International RFP Workshop
Madison, WI USA

February 28 - March 1, 2000


General Information
List of Participants
Schedule
Abstracts

Monday, February 28, morning session

8:30 - 8:50

Continental breakfast

8:50 - 9:00

Gennady Fiksel

WELCOME

Chair - Stewart Prager

9:00 - 9:30

Vanni Antoni

Recent Results on RFX

9:30 - 10:00

Yoichi Hirano

Recent Status Of TPE-RX Research

10:00 - 10:30

Per Brunsell

Status Of T2 Rebuilt

10:30 - 11:00

Break

Chair - Sergio Ortolani

11:00 - 11:30

Roberto Piovan

Active Control In RFX

11:30 - 12:00

Cary Forest

Theory and Experiments Leading Towards RF Current Drive in RFP

12:00 - 12:30

Zensho Yoshida

Double Beltrami Field And Generalized Relaxed State -H-Mode Boundary Layer And Advanced High-Beta Concept

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch
 
Monday, February 28, afternoon session

Chair - Kiyoshi Hayase

2:00 -2:30

Yasuyuki Yagi

Global Confinement Properties Of TPE-RX

2:30 - 3:00

Brett Chapman

Reduction of Fluctuation and Edge Current During PPCD in MST

3:00 - 3:30

Marco Valisa

High Density Regimes In RFX

3:30 - 4:00

 Break

Chair Per Brunsell

4:00 - 4:30

Neal Crocker

Measurement of Current Fluctuations and Charge Transport During Reconnection

4:30 - 5:00

Daniel Den Hartog

Particle Transport and Edge Dynamo in MST

5:00 - 5:30

Lionello Marrelli

Core Electrostatic Fluctuations In RFX

5:30 - 6:00

Ted Biewer

Energy and Particle Confinement in Standard and PPCD Plasmas in the MST

7:00

Dinner
 
 Tuesday, February 29, morning session

Chair - Daniel Den Hartog

8:30 - 9:00

 Continental breakfast

9:00 - 9:30

Yasuyuki Yagi

 Understanding Of Mode-Locking Phenomena In TPE-RX

9:30 - 10:00

Alexander Hansen

 Electromagnetic Torques Exerted on Single and Multiple Modes in the Reversed-field Pinch

10:00 - 10:30

Jenny-Ann Malmberg

 A Comparison Of Locked Modes In Two Reversed Field Pinch Devices

10:30 - 11:00

 Break

Chair - Antonio Buffa

11:00 - 11:30

S. Shiina

Bootstrap Current In Low Aspect Ratio Reversed Field Pinch

11:30 - 12:00

Gennady Fiksel

DNB Diagnostics on MST

12:00 - 12:30

Kiyoshi Hayase

Summary Of Divertor Experiment In TPE-2M

12:30 - 2:00

 Lunch
 Tuesday, February 29, afternoon session

Chair - Darren Craig

2:00 -2:30

Roberto Paccagnella

Recent Results About Helical States in RFX

2:30 - 3:00

Yoichi Hirano

Single- And Multi-Helical States In RFP Plasma Of TPE-1RM20

3:00 - 3:30

Susanna Cappello

Single And Multiple Helicity States Revisited In 3d MHD Dynamical Simulations And Related Magnetic Diffusion Properties.

3:30 - 4:00

 Break

Chair - Yoichi Hirano

4:00 - 4:30

Paolo Zanca

Non-Axisymmetric Perturbations Of The Vacuum Magnetic Surfaces In A RFP

4:30 - 5:00

Sadao Masamune

Rotating Resonant Helical Field Experiment In The STE-2 RFP

5:00 - 5:30

Renato Gatto

Anomalous Ion Heating from Ambipolar-Constrained Magnetic Transport  

5:30 - 6:00

James Drake

Spitzer and Non-Spitzer Loop Voltage Data From T2

6:00 - 6:30

John Wright

Non-linear MHD Alfven Wave Simulations  

 Wednesday, March 1, morning session

Chair - Marco Valisa

8:30 - 9:00

 Continental breakfast

9:00 - 9:30

Darren Craig

Understanding and Controlling Edge Resonant Modes in MST

9:30 - 10:00

Vanni Antoni

Edge Biasing in RFX

10:00 - 10:30

Jan Scheffel

RFP Confinement and Fluctuation Scalings  

10:30 - 11:00

Break

Chair - John Sarff

11:00 - 11:20

Sergio Ortolani

Status and Perspectives of RFX

11:20 - 11:40

Stewart Prager

MST Plans and Perspectives

11:40 - 12:00

Yoichi Hirano

Future Plans for TPE-RX Research

12:00 - 12:20

James Drake

Future Plans for T2

12:20 - 1:00

Synopsis, plans for next conference, closing

1:00 - 2:00

Lunch

2:00

MST Tour