The latest agenda and registration information are as follows:
FUSION POWER ASSOCIATES
43rd Annual Meeting and Symposium: The Road Ahead
December 7-8, 2022 Grand Hyatt Washington
(hybrid format) C = Confirmed, I=Invited
Draft Agenda (10/13)
Wednesday December 7 Declaration AB
7:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:10 Welcome - Chair, FPA Board of Directors
8:15 Presentation of Awards - Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
8:30 Keynote Address - Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, DOE
9:00 Women in Fusion - Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vincente - IAEA -- C
9:15 TBD - Assoc Dir for FES, USDOE
9:35 Sarah Nelson - NNSA - Tentative C
9:55 Scott Hsu - DOE - C
10:15 Special Leadership Award Presentation to James Van Dam
10:25 Break
10:45 Pilot Plant Session - Richard Hawryluk, Chair
10:45 Mickey Wade - Director, Fusion Energy Division, ORNL - C
11:00 Wayne Solomon - Director, Magnetic Fusion Energy, GA - C
11:15 Gianfranco Federici - Head, Technology Dept., EUROfusion - C Remote
11:30 Mohamed Abou - UCLA - C
11:45 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:00 U.S. Magnetic Confinement Session - TBD, Chair
1:00 Steven Cowley - Director, PPPL - C
1:15 Dennis Whyte - Director, PSFC, MIT - C
1:30 Harry McLean - Leader, Fusion Energy Sciences, LLNL - C
1:45 Discussion
2:00 ITER Session - Troy Carter, Chair - C
2:00 Alain Bécoulet, Engineering Domain Head - ITER Organization - C
2:20 Kathryn McCarthy - Project Director, U.S. ITER - C
2:35 Discussion
2:45 Break
3:15 Inertial and Magneto-Inertial Confinement Session - Michael Farrell, Chair - C
3:15 Tammy Ma - LLNL - C
3:30 Chris Deeney - U. Rochester LLE - C
3:45 Matthew Wolford - NRL - C
4:00 Daniel Sinars - Sandia - C
4;15 Thomas Schenkel - LBNL - C
4:30 Provesh Patel -- Scientific Director, Focused Energy Inc. - C Remote
4:45 Stellarator Session - Francois Waelbroeck, Chair - C
4:45 Thomas Sunn Pederson -Max Planck Institute, Germany - C
5:00 Katsumi Ida - National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan - C Remote
5:15 Novimir Pablant - PPPL - C
5:30 Coalition for Plasma Science Activities - Eva Kostadinova
5:45 Break
6:00 - 7:30 Reception, Grand Foyer
7:30-8:30 FPA Board of Directors Meeting
Thursday, December 8 Declaration AB
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 World Perspectives on the Road Ahead - Gerald Navratil, Chair - C
8:00 Ian Chapman - Director, UKAEA Culham - C
8:15 Tony Donne - Program Manager, EUROfusion - uncertain
8:30 Yoshitaka Ikeda, Managing Director, Fusion Energy Directorate, QST, Japan C
8:45 Yuntao SONG, Director General, Inst. of Plasma Sciencs, CAS, China - C
9:00 Suk Jae Yoo, President, Korean Institute of Fusion Energy, Korea - C remote
9:15 Yican Wu, Professor, Chief Scientist, INEST, CAS, China - C
9:30 Discussion
9:45 Break
10:15 Private Sector and Partnerhips Session - Farhat Beg, Chair - C
10:15 Andrew Sowder - Senior Technical Executive, EPRI - I
10:30 Michl Binderbauer, CEO, TAE Technologies - C
10:45 Bob Mumgaard, CEO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems - C
11:00 Naomi Mburu, Tokamak Energy - C
11:15 Greg Twinney, CEO, General Fusion - C remote
11:30 Taka Nagao (CEO) and Richard Pearson (UK Director), Kyoto Fusioneering - C
11:45 Takaya Taguchi, CEO, Helical Fusion - C
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Adam Rosenberg and Hillary O'Brien, House Science Committee
1:30 Private Sector and Partnerships Session - Ahmed Diallo
1:30 Ahmed Diallo - ARPA-E - C
1:40 Ben Levitt - Zap Energy - C
1:55 Derek Sutherland - CEO, CT Fusion - C
2:10 Cary Forest - U. Wisconsin - C
2:25 Hafiz Rahman - President, MIFTI - C
2:40 Additional talk - TBD
2:55 Short Break
3:00 Perspectives Session - Steve Dean, Chair
3:00 John Kline -- Manager, FES and NNSA Fusion Research, LANL - C
3:15 Chandra Curry - LaserNetUS, SLAC - C
3:30 Brenda Garcia-Diaz -Tritium Technology Division, SRNL - C
3:45 Arnold Lumsdaine - INFUSE Program Director - C
4:00 Outreach and Diversity - Guinevere Shaw - DOE OFES - C
4:15 Adjourn
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