The Final Announcement and Call for Papers for the 6th International ST Workshop, The US-Japan ST Workshop and The US-Japan Workshop on Physics of Innovative High-Beta Fusion Plasma Confinement [ 19 - 21, November 1999. in Seattle, Washington, USA ]

Updates will be posted at the following web site:
http://www.aa.washington.edu/AERP/HIT/ST_updates.html

Registration is at the following web site (Pre-registration ends on October 15):
http://www.csnwreg.com/stworkshop

Abstracts
Meeting Organizers
Program Committee Members
Committee Members' Responsibilities
Program Agenda
Hotel Accommodation
Registration
Registration Organizer
Deadline for Abstracts
Visas
Others
Contact Personnel
Important Dates

Abstracts

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, the US-Japan ST (US-J-ST) workshop and the US-Japan Workshop on Physics of Innovative High-Beta Fusion Plasma Confinement (HBFPC) will be held for three days, Friday-noon 19 November through Sunday-noon 21 November 1999. 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.
• Innovative High-Beta Plasma Confinement

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Meeting Organizers

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

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Program Committee Members
An international program committee has been formed, with Prof. Tom Jarboe serving as Chairman and Roger Raman as Secretary/Treasurer. The members of the committee are listed below.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Scientists Dr. Takaya Hayashi Dr. Akio Ishida and or Dr. Masaaki Yamada Dr. Stanley Kaye Dr. Gerson Otto Ludwig Dr. William Morris and or Dr. Alan Sykes Dr. Martin Peng Prof. Yuichi Takase

Institution NIFS - Japan Niigata Univ.- Japan PPPL - USA PPPL - USA INPE - Brazil Culham - UK Culham - UK ORNL @ PPPL - USA Univ. of Tokyo - Japan

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Committee Members' Responsibilities
The program committee members will be responsible for:

• Reading selected abstracts and recommending papers that should be presented in the workshop.
  
• Provide input as to which papers should be selected for oral presentations and preferred order of importance.
  
• Provide a brief written summary for a selected list of papers presented at the conference (about 8 papers each).

The conference summary will be published in a fusion Journal, including the names of the committee members and the list of contributors.

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Program Agenda
The program agenda is expected to be as follows:

Friday November 19: Saturday November 20: Sunday November 21: Sunday November 21:

2pm to 5:30pm 6:30 to 9:30pm 8:00am to 12:00 noon 2pm to 5:30pm 6:30 to 9:30pm 7:30am to 11:30am (Parallel) 12:00 noon

Oral presentations Conference Reception Oral presentations Poster presentations Conference Banquet Session 1 on STs Session 2 on HBFPC end of workshop Tours of the HIT lab, RPPL labs and ZAP lab.

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Hotel Accommodation
The ST workshop will be held at the WESTIN HOTEL (not on the University campus). Those attending the APS should extend their stay until Saturday night. Please see the APS conference web site for hotel reservations.

http://w3fusion.ph.utexas.edu/aps/index.html

Those not attending the APS should also use the above web site for hotel reservations.

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Registration
There is a registration fee of US$180.00 for the IST, the US-J-ST and the HBFPC. The registration fee will cover conference hall rental and copies of all presentations (part 1), and refreshments (part 2). The registration deadline is October 15.

After October 15, the registration fee will be $200.00

The conference reception will be held at the WESTIN on Friday, November 19.

The conference banquet is scheduled on Saturday evening (20 November) also at the WESTIN. The cost of the banquet ticket is $60.00

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Registration Organizer
Registration will be handled by:

Preferred form of registration is over the web using a credit card. The registration web page is http://www.csnwreg.com/stworkshop.

If you wish to pay by check and register by mail - please contact Amy Pennington of Convention Services Northwest for the proper procedure.

With regard to registration, please note the following:

The dinner is on Saturday, November 20.
The dinner is optional.
The first dinner listing under Activity is dinner for the Workshop participant.
The second listing is for a guest.

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Deadline for Abstracts

Abstracts must be received ASAP by 15 September for consideration as an Oral presentation. All abstracts received after September 15 will be considered for a Poster presentation. 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 October.

Abstracts should be sent to: raman@aa.washington.edu

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

Others
(a) Some poster sessions may be specified by the Program Committee.
(b) Minor changes in organizing this Joint Meeting are expected.

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Important Dates:

Registration Hotel reservation Abstract due

15 October ASAP 1 September

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