USA - NRL

NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY

4555 Overlook Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20375-5320

Telephone: +1 202 767 2723
Telefax: +1 202 767 1607

Commanding Officer:	Rau, Douglas H. (Captain, US Navy)
Director of Research:	Coffey, Timothy
Associate Director of Research
for Materials Science & Component Technology:	Rath, Bhakta B.

Plasma Physics Division

	Superintendent:	Ossakow, Sidney L.
	Associate Superintendent:	Patel, Vithal L.
	Senior Scientist for Fundamental Plasma Processes:	Manheimer, Wallace
	Senior Scientist for Intense Particle Beams and Plasma Processing:	Lampe, Martin

Laser Plasma Branch

Obenschain, Stephen (Head)
Aglitskiy, Yeim (SAIC)
Bates, Jason
Chan, Lop-Yung (SAIC)
Hegeler, Frank (CTI)

Klapisch, Marcel (ARTEP)
Lehmberg, Robert
Mostovych, Andrew
McLean, Edgar (RSI)
Pawley, Carl

Schmitt, Andrew
Serlin, Victor
Sethian, John D.
Stamper, John (RSI)

Radiation Hydrodynamics Branch

Davis, Jack (Head)
Apruzese, John
Clark, Robert W.

Giuliani, John
Kepple, Paul
Terry, Robert

Velikovich, Alexander

Pulsed Power Physics Branch

Cooperstein, Gerald (Head)
Hinshelwood, David
Mosher, David

Neri, Jess
Ottinger, Paul F.
Stephanakis, Steve J.

Weber, Bruce V.
Young, Frank C. (JAYCOR, Inc.)

Beam Physics Branch

Sprangle, Phillip A. (Head)
Colombant, Denis C.

Fliflet, Arne W.
Grun, Jacob

Haber, Irving

Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Chief Scientist and Director:

Boris, Jay

Fyfe, David

Gardner, John H.

Phillips, Lee

Research activities:
The Plasma Physics Division conducts a broad theoretical and experimental program of basic and applied research in plasma physics, laboratory discharge and space plasma, intense electron and ion beams and photon sources, atomic physics, pulsed power sources, laser physics, and nonlinear systems.