Program

Plenary Session I [8:30 AM - 12:40 PM]

Gerald Navratil, Columbia University
"Welcome and Introduction"

Jeff Freidberg, MIT
"FESAC Panel on Burning Plasmas"

Stewart Prager, Univ. of Wisconsin
"How Generic is Burning Plasma Physics"

Bill Heidbrink, Univ. of California-Irvine
"Fast-Ion Physics: What, Where, and Why"

Bruno Coppi, MIT
"Meaningful fusion burning regimes, relevant window of
parameters and unresolved problems

Stewart Zweben, PPPL
"Issues in Burning Plasma Science"

Ted Strait, General Atomics
"MHD Stability Issues in a Burning Plasma"

Ed Synakowski, PPPL
"The Dialogue Between the Science of Turbulence
and Transport and a Burning Plasma Experiment"




Breakout Session I [2:00 PM - 6:00 PM]

(1) Energetic Alpha-Particle Physics


(2) Self-Heating, Transport, and Confinement at Reactor Scale


(3) Macrostability in a Self-Heated Burning Plasma

Plenary Session II [8:30 AM - 12:00 PM]

Robert Rosner, Univ. of Chicago
"Burning Plasma Science in Astrophysics"

Daren Stotler, PPPL
"Boundary Science Requirements for Fusion Power"

Bick Hooper, LLNL
"Comments on Innovative Confinement Concepts and Burning Plasma Science"

Dan Barnes, LANL
"Generic ICC Burning Plasma Issues"

Breakout Group 1 Representative (Energetic Alpha-Particle Physics)
"Status Report & Discussion"

Breakout Group 2 Representative (Self-Heating, Transport, and Confinement at Reactor Scale)
"Status Report & Discussion"

Breakout Group 3 Representative (Macrostability in a Self-Heated Burning Plasma)
"Status Report & Discussion"




Breakout Session II [1:30 PM - 3:15 PM]

(4) Boundary Science


(5) Relation of Burning Plasma Science to Other Fields




Breakout Session III [3:30 PM - 6:00 PM]

(1) Energetic Alpha-Particle Physics


(2) Self-Heating, Transport, and Confinement at Reactor Scale


(3) Macrostability in a Self-Heated Burning Plasma


(4) Boundary Science [end at 5 PM]

Plenary Session III [8:30 AM - 12:00 PM]

• Plenary discussion of answers to 5 key questions from all 5 breakout groups
  
  
• Formulation of draft workshop summary