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Lorentz Center: Workshop on Divertor Detachment Control

From the 19th to the 23th of September 2016, the Lorentz Center will host a workshop on Divertor Detachment Control, which is entitled 'Taming the Flame'. The event will take place at the Lorentz Center@Oort venue in Leiden, the Netherlands. For more information about the event and its speakers or to register for the workshop, please check the following website.

Background

By far the biggest challenge in fusion energy research is to maintain a high performance fusion plasma, while ensuring that the unprecedented exhaust of heat and particles does not damage the wall of the reactor. This can be done through active feedback control of the plasma.

Aim

Through this workshop we will try to tackle this important challenge by creating new insights in, and tools for, the control of the radiating plasma that will help us to establish an operating scenario that achieves both the required good confinement as well as the proper conditions at the plasma-wall interface. The workshop should lead to a single, coherent approach that will benefit from a multi-disciplinary interaction of scientists and engineers from different communities (materials, plasma and fusion physics, control engineering).

When do we regard the workshop to be a succes?

We strongly expect that bringing together plasma physicist and control engineers/theorist will help to find remedies for filling a number of important knowledge gaps on divertor detachment control. One of the envisaged outcomes of the workshop will be a white paper that describes the present status of the field, the open issues and knowledge gaps and a plan that will guide research in the years to come. We aim of getting this paper published in one of the leading journals in the field.

Lorentz Center: Workshop on Divertor Detachment Control

Location
Location
Lorentz Center@Oort in Leiden, the Netherlands