9th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas

May 21-23, 2001
Iowa City, Iowa

Sunday, May 20  
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration [Richey Ballroom, 3rd floor IMU]
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception with cash bar [Richey Ballroom, 3rd floor IMU]
   
Monday, May 21  
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration [Terrace Room, IMU]
8:30 am - 11:50 am Oral Session I: Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas
(Chair: J. Goree) [Terrace Room, IMU]
8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome - James A. Van Allen
8:40 am - 9:00 am PKE-Nefedov: The First Basic Science Experiment on the International Space Station
A. P. Nefedov, H. M. Thomas, G. E. Morfill, V. E. Fortov, T. Hagl, A. Ivlev, U. Konopka, H. Rothermel, M. Zuzic, V. I. Molotkov, O. Petrov, A. Lipaev, J. A. Goree, A. Ivanov, S. Krikalev, Y. Gidzenko, and W. Sheperd
9:00 am - 9:20 am Dusty Structures in Cryogenic Plasma
V. E. Fortov, D. N. Polyakov, L. M. Vasilyak, S. P. Vetchinin, and V. S. Zimnukhov
9:20 am - 9:40 am Normal Modes of 2D Coulomb Clusters in Complex Plasmas
A. Melzer, M. Klindworth, and A. Piel
9:40 am - 10:00 am Defects Mediated Particle Motions of Strongly Coupled Dust Coulomb Clusters
W.-T. Juan, Y.-J. Lai, and L. I
10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee [Main Lounge, IMU]
10:30 am - 10:50 am Is There a Frequency Gap in the Spectrum of a Dusty Plasma Bilayer?
G. J. Kalman and M. Rosenberg
10:50 am - 11:10 am Thermally Excited Waves in a 2D Plasma Crystal
S. Nunomura, J. Goree, S. Hu, X. Wang, and A. Bhattacharjee
11:10 am - 11:30 am Equation of State for Complex Plasmas
G. Morfill, A. V. Ivlev, R. A. Quinn, H. Rothermel, and M. Zuzic
11:30 am - 11:50 am Transport Characteristics of Particles in Dusty Plasma in Microgravity Under Solar Radiation
O. S. Vaulina, O. F. Petrov, A. P. Nefedov, and V. E. Fortov
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch [Main Lounge, IMU]
1:30 pm - 2:50 pm Oral Session II: Waves and Instabilities
(Chair: R. Merlino) [Terrace Room, IMU]
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm Waves in Collisional Dusty Plasmas
M. Rosenberg
1:50 pm - 2:10 pm Effects of Dust Particles on Electrostatic Waves in Magnetized Plasmas
X. Wang, Y. Liu, C.-H. Wang, and B. Guo
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm Solitons in a 2D Strongly Coupled Complex (Dusty) Plasma
D. Samsonov, A. Ivlev, R. A. Quinn, G. E. Morfill, and S. Zhdanov
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm KdV-ZK Solitons in Multispecies Dusty Plasmas
F. Verheest, M. A. Hellberg, R. L. Mace, and S. R. Pillay
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm Coffee [Main Lounge, IMU]
3:20 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session I (see attached list) [Main Lounge, IMU]
6:45 pm Barbecue Dinner [Wheel Room, IMU]
   
