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