| Program with Poster List (pdf) |
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| Three Talks on FESAC Priorities Panel Effort (combined pdf) |
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| Link to Proceedings |
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Tuesday
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:: Thursday
:: Friday
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| Tuesday,
May 25 |
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| 7:30 |
Continental Breakfast, Monona Terrace Convention
Center (special advanced registration required) |
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| 8:30 |
Welcome and Administrative Matters
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Magnetic
Relaxation and Confinement |
Chair: D. Craig |
| 9:00 |
Invited: Generalized Cowling Theorem |
A. Boozer |
| 9:30 |
Invited: Relaxation in MFE Experiments
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T. Jarboe |
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:15 |
RFP Confinement with Varying Degrees
of Relaxation |
J.K. Anderson |
| 10:35 |
The Role of Fluctuations on Energy Confinement
in the
SSPX Spheromak |
H. McLean |
| 10:55 |
Experimental Studies of the Detailed Dynamics
Underlying
Spheromak Formation |
P. Bellan |
| 11:15 |
First Clear Evidence for Magnetic Relaxation
in Coaxial
Helicity Injection Discharges in the HIT-II Spherical Torus |
A. Redd |
| 11:35 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 12:05 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 |
Poster Session #1 (Refreshments 2:30-3:00) |
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ICC Community
Issues – Session 1 |
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| 3:00 |
FESAC Panel on Priorities (Overview) |
M. Mauel |
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Effects
of Plasma Flow and Flow Shear |
Chair: B. Nelson |
| 3:15 |
Invited: Effects of Flow and Flow
Shear in NSTX |
J. Menard |
| 3:45 |
Invited: Perspectives on the Suppression
of Turbulence by Sheared Flow |
P. Terry |
| 4:15 |
The Maryland Centrifugal Experiment and
Velocity Shear Stabilization of Ideal MHD Interchanges |
A. Hassam |
| 4:35 |
Equilibrium and Stability of Rotating Plasmas
in a Mirror Geometry |
A. Aydemir |
| 4:55 |
Formation and Sustainment of a Sheared Flow
Z- Pinch |
R. Golingo |
| 5:15 |
Experiments with a Supported Dipole |
M. Mauel |
| 5:35 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 7:45 |
Tour of local UW Experiments |
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| Wednesday,
May 26 |
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| 7:30 |
Continental Breakfast, Monona Terrace Convention
Center (special advanced registration required) |
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FRC/MTF:
Physics, History, and Status |
Chair: R. Milroy |
| 8:30 |
Invited: FRC History, Physics, and
Recent Developments |
A. Hoffman |
| 9:00 |
Invited: New Results in Plasma Implosion
Techniques |
T. Intrator |
| 9:30 |
Numerical Study of the Formation, Ion Spin-up
and Nonlinear Stability Properties of FRCs |
E. Belova |
| 9:50 |
Break |
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| 10:05 |
Merging Spheromaks to Access Large s FRC
Dynamics |
C. Cothran |
| 10:25 |
Formation of target Field-Reversed Configuration
plasma for MagnetizedTarget Fusion in FRX-L |
S. Zhang |
| 10:45 |
Stabilizing Effects of Rotating Magnetic
Fields (RMF) on Field Reversed Configurations (FRC) |
H. Guo |
| 11:05 |
Panel Discussion |
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Stellarators |
Chair: S. Knowlton |
| 11:35 |
Invited: Stellarator Physics and Status
of World Program |
M. Zarnstorff |
| 12:05 |
Invited Paper: Electric Fields in
Stellarators |
T. Pederson |
| 12:35 |
Lunch |
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| 2:00 |
Poster session #2 (Refreshments 3:00-3:30) |
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Inertial
Fusion Energy |
Chair: F. Thio |
| 3:30 |
Invited: Inertial Fusion Energy: Challenges
and Opportunity |
M. Cambell |
| 4:30 |
Invited: Innovations in Heavy Ion
Fusion |
S. Yu |
| 5:00 |
Invited: Innovations in Z-Pinch Fusion |
C. Olson |
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ICC Community
Issues - Session 2 |
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| 8:00 |
Community Meeting with DOE |
F. Thio |
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| Thursday,
May 27 |
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| 7:30 |
Continental Breakfast, Monona Terrace Convention
Center
(special advanced registration required) |
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Networking,
Diagnostics and Modeling |
Chair: J. Gauvreau |
| 8:30 |
Invited: Grid Computing and Collaboration
Technology in Support of ICC |
D. Schissel |
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| 9:00 |
Invited: Reconstructing Experimental
Equilibria |
S. Sabbagh |
| 9:30 |
Invited: MHD "Spectroscopy" |
D. Maurer |
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:15 |
Invited: Spheromak Transients and
Energy Confinement |
C. Sovinec |
| 10:45 |
Simulations of Sustained HIT-SI Operation
in the Present Experimental Regime and Beyond |
V. Izzo |
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Mirror,
Liquid Wall |
Chair: G. Wurden |
| 11:05 |
Invited: Advances in GDT Physics |
A. Ivanov |
| 11:35 |
Axisymmetric Tandem Mirrors: Kinetic-Stabilizer
Studies |
R.F. Post |
| 11:55 |
The Lithium Tokamak – Results from
CDX-U and the Design of LTX |
R. Majeski |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 |
Poster Session #3 (Refreshments 2:30-3:00) |
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Reactors |
Chair: P. Politzer |
| 3:00 |
Invited: The Physics of Fusion Energy |
J. Perkins |
| 3:30 |
Invited: Reconsidering Old Ideas |
S. Woodruff |
| 4:00 |
Discussion |
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| 4:15 |
Invited: D-3He Physics and Fusion
Energy Prospects |
J.Santarius |
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Innovative Concepts |
Chair: P. Politzer |
| 4:45 |
Business Needs Regarding Fusion: Lessons
Learned from Alternative Energy |
J. Loman |
| 5:05 |
Axisymmetric Mirror Stabilized by
the Shaped End Wall |
D. Ryutov |
| 5:20 |
Fusion-Fission-Fusion Fast Ignition
Plasma Focus |
F. Winterberg |
| 5:40 |
Helical Drive for RFPs and Stellarators |
R. Nebel |
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| 6:30 |
Workshop Banquet, Monona Terrace Convention
Center (no-host bar begins at 6:00) |
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| Friday,
May 28 |
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| 7:30 |
Continental Breakfast, Monona Terrace Convention
Center
(special advanced registration required) |
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ICC Community
Issues – Session 3 |
Chair: M. Mauel |
| 8:30 |
Update on Priorities Panel Macroscopic
Plasma Behavior Working Group |
G. Navratil |
| 8:55 |
Update on Priorities Panel Multi-Scale Transport
Behavior Working Group |
P. Terry |
| 9:20 |
Break |
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| 9:30 |
Two Parallel Discussion Sessions for
the Above Working Groups |
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| 11:00 |
Summary of Discussion Sessions |
G. Navratil / P. Terry |
| 11:30 |
End workshop |
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