20th MHD Stability Control Workshop - Invited Talks:

Invited speakers (with tentative title of the talk):

• Michael Bell, PPPL, USA, MHD control: “Lessons learned on TFTR, relevant to ITER”
• Daniele Bonfiglio, Consorzio RFX, Italy, “Common nonlinear MHD physics of RFP and tokamak plasmas with magnetic perturbations: from sawtoothing dynamics to stationary helical states”
• Wilkie Choi, Columbia University, USA, “Analysis of locked mode disruption database in the DIII-D tokamaks”
• Tony Cooper, EPFL, Switzerland, “3D MHD equilibrium of Quiescent H-modes in tokamak systems”
• Alexandre Fil, CEA, France, “Modeling of gas penetration, MHD activity and runaway electrons in disruption mitigated by MGI with JOREK and IMAGINE codes”
• YongKyoon In, NFRI, Korea, “Low intrinsic error fields and 3D physics studies in the KSTAR tokamak”
• Jeff Levesque, Columbia University, USA, “Stability of ferritic resistive wall modes in the HBT-EP tokamak”
• Raffi Nazikian, PPPL, USA, “Bifurcation dynamics near the threshold of ELM suppression by RMP”
• Erik Olofsson, GA, USA, “Dynamical reconstruction of poloidal flux and noninductive source profiles with applications to MHD stability”
• Miklos Porkolab, MIT, USA, “An accelerated path to fusion energy and related issues”
• Satoru Sakakibata, NIFS, Japan, “Plasma response in RMP applications in Large Helical Device”
• Joseph Snipes, ITER Organization, France, “ITER Plasma Control System Development and MHD Control”
• Youwen Sun, Institute of Plasma Physics, China, “3D physics studies and MHD control in the EAST tokamak”
• Francesca Turco, Columbia University, USA, “Measuring and modeling MHD instabilities in ITER”
• Roscoe White, PPPL, USA,” Thermal island destabilization by radiation cooling”