updated 2-18-05  3:41 p.m. pst



Conference Details
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The University of California, Irvine, through the generous support of the SciDAC (US Department of Energy Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing) will be hosting this 3-day workshop in Laguna Beach, California. 

The conference is being held at the Surf & Sand Hotel in Laguna Beach, California.  The first day of the conference (Monday February 21)  will be held in the Top of the Surf Meeting Room.  Days 2 and 3 of the conference (February 22, 23) will be held in the Sand Dollar Meeting Room at the Surf & Sand Hotel.

Contact Information:

Professor Zhihong LIN   (zhihongl@uci.edu)
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of California, Irvine
4158 Frederick Reines Hall
Irvine, California  92697-4575
Telephone:  (949) 824-2717
Fax: (949) 824-2174



Travel & Accommodations
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Visitors will stay at the  Best Western Laguna Brisas Hotel in Laguna Beach, California.  (http://www.lagunabrisas.com/)

Laguna Brisas Spa Hotel
Pacific Coast Highway and
Bluebird Canyon Drive
1600 South Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone: 949-497-7272
Fax: 949-497-8306
Toll Free: 888-296-6834
The Best Western Laguna Brisas is a beautiful waterfront hotel in the middle of Southern California's popular coastal playground. The spectacular views are complimented by the resort atmosphere and friendly service. The hotel is accessible to all major freeways and just minutes from major attractions including:

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Downtown Laguna Beach (1 mile)
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Laguna Art Museum (1 mile)
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Mission San Juan Capistrano (8 miles)
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Dana Point Harbor (9 miles)
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Catalina Island Ferry (9 miles)
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Irvine Spectrum (10 miles)
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South Coast Plaza (15 miles)
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Newport Beach (15 miles)
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Disneyland Resort (25 miles)
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California Adventure (25 miles)
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Knott's Berry Farm (32 miles)
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Los Angeles International Airport (65 miles)
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Universal Studios (70 miles)

To guarantee a room, reservations should be made NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 10, 2005.   When you call the hotel to make your room reservsation, please refer to the group name UCI DOE WORKSHOP.

The travel information that participants provide while registering for the conference will be used primarily for presentation scheduling purposes.   If you make changes in your travel plans after you have submitted your registration information, please email the information to Alison Lara, the Administrative Coordinator, at: laraa@uci.edu.


Ground Transportation from John Wayne International (SNA) Airport:

Participants can utilize the Super Shuttle Service from the John Wayne (SNA) Airport that will transport them to the Best Western Laguna Brisas Hotel.  The approximate cost is $27 for the 1st passenger, $9 for the 2nd passenger, and $63 for up to seven passengers.  Reservation can be made at 1-800-258-3826 (let the reservation agent know you would like to be driven to the Best Western Laguna Brisas, 1600 South Coast Highway, in Laguna Beach (phone 949-497-7272).

http://www.supershuttle.com/htm/cities/sna.htm


Ground Transportation from Los Angeles International (LAX) Airport:

Participants can utilize the Super Shuttle Service that will transport them from the airport to the Best Western Laguna Brisas Hotel.  The approximate cost is $55.  The Super Shuttle from LAX to John Wayne Airport (SNA) is also an option, and the cost is approximately $16. 

Reservations are not necessary - the Super Shuttle vans run frequently.  After you have claimed your baggage, proceed to the shuttle bus areas, and you will see blue vans with "SuperShuttle" logos.  Let the driver know you would like to be driven to the Best Western Laguna Brisas, 1600 South Coast Highway, in Laguna Beach (phone 949-497-7272).

For more detailed information, visit the LAX Super Shuttle webpage at:

http://www.supershuttle.com/htm/cities/lax.htm

From LAX, a taxi ride would cost approximately $65.  For more detailed information, visit the LAX Taxi webpage at:

 http://www.lawa.org/lax/taxi.cfm

Ground Transportation from Long Beach Airport:
Participants can utilize the Super Shuttle Service that will transport them from the airport to the Best Western Laguna Brisas Hotel.  The approximate cost is $35.  From Long Beach Airport, a taxi ride would cost approximately $60.  http://www.colorado.edu/Wan
For more detailed information, visit the Long Beach Airport Ground Transportation webpage at:

http://www.longbeach.gov/airport/airline_travelers/ground_transportation.asp


OTHER LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS

For participants remaining in the area after the conference ends, there are hotels that have a special UCI rate:

Atrium Hotel at Orange County Airport
(UCI rate $89)
(949) 833-2770 or (800) 854-3012
E-mail - info@atriumhotel.com
18700 Mac Arthur Boulevard
Irvine, California 92612

Orange County Airport/Costa Mesa Travelodge
(UCI rate ~ $54)
1400 SE Bristol Street
Santa Ana, California  92707
Phone: 714-557-8700 * Fax: 714-557-9164

Both of the hotels listed above are near the John Wayne Airport (SNA), and the provide daily shuttles to and from UCI.


International Travel Information 
       For International Travel and VISA information, please go to:

             UCI International Center 

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Driving Directions

From Los Angeles International Airport and John Wayne/Orange County Airport:
I-405 South to Hwy. 133 South. Follow Hwy. 133 to Pacific Coast Highway, turn left and continue for 16 blocks. Hotel is on the left between Bluebird Canyon and Agate St.
From the North:
I-405 South to Hwy. 133 South. Follow Hwy. 133 to Pacific Coast Highway, turn left and continue for 16 blocks. Hotel is on the left between Bluebird Canyon and Agate St.
From the South:
I-5 North to Beach Cities Exit, then north 11 miles.
From the East:
I-5 or I-405 South, Exit Hwy. 133. Follow Hwy. 133 South to Pacific Coast Highway, turn left and continue for 16 blocks. Hotel is on the left between Bluebird Canyon and Agate St.
 
