ICRP-9 / GEC-68 / SPP-33
      9th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas
      68th Gaseous Electronics Conference
      33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing

October 12 - October 16 2015
    Hawaii Convention Center
    1801 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA

Plenary and Invited Speakers (tentative)

GEC Foundation Talk
Timothy J. Gay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A.
"The Gaseous Electronics Conference in its seventh decade: some new problems in an old field"

ICRP Plenary Talk
Kouichi Ono, Kyoto University, Japan
" Plasma-surface interactions for top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication" (tentative)

Atomic and Molecular Processes
Bruno deHarak, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, U.S.A.
 "Effects of polarization direction on laser-assisted free-free scattering"
Joan Dreiling, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A
 "Chirally sensitive electron-induced molecular breakup"
Michael Fogle, Auburn University, U.S.A.
 "Momentum imaging of dissociative electron attachment to small molecules"
Tom Kirchner, York University, Toronto, Canada
 "Theory and modeling of few-body dynamics in fast ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions"
Marco Lima, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
 "Electron scattering data for molecular targets related to biofuel production"
Don Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, U.S.A.
 "Fully-differential cross sections for electron-impact ionization of atoms and molecules"
Thomas Schlathoelter, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
 "Biomolecular ionization and fragmentation dynamics after interaction with keV ions and energetic photons."
Hirotake Sugawara, Hokkaido University, Japan
 "Fundamental study on filter effect of confronting divergent magnetic fields applied to a low-pressure inductively
 coupled plasma"
James Sullivan, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
 "Positron scattering measurements for application to medical physics"
Cliff Surko, University of California-San Diego, U.S.A.
 "Positron atomic physics – new tools and results"
Masahiko Takahashi, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
 "Progress in (e,2e) electron momentum spectroscopy: From the static to the time-resolved regime"

Plasma Science
Mikhail Benilov, University of Madeira, Portugal
 "Spots and patterns on electrodes of gas discharges"
Anne Bourdon, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
 "2D fluid simulations of discharges at atmospheric pressure in reactive gas mixtures"
Peter Bruggeman, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
 "Diagnostics of transient non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasmas"
Keith Cartwright, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
 "Numerical uncertainty estimation for stochastic particle-in-cell simulations applied to verification and validation"
Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratories, U.S.A.
 "Multidimensional, fully implicit, exactly conserving electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations"
Andrew Christlieb, Michigan State University, U.S.A.
 "Understanding Plasmas with a High Degree of Correlation Through Modeling:
 From Rydberg and Fermionic plasmas to Penning Plasmas"
Francesco Fracassi, University of Bari, Italy
 "Surface functionalization with atmospheric pressure DBD"
Timo Gans, University of York, U.K.
 "Tailoring the electron dynamics and chemical kinetics in radio-frequency driven atmospheric pressure plasmas"
David Go, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
 "Understanding charge transfer reactions at the interface of plasmas in contact with liquids" (tentative)
Erik Johnson, LPICM-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France
 "Gaining greater control and understanding of processing plasmas through tailored voltage waveforms"
Holger Kersten, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany
 "Diagnostics of nano-particle formation in process plasmas"
Natalia MacDonald-Tenenbaum, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S.A.
 "Laser diagnostics for spacecraft propulsion"
Ryo Ono, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 "Measurement of gas phase reactive species for plasma medicine"
Laxminarayan L. Raja, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
 "Computational modeling and simulation of micron-scale discharges and their interactions with high-frequency
 electromagnetic waves" (tentative)
Stephan Reuter, Institute for Plasmaphysics, Greifswald, Germany
 "Dynamics of filamentary plasma jets used in plasma medicine"
Gerard van Rooij, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), Netherlands
  "Plasmolysis for efficient CO2-to-fuel conversion"
Osamu Sakai, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
 "Negative-permittivity plasma generation in negative-permeability metamaterial space"
Jochen Schein, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany
 "Thermal plasmas: Influence of current modulation on process performance"
Masaya Shigeta, Osaka University, Japan
 "Modelling for turbulent transfer of nanoparticles growing around a thermal plasma jet"
David Smith, General Electric, U.S.A.
 "Operating modes of a low pressure, high current, magnetized rare-gas plasma"
Kentaro Tomita, Kyushu University, Japan
 "Thomson scattering diagnostics of atmospheric pressure plasmas -Pulsed filament discharges and plasma jets"
Jan Trieschmann, University of Bochum, Germany
 "Heavy-particle transport in highly ionized high-power plasmas"
Xi-Ming Zhu, University of Bochum, Germany
 "Challenges in collisional-radiative modeling for low-temperature plasmas:
 EEDF, species density profiles, and collisional cross-section data"

Plasma Applications
Farzaneh Arefi-Khonsari, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
 "Plasma polymers for biomedical applications"
John Caughman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.
 "The interaction of the near-field plasma with antennas used in magnetic fusion research"
Eun Ha Choi, Kwangwoon University, Korea
 "Diagnostics of nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma for plasma biosciences and their biological cell interactions
 throughout ultraviolet photolysis"
Vittorio Colombo, University of Bologna, Italy
 "Atmospheric non-equilibrium plasma sources and processes with a focus on plasma medicine and antibacterial applications"
 (tentative)
Sylvain Coulombe, McGill University, Canada
 "Plasmas and nanostructures for energy applications"
Demetre Economou, University of Houston, U.S.A.
 "In-plasma photo-assisted etching"
David Gahn, Impedans Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
 "Wireless sensor technology for in-situ plasma process monitoring"
Nobuyuki Kuboi, Sony, Japan
 "Advanced simulation technology to design etching process on CMOS devices" (tentative)
Yongfeng Li, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, P.R. China
 "Plasma-functionalized nanocarbon materials and their applications"
Deborah O'Connell, University of York, UK
 "title TBD"
Masaaki Nagatsu, Shizuoka University, Japan
 "High-sensitive virus and bacteria detection using plasma-surface-functionalized and
 antibody-integrated carbon nanomaterials"
Deirdre Olynick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A.
 "Applicability of cryogenic etching for sub-10 nm etching using block copolymer lithography and double patterning"
Volker Schulz von der Gathen, University of Bochum, Germany
 "Design and characterization of an RF excited micro atmospheric pressure plasma jet for reference in plasma medicine"
Koichi Takaki, Iwate University, Japan
 "Long-term preservation of marine products via conformational change of protein by electrostatic effect"
Jyh-Ming Ting, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 "Self-assembled multi-layer a-C:H/Me coatings by reactive sputter deposition"
Hindrik W. de Vries, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), Netherlands
 "Roll-to-roll atmospheric plasma processing of moisture barrier film on polymer substrate"
Thomas von Woedtke, INP Greifswald, Germany
 "Cold atmospheric plasma for medicine: state of research and clinical application" (tentative)