2018 USJ MHDW Agenda - Google Drive


1	23rd Workshop on MHD Stability Control – A US-Japan Workshop: Common Themes and Challenges in Stellarators and Tokamaks for Fusion Reactors
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3	Day 1: Monday November 12
4	8:00	Registration	Meg Murphy
5	8:45	Welcome & Announcements	Nikolas Logan	Program Chair
6	8:45	Welcome & Announcements	Troy Carter	Local Announcements
7	Start Time	Session Title	Presenter or Chair	Affiliation
8		MHD Challenges Across Devices	Jeremy Hanson
9	9:00	Extended MHD studies for stellarator applications	C. Hegna (I)	UW - Madison
10	9:35	Overview of the Stability and Control of Wendelstein 7-X	Samuel Lazerson	PPPL
11	9:55	Coffee break
12	10:25	3D MHD Issues in the reversed field pinch	Sadao Masamune	Kyoto Inst. of Technology
13	10:45	MHD Control Challenges at ITER	Joseph A Snipes	ITER Organization
14	11:05	Reflections on control issues for tokamaks and stellarators	Alan Turnbull	General Atomics
15	11:25	Perturbing tokamaks towards the stellarator quasi-axisymmetric limit	Gabriel Plunk (I)	Max-Plank IPP
16	12:00	Lunch
17		The 3D Tokamak	Masaru Furukawa
18	13:20	Predicting optimal 3D coil configurations	Nikolas Logan	PPPL
19	13:40	Novel RMP coil designs using stellarator optimization tools	Caoxiang Zhu	PPPL
20	14:00	Validating multi-n plasma response simulations	Jeremy Hanson	Columbia University
21	14:20	Study of the plasma response on external rotating RMP field in a small tokamak device HYBTOK-II	Yoshihide Shibata	NIT, Gifu College
22	14:40	Discussion
23	15:10	Coffee break
24		LAPD, Archs & Waves	Troy Carter
25	15:40	An overview of the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA	Troy Carter	UCLA
26	16:00	Spontaneous generation of Alfven waves by an intense proton beam on LAPD	Shreekrishna Tripathi	UCLA
27	16:20	Three-dimensional Evolution and Formation of Multiple Current-filaments in a Laboratory Arched Magnetized Plasma	Kamil Krynski	UCLA
28	16:40	Shear Alfven Waves in Multi-Ion Plasmas	Jeffrey Robertson	UCLA
29	17:00	Discussion / Close
30	17:30	Tours LAPD
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32	Day 2: Tuesday November 13
33	Start Time	Session Title	Presenter or Chair	Affiliation
34		Building Stable Scenarios	Linda Sugiyama
35	9:00	Make the ITER Baseline Scenario great again. Stability at zero torque and lower collisionality.	Francesca Turco	Columbia University
36	9:20	MHD Equilibrium calculations of large-aspect-ratio tokamaks and stellarators via simulated annealing	Masaru Furukawa	Tottori University
37	9:40	Plasma shape reconstruction of merging spherical tokamak	Tomohiko Ushiki	QST
38	10:00	Coffee break
39		Databases and Machine Learning	Gerald Navratil
40	10:30	Data-based stability analysis and control	Egemen Kolemen (I)	Princeton University
41	11:05	Overview of Multi-Machine Disruption Prediction using Random Forests	Kevin Montes	MIT
42	11:25	Disruptivity and Density Limits in MAST and other Tokamaks	Jack Berkery	Columbia University
43	11:45	Group photo
44	12:00	Lunch
45		Tearing, Sawteeth and Mode Control	Ted Strait
46	13:20	Ideal and Resistive MHD Stability Calculations in Near Real-Time	Alexander Glasser (I)	Princeton University
47	13:55	Measurement and Role of Multiple, Small Locked Edge Islands Triggering Tokamak Disruptions	Xiaodi Du (I)	General Atomics
48	14:30	Coffee break
49	15:00	Ideal MHD sawtooth crash due to quasi-interchange modes	Linda E Sugiyama	MIT
50	15:20	Tearing Mode Stabilization using Electron Cyclotron Waves in the EAST Tokamak	Yang Zhang (I)	IPP, CAS
51	15:55	Suppression of Magnetic Islands by RF Current Condensation	Allan Reiman	PPPL
52	16:15	Modelling current control amplifiers for RWM feedback	Mitchell Clement	Columbia University
53	16:35	A promising path of Tearing Mode Entrainment in the Presence of Static Error Field	Michio Okabayashi	PPPL
54	16:55	Discussion / Close
55	18:00	Banquet
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57	Day 3: Wednesday November 14
58	Start Time	Session Title	Presenter or Chair	Affiliation
59		Stability from Edge to Core	Sadao Masamune
60	8:30	SOL Current Dynamics During MHD Activity & Prospects for Using SOL Currents for MHD Mode Control	Jeffrey Levesque (I)	Columbia University
61	9:05	Non-axisymmetric tokamak divertors	Allen Boozer	Columbia University
62	9:25	Recent progress of understanding 3D stochastic boundary in Large Helical Device	Yasuhiro Suzuki (I)	NIFS
63	10:00	Coffee break
64		Kinetic MHD Stability	Nikolas Logan
65	10:30	Interplay between MHD mode and hot particles in high-beta plasmas	Junya Shiraishi (I)	QST
66	11:05	Drift kinetic response of ions to magnetic island perturbation and effects on NTM threshold	Koki Imada	York Plasma Institute
67	11:25	Helically trapped energetic particle driven MHD mode and its mitigation	Satoshi Ohdachi	NIFS
68	11:45	Energetic particle confinement/stability analysis for stellarators and tokamaks	Don Spong (I)	ORNL
69	12:20	Close	Nikolas Logan
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