This is a short summary of November 15, 2006 EP SFG meeting on ideas
for proposals to be presented at the next NSTX forum in December 2006.

General notes:

- At the meeting we had around 10 PPPLers participating and Heidbrink
  and Crocker connected from the outside.

- Many speakers agreed that NSTX is a unique machine for studies of
  fast ion physics. 

- Since Joule milestone is upon us many emphasized importance of
  having coordinated and coherent proposals for this year NSTX
  campaign. 

- Many people expressed interest in having another sfg meeting prior
  to the forum, which we will have mabe one week before the forum.


Presentations and discusssions

- Eric gave a nice overview-like presentation on the diagnostic
  capabilities and priorities, which summarizes our recent discussions
  and developments. I recommend to look into his presentation. People
  discussed ideas along the line of the priority list from Eric talk.

  Eric showed a list, which containes available diagnostic
  tools and includes new tools, such as scanning NPA, SFLIP and new
  capabilities of reflectometer with details in Croacker talk. 

- During Fu and Heidbrink presentations people asked questions about
  similarity experiments with DIII-D. It was pointed out that the
  parameter scans of beam driven instabilities suggested by Fu should be
  extended to DIII-D experiments since such studied already showed
  nice results. 

- Martin asked Fu to identify parameters which would be key to
  creating the database in studying the instabilities on NSTX and
  possibly on DIII-D. 

- Croacker showed capabilities and plans for reflectometer and
  interferometer channels. It was noted that this diagnostic is
  critical for proper addressin of the milestone. This is because we
  need internal measurements of mode amplitudes and structure to
  correctly identify the modes and model them with the tools we have,
  such as ORBIT and NOVA.

- Many question were asked during Sid's talk, who presented NPA
  upgrades with its scanning capabilities. It also was brought up that
  NPA can operate with the 0.1msec resolution, which will be of a great
  help for diagnosing fast processes happening during chirping
  frequency events. 

- Gates expressed an interest in studying correlation of the MHD
  actibivity with the edge density measurements. It should be of
  relevance to CAE/GAE effects on fast ions.