15TH WORKSHOP ON MHD STABILITY CONTROL:
"US-Japan Workshop on 3D Magnetic Field Effects in MHD Control"

A Workshop at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
November 15-17, 2010
(Monday 8:00 AM to Wednesday 1:30 PM)


(including discussion) MONDAY: Research Room 1025, Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr.
Time Category Speaker, Institution Title (and proposed chairs, tbc)
RMPs and the Edge:Chair: Richard Buttery
8:10 Invited Oliver Schmitz (FZJ, Germany) Magnetic topology and plasma edge transport during RMP ELM control - status and puzzles
8:45 Contributed Francesco Volpe UW Madison Magnetic Barriers and their possible role in ELM control by resonant magnetic perturbations at DIII-D (on behalf of J. Kessler)
9:05 Contributed Francesco Piras - CRPP Switz "Snowflake" H mode in Tokamak Plasmas
9:25 Contributed Vladimir Svidzinski FAR TECH, Inc. USA Edge parallel current drive in Tokamaks as a tool to stabilize plasma boundary
9:45 COFFEE RMPs and 3-D:
Chair: Francesco Volpe
10:15 Invited K. Watanabe (NIFS, Japan) LHD experiments relevant to Tokamak MHD control
10:50 Contributed Lorenzo Frassinetti KTH Sweden Plasma braking due to resonant magnetic perturbations in EXTRAP T2R
11:10 Contributed Francois Waelbroeck U.Texas Austin USA RMP driven transport in the pedestal
11:30 Invited Chris Hegna (UW-Madison, USA) 3D Ballooning Stability with RMPs
12:05 Photo
12:15 LUNCH 3-D Effects on Stability:
Chair: John Sarff
13:35 Invited Anthony. Cooper (EPFL, Switzerland) MHD equilibrium and stability of tokamaks and RFPs with 3D helical cores
14:10 Contributed Alan Turnbull GA San Diego USA On the Relation Between 3-D Equilibrium and Stability
14:30 Contributed A. Sanpei, KIT, Japan Initial results from 3-D MHD simulation studies for low-A RFP
14:50 Contributed Brett Chapman UW-Madison USA Helical structures and improved confinement in the MST RFP
15:10 COFFEE 3-D Plasmas:
Chair: Francois Waelbroeck
15:40 Invited Sadao Masamune (Kyoto Inst. Tech., Japan) 3D self-organization in RFPs with connections to stellarator MHD
16:15 Contributed John Schmitt UW-Madison USA Measurement, Reconstruction and Modeling of Equilibrium Currents in the HSX Stellarator
16:35 Invited Paolo Piovesan (RFX, Italy) 3D flows in helical RFP equilibria
17:10 Contributed John Finn LANL USA Optimization Studies for Pulsed Poloidal Current Drive
TUESDAY: Research Room 1025, Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr.
RWM Physics:Chair: Jerry Navratil
8:20 Invited Jack Berkery (Columbia Univ., USA) Comparison of RWM Theory and Experiment
8:55 Contributed Matthew Lanctot LLNL USA Ideal MHD and Kinetic Effects on 3D tokamak equilibria
9:15 Contributed Michio Okabayashi PPPL USA The off-axis fishbone driven RWM
9:35 Contributed Carlos Paz Soldan UW-Madison USA Stabilization of the line-tied resistive wall mode by a rotating conducting wall
9:55 COFFEE
Jim Callen A Critique: Some Residual Tokamak NTV Torque Isses
TUESDAY (contd) NTV mini-session:Chair: Andrew Cole
10:25 Invited Andrew Cole (UW-Madison) Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity - Progress, Puzzles and Challenges
11:00 Contributed Youwen Sun FZ Juelich Germany Modeling of the Neoclassical Toroidal Plasma Viscosity in Tokamaks
11:20 Contributed James Callen UW-Madison USA Effects of 3D Magnetic Perturbations on Toroidal Plasmas
11:40 Contributed Jong-Kyu Park, PPPL USA Analytic NTV calculations across the regimes and benchmark with FORTEC-3D drift-kinetic code simulation
12:00 Discussion PANEL DISCUSSION ON NTV
12:20 LUNCH RWM control I: Overview and feedback
Chair: Michio Okabayashi
13:40 Invited Manabu Takechi (JAEA, Japan) RWM Stabilization with Active Control Coils
14:15 Contributed Jeremy Hanson Columbia/ORISE USA Feedback control of resistive wall mode stability using neutral beam injection heating.
14:35 Contributed Andrew "Steve" Richardson LANL USA Control of ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic modes in reversed field pinches with a resistive wall
14:55 Contributed Lidia Piron - IGI Padova Italy Magnetic feedback optimization by including the dynamic response of the wall in RFX mod and DIII-D
15:15 COFFEE RWM control II: Advanced feedback and stability
Chair: Jim Drake
15:45 Invited Jon Menard (PPPL, USA) Role of plasma edge in global stability and control
16:20 Contributed David Maurer Columbia USA New HBT EP Multimode MHD Control System and Future Experimental Plans
16:40 Contributed Erik Olofsson KTH Sweden MIMO system identification of external plasma response for EXTRAP T2R
17:00 Contributed Yongkyoon In FAR TECH, Inc. USA Magnetic feedback strategy near no wall stability limit
17:20 Contributed Steve Sabbagh Columbia USA State space controller feedback
WEDNESDAY: Research Room 1025, Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr.
Now same location as Tues Disruptions, ITPA and Tearing:
Chair: Rob La Haye
8:20 Contributed Allen Boozer Columbia USA Enhanced stability of neoclassical tearing modes from external magnetic perturbations
8:40 Invited John Wesley (GA, USA) Disruption Mitigation Challenges for ITER and Beyond
9:15 Contributed Sergey Mirnov TRINITI Russia Disruption Mitigation by Injection of Massive Be and Li Pellets
9:35 Invited Val Izzo (UCSD, USA) Theory and Modeling of Disruptions
10:10 Contributed Shifan Mao UW-Madison USA Statistical Survey of Mode Locking at DIII-D
10:30 Contributed Edward Strait GA San Diego USA Update on ITPA activities
10:50 COFFEE Tearing Physics and Control:
Chair: Sadao Masamume
11:20 Invited Francesco Volpe (UW-Madison, USA) Control of disruptive Locked Modes by Magnetic Perturbations and ECCD
11:55 Contributed Federico Felici CRPP/EPFL Switzerland Real-time control of tearing modes and current density profile on TCV
12:15 Contributed Enzo Lazzaro from IFP-CNR Milan New Aspects Of The Identification Of Magnetic Islands From ECE Signals And ControlBy ECCD (REMOTE)
12:35 Contributed Richard Buttery GA San Diego US Error Field Thresholds in H-mode Plasmas
12:55 Contributed Robert La Haye GA San Diego USA Modification of Sawteeth by Applied m/n=1/1 Fields Revisited
13:15 Committee & Closing Including next meeting, and review of MHD WS organization
Robert La Haye GA San Diego USA 16th MHD Control Workshop in 2011