FPN11-40

FPA Annual Meeting Set for December 14-15 in DC

August 2, 2011

Fusion Power Associates 32nd Annual Meeting and Symposium, Fusion Energy: Expectations, will be held December 14-15 at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC. Details on registration are posted at http://fusionpower.org and click on Annual Meeting Agenda and Registration or may be requested directly from fusionpwrassoc@aol.com The preliminary agenda is provided below:

Wednesday December 14

Welcome - Farrokh Najmabadi, Chair, FPA Board of Directors
Presentation of Awards - Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
Fusion at the U.S. Department of Energy - Steven Koonin, DOE Under Secretary
Energy Policy Interests of the American Security Project - Jim Ludes, ASP
Energy Policy Interests of the Bipartisan Policy Center - Paul Bledsoe, BPC
Status of Ignition in NIF - Ed Moses, LLNL
Role of ITER in the Development of Fusion Energy - Richard Hawryluk, ITER
A Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy - Stewart Prager, PPPL
A Path to Inertial Fusion Energy - Mike Dunne, LLNL
Status of EPRI Fusion Review - Tom Mulford, EPRI
Status of NAS IFE Review - R. Davidson and G. Kulcinski, Co-Chairs
Session on Pathways to Magnetic Fusion Energy
- Ron Stambaugh, General Atomics
- Miklos Porkolab, MIT
- Hutch Neilson, PPPL
- Farrokh Najmabadi, UCSD
Session on Pathways to Inertial Fusion Energy
- Steve Obenschain, Naval Research Laboratory
- Bob McCrory, U. Rochester LLE
- Keith Matzen, Sandia National Laboratories
- B. Grant Logan, LBNL
- Jeff Latkowski, LLNL
- Glen Wurden, LANL
Perspectives on Innovative Confinement Concepts
- Tom Jarboe, U. Washington
- Simon Woodruff, Woodruff Scientific
- John Sarff, U. Wisconsin

Thursday, December 15

Fusion in Russia - E.P. Velikhov and/or Englen Azizov, Kurchatov Institute
Fusion in India - Shishir Deshpande, ITER India
Inertial Fusion in NNSA - Allan Hauer, NNSA
Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Strategy - Ed Synakowski, DOE OFES
Results from Levitated Dipole Experiment - Jay Kesner, MIT
Session on Magnetic Fusion Planning for the Future
- G. Navratil, Columbia University
- M. Abdou, UCLA
- Y-K Martin Peng, ORNL
- R. Stambaugh, General Atomics
- C. Kessel, PPPL
- M. Zarnstorff, PPPL
Session on U.S. Contributions to ITER
- Ned Sauthoff & 2 industrial contractors
- BPO Speaker TBD
Session on DOE Program in HEDLP
- Sean Finnegan or other TBD, OFES
- Ricardo Betti, U. Rochester
- Mark Hermann, Sandia National Laboratories
Research Program at General Fusion – Michael Laberge, General Fusion
Fusion Research at Tri Alpha Energy – Dale Prouty/M. Binderbauer (invited)