FPN05-54

FPA Annual Meeting, Oct 11-12

July 13, 2005

Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting and Symposium: Fusion and Energy Policy will be held October 11-12, 2005 at the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC. The conference hotel is a block away: Capitol Hill Suites, 200 C Street SE, Registration information is posted at http:fusionpower.org and click on Annual Meeting, Agenda and Registration. We hope that all our friends can join us for this annual event. The preliminary agenda is pasted below.

Preliminary Program 

October 11
8:10    Welcome - Miklos Porkolab, Chairman of the Board, FPA
8:15    Presentation of Awards - Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
8:30    Energy Policy Legislation - Speaker to be announced
9:00    Overview of Energy Policies at the USDOE - Speaker to be announced
9:30    Fusion and the World Energy Situation - Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Culham, UK
10:00   Break
10:30   European Fusion Development Strategy - R. Andreani, EFDA, Garching
11:00   Fusion Development in Japan - M. Seki, JAERI, Naka
11:30   Lunch with Congressional Staff, Rayburn House Office Building
1:30    ITER on the Road to Fusion Power - E. P. Velikhov, Kurchatov Inst. (invited)
2:00    Status of U. S. Planning for ITER - N. Sauthoff, PPPL
2:30    The U. S. Burning Plasma Support Program - R. Fonck, U. Wisconsin
3:00    U. S. Technologies in Support of ITER - S. Milora, ORNL
3:30    Break
4:00    Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy - M. Campbell, General Atomics
4:30    Status of Planning for Ignition on NIF - B. Hammel, LLNL
5:00    Recent Reviews and Recommendations of FESAC - R. Hazeltine, U.Texas
5:30    Reception (until 7 pm)  
7:00    Board of  Director's Meeting (7-8 pm)

October 12
8:30    Congressional Efforts and Actions on Fusion and Energy Policy
        - Speaker to be Announced 
9:00    The World Energy Problem - What Should We be Doing?     
        - John Sheffield, Joint Inst. for Energy and Environment, U. Tenn.
9:30    Overview of OFES Program - N. A. Davies, DOE/OFES
10:00   Overview of ICF and NIF Program - Chris Keane, DOE/NNSA
10:30    Break
11:00   Status of HAPL - J. Sethian, USNRL
11:20   Status of HIF - Grant Logan, LBNL
11:50   Status of Z-IFE - C. Olson, SNl
12:10   Lunch
1:20    Status of MFE Alternate Concepts - G. Wurden, LANL
1:40    Roles of the Major U. S. Tokamak Facilities - Jill Dahlburg, USNRL
2:00    Fusion Nuclear Technologies in the U. S. - Neil Morley, UCLA
2:20    Status of World Spherical Torus Research - M. Peng, ORNL/PPPL
2:40    Activities of the Coalition for Plasma Science, Lee Berry, ORNL
3:00    Adjourn