PAC-39
NSTX Upgrade Research
Program Advisory Committee Meeting
January 9-10, 2018
Room: B318
Lyman Spitzer Building - PPPL
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
8:00AM PAC members arrive in B318
Overview
8:30-8:45AM Director’s Office Intro, Meeting Logistics, PAC Intros (Hawryluk, Menard, Forest)
8:45-9:30AM Program Overview (Menard) – 25+20 mins
9:30-10:05AM Recovery Project Overview (Gerhardt) – 20+15 mins
10:05-10:30AM NSTX-U Collaboration Highlights (Kaye) – 15+10 mins
10:30-10:50AM Coffee Break
Scenarios, Core Science
10:50-11:25AM Advanced Scenarios and Control (Battaglia) – 20+15 mins
11:25-12:00AM Turbulence and Transport (Guttenfelder) – 20+15 mins
12:00-12:30PM Energetic Particles (Podestá) – 15+15 mins
12:30-1:00PM Macroscopic Stability (Sabbagh) – 15+15 mins
1:00-1:45PM PAC Working Lunch / Executive Session
PAC discussion point for working lunch: Consider open discussion session with team (at 3:15PM or other) for enhancing arguments and presentations, possibly deferring the RF and Plasma Formation presentations
Boundary Science
1:45-2:15PM Pedestal Structure and Control (Diallo) – 15+15 mins
2:15-2:45PM Plasma Facing Components + Divertor and SOL (Reinke) – 15+15 mins
2:45-3:15PM Liquid Metal PFCs – Near and Long-Term Plans (Jaworski) – 15+15 mins
RF and Plasma Formation
3:15-3:40PM Wave Heating and Current Drive (Perkins) – 13+12 mins
3:40-4:05PM Non-inductive Start-up and Ramp-up (Raman) – 13+12 mins
4:05 Coffee Available
4:10-6:30PM PAC executive session
6:30PM PAC questions for NSTX-U team
7:15PM PAC dinner at Salt Creek Grille
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
8:00AM PAC members arrive in B318
8:30AM NSTX-U team responses to PAC questions (+ coffee service)
9:30-1:30PM PAC executive session
12:00-1PM Working lunch
1:30-2:30PM PAC debrief to NSTX-U / PPPL