The purpose of the ICC Workshop is to explore innovative ideas for improving the prospects of fusion power generation in a timely fashion. This meeting is being held jointly with the US/Japan Compact Torus Workshop.

ICC2011 is a continuation of the ICC series, which last met in Princeton, New Jersey. 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. 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.

This workshop encourages presentation of results and concepts that have the potential to address issues with the mainline concepts, or to lead to a second generation practical fusion power system, complementing and supporting 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 fusion 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.

Tom Jarboe is Chairman of the program committee jarboe@aa.washington.edu