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Program ~ Workshop on Exploratory Topics in Plasma and Fusion Research (EPR 2013)
February 12-15, 2013, Fort Worth Texas
Location: Hilton Fort Worth Hotel – Fort Worth, Texas
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The Program of oral presentations for the meeting is given below.

Tuesday:: Wednesday:: Thursday:: Friday

Tuesday, February 12[top]

8:30	Welcome and Administrative Matters
Plasma-Boundary Interactions		Chair: Brian Nelson
8:45	Multiscale science of plasma facing material interfaces	Predrag Krstic
9:30	Liquid metal walls for fusion reactors and the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX)	Dick Majeski
10:15	Break
10:30	Understanding the controlling physics in plasma boundary interaction from the plasma perspective	Xianzhu Tang
11:00	Advanced divertors for fusion	Michael Kotschenreuther
11:30	A method to exhaust energy and ash from small, aneutronic FRC reactors	Samuel Cohen
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch
Merging, FRCs, and HEDLP		Chair: Mike Brown
1:30	Overview of C-2 experiments	Houyang Guo
2:00	Effects of energetic beam ions on stability properties of prolate FRCs	Elena Belova
2:30	Techniques to extend FRC lifetimes for magnetized target fusion implosions in FRCHX	Glen Wurden
3:00	Break
3:30	A two-fluid helicity transport model to explain bifurcation in counter-helicity merging	Setthivoine You
4:00	Experimental study of merging supersonic plasma jets motivated by HEDLP and plasma science applications	Elizabeth Merritt
4:30	Experimental exploration of high-speed non-equilibrium dynamics	Paul Bellan
5:00	Global magnetic self-organization at high energy densities	Lan Gao
5:30	Adjourn

Wednesday, February 13[top]

Validated Comparisons between Simulation and Experiment		Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin
9:00	Concepts and practice of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification	William Oberkampf
9:45	Validation – applying the scientific method in the era of simulations	Martin Greenwald
10:30	Break
10:45	The validation project on the TORPEX basic plasma physics experiment	Paolo Ricci
11:30	Progress on validation of extended MHD models by the plasma science and innovation center	Cihan Akcay
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30	Two-fluid simulations of merging-compression start-up in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak	Adam Stanier
2:00	Characterizing simulations of the Reconnection Scaling Experiment	Tom Intrator
2:30	Break
3:00 – 5:00	Poster Session I
6:00	Banquet
8:00	Update from DOE, Discussion	Sam Barish

Thursday, February 14 [top]

3D Magnetic Fields: Stellarator and RFP		Chair: Jeff Harris
9:00	Progress and prospects in stellarator physics and 3D plasma confinement	David Anderson
9:45	Disruption avoidance by application of 3D stellarator equilibrium fields to tokamak discharges	David Maurer
10:15	Break
10:30	Self-consistent simulations of nonlinear MHD and profile evolution in stellarator configurations	Mark Schlutt
11:00	Unified parametric dependence, reconstruction, and control of 3D equilibria in the RFP	Brett Chapman
11:30	Energetic ion confinement and stability in the RFP	Jay Anderson
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch
3D Magnetic Fields: HIT-SI		Chair: Brett Chapman
1:30	3d magnetic structure of HIT-SI plasmas at different injector driving frequencies	Brian Victor
2:00	Imposed dynamo current drive	Tom Jarboe
2:30	Break
3:00 – 5:00	Poster Session II
5:00	Adjourn

Friday, February 15 [top]

Improvements for Fusion Energy Science		Chair: Harry Mclean
9:00	Direct evidence for magnetic fluctuation-driven intrinsic flow in a toroidal plasma	David Brower
9:30	Non-solenoidal startup via local helicity injection and edge stability studies in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment	Michael Bongard
10:00	Nonlinear dynamics in RFP experiment and computation	Karsten McCollam
10:30	Break
10:45	Boundary induced amplification and nonlinear instability of interchange modes	Jupiter Bagaipo
11:15	3D ideal MHD equilibria in HIT-SI	Chris Hansen
11:45	Spline representations for more efficient stellarator coil design	Joshua Breslau
12:15	Workshop Adjourned