: Michael Allan; email: Michael.Allan@unifr.ch

Fourth International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA ’97), 21 – 25 July 1997, Asilomar Conference Center, California. Contact: Richard E. Russo; phone: (510) 486-4258; fax: (510) 486-4260; email: rerusso@lbl.gov 

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Data Acquisition and Management for Fusion Research, 22 – 24 July 1997, MPI f. Plasmaphysik (IPP), Garching, Germany.  Contact: Friedrich Hertweck, Chairman, Scientific Programme Committee, email: hertweck@ipp-garching.mpg.de orschneidu@ripo1.iaea.or.at

Twentieth International Conference on Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, 23 – 29 July 1997, Vienna, Austria. Contact: Friedrich Aumayr, Institut fur Allgemeine Physik, Technische Universitat Wien; email: ICPEAC97@iap.tuwien.ac.at

Workshop on Nonneutral Plasmas, 29 July – 1 August 1997, Boulder, CO. Contact: John Bollinger, NIST (MS 847.11), 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303; phone: (303) 496-5861; fax: (303) 497-7375; email: john.bollinger@nist.gov

Fifteenth International Seminar on Ion-Atom Collisions (ISIAC XV), 31 July – 1 August 1997, Budapest, Hungary.

1997 Diamond Conference, 3 – 8 August 1997, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, UK. Contact: enquiries@global-meeting.co.uk

The 1997 International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, 3 – 10 August 1997, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact: Gabor J. Kalman; email: kalman@bc.edu

Seminar on Plasma Processing of Materials, 4 – 8 August 1997, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact: Adolfo Rodrigo, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica-CAC; phone: (54-1) 754-7239; fax: (54-1) 754-7378; email: rodrigo@cnea.edu.ar

Thirteenth International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC-13), 19 – 23 August 1997, Beijing, China. Contact: Lin He, The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; email: cstam@sun.ihep.ac.cn

in conjunction with

Seventh Asia-Pacific Physics Conference, 19 – 23 August 1997, Beijing, China. Contact: Hou Rucheng, Institute of High Energy Physics; email:appc7@sun.ihep.ac.cn

PC97: International Conference on Computational Physics, 25 – 28 August 1997, Santa Cruz, California. Contact: Barry Klein, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616-8677; phone: (916) 752-4088; fax: (916) 752-4717; email: comp97@physics.ucdavis.edu

Third International Workshop “Thermal Plasma Torches and Technologies”, 25 – 31 August 1997, Novosibirsk, Russia. Contact: Prof. Oleg P.Solonenko, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya 4/1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; phone: +7 (3832) 354642; fax: +7 (3832) 352268; email: solo@itam.nsc.ru

IAU Symposium on the Hot Universe, 26 – 30 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Contact: T. Fukusima, National Astronomical Observatory; email:iau97@tenmon.or.jp. Held in conjunction with the Twenty-Third General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.

Pathways to Fusion Power, Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Convention, 27 – 29 August 1997, Snowmass, Aspen, Colorado.  Contact: Ruth Watkins; email: 72570.707@compuserve.com

Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, 27 August – 2 September 1997, Villa Monastero, Varenna (Lc), Italy. Contact: Mrs. D. Pifferetti (for registration and accommodations), Secretariat Villa Monastero, 1 Piazza Venini, 22050 Varenna (Lc), Italy; phone: +39-341-831261; fax: +39-341-831281; email:ccvm@ccvm.cil.lc.it or Dr. M. Lontano (for abstract submission), Istituto di Fisica del Plasma “Piero Caldirola” del CNR, Via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy; fax: +39-266-173239; email: lontano@ifp.mi.cnr.it

International Workshop on the Spherical Torus ’97, 3 – 5 September 1997, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: Lyudmila Kondrat’eva; email:stws@gtr.ioffe.rssi.ru

Diagnostics for Experimental Fusion Reactors, 4 – 12 September 1977, Varenna, Italy. Contact: Mrs. Donatella Pifferetti; email: ccvm@ccvm.cil.lc.it

First Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, 5 – 8 September 1997, Seoul, Korea. Contact: Dr. Hanjung Kim, Ansung National University; phone: +82-02-883-0904; email: hangjung@alliant.snu.ac.kr

