1. Hutch Neilson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Stellarator Team Meeting 18 January 2012 Stellarator Program Update

2. Topics 2 Recent developments. (M. Zarnstorff) FY-12 plans and status. Calendar Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

3. Milestones for FY-12 (1) 3 W7-X Trim Coils Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

4. Milestones for FY-12 (2) 4 W7-X Trim Coil Power Supplies PPPL work plan (WAF) review- Oct. 2011. ✓ Conceptual Design Review. 5 January. ✓ Choose technology (switching vs. rectifier bridge). 15 Feb. Preliminary Design Review, Final Design Review, Procurement / Fabrication –Schedule to be updated after concept selection. Complete deliveries to IPP site.- 1 April 2014. W7-X Physics Program: Research Preparations Define physics program and facilitate information transfer with W7-X (Gates) Arrange transfer of divertor and magnetic diagnostics info to PPPL (Gates, Lazerson) Benchmark HINT2-PIES against agreed upon W7-X equilibrium (Lazerson, Reiman) Modify PIES to allow non-stellarator symmetry (Lazerson, Reiman) Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

5. Milestones for FY-12 (3) 5 LHD Collaboration Program Analysis of the results from the XICS diagnostic (Pablant) Upgrade of XICS camera (need to develop schedule based on detector availability) Transition STELLOPT based reconstruction of LHD equilibria into a production mode (Lazerson) Expt. proposals for 2012 campaign due @LHD. – Jan. 2012 Submit proposals in response to expected DOE Solicitation. (March?) Collaboration on dust dynamics (proposed) Stellarator Optimization System code development (Zolfaghari) STELLOPT/COILOPT modification (Ku, Breslau) CTH eddy current analysis (Zolfaghari) Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

6. Milestones for FY-12 (4) 6 Reconstruction (Lazerson) MSE Diagnostic Benchmark - 2/12 (ISHW) Equilibrium with Flow paper - 3/12 LHD Coil Current Optimization - 4/12 (EPS) Non-Stellarator Symmetric PIES - 7/12 Shielding Currents in PIES - 9/12 (APS) PIES/HINT2 Benchmarking Effort –TBD XICS (Pablant) RSI paper in progress. Paper on physics interpretation in progress New detector: delivery from Dectris by August. In-house work on detector housing needs to start in April. Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

7. Calendar 7 29 Jan. – 3 Feb.ISHW-18, Canberra, Australia 1 FebruaryAbstract Deadline for TOFE-2012 31 JanuaryDraft IAEA Synopses to Advanced Projects Office JanuaryLHD experimental proposals due (see D. Gates & http://www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/en/ for procedures.) http://www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/en/ 8 FebruaryIAEA synopses to U.S. selection committee. 16 FebruaryStellarator team meeting 15 MarchStellarator team meeting March?DOE-FES International Solicitation issued. 27-31 AugustTOFE-2012 Symposium, Nashville, TN 7-12 OctoberIAEA Fusion Energy Conference, San Diego Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

8. Agenda 8 1:30Program Update, Recent developments, etc. - H. Neilson 1:50Stellarator Physics Update- D. Gates 2:10Recent Progress and FY-12 plans 3.1 Eddy current modeling for CTH (J. Hanson, Auburn U.) 3.2 Stellarator System Code Development (A. Zolfaghari) 3.2 STELLOPT/COILOPT modifications for maintainable designs (J. Breslau) X.X Any other topics (Please let me know.) 3:30Adjourn Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson