Fusion Technology Summary Report
Jean Paul Allain
IEEE-NPSS AdCom Meeting
November 15, 2014
Seattle, Washington
Highlights of progress on 26th SOFE 2015
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The 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering co-located
with the PPC (Pulsed Power Conference) and held in
Austin, Texas between May 31 and June 4, 2015
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SOFE-26 General chair: Jean Paul Allain and Technical Program
chair: Mark Tillack, UC San Diego
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PPC General chair is Mark Crawford and Technical Program Chair:
David Wetz, UT-Arlington
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First Call of Papers sent out in late October and Abstract
submission opened November 10, 2014
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Work on website with Lisa Mattox (Sandia) and Chuck (UNM)
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Advertisement for SOFE 2015 at the American Physical
Society, Division of Plasma Physics meeting and to various
major fusion research centers around the world
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Allain is also now actively working with UT Austin and
Texas A&M who will participate in SOFE 2015 and
provide student volunteer help for the same.
The PPC-SOFE 2015 webpage is online
http://ece.unm.edu/ppcsofe15/
Highlights of progress on 26th SOFE 2015
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Mark Tillack is setting up an exciting program for our
SOFE conference
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Emergent themes to be highlighted: Innovative divertor
solutions
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Interest in fusion technology is strengthening based on
the new re-structuring of DOE Fusion program. Two of
the Four primary research areas are technologyfocused: Materials and Fusion Nuclear Science
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The SOFE Mini Course will be led by Prof. Davide
Curreli and Prof. Daniel Andruzcyk. Both are assistant
professors and part of a strategy to recruit and integrate
early-career scientists in IEEE-NPSS Fusion
Technology Committee activities to provide leadership
opportunities and visibility
SOFE Mini Course
Engaging Asia and Europe on fusion
engineering and technology areas
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Allain and Tillack have engaged with Chinese Fusion Institutes:
• Purpose: To sustain the increasing levels of participation of Chinese fusion
engineers in SOFE given the increased activities in tokamak devices there
• Actions:
• FTC has invited Dr. Xuru Duan, Director from the Center for Fusion Science at
the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China to join FTC.
• We have also invited Jiming Cheng (Southwestern Institute of Physics) and
Yuntao Song (Inst. of Plasma Phys. Chinese Academy of Science) have
joined SOFE-26 technical program committee
• Hutch Neilson visited with our Chinese colleagues at ASIPP (Institute of Plasma
Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences) and USTC and are enthusiastic to host
SOFE-2017 in China. The FTSC will plan to hold a vote at our next technical
committee meeting in early December.
• We will have participation from: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane
(Center for Plasma Physics), ITER headquarters in Cadarache, France, and the
CNA in Sevilla, Spain at SOFE 2015