FoSS: ISHW2024

The 1st meeting of the Forum of Small Stellarators (1st Uncoordinated Working Group Meeting) took place as a satellite meeting to the 24th ISHW in Hiroshima, Japan on 12 September, 2024.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction
• ~ 1.5 hours for group introduction presentations. These should be 2-3 slide, <5 minute presentations that provide a brief project overview and any particular strategies to being relevant although small. Each will be followed by 5 minutes of questions / discussion.
  • STAR_Lite, Hampton University
  • Polaris, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • CSX, Columbia University
  • ETOS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • TJ-K, Universität Stuttgart
  • ALPES, Technische Universität Graz
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • EPOS, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching
  • HU-Heliac, Hiroshima University
  • MUSE, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • Renaissance Fusion
  • Heliotron-DR, Kyoto University
• ~ 30 minutes for a coffee break. Opportunity for continuing discussions and engineering questions that are not of general interest.
• ~ 1 hour for brainstorming small stellarator physics investigations and possible joint experiments.