* Call for Contributed Talks: The program committee has selected and received acceptances for invited talks which are listed below.
Contributed talks are now solicited. Titles (no abstracts needed) should be sent to the organizer.
(Pre-registration forms, available on the conference website, are due by October 28, 2011. Additional form for non-US citizens is due by October 14.)
In addition to the invited and contributed talks we are considering having one or two panel discussions at the workshop, time permitting. Suggestions include "Are internal 3D coils essential to ITER?" and "Understanding the limits on error field correction".
Some invited talk titles tentative and subject to change.
- COILS IN GENERAL
- Wolfgang Suttrop - Results from the New Non-Axisymetric Coils on ASDEX Upgrade
- YoungMu Jeon - Aspects and Applications of Non-Axisymmetric Coils on KSTAR
- Joe Snipes - Prospects for Use of Internal and External Coils on ITER
- TEARING AND LOCKED MODES
- Lorenzo Frassinetti - EXTRAP Coils and Tearing Mode Dynamics
- Paolo Zanca - Low q Tokamak Mode Control in RFX
- Yoshiro Narushima - Mode Locking in LHD
- Nate Ferraro - Physics of Tearing Mode Response to 3D Fields
- Allen Boozer - Strategy for Correcting Magnetic Field Errors
- RWMS
- Jeremy Hanson - Uncovering RWM Stability Limits in Tokamaks
- Richard Fitzpatrick - Physics of 3D Field Interactions and Opportunities for MHD Control
- SPECIAL TOPICS
- John Wesley - Disruption & Runaway Control on DIII-D
- Gerry Navratil - Stability Control Challenges for Future Devices
- Arthur Weller - On High Beta MHD in Stellarators
- Carl Sovinec - NIMROD applications for MHD control
A Workshop at General Atomics,
San Diego, CA, USA
November 20 - 22, 2011
Sunday AM to Tuesday Mid-Day (following APS-DPP Annual Mtg. in Salt Lake City, Utah, 14-18 November, 2011)First Announcement of the 16TH WORKSHOP ON MHD STABILITY CONTROL:
An MHD Control Workshop with the theme "Optimizing and Understanding the Role of Coils for Mode Control" will be held at General Atomics following the 2011 APS-DPP Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah (November 14-18). This is the 16th in series and is organized jointly by Columbia University, General Atomics, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Location: General Atomics
- Conference web site: http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd11/.
- Theme:Optimizing and Understanding the Role of Coils for Mode Control: this workshop will highlight the role of applied non-axisymmetric magnetic fields from both internal and external coils for control of MHD stability to achieve high performance fusion plasmas. The application of 3D magnetic field offers control of important elements of equilibrium, stability, and transport. The use of active 3D fields to stabilize global instabilities and to correct magnetic field errors is an established tool for achieving high beta configurations. 3D fields also affect transport and plasma momentum, and are shown important for the control of ELMs, resistive wall modes, and optimized stellarator configurations.
The format will be similar to previous workshops, including invited talks (30-40 minutes) and contributed talks (20-25 minutes). Some invited talks may be of a review nature.
Topics of interest will include, but not be limited to:
- Control of Edge Localized Modes (ELMs)
- Control of Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs)
- Control of Resistive Wall Modes (RWMs)
- Control of Sawteeth
- Disruption Avoidance and Mitigation
- Helical Systems
- Reversed Field Pinches (RFPs)
- Publication: Both invited and contributed speakers are encouraged to prepare a journal paper for submission to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion being discussed. Papers would undergo the usual PPCF refereeing process. Accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the journal..
- Pre-registration: Pre-registration forms, available on the conference website, are due by October 28, 2011. Additional form for non-US citizens is due by October 14.
- Conference fee: to be determined.
- Hotel Information: A block of rooms has been reserved under name "General Atomics Group" for November 18-22, 2011 at the
Residence Inn by Marriott La Jolla
8901 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037-1625
Tel: +1-858-587-1770
Special room rate of $131/night available until October 19 or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first. For reservations, follow the link from the conference web site to be set up. You may also make reservations here, with the date and group code automatically filled in for you.Employees of U.S. national laboratories might be eligible for a federal rate, possibly lower than the conference rate. Please check with the hotel and with your institution.
- Reception and/or Conference Dinner: to be determined.
- Program Committee:
Robert La Haye (Chair) General Atomics Richard Buttery General Atomics Andrew Cole Univ. Wisconsin Francesco Volpe Univ. Wisconsin Piero Martin RFX-mod David Maurer Columbia University T. Ozeki JAEA Go Matsunaga JAEA J. Kyu Park PPPL Michio Okabayashi PPPL K. Yamazaki Nagoya University Sadao Masamune Kyoto Inst. Tech
- Local Organizer: Rob La Haye
- Previous workshops in this series:
- 15 University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 15-17, 2010, Workshop on "3D Magnetic Field Effects in MHD Control""
(https://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd10)
- 14 PPPL, Nov.9-11, 2009, "Assuring successful MHD control in ITER"
(https://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd09/)- 13 University of Texas, Austin, November 23-25, 2008, workshop on MHD stability control: "US-Japan Workshop on MHD Control, Magnetic Islands and Rotation"
(http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd08/)- 12 Columbia University, November 11-13, 2007, Workshop on "Improved MHD Control Configurations"
(http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/stability07/)- 11 PPPL, November 6-8, 2006, "Workshop on Active Control of MHD Stability: Active MHD Control in ITER"
(http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd06/)- 10 University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 31-November 2, 2005, Workshop on "Active Control of MHD Stability: Progress in Kink and Tearing Mode Control"
(http://plasma.physics.wisc.edu/MHD05/)- 9 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 21-23 November 2004, Workshop on Active Control of MHD Stabilities: Back to Basics
(http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd04/)- 8 University of Texas - Austin, 3-5 November 2003, Workshop on Active Control of MHD Stability: Extension to the Burning Plasma Regime"
(http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd03/)- 7 Columbia University, 18-20 November 2002, Workshop on Active Control of MHD Stability: Extension of Performance
(http://www.apam.columbia.edu/fusion/MHDControl2002/)- 6 General Atomics, 5-7 November 2001, Workshop on Control of MHD Stability by Rotation
- 5 PPPL, 30 Oct - 1 Nov 2000, Workshop on Innovative MHD Control in Magnetic Fusion Plasmas
- 4 University of Washington, 21-23 November 1999, Workshop on Active MHD Mode Control in Innovative Confinement Concepts
- 3 General Atomics, 22-24 November 1998, Workshop on Active Control of MHD Modes in Toroidal Devices
- 2 Columbia University, 23-25 November 1997, Workshop on Control of MHD Modes in Tokamaks with Non-axisymmetric Coils
- 1 PPPL, 11-13 December 1996, Workshop on Feedback Stabilization of MHD Instabilities