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Program Schedule

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Program Abstracts (updated 2-25-2005 8:41 a.m. pst)
DAY 1
Monday
February 21, 2005

Surf & Sand Hotel
Top of the Surf Meeting Room




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Speaker

Presentation Title



Session I: Gyrokinetic theory and simulation
Chair: Y. Nishimura



8:30-9:30
W. W. Lee
PPPL

Gyrokinetics and particle simulation



9:30-10:00 BREAK



10:00-11:00 L. Chen
University of California, Irvine

Nonlinear gyrokinetic theory



11:00-12:00
T. S. Hahm
PPPL

Nonlinear gyrokinetic theory II



12:00-1:30
LUNCH
INDEPENDENT



Session II: Toroidal geometry & parallel computation
Chair: V. Decyk





1:30-2:25 G. Rewoldt
PPPL
Survey of Linear Microinstabilities in Tokamaks and Stellarators



2:25-3:20 Z. Lin
University of California, Irvine

Gyrokinetic particle simulation in toroidal geometry



3:20-3:40 BREAK



3:40-4:35 D. Keyes
Columbia University

Domain decomposition parallel solvers



4:35-5:30 S. Ethier
PPPL

MPI Parallelization                             

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DAY 2
Tuesday
February 22, 2005

Surf & Sand Hotel
Sand Dollar Meeting Room
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Time / Session

Speaker

Presentation Title



Session III: Kinetic electron and electromagnetic fluctuation
Chair: W. X. Wang





8:30-9:00  G. Rewoldt Recent Progress in Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Turbulent Plasmas*



9:00-9:30  Y. Nishimura
University of California, Irvine
Alfven wave dynamics in gyrokinetic particle simulations



9:30-10:00 
J. Lewandowski
PPPL
Ion-temperature gradient turbulence with trapped electrons using the split-weight scheme



10:00-10:30 BREAK



10:30-11:00 
Y. Chen
University of Colorado at Boulder
General geometry, the split-weight scheme and domain decomposition in GEM



11:00-11:25 
W. Wan
University of Colorado at Boulder
Gyrokinetic simulation of collisionless and semi-collisional tearing mode instabilities



11:25-11:50  A. Mishcheko
IPP-Greifswald, Germany
Particle Simulations with a generalized gyrokinetic solver




11:50-12:15  Dastgeer Shaikh
IGPP, University of California,  Riverside
Density and temperature spectra in the Solar wind: nearly incompressible modeling



12:15-1:45  LUNCHINDEPENDENT



Session IV: Electrostatic turbulence & edge physics
Chair: J. Lewandowski






1:45-2:15 P. W. Terry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

TBA



2:15-2:45 W. X. Wang
PPPL

ITG Turbulence in shaped plasmas




2:45-3:15 
P. Angelino
CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland
Global nonlinear simulations of electrostatic ITG modes in tokamaks



3:15-3:45 BREAK




3:45-4:15 
C. S. Chang
NYU
Dynamical neoclassical-neutral Monte Carlo simulation of tokamak edge plasma using XGC



4:15-4:40
S. Janhunen
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Implicit full-f gyrokinetics: validation and preliminary study of transport dynamics of the FT-2 tokamak




4:40-5:05 
O. Gurcan
University of California, San Diego
Dynamics of turbulence spreading in magnetically confined plasmas



5:05-5:30 
Y. Xiao
MIT

Neoclassical polarization



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Day 3
Wednesday
February 23, 2005

Surf & Sand Hotel
Sand Dollar Meeting Room



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Session V:  Experiment/Theory comparison
Chair: Y. Chen


8:30-9:30
R. Nazikian (tutorial)
PPPL  
Fluctuation measurements (turorial)




9:30-10:00 
R. Budny
PPPL
Integrated-modeling of time-dependent burning plasmas



10:00-10:30 
BREAK




10:30-11:00 
S. Klasky
PPPL
TBN



11:00-11:25  M. Huang
Univ. of California, Davis
Visualizing gyrokinetic simulation




11:25-11:50  C. Holland
Univ. of California, San Diego
Nonlinear energy transfer measurements in simulation and experiment



11:50-12:15  S. Dettrick
Tri-Alpha
Univ. of California, Irvine
FRC formation simulations with a Hybrid PIC code




12:15-1:45 
LUNCH
INDEPENDENT



Session VI: Computational method & gyrokinetic simulation
Chair: S. Ethier


1:45-2:15
M. Adams
Columbia Univ.
Algebraic multigrid methods for challenging large-scale geometrically complex problems



2:15-2:45
B. Afeyan
Polymath Research Inc.

Multiresolution analysis techniques for Vlasov codes and PIC simulations



2:45:3:15
V. Decyk
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Building Fortran classes in GTC code




3:15-3:45
BREAK



3:45-4:15
Z. Lin Nonlinear physics of ETG/TEM turbulence



4:15-4:40
O. Yamagishi
NIFS, Japan
Linear gyrokinetic electromagnetic pressure-driven modes in s-alpha model



4:40-5:05
A. Dimits
LLNL
TBA




5:05-5:30
W. W. Lee Steady State Turbulence Simulation