Fourth Joint Workshop (W62) on “Implementation of the ITPA Coordinated Research Recommendations,” to be held in San Diego, Ca, November 1–2, 2005. 

The meeting will take place at General Atomics in San Diego, California USA from
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 to Wednesday, November 2, 2005.

This is the Fourth in the series of Workshops on "Implementation of the ITPA Coordinated Research Recommendations".  These workshops are being held in accordance with the decision at the IEA Large Tokamak Executive Committee meeting of May/June 2002 (see the LT web site http://www-jt60.naka.jaeri.go.jp/lt/ ), at which the leaders of the Large Tokamak Programs expressed their wish to stimulate and facilitate increased multi-machine joint experiments for the various tokamak programs with the recognition that the ITPA is the most effective international body in place for generating coordinated experiment plans across a wide range of fusion research topics. The First of these workshops was held on 18–19 November 2002 at MIT, Boston, USA; The Second Workshop, was held on 23 November 2003 at JAERI Naka, Ibaraki, Japan; and the Third Workshop was held on 8–10 December, 2004 at Eynsham Hall, Near Oxford, UK.  The interest and participation has increased with each workshop. The discussions and implementation of joint experiments have enhanced progress on tokamak burning plasma physics issues, thereby contributing to the success of future burning plasma experiments such as ITER.  The coordinated efforts resulting from these Workshops have added great value to the experiments on the individual facilities, and have resulted in personnel and some hardware exchanges. Exchanges have been carried out under international agreements, such as those related to the IEA, namely the Large Tokamak, Poloidal Divertor and TEXTOR Implementing Agreements (IA's), which include four ITER Parties (Eropean Union, Japan, Korea, the US).  The other two ITER Parties (China and the Russian Federation) participate in this activity through their Bilateral Agreements with the U.S. These IEA and Bilateral Agreements provide the legal framework for the activity.

First Announcement

Second Announcement

Participant Requirements

Participants to the various ITPA Meetings must make sure that they perform the following actions (in chronological order).

1. For those participants that need U.S. entry Visas, submit U.S. Visa application immediately to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your country. Note that due to recent changes in the visa application procedures, the process time for Visa application has increased significantly (further details on visa application requirements can be obtained from the following website: http://www.UnitedStatesVisas.gov). Please contact Brenda Bowman for invitation letters.
   Citizens of certain countries (visa waiver countries) do NOT need U.S. visas for entry.
   These countries are: Andorra Iceland Norway Australia Ireland Portugal Austria Italy San Marino Belgium Japan Singapore Brunei Liechtenstein Slovenia Denmark Luxembourg Spain Finland Monaco Sweden France the Netherlands Switzerland Germany New Zealand United Kingdom (also, Canadian citizens do no need visas).
   For verification on visa waiver countries see the following site: http://travel.state.gov/vwp.html. Citizens of these countries must make sure that they have machine readable passports (see the same site for more details).
   
2. Complete and submit the non-U.S. Citizen form (Closed) by September 16, 2005. Note that submissions after this date can be accepted, but there is no guarantee that approval for entry to GA will be completed before the meeting.
3. Make reservations at hotel of your choice.
4. Complete and submit the registration Form (Closed) by October 5, 2005.
5. Contact the meeting agenda coordinator to submit title of presentation, if any.
6. Arrive at the GA visitor reception center by 8:00 A.M. of the first morning of your ITPA meeting to pickup badge. (see map of GA)

   Note: It is extremely important that all forms be filled out by the deadline dates.