28th IEEE/NPSSSYMPOSIUM ON FUSION ENGINEERING

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

Second 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 and neutronics• Materials• Heating and current drive• Disruption mitigation and control• Operation and maintenance, remote handling and RAMI• Magnet Engineering• Power and control• Process simulation and plant simulators• Systems engineering and large scale integrationAnd
An open Town Hall meeting on: “Accelerating the Developmentof 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 must be entered using the editor tool on the Indico
website. Text may be typed directly or pasted from a wordprocessor. The editor tool automatically performs the required
formatting. Therefore, all abstracts must be submitted via the web
following the links on http://sofe2019.utk.edu .

Minicourse Coordinator

Symposium Information

Daniel Andruczyk, UIUC
Publications Chair
Hutch Neilson, PPPLTreasurer
Kevin Freudenberg, ORNL
Local Arrangements
David Donovan, UTKJohn Teehan, IEEE MCE
Events Chair
Ankita Jariwala, PPPL
Webmaster
Ashly Pearson, UTKAwards Chair
Martin Nieto-Perez, IPN
OmbudsmanCharles Neumeyer, PPPLThe deadline for submission of Abstracts is December 7, 2018.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 01, 2019. All
authors of SOFE-2019 presentations, whether oral or poster, will
have the opportunity to publish their work in a special issue of IEEE
Transactions on Plasma Science (TPS), a peer-reviewed journal.
Note that the work must have been presented at the conference byeither the first author or a knowledgeable co-author in order to beeligible for publication in the special issue. More information isavailable on the conference web site.

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 registration
begins December 01, 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