Seventh International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS97), 7 – 13 September 1997, Taormina, Italy. Contact: Giovanni Ciavola, INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 44, 95123 Catania, Italy; phone: +39-95-542300; email: ICIS97@lns.infn.it

Fifth IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Alpha Particle Physics in Fusion Research, 8 – 11 September 1997, JET, Culham, UK.  Contact: Jean Jacquinot, Chairman, Organizing Committee; email: JGJ@JET.UK

Twelvth International Conference on Gas Discharges and Their Applications, 8 – 12 September 1977, Greifswald, Germany. Contact: Dr. G. Babucke, Institut fur Niedertemperatur Plasmaphysik; phone: +49-3834-554411; fax: +49-3834-554301; email: gd97@public.inp.uni-greifswald.de

Third Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma Physics, 8 – 19 September 1997, Spa, Belgium. Contact: G. van Oost; phone: +49-2461-615626; fax: +49-2461-613331; email: g.vanoost@kfa-juelich.de

Sixth International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices, 15 – 17 September 1977. Contact: G. C. Vlases; phone: +1235-46-4552; fax: +1235-46-4905; email: george.vlases@jet.uk

in conjunction with

Atomic Processes in Low Temperature Edge Plasmas, 18 September 1997, Exeter College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact: S. Krasheninnikov; phone (617) 253-8449; fax (617) 253-5805; email: annam@psfc.mit.edu

International Symposium on Lasers, Atomic and Molecular Physics, September 16 – 20 1997, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact: lamp97@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on H-Mode Physics, 22 – 24 September 1977, Kloster Seeon, Germany. Contact: Hartmut Zohm; email:zohm@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de

Third International Workshop on Electrical Probes in Magnetized Plasmas, 22 – 25 September 1997, Berlin, Germany. Organized by the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik in Garching, Germany. Contact: Marlies Blaschke, conference secretary; phone: +49-30-20366-103; fax: +49-30-20366-111; email: probe.workshop@ipp-garching.mpg.de

Eighth International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD-8), 22 – 26 September 1977, Doorwerth, Netherlands. Contact: Mrs. L. van Veenendaal; phone: +31-30-6096-733; fax: +31-30-6031-204 email: lapd8@rijnh.nl

Third Euroconference on Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions, 22 – 26 September 1997, Ferrara, Italy.

Particle-Solid Interactions and Strong Perturbations, 23 – 28 September 1997, San Sebastian, Spain. Chairman: A. Salin, Talence, France. Contact: Josip Hendekovic, European Science Foundation; email: euresco@esf.org

Second Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 24 – 26 September 1997, Toki, Japan. Contact: Yuji Nakamura, Conference Secretary: email:nakamura@energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp

International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications, 29 September – 2 October 1997, Gaithersburg, MD.  Contact: W.L. Wiese, Conference Chair; phone: (301) 975-3201; or P.J. Mohr, Conference Secretary; phone: (301) 975-3217; email: icamdata@nist.gov

Eleventh International Stellarator Conference and Eighth International Toki Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion (ITC-8), 29 September – 3 October 1997, Toki-city, Japan.  Contact: S. Sudo, NIFS; phone: +81-52-789-4273; fax: +81-52-789-4203; email: itc8@nifs.ac.jp

Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan Division of Plasma Physics and Fusion, 5 – 8 October 1997, Kobe, Japan.

First Asia-Europe International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (AEPSE’97), 5 – 9 October 1977, Seoul, Korea.  Contact: Dr. Hanjung Kim, Department of Electronic Control and Measurement, Ansung National University; phone: +82-334-70-5291; email: kapra@alliant.snu.ac.kr

Fiftieth Gaseous Electronics Conference, 6 – 9 October 1997, Madison, Wisconsin.  Contact:  Thad G. Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706; phone: (608) 262-4093; fax: (608) 265-2334; email:walker@uwnuc.physics.wisc.edu

Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 6 – 10 October 1997, Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.

