AGENDA

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1. Opening Session: Background and power plant requirements

Mark Tillack (UCSD), "Meeting Goals and Logistics"

Steve Lisgo (IO)

Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD), "Edge plasma and PMI concerns for fusion power plants"

Lance Snead (ORNL), "PMI materials behavior & constraints in a reactor environment"

Richard Nygren (SNLA), "HHFC designs & constraints in a reactor environment"

2. Physics of the edge - current understanding and projections to ITER and power plants

Rajesh Maingi (ORNL), "Heat flux measurements and modeling from C-Mod, DIII-D, and NSTX for the FY10 Joint Research Milestone, and implications for power producing devices."

Zeke Unterberg (ORNL), "Fuel Retention Studies in Present-day Tokamaks and Its Relevance to a Future Fusion Power Plant"

John Wesley (GA), "Disruptions and off-normal events"

Andrea Garofalo (GA)

3. Modeling of the tokamak edge

Tom Rognlien (LLNL), "UEDGE, edge turbulence, and kinetic effects"

David Coster (IPP Garching), "SOLPS and PMI modeling"

Daren Stotler (PPPL), "Neutral Transport from Wall to Scrape-Off Layer"

Nobuyuki Asakura (JAEA), "Power exhaust simulation for the SlimCS divertor with the SONIC code"

4. Experimental benchmarking of models for power plants

Chris Holland (UCSD), "The status of edge plasma modeling and benchmarking"

^*PANEL:

Chuck Kessel (PPPL), chair

Rajesh Maingi (ORNL)

Chris Holland (UCSD)

5. Innovative Ideas

Dmitri Ryutov (LLNL), "Snowflake divertors for power plants"

Richard Majeski (PPPL), "Liquid metal PFC's for power plants"

Mike Kotschenreuther (U.Texas), "The Super X-Divertor for high power density tokamaks"

Peter Stangeby (U.Toronto), "Carbon as a flow-through, consumable PFC material"

Christian Linsmeier (IPP Garching), "Self-passivating tungsten alloys for first wall application"

6. ^*PANEL: New device contributions to edge physics benchmarking

Alan Turnbull (GA), chair

Martin Peng (ORNL)

Jon Menard (PPPL)

Ron Stambaugh (GA)

Steve Lisgo

7. DISCUSSION: Conclusions and Future Plans

 

^*(Panels will be 1.5 hours long, and provide both an opportunity for brief prepared statements as well as impromptu remarks and Q&A.)