Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hammett <Hammett@pppl.gov>
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Subject: Organizing for the Snowmass Science Turbulence & Transport subgroup


To: Possible contributors to the Science Turbulence & Transport subgroup at
    Snowmass

From: The organizers of the Science Turbulence & Transport subgroup
      Greg Hammett (PPPL), Paul Terry (U. Wisc.), Bruce Cohen (LLNL), 
      John De Groot (U.C. Davis), Martin Greenwald (MIT), 
      Arnold Kritz (Lehigh Univ.), Ed Synakowski (PPPL), 
      Richard Town (LLE, Rochester Univ.)

The Snowmass meeting is rapidly approaching, and this email is to initiate
dialogue among those who signed up to participate in the Snowmass Science
subgroup on Turbulence and Transport, and to ask for titles from people who
would like to give short presentations to this subgroup at Snowmass.  ~15
people signed up to be "contributors" to this subgroup, and another ~60 to
be "participants", but since the distinction might not have been clear when
you signed up, this message is sent to all ~75 in this subgroup, and to
people in the Waves and Particles subgroup, who may have overlapping
interests with this subgroup.

We have begun to plan the activities for this subgroup for Tuesday-Friday
afternoon of the first week (3.5 hours each day).  Because this group is
supposed to be cross-cutting, we are planning 4 overview talks (2 talks
from IFE and 2 from MFE) on Tuesday (or perhaps spread out over two days)
to help initiate discussions.  4 overview talks of 30 minutes each, with 20
minutes for questions/discussion could fill the first afternoon (Tuesday).
We are thinking of then setting aside time on Wednesday and Thursday for a
larger number of people to give shorter presentations on various key issues
they feel our group should consider.  If these are 10 minute talks with
5-10 minutes of discussion each (3-4 talks per hour), then we can handle
perhaps 18 to 24 talks on Wednesday and Thursday.  Snowmass is not a
regular scientific meeting where we talk about our own latest results, but
a strategy meeting for the whole of fusion research during the next decade.
The approach for this meeting will emphasize broad-based strategic issues
with a format that allows for extension discussion.  The two main broad
questions our subgroup should address are:

1.  What are the outstanding scientific issues in our subtopical area of
    plasma science (turbulence and transport)?  

2.  What can we do over the next decade to address these issues?

To get dialogue started for this group, we are interested in receiving
emails from those of you who want to contribute, giving a short reply to
these two questions.  At this point we are not looking for exhaustive
written answers, but just a list of 3-6 bullets responding to each
question.  (For your reference, a list of the possible topics initially
assigned to the 4 Plasma Science subgroups is at
www.columbia.edu/~mem4/wg_plasma.html, but we should discuss what we think
are the highest priority issues in our field.)

Do you want to make a short presentation on some of these issues?  What
would the title of your presentation be?  What would be the 3 or 4 main
conclusions? (We would use these titles and the 3-4 main conclusions to try
to organize the order of speakers and discussion topics.)

Please email your replies (your brief answers to these 2 questions, and a
title <and brief list of conclusions for your presentation) within the next
week (by June 16), so we can begin to organize our sessions. Please send
your email to all of the organizers:

hammett@pppl.gov, pwterry@facstaff.wisc.edu, bcohen@llnl.gov, 
jsdegroot@ucdavis.edu, G@cmod2.pfc.mit.edu, kritz@fusion.physics.lehigh.edu,
esynakowski@pppl.gov, rtow@lle.rochester.edu


Thanks.


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Background info:

Our Plasma Science subgroup on Turbulence and Transport is meeting in the
afternoons at Snowmass, and is to be distinguished from the Magnetic
Confinement subgroup on Transport which meets in the mornings.  There is
some overlap between the two groups, and we will try to cooperate to avoid
duplication.  Our afternoon group is supposed to be cross-cutting,
including both IFE and MFE issues.  We should perhaps try to look at
broader scientific issues, though of course the morning group will also be
dealing with good science.

More info on the plans for Snowmass are at www.pppl.gov/snowmass.  In
particular, some of the opportunities to contribute are described in more
detail at http://www.columbia.edu/~mem4/registration.html, and include
contributing to discussions at the meeting, helping to prepare oral and
written summary reports for each topical subgroup, and submitting short
written papers of your own for inclusion in the Snowmass Proceedings.