2025 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, or medicine. 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 list the names of authors in order of presentation in Special Instructions. You must also email your ordered group list to Program Chair Carolyn Kuranz and Saralyn Stewart. The Program Committee will do their best to grant your request, but we cannot guarantee your specific order.
New for 2025!
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 and reduce conflicting sessions, 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: In all categories, “Analytical and computational techniques” and “Machine learning and data science techniques” have been combined to “Analytical, computational, AI/ML techniques” and “Advanced diagnostics and measurement innovation” has been deleted. Please submit to Category 9 instead.
In Low-Temperature Plasmas “Health, medicine, and bio-agent destruction” has been changed to “Life Sciences and Agriculture Applications” and “Thermal plasmas” has been deleted.
In High Energy Density Science, “Warm Dense Matter” and “Equations of State and Material Properties” have been combined into a single category. “Nonlinear Optics of Plasma” and “Short-Pulse Laser-on-Plasma Interactions” have been deleted from HEDS, please submit to Category 5 “Particle Acceleration, Beams and Relativistic Plasmas”. “High-Z, Multiply Ionized Atomic Physics” has been relocated to “Atomic Physics in HED Plasmas” and “Radiation Transport and Opacity” has been added as a subcategory. “HEDP laboratory astrophysics” has been deleted. Please submit to “Laboratory Astrophysics”.
Sorting category 9: We have added a new cross-cutting category “Advanced Diagnostics and Measurement Innovation”. This category was added after the recent Measurement Innovations Basic Research Needs Workshop and Report. This was previously listed as a subcategory under each category, however, to create more cross-community sessions, we have created a single category on this topic. Please consider submitting to this new category!
Sorting categories 10 and 11: We have created two new categories:
Category 10: Education, Public Engagement, and Workforce Development
Category 11: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Energy Justice
Sorting category 12: We encourage undergraduate and high school students to consider submitting to “Undergraduate or High School Research”, which will place their research in a special session with other undergraduate and high school posters. Undergraduate and high school projects typically get a late start, so DPP has extended the deadline for poster abstract submissions in only Category 12 (August 15, 2025). Students are requested to submit a provisional place-holder abstract (by July 28, 2025) including title, author, affiliation, and email, and update their abstract up to the August 15 deadline. The abstract category must be 12.01, or 12.02, and the presenting author must be an undergraduate or high school student. All posters in sorting category 12.00 will be online all week, and available for synchronous presentation at the Undergraduate Poster Session.
Sorting category 13: Mini-conference details will be posted on the APS DPP engage website after the selection process is complete.