| Third IAEA Technical Meeting on Theory of Plasma Instabilities | ||
| Preliminary Agenda | ||
| Mon 26 March (Room A/EW003) | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Artur Malequias, IAEA | IAEA Opening address |
| 09:10 | Brian Cantor, Vice Chancellor | Welcome |
| Confinement Overview (Chair: J Connor) | ||
| 09:20 | J Candy | Status of gyrokinetic transport modelling for ITER |
| Microstability and turbulence I (Chair: J Connor) | ||
| 09:50 | Y Kishimoto | Turbulent transport associated with zonal flow and GAM near critical gradient |
| 10:20 | Howard Wilson | Organisational issues |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | D J Applegate | Micro-tearing simulations in MAST |
| 11:30 | Y. Nishimura | Shear Alfven wave dynamics in gyrokinetic tokamak plasmas |
| 12:00-12:20 | Group Photo | Heslington Hall |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch | Derwent College |
| 13:30-15:30 | Posters | See Appendix; Room A/EW104 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| MHD I (Chair: T Hender) | ||
| 16:00 | N Hayashi | Integrated simulation of ELM crash with dynamic response of SOL-divertor plasmas |
| 16:30 | S Saarelma | Edge stability in MAST |
| 16:50 | C C Hegna | The effects of neoclassical toroidal viscosity on field error penetration in tokamaks |
| 17:10 | Close | |
| Evening Reception, Lendal Cellars, York | ||
| Tuesday 27 March (Room A/EW003) | ||
| Astrophysical Plasmas (Chair: B Breizman) | ||
| 08:45 | S C Cowley | MHD and gyrokinetics in plasmas around black holes |
| Fast Particles I (Chair: B Breizman) | ||
| 09:15 | T Hauff | Redistribution of Energetic Particles by Background Turbulence |
| 09:45 | I T Chapman | The Effect of Energetic Particles on Sawteeth |
| 10:05 | V S Marchenko | Effects of tangential neutral beam injection on the internal kink and quasi-interchange modes |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Microstability and turbulence II (Chair: Y Kishimoto) | ||
| 11:00 | C S Chang | Particle simulation of edge pedestal formation and plasma rotation dynamics |
| 11:30 | G Darmet | Phase-space intermittency in flux-driven gyro-kinetic simulations |
| 11:50 | E-J Kim | Theory of turbulent transport regulation |
| 12:10 | P Tamain | Scale merging in edge and SOL turbulence |
| 12:40-13:40 | Lunch | Derwent College |
| MHD II (Chair: C Hegna) | ||
| 13:40 | R Fitzpatrick | Interaction of scrape-off layer currents with magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in tokamak plasmas |
| 14:10 | F L Waelbroeck | Drift dynamics of magnetic islands |
| 14:30 | M James | Tearing mode stability in a sheared slab model of the tokamak plasma |
| 14:50 | W A Cooper | Fluid plasma stability in stellarators with anisotropic energetic species |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break | |
| Microstability and turbulence III (Chair: J Candy) | ||
| 15:50 | J W Connor | Rotation Shear and Stability |
| 16:10 | P Xanthopoulos | Gyrokinetic simulations of microinstabilities for the stellarator W7-X |
| 16:30 | A G Peeters | Linear gyro-kinetic calculations of toroidal momentum transport in a tokamak due to the ITG mode |
| 16:50 | O Yamagishi | Quasi-linear and neoclassical fluxes and equilibrium profiles in LHD |
| 17:10 | Close | |
| Wednesday 28 March (Room A/EW003) | ||
| MHD Overview (Chair: P Helander) | ||
| 08:45 | T C Hender | How well does MHD theory explain observed tokamak stability? |
| Fast Particles II (Chair: P Helander) | ||
| 09:15 | R G L Vann | Rapid frequency-sweeping events and phase space structures |
| 09:45 | B N Breizman | Alfven cascade quasi-modes |
| 10:05 | S E Sharapov | Instabilities and confinement of fast particles on JET and MAST |
| 10:35-11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 | Ph Lauber | Damping of global Alfven waves in tokamaks |
| Microstability and Turbulence IV (Chair: TBD) | ||
| 11:35 | M Hirota | Complexity of a non-Hermitian system: Instabilities in the presence of flow shear |
| 12:05 | F M Poli | Experiments in a basic plasma device in support of the comparison with linear and nonlinear theories of electrostatic instabilities |
| 12:25-13:30 | Lunch | Derwent College |
| 13:30 | F E M da Silveira | Convective cells driven by longitudinal current |
| 13:50 | S Bouzat | Probabilistic transport model for transitions to improved confinement regimes in fusion plasmas |
| 14:10 | T Fulop | Influence of magnetic shear on impurity transport |
| Discussion/Summary Session | ||
| 14:30 | S D Pinches | MHD |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | B N Breizman | Fast Particles |
| 16:00 | A G Peeters | Turbulence and transport |
| 16:30 | Closing remarks | |
| 17:00 | Close | |
| Appendix: Poster presentations Room A/EW104 | ||
| N Bisai | Scrapeoff
layer turbulence simulation using four field model and role of ion temperature |
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| R J Buttery | Neoclassical tearing mode stability at low rotation and implications for ITER | |
| A J Carter | On the theory of two-fluid visco-resistive ballooning modes | |
| T Furukawa | Reduction of Ionization Instability in Micro Hall Accelerator | |
| A B R Hazarika | Classical transport phenomena in double tokamak collicer (DTC) | |
| E D Held | Rethinking Parallel Closures for NTM and ELM Simulations | |
| J Julio E Herrera-Velazquez | Bifurcation of Solutions to MHD Equilibrium Equations for Toroidal Plasmas | |
| S H Muller | Turbulence in basic experiments with a core-SOL transition | |
| R Narayanan | Enhanced confinement observation in the presence of negative currents at the edge of the S.I.N.P. tokamak | |
| M Reshko | Effects of Impurities on Electron Temperature Gradient Modes | |
| E V Rostomyan | Dissipative Instability of Negative Energy Wave of an Intense E-Beam | |
| Y Sun | Understanding the dynamical evolution of the m=1 mid-oscillation on the HT-7 tokamak | |
| M Z Tokar | Modelling of particle and energy losses by type I ELMS and their mitigation with external magnetic field perturbations | |
| V V Zharkova | Instabilities induced by accelerated electrons and protons in an RCS with variable electric field | |