The theory and computational departments should take stock of the recent developments in stellarator research – including the use of permanent magnets – and existing PPPL research across various departments, and determine how best they can help drive a new stellarator design. For the reason, we are organizing a 2-half-day workshop in which we start a discussion on the following topics:

- How can we improve on existing designs? Are there physics that we have not considered before (e.g. in the burning plasma regime) that we should optimize?

- What capabilities do we have at PPPL? And in the rest of the US program?

- Where there are gaps, can we develop the necessary capabilities? Can we learn from our international collaborations?

- In terms of funding, theory and code development, and building collaborations, what is required for a PPPL-led multi-institutional effort to produce in five years a candidate stellarator fusion power plant that meets the basic physics and engineering requirements for net output of energy?