Program ~ Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop 2008
and US-Japan Compact Torus Workshop
June 24-27, Reno, Nevada
Location: Joe Crowley Student Union, UNR Campus
Program in PDF format.
The Program of oral presentations for the meeting is given below.
A portion of program fees may be used to pay hosting expenses.
Monday:: Tuesday:: Wednesday:: Thursday:: Friday
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6:00 pm |
Registration Welcome Reception |
Eldorado Hotel |
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7:45 |
Continental Breakfast Provided |
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8:45 |
Welcome and Administrative Matters |
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Plasma Science: Plasma Transport and Dynamics |
Chair: Michiaki Inomoto |
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9:00 |
Studies of helicity-driven MHD relaxation and its control by rotating magnetic field on HIST |
Masayoshi Nagata |
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9:20 |
Transport of momentum by tearing modes in the MST RFP |
Gennady Fiksel |
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9:40 |
How does the plasma get into a spheromak? |
Paul Bellan |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
A Candidate 1MJ Modular Driver Concept for Heavy Ion Fusion Direct Drive |
Grant Logan |
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10:50 |
Alfvenic plasma flow during spheromak preformation stage |
Deepak Kumar |
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11:10 |
The First Basic Experiment on the Production and Identification of ETG Modes |
Amiya Sen |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch Provided |
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1:00 |
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Skunkworks |
Chair: Simon Woodruff |
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2:00 |
Fast Ignition Using Electron-Positron Jets |
Scott Wilks |
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2:20 |
Plasma Confinement by Rotating Magnetic Field in Toroidal Geometry |
Vladimir Svidzinski |
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2:40 |
A Hybrid Inductive Scenario for A Nearly Steady-State Reversed Field Pinch |
John Sarff |
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3:00 |
Break |
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3:30 |
Got Tritium? |
John Slough |
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3:50 |
Fast Z-Pinch Compression of Small-Radius, Cylindrical Liner |
Charles Hartman |
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4:10 |
Experimental results for an acoustic driver for MTF |
Michel Laberge |
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4:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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5:00 |
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6:00 |
US-Japan CT Workshop Reception |
University of Nevada, Reno |
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8:00 |
Continental Breakfast Provided |
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High Beta and other: RFP, Stellarators, LDX, Disruption Mitigation, Inductive Spheromak |
Chair: Brett Chapman |
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9:00 |
Overview of RFX-mod results |
Piero Martin |
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9:20 |
MHD Properties of Low-Aspect Ratio RFP in RELAX |
Sadao Masamune |
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9:40 |
Recent Results from the Steady-Inductive Helicity Injected Torus (HIT-SI) |
Brian Nelson |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:20 |
Transport in a Quasisymmetric Plasma: Results from HSX |
David Anderson |
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10:40 |
Studies of Non-Neutral Plasmas in the CNT Stellarator |
Thomas Pedersen |
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11:00 |
The Turbulent Structure of a Plasma Confined by a Magnetic Dipole |
Brian Grierson |
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11:20 |
Measurements of Improved Confinement During Magnetic Levitation of a Superconducting Dipole |
Alexander Boxer |
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11:40 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch Provided |
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Simply Connected: Spheromak and FRC |
Chair: Glen Wurden |
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1:30 |
Final Results from the SSPX Spheromak Program |
Harry Mclean |
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1:50 |
Visualizing Magnetic Reconnection in the SSPX Spheromak |
Bick Hooper |
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2:10 |
Reactor Prospect of Spheromak Concept by Electrostatic Helicity Injection |
Xianzhu Tang |
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2:30 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Improved Compression of Merged Field Reversed Configuration Plasmas in the IPA Experiment |
George Votroubek |
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3:20 |
Stable High-Flux Oblate FRCs in SSX |
Tim Gray |
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3:40 |
Development of Merged Compact Toroids for Use As An MTF Plasma |
Stephen Howard |
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4:00 |
Panel Discussion |
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4:30 |
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Evening Session (Eldorado Hotel) |
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5:30 |
Reception |
Eldorado Hotel |
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6:30 |
Banquet |
Eldorado Hotel |
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Fusion Updates |
Chair: Sam Barish |
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8:00 |
Update from DOE |
Stephen Eckstrand |
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8:30 |
FESAC panel chair on MFE Alternate concepts |
David Hill |
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8:00 |
Continental Breakfast Provided |
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Simply Connected and High Beta: FRC, Z-Pinch |
Chair: Loren Steinhauer |
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9:00 |
Achievement of a New High-Confinement, Collisionless FRC State in TCS-Upgrade |
Houyang Guo |
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9:20 |
The Princeton FRC Research Program |
Samuel Cohen |
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9:40 |
High-beta steady-state FRC plasmas sustained by rotating magnetic fields with spatial high-harmonic components |
Michiaki Inomoto |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
Simulation Studies of Field-Reversed Configurations with Rotating Magnetic Field Current Drive |
Elena Belova |
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10:50 |
Stabilization in the ZaP Flow Z-Pinch |
Uri Shumlak |
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11:10 |
Linear and nonlinear development of m=0 instability in z-pinch equilibria with sheared axial flows |
Ioana Parashiv |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch Provided |
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1:00 |
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Non-Inductive Current Drive and Simply Connected Open Systems |
Chair: Michael Brown |
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2:00 |
Solenoid-free Plasma Start-up in NSTX using Transient CHI |
Roger Raman |
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2:20 |
Closed flux sustainment during Coaxial Helicity Injection discharges and the requirements for flux amplification in the Helicity Injected Torus-II |
William Hamp |
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2:40 |
Non-inductive plasma startup and current profile modification in Pegasus spherical torus discharges |
Aaron Redd |
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3:00 |
Break |
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3:30 |
Maryland Centrifugal Experiment: Progress and Plans |
Richard Ellis |
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3:50 |
Experimental study on the velocity limits of magnetized rotating plasmas |
Catalin Teodorescu |
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4:10 |
Non-paraxial stabilizers for axisymmetric mirrors |
Dmitri Ryutov |
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4:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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5:00 |
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8:00 |
Continental Breakfast Provided |
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Inertial Fusion Energy and Magnetized Target Fusion |
Chair: Paul Parks |
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9:00 |
FRCHX Magnetized Target Fusion and FRC Translation Experiments |
Tom Intrator |
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9:20 |
Plasma formation and evolution from an aluminum surface driven by a megagauss field, as in magneto-inertial fusion |
Bruno Bauer |
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9:40 |
Shock Ignition: A New Approach to High Gain Targets for the National Ignition Facility and Inertial Fusion Energy |
John Perkins |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
C60-Fullerene Hyper-Velocity High-Density Plasma Jets for MIF and Disruption Mitigation |
Ioan Bogatu |
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10:50 |
Novel Cluster High Performance Target |
George Miley |
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11:10 |
Magnetized Hot-Spot Implosions on OMEGA |
James Knauer |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch Provided |
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1:30 |
Tour of Nevada Terawatt Facility |
Bruno Bauer |
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3:30 |
Excursion into Sierra Nevada mountains |
Bruno Bauer |