Tuesday, May 22  
8:30 am - 11:50 am Oral Session III: Dusty Plasmas in Space and Laboratory
(Chair: A. Bhattacharjee) [Terrace Room, IMU]
8:30 am - 8:40 am Announcements
8:40 am - 9:00 am Ionization Properties of the Dusty Mesosphere
B. A. Klumov, S. I. Popel, and R. Bingham
9:00 am - 9:20 am Dynamics of Charged Dust in Some Space Environments
D. A. Mendis
9:20 am - 9:40 am Dusty Plasma Effects at Jupiter & Saturn
M. Horanyi
9:40 am - 10:00 am Charging of Dust Particles on Surfaces
Z. Sternovsky, M. Horanyi, and S. Robertson
10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee [Main Lounge, IMU]
10:30 am - 10:50 am The Dynamic Mach Cone as a Diagnostic Method in Reactive Dusty Plasma Experiments
O. Havnes, T. W. Hartquist, A. Brattli, G. M. W. Kroesen, and G. Morfill
10:50 am - 11:10 am Mach Cones in Two-Dimensional Yukawa Crystals: Linear and Nonlinear Properties
Z. W. Ma, A. Bhattacharjee, and J. Goree
11:10 am - 11:30 am Shear Wave Mach Cones in a 2D Dusty Plasma Crystal
V. Nosenko and J. Goree
11:30 am - 11:50 am Spinning of Dust Particles Suspended in an RF Sheath
R. P. Dahiya, G. Paeva, W. W. Stoffels, E. Stoffels, and G. M. W. Kroesen
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch [Main Lounge, IMU]
1:30 pm - 2:50 pm Oral Session IV: Processes in Dusty Plasmas
(Chair: A. Piel) [Terrace Room, IMU]
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm Modeling Gas-Phase Nucleation in Inductively-Coupled Silane-Oxygen Plasmas
S.-M. Suh, S. L. Girshick, U. Kortshagen, and M. R. Zachariah
1:50 pm - 2:10 pm In-Situ Detection of Dust Particles of Less Than 5 nm in Diameter Grown in an Argon-Silane Plasma
L. Boufendi, J. Gaudin, S. Huet, G. Viera, and M. Dudemaine
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm Modeling of Particle Generation and Growth in Silane Low-Pressure Plasmas
U. Bhandarkar, U. Kortshagen, and S. Girshick
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm Diamond Dust in a Plasma
N. Sato, T. Shimizu, G. Nishimura, G. Uchida, and S. Iizuka
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm Coffee [Main Lounge, IMU]
3:20 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session II (see attached list) [Main Lounge, IMU]
6:45 pm Dinner [Main Lounge, IMU]
   
Wednesday, May 23  
8:30 am - 10:40 am Oral Session V: More Basic Processes
(Chair: M. Rosenberg) [Terrace Room, IMU]
8:30 am - 8:50 am Effect of Trapped Ions on Shielding Around a Grain and Ion Flux to Grain
M. Lampe, V. Gavrishchaka, G. Ganguli, and G. Joyce
8:50 am - 9:10 am On the Charging of a Dust Particle: Theory and Some Experimental Considerations
J. E. Allen
9:10 am - 9:30 am An Experimental Technique to Accomplish Very Large Plasma-Crystals with up to 10 Million Particles
G. Morfill, H. Thomas, M. Zuzic, R. A. Quinn, A. V. Ivlev, U. Konopka, D. Samsonov, T. Hagl, K. Tarantik, and H. Rothermel
9:30 am - 10:00 am Coffee [Lobby, IMU]
10:00 am - 10:20 am Formation and Confinement of Dust Clouds in the Auburn Dusty Plasma Experiment
E. Thomas, Jr.
10:20 am - 10:40 am Modeling of Particle Charging in Homogeneous Dusty Plasma
R. V. R. Pandya and F. Mashayek
10:40 am - 11:00 am Discussion of Site of 10th Workshop
(Coordinator: M. Rosenberg)
11:00 am End of Meeting
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Tours of Plasma Labs
11AC Van Allen Hall Prof. Fred Skiff
B01 & B04 Van Allen Hall Prof. Robert Merlino,
Prof. Nicola D'Angelo
555 Van Allen Hall Prof. John Goree
Poster Session I (18 papers)
27 PIC/MC Simulation of Dusty RF Discharges
Yu. I. Chutov and W. J. Goedheer
3 Magnetic Bubbles and Non-Uniform Plasma Production in Magnetic Field
I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch
22 Role of Streaming Instabilities in Dusty Plasma Phase Transition
G. Ganguli, G. Joyce, and M. Lampe
23 Simulation of Phase Transitions in a Streaming Dusty Plasma
G. Joyce, G. Ganguli, and M. Lampe
5 Particle Dynamics Within a Well-Characterized Potential Well
G. A. Hebner, M. E. Riley, D. Johnson, P. Ho, and R. J. Buss
7 Plasma Dispersion Function for a Kappa-Maxwellian Distribution: Steps Towards a Wakefield Study
M. A. Hellberg and R. L. Mace
10 Removal of Dust Particles Resulting in a Sudden Change of the External Magnetic Field
D. Liu, X. Wang, D. Wang, and Y. Liu
8 Experiments on Dust Ion-Acoustic Solitary Waves
Y. Nakamura and A. Sarma
9 Nonlinear Compressional Pulses in a 2D Dusty Plasma Crystal
V. Nosenko, S. Nunomura and J. Goree
4 Wave Dispersion Relations in a 2D Plasma Crystal
S. Nunomura, J. Goree, S. Hu, X. Wang, and A. Bhattacharjee
6 Nonlinear Oscillations of Dust Particles in the Sheath of an RF-Discharge
A. Piel, C. Zafiu, and A. Melzer
29 Vertical Transverse Wave Modes in a 2D Complex (Dusty) Plasma
D. Samsonov, A. Ivlev, R. A. Quinn, and G. E. Morfill
31 Crystallization of a Mono-Layer Plasma Crystal
R. A. Quinn, D. Samsonov, D. Goldbeck, M. Zuzic, and G. E. Morfill
30 Crystallization of a 3D Plasma Crystal
D. Goldbeck, R. A. Quinn, M. Zuzic, and G. E. Morfill
34 Solitons and Double Layers in Multiply-Charged Dusty Plasmas
P. H. Sakanaka, I. Spassovska, F. Al-Yousef, and W. Sahyouni
35 Nonlinear Evolution of Dust Waves Driven by Cross-Field Electron Currents
W. A. Scales and G. S. Chae
38 A Kinetic Model for Low-Frequency Modes in Dusty Self-Gravitating Plasmas
V. V. Yaroshenko, G. Jacobs, and F. Verheest
1 Saturn Ring and Spoke Simulation Experiment in Fine Particle Plasmas
T. Yokota and A. Andou
39 Shear Pulse Sustained in the Two-Dimensional Dust Lattice
S. Zhdanov
   
