2026 Subject Classification Category Guidelines
- Submissions should include a DPP sorting category selected from the list in the submission portal.
- Each submitted abstract must indicate both a “type” category and a “subject classification” category.
PhD Oral 24 Talks: Senior PhD students or recent PhD recipients can request a 24-minute oral presentation by adding “PhD Oral 24” in the abstract submission Special Instructions. This is an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to showcase their thesis work. These talks are double the standard 12-minute length and will be flagged in the program. The 24-minute talks are for students who are nearly finished with their thesis or received their PhD in the past year.
Societal Community Impacts: Please indicate in the Special Instructions if you believe your presentation will impact the breadth of the community. These might include plasma-based water purification, medicine or other examples. Please write “Community Impact” in Special Instructions. These presentations will be flagged in the program.
Group Submissions: If you would like a specific order of a grouping of abstracts, we request that you indicate the name of the proposed session and list the names of authors in order of presentation in Special Instructions. Please do not email the program chair to request special sessions, only requests made through the abstract submission form will be considered. The Program Committee will do their best to grant your request, but we cannot guarantee your specific order.
New for 2026!
Presentation Options:
Oral Presentation (In-Person)
Present in person at the meeting in Long Beach. You must attend the meeting in person.
Poster Presentation (In-Person)
Display your poster at the in-person meeting in Long Beach. You must attend in person. You are encouraged to upload your poster to the virtual platform so remote attendees can view it.
Oral Presentation (Virtual)
Present live online to attendees on the virtual platform. You will be placed in an online-only session. You may attend virtually or in-person, but you will need to present and manage the virtual platform independent from the in-person meeting.
Poster Presentation (Virtual)
Upload your poster and a short video to the virtual platform. No live presentation is required.
Subcategories: To encourage participation across sub-specialties, reduce conflicting sessions, and to continue to adapt to the current status of our community, we streamlined some of the subcategories that have been used in previous years. Please look through all subcategories carefully to correctly sort your abstract. If you feel you could be placed in multiple categories, submit under the main category and feel free to add a note in the Special Instructions section when you submit your abstract.
Some specific changes include:
Sorting category 4: It is now renamed “Low-temperature plasmas”, with three changes to sub categories
- 4.06 Plasma Sources and Control was changed from “generation, stability and control”
- 4.08 Measurement and diagnostic techniques is a new sub category
- 4.09 Nonequilibrium kinetics and transport is a new sub category
Sorting category 6: The Magnetic confinement sorting category was re-organized to emphasize sessions based on physics problems rather than specific machines. This was made to encourage more collaborations and exchange of information among different approaches. Requests to organize sessions can be made by indicating this in the abstract submission form, under “special instructions”. If that is the case, for each abstract submitted please indicate the name of the requested session, and the order in which talks should be placed. Please do not email the program chair to request special sessions, only requests made through the abstract submission form will be considered. The new sub categories are:
6.01 Advances in analytical, computational techniques
6.02 Advances in AI/ML techniques
6.03 Distinct confinement concepts: Self-organized (FRC, RFP, spheromak), linear (mirror, Z-pinch), and other confinement concepts. This category is for configuration-specific physics that does not map cleanly onto the other physics areas.
6.04 Transport and turbulence (including neoclassical transport)
6.05 Impurity accumulation, fueling and wall conditioning
6.06 Heating and current drive
6.07 Energetic particles and alpha physics
6.08 Magnetohydrodynamics: stability, equilibrium, optimization
6.09 Magnetohydrodynamics: instabilities and mitigation
6.10 Disruptions and runaway electrons
6.11 Edge and pedestal physics
6.12 Scrape-off-Layer and Divertor Physics
6.13 Plasma-Material interaction
6.14 Core-Edge Integration
6.15 Active Control
6.16 Integrated scenario development (including steady state and long pulse)
6.17 Integrated modeling of burning plasmas, whole devices, and fusion facilities (including reactor and pilot plant design)
6.18 other
Sorting category 11: Renamed Advocacy and Community.
Sorting category 13: We have selected three mini-conferences as part of the 2026 DPP program. If you are submitting an abstract for one of these mini conferences, please make sure you also inform the organizers if they have not contacted you to be part of the mini conference. The three mini conferences are:
13.01 - In Honor of Nuno Loureiro
13.02- The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices: In Honor of Peter Stangeby
13.03 - Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of collisionless plasmas