21st Workshop on MHD Stability Control – A US-Japan Workshop

Prediction and Forecasting of Transient Events

Hosted by General Atomics in San Diego, CA on November 7-9, 2016


Invited Talks

  • Steven Sabbagh (Columbia University, USA) Disruption prediction in tokamaks
  • Satoshi Ohdachi (NIFS, Japan) MHD instabilities in stellarators
  • Richard Fridström (KTH, Sweden) Tearing mode dynamics and locking in MST
  • Hui-Hui Wang (ASIPP, China) Error field sensitivities in tokamaks
  • Clayton Myers (PPPL, USA) A multi-machine analysis of non-axisymmetric and rotating halo currents
  • Dov Rhodes (Columbia University, USA)Shaping effects on stability limits and control of resistive-plasma resistive-wall modes
  • Chiara Piron (Consorzio RFX, Italy) Model-based real-time scenario monitoring for transient event prediction with RAPTOR
  • Marco Gobbin (Consorzio RFX, Italy) Effects of 3D fields on disruption generated runaway electrons in AUG, TCV and RFX-mod
  • Shizuo Inoue (QST, Japan) Nonlinear MHD simulation of active control of locked modes
  • Alessandro Pau (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) A machine-learning approach for disruption prediction
  • Matthew Parsons (PPPL, USA) Advanced statistical analysis of disruption databases
  • Zane Taylor (ORAU, USA) Interaction of multiple MHD modes as the origin of the hybrid scenario in DIII-D
  • Andreas Bierwage (QST, Japan) Shear Alfven and ion sound waves in high-beta tokamak plasmas