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Program ~ Sherwood Conference
Location: Courant Institute, New York, New York
The program consists of 3 Invited Review presentations, 12 Invited Talk presentations selected out of 50 submissions, and Poster presentations. The total number of presentations is 154.
The Review and Invited talks will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109. The Poster Sessions will be held in a different building, the Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor.
Program as a PDF document.
The Program of oral and poster presentations for the workshop is given below.
Saturday:: Sunday:: Monday:: Tuesday:: Wednesday::
Saturday, March 14[top]
8:30am-6:00pm |
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NIMROD Code Development Meeting (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102) |
Sunday, March 15[top]
8:30am- 6:00pm |
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CEMM Meeting (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102) |
5:00pm- 7:00pm |
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Sherwood Reception / Registration (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1301) |
Monday, March 16[top]
8:15am- 8:30am |
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(Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109)
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8:30am– 10:00am |
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Chair: Antoine Cerfon, NYU |
8:30am– 9:30am |
Dmitri Ryutov |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — Divertor theory: plasma transport in complex geometries |
9:30am– 10:00am |
Heinke Frerichs |
University of Wisconsin — Three-dimensional edge plasma and neutral gas modeling with the EMC3-EIRENE code on the example of RMP application in tokamaks - status and development plans |
10:00am– 10:15am |
Break |
Coffee/Tea Service (Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor) |
10:15am– 12:15pm |
(Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor) |
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12:15pm– 1:45pm |
Lunch |
(on your own) |
1:45pm– 3:15pm |
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Chair: Eric Held, Utah State University |
1:45pm– 2:15pm |
Richard Fitzpatrick |
University of Texas — Phase-locking of multi-helicity Neoclassical Tearing Modes in tokamak plasmas |
2:15pm– 2:45pm |
Dustin Fisher |
Dartmouth College — 3D Two-fluid Braginski simulations of the Large Plasma Device |
2:45pm– 3:15pm |
Magali Muraglia |
Aix-Marseille University, France — Interchange turbulence driven NTM |
Tuesday, March 17[top]
8:15am – 8:30am (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109)
Announcements — Antoine Cerfon, NYU
8:30am– 10:00am |
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Chair: Michael Barnes, University of Oxford, UK |
8:30am– 9:30am |
Alexander Schekochihin |
University of Oxford, UK — Phase mixing vs. turbulence in a drift-kinetic plasma |
9:30am– 10:00am |
Matt Landreman |
University of Maryland — Universal instability, non-modal amplification, and subcritical turbulence |
10:00am– 10:15am |
Break |
Coffee/Tea Service (Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor) |
10:15am– 12:15pm |
(Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor) |
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12:15pm– 1:45pm |
Lunch |
(on your own) |
1:45pm– 3:45pm |
(Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor) |
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4:00pm– 5:30pm |
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Chair: Andrew Cole, Columbia University |
4:00pm– 4:30pm |
Raul Sanchez |
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain — Investigation of kinetic dynamos driven by non-Gaussian, non-Markovian velocity fluctuations using meshless, Lagrangian numerical schemes |
4:30pm– 5:00pm |
Joaquim Loizu |
Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics — Computation of singular currents at rational surfaces in non-axisymmetric MHD equilibria |
5:00pm– 5:30pm |
Josefine Proll |
Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics — TEM turbulence in stellarators - its simulation and its optimization |
6:30pm– 8:30pm |
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Reception / Student Poster Awards (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1301/1314) |
Wednesday, March 18[top]
8:15am – 8:30am (Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109)
Announcements — Antoine Cerfon, NYU
8:30am– 10:00am |
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Chair: François Waelbroeck, University of Texas |
8:30am– 9:30am |
Todd Evans |
General Atomics — 3D Magnetic perturbation effects on confinement during ELM control experiments |
9:30am– 10:00am |
Roscoe White |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory — Thermal island destabilization and the Greenwald limit |
10:00am– 10:30am |
Break |
Coffee/Tea Service (Warren Weaver Hall, Lobby) |
10:30am– 12:00am |
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Chair: Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
10:30am– 11:00am |
George Wilkie |
University of Maryland — Efficient calculation of impurity transport and an improved slowing-down distribution for alpha particles |
11:00am– 11:30am |
Nathaniel Fisch |
Princeton University — Alpha channeling and current drive with lower hybrid waves |
11:30am– 12:00pm |
Maurizio Ottaviani |
CEA Cadarache, France — The flux coordinates independent (FCI) approach to plasma turbulence simulations |
Workshop Adjourn 12:00
