U.S. Burning Plasma Workshop
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
December 7-9, 2005
Purpose of the Workshop
This meeting will be one in a series to facilitate community discussion among working scientists with the aim of delineating and prioritizing the issues and approaches for burning plasma science and technology research in the U.S., both during the ITER construction phase and after operations commence.
Topics
- Engaging the U.S. fusion research community in development of the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization
- Burning Plasma activities since Snowmass 2002
- Status and plans for ITER (domestic and international)
- Planning U.S. Burning Plasma research activities in general, and for ITER specifically
Program Committee
E. Marmar (MIT), ChairM. Bell (PPPL)
R. Fonck (U. Wisconsin)
D. Meade (PPPL)
E. Oktay (USDoE)
N. Sauthoff (PPPL)
T. Taylor (General Atomics)
N. Uckan (ORNL)
M. Ulrickson (SNLA)
J. Van Dam (U. Texas)
Meeting Format
The meeting will consist of invited plenary overview presentations, and contributed sessions in which members of the community will present ideas and plans for burning plasma research. The sessions will be organized by topic, with interest groups formed around each topic. Summaries of topical group discussions will be reported at the meeting and distributed to the community.
See the links at left for further information on the agenda, meeting format, travel information, registration, and local arrangements.
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