Fusion Technology Summary Report

Jean Paul AllainIEEE-NPSS AdCom Meeting

November 15, 2014

Seattle, Washington

Highlights of progress on 26th SOFE 2015• The 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering co-located

with the PPC (Pulsed Power Conference) and held in Austin, Texas between May 31 and June 4, 2015– SOFE-26 General chair: Jean Paul Allain and Technical Program

chair: Mark Tillack, UC San Diego

– PPC General chair is Mark Crawford and Technical Program Chair: David Wetz, UT-Arlington

• First Call of Papers sent out in late October and Abstract submission opened November 10, 2014

• Work on website with Lisa Mattox (Sandia) and Chuck (UNM)

• Advertisement for SOFE 2015 at the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics meeting and to various major fusion research centers around the world

• Allain is also now actively working with UT Austin and Texas A&M who will participate in SOFE 2015 and provide student volunteer help for the same.

The PPC-SOFE 2015 webpage is online

http://ece.unm.edu/ppcsofe15/

Highlights of progress on 26th SOFE 2015• Mark Tillack is setting up an exciting program for our

SOFE conference

• Emergent themes to be highlighted: Innovative divertor solutions

• Interest in fusion technology is strengthening based on the new re-structuring of DOE Fusion program. Two of the Four primary research areas are technology-focused: Materials and Fusion Nuclear Science

• The SOFE Mini Course will be led by Prof. Davide Curreli and Prof. Daniel Andruzcyk. Both are assistant professors and part of a strategy to recruit and integrate early-career scientists in IEEE-NPSS Fusion Technology Committee activities to provide leadership opportunities and visibility

SOFE Mini Course

Engaging Asia and Europe on fusion engineering and technology areas

• Allain and Tillack have engaged with Chinese Fusion Institutes:

• Purpose: To sustain the increasing levels of participation of Chinese fusion engineers in SOFE given the increased activities in tokamak devices there

• Actions:

• FTC has invited Dr. Xuru Duan, Director from the Center for Fusion Science at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China to join FTC.

• We have also invited Jiming Cheng (Southwestern Institute of Physics) and Yuntao Song (Inst. of Plasma Phys. Chinese Academy of Science) have joined SOFE-26 technical program committee

• Hutch Neilson visited with our Chinese colleagues at ASIPP (Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences) and USTC and are enthusiastic to host SOFE-2017 in China. The FTSC will plan to hold a vote at our next technical committee meeting in early December.

• We will have participation from: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane (Center for Plasma Physics), ITER headquarters in Cadarache, France, and the CNA in Sevilla, Spain at SOFE 2015