Welcome to the 2005 Alcator CMod Ideas Forum

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Welcome to the 2005 Alcator C-Mod Ideas Forum

• December 2-6, 2004
• MIT PSFC
• Cambridge, MA

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Overview of Process

• Proposals are coordinated and prioritized by Task
  Forces
• Lower Hybrid ICRF physics
• Transport Edge and Divertor
• Burning Plasma Advanced Tokamak
• MHD Basic Science Diagnostic Development
• End of December Task Forces evaluate proposals
  for importance, scientific risk, compatibility
  with machine constraints, etc. to define
  priorities
• Priorities are determined among new Ideas
  presented here Ideas presented last year and
  existing mini-proposals.
• Mid-late January High priority proposals are
  expanded into mini-proposals. Experimental run
  time is governed by mini-proposals.

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Overview of Proposals

• We have received 110 Ideas from 12 Institutions
• Euratom General Atomics
• LANL LLNL
• MIT-PSFC MPI / IPP
• NYU PPPL
• UCSD University of Texas
• University of Wisconsin United Kingdom Atomic
  Energy Agency
• With good representation among all of our Task
  Forces
• Lower Hybrid . 6 ICRF ... 7
• AT 12 BP ... 9
• Transport 31 Edge .. 17
• MHD 18 Basic . 13

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We will maintain a tight schedule

• Each Idea proposal is allotted 3 slides
• 5 minutes for presentation
• 2 minutes for clarifing questions
• Supplementary talks
• Jim Irby (PSFC) overview of C-Mod hardware,
  schedule
• Ed Synakowski (PPPL) collaborations on NSTX
• Rich Groebner (GA) collaborations on GA