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DIII-D Highlights 2002

• March 2002: The Effect of Poles in \triangle' on Neoclassical Tearing Mode Onset
• April 2002: Similar Experiments on DIII-D and NSTX Advance the Understanding of Instabilities Driven by High Energy Ions
• May 2002: High Power Microwaves Control Plasma Current Profile
• July 2002: Microwave "Search and Suppress" Elimination of a Growing Long Wavelength q=2 Neoclassical Tearing Mode
• October 2002: Smooth Flows Emerge from Chaotic Plasma Fluctuations
• November 2002: Computer Simulations Illustrate the Formation of Magnetic Islands

• Press Releases

44th American Physical Society Annual Meeting of Division of Plasma Physics
Orlando, Florida, United States, 2002

• Turbulence restrains itself — D-III experiments
• Turbulent Transport in the DIII-D Tokamak Matched by Supercomputer Simulation