FPN22-46

FPA 43rd Annual Meeting and Symposium, Dec 7-8 in DC

October 13, 2022

Fusion Power Associates will hold its 43rd Annual Meeting and Symposium December 7-8 at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel in Washington, DC USA. The theme of this year's symposium is The Road Ahead. The meeting will be in hybrid format, but in person attendance may be limited by space limitations.

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

Send this registration form by mail to 
Fusion Power Associates, 
2 Professional Drive, Ste. 249, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20879 
or by Fax to 301-975-9879 or use links below to pay online via PayPal.
Register by December 1. No refunds after November 15,

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