The Wonders of Plasma
Jim Reardon, Clint Sprott (University of Wisconsin--Madison), CMSO 
Collaboration, MST Team

The ongoing Wonders of Physics outreach program at the
University of Wisconsin has teamed up with the new Center
for Magnetic Self-Organization of Laboratory and
Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSO), an NSF Physics Frontier
Center, in a variety of outreach efforts intended to attract
students to plasma physics. Chief among these efforts are a
live-action calculus competition--the "Integration Bee"--in
which students compete for prizes by doing integrals at the
blackboard, and a video, tentatively entitled the "Wonders
of Plasma," which introduces CMSO-related plasma physics to
a high-school level audience. Meanwhile, the Wonders of
Physics continues to "win fans for physics" by putting on
entertaining and informative shows before live audiences at
the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere. Approximately
10,000 people have seen a Wonders of Physics show since the
last APS DPP conference. Several new fusion-related
demonstrations have been added to the Wonders of Physics
Traveling Show in the past year. Some of them can be seen at
the conference at the Plasma Expo on Thursday and Friday.

This work supported by US DOE and NSF.