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
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