Poster Session II (18 papers)
11 Modeling of Voids in Colloidal Plasmas
M. R. Akdim and W. J. Goedheer
32 Anisotropic Dust Lattice Modes and Stability of Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystals
A. V. Ivlev and G. Morfill
12 Similarity of Microtubules in Tokamak Dust and Macrotubules in Tokamak Plasma [silent poster]
B. N. Kolbasov, A. B. Kukushkin, V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov, and P. V. Romanov
15 Electrostatic Discharging of Dust Near the Surface of Mars
C. E. Krauss, M. Horanyi, and S. Robertson
13 Long-Lived Filaments in Plasmas and Hypothesis of Microdust-Assembled Skeletons [silent poster]
A. B. Kukushkin and V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov
16 Modified Stoermer Problem
C. J. Mitchell and M. Horanyi
37 Formation of Dust Ion Acoustic Shocks in Complex Plasmas
S. I. Popel, A. P. Golub', T. V. Losseva, and R. Bingham
28 Coulomb Coupling and Screening Parameters from Wave Dispersion in a Stratified Binary Mixture
R. A. Quinn, A. Ivlev, H. Rothermel, and G. E. Morfill
17 Ion Currents on Droplets in Plasma
S. Robertson, Z. Sternovsky, and M. Horanyi
18 Modeling of Magneto-Dynamics of Dusty Astrophysical Plasmas in Laboratory
L. I. Rudakov
19 Experimental Dust Levitation Near Surfaces
A. A. Sickafoose, J. E. Colwell, M. Horanyi, and S. Robertson
20 Particle Formation and Growth in an Acetylene RF-Discharge
S. Stoykov, C. Eggs, and U. Kortshagen
21 The International Microgravity Facility (IMPF): A Modular Platform for Advanced Plasma Experiments on ISS
T. Stuffler, J. Burfeindt, R. Seurig, R. Castegini, and C. Schmidt
25 Measurements of the Vertical Potential in the Pre-Sheath of a Radio-Frequency Plasma, Using Non-Linear Vertical Oscillations
R. Suetterlin
24 Numerical Models of Dust Particle Transport and Dust Densities in the Auburn Dusty Plasma Experiment
E. Thomas, Jr. and B. Christy
2 Parametric Study of the Formation of Coulomb Crystals in the GEC Reference Cell
V. Vyas, M. J. Kushner, G. A. Hebner, M. Riley, P. Ho, and R. Buss
36 Electron and Ion Densities in SiH4 HF Discharges
Y. Watanabe, M. Shiratani, and K. Koga
33 Plasma Crystal Structures on Earth Under Different Plasma Parameters
M. Zuzic, D. D. Goldbeck, A. Ivlev, U. Konopka, G. E. Morfill, R. A. Quinn, H. Rothermel, R. Sütterlin, and H. M. Thomas