Report of the Fusion Technology Committee

1. Report of the Fusion Technology Committee D.L. Youchison, SNL-NM Santa Fe, NM 03 March 2012 http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-ftc.html

2. Outline • FTSC teleconference November 2011 • Planning for SOFE 2013 • Planning for SOFE 2015

3. FT Standing Committee Meeting November 17, 2011 Teleconference • Agenda • November AdCom Meeting (Youchison) • Update on meeting • Negotiations with ANS TOFE • Fusion Elected Member (Neilson) • Closeout of SOFE 2011 (Neumeyer or Dodson) • Closeout and remaining issues • TPS special issue • Status of SOFE 2013 (Meier) • Publicity and preparations • Status of SOFE 2015 (Youchison for Allain) • Collocated in Austin, MOU • FTSC planning (All) • Member participation • Search for new chair • Newsletter items – fusion overview (FNSF?) (All) • Other items (All) • Next call (week of March 12, 2012) ParticipantsAbsent Hans-Stephan Bosch JP Allain Bill Carry Ray Fonck Tiana Dodson Satoshi Konishi Wayne Meier Joe Minervini Hutch Neilson Chas Neumeyer Brad Nelson Scott Willms Mark Tillack Dennis Youchison

4. FT Standing Committee Meeting 1) ANS rejected any MOU for technical co-sponsorship of SOFE or TOFE. SOFE and TOFE can provide “member” registration at the discretion of the conference chairs. However, formal technical co-sponsorship must have executed MOUs in place for each conference. 2a) Tiana Dodson reported that SOFE2011 was a complete success. The organizers are awaiting a few outstanding invoices, but will soon be ready to close the conference. ICOPS/SOFE2011 will return about 20% of contingency to NPSS. b) The review cycle for the TPS special issue will be completed by December 31. 78 papers were submitted. Each of the four guest editors managed about 19 papers and were not overburdened. For comparison, the SOFE2009 special issue had 57 submissions resulting in 46 published papers. 3) Wayne Meier provided an update on publicity and preparations for SOFE2013. A contract was signed with the Stanford Court Renaissance in San Francisco with the help of IEEE MCM. The conference room rate will be ~$210/night in 2013. Hutch Neilson discussed the efforts to form a technical program committee. An invitation e-mail was distributed to potential committee members. Volunteers from the FTC are welcome. In addition to populating the committee, recommendations for plenary and invited talks should be forwarded to Hutch.

5. FT Standing Committee Meeting • 4) The chair discussed the status of SOFE2015 for J.P. Allain. SOFE2015 (26th SOFE) will be collocated with the Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) in Austin, TX. A contract was negotiated and signed using IEEE MCM services with the Hilton, Austin. The guaranteed room rate is $199/night. Mark Crawford, b) An MOU between PPST and FTC is being negotiated to clearly define the cost sharing between the conferences while each maintains separate budgets. • 5) A policy will be instituted requiring active participation of FTSC members in at least 6 of 9 quarterly FTC teleconferences or meetings in a three year period. Failure to participate in at least 2/3 of the meetings signifies a lack of interest in the FTC and will entice the chair to seek a replacement. • b) Please consider nominations for a new chair. NPSS needs to be informed of our selection by next autumn. • Hutch Neilson gallantly volunteered to assemble an NPSS newsletter article on “MFE road-mapping in the ITER era.” Contributions for the March were due at the end of January. • The next meeting will be via teleconference the week of March 12, 2012.

6. 47 years of SOFE (C. Neumeyer)1965-2012 25th

7. TPS special issue – 24th SOFE(S. Gillespie) 4 guest editors JP Allain - senior editor Mohamed Sawan Alice Ying Dennis Youchison ~19 papers per editor 78 papers submitted Proceedings had 161 papers 38 7 8 17 4 4 • Special issue closed on December 31, 2011 • June 30, 2011   authors submission deadline to the conference record (proceedings) • July 29, 2011    author submission deadline for journal • Oct. 3, 2011    review deadline • Dec. 31, 2011   revised manuscripts due • Mar. 2012    journal publication • Lesson learned: • Special issues on compressed schedule – revise manuscript-one messaging to reflect tight schedule .

8. 25th SOFE (W. Meier) • IEEE Meeting & Conference Management concluded negotiations for hotel site • Hotel contract signed 7/27/11 • Venue: Stanford Court Renaissance • J.P. Allain offered to arrange for a fusion-related mini-course just before SOFE2013 General Chair: Wayne Meier, LLNL Program Chair: Hutch Neilson, PPPL Date: June 10-14, 2013

9. 25th SOFE (H. Neilson) Technical Program Committee Hutch Neilson, PPPL, Chair Stefan Bosch, IPP-Greifswald Tiana Dodson, former PPPL Arnie Lumsdaine, ORNL Irv Zatz, PPPL Hyuck Jong Kim, NFRI, Korea Yuanxi Wan,  ASIPP/USTC, China Scott Willms, ITER Eric Pitcher, LANL Dennis Youchison, SNL John Sethian, NRL  Mark Tillack, UCSD Brad Nelson, USIPO Jeff Latkowski, LLNL Rich Callis, GA David Harding (IFE target fabrication) Rochester Takayoshi Norimatsu, ILE, Osaka

10. 26th SOFE (JP Allain) May 31- June 04, 2015 • J.P. Allain (Purdue University) appointed general chair for SOFE2015 • Collocated with PPC in Austin, TX - Mark Crawford PPC2015 general chair

11. 26th SOFE (JP Allain) Hilton - Austin • Hotel contract signed 8/31/11 • Allain did site visit in December • MOU in progress between • FT and PPST • UT-Austin local arrangements • Identify program chair

12. SOFE/ TOFE relationship • ANS rejected IEEE MOU “not in the best interest of ANS” In part caused by poor relationship between PES and ANS NPIC HMIT • No technical co-sponsorships anytime soon • Continue to strengthen SOFE in neutronics, thermalhydraulics and materials

13. summary • Special TPS issue for SOFE2011 completed – March publication • Venue finalized for SOFE2013. • Stand-alone • Stanford Court Hotel, 6/10-6/14/2013 • Website up (http://sofe2013.org/) • JP Allain agreed to setup mini-courses for SOFE2013 • Technical program committee finalized • NIF tour • Arrangements for SOFE2015 underway and well ahead of schedule.