FPN10-12
U. Texas to Host ITER Summer School
February 21, 2010
The 4th ITER International Summer School will be held at The University
of Texas at Austin May 31-June 4, 2010. The theme for this year's school
is "Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma Control in Magnetic Fusion Devices."
Information is available at the web site
http://w3fusion.ph.utexas.edu/ifs/iiss2010/
The mission of the ITER International Summer School is to prepare young
researchers for mastering the current and anticipated challenges of
magnetic fusion devices, and to spread the global knowledge required for
a timely and competent exploitation of the ITER physics potential.
A preview of the program of this year's school includes:
- Operations and Profile Control, Advanced Scenarios, Control of Burning and Long Pulse Discharges
- Using ECH and ECCD to Control Tokamak Plasmas
- Shape Control
- Disruptions and Control of Runaways
- Control Issues Related to Startup
- Sawtooth Control
- Avoidance and Stabilization of NTM
- Magnetic Feedback Stabilization of RWM
- Lessons From RFP on Magnetic Feedback Control of Tearing Modes
- Control of Alfvén Instabilities
- Hardware and Algorithms for Real-Time Control of Instabilities
- Mitigation and Suppression of ELM by RMP
- Lessons From Stellarators on Edge Control Through 3-D Shaping
- Error-Field Tolerance