CPP-Houston

Overview

The CPP-Houston meeting will be held on January 13-17, 2020 at the Omni Houston Hotel at Westside in Houston, TX.

The CPP-Houston meeting will be the final community-wide meeting in the DPP Community Planning Process (CPP) before our report is delivered to FESAC. It will also be the only open meeting covering all of the topical areas in the CPP. The goal of this meeting will be to get community input and feedback for our final report for FESAC, which we intend to deliver by March 1, 2020. We strongly encourage anyone who is interested in the future of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences to attend! Topics covered will include:

• Prioritization of elements within topical areas
• Discussion of cross-cutting elements that support all areas of FES
• Concerns and feedback regarding the preliminary report

The Program Committee (PC) has released a preliminary report (see Draft Strategic Plan below) based on the input and feedback we have received from the topical area workshops and throughout the planning process so far. This preliminary report covers all topical and cross-cutting areas in a unified structure. If you have thoughts regarding this preliminary report, either supportive or critical (or both), we strongly encourage you to attend the CPP-Houston meeting.

Hotel

This meeting will be held at the Omni Houston Hotel at Westside (13210 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77079 ). Rooms can be reserved in our room block here: https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/houston-westside/meetings/aps-dppcpp-snowmass-meeting-01112020.

Registration

Registration is now available! Please register here. The registration fee is $300. Registration fee includes access to all activities, all coffee breaks, breakfast Monday-Friday, dinner Wednesday, and lunch Thursday.

Draft Strategic Plan - Download pdf

A draft strategic plan encompassing all topical areas and cross cutting areas in our Community Planning Process is now available and can be downloaded using the link above. This draft plan is intended to serve as a starting point for discussion at the CPP-Houston meeting, and feedback from the CPP-Houston meeting will be used to make final changes to the plan before it is delivered to FESAC by March 1.

To give feedback regarding this document, please participate in expert group meetings this week (Jan 7-10) and attend the CPP-Houston workshop.

Agenda

A block agenda for the CPP-Houston meeting is posted below. The meeting will begin at 8:00 am on Monday, January 13 and conclude by noon on Friday, January 17. An announcement will be sent to the DPP-CPP Google Group mailing list when a more detailed agenda becomes available.

Houston Group Photo

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