FPN11-54

FPA Annual Meeting and Symposium Agenda

September 27, 2011

Fusion Power Associates will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting and Symposium, Fusion Energy: Expectations, December 14-15, 2011 at the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC. Hotel and Registration information is at http://fusionpower.org/RegistrationForm.html. The Agenda is as follows:

Wednesday December 14
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 Welcome – Farrokh Najmabadi, Chair, FPA Board of Directors
8:10 Presentation of Awards – Stephen O. Dean, FPA President
8:30 Fusion at the U.S. Department of Energy – Steven Koonin, DOE Under Secretary for Science
9:00 Energy Policy Interests of the American Security Project – Andrew Holland, ASP
9:20 Energy Policy Interests of the Bipartisan Policy Center – Paul Bledsoe, BPC 
10:00 Break
10:30 Status of Ignition in NIF – Ed Moses, LLNL
10:50 Role of ITER in the Development of Fusion Energy – Richard Hawryluk, Deputy Director-General, ITER Organization
11:10 A Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy – Stewart Prager, PPPL
11:30 A Path to Inertial Fusion Energy – Mike Dunne, LLNL
11:50 Buffet Lunch
1:00 Status of EPRI Fusion Review – Tom Mulford, EPRI
1:20 Status of NAS IFE Review – R. Davidson and G. Kulcinski, Co-Chairs
1:40 Session on Pathways to Magnetic Fusion Energy
       - Ron Stambaugh, General Atomics
       - Miklos Porkolab, MIT
       - Hutch Neilson, PPPL
       - Farrokh Najmabadi, UCSD
3:00 Break
3:30 Session on Pathways to Inertial Fusion Energy
       - Steve Obenschain, US Naval Research Lab
       - Bob McCrory, U. Rochester, LLE
       - Keith Matzen, Sandia National Laboratories
       - B. Grant Logan, LBNL
       - Jeff Latkowski, LLNL
       - Glen Wurden, LANL
5:00 Perspectives on Innovative Confinement Concepts
       - Tom Jarboe, U. Washington
       - John Sarff, U. Wisconsin
5:30 Path to Market for Compact Modular Fusion Systems – Simon Woodruff
5:45 Reception
7:30 Board of Directors Meeting
 
Thursday December 15
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8;00 Fusion in Russia – E.P. Velikhov and/or Englen Azizov, Kurchatov Inst.
8:25 Fusion in India –Shishir Deshpande, ITER India
8:50 Inertial Fusion in NNSA – Allan Hauer, DOE NNSA
9:15 Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Strategy – Ed Synakowski, DOE OFES
9:40 Results from Levitated Dipole Experiment – Jay Kesner, MIT
10:00 Break
10:30 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
12:00 Lunch
1:00 U.S. Contributions to ITER
       - Ned Sauthoff, U.S. ITER Project Office Director
       - Speaker TBD, Areva Federal Services
       - Speaker TBD, General Atomics
1:55 Activities of the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization - Charles Greenfield, General Atomics
2:15 Session on DOE Program in HEDLP
       - Speaker TBD, OFES
       - Ricardo Betti, U. Rochester
       - Mark Hermann, Sandia National Laboratories
3:00 Research Program at General Fusion – Michael Laberge, General Fusion
3:20 Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion – Scott Hsu, LANL
3:40 Fusion Research at Tri Alpha Energy – M. Binderbauer (not yet confirmed)
4:00 Adjourn