The 2010 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference will be held April 19 - 21, 2010 in Seattle, Washington.

• Poster sessions and receptions will be held inside the Renaissance Seattle Hotel.
• Oral sessions will be held at the Downtown Seattle Public Library in the Microsoft Auditorium (walking directions)
• The conference and website host is the Plasma Science and Innovation Center at the University of Washington.
• The local committee chair and administrative contact is Charlson Kim.

The latest theoretical results in basic plasma physics and their application to the international fusion energy science program will be presented including areas such as:

• Plasma Properties, Equilibrium, Stability, and Transport
• Physics of Plasma Edge and Divertor Region
• Plasma Production and Heating
• Computer Simulations of Plasmas

The program consists of invited review papers, oral contributed papers, and poster presentations. Oral talks will be selected by the program committee from abstract submissions. All submissions will be accepted for presentation in either oral or poster format.

You can make reservations for the Renaissance Seattle Hotel online, instructions are on the hotel page. Special discount rates are available for conference attendees, with in-room internet included in the rate. We have compiled a list of links about Seattle on our "about Seattle" page.

Sherwood Executive Committee

• Xueqiao Xu (Chair), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Andrei Simakov (Vice-Chair), Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Stuart Hudson (Secretary/Treasurer), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Curt Bolton, Office of Fusion Energy Science
• Jeff Candy, General Atomics
• Luis Chacon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Yang Chen, University of Colorado
• Bill Dorland, University of Maryland
• Darin Ernst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Klaus Hallatschek, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
• Chris Holland, University of California, San Diego
• Scott Kruger, Tech X Corporation
• Carl Sovinec, University of Wisconsin

Sherwood Program Committee

• Zhihong Lin, University of California, Irvine (Chair)
• Charlson Kim, University of Washington (2010 Local Chair)
• Don Batchelor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Richard Fitzpatrick, University of Texas
• Nikolai Gorelenkov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Xueqiao Xu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Local Arrangements Committee

• Charlson Kim (Chair), University of Washington
• Angus Macnab, DyNuSim, LLC
• Carl Sovinec, University of Wisconsin
• John Cary, University of Colorado

TotalView Technologies is offering complimentary licenses for TotalView Express, a single-instance version of its debugger, to all students attending the conference. Just include "(ISFTC)" following your university name when completing the registration form at: http://www.totalviewtech.com/support-other/totalviewexpressform.php.