US Transport Task Force Workshop
April 22-25, 2025
Seattle, WA-USA
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 US Transport Task Force Workshop, hosted by the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (MIT-PSFC), will take place in Seattle, Washington, on April 22-25, 2025, at the Hilton Motif conveniently located in Downtown Seattle (near Pike Place Market).
The goal of the US Transport Task Force (TTF) is to develop a physics-based understanding of particle, momentum, and heat transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. This understanding should be of sufficient depth that it allows the development of predictive models of plasma transport that can be validated against experiment, and then used to simulate the future performance of burning plasmas and aid the design and optimization of next-step fusion energy reactors. To achieve success in transport science, it is essential to characterize local fluctuations and transport in fusion grade plasmas, to understand the basic mechanisms responsible for transport, and ultimately to control these transport processes. These goals must be pursued in multiple research thrusts, and the TTF workshop focus topics evolve to reflect emerging advances in physics understanding.
Image from F.O. Khabanov et. al., NF 64 (2024) 126056
TTF 2025 Focus Topics
Burning plasmas & FPP Projection (Isotope effects, H/D, D/T and He studies, MHD, fast-particle-MHD-turbulence interactions, ITER, SPARC, FPP projections of transport and control)
Stellarators and 3D Effects (Turbulence effects and stellarator optimization, RMP plasma response and optimization)
Transport properties in ELM mitigated Regimes (Negative Triangularity transport, edge, turbulence, Naturally ELM-free Scenarios, Small/grassy ELMs, Transport effects from RMP)
Core-Edge Physics (Boundary/SOL transport, turbulence spreading, heat flux width, Neutral physics and pedestal transport)
New capabilities in modelling and measurement (Advanced diagnostics or analysis capabilities for transport and fluctuations, New developments in theory and computational methods, Machine Learning/AI applications)
Impurity transport (Effects of a metal wall, SOL source and transport, Core impurity transport, Seeding and radiation)
Fundamental Turbulence and Instabilities (Multiscale interactions: Turbulence, Alfven Eigenmodes, Neoclassical Tearing Modes, Sawteeth, Edge Localized Modes, Intrinsic rotation dynamics, Transition physics, Pedestal Turbulence, Parameters, Instabilities, ITB formation and transport effects)
Energetic Ions, Runway Electrons and Alfven Eigenmode Physics
Industry engagement
DEADLINES
Friday, March 7, 2025:
Oral & Plenary Abstracts Due
Monday, April 7, 2025:
Poster Abstracts Due
Monday, April 7, 2025:
Early Registration
Hotel Room Block Closes
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