Details of the symposium and how to register to attend are posted at http://fusion.ps.uci.edu:16080/rostoker-symposium

A DVD dedicated to Norman's life and career, including pictures, live messages and wishes from his friends is being produced. Please send your material to OrganizingCommittee@trialphaenergy.com

Norman received his D.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1950. After a stint at the Armour Research Foundation (1953-1956) he joined an outstanding group of privately funded fusion researchers at General Atomics in San Diego (1956-1967) where he became Manager of Fusion and Plasma Physics and a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He then became Chairman of the Applied Physics Department at Cornell University. From 1972 to the present time he has been a Professor of Physics at UC Irvine and was chairman of that department, 1973-1976. He was also chair of the Plasma Physics Division of the American Physical Society in 1972 and in 1988 was recipient of its James Clerk Maxwell Prize.

Norman has published countless pioneering papers on fusion and plasma physics and is especially known for his tenacious search for a more economically attractive magnetic fusion confinement configuration.

He can be reached at nrostoke@uci.edu