FUSION POWER ASSOCIATES
33rd Annual Meeting and Symposium
Fusion Energy: Progress and Promise
December 5-6, 2012
Capitol Hill Club 300 First Street, SE (Across from Capitol South Metro Station)
Washington, DC 20003
Agenda (November 27, 2012)
Wednesday, December 5 – Eisenhower Room
7:30Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00Welcome – Farrokh Najmabadi, Chair, FPA Board of Directors
8:10Presentation of Awards – Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
8:30Opening Remarks – Speaker TBA
9:00Status of Experiments on NIF – Ed Moses, LLNL
9:30Status of ITER Construction – Ned Sauthoff on behalf of
– Osamu Motojima, ITER
10:00Break
10:30Fusion at MIT – Miklos Porkolab, MIT PSFC
10:50Fusion at General Atomics – Tony Taylor, GA
11:10Fusion at PPPL – Stewart Prager, PPPL
11:30General Discussion
12:00Lunch
1:00Fusion Energy Sciences Research at LLNL – Don Correll, LLNL
1:20Fusion at the University of Rochester LLE – Robert McCrory, UR LLE
1:50Fusion at the US Naval Research Laboratory – Steve Obenschain, NRL
2:10Fusion at Sandia National Laboratories – Keith Matzen, SNL
2:30General Discussion
3:00Break
3:30Fusion at LBNL – Joe Kwan, LBNL
3:50Fusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory – Glen Wurden, LANL
4:10The NAS Review of Inertial Fusion for Energy
–Ron Davidson, PPPL
–Jerry Kulcinski, U. Wisconsin
4:30Status of the EPRI Fusion Review – John Sheffield
4:50Fusion Activities of the American Security Project – Andrew Holland
5:30Reception
7:30Board of Directors Meeting
Thursday, December 6 – Eisenhower Room
7:30Continental Breakfast
8:00Fusion Perspective – Leland Cogliani, Senate Appropriations Staff
8:30Overview of OFES Programs – Ed Synakowski, DOE OFES
9:00Inertial Fusion in NNSA – Jeff Quintenz, DOE NNSA
9:30Status of US Contributions to ITER – Ned Sauthoff, ORNL
10:00Break
10:30Innovative Fusion Power Plant Concepts – Dennis Whyte, MIT
11:00Comparative Analysis of World Fusion Roadmaps – Mohamed Abdou, UCLA
11:20 Summary of IAEA Demo Workshop – Hutch Neilson, PPPL
11:40Ignition Options with Lasers – Riccardo Betti, U. Rochester
12:00Lunch
1:00Update on Progress at General Fusion – Doug Richardson, General Fusion
1:20Fusion Communications Strategies – Kitta MacPherson, PPPL
1:40Update on LIFE Study – Mike Dunne, LLNL
2:00OFES Programs in HEDLP and General Plasma Physics – Ann Satsangi, OFES
2:20Activities of the USBPO – Charles Greenfield, GA
2:40Activities of the University Fusion Association, Dylan Brennan, UFA
2:50Progress on a New Intense RF Plasma Generator – Y-K Martin Peng, ORNL
3:10Activities and Capabilities at National Instruments – Stefano Concezzi, NI
3:30 Adjourn
FPA 33rd Annual Meeting and Symposium
Fusion Energy: Progress and Promise
Dec 5-6, 2012
Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. SE, Washington, DC
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