FPN20-02

US Fusion Community Planning Effort Nearing Completion

January 10, 2020

The year-plus long US fusion community long-range planning effort (see FPN18-49, FPN18-54 and FPN19-07) is nearing completion. A large number of US fusion researchers are gathering in Houston January 13-17 to consider, edit and revise a draft final report prepared by an organizing committee consisting of:

Chairs
Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa
Nathaniel Ferraro, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Lauren Garrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nathan Howard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
John Sarff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Earl Scime (emeritus), West Virginia University
Wayne Solomon, General Atomics

Magnetic Fusion Energy Fusion Materials and Technology
Ted Biewer, ORNL
Dan Brunner, CFS
John Caughman, ORNL
Cami Collins, General Atomics David Donovan, UT Knoxville
Brian Grierson, PPPL
Walter Guttenfelder, PPPL
Karl Hammond, U Missouri
Chris Hegna, U Wisconsin-Madison
Chris Holland, UCSD
Jerry Hughes, MIT
Paul Humrickhouse, INL
Aaro Järvinen, LLNL
Robert Kolasinski, Sandia
Ane Lasa, UT Knoxville
Richard Magee, TAE
Saskia Mordijck, William & Mary
Richard Nygren, Sandia
Craig Petty, General Atomics
Wahyu Setyawan, PNNL
George Tynan, UCSD
Steven Zinkle, UT Knoxville

High Energy Density Physics
Alex Arefiev, UCSD
Todd Ditmire, UT Austin
Forrest Doss, LANL Matthew Reinke, ORNL
Uri Shumlak, U Washington

General Plasma Science
Daniel Den Hartog, U Wisconsin-Madison
Dan Dubin, UCSD
Sean Finnegan, LANL
Johan Frenje, MIT
Arianna Gleason, Stanford/SLAC
Stephanie Hansen, Sandia
Hantao Ji, Princeton
Louisa Pickworth, LLNL
Yevgeny Raitses, PPPL
Jorge Rocca, Colorado State
Derek Schaeffer, Princeton
David Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College
Steven Shannon, NC State
Dan Sinars, Sandia
Cliff Thomas, LLE
Stephen Vincena, UCLA

The week-long workshop in Houston aims to agree on a final report to be delivered by March 1 to the USDOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC).

Copies of the draft report, titled "A Community Plan for Fusion Energy and Discovery Plasma Sciences" are available from Fusion Power Associates.