Name: 20th International Spherical Torus Workshop (ISTW2019)
Start: 2019-10-28T07:40:00+01:00
End: 2019-10-31T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Frascati

20th International Spherical Torus Workshop (ISTW2019)

from Monday, 28 October 2019 (07:40) to Thursday, 31 October 2019 (16:30)

Monday, 28 October 2019

08:00 Registration form
Registration form
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Logistics and meeting introduction
Logistics and meeting introduction
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 Session O1
Session O1
09:15 - 12:45
Contributions

09:15 Final results of the Phase-1 of the PROTO-SPHERA experiment and first evidences of plasma tori production and sustainment - Paolo Micozzi (ENEA C.R. Frascati)

09:50 Present and future plans of PROTO-SPHERA - Franco Alladio (Centro Ricerche ENEA, Frascati C.P. 65, Rome, Italy)

10:10 Technical Benefits of the PROTO-SPHERA Confinement Configuration - Alessandro Lampasi (ENEA)

10:30 Analytical studies of PROTO-SPHERA equilibria - Paolo Buratti (ENEA)

11:15 MAST-U experimental programme: From first plasma to first campaign - Andrew Thornton (UKAEA)

11:50 MAST Upgrade - features and status - Brian Lloyd (UKAEA)

12:10 First operation of the Lithium Tokamak Experiment - β - R. Majeski (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Session O2
Session O2
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Integrated Studies of Solenoid Free Tokamak Startup - Raymond Fonck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:35 Microwave Heating and Current Drive of Overdense Plasmas in the Upgraded Pegasus Experiment - S.J. Diem (Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:55 CHI Research on PEGASUS 3 - Roger Raman (University of Washington)

15:50 Globus-M2 operation at toroidal magnetic field strength 0.7 T - Vasily Gusev (Ioffe institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

16:25 Thermal energy confinement at the Globus-M spherical tokamak and first results from the Globus-M2 experiments - Gleb Kurskiev (Ioffe institute)
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 23/3-02 - FSN Meeting room
09:00 Session 03
Session 03
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 Tokamak Energy and the high-field spherical tokamak route to fusion power - Steven McNamara (Tokamak Energy Ltd)

09:35 Faster Fusion: ST40, engineering, commissioning, first results - Mikhail Gryaznevich (Tokamak Energy Ltd)

10:10 Overview of recent progress on non-inductive start-up experiment in LATE - Hitoshi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

11:10 Overview of Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus (VEST): Progress and Plans - Yong-Seok Hwang (Seoul National University)

11:45 Scaling Physics of Reconnection Heating for ST Merging Startup Experiments - Yasushi Ono (University of Tokyo)

12:20 Investigation of ion heating/transport process of magnetic reconnection during CS-free merging plasma startup of spherical tokamak in TS-6 - Hiroshi Tanabe (University of Tokyo)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Poster Session 1 and coffee break
Poster Session 1 and coffee break
14:00 - 17:00

18:00 IEA ST Technology Collaboration Programme - Executive Committee Meeting (No. 13)
IEA ST Technology Collaboration Programme - Executive Committee Meeting (No. 13)
18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 30 October 2019

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 23/3-02 - FSN Meeting room
09:00 Session 04
Session 04
09:00 - 12:45
Contributions

09:00 NSTX-U: Recent Results and Plans - Stanley Kaye (PPPL)

09:35 Validation of gyrokinetic simulations in NSTX including comparisons with a synthetic diagnostic for high-k scattering. - Juan Ruiz Ruiz (1. MIT-Plasma Science and Fusion Center 2. Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford)

10:10 3D HHFW full wave simulations with realistic antenna geometry and SOL plasma in NSTX-U - Nicola Bertelli

11:15 Machine learning approaches to predict the ideal stability properties of spherical tokamak plasmas - A. Piccione (University College London) J.W. Berkery (Columbia University) S.A. Sabbagh (Columbia University)

11:35 Transient CHI start-up of low inductance plasma for advanced ST scenarios - Roger Raman

11:55 Configuration Studies for a Low-Aspect-Ratio Liquid-Metal-Wall Sustained High-Power-Density Tokamak Facility - Jonathan Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
Thursday, 31 October 2019