International Workshop on Spherical Torus Volumetric Sources and Applications, 13 – 15 October 1997, The Stratford Inn, 710 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, California.  Contact: Dr. Edward Cheng, TSI Research, Inc., 225 Stevens Ave, Suite 203, Solano Beach CA 92075; phone: (619) 793-3567; fax: (619) 793-0569; email: etcheng@cts.com

Autumn College on Plasma Physics, 13 October -7 November 1997, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.  Contact: email:smr1012@ictp.trieste.it

ULSI Technology and Its Plasma Processing Equipment, 19 October 1997, San Jose, California.  Contact: Keith Mitchell, AVS; phone: 212-248-0325; fax: 212-248-0245; email: keith@vacuum.org

in conjunction with

AVS Forty-fourth National Symposium (Technical Programs, Topical Conferences, Short Course Programs, and Equipment Exhibition), 20 – 24 October 1997, San Jose, California. Contact: American Vacume Society, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10005; phone: 212-248-0200; fax: 212-248-0245; email: avsnyc@vacuum.org

Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy (IAEA-TCM), 20 – 23 October 1997, Pleasanton, California.  Contact: Ms Gloria Davalos,  L-637, LLNL, PO Box 808, Livermore, California 94551; fax: (510) 424-6401; email: davalos1@llnl.gov

Eighth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-8), 26 – 31 October 1997, Sendai, Japan. Contact: Hideki Matsui, Tohoku University; email: icfrm8@fusion.imr.tohoku.ac.jp

International Conference on Perspectives of Collective Effects, 10 – 14 November 1997, Trieste, Italy. Contact: Padma Shukla; email: ps@tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices, 11 – 13 November 1997.  Contact: email: schneidu@ripo1.iaea.or.at

Thirty-Ninth APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, 17 – 21 November 1997, Pittsburgh Convention Center and Doubletree Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA. Contact: Saralyn Stewart; email: stewart@hagar.ph.utexas.edu or Nathaniel Fisch, PPPL, Princeton University, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543; phone: (609) 243-2643; fax: (609) 243-2662; email: email: fisch@princeton.edu

Fourteenth Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Plasma Science and Fusion Research, 25 – 28 November 1997, Osaka Univ. Convention Center, Osaka, Japan. Contact: email: jspf@nifs.ac.jp

Twelvth National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology, 2 – 5 December 1997, Bhat, Gandinagar, India.  Contact: Institute for Plasma Research; email: plasma97@plasma.ernet.in

1997 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, 7 – 10 December 1997, Washington Hilton & Towers, Washington, DC, USA.

IAE International Symposium on Plasma Dynamics in Complex Electromagnetic Fields (ISIAE’97), 8 – 11 December 1997, Uji, Kyoto, Japan. Contact: T. Mizuuchi; email: isiae97@iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Tenth APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 14 – 18 January 1996, San Francisco, California. Contact: William Goldstein; phone: 510-422-2515; fax: 510-423-0246; email: goldstein3@llnl.gov

U. S. Particle Accelerator School, 15 – 26 January 1996, San Diego, California. Contact: Fermi Lab, MS 125, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 0510; email:uspas@fnalv.fnal.gov

X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas – ASCA 3rd Anniversary, 11 – 14 March 1996, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Small-Scale Structure in Stellar Atmospheres (CCP7 Workshop), 27 – 28 March 1996, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Transport Task Force Workshop, 13 – 16 March 1996, Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact: Ben Carreras, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; phone: 615-574-1292; fax: 615-576-7926; email: tatedj@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov

1996 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 18 – 20 March 1996, Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abstract deadline: Friday, 26 January 1996. Contact: Morrell Chance; phone: 609-243-2641; fax: 6709-243-2662; email: mchance@pppl.gov

Fifth Annual Numerical Tokamak Project Workshop, 20 – 21 March 1996, Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact: Gregory Hammett or Wei-Li Lee ; email: ghammett@pppl.gov or wlee@pppl.gov

Synchrotron Radiation & Free-Electron Lasers, 22 – 27 April 1996, President Hotel, Grenoble, France. Contact: S. von Wartburg, CERN Accelerator School; 41-22-7675460; email: casgren@cernvm.cern.ch

1996 Joint APS and AAPT Meeting, 2 – 5 May 1996, Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes meetings of Division of Physics of Beams, Division of Astrophysics, and Division of Computational Physics. Contact: The American Physical Society, Michael Scanlan; phone: 301-209-3285; fax: 301-209-0866; email: scanlan@aps.org

Eleventh Annual Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, 12 – 16 May 1996, Monterey, California. Contact: Judy Knecht; phone: 510-422-5487; email: knecht2@llnl.gov

Eighth European Meeting on Solar Physics: Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Physics, 13 – 18 May 1996, Thessaloniki, Greece. Contact: Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki; phone: 30-31-998044; fax: 30-31-995384; email: spm-96@astro.auth.gr

