Plasma Conferences in 2004

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. Contact CAPPSA 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. Contact Andrea 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. Contact Georges 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. Contact Igor 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. Contact intrator@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. Contact Elisabete 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.