APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting 2012

54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics. The Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) annual meeting will be held in the heart of downtown Providence, Rhode Island. All technical sessions will be held in the Rhode Island Convention Center.
DPP was established in 1959. The first elected Chair was Melvin B. Gottlieb, Princeton University. Each year since 1975 the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (est. 1975) is presented at the Annual Meeting, along with the Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research (est. 1981), and the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Plasma Physics Award (est. 1985 as the Simon Ramo Award). The Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service was established in 1994 by DPP and the Forum on Physics and Society, and is presented at an APS meeting annually.