June 12th – 18th 2008.
Creta Maris Conference Center
Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

The fast ignitor workshop series has played an important role in the rapid progress in the physics of fast ignition inertial fusion world-wide. It provides a forum for discussion on important topics in high intensity laser-plasma physics that are relevant to fast ignition and allows new experimental and theoretical results to be presented in an informal and collegiate atmosphere.

With the new laser facilities in the United States and Japan nearing completion – and the start of the HIPER project in the European Union – this workshop provides an opportunity of sharing ideas, forming new collaborations and maintaining the rapid progress in the field.

The International Committee for Fast Ignition, at its meeting this September in Kobe, Japan, agreed to hold the Workshop every two years, alternating between IFSA conferences and rotating geographically between the EU, Asia and the United States.
This Workshop is being held as a satellite meeting to the 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and will be held in the Creta Maris Conference Center on the beautiful island of Crete.

The first two days, 12th –13th June, will be devoted to the presentation of latest results. The weekend will be free for relaxation. The remaining days, 16th –18th June, will be a held as a smaller stand-alone meeting and devoted to more informal discussion and debates, more conducive to the Workshop style.
Registration, abstract submissions and hotel reservations will be made through the EPS website.

Sponsored by:
the International Committee for Fast Ignition
The European Physical Society
The Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
COST P14 and COST MP0601
Technical University of Crete
Technological Educational Institute of Crete

EFTSOMP2008 - 11^th Workshop on Electric Fields, Turbulence
and Self-Organisation in Magnetized Plasmas

Satellite meeting of the 35^th EPS Plasma Physics Conference

The workshop is an annual forum of the scientific community to discuss specific topics more in detail after the EPS conference. The aim is to stimulate better interaction between the experimental and theoretical communities in these topics.

The conference will take place on 16-17 June 2008 in Hersonissos, Crete at the Albatros Hotel. Detailed information can be found at the workshop homepage:

www.rmki.kfki.hu/~eftsomp2008

Scope

Ø      Theory of turbulent transport (self-organization, structure formation)

Ø      Turbulence simulation

Ø      Regulation of turbulent transport.

Ø      Turbulence measurements and comparison with theory/simulation

Ø      Physics of ELMs .

Ø      Diagnostic techniques for electric fields and fluctuations

Internation Advisory Board

            Chair:  Guido Van Oost           Ghent University, Belgium

            Jose Boedo                              UCSD, USA

            Gérard Bonhomme                   University Henri Poincaré, France

            Evgeniy Gusakov                      IOFFE, Russia

            Yasuji Hamada                         NIFS, Japan

            Jukka Heikkinen                       Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

            Carlos Hidalgo                          CIEMAT, Spain

            Peter Lang                               IPP, Germany

            Emilio Martines            Consorzio RFX, Italy

            Alexander Melnikov                 RRC Kurchatov Institute, Russia

            Carlos Silva                              IST, CFN, Portugal      

            Jan Stöckel                              IPP, Czech Republic

            Uli Stroth                                 IEAP, Germany

            Michael Tendler                       KTH, Sweden

            Yuhong Xu                              ERM/KMS, Belgium

            Sandor Zoletnik            KFKI RMKI, Hungary

Presentations

Oral presentations are envisaged. Separate sections are foreseen in Diagnostics, Simulations and Fluctuation Studies among others. A section will consist of an invited talk, several 20 minute oral contributions, summary and a round table discussion.

Social Programme

Informal dinner is planned at the end of the first day to strengthen current and encourage possible future collaborations. The dinner is voluntary and will be held in one of the traditional greek restaurants of the island, but will bond with the czech-hungarian heritage of this workshop series as well.

Proceedings

Refereed contributions will be published in Plasma Physics Reports (Journals homepage: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1562-6938/). The papers should be prepaered in Word or TeX format. Templates can be found online on the workshop’s or the journals’ homepage.

Please send the paper and a signed copyright agreement form to eftsomp2008@rmki.kfki.hu. The copyrigth agreement forms will be sent to each registered participant, but can also be found online on the workshop’s homepage.

Registration and fees

Participants are invited to register by sending an E-mail to eftsomp2008@rmki.kfki.hu. Please include your full name, E-mail address and affiliation. The one page abstracts should be sent in Word or TeX format.

Fee:   150 €.  The invoice and information on the payment will be sent out to each participant after acceptance of abstracts.  

Deadlines

                        Abstract:                                21 March

                        Notification of acceptance:    15 April

                        Submission of paper:             15 July

Organisation

The workshop is organised by the Hungarian Euratiom Association – KFKI-Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary.

Organising Committee:

Sandor Zoletnik (KFKI RMKI - HAS)

Eva Belonohy (KFKI RMKI – HAS)

For more information or queries please contact:

Eva Belonohy

               Secretary of Workshop

               Phone: +36-1-392-1467

   E-mail: belonohy@rmki.kfki.hu

   Workshop E-mail: eftsomp2008@rmki.kfki.hu

Mailing address:

            MTA  KFKI – Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics

            Plasma Physics Department

            Budapest H-1121, Konkoly Thege Miklos ut 29-33

Fuelling of Magnetic Confinement Machines

Satellite Workshop of the 35th EPS Plasma Physics Conference
16-17 June, 2008, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

Scope

Pellet injection is mandatory for fueling ITER beyond the pedestal but, in addition to this requirement of maintaining the DT content of burning plasmas, it is increasingly used as a mean of discharge control. Some of the domains in which it is involved are: (1) the attenuation of ELMs by injection of shallow pellets, (2) the achievement of high core densities and peaked profiles by decoupling the core and edge parameters by deep core fuelling and (3) the triggering of internal transport barriers due to nearly central matter deposition.
Determining the ability of the above mentioned techniques to be extrapolated to a device significantly larger than present day tokamaks is a major question for the research in the field. In addition to comparing predictions of present day models to ITER conditions, main points to be discussed cover both the theoretical and experimental aspects of the domain, as:
a comprehensive understanding of the physics of the gradB-induced drift; the characterization of its scaling with plasmas and devices parameters; the determination of the influence of ELM control by shallow pellet injection on the confinement.
The reliability and accuracy of predictive analyses and the corresponding computational models are to be discussed.
Alternative methods for discharge control such as the injection of supersonic gas jets shall also be discussed.

Presentations: Oral presentations on experiments, theory and modelling, are envisaged.
Venue: The Workshop will be held at Hotel KNOSSOS ROYAL VILLAGE Hersonissos Crete, Greece. This hotel is one of the official hotels for the EPS2008 Conference.

Registration and fees
Participants are invited to register by sending an E-mail to fuel@iesl.forth.gr .Please include your full name, E-mail address and affiliation. The one page abstracts should be send in Word or pdf format.
The fee for the Workshop will be 100Euro, information on the payment will be send out to each participant after the acceptance of abstracts .

Deadlines
Abstracts: 18 April 2008
Notification of acceptance: 2nd May 2008

Organisation
The workshop is organised by the Association Euratom-Hellenic Republic

Accommodation and Lunch
Hotel reservations can be made through the EPS2008 website, or contact info@eps2008.gr ,
a light buffet lunch will be served during the workshop

Presentations | Program