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The Forum of Small Stellarators is a voluntary and informal group of scientists interested in research with small stellarators. "Small" is deliberately undefined, but usually applies to devices that are not pursuing the frontiers of performance. 

== Motivation ==
* There is renewed global interest in small, affordable, student-oriented stellarators. 
* Small projects have less people/resources, inherent difficulties due to small size, but great potential to benefit from shared experience. 

== Goal ==
This Forum should be a resource to discuss:
* compelling physics questions (not pushing <math>n T \tau</math>)
* engineering tips and hardware choices
* diagnostic challenges in small devices
* experiment configuration and design
* cross-device comparisons

== Activities ==
* Email list: to join, send "subscribe" to forum-of-small-stellarators at ipp.mpg.de
** Archive [https://listserv.gwdg.de/pipermail/forum-of-small-stellarators/ available here]
* Irregular meetings

== Meetings ==
[[FoSS: ISHW2024|24th ISHW, Hiroshima, Japan, September 2024]]