Sherwood 2016

Saturday, April 2 [top]

8:00a – 6:00p

NIMROD Code Development Meeting, Private Dining Room, Lobby Level

Sunday, April 3 [top]

8:00a – 6:00p

CEMM Meeting, Private Dining Room, Hotel Lobby Level

5:00p – 7:00p

Sherwood Reception / Registration Assembly Room, Lobby Level

Monday, April 4 [top]

8:15a – 8:30a

Madison Ballroom

Chris Hegna:Welcome and Announcements

8:30a – 10:00a

Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin

8:30a – 9:30a

David Anderson

University of Wisconsin, The Role of Theory and Computation in Advancement of the Stellarator Concept

9:30a – 10:00a

Fatima Ebrahimi

Princeton University, Physics of plasmoid-mediated reconnection and flux closure in simulations of Coaxial Helicity Injection

10:00a – 10:30a

Beverage Break

Madison Ballroom Foyer

10:30a – 12:00p

Chair: John Finn, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:30a – 11:00a

Stuart Hudson

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Penetration and amplification of resonant perturbations in 3D ideal-MHD equilibria

11:00a – 11:30a

Andrew Cole

Columbia University, Error field penetration and locking to the backward wave

11:30a – 12:00p

Jacob King

Tech-X Corporation, Nonlinear NIMROD modeling of DIII-D QH-mode discharges with broadband-MHD turbulence

12:00p – 1:30p

Lunch

(on your own)

1:30p – 6:00p

Wisconsin/Capitol A Ballrooms

1:30p – 3:30p

Poster Session I

3:30p – 4:00p

Beverage Break

4:00p – 6:00p

Poster Session II

6:00p – 7:00p

Bruno Coppi/Dmitri Ryutov/Open Discussion

Envisioned New Directions for Fusion Research

Tuesday, April 5 [top]

8:30a – 9:30a

Chair: David E. Newman, University of Alaska

8:30a – 9:30a

Eddy Carmack

Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada, The Big New Arctic: The Non-Linear Future Has Arrived

9:30a – 10:00a

Beverage Break

Wisconsin/Capitol A Ballrooms

10:00a – 12:00p

Poster Session III

Wisconsin/Capitol A Ballrooms

12:00p – 1:30p

Lunch

(on your own)

1:30p – 3:30p

Tour: University of Wisconsin Experimental Facilities

Badger Bus Pick-Up
The Madison Concourse Hotel
1 West Dayton Street

4:00p – 6:00p

Chair: Andris Dimits, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

4:00p – 4:30p

Robert Dewar

Australian National University, Spectrum of multi-region-relaxed magnetohydro-dynamic modes in slab geometry

4:30p – 5:00p

Jugal Chowdhury

University of Colorado, Gyrokinetic Delta-f Particle Simulation of Microtearing Turbulence

5:00p – 5:30p

Benjamin Faber

University of Wisconsin, Nonlinear coherent structures from linearly stable modes in stellarator TEM turbulence

5:30p – 6:00p

Paul Terry

University of Wisconsin, Large-Scale Sinks in Saturation Scalings of ITG Turbulence

7:00p – 10:00p

Reception,Banquet
and Student Poster Awards

Capitol Ballroom

Wednesday, April 6 [top]

8:30a – 10:00a

Chair: James Hanson, Auburn University

8:30a – 9:00a

Sean Dettrick

Tri Alpha Energy, Theory and Simulation of High-Performance Beam-Driven FRCs

9:00a – 9:30a

Lee Ricketson

New York University, Multilevel and Sparse Grid Techniques for Particle-in-Cell simulations

9:30a – 10:00a

Vinicius Duarte

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, First realistic characterizations of chirping instabilities in tokamaks

10:00a – 10:30a

Beverage Break

Madison Ballroom Foyer

10:30a – 12:00p

Chair: David Hatch, University of Texas

10:30a – 11:00a

Boris Breizman

University of Texas, Production and damping of runaway electrons in a tokamak

11:00a – 11:30a

Chang Liu

Princeton University, Adjoint method and runaway electron dynamics in momentum space, Princeton University

11:30a – 12:00p

Zehua Guo

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Primary runaway electron generation and saturation in a tokamak