1996 Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 15 – 18 May 1996, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Twelfth International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices, 20 – 26 May 1996, France. Contact: V. Poli; phone: 0033-42-256260; fax: 0033-42-256255; email: psi96@drfc.cad.cea.fr

1996 International Seminar on Physics of High Energy Density Matter, 26 – 29 May 1996, Sheraton Landmark Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia Contact: Andrew Ng; phone: 604-822-3191; fax: 604-822-5324; email: nga@physics.ubc.ca

CECAM Workshop: Non-Perturbative Methods for Solving Time Dependent Problems of Atoms and Molecules, 27 – 29 May 1996, Crete, Greece.

Sixth Laser Interactions Conference-Crete: The Two Or More Electron Problem in Laser-Atom Interactions, 29 – 21 May 1996, Crete, Greece.

First Non-LTE Kinetics Workshop, June 1996, Livermore, California. Contact: J.K.Nash; phone: (510) 422-7255; fax: (510) 422-5102; email:jknash@llnl.gov

Twenty-Fourth European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter, 3 – 7 June 1996, Madrid, Spain. Contact: E. Minguez; phone: 34-1-3363108; fax: 34-1-4114148; email: minguez@denim.upm.es

Twenty-Third IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 3 – 5 June 1996, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact: Chung Chan; phone: (617) 373-5112, 4853; fax: (617) 373-5185; email: chanchung@neu.edu A mini-course, Plasma Discharge Modeling and Simulation With Application to Plasma Processing, will be held immediately following the conference, on 6 – 7 June 1996. The course coordinator is Ned Birdsall; phone: (510) 643-6631; fax: (510) 642-6330; email: birdsall@eecs.berkeley.edu

1996 Gordon Conference on Multiphoton Processes, 9 – 14 June 1996, Colby Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire.

Fifth International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 10 – 14 June 1996, Lund, Sweden. Contact: Anders Persson; phone: 46-46-222-7660; fax: 46-46-222-4250; email: anders.persson@fysik.lth.se

Eleventh International Conference on High Power Particle Beams (BEAMS’96), 10 – 14 June 1996, Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Jiri Ullschmied; phone: (422) 887-963; fax: (422) 858-6389; email: beams96@ipp.cas.cz

Twelfth Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 16 – 20 June 1996, Reno, Nevada. Contact: C. A. Morris, MS L-488, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550.

Thirteenth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, 17 – 21 June 1996, Firenze, Italy. Contact: Marco Zoppi; phone: 39 55 416128; fax: 39 55 414612; email: zoppi@mailbox.ieq.fi.cnr.it

NATO ASI on Plasma Processing of Semiconductors, 17-28 June 1996, Chateau de Bonas, Toulouse, France.

Twenty-third EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 24 – 28 June 1996, Kiev, Ukraine. Contact: Ihor F. Goutych; phone 380 (44) 266-53-62; fax: 380 (44) 266-59-98; email: cfpp@gluk.apc.org

International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference, 1 – 4 July 1996, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Thirty-Third Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, 8 – 19 July 1996, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Fourth European Conference on Thermal Plasma Processes, 15 – 17 July 1996, Athens, Greece. Contact: Dimitrios Rapakoulias.

Twenty-eighth EGAS (European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy) Annual Meeting, 16 – 19 July 1996, Graz, Austria.

Seventeenth Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 21 – 26 July 1996, Berkeley, California. Contact: Simone and Andre Anders; phone: (510) 486-6745; fax: (510) 486-4374; email: isdeiv96@lbl.gov

Workshop on 2D Simulations of Z-pinch Fusion Schemes, 22 – 23 July 1996, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

PECAM II – Photon and Electron Collisions with Atoms and Molecules, 23 – 26 July 1996, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Intense Microwave Pulses IV. Contact: Howard Brandt, Army Research Laboratory, phone: 360-676-3290.

in conjunction with

SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 4 – 9 August 1996, Denver, Colorado.

