The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will organize the Ninth IAEA Technical Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices (IAEA-TMSSO 2017) in Vienna, Austria, from 20 to 23 March 2017. The meeting will be hosted by the IAEA Headquarters. Previous meetings were held in Nara (Japan, 2015), Aix en Provence (France, 2013), Vienna, (Austria, 2010), Daejeon (Republic of Korea, 2007), Gandhinagar (India, 2005) Greifswald (Germany) & Cadarache (France, 2002), Kyushu (Japan, 1999) and Hefei (China, 1998).

As a series of Technical Meetings on steady state operations of magnetic fusion devices, IAEA-TMSSO 2017 will provide a preeminent forum to discuss current issues covering a wide range of technical topics related to the steady state operation issues and also to encourage forecast of the ITER performances.

The meeting will cover the following topics:

     1. Superconducting Devices;
        

     2. Long-pulse operation and Advanced Tokamak Physics;
         

     3. Steady State Fusion Technologies and Plasma Wall Interactions;
        

     4. Long pulse Heating and Current Drive;
         

     5. Particle Control and Power Exhaust;
        

     6. ITER-related research and Development issues.