FY 2008 OFES Budget Planning Meeting
Gaithersburg, MD March 14-15, 2006
Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center
Tuesday, March 14
8:30 a.m. Opening Comments Anne Davies (OFES)
8:45

ITER project

Status of ITER Negotiations

(Sharon Stevens)

Sharon Stevens

9:00 Over view of ITER Project Activities in the U.S. Ned Sauthoff
9:30 ITER Institutional Issues Ned Sauthoff
9:40 Community Discussion* Ned Sauthoff
9:45

C-Mod

C-Mod Research Plans & Budget

(Adam Rosenberg)

Earl Marmar

10:15 MIT Institutional Issues Miklos Porkolob
10:25 Community Discussion
10:35 Break
10:50 DIII-D (Erol Oktay)
Introduction Tony Taylor
11:00 DIII-D Research Plans Mickey Wade
11:30 Special topic William Heidbrink
11:45 DIII-D Program Budget and Schedules Ron Stambaugh
12:05 Community Discussion
12:15 Lunch
1:15 p.m. NSTX (Steve Eckstrand)
1:15 Strategy and Priorities Martin Peng
1:40  Facility and Budget Plans Masa Ono
2:00 Community Discussion
2:10 p.m. Stellarator (S. Barish/B. Sullivan)
2:10 National Compact Stellarator Program TBD
2:35 NCSX Status Hutch Neilson
2:55 PPPL Institutaional Issues Rich Hawryluk
3:05 Community Discussion
3:15 Break
3:30 p.m. Plasma Science (Mike Crisp)
3:30 The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics S. Cowley/B. Dorland
3:45 Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter and Fast Ignition Riccardo Betti
4:00 Community Discussion
410 p.m. ICC (F. Thio/A. Rosenberg)
4:20 ICC Issues/Challenges G. Wurden/B. Hooper
4:40 MST Plans/Institutional Issues Stewart Prager
5:10 Community Discussion
5:20 International Collaboration (Erol Oktay)
5:30 International Activities Update Dale Meade
5:40 Community Discussion
5:50 Adjourn

Program Presentations

(OFES session chairs in parentheses)


Wednesday, March 15

08:30 a.m. Theory (Curt Bolton)

Theory Program Overview Curt Bolton
08:45 Theory Issues/Plans D. Batchelor
09:30 Community Discussion
9:40 Break
9:55 a.m. Enabling R&D (Gene Nardella)
Issues/Challenges/Plans Stan Milora
10:55 Community Discussion
11:05 HEDP/IFE (Francis Thio)
Issues/Challenges/Plans Grant Logan
11:35 Issues/Challenges/Plans Mike Campbell
12:05 Community Discussion Rich Hawryluk
12:15 Lunch
1:15 ITER Participation (Michael Roberts)
Plans for Community Participation in the ITER Project Ned Sauthoff
2:00 Community Discussion
3:00 Break
3:15 ITER Physics and Burning Plasma Program (Erol Oktay)
Panel Discussion Leader
Ray Fonck
5:00 p.m. Adjourn