17TH WORKSHOP ON MHD STABILITY CONTROL:
"Addressing the Disruption Challenge for ITER"

First Announcement of the 17TH WORKSHOP ON MHD STABILITY CONTROL:

An MHD Control Workshop with the theme "Addressing the Disruption Challenge for ITER"  will be held at Columbia University To be combined with the Joint US-Japan MHD Workshop with a special session on: “Fundamentals of 3D Perturbed Equilibrium Control: Present & Beyond”. This is the 17th in series and is organized jointly by Columbia University, General Atomics, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,  and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Location: Columbia University
  
  
• Conference web site: http://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd12/.
  
  
• Theme:This year’s workshop will focus on drawing out the principles of MHD control to consider how to avoid or recovery from potentially disruptive events in ITER. It will seek to draw on tokamaks, RFP and stellarator expertise, as well as more innovative approaches. Further, noting the new US responsibility for ITER’s disruption mitigation, with a final design required by 2016, the workshop will extend to the processes and mitigation of the disruption event itself.
  
  
• Topics: The workshop will potentially include the usual broad range of topics, exploring both control and underlying physics, but should seek to draw out implications to the work shop theme: 3D fields, wall modes, tearing, error fields, core modes, energetic particle effects, ELMs and disruptions.
  
  
• Publication: Invited and contributed talks will be provided with the opportunity to publish their work as a fully refereed publication as part of a special issue in Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion. This is a way of drawing further attention to your work.
  
  
• Pre-registration: Registration: Pre-registration will open soon, via the conference website:
          https://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd12
  A call for contributed proposals will be made in the summer, together with the announcement of invited speakers.
  
  
• Hotels: Nov 3rd-4th is New York Marathon weekend, so you should book early. A block of hotel rooms has been set aside for Mon 5th to Thu 8th at:
  
  •         Hotel Newton, Superior Double/queen $189 + tax
            http://www.thehotelnewton.com/
            Emilio Morales Jr., Director of Reservations and Revenue
            2528 Broadway (at 94th Street), New York, NY 10025
            212-678-6500 Phone / 212-678-6758 Fax, newton@newyorkhotel.com
    

  Further earlier dates or cheaper accommodation, rooms are available on campus at:

  
  
  •         Guest Rooms at International House,
             http://www.ihouse-nyc.org/s/707/index.aspx?sid=707&gid=1&pgid=285
            500 Riverside Drive (between 122nd and 123rd Street), New York, NY 10027.
            Phone: 212-316-8436, Fax: 212-316-1827.
            Rates start at $135 per night *
    
  •         Landmark Guest Rooms at Union Theological Seminary,
            www.utsnyc.edu//Page.aspx?&pid=520&srcid=2563041
            Broadway (at 121st Street), New York, NY 10027,
            Phone: 212-280-1313, Fax: 212-280-1488, Email: landmark@uts.columbia.edu.
            Rates start at $135 per night *
    
  •         Guest Rooms at Teachers College,
             http://www.tc.columbia.edu/housing/index.asp?Id=Housing+Options&Info=Guest+Housing
            517 W. 121st Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam), New York, NY 10027.
            Phone: 212-678-3235, Fax: 212-678-3222. Email: housing@tc.edu.
            Rates start at $135 per night *
    

  Further hotels are listed on the conference overview page, and here (.pdf).

• Conference Dinner: to be announced.
  
  
• Program Committee:
  

  Richard Buttery (Chair)	General Atomics, USA	Andrew Cole	Columbia University, USA
  Robert La Haye	General Atomics, USA	Jong-Kyu Park	PPPL, USA
  Piero Martin	CNR, Italy	Sadao Masamune	Kyoto Ins. Tech., Japan
  Go Matsugana	JAEA, Japan	David Maurer	Auburn University, USA
  Gerald Navratil (Local Organizer)	Columbia University, USA	Michio Okabayashi	PPPL, USA
  Takahisa Ozeki	JAEA Naka, Japan	John Sarrf	University of Wisconsin, USA
  Kozo Yamazaki	Nagoya University, Japan

  
  
• Local Organizer: Gerry Navratil
  
  
• Previous workshops in this series:
  
  • 16 General Atomics, Nov 20-22, 2011, Workshop on "Optimizing and Understanding the Role of Coils for Mode Control""
      (https://fusion.gat.com/conferences/mhd11)
    
  • 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