| Monday, August 3: Overviews |
| Time (UTC+4) |
Topic (Video Link) |
Speaker: Presentation (Slides Link) |
| 8:00~9:00 AM |
Overview:
MHD Overview |
J. Loizu: Overview and Perspectives of MHD Research
Z. Qu |
| 9:00~10:00 AM |
Overview:
Nonlinear Dynamics |
R. MacKay: Progress and Problems in Nonlinear Dynamics
J. Meiss: Near-Axis Expansions |
| 10:00~10:30 AM |
Break |
|
| 10:30~11:30 AM |
Overview:
Optimization |
G. Stadler: Optimization for Stellerators
D. Bindel |
| 11:30AM~12:30 PM |
Overview:
Confinement |
P. Helander: Known and Unknown in Stellarator Confinement (pptx) (pdf)
E. Stenson: Envisioning EPOS: Electrons and Positrons in an Optimized Stellarator |
| 12:30~01:00 PM |
Break |
|
| 01:00~02:00 PM |
Overview:
SIMSOPT |
M. Landreman: SIMSOPT Overview |
| Tuesday, August 4: Breakout Sessions |
| 08:00~10:00 AM |
Breakout: MHD
(Moderator: J. Loizu) |
A. Cerfon: Progress and Challenges For the Robust Calculation of Equilibrium Configurations in BIEST and NSTAB
S. Hudson: An introduction to the free-boundary algorithm in the SPEC code
A. Baillod: Bootstrap current effect on classical stellarator beta limits with SPEC
A. Kumar: SPEC as 3D MHD stability code
A. Golab: Distance of Coils from Plasma Boundar |
| 08:00~10:00 AM |
Breakout: Optimization
(Moderator: G. Stadler) |
A. Giuliani: Direct gradient-based coil design in vacuum fields: optimization for quasi-symmetry
F. Wechsung: Direct gradient-based coil design in vacuum fields: stochastic optimization
S. Glas: Optimization Under Uncertainty
A. Geraldini: Computing Magnetic Island Width Sensitivity |
| 10:00~10:30 AM |
Break |
|
| 10:30 AM~12:30 PM |
Breakout: Confinement
(Moderator: P. Helander) |
A. Boozer: Stellarators with Annular Confinement
J. Burby: Fast Neural Pointcare Maps
R. Jorge: The Use of Near-Axis Magnetic Fields for Stellarator Turbulence Simulations
G. Roberg-Clark: Turbulence optimization without turbulence |
| 12:30~01:00 PM |
Break |
|
| Cross-Cutting Topics |
|
| 01:00~02:00 PM |
Quasi-Symmetric
3D Equilibria:
How To Construct Them?
(Moderator: A. Bhattacharjee) |
D. Ginsberg: On Quasisymmetric Plasma Equilibria With Small Force
M. Landreman: Update On Near-Axis Quasisymmetry Construction, And Suggested Research Questions
E. Rodriguez: Avoiding the problem of Overdetermination in Quasisymmetric Near-axis Expansions: Anisotropic Solution
G. Plunk: Deforming A Tokamak Toward QAS
R. Mackay: Conditions For Quasi-Symmetries, Killing Field Or Kovalevskaya, And Generalised Grad-Shafranov Equations |
| 01:00~02:00 PM |
Stochastic Optimization:
Theory and Practice
(Moderators: D. Bindel/G. Stadler) |
J. Lobsien: Improvements on Stochastic Stellarator Coil Optimization
F. Wechsung: Modeling of coil uncertainties and risk-neutral designs (no slides)
T. Pederson: Comments on building coils and resulting uncertainties
Discussion |
| Wednesday, August 5: Breakout Sessions (Continued) |
| 8:00~10:00 AM |
Breakout: Nonlinear Dynamics
(Moderator: J. Meiss) |
Converse KAM
R. MacKay: Formulation and Examples
N. Duignan: Converse KAM for Foliations
Integrability of GC motion
N. Kallinikos: First-Order Symmetries
E. Rodriguez: Weak Quasi-Symmetry
Near-Axis Expansions
R. Jorge: Near-Axis Expansions to Arbitrary Order
W. Sengupta: Mercier-Weitzner Formulation
J. Burby: Near-axis magnetic coordinates for integrable magnetic fields
A. Boozer: Cantori, Turnstiles, and Divertors |
| 10:00~10:30 AM |
Break |
|
| 10:30 AM~12:30 PM |
Breakout: SIMSOPT
(Moderator: M. Landreman) |
B. Medasani: Guidelines for Simsopt Development
C. Zhu: Python wrapper for Fortran legacy codes
E. Paul: Gradient-based fixed-boundary optimization of VMEC and SPEC equilibria
B. Faber: Towards a modular, high-performance, scalable stellarator optimizer |
| 12:30~01:00 PM |
Break |
|
| Cross-Cutting Topics |
|
| 01:00~02:00 PM |
Non-Ideal Stability
(Moderator: P. Helander) |
J. Loizu: Direct Prediction of Saturated Island Widths using SPEC
A. Zocco: Sawtooth physics in W7-X
D. Spong: Optimizing for Energetic Particle Instability Suppression |
| Thursday, August 6: Cross-Cutting Topics |
| 08:00~10:00 AM |
Optimizing EPOS:
A Grand Challenge Problem
(Moderator: E. Stenson) |
Discussions... |
| 08:00~10:00 AM |
Diagnostics for MRxMHD Codes and Integration Strategies Into SIMSOPT
(Moderator: Z. Qu) |
Z. Qu: Cross-cutting discussion: MRxMHD tools, nonlinear dynamics diagnostics and SIMSOPT |
| 10:00~10:30 AM |
Break |
|
| 10:30 AM~12:30 PM |
Divertors: What directions should we pursue?
(Moderator: P. Helander) |
Y. Feng: Island Divertors
A. Bader: Non-resonant divertors
T. Pedersen: Non-divertor exhaust solutions |
| 12:30~01:00 PM |
Break |
|
| 01:00~02:00 PM |
Diagnostics to Measure
Flux Surface Quality/Islands
(Moderator: M. Landreman) |
Discussions... |
| Friday, August 7: Summaries and Goals for the Next year and Beyond |
| 09:00-09:25 AM |
SIMSOPT
M. Landreman |
|
| 09:25~09:50 AM |
Nonlinear Dynamics
J. Meiss |
|
| 09:50~10:15 AM |
Optimization
G. Stadler |
|
| 10:15~10:45 AM |
Break |
|
| 10:45~11:10 AM |
MHD
J. Loizu |
Summaries and Goals |
| 11:10~11:35 AM |
Confinement
P. Helander |
|
| 11:35 AM~12:30 PM |
Finalizing Goals/Milestones
A. Bhattacharjee |
|
| Adjournment |
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