Program and research issues, news, and important events

1
Program and research issues, news, and important
events

• NSTX Team Meeting
• April 20, 2005
• Ed Synakowski

2
There is much on the NSTX Team plate

• Recent meetings TTF, RF Conference, Sherwood.
  ITPA taking place now
• Upcoming meetings EPS, June 27 - July 1,
  Tarragona, Spain
• 4 page papers need to be submitted by June 16.
• Lead authors must distribute papers to coauthors,
  division heads, and myself at least 7 days prior
  to when the paper is submitted.

3
The upcoming FESAC review is critically important

• Our science is strong and diverse - we have an
  opportunity to do well
• It is crucial that we illustrate the following
• Excellent science
• We are unique and relevant
• We are constructive team players
• We address issues critically important to ITER
• Excellent science

4
There is no substitute for exciting, new results
at the review

• We should strive for each area having something
  new and important to report at the time of the
  review
• New papers - PRLs - even if only submitted, can
  be tremendously helpful in this review
• This is a convenient but powerful measure of
  exciting science that is often used.
• If you are waiting for the perfect data set -
  urge that you not wait.

5
While we don't know the all of the details of the
review, we do know some things about it

• Early June
• We know the charge to FESAC from Orbach
• We will need to develop both a document and a
  series of talks. We have been developing ideas of
  what both need to look like.

6
We have a good start with respect to answering
this charge

• The FESAC Priorities Panel Report is now
  officially public, and will be used as a major
  defining framework. We've done some of this in
  PAC talks
• We've are expressing our research more in terms
  of ITER physics needs, which is important for
  this review
• We are engaged in the ITPA, which is important
  for this review, too, with respect to
  demonstrating community linkages
• Our science is very strong and unique

7
There are four questions in the charge for the
review

• Unique and complementary characteristics of NSTX
  research
• How does NSTX make the U.S. toroidal research
  proram unique as a whole internationally
• International cooperation in coordinating
  research, contributing internationally and the
  the ITER design specifically?
• Contribution to fusion science and the vitality
  of the U.S. program? Lost opportunities without
  NSTX?

8
The science talks will be organized along the
FESAC high priority campaigns.

• The talks that are aligned with the FESAC
  campaign must speak to each element of the charge
• Overview
• Stability and startup
• Transport
• Energetic particles
• Boundary physics technology
• Role of ST/CTF
• Facility overview

FESAC campaigns
9
A document will be written that explicitly
answers the 4 charge questions

• Likely to be organized along the lines of the
  charge
• By early next week, I need from the research team
  short statements, even in bullet form, of what
  elements in each research area speak to each
  charge question
• e.g. in transport turbulence (TT)
• What is unique complementary about our TT?
• How does NSTX make U.S. TT research unique as a
  whole internationally?
• How are we cooperating internationally in TT,
  and thus contributing to ITER?
• What is the contribution of our TT to fusion
  science and U.S. program vitality? What
  opportunities are lost without NSTX?