28th IEEE/NPSSSYMPOSIUM ON FUSION ENGINEERING

SOFE 2019
Sawgrass Marriott Resort,Jacksonville, Florida
June 2 – 6, 2019

First Call for Papers
The 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering will be held from
June 2-6, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida at the Sawgrass Marriott
Resort. The Symposium is dedicated to the scientific, technologicaland engineering issues of fusion energy research and is a mixtureof oral presentations and poster sessions allowing for extensive
interactions among the participants.
http://sofe2019.utk.edu
DEADLINE
FOR ABSTRACTS
December 07, 2018
SPONSORED BY
IEEE/NPSSFusion Technology Committee

General Chair
Dennis Youchison
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
865-574-0208
youchison@ieee.org

Submissions are requested in all areas of fusion engineering,including:• Experimental devices• Next step devices and power plants• MFE and IFE Alternate Concepts• Innovative and disruptive technologies• Divertors and high heat flux components• Chambers, blankets, and shields• Fueling, exhaust and vacuum systems• IFE fusion studies and technologies• Plasma Facing Materials and Surface Engineering• Diagnostics engineering and integration• Safety, neutronics, operation and maintenance• Materials• Heating and current drive• Disruption mitigation and control• Remote handling and RAMI• Magnet Engineering• Stellarators• Process simulation and plant simulators• Systems engineering and large scale integrationAnd
An open Town Hall meeting on:“Accelerating the Development of Fusion Power”

Technical Program Committee

Preparing Abstracts

Brad Nelson, (ORNL retired), Chair
Jean Paul Allain, Univ of Illinois
Harry Bailey, ORNL
Hans-Stephan Bosch, IPP
Lee Cadwallader, INL
Shishir Deshpande, ITER India
Guenter Janeschitz, (ITER org, ret.)
Leonid Kimchenko, ITER RussiaSatoshi Konishi, IAE Kyoto
Ingo Kuehn, ITER organization
Arnie Lumsdaine, ORNL
Susana Reyes, LLNLDavid Williamson, ORNL
Yican Wu, FDS
Yeongkook Oh, NFRI

Abstracts should be prepared by typing or pasting text into theeditor tool on the abstract submission site which will automaticallyprovide the formatting. Therefore, all abstracts must be submitted
on the web following the links at http://sofe2019.utk.edu .

Minicourse Coordinator
Daniel Andruczyk, UIUC
Publications Chair
Hutch Neilson, PPPL
Treasurer
Kevin Freudenberg, ORNL
Fund Raising Publicity ChairCharlies Gentile, PPPL
Social Program ChairJohn Teehan, IEEE MCE
Webmaster
Ashly Pearson, Univ of Tennessee
Awards Chair
Martin Nieto Perez, IPN
OmbudsmanCharles Neumeyer
PPPL

The deadline for submission of Abstracts is December 7, 2018.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 01, 2019.
Instructions for preparation of the full paper manuscript will besent with the acceptance notification.
Symposium Information
Additional information about the Symposium can be found at theofficial 28th IEEE/NPSS SOFE Web Site: http://sofe2019.utk.edu
including registration and lodging information. Early registrationbegins October 07, 2018 and ends April 14, 2019.
ORAL SESSIONS: Authors of invited papers will be allowed a total of
30 minutes (25 for presentation, 5 for discussion) for their oralpresentations. Authors of selected contributed papers will beallowed 20 minutes (15 for presentation, 5 for discussion). Paper
selection is the responsibility of the Technical Program Committee.
POSTER SESSION: Poster sessions will be offered each afternoon ofthe conference. The Technical Program Committee reserves theright to assign papers to either poster or oral sessions to ensure anoptimum program.