WEDNESDAY – 10 JANUARY 2007 SERF Building, CASS Room 329

Welcome/Orientation

Patrick Diamond (UCSD), Hideo Sugama (NIFS)

SESSION I - RECENT PROGRESS IN GK SIMULATIONS, Chair: Wendell Horton (IFS)

Wei-li W. Lee (PPPL)

“Does parallel velocity-space nonlinearity matter for ITG turbulence?”

Yasuhiro Idomura (JAEA, Japan)

“Conservative gyrokinetic full-f Vlasov simulation”

Yang Chen (U Colorado)

“Effects of zonal flow on electron temperature gradient turbulence, trapped electron mode turbulence and drift wave turbulence”

Yas Nishimura (UCI)

“Electromagnetic global gyrokinetic simulation of tokamak plasmas”

SESSION II - VALIDATION, MOMENTUM TRANSPORT, Chair: Hideo Sugama (NIFS, Japan)

Keith H. Burrell (G.A.)

“An experimentalist's view of code validation”

William Nevins (LLNL)

“Characterizing electron temperature gradient turbulence via numerical simulation”

Stefan Mueller (UCSD)

“Strategies for code validation against basic experiments”

Ozgur Gurcan (UCSD)

“Intrinsic rotation and the role of the radial electric field.”

Taik-Soo Hahm (PPPL)

“Toroidal momentum pinch from NL GK”

THURSDAY - 11 JANUARY 2007 SERF Building, CASS Room 329

SESSION III - ETG, EM TURBULENCE and ZONAL FLOWS, Chair: Patrick Diamond (UCSD)

Alberto Bottino (IPP, Germany)

“Global low noise particle simulations of ETG and ITG turbulence”

Zhihong Lin (UCI)

“Global GTC simulation of ETG turbulence”

Hideo Sugama (NIFS, Japan)

“Collisionless kinetic-fluid model of zonal flows in toroidal plasmas”

Fred Hinton (UCSD)

“Dressed test-particles in gyrokinetic plasmas near marginal stability”

Yasuaki Kishimoto (Kyoto U, Japan)

“Transport dynamics associated with zonal flow and GAM near critical gradient”

SPECIAL LECTURE

Frank Shu (UCSD)

“Magnetic fields in star formation”

SESSION IV - ASTROPHYSICS, EDGE, Chair: Tomo-Hiko Watanabe (NIFS)

Hui Li (LANL)

“Dissipation and spectral energy transfer in the relaxation of a 3-D force-free magnetic sheet pinch”

Xueqiao Xu (LLNL)

“Collisionless damping of GAMs and Er generation”

FRIDAY - 12 JANUARY 2007 SERF Building, CASS Room 329

SESSION V - NEW APPROACHES, Chair: Taik-Soo Hahm (PPPL)

Virginie Grandgirard (CEA, France)

“GYSELA, a full-f global gyrokinetic semi-lagrangian code for ITG turbulence simulations”

Gakushi Kawamura (Kyoto U, Japan)

“Gyrokinetic approach to the magnetic sheath formation”

Wendell Horton (IFS)

“Theory and gyrofluid simulations for modeling electron transport in NSTX and Tore Supra”

Yian Lei (PKU, China)

“Direct fusion - an accelerated condensed state fusion scheme”

SESSION VI - CONTINUUM SIMULATIONS - COMPARISONS AND APPLICATIONS

Chair: Yasuaki Kishimoto (Kyoto U, Japan)

Tomo-Hiko Watanabe (NIFS, Japan)

“Gyrokinetic simulation of ITG turbulence and zonal flows in helical systems”

Greg Hammett (PPPL)

“Plasma Shaping and ExB shear effects on ITG Turbulence”

Ron Waltz (GA)

“Coupled ITG/TEM-ETG gyrokinetic simulations”

Concluding Remarks

Tomo-Hiko Watanabe (NIFS), Taik-Soo Hahm (PPPL)