Status and Promising Directions for Field Reversed Configuration Research
| DAY 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 8 June 1999 | ||
| B318 PPPL | ||
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and Registration | |
| 8:30-8:40 | Welcome | R.Hawryluk |
| 8:40-9:00 | Charge to Workshop | S. Jardin/M.Yamada |
| Session I: Experimental Results and Reactor Studies: S. Zweben, Chair | ||
| 9:00-9:40 | FRC Stability Results from the FRX-C/LSM Device: A Fresh Look at 10 year old Data | Michel Tuszewski, LANL |
| 9:40-10:20 | Stability and Confinement seen in LSX | Alan Hoffman, Univ. of Washington |
| 10:20-10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30-11:00 | FRC/ST Experiments in TS-3/4 Merging Devices | Yasushi Ono, Univ. of Tokyo |
| 11:00-11:30 | Summary of FRC Stability Results | Loren Steinhauer, Univ. of Washington |
| 11:30-12:00 | FRC Power Plant Studies | John Santarius, Univ. of Wisconsin |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | Session II: Theory: 2-fluid and non-ideal effects: R. Kulsrud, Chair |
| 1:00-1:30 | Two-fluid Effects: A Review of Theoretical Results | Alexei Gretchikha, Cornell Univ. |
| 1:30-2:00 | Thermoelectric Effect in FRC | Adil Hassam, Univ. of Maryland |
| 2:00-2:30 | Stability Property of a Static FRC Model | Akio Ishida, Niigata Univ. |
| 2:30-3:00 | Implications on stability of possible minimum energy states | Loren Steinhauer, Univ. of Washington |
| 3:00-3:30 | Constrined Beltrami States -Possible FRC Equilibria | Swadesh Mahajan, Univ. of Texas | 3:30-3:40 | Break | Session III: Simulation Results: W. Park, Chair |
| 3:40-4:20 | Kinetic MHD Studies of FRC Equilibrium and Stability | Elena Belova, PPPL |
| 4:20-5:00 | Kinetic MHD Studies of FRC and Ion Ring Stability | Yuri Omelchenco, GA |
| 5:00-5:40 | MHD Simulation Studies of FRC | Alfonso Tarditi, SAIC |
| 7:00-9:00 | Conference Dinner Princeton University Faculty Club | |
| DAY 2 | ||
| Wednesday 9 June 1999 | ||
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and informal discussion | Session IV: New Experimental Directions: S. Cohen, Chair |
| 8:30-9:00 | Future Directions involving RMF Drive | Alan Hoffman, Univ. of Washington |
| 9:00-9:20 | Technology of RMF Oscillator System | Stephen Tobin, LANL |
| 9:20-10:00 | SPIRIT Program and Experimental Data for a Stable State in MRX | Masaaki Yamada, PPPL |
| 10:00-10:30 | Interchange Instability in FRC Plasmas | Hantao Ji, PPPL |
| 10:30-10:40 | Break | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Applications of Radio Frequency Power to the FRC | Dick Majeski, PPPL |
| 11:20-12:00 | Prospects for Large Orbit Stabilization | John Greenly, Cornell Univ. |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| Discussion Sessions | ||
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Discussion Session I: Theory and Simulation Challenges | S. Jardin, Chair |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Discussion Session II: Experimental and Diagnostic Challenges | M. Yamada, Chair |
| 3:00 | End of Primary Workshop, Start of Modelers Mini-Workshop | |
