The IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) is an annual meeting of plasma physics researchers with emphasis various applications science and technology. This organized by the Application Committee (PSAC) Nuclear Sciences Society (NPSS).

diagnostics C Theiler, J L Terry , E Edlund, I Cziegler, R M Churchill, J W Hughes, B. LaBombard ,T. Golfinopoulos and the Alcator C-Mod Team 2, 3, 4 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Princeton Plasma Physics Labor...

The nonlinear plasma transport mechanisms that control the collisionless heating in the Earth’s magnetosphere and the onset of geomagnetic substorms are reviewed. In the high pressure plasma trapped in the reversed magnetic field loops on the nightside of the magnetosphere, the key issue of the role of the ion orbital chaos as the mechanism for the plasma sheet energization is examined. The ene...

Interaction phenomena of intense ion and laser radiation with matter have a large range of application in different fields of science, from basic research of plasma properties to application in energy science. The hot dense plasma of our neighbouring star the Sun provides a deep insight into the physics of fusion, the properties of matter at high energy density, and is moreover an excellent lab...

Nuclear reactions proceed differently in stellar plasmas than in the laboratory due to the thermal effects in the plasma. On one hand, a target nucleus is bombarded by projectiles distributed in energy with a distribution defined by the plasma temperature. The mostly relevant energies are low by nuclear physics standards and thus require an improved description of low-energy properties, such as...

S.M. Mahajan a) Institute for Fusion Studies, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 R. Miklaszewski b) Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 00–908 Warsaw, Str. Henry 23, P.O. Box 49, Poland K.I. Nikol’skaya c) Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation(IZMIRAN), Troitsk of Moscow Region, 142092 Russia N.L. Shatashvili d) Plasma Physics Department, Tbi...