Mission

Advance US fusion science through technical assessment, prioritization, and coordination of edge plasma theory and modeling in close partnership with national experimental groups and international fusion programs.

Scope

• Physics of everything from the top of the pedestal into the plasma-facing material
• Theory, computation and experiment partnerships
• International collaboration

Objectives

• Strengthen the edge community
  
  • Workshops
  • Web site
  • Conference calls
• Promote edge research collaboration between theory, modelers, experiments, and computer scientists
• Determine and assess technical needs
• Promote high-priority research
• Promote implementation of standards for verification and validation
  
  • Establish database of modeling results
  • Verification -> code does what you think it should do
  • Validation -> does code compare correctly with reality
• Promote international collaboration in high priority areas