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, October 28, 2019 (7:40 AM) to Thursday, October 31, 2019 (4:30 PM)

Monday, October 28, 2019

8:00 AM Registration form
Registration form
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Logistics and meeting introduction
Logistics and meeting introduction
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM Session O1
Session O1
9:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

9:15 AM 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)

9:50 AM Present and future plans of PROTO-SPHERA - Franco Alladio (Centro Ricerche ENEA, Frascati C.P. 65, Rome, Italy)

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM First operation of the Lithium Tokamak Experiment - β - R. Majeski (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session O2
Session O2
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Integrated Studies of Solenoid Free Tokamak Startup - Raymond Fonck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:35 PM Microwave Heating and Current Drive of Overdense Plasmas in the Upgraded Pegasus Experiment - S.J. Diem (Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:55 PM CHI Research on PEGASUS 3 - Roger Raman (University of Washington)

3:50 PM Globus-M2 operation at toroidal magnetic field strength 0.7 T - Vasily Gusev (Ioffe institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

4:25 PM Thermal energy confinement at the Globus-M spherical tokamak and first results from the Globus-M2 experiments - Gleb Kurskiev (Ioffe institute)
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 23/3-02 - FSN Meeting room
9:00 AM Session 03
Session 03
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Tokamak Energy and the high-field spherical tokamak route to fusion power - Steven McNamara (Tokamak Energy Ltd)

9:35 AM Faster Fusion: ST40, engineering, commissioning, first results - Mikhail Gryaznevich (Tokamak Energy Ltd)

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

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

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

12:20 PM 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)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Poster Session 1 and coffee break
Poster Session 1 and coffee break
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

6:00 PM IEA ST Technology Collaboration Programme - Executive Committee Meeting (No. 13)
IEA ST Technology Collaboration Programme - Executive Committee Meeting (No. 13)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 23/3-02 - FSN Meeting room
9:00 AM Session 04
Session 04
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM NSTX-U: Recent Results and Plans - Stanley Kaye (PPPL)

9:35 AM 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 AM 3D HHFW full wave simulations with realistic antenna geometry and SOL plasma in NSTX-U - Nicola Bertelli

11:15 AM 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 AM Transient CHI start-up of low inductance plasma for advanced ST scenarios - Roger Raman

11:55 AM Configuration Studies for a Low-Aspect-Ratio Liquid-Metal-Wall Sustained High-Power-Density Tokamak Facility - Jonathan Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Thursday, October 31, 2019

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