Fifteenth International Conference on Atomic Physics (ZICAP): Zeeman-Effect Centenary, 5 – 9 August 1996, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Third International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 7 – 14 August 1996, Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: Anatoly Vikharev; phone: 8312-365810; fax: 8312-362061; email: val@appl.sci-nnov.ru

First Non-LTE Kinetics Workshop, 12 – 16 August 1996, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

New Modes of Particle Acceleration Techniques and sources, 19 – 23 August 1996, Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California. Contact: Zohreh Parsa; phone: 516-344-2085; FAX: 516-344-3248; email: parsa@bnl.gov

XIII Europhysics Sectional Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, 27 – 30 August 1996, Poprad, High Tatras, Slovak Republic. Contact: Jan D.Skalny; email: escampig@center.fmph.uniba.sk

Fifth International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (HAKONE V), 2 – 4 September 1996, Milovy, Czech Republic. Contact: Jiri Drimal; phone: 42-5-41129430; fax: 42-5-41211214; email: hakone@sci.muni.cz

ICFA Workshop on Nonlinear and Collective Phenomena in Beam Physics: Theory and Experiments, 2 – 6 September 1996, Arcidosso, Italy. Contact: M. Laraneta; email: laraneta@physics.ucla.edu

Sixth Workshop on Fast Ion-Atom Collisions, 4 – 6 September 1996, Debrecen, Hungary. Contact: Bela Sulik; email: fiac@atomki.hu

Eighth International Conference on Plasma Physics, 9 – 13 September 1996, Nagoya, Japan. Contact: Hiromu Momota; phone: 81-52-789-4260; fax: 81-52-789-1037; email: icpp96@nifs.ac.jp

Eighth School of Magnetic Confinement Fusion, 9 – 13 September 1996, Spain.

Nineteenth Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT96), 16 – 20 September 1996, Lisbon, Portugal. Email: soft@cfn.ist.utl.pt

WE-Heraeus-Ferienkurs – Physik und Technik der Wechselwirkung von Niedertemperaturplasmen mit Festkoerperoberflaechen, 16 – 27 September 1996, Greifswald, Germany. Contact: Helmar Scheibner; email: scheibner@physik.uni-greifswald.de

International Symposium on Atomic and Molecular Processes in Fusion Plasmas, 17 – 19 September 1996, Nagoya, Japan.

Eighth International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI-96), 23 – 26 September 1996, Omiya, Saitama, Japan. Contact: Yohko Awaya; phone: (+81) 48 462 1111 ex. 4611, 4621; fax: (+81) 48 462 4644; email: HCI96@rikvax.riken.go.jp

Summer University for Plasma Physics, 23 – 27 September 1996, Garching, Germany. Contact: Ch. Stahlberg; email: ism@ipp-garching.mpg.de

Sixteenth IAEA Conference on Fusion Energy, 7 – 11 October 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: IAEA, phone: 43-1-2060 21310, fax: 43-1-2060-20607.

American Vacuum Society Forty-Third National Symposium, 14 – 18 October, 1996 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Twelfth Symposium on Physics of Switching Arcs, 14 – 18 October 1966, Brno, Czech Republic. Contact: Josef Bartl; email: bartl@uesp.fee.vutbr.cz

Forty-Ninth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 20 – 24 October 1996, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Contact: Michael Dillon, Materials Science Division, Bldg. 212, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; phone: (708) 252-4193; fax: (708) 252-7415; email: mdillon@anl.gov

Electron Beam Melting and Refining, State of the Art 1996, 23 – 25 October 1996, Reno, Nevada.

Nineteenth Space Simulation Conference, 28 – 31 October 1996, Baltimore, Maryland.

Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter, 4 – 8 November 1996, Santa Barbara, California. Contact: Richard Lee; phone (510) 642-8916; fax: (510) 643-8497; email: dicklee@physics.berkeley.edu

International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mossbauer Effect (ISIAME’96), 4 – 8 November 1996, Johannesburg, South Africa.

14th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry,6 – 9 November 1996, Denton, TX. Contact: Jerome L. Duggan, The University of North Texas, Dept. of Physics, PO Box 5368, Denton, TX 76203-0368; phone: (817) 565-3235; fax: (817) 565-2227; email: stippec@cas.unt.edu

Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of The American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, 11 – 15 November 1996, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Contact: Saralyn Stewart; phone: (512) 471-4378; fax: (512) 471-6715; email: stewart@hagar.ph.utexas.edu

Workshop on Feedback Stabilization of MHD Instabilities, 11 – 13 December 1996, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey. Contact: Michael E. Mauel, Columbia University; phone: (212) 854-4455; fax: (212) 854-8257, email: mauel@columbia.edu

U.S.-European Transport Task Force Workshop, 6-9 March 1995, Doubletree Hotel, Marina Del Rey, California. Contact person: Ben Carreras, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, phone: 615/574-1292, fax: 615/576-7926 (or email: tatedj@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov).

