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8th Steady State Operation ITPA Topical Group meeting
San Diego, USA, October 31st to November 3rd, 2005

Monday 31st of October 2005

08:30 Register at the main gate

09:00: Start of the meeting: Room 07/120: Chair Sips

• Approval of the agenda
• Short summary of the ITPA CC meeting:                     G. Sips
  Priorities for 2005-2006
• Physics Issues in ITER                                                    M. Shimada

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:15 Status and plans of joint experiments: Chair Ide   
(Mainly SSO-1.1, SSO-1.2, SSO 1.3, SSO-2.1, SSO-2.2, SSO-2.3)

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30 Status of joint experiments: Chair Luce
(Future plans, reports, publications)

• JET plans for 2006: Hybrid and Steady state       E. Joffrin
• MHD reports: DIII-D: MHD in Hybrids                     P. Politzer
• MHD reports: DIII-D: role of 3/2 tearing modes     C. Petty
• Priorities for 2006
• Specific reports: Future publications  (IAEA)           

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Collaboration with other ITPA groups: Chair Sips

• CDBM: NF paper, CD Benchmark, modelling, database       W. Houlberg
• TP: Experiments, analysis, summary of activities                    E. Doyle

17:30: End of first day

9:00 – 10:30: Actuators and modelling: Chair Prater

• Discussion of ICRF Code Benchmarking for ITER:           P. Bonoli
  AORSA and TORIC
• Progress in benchmarking RF codes                                   P. Bonoli
  and status of LHCD Current Drive Models for ITER                
• NBCD (hardware capability of NB) and                               T. Oikawa
  modelling of NBCD (benchmarking with ACCOME)
• RF code developments at CEA                                              G. Giruzzi

10:30 –11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15: Actuators and modelling: Chair Tucillo

• LHCD in an ITER steady state scenario (LHCD capability     T. Oikawa
  in ITER and LH launcher designs for ITER)
• ICRF benchmarking, ECRH modelling in DIII-D                       A. Zvonkov      
• EC code benchmarking                                                                 R. Prater
• Discussion of tasks to be done

12:15-13:30 Lunch break

• Meeting of small working groups to discuss tasks
  and coordination in 2006 (meeting rooms to be announced)
  (1) RF code benchmarking (Zvonkov)
  (2) Real-time control (Joffrin)
  (3) Modelling of ITER scenarios (Giruzzi)
  (4) Joint experiments (Luce)

15:30– 16:00 Coffee break

       Buffer whenever the agenda fills up

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Joint experiments – Pedestal SSO-4: Chair Joffrin

• Pedestal reports: AUG documentation of edge pedestal     G. Sips
• Pedestal reports: DIII-D report on edge pedestal                   R. Groebner
• Pedestal reports: report from PEP ITPA group                        S. Ide

17:30: Reception at GA (GA cafeteria)

Wednesday 2nd of November 2005

9:00 – 10:30 Modelling of ITER advanced scenarios: Chair Bonoli

• Simulations of ITER Hybrid Scenario                                     C. Kessel
• CRONOS simulations of ITER hybrid scenarios                  G. Giruzzi
• Update of ITER AT simulations using the GLF23 model    M. Murakami

10:30 –11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Modelling of ITER advanced scenarios: Chair Zvonkov  

• Status of ITER AT simulations by TASK code                         S. Ide
   (A. Fukuyama)
• Common input, guidelines for modelling tasks, actions       G. Sips
• Feedback from working group on Tuesday                            G. Giruzzi

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 IEA meeting

• Feedback and discussion of IEA meeting                                G. Sips

14:00-15:30 Reports on Plasma control: Chair Giruzzi 

1. DIII-D current profile control experiments               J. Ferron
2. Combining the PCS simulator and CORSICA       B. Meyer
3. JET plans for real-time control                                  E. Joffrin

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Reports on Plasma control: Chair Kessel

• Other experiments (JT-60U, AUG, TS, KSTAR)           Various
• Discussion of tasks to be done                                       (30 mins)
• Feedback from working group on Tuesday                  E. Joffrin

17:30: End of third day

Evening: dinner with the group (Seafood: Poseidon Restaurant)

Thursday 3rd of November 2005

9:00 – 10:30 Reports: Experiments, RF codes, TPB: Chair Ide

• Feedback from working group: Joint experiments                 T. Luce
• Feedback from working group: RF code benchmarking       A. Zvonkov
• TPB: Status and submission                                                       S. Ide
• Current Status and plans for KSTAR                                         Y-S Na

10:30 –11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Final session: Chair Sips

• Final discussion
• Actions, summary of the meeting
• Next meetings (Japan. China)                         G. Sips, S. Ide

12:00             Lunch break  & End of the meeting

Participants to 8th Steady State Operation ITPA Topical Group meeting
San Diego, USA, October 31st to November 3rd, 2005

EU
G. Giruzzi
E. Joffrin
B. Lloyd (Monday only)
G. Sips
A. Tuccillo

Japan
K. Hanada
S. Ide
T. Oikawa
M. Shimada (ITER IT)
T. Suzuki

Korea
Y.-S. Na

RF
A. Zvonkov

US
DIII-team: Many, among them: T. Luce, P. Politzer, M. Murakami, R. Prater,
J. Ferron, C. Petty, B. Meyer, R. Groebner

P. Bonoli
W. Houlberg (Monday only)
C. Kessel