ICC 2006 Workshop

7:45

Continental Breakfast in Trinity Foyer

8:45

Welcome and Administrative Matters in Trinity Ballroom

Simply Connected, Spheromak, and Compact ST

Chair: Brian Nelson

9:00

Measurements of plasma jets and collimated flux tubes that are the precursors of spheromak self-organization

Paul Bellan

9:20

Magnetic reconnection in the spheromak: Physics and consequences

Bick Hooper

9:40

Solenoid-free plasma start-up in HIT-II and NSTX using transient CHI

Roger Raman

10:00

Break

10:30

Energy transport in high temperature spheromak plasmas

Harry McLean

10:50

Improved stability and confinement in a relaxed extremely high-beta plasma state

Houyang Guo

11:10

Novel spheromak configurations: Dipole trapped and m=1 tilted

Michael Brown

11:30

Panel Discussion

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Poster Session #1 in Rio Grande Exhibit Hall

High Beta and FRC

Chair: Glen Wurden

2:30

Effects of the hot electron interchange instability on plasma confined in a dipolar magnetic field

Eugenio Ortiz

2:50

Equilibrium evolution in the ZaP flow Z-pinch

Uri Shumlak

3:10

Equilibrium and stability of oblate free-boundary FRCs in MRX

Stefan Gerhardt

3:30

Break

4:00

The pulsed high density experiment: Concept, design, and initial results

John Slough

4:20

A high plasma pressure field reversed configuration at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tom Intrator

4:40

Confinement and current drive measurements for steady state FRCs

Alan Hoffman

5:00

Panel Discussion

University Fusion Association Meeting

Chair: Stephen Knowlton

7:00

DOE Talk

Francis Thio

7:30

ITER-ICC Discussion and Talk

Bick Hooper & John Sarff

8:00

One Pager Discussion

Stephen Knowlton

Tuesday, February 14, 2006   [top]

8:00

Continental Breakfast in Ballroom A

Current Drive and RFP

Chair: Darren Craig

9:00

Electron Bernstein wave physics in NSTX and PEGASUS

Gary Taylor

9:20

Spheromak formation observed in HIT-SI

Paul Sieck

9:40

Oscillating field current drive in the RFP

John Sarff

10:00

Break

10:30

Fast ion confinement In MST

Ben Hudson

10:50

Feedback stabilization of tearing modes in RFPs with a resistive wall above the ideal wall limit

John Finn

11:10

Active control of resistive wall modes in RFPs

Per Brunsell

11:30

Panel Discussion

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Poster Session #2 in Rio Grande Exhibit Hall

Stellarator, ST, and Other Magnetic

Chair: Rob Goldston

2:30

W7AS beta limits and implications for NCSX and beyond

Mike Zarnstorff

2:50

Compact stellarator experiments

Stephen Knowlton

3:10

Transport improvements in stellarators with quasisymmetry

David Anderson

3:30

Break

4:00

Low recycling discharges with full lithium wall coatings in CDX-U

Richard Majeski

4:20

Electron plasma equilibria in the CNT stellarator: First results

Jason Kremer

4:40

Measurements of radial profiles of rotational velocity on MCX and assessment of velocity shear stabilization

Catalin Teodorescu

5:00

Panel Discussion

6:30

Reception/Banquet in Ballroom B

Wednesday, February 15, 2006   [top]

8:00

Continental Breakfast in Ballroom A

Plasma Science & Other Confinement

Chair: Carl Sovinec

9:00

Observation of the enhanced helicity injection mode in a rotating plasma annulus

Zhehui Wang

9:20

Effects of energetic beam ions on stability properties of field reversed configurations

Elena Belova

9:40

Sheared plasma flow generation--a new measure for stellarator optimization

Donald Spong

10:00

Break

10:30

Overview of experimental and theoretical studies of the Periodically Oscillating Plasma Sphere (POPS)

Richard Nebel

10:50

The status of advanced target concepts for ICF and IFE

John Perkins

11:10

Ion beam compression in space and time for HEDP applications

Peter Seidl

11:30

Panel Discussion

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Poster Session #3 in Rio Grande Exhibit Hall

New Concepts

Chair: Simon Woodruff

2:30

Spherical torus with a plasma center column (ST-PCC)

Scott Hsu

2:50

Plasma centrifuge heat engine - a Route to non-thermal p-11B fusion

Dan Barnes

3:10

Kinetic stabilizer and kinetic tandem

Dick Post

3:30

Rotating mirror as a magneto-inertial fusion target plasma

Andrew Case

3:50

Break

4:20

Compression, heating, and fusion with colliding plasmoids and a Z-theta driven plasma liner

John Slough

4:40

Nuclear emissions during acoustic inertial confinement cavitation

Rusi Taleyarkhan

5:00

Thinking of different ways to combine fission with fusion

Friedwardt Winterberg

Thursday, February 16, 2006   [top]

8:00

Continental Breakfast (location TBA)

9:30

Tour of the Laser Lab and the Helimak, two experiments at the University of Texas

12:00

Workshop Adjourned