Report of the Fusion Technology Committee

1. Report of the Fusion Technology Committee D.L. Youchison, SNL-NM Edinburgh, UK 07 July 2012 http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/tc-ftc.html

2. Outline • FTSC teleconference 3/15/2012 • 2012 FT award • Planning for SOFE 2013 • Planning for SOFE 2015

3. FT Standing Committee Meeting March 15, 2012 Teleconference • Agenda • March AdCom Meeting (Youchison) • Summary of meeting • TOFE/SOFE • Fusion Elected Member (Sethian) • TPS special issue of SOFE 2011 (Youchison) • Status of SOFE 2013 (Meier) • Publicity and preparations • SOFE 2015 (Youchison for Allain) • Collocated in Austin • MOU • FTSC planning (All) • Search for new chair • Make up of the FTSC • Process for NPSS FT award 2012 (Dodson) • Other items (All) • Next call (week of July 16, 2012) ParticipantsAbsent Hans-Stephan Bosch JP Allain Bill Carry Ray Fonck Tiana Dodson Satoshi Konishi Wayne Meier Joe Minervini Hutch Neilson Brad Nelson Chas Neumeyer John Sethian Mark Tillack Scott Willms Dennis Youchison

4. FT Standing Committee Meeting 1) Briefed FTSC on March AdCom meeting. Negotiations concerning technical co-sponsorship of TOFE/SOFE between ANS and IEEE have ended. ANS did not think it was in their best interest to approve the MOUs required by IEEE for technical co-sponsorship. 2) The chair has appointed John Sethian to the Fusion Technology Steering Committee and congratulated him on his recent election. FTSC currently has 13 voting members. 3) A discussion ensued on the need for a policy for requiring SOFE speakers to submit a manuscript to the conference proceedings. In the past, a growing number of plenary and invited speakers have not provided a manuscript for the CD. The conference publication chairs will set a detailed policy for each conference. But the consensus of the committee was that a draft manuscript or presentation must be provided to the technical program committee by the start of the conference and this requirement will be stipulated in the speaker’s invitation. The review cycle for the TPS special issue completed on December 31. 78 papers were submitted for the special 24th SOFE issue to be released in March. Thirty-eight (49%) papers made it to the special issue. Seven papers will appear in later issues, and eight are still under review for later issues. Four were rejected; four were withdrawn, and 17 requiring revision were not resubmitted. Each of the four guest editors managed about 19 papers and were not overburdened. An issue was identified concerning the scheduled e-mail releases from the scholar-one manuscript site. The frequency of the auto-generated messages did not conform to the compressed special-issue schedule.

5. FT Standing Committee Meeting 4) Wayne Meier provided an update on publicity and preparations for SOFE2013. Wayne will send out the first announcement via e-mail and has compiled a comprehensive e-mail list from multiple sources. Hutch Neilson has a draft program schedule and is finalizing the program committee. Hutch is searching for a publications chair. Please consider volunteering. 5) 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. JP made a site visit in December. JP is attempting to involve UT-Austin in the local organization. A technical program chair has yet to be identified. JP is working to get the conference on the IEEE schedule. b) An MOU between PPST and FTC is in progress to clearly define the cost sharing between the conferences while each maintains a separate budget. 6a) The chair is in the last year of his term that expires in December 2012. Please consider nominations for a new chair. b) Chair will contact inactive FTSC members to re-evaluate their interest in serving on the FTSC. Those missing three consecutive meetings or calls will be dropped. 7) New language for the Fusion Technology award was offered by Tiana and Chas to make the details surrounding the award frequency crystal clear.   The next meeting will be via teleconference the week of July 16, 2012.

6. Annual FT Award Revised award description Description: To recognize outstanding contributions to research and development in the field of Fusion Technology. Two awards are presented at each biennial Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), one for each calendar year of the two year cycle with the first year corresponding to the year between SOFE conferences and the second year corresponding to the year of the SOFE conference at which the presentation is made. Prize: $3,000 and a plaque. Each award recipient will have SOFE conference registration fees waived for the conference year in which the award is presented and will be reimbursed reasonable travel expenses for conference attendance upon presentation of a travel report, not to exceed $1,500. Funding: Funded by the SOFE conference at which the presentations are made. Eligibility: Any person, regardless of nationality or Society affiliation, is eligible for the award, with the exception that no current member of the IEEE/NPSS Standing Committee on Fusion Technology may be considered.

7. Annual FT Award • A total of 7 nominations were received. • Nomination packages will be distributed week of July 9. • E-mail vote to be completed by July 27, 2012. • Next FTSC teleconference delayed to week of July 30 to discuss selection results. • Award notification on web site and NPSS newsletter • Paper certificate and invitation will be issued for the next SOFE when plaques and checks will be presented at the banquet for both years.

8. 25th SOFE (W. Meier) General Chair: Wayne Meier, LLNL Program Chair: Hutch Neilson, PPPL Date: June 10-14, 2013

9. 25th SOFE (W. Meier) • Technical Program committee virtually complete – seeking to add some more university members • Local organizing committee nearly complete and beginning regular planning meetings • Initial hotel site visit to review meeting space completed. Hotel promised some relief on meeting room internet access costs, but they are still very high • Working on draft budget. Waiting on AV bid from IEEE supplier. • Local committee member list submitted to IEEE • Preliminary web site expected to be live by mid-July • Meeting to be announce in ANS Fusion Energy Division newsletter (July) with distribution of several thousand • Broad email announcement with key dates planned for August • Will secure banquet site after budget approval and opening of bank account

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 • Not yet on conference schedule • Identify program chair

12. SOFE/ TOFE relationship An unofficial relationship continues • ANS TOFE 2012 offering member rates to IEEE members • NPSS SOFE will reciprocate in 2013

13. summary • IEEE members enjoy reduced rates at ANS TOFE 2012 in Nashville. • SOFE2013 ramping up and on schedule • 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. • IEEE Conference schedule & MOU are summer priorities