IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

Second IAEA Technical Meeting on

"Theory of Plasmas Instabilities - Transport, Stability and their interaction"

 2 March – 4 March 2005

Trieste, ItalyICTP

 

co-organized by the Abdus SalamInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics

It is an honour, in representing the International Atomic Energy Agency, to open the

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I like to take this opportunity to thank the International Advisory Committee for their work in the evaluation of abstracts and preparation of the programme.

In particular I like to thank the Chair of the IAC, Taik Hahm, for the very good coordination between the IAC work and the Agency and ICTP requests.

I also like to thank the local organizers Brian Stewart and his assistant, Mrs. Ave Lusenti, for taking care of all the host activities, construction of the web page, the intense emails exchange with participants and to make sure that participants can have a successful meeting and enjoy the beauty of this place.

Acknowledges

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The first meeting was held in 9 - 12 April 2002 at Kloster Seeon, Germany. By the number of participants here present we can certainly conclude that was with good opportunity that, following advise from the IFRC, the Agency has introduced this topic in the Fusion TM’s.

We have 49 participants representing 21 countries

The meeting is organized in 8 sessions addressing four main topics:

•Improved Confinement

•Turbulence and Non-Linear Instabilities

•Energetic Particle Physics

•Interaction of Macroscopic Instabilities and Transport Process

The meeting ends with a summary session

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The contributions are distributed by

•6 Overview presentations

•22 Invited presentations

•23 Posters

The summary of the meeting will be submitted for publication in Nuclear Fusion.

Summaries provide a very important tool in helping the Agency to plan its activities in the different topics of Fusion. It gives a record of the main outputs of the meeting and will provide in course of time a history of the progress in the different topics

Summaries make also possible to publish a short overview of the presentations which will not appear in the proceedings giving therefore a concise but full coverage of the meeting.

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Where is Fusion in the IAEA?

7 Departements

Department of Nuclear Aplications

DGDG

(5 Divisions)

Division of Physics and Chemical Sciences

(4 sections)

Physics Section

AcceleratorsDeminingResearch Reactors

Fusion

Nuclear Instr.

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2005 IAEA Technical Meetings on Fusion

Theory of Plasmas Instabilities, IAEA/ICTP, March, Trieste

ERCH Physics and Technology for ITER, May, Como

Negative Ion Based Neutral Beam Injectors, May, Padova

First Generation of Fusion Power Plant, July, Vienna

Control, Data Acquisition and Remote participation, July, Budapest

H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, September., St. Petersburg

Spherical Tori, October, St. Petersburg

Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, October, Madrid

Energetic Particles, November, Takayama

Research Using Small Fusion Devices, December, Mexico

ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Plasma Physics: Capacity Building in Plasma Applications and Diagnostic Techniques, March, Triest

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I like to whish you all a pleasant and interesting meeting and hope that at the end we all take a bit more than we brought in…