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Program

I. Registration and Opening

08:15 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:20 General Meeting and Elections – Reuven Boxman

II. Basic Plasma Physics

Chairperson – Joseph Shiloh (Rafael)

09:20 – 09:25 Isaak Beilis (Tel Aviv University) "Igor Rutkevitch – Plasma Physicist"

09:25 – 09:45 Shalom Eliezer (Soreq NRC) and Jose Maria Martinez Val (Nuclear Fusion Institute, France) - Cumulation of Lazer Induced Magnetic Field by a Z-Pinch Device - In memory of Igor Rutkevitch

09:45 – 10:00 Lazar Friedland (Hebrew University) and Arkadi Shagalov (Institute of Metal Physics) – Pattern Formation by Synchronization in Pure Electron Plasmas and 2D Vortex Dynamics

10:00 – 10:15 O. Sadot, A. Rikanati, D. Oron, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts (Nuclear Research Center Negev, Ben Gurion University) – Effect of Nonlinear Initial Conditions on the Shock Induced Richtmyer-Meshkov Hydrodynamic Instability

10:15 – 10:30 Y. Srebro, D. Oron, and D. Shvarts (Nuclear Research Center Negev, Ben-Gurion University), The Effect of Laser Imprint on Pertubaration Growth in Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments and Posters

III. Radiation Sources – I

Chairperson – Lazar Friedland (Hebrew University)

11:00 – 11:30 Evgenii Stambulchik (Weizmann Institute of Sciences) – Polarization Spectroscopy Measurements and Theoretical Modeling at the WIS Plasma Laboratory

11:30 – 11:45 M. Fraenkel, Z. Henis, S. Eliezer (Soreq NRC), A. Zigler (Hebrew University), N.E. Andreev (High Energy Research Center, Russia) – Measurements of the Energy Penetration Depth into Solid Targets Irradiated by Ultra-Short Laser Pulses

11:45 – 12:00 R. B. Baksht, A. V. Fedunin, A. Yu. Labetsky, V. I. Oreshkin, A. G. Russkikh, and A. V. Shishlov (High Current Electronics Institute, Russia) – Long Time Implosion Experiments with Gas Puff

12:00 – 12:15 D. Kaganovich and A. Zigler (Hebrew University) – Velocity Control and Staging in Laser Wakefield Accelerators Using Segmented Capillary Discharges

12:15 – 13:45 Lunch (will be available on site) and Posters

IV. Radiation Sources – II

Chairperson – Joshua Felsteiner (Technion)

13:45 – 14:30 Yu. P. Bliokh (Technion) – Plasma Electronics. Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Plasma Nonlinearity in Powerful Microwave Oscillators

14:30 – 14:45 A. Kesar and E. Jerby (Tel-Aviv University) - Spatial Steering Resonance Maser Array Antenna by Magnetic Field

14:45 – 15:00 M. Arbel, A. Abramovich, A. I. Eichenbaum, A. Gover, H. Kleinman, I.M. Yakover (Tel-Aviv University), and Y. Pinhasi (The College of Judea and Samaria) – Super-Radiant and Stimulated Super-Radiant Emission in a Pre-Bunched Beam Free Electron Maser

15:10 – 15:15 Y. Yahalom, Y. Pinhasi, and Y. Lurie (College of Judea and Samaria) –Variation Principles of Electromagnetic Field Excitation in Waveguides

15:15 – 16:00 Refreshments and Posters

V. Plasma Applications and Industrial Processes

Chairperson – Rueven Boxman (Tel-Aviv University)

16:00 – 16:30 A. Dunaevsky, Ya. E. Krasik, and J. Felsteiner (Technion) – Plasma Cathodes for Electron Beam Generation

16:30 – 16:45 A. Shahadi and S. Yatsiv (Hebrew University), and Y. Sintov and E. Jerby, (Tel-Aviv University) - Microwave-excited CO2 Lab-Laser with an Axially-Homogeneous Discharge

16:45 – 17:00 A. Pokryvailo and Y. Yankelevich (Soreq NRC) – High-Power Short Pulsed Corona: Investigation of Electrical Parameters, Abatement of SO2 and Ozone Generation

17:00 – 17:15 R. L. Boxman, V. Zitomirsky, and S. Goldsmith (Tel-Aviv University) – Influence of Oxygen Pressure on Filtered Vacuum Arc Deposition of Tin Oxide Thin Films

17:15 – 17:30 A. Cohen-Zur and A. Gany (Technion), A. Fruchtman and J. Ashkenazy (Holon Academic Institute of Technology), Parametric Study of Hall Thruster Performance Using a One-Dimensional Steady-State Model

17:30 – 18:15 Students Awards, Cocktail and Farewell

Posters

1. R. Arad, K. Tsigutkin, Yu. Ralchenko, D. Osin, and Y. Maron (Weizmann Institute of Sciences), and A. Fruchtman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology) – Physics of the Interaction of Pulsed Magnetic Fields with Plasmas and Relevance to Applications

2. Yu. Ralchenko and Y. Maron (Weizmann Institute of Sciences) – Accelerated Recombination in Cold Plasmas with Metastable Ions Due to Resonant Deexcitation

3. G. Makrinich, J. Ashekanazy, and A. Fruchtman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology) – Study of RF-DC Voltage Plasma

4. Yu. Bliokh, J. Felsteiner, Ya. Z. Slutsker, and P.M. Vaisberg (Technion) – Characteristics of a High-Power RF Oscillator Based on a Pulsed Hollow–Cathode Discharge

5. Ya. Z. Slutsker Yu. P. Bliokh, J. Felsteiner, and P.M. Vaisberg (Technion) – Bohm Criterion Failure in Non-Stationary Plasma

6. Yu. Dolinsky and T. Alperin (Ben-Gurion University) – Effect of Finite Thickness of the Transition Layer on Particle Localization in the External Field Near the Interface Boundary

7. S. Cuperman (Tel-Aviv University), C. Bruma, and K. Komoshvili (The College of Judea and Samaria) - Solution of the Full Electromagnetic Wave Equation for Arbitrary Aspect Ratio and Magnetic Shear Values, Non-Circular Cross-Section, Pre-heated Tokamak Plasmas. I. [RLB1] The Alfven Wave Frequency Range

8. A. Faingersh, Y. Yakover, and A. Gover (Tel-Aviv University) – Development and Characterization of a High-Q Remotely Controlled Quasi-Optical mm-Wave Resonator for FEL

9. K. Chirko, Ya. E. Krasik, A. Dunaevsky, and J. Felsteiner (Technion) – High-Frequency Electron Beam Modulation, Transportation and its Interaction with a Slow Wave Structure

10. J. Z. Gleizer, A. Krokhmal, Ya. E. Krasik, and J. Felsteiner (Technion) – Hollow-Cathode Electron Source with a Fast Gas-Puff Valve

11. A. Dunaevsky, Ya. E. Krasik, and J. Felsteiner (Technion) – Operation of Ferroelectric Cathodes with a Control Grid

12. Ya. E. Krasik (Technion) – Novel Gaseous Plasma Gun for Plasma Opening Switches