1995 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, 3-5 April 1995, Incline Village, Nevada. Abstract deadline: Wednesday, 22 February 1995. Contact person: Thomas Kaiser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, PO Box 808, L-630, Livermore, California 94550, phone: 510/423-8371, fax: 510/423-3484 (or email: kaiser@casablanca.llnl.gov).

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Numerical Tokamak Project Meeting, 5-6 April 1995, Incline Village, Nevada. Contact person: Bruce Cohen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, PO Box 808, L-630, Livermore, California 94550, phone: 510/422-9823, fax: 510/423-3484 (or email: bcohen@llnl.gov).

1995 Joint April Meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, 18-21 April 1995, Washington, DC. Contact person: There will be three plasma physics invited paper sessions at the Joint April Meeting: new results in inertial confinement fusion, computational physics in magnetic fusion (joint session with the Division of Computational Physics), and astrophysical shocks (joint session with the Division of Astrophysics).

1995 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, 1-5 May 1995, Dallas, Texas. Contact person: Stanley Schriber, LANL, phone: 505/667-5634, fax: 505/667-0919.

Ninth IEEE Conference on Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle, and Plasma Physics, 22-25 May 1995, East Lansing, Michigan. Contact person: Ron Fox, Michigan State University, phone: 517/353-1628, fax: 517/353-5967 ( or email: rt95@rudolf.nscl.msu.edu).

The Twenty-Second IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 5-8 June 1995, Madison, Wisconsin. Contact person: John Scharer, University of Wisconsin, phone: 608/263-1614, fax: 608/262-6707 (or email: scharer@tesla.ece.wisc.edu).

The Twenty-Second European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 2-7 July 1995, Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Contact person: Stewart Prager, University of Wisconsin, phone: 608/262-7768, fax: 608/262-7205 (or email: prager@juno.physics.wisc.edu).

1995 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, 10-12 July 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact person: William L. Baker, Phillips Laboratory, phone: 505/846-8027, fax: 505/846-7900.

Twenty-Second International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 30 July to 5 August 1995, Hoboken, New Jersey. Contact person: Wayne Carr, Stevens Institute of Technology, phone: 201/216-5656, fax: 201/216-5638 (or email: icpig@stevens-tech.edu).

Nineteenth IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, 31 July to 4 August 1995, Xiamen, China. Contact person: Professor Bai-Lin Hao, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, PO Box 2735, Beijing 100080, China, fax: 86/1-256-2587.

1995 APS Biennial Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 13-18 August 1995, Seattle, Washington. Contact person: William C. Tao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, phone: 510/423-0499, fax: 510/422-2382 (or email: tao1@llnl.gov).

Fifth ANS International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety, 17-22 September 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact person: R. Douglas OÕDell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, phone: 505/667-4614, fax: 505/665-4970 (or email: rdo@lanl.gov).

1995 IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September – 5 October 1995, Champaign, Illinois. Contact person: George Miley, University of Illinois, phone: 217/333-3772, fax: 217/333-2906 (or email: miley@uiucvmd.edu).

Forty-Second American Vacuum Society National Symposium, 16-20 October 1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact person: Yvonne Towse, AVS, phone: 212/248-0200 (or email: avsnyc@vacuum.org).

Seventh International Workshop on Atomic Physics for Ion Driven Fusion, 16-20 October 1995, Madrid, Spain. Contact person: Professor E. Minguez, Institute of Nuclear Fusion, Polytechnic University, phone: 34/1-3363108, 34/1-3363109, 34/1-3363110, fax: 34/1-3363002, 34/1-4114148 (or email: minguez@denim.upm.es).

Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of The American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, 6-10 November 1995, Louisville, Kentucky. Contact person: Saralyn Stewart, phone: 512/471-4378, fax: 512/471-6715 (or email: stewart@hagar.ph.utexas.edu). The conference hotel is the Galt House Hotel, 140 North Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, phone: 502/589-5200.

Fifth Plasma Edge Theory Meeting, 6-9 December 1995, Asilomar, California.