Eighth meeting of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics

The Eighth Meeting of the ITPA Topical Group (TG) on Diagnostics was held at the Culham Science Centre, UKAEA, from 14-18 March 2005. The meeting was opened by Professor Llewellyn Smith, Director of the Culham Science Centre. Professor Llewellyn Smith stressed the importance of diagnostics in operating and evaluating the performance of tokamak plasmas and highlighted that this will also be the case in ITER. The meeting was combined with a progress meeting on ITER-relevant diagnostic developments on-going in Europe, which was held on 14 March. More than 60 participants attended the meeting and all six ITPA partners were represented. Special sessions were devoted to alpha-particle diagnostics and to the ITER relevance of present and future diagnostic upgrades of JET