The First Announcement and Call for Papers for the International ST Workshop and the US-Japan ST Workshop [ 19 - 21, November 1999. at the Univ. of Washington, Seattle ]

Location
Organizers
Registration
Abstracts
Visas
Hotel Reservation
Others
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Spherical Tori (ST) are of growing importance for fusion research, and several new devices are beginning operation. This meeting should be particularly exciting since the first experimental results and research plans for the new generation of STs (NSTX, MAST, GLOBUS-M, PEGASUS, etc.) will be reported.

A Joint Meeting of the sixth International ST (IST) Workshop and the US-Japan ST (US-J-ST) workshop will be held for three days, Friday-noon 19 November through Sunday-noon 21 November 1999 (the weekend after the 41st APS Fusion Energy Conference in Seattle. The first five International Workshops were held at ORNL 1994, Princeton 1995, Culham 1996, St. Petersburg 1997 and the University of Tokyo 1998.

The program of these meetings will include the following topics :

• Experimental results of the present ST devices

• Plans of future ST devices

• Theoretical studies of ST plasmas

• Technological studies of ST experimental devices

• Concepts of neutron sources and power reactors based on ST

• Innovative concepts for ST

• Scientific, engineering and economic comparisons of ST with other confinement schemes.

1) Location
The meetings will be sponsored and organized by the HIT group of the University of Washington and will be held at the University of Washington campus or at a downtown hotel location (information to be provided in the second announcement).

2) Organizers:
The ST-related presentations at the APS meeting will be summarized at the Workshop to maximize efficiency.

The meeting organizers are:

Host:	Prof. Tom Jarboe
Meeting organizer:	Dr. Roger Raman

An international program committee will be formed, with Prof. Tom Jarboe serving as Chairman. The members of the committee will be listed in the second announcement.

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3) Registration
There is a registration fee (information to be provided in the second announcement) for the IST and the US-J-ST. The registration fee will cover conference hall rental and copies of all presentations (part 1), and refreshments (part 2).

The conference banquet is scheduled on Saturday evening (20 November) at a place to announced in the second announcement. Cost of a separate banquet ticket and additional details will be provided in the second announcement.

At this time please e-mail your paper title or intention to attend to Roger Raman at [raman@aa.washington.edu] before June 7. This is necessary for us to determine the size of the conference hall and for making other arrangements.

4) Abstracts
Abstracts must be received by 15 August. The abstract should be one page (A4 or US Letter size), single-spaced, 12-point times-roman font. Electronic transmission in plain text format or a Microsoft Word file is strongly preferred. Authors will be notified of acceptance and the tentative program around 15 September.

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5) Visas
Participants who require visas to enter the USA should submit the necessary application to their nearest USA consular representative by 15 August 1999.

6) Hotel reservation (before 15 July)
Details will be provided in the second announcement.

7) Others

(a) Some poster sessions may be specified by the Programme Committee.
(b) Minor changes in organizing this Joint Meeting are expected.
(c) A discount rate will be applied for the banquet ticket of an accompanying person.