DIII-D Long Range Planning Workshop
January 10, 2007 at General Atomics
Agenda is now available.
The planning process leading to continued research operation of DIII-D in the period 2009 to 2013 is underway. Throughout the coming spring and early summer, we will prepare a new Five-Year Program Plan for DIII-D. This program plan will be presented and discussed in the Tokamak Planning Workshop presently scheduled for September 17-19th at MIT (duration and format are still being finalized).
We are scheduling a Long-Range Planning Workshop January 10, 2007 at General Atomics to solicit your suggestions for the DIII-D program content for 2009 - 2013. The purpose of this Long-Range Planning Workshop is to generate a list of potential research elements for the new DIII-D Five-Year Program Plan. There will be little discussion or judgment about the ideas during the workshop, except for clarification. All ideas are welcome. If there is something you are enthusiastic about that should be done in the future, bring it up. Fully worked out proposals are not necessary. Please join us in preparing an exciting and compelling program plan for the future.
At this stage we are obviously looking for major items of research: research areas you think should be a main theme, areas of research that should get more emphasis than during the current five year period, significant hardware changes to the machine or auxiliary systems, new diagnostics, etc., as opposed to specific experimental proposals as we have in a Research Opportunities Forum.
For organizational purposes, workshop presentations will be collected into three broad areas (see below). Participants should give a very brief overview of the context and significance of the proposed research activity; oral presentations will be limited to 10min total, including any questions/discussion. Brevity is encouraged. Remote interactive participation will be possible.
Feel free to submit more than one idea. If there are multiple submissions of the same idea, we will ask one of the submitters to include them all. Please let us know if you plan to participate and if you want to make an oral presentation by registering, preferably by Wednesday, December 20, 2006. Depending on the number of presentations, we may have to extend the workshop into January 11th.
We are requesting a brief written summary of your idea(s) to be submitted through a web-based form by Tuesday, January 9th. It is not necessary to make an oral presentation to submit your idea. The web-based form will be similar in format to ITER "Issue Cards." There will be many future opportunities to provide input if you can't participate now.
Presentations will be assigned to one of these three areas :
- Hardware Systems and Technology: What new systems or major upgrades of existing systems or facilities could enable DIII-D to make significant advances in
- establishing the viability of steady-state high performance (Advanced Tokamak)
- resolving issues important to the success of ITER,
- resolving important issues for future tokamaks beyond ITER?
- Measurements: What new measurements would spark a large advance in
- fundamental understanding of key underlying physics
- verification of theoretical models or testing of codes
- our confidence in extrapolation to ITER or future fusion experiments beyond ITER?
- Research Thrusts/Elements/Themes: What long-range (multi-year) research objectives would make use of the unique features and capabilities of the DIII-D facility and staff, to
- advance fusion science,
- maximize contributions to the success of ITER, and the ITER research program
- improve the Tokamak concept
- revolutionize magnetic fusion research (new, innovative, transformational ideas)
