17TH WORKSHOP ON MHD STABILITY CONTROL:
"Addressing the Disruption Challenge for ITER"
A Workshop at Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA
November 5 - 7, 2012
To be combined with the Joint US-Japan MHD Workshop with a special session on: “Fundamentals of 3D Perturbed Equilibrium Control: Present & Beyond”
M. Sugihara (ITER): “The Disruption Challenge for ITER”
B. Granetz (MIT): “Massive Gas - How far can it go to mitigate the disruption?”
N. Eidietis (General Atomics): “Mitigating Runaway Electrons”
S. Gerhardt (PPPL): "Characteristics of disruptions in NSTX: disruptivity, precursors, detection, and halo currents"
S. Knowlton (Auburn): “The application of 3D fields to avoid major disruptions in tokamaks”
P. Piovesan (RFX): “Stabilization of q<2 scenarios”
S. Sabbagh (Columbia): “Avoiding RWMs in ITER”
A. Sanpei (KIT): “Mode control with external fields in the low-aspect-ratio RFP”
M. Lanctot (LLNL): “Tailoring Non-axisymmetric Magnetic Fields in Tokamak Plasmas”
S. Lazerson (PPPL): “3D Equilibrium Reconstruction and ITER”
Y. Narushima (NIFS): “Flow effects on RMP field penetration in the Large Helical Device”
D. Brennan (Tulsa): “Understanding tearing mode stability with advanced 3D modeling”
R. Nebel (Tibbar Technologies) : “Electrostatic Current Drive for Mode Control in RFPs and Tokamaks”