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Dear Colleagues;
The workshop on Future Directions in Theory of 3D Magnetic Confinement Systems will be held in Oak Ridge on January 7-9, 2002. Broad objectives of the workshop are to:
The emphasis will be on the discussion of scientific issues, opportunities for advances, and program priorities, not on presentation of traditional scientific papers. An assessment document will be prepared as written summary of the workshop. The specific objectives of the document will be to:
The agenda for the workshop and names of the organizers of each session is included at the bottom of this message. To promote a more focused and efficient discussion the session organizers will be preparing draft sections of the assessment document. These will be sent by email to those on this distribution in advance of the workshop. Comments and responses to these drafts are welcome. It would be helpful if attendees would communicate to the listed organizers their intentions to make brief presentations in the sessions. Remember that the discussion should focus on issues, needs and the future. Assessment of the present status of the field should be limited to only that needed to understand the importance of outstanding issues. Time allocations for the sessions may shift depending on the responses received.
The meeting will be held at the Garden Plaza Hotel in Oak Ridge. A block of rooms has been reserved under the name 3D Plasma Workshop at a rate of $55.00 per night. This rate is available beginning Saturday, Jan 5th. A registration fee of $60 will be required. Attendees should make their own hotel reservations. The information for the hotel is:
Garden Plaza Hotel
215 S. Illinois Avenue
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone (865) 481-2468
Fax (865) 481-2474
Sincerely
Don Batchelor
Allan Reiman
Chris Hegna
Allen Boozer
(* indicates responsible person)
Input from experimental programs (D. Anderson*,dtanders@facstaff.wisc.edu)- Extensive discussion of the US Compact Stellarator program is anticipated, but the wider stellarator program, and 3D issues for tokamaks and other concepts will be included.
MHD (Reiman*,reiman@pppl.gov, Hegna, hegna@cptc.wisc.edu)- 3D equilibrium, linear and nonlinear ideal MHD stability, calculation and theory of magnetic islands and tearing modes, including neoclassical effects, modes driven by energetic particles
Confinement (Boozer*,ahb17@columbia.edu, Mynick, hmynick@pppl.gov) - Neoclassical confinement, energetic particle confinement, microstability and turbulence, transport barrier theory, radial electric field effects
Modeling and diagnostics (Houlberg*,houlbergwa@ornl.gov, Callen, callen@engr.wisc.edu ) - Integrated discharge analysis, simulations , 3D equilibrium reconstruction, analysis of diagnostics in 3D
Wave propagation and RF applications (Batchelor*,batchelordb@ornl.gov, Weitzner) - Heating, current drive, flow drive, wave based diagnostics
Optimization (Ware*, aware@selway.umt.edu, Pomphrey, pomphrey@pppl.gov) - Plasma Configuration Design, Coil Design, Experimental Flexibility and Control, Reactor Design Optimization
Edge physics modeling (Hogan*, hoganjt@ornl.gov, Rognlien, trognlien@llnl.gov) -Equilibrium, power handling, particle control, impurity control, direct velocity space loss, barrier / pedestal physics for tokamaks and stellarators
Wrap-up session - Presentations by session leaders, discussion of collaborations or new initiatives to follow up, writing or writing assignments