45th ITPA-MDC Topical Group Meeting

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 - Friday, July 18th, 2025

MBG Auditorium
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 08543

Indranil Bandyopadhyay (Chair)
Jong-kyu Park (Deputy Chair)
Stefan Jachmich (Deputy Chair)
James Yang (Local Organizer): jyang@pppl.gov

This meeting will follow the general format of recent ITPA-MDC meetings, with [focused sessions] on:

Topic #1: Disruption Free Operations in ITER and DEMO
Topic #2:  Stabilization and Control of (N)TMs in ITER and DEMO
Coordinators for these two focussed sessions will be announced shortly.

In addition, there will be [regular presentations] on the updates on Joint Experiments and Joint Activities.

We also invite [contributed presentations] from participants on the following topics: 

* Optimum pellet size for DMS, especially in SRO phase of ITER
* Disruption load characterization
* Alternative disruption and RE mitigation techniques

If you have any questions or proposals of presentations, please contact:
indranil@iterindia.in

Registration
To register, please submit this form: https://forms.gle/RnngQnvPfww1bwD96
You need site access to enter PPPL.
If you did not register, you may be denied access to the meeting venue.

Visa support letters
For visa support letters, contact the local organizer (jyang@pppl.gov) as soon as possible.

Hotels
These hotels are within 3.5 miles of the laboratory, in increasing order of distance:
Sonesta Es Suites Princeton
Hampton Inn Princeton
Crowne Plaza Princeton
Homewood Suites by Hilton Princeton
Courtyard by Marriot Princeton

For other logistical questions, please contact the local organizer (jyang@pppl.gov).