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Wednesday December 16, 2020

• Agenda
• Welcome: Tony Taylor, Chairman of the Board, FPA
• Presentation of Awards: Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
• Keynote Address: Paul Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, USDOE

• International Fusion Europe - Chair: S. Dean, FPA
  • The ITER Project, Opening the Way to a New Energy Future: Bernard Bigot, Director General, ITER Organization
  • UKAEA Update: Ian Chapman, CEO, UKAEA; Director, Culham Science Center, UK
  • Research for an Integral Study of Inertial Fusion Reactor: Jose Manuel Perlado, Director, Instituto de Fusion Nuclear

• Magnetic Fusion Energy U. S. - Chair: G Navratil, Columbia U.
  • ITER Impacts and US ITER Progress: Kathy McCarthy, Associate Director, ORNL
  • Steven Cowley, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • Implementing the FESAC Plan to Fusion Energy, General Atomics Perspective: Richard Buttery, Director, DIII-D National Fusion Program
  • Recent Progress on the High-Field Path to Fusion Energy: Dennis Whyte, Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT
  • ORNL Fusion Energy Program, Accomplishments and Opportunities for the 2020s: Mickey Wade, Director, Fusion Energy Division, ORNL
  • Fusion Energy Sciences Program at LLNL Fusion Energy Sciences Program at LLNL: Harry McLean, Program Leader

• Inertial and Magneto Inertial Fusion Energy U. S. - Chair: K Budil, LLNL
  • Mark Herrmann, Director, National Ignition Facility, LLNL
  • Magneto-Inertial Fusion: A Promising Path Toward Burning Plasmas in the Laboratory: Daniel Sinars, Director, Pulsed Power, SNL
  • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) Update: Michael Campbell, Director, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. Rochester
  • Progress in the S&T to enable high-gain laser inertial fusion @ NRL: Steve Obenschain, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  • Targets, at the Center of ICF Experiments and Research: Michael Farrell, Director for ICF, General Atomics

• Congressional Speakers - House Science Committee, Adam Rosenberg and Hillary O'Brien

• Private Sector and Partnerships - Chair: S Hsu, ARPA-E
  • Progress and Next Steps at TAE: Michl Binderbauer, CEO, TAE Technologies
  • Tokamak Energy, A Faster Way to Fusion: Jonathan Carling, CEO, Tokamak Energy, UK
  • Transforming How We Energize the World: Michel Laberge, CSO, General Fusion, Canada
  • CFS Status and Thoughts on Public-Private Partnerships: Bob Mumgaard, CEO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
  • Sheared-Flow Stabilized (SFS) Z-Pinch Reactor Concept: Brian Nelson, CTO, Zap Energy
  • R&D Activities for the Sustained Spheromak Approach to Magnetic Fusion Energy: Derek Sutherland, CEO, CTFusion, Inc.
  • Fusion Update from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy: Scott Hsu, Program Director, ARPA-E, USDOE

• International Fusion Asia - Chair: S. Dean, FPA
  • Fusion Energy Research & Development Towards DEMO Reactor of Japan: Hideki Iwabuchi, Director Int. Nuclear and Fusion Affairs, MEXT, Japan
  • Fusion Energy R&D in QST- ITER, JT-60SA and Other Broader Approach Activities: Kenichi Kurihara, Director General, Naka Fusion Institute, Japan
  • Suk Jae Yoo, President, Korean Institute of Fusion Energy
  • Studies on Fusion Nuclear Technology, Materials and Safety at FDS: Yican Wu. Director, INEST, China
  • Ryusuke Kodama, Director, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka U
  • EXL Fusion Power Technology R&D, An Introduction: Martin Peng, ENN Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd., China

• U. S. Fusion Energy Science, Achievements and Opportunities: James Van Dam, Assoc. Director for OFES, Office of Science, USDOE
• The Critical Role of Communications in Fusion: Zabrina Johal, General Atomics
• Powering Tomorrow's World: Richard Pearson, Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd.

• U. S. Fusion Program Planning Session
  • US Fusion Planning Overview: FESAC Chair, Don Rej, LANL
  • US Fusion Community Planning Report: Wayne Solomon, General Atomics
  • FESAC Long Range Report Summary: FESAC SC Chair, Troy Carter, UCLA

• Fusion Science and Technology Session - Session Chair: Farhat Beg, UCSD and Peter Seidl, LBNL
  • Fusion Energy Sciences at LBNL: Status and Directions Thomas Schenkel, Director, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, LBNL
  • Siegfried Glenzer, Director, High Energy Density Science, SLAC
  • Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Fusion Science and Technology Research: Mohamed Abdou, Director, Fusion S&T Center, UCLA
  • Fusion Power Program at LANL: John Kline, Program Manager, FES and NNSA Fusion Research, LANL
  • Fusion Energy Research at UT: Francois Waelbroeck, Director, Institute of Fusion Studies, U. Texas, Austin
  • Tritium Science and Technology for Fusion Energy Success: David Babineau, Director Defense Programs and Fusion Technology, SRNL
  • The US Burning Plasma Organization: Charles Greenfield, Director, USBPO/GA
  • Fourth-generation Laser for Ultrabroadband eXperiments (FLUX) for mitigation of LPI & beam imprint with bandwidth: Jonathan Zuegel, U. Rochester
  • Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) Program Overview: Daniel Clark, OFES, USDOE