The Community is invited to attend the Community Input Teleconference: May 18-19, 2015
The Community Input Teleconference complements whitepapers as a forum for additional community input to the workshop. We thank everyone for whitepaper contributions. We received 121 whitepapers, with 48 requests for oral presentations. All whitepapers are available via the workshop website:
  https://www.burningplasma.org/activities/IntegratedSimulations2015
Goals: Whitepapers, as well as teleconference presentations and group discussion, provide important contributions to the workshop goals of reviewing recent progress and identifying gaps and challenges in fusion theory and computation directly relevant to the topic of disruption prevention, avoidance, and mitigation and that of plasma boundary physics, with whole device modeling as the long-term goal. In addition, the workshop will reassess these challenges and their concomitant opportunities and will adjust or broaden them appropriately by taking into consideration recent progress and using the criteria of urgency, extreme-scale computing benefit, readiness for progress within a ten-year time frame, and world-leading potential.
Speakers: Speakers during the Community Input Teleconference are any whitepaper submitters who (1) requested to do a presentation and (2) are not also serving as a member of one of the workshop panels. The full list of panel members is available via the workshop website.
Agenda: A final agenda is now
posted. Please review the agenda and note the time of your panel session
and presentation. Be sure to view this final agenda, as some
presentation times have changed since the prior draft. Presentations
will be posted at this site as they are received.
Zoom teleconference information: All May
18-19 sessions will take place using the Zoom teleconference system.
Connection information for the teleconference is given below and has has
now been posted on the website.
Join from
PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://mit-psfc.zoom.us/j/6172530886
Or join by
phone:
+1 (415) 762-9988 or +1 (646) 568-7788 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 617 253 0886
International numbers available: https://mit-psfc.zoom.us/zoomconference
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Please test the Zoom software prior to the workshop.
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All teleconference attendees should be sure to mute your
microphone when not speaking and turn off your video camera.
You will see these control options along the bottom left of the Zoom
video display. We will use video camera display only for speakers during
their presentation timeslot, as well as for Panel Chairs and Co-Chairs during
their session.
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People with firewall issues should use Zoom telephone
(audio) connection and download pdf files of presentations from the workshop
website. We anticipate that these presentations will be available on the
conference website prior to each teleconference session.
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If you have any technical difficulties, please send email to
ISwhitepapers@burningplasma.org with a
contact telephone number; we will relay your problem to an IT person at MIT,
who will handle the problem.
Speaker instructions: Each
Panel Session will be chaired by the corresponding Panel Chair and Co-Chair.
The Workshop Chair (Paul Bonoli) will manage the display of all slides
during the teleconference. He will advance each speaker’s slides (which
will be displayed to all attendees using the Zoom teleconference system). Each
speaker will simply ask for the slides to be advanced during the presentation.
During each speaker’s presentation
timeslot: Turn on your Zoom video camera connection if you would
like teleconference attendees to see your face in addition to your slides.
Otherwise, all video cameras should be turned off.
A reminder to speakers on format:
Each speaker in a given panel session should be sure to
attend the Panel Introduction (by the Panel Chair and Co-Chair) at the start of
the overall panel session. Each speaker will be allocated 10
minutes of presentation time, followed immediately by 4 minutes of
question/discussion with the panel. Speakers
should focus on (1) what are recent advances and gaps, and (2) what are
opportunities (i.e., readiness to make substantial progress). Please
strive for clarity and brevity. Please adhere to these guidelines
so that the panel has time to ask questions and ensure that your points, and
their implications for the report, are clearly understood. Each panel session
will conclude with additional group discussion, led by the panel
Chair/Co-Chair. We encourage speakers to stay online to participate in this
discussion.