Proceedings of the 2008 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference March 30 - April 2, 2008, Boulder, Colorado. Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference 2008 Schedule All poster sessions are in the Millenium & Century Rooms Click Names To View Abstracts • Denotes A Graduate Student Presentation Monday Tuesday Wednesday March 31, 2008 April 1, 2008 April 2, 2008 John Greene Memorial Session Session 1A: Ballroom (Rogers, Chair) 8:25 AM – John Cary Session 2A: Ballroom (Chan, Chair) 8:30 AM Opening Remarks 8:30 AM - V. Chan Session 3A: Ballroom (Tang, Chair) Biography of John Greene George McKee Steve Cowley Explosive Instability in Plasmas Modern Measurement Capabilities & 8:40 AM - John Johnson 9:00 AM Analysis Techniques for Validation On John M. Greene's MHD Equilibrium of Turbulence Simulations and Stability Work 9:20 AM - Phil Morrison Break Break 9:30 AM "Oh, that." Session 3B: Ballroom (Belova, Chair) Session 1B (Posters) Break Boris Breizman 10:00 AM Nonlinear Consequences of Weakly Driven Energetic Particle Instabilities Session 2B: Ballroom (Turnbull, Chair) Andrei Simakov Alan Glasser A comprehensive analytical model 10:30 AM Scalable Parallel Computation for Extended for 2D magnetic reconnection in MHD Modeling of Fusion Plasmas resistive, Hall, & electron MHD Ming Chu Anthony Webster Modeling of Resistive Wall Mode The Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic 11:00 AM with Full Kinetic Damping Peeling Mode Instability Hong Qin Nikolai Gorelenkov Variational Symplectic Integrator for the Low frequency eigenmodes due to 11:30 AM Guiding Center Motion of Charged Particles for Alfven acoustic coupling Long Time Simulations in General Magnetic Fields in toroidal fusion plasma Jong-kyu Park • Lunch Tokamak Plasma Response to 12:00 PM External Magnetic Perturbation Afternoon Break 12:30 PM 1:00 PM Session 1C: Ballroom (Snyder, Chair) Emily Belli 1:30 PM Drift-Kinetic Simulations of Neoclassical Transport X Q Xu TEMPEST simulations of the 2:00 PM neoclassical radial electric field Felix Parra • Limitations of gyrokinetics 2:30 PM on transport time scales Jianying Lang • Zonal Flow & Zonal Density Saturation 3:00 PM Mechanisms for Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence Prashant Valanju High Power Density Experiment(HPDX) 3:30 PM Next Step device in the age of ITER Session 1D (Posters) 4:00 PM Refreshments and alcohol will be served. Session 2C (Posters) 4:30 PM Refreshments and alcohol will be served. 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM Session 2D: Ballroom Awards Banquet 6:30 PM Dinner and alcohol will be served. 8:30 PM List of Oral Presentations 1. Emily Belli: Drift-Kinetic Simulations of Neoclassical Transport 2. Boris Breizman: Nonlinear Consequences of Weakly Driven Energetic Particle Instabilities 3. Ming Chu: Modeling of Resistive Wall Mode with Full Kinetic Damping 4. Steven Cowley: Explosive Instability in Plasmas 5. Alan Glasser : Scalable Parallel Computation for Extended MHD Modeling of Fusion Plasmas 6. Nikolai Gorelenkov: Low frequency eigenmodes due to Alfven acoustic coupling in toroidal fusion plasma 7. John Johnson: On John M. Greene's MHD Equilibrium and Stability Work 8. Prashant Valanju: High Power Density Experiment (HPDX) - Next Step device in the age of ITER 9. Jianying Lang: Zonal Flow and Zonal Density Saturation Mechanisms for Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence 10. George McKee: Modern Measurement Capabilities and Analysis Techniques for Validation of Turbulence Simulations 11. Philip J Morrison: "Oh, that." 12. Jong-kyu Park: Tokamak Plasma Response to External Magnetic Perturbation 13. Felix Parra: Limitations of gyrokinetics on transport time scales 14. Hong Qin: Variational Symplectic Integrator for the Guiding Center Motion of Charged Particles for Long Time Simulations in General Magnetic Fields 15. Andrei Simakov: A comprehensive analytical model for 2D magnetic reconnection in resistive, Hall, and electron MHD 16. Anthony Webster: The Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Peeling Mode Instability 17. Xueqiao Xu: TEMPEST simulations of the neoclassical radial electric field A special John Greene Memorial Session was held on Tuesday, April 1. The session consisted of a biography of John M. Greene presented by Vincent Chan and the two presentations #7 and #11 (see above). Poster Session 1B 1 . Svetlana Shasharina: Visualization Schema for Fusion Simulation Data 2. Shinji Tokuda: Conjugate Variable Method in Hamilton-Lie Perturbation Theory Applied to Plasma Physics 3. Leonid Zakharov: Locked kink mode m/n=1/1 during vertical disruption events 4. Peter Catto: Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales 5. Grigory Kagan: Arbitrary poloidal gyroradius effects in tokamak pedestals and transport barriers 6. Jae-Min Kwon: Delta-f and full-f hybrid particle in cell scheme for the neoclassical simulation of tokamak plasmas 7. Alessandro Cardinali: Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory in the Study of Lower Hybrid Wave Propagation in Ionized Gas 8. Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete: Singular value decomposition and wavelet methods for noise reduction in particle-based transport calculations 9. Ping Zhu: Nonlinear Ballooning Instability of an H-mode Pedestal 10. Dalton Schnack: The Absence of Complete FLR Stabilization in Extended MHD 11. Eugene Tracy: A new improved normal form for linear conversion 12. Mark Adams: Toward Optimal Multigrid Algebraic Solvers In Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations of Fusion Plasmas 13. Ryoji Takahashi: The kinetic effects of energetic particles on resistive MHD stability 14. Scott Baalrud: Enhanced Electron Scattering due to the Ion Acoustic Instability 15. Todd Krause: Natural selection: pruning the Darwin approximation 16. Andrew S Richardson: Ray tracing simulation of ICRF mode conversion in Alcator C-Mod 17. Wendell Horton: The Microtearing Modes and Drift Wave Turbulence 18. Motoki Nakata: Vortex Structures in ETG 19. Bruce Cohen: Hybrid Simulation of Plasmas Including Coulomb Collisions 20. H R Strauss: MHD Simulation of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations and Resistive Wall Effects 21. Ronald Waltz: Numerical Experiments on the Drift Wave-Zonal Flow Paradigm for Nonlinear Saturation 22. Ihor Holod: Gyrokinetic PIC simulations of toroidal momentum transport in tokamak 23. Parvez Guzdar: Low-dimensional and 2D simulations of magnetic fluctuations in MCX 24. Federico Halpern: Summary of recent advances in the Weiland drift wave model for anomalous transport in tokamaks 25. Tariq Rafiq: Analytical and numerical studies of drift resistive and inertial ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry 26. Fatima Ebrahimi: Momentum transport from magnetic fluctuations in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas 27. Joshua Breslau: The CDX Sawtooth Benchmark for 3D Nonlinear MHD 28. Roddy Vann: Modelling observations of mode polarisation from MAST 29. Linjin Zheng: Linear gyrokinetics and kinetic investigation of resistive wall mode stability in ITER 30. Roman Kolesnikov: Electromagnetic high frequency gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulation in magnetically-confined plasmas 31. Sterling Smith: A numerical approach to obtain the linear stability spectrum of ideal MHD with arbitrary equilibrium flows and a free boundary 32. Sumire Kobayashi: Plasma Turbulence and Transport in a Ring Dipole System 33. Eliezer Hameiri: A fluid-dynamical analog of a two-fluid plasma 34. Jane Pratt: Drift-Wave Eigenmodes and Spectral Gaps in Tandem Mirrors 35. Takahide Okabe: A particle code for the mixing efficacy problem of advection-diffusion models with sources and sinks 36. Bruno Coppi: Thermo-rotational Instability in Plasma Disks Around Compact Astrophysical Objects 37. Jesus Ramos: Finite-Larmor-Radius Kinetic Theory of a Magnetized Plasma in the Macroscopic Flow Reference Frame 38. Matt Landreman: Confinement regime transition: Spontaneous rotation reversal and collisionality of the plasma edge 39. Yong Xiao: Characteristic time scales in microturbulences 40. Alexander Pletzer: The FACETS Core Solver 41. Jean C Perez: Shear-flow-driven Alfvenic fluctuations in the Large Plasma Device 42. Ker-Chung Shaing: Critical Toroidal Rotation Profile for Resistive Wall Modes in Tokamaks 43. Dmitri Ryutov: Basic properties of a snowflake divertor 44. Johan Carlsson: Simulations of lower-hybrid coupling in the Madison Symmetric Torus 45. John R Cary: Simulations of nonlinear dynamics of electron Bernstein waves 46. Kurt Tummel: Non-fluid Micro-Reconnecting Modes and Relevant Experimental Observations 47. Gian Luca Delzanno: A robust, efficient equidistribution 2D grid generation method based on Monge- Kantorovich optimization 48. Wenlu Zhang: Transport of Energetic Particles by Microturbulence in Magnetized Plasmas 49. Zhihong Lin: Gyrokinetic simulation of energetic particle turbulence and transport 50. Yasutaro Nishimura: Roles of shear Alfven wave on micro-turbulence transport in global gyrokinetic particle simulation 51. Linda Sugiyama: Guiding Center Models for 3D Plasmas 52. Andrew Ware: Neoclassical Viscosities and Anomalous Flows in Stellarators Poster Session 1D 1. Cristel Chandre: Reduction of radial transport and application to test particle dynamics 2. Friedwardt Winterberg: Thermonuclear Dynamo inside an Alfven Black Hole 3. James Howard: Global Dynamics of Single Ion Motion in a Model Field-Reversed Configuration 4. Charlson Kim: Impact of velocity space distribution on hybrid kinetic MHD simulation of the (1,1) mode 5. Roscoe White: Chaotic Transport in a Reversed Field Pinch 6. V Alexander Stefan: Thermonuclear Yield Due to the Relativistic Electron Bernstein Modes in Spherical Tokamak Plasmas 7. Harry Mynick: Anisotropic pressure