The abstract deadline is December 4, 2009.

The goal of the ICC program is to advance and broaden fusion science and related plasma science and to explore alternate approaches.

ICC2010 is a continuation of the ICC series, which last met in Reno, Nevada. It will provide a forum for an exchange of ideas through presentations and discussions on the science and status of Innovative Confinement Concepts research, and on new ideas. This meeting provides feedback from the ICC community to the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Science. In addition to invited talks on these topics, contributed papers are solicited describing experimental, theoretical, or computational work presently done in the ICC program, and papers describing new ideas for possible proposals. The contributed papers will be presented as posters, which will be displayed during the workshop. The program committee will also select a subset of the contributed papers for oral presentation. A "skunkworks" session is included solely for new ideas.

This workshop is for presentation of results and ideas about concepts that might make large steps towards practical fusion power, complementing the important feasibility steps of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The ICC experiments also complement the mainline concepts in the advancement of plasma science. These experiments test the general validity of plasma physics and technology in wider parameter regimes, develop new fusion plasma physics, and cross-fertilize with other fields of plasma science.

Participants are asked to categorize their presentations by the areas of advancement and the areas of related plasma science, which can be addressed by small plasma experiments. The categories for areas of advancement and of related plasma science are given on the website.

For further information contact Tom Jarboe: jarboe@aa.washington.edu