The goal of Fusion Summer Study (see Prospectus for the meeting) is to provide a forum for interaction among fusion scientists in order to develop a scientific and technical basis for consensus on:

The key issues for plasma science, technology, and energy and environment for fusion energy development.

The opportunities and potential contributions of existing and possible future facilities and programs to reduce fusion development costs and achieve attractive economic and environmental features.

Our goal is to assemble, review, and assess all available technical information on to the topics.

Our Deliverables are five-page summaries of our work for each topic.

The alloted time for discussion during the summer study are 6 afternoon sessions (4 during the first week and 2 during the second week). (see Summer Study schedule). So, the discussion time for each topics is limited and should be focused. In particular we want to ensure sufficient discussion time during the summer study.

In order to focus the discussion, we will need to perform a considerable amount of homework before the meeting. In particular, our aim is to assemble and review all available technical information on to the topics before the meeting. These are scientific background relevant to the question. The main topic of discussion is, therefore, the assessment of the information and resolution of the questions/hot topic given the relevant information. Even in this area, we would like to do as much as possible before the meeting, identify points of agreement and disagreements and focus the discussion time during the summer study to debate and resolution (if possible) of the issues.

To this end, the topic coordinator for each area has drafted a roughly two-page document to initiate the discussion on the topic. Participants and Contributors are encouraged to review these documents and forward their feedback to the topic coordinator and/or post them on the discussion board. We are expecting that these document to be revised considerably before the summer study and are used as a basis to focus the discussion on areas of disagreement. We will use snowmass to discuss only the issues of disagreement.

The meeting plans are as follows:

In addition to write-ups posted on the Web, hard copies of our write-ups will be distributed to participant during the registration day.

During the first afternoon of working group activity (Tuesday, July 13), we will have summary and/or invited talks on the topics of the energy working group. These presentation, hopefully, will bring all participants up to speed.

The rest of the first week (Wednesday through Friday) we will start with a 30 minute reporting of the previous-day sub-group activities to the entire working group and then break into smaller sub-groups for discussion. No general session on Wednesday July 14.

During the first week, the two subgroup will have parallel sessions (but each subgroup addresses their topics in serial fashion). In order to promote discussion on any given topics we may break into smaller groups of 25 people.