Program ~ Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop 2007
February 12-14, College Park, Maryland
Location: University of Maryland Inn and Conference Center by Marriott
Program in PDF format.
The Program of oral presentations for the meeting is given below. A listing of all the poster presentations by day of presentation will be up on this site shortly.
Monday, February 12, 2007 [top]
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7:45 |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:45 |
Welcome and Administrative Matters |
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High-Beta Magnetic Confinement: RFP, MCX, LDX, Pegasus, and ZaP |
Chair: Darren Garnier |
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9:00 |
Generation and confinement of hot thermal ions through the manipulation of magnetic reconnection in the reversed field pinch |
Sanjay Gangadhara |
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9:20 |
High beta, high density improved confinement reversed-field pinch plasmas |
Max Wyman |
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9:40 |
Progress on the Maryland centrifugal experiment |
Adil Hassam |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
Overview of results from supported mode operation of the Levitated Dipole Experiment |
Jennifer Ellsworth |
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10:50 |
Non-inductive startup using localized washer gun plasma sources on the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment |
Nicholas Eidietis |
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11:10 |
Stabilization in the ZaP flow Z-pinch |
Uri Shumlak |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch ~ Complimentary to registered attendees |
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1:00 |
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Inertial Fusion Energy Research |
Chair: John Perkins |
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2:30 |
The national ignition facility and its future role in inertial fusion energy |
Edward Moses |
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2:50 |
A European path to fast ignition fusion energy |
Mike Dunne |
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3:10 |
Laser fusion energy and the fusion test facility |
John Sethian |
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3:30 |
Break |
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4:00 |
Innovations for warm dense matter research may lead to improved heavy ion fusion approach |
Grant Logan |
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4:20 |
Magneto inertial implosion experiments on the OMEGA laser |
Orlin Gotchev |
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4:40 |
Shock ignition of thermonuclear fuel with high areal densities |
Riccardo Betti |
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5:00 |
Panel Discussion |
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Non-Technical Session |
Chair: Stephen Knowlton |
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7:30 |
Update from OFES |
TBA |
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8:00 |
ICC Program |
Francis Thio |
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8:30 |
One Pager Discussion |
Stephen Knowlton |
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8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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High-Beta and Simply Connected: FRC |
Chair: Alan Hoffman |
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9:00 |
RMFo-formed collisionless high-beta plasmas: Yesterday, today and tomorrow |
Samuel Cohen |
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9:20 |
Evidence of relaxation and spontaneous transition to a high-confinement state in high-beta steady-state plasmas sustained by rotating magnetic fields |
Houyang Guo |
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9:40 |
Ohmic sustainment of free boundary compact toroids in MRX |
Gerhardt Stefan |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
Issues for a magnetized target fusion reactor |
Glen Wurden |
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10:50 |
The Pulsed High Density Experiment: Initial results from the dynamic formation of high flux FRCs |
Samuel Andreason |
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11:10 |
Hybrid simulations of rotational instabilities in FRCs |
Elena Belova |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch ~ Complimentary to registered attendees |
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1:00 |
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Theory and Computation |
Chair: James Van Dam |
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2:30 |
FRC simulations using the NIMROD code |
Richard Milroy |
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2:50 |
Two-fluid simulations of field reversed configurations |
Ammar Hakim |
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3:10 |
Initial comparison of HIT-SI measurements to NIMROD calculations |
R. G. O'Neill |
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3:30 |
Break |
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4:00 |
Startup of spherical tokamak component test facility by co-axial helicity injection |
Xianzhu Tang |
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4:20 |
Simulation of FLR effects on RFP tearing modes |
Charlson Kim |
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4:40 |
Tendency of MHD forces to create localized, collimated plasma-filled flux tubes and ion orbit instability in a flux tube |
Paul Bellan |
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5:00 |
Panel Discussion |
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ICC Strategy Session |
Chair: TBA |
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7:30 |
Session TBA |
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8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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New Concepts |
Chair: Simon Woodruff |
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9:00 |
Suitability of small scale linear systems for a fission- fusion reactor, breeder, and waste transmutation |
John Slough |
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9:20 |
Pressurized gas as a driver for magnetized target fusion |
Dmitri Ryutov |
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9:40 |
Nuclear fusion with reduced coulomb barriers |
John Perkins |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:30 |
Linear Connected Array of Non-Adiabatic Traps |
Hiromu Momota |
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10:50 |
New concepts for reducing costs and improving efficiency of solid-state laser drivers for inertial fusion energy |
Alvin Erlandson |
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11:10 |
Panel Discussion |
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11:30 |
Lunch ~ Complimentary to registered attendees |
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12:30 |
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Simply Connected and/or Current Drive Solutions: Spheromaks, Stellarators and Others |
Chair: Bick Hooper |
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2:00 |
Internal magnetic structure and electric fields in the Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI) |
Aaron Redd |
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2:20 |
Flow dynamics and plasma heating of spheromaks in SSX |
Michael Brown |
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2:40 |
Magnetic field generation and sustainment in the SSPX spheromak |
Harry Mclean |
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3:00 |
The search for reconnection and helicity during formation of a bounded spheromak |
Carlos Romero-Talamas |
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3:20 |
Break |
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3:50 |
Onset and saturation of the kink instabilities in a current carrying, line-tied plasma surrounded by a resistive shell |
Cary Forest |
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4:10 |
Reduced neoclassical particle and heat transport with quasihelical symmetry in HSX |
John Canik |
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4:30 |
Confinement of pure electron plasmas in the Columbia non-neutral torus |
John Berkery |
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4:50 |
Energy confinement predictions for the stabilized Tandem Mirror and GAMMA-10 |
Wendell Horton |
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5:10 |
Panel Discussion |
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