Our workshop was held on July 28-31, 2003 at the Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, a small scenic town in Washington State (USA) located on the ocean in the northeastern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. This was a “transition workshop” in two senses. At the request of the US, two previously separate workshops are being combined into a single joint workshop. Also, our summer date is a transition from past meetings in the fall to future dates in the spring. More information is given in the presentation "Workshop History". We meet annually and alternate sites between Japan and the US.

Recent meetings of the long-standing US-Japan Workshop HHF Components and PSI for Next Fusion Devices have been held at Nagoya University in December 2002 and Asilomar Conference Center (California) in December 2001.A recent US-Japan Workshop on Fusion HPD Devices and Design was held at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, in October 2002.

We publish our workshops on the web in the US and in Japan.  The presentations for HHF Components and PSI for Next Fusion Devices in December 2002 in Nagoya may be found at http://www.nifs.ac.jp/usjp2002/index.html. In a casual format, we discuss ongoing progress and problems without the need of a formal paper. This year, major themes were plasma edge issues and plasma surface interactions in non-tokamak devices, simulations of material damage in IFE chambers and high power density.

I wish to thank the workshop attendees for their interesting presentations and excellent discussions. As always, the workshop provided opportunities to see old friends, make new friends and learn about interesting ongoing work.

Sincerely,
Richard E. Nygren,
Workshop Editor

Dr. Richard Nygren, Sandia National Laboratories                                           Workshop Agenda
505-845-3135
renygre@sandia.gov                                                                                            Presentations

Co-chairs:

Prof. Yoshio Ueda, Osaka University
81-6-6879-7236
yueda@eie.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Dr. Clement Wong, General Atomics
858-455-4258
wongc@fusion.gat.com

Prof. Hidetoshi Hashizume, Tohoku University
81-22-217-7904
hidetoshi.hashizume@qse.tohoku.ac.jp