Update on the 21ST Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE05)

The 21st IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE05) will take place from September 26th to 29th, 2005 at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The Symposium is dedicated to the scientific, technological and engineering issues of fusion energy research. The ITER site decision has recently been announced and SOFE05 is the first international technical meeting to highlight this exciting future. A special Plenary session will include presentations from several of the ITER Participant Teams. This is a period of great activity in the worldwide fusion program. New devices include the EAST superconducting tokomak in China, the SST-1 superconducting tokomak in India; the KSTAR superconducting tokomak in South Korea; W7X in Germany; and NCSX, the National Ignition Facility, and upgrades to the Z-Accelerator in the USA. Multiple invited paper sessions will highlight the progress on these devices. Additional invited paper sessions will highlight recent events and findings from the major operating Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) and MFE fusion devices and from fusion related technology research in materials, chamber technology, plasma technology, blanket technology, and power plant studies. Please visit the 21st SOFE web site at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/fed/
sofe05/ for the detailed program and additional information about the Symposium.
David Rasmussen can be reached at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, MS6169, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6169 USA; Phone: +1 865 574-1158; Fax: +1 865 576-7926; E-mail: Rasmussenda@ornl.gov.