Registration & Abstract Submission is Now Open
The 30th Workshop on MHD Stability Control will take place from Monday, July 13th to Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 at University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. This year, the workshop will run for a full 3 days, which is half a day longer than usual.
Please submit your abstract by May 31 using this link, and register by June 21 using this link. See the Forms tab on the left menu bar for more information. The planned agenda contains slots for 7 invited talks. Invited talks will be granted an uninterrupted 22 minutes of time. Contributed talks will be granted an uninterrupted 14 minutes of time. Each session is planned to have one invited talk and three contributed talks, followed by a dedicated time of 26 minutes for the discussion. The deadline for all types of presentations is May 31.
All participants are welcome to submit to the PPCF Focus Collection on the 30th Workshop on MHD Stability Control (link). Papers in a focus collection tend to get processed faster and cited more. The submission deadline is October 30, 2026.
Please contact the chair of program committee James Yang (jyang@pppl.gov) for details.
This workshop is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Tokamak Research Program's Control of Damaging Transients major topical area.
Key Dates
| Announcement #1, abstract submission open | February 2, 2026 |
| Announcement #2, registration open | April 15, 2026 |
| Abstract submission close | May 31, 2026 |
| Registration close | June 21, 2026 |
| Announcement #3 with agenda | July 6, 2026 |
| Conference start | July 13, 2026 |
| Conference end | July 15, 2026 |
| PPCF Special Issue submission close | October 30, 2026 |