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Wednesday, 26th April 2017
Time Topic: Opening and ITER status update Presenter
09:00 Registration All
09:15 Opening and Logistics M.Garcia-Munoz, S.Sharapov
09:30 ITER Progress and High Priority Needs in the Area of Energetic Particles Simon Pinches

ITER
Topic: Techniques and detectors for fast particles on ITER
10:00 Current status of the ITER FILD project and other fast particle diagnostics Martin Kocan

ITER
10:20 Update on the ITER FILD design Juan Ayllon

Seville University
10:45 Break
11:15 The FILD instrument function; signal estimates for ITER Joaquin Galdon-Quiroga

Seville University
11:35 Loose ends in Fast Ion Modelling connected to beam supported CXS diagnostics Manfred Von Hellermann

FOM
11:55 Conceptual Design of the Radial Gamma Ray Spectrometer System for alpha particle and runaway electron measurement at ITER Massimo Nocente

Milan University
12:25 Sensitivity of the ITER gamma- ray spectra to fast ion distributions Dmitry Gin

Ioffe Institute
12:45 Discussion Chairman and all
13:00 Lunch
Topic: Modelling of Fast Particles on ITER
14:00 Modelling needs for ITER non-active phase nominal scenarios Mireille Schneider

ITER
14:30 ASCOT modelling of ITER half-field scenarios Taina Kurki-Suonio

Aalto University
14:50 Sawtooth effects on knock-on D,T ion NPA spectra in ITER plasma. Feodor Zaitsev

Moscow State University
15:20 New status of the H&CD workflow in IMAS and associated benchmark activities linked to fast ions Mireille Schneider

ITER
15:40 Discussion Chairman and all
16:00 Break
16:30 Adaptive time-stepping integration of Coulomb collisions for orbit-following codes Konsta Sarkimaki

Aalto University
16:50 Feasibility study of automatic D-T ratio control using NPA measurements of knock-on ions Shishkin

Moscow State University
Topic: ITPA EP Joint Experiments in support of ITER
17:10 Status of EP-9: Assessment of Ion Cyclotron Emission (ICE) for diagnosing lost and barely confined fast ions David Pace

GA
17:30 Discussion Chairman and all
18:00 Adjourn
Thursday, 27th April 2017
Time Topic: 3D effects in fast particle transport Presenter
09:00 Status of EP6: Fast-Ion Losses and Associated Heat Load from Edge Perturbations (ELMs and RMPs) Manuel Garcia-Munoz

Seville University
09:15 Brief report on fast-ion loss under the RMP (using the middle-coils) experiments on KSTAR Junghee Kim

KSTAR
09:30 On nonlinear wave-particle resonances due to imposed magnetic perturbations Liu Chen
09:50 Eulerian approach to bounce-transit and drift resonance with magnetic drifts in tokamaks Ker-Chung Shaing
10:10 3D fields induced edge resonant transport in AUG and ITER L. Sanchis-Sanchez

Seville University
10:35 Comparison of fast ion losses when the plasma response to RMPs is modeled either with MARS-F or JOREK K.Sakirmaki
10:50 Break
Topic: ITPA EP Joint Experiments
11:15 Status of EP11: Velocity-space tomography based on combined diagnostics Mirko Salewski

DTU
11:30 What is an energetic ion and how hot is the plasma? Mirko Salewski

DTU
11:45 Status of EP-8: Validation of Neutral Beam Current Drive and projections to ITER Mario Podesta

PPPL
12:10 Status of EP12: Identification of AE control actuators and preliminary assessment for ITER Alvaro Cappa

CIEMAT
12:30 Resonance maps for AEs in TJ-II with varying iota and generalization of the drag/ diffusion theory for two species Sergei Sharapov

CCFE
12:50 Detection and investigation of AEs with HIBP

diagnostic on TJ-II
Alexander Melnikov

Kurchatov/ CIEMAT
13:15 Lunch
Topic: Energetic Particles in Stellarators
14:15 Kinetic MHD hybrid simulation of energetic particle driven instabilities in LHD 25’+5’ Yasushi Todo

NIFS
14:45 ASCOT simulations of beam power loads on W7-X plasma-facing components for different edge rotational transforms and densities Taina Kurki-Suonio

Aalto University
15:00 Contributions of stellarator community to fast particle physics: experiment and modelling Axel Koenis

IPP
15:30 Discussion Chairman and all
16:00 Break
16:30 Status of EP-10: Transport of fast and thermal ions in steady-state scenarios at high-q Sergei Sharapov

CCFE
Topic: New Joint Modelling Activity on BAE/ BAAE (Part 1)
16:45 Introduction David Pace

GA
16:50 The DIII-D BAAE case David Pace

GA
17:10 Survey of low frequency BAE/BAAE instabilities with changing q-profiles in DIII-D. Don Spong

ORNL
17:30 TGTC simulations of BAE and BAAEs Z. Lin/Y. Liu
17:50 Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of BAEs Wenlu Zhang
18:10 Discussion: Ø Perspectives and needs for new Joint Modelling Activity on BAE/ BAAE Chairman and all
18:30 Adjourn
Friday, 28th April 2017
Time Topic: New Joint Modelling Activity on BAE/ BAAE (Part 2) Presenter
09:00 On Energetic-Particle Excitations of Low-Frequency Alfvén Eigenmodes in Toroidal Plasma F.Zonca/ Liu Chen
09:20 BAE in hybrid simulation of ITER steady operation scenario Yasushi Todo

NIFS
09:35 Linear kinetic simulations of BAEs and BAAEs Philipp Lauber

IPP
10:00 Discussion: Ø Perspectives and needs for new Joint Modelling Activity on BAE/ BAAE Chairman and all
10:30 Break
10:30 Topic: Advances in fast particle modelling
11:00 Quantification of the impact of EGAMs on transport in gyro-kinetic simulations David Zarzoso

Aix-Marseille University
11:30 Nonlinear gyrokinetic investigation of energetic-particle driven modes with ORB5 A.Bottino
Topic: ITPA EP Joint Modelling Activities
12:00 Update on JET scenario development for alpha-driven TAEs Sergei Sharapov

CCFE
12:15 Discussion: Theory and modelling priorities

Joint modelling issues
All
12:30 Decisions and Actions Chairman and All
13:45 Next ITPA Meetings
14:00 Meeting