Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy Annual Meeting 2022

Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy Annual Meeting March 24-25, 2022

Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy 
March 24-25, 2022 (Simons Foundation, NYC)

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
160 5th Ave #9, New York, NY 10010

The Simons Foundation will host a conference with national and international participants from the fusion energy community.  Attendance will be by invitation only.

Time (UTC+4) Name Title
Thursday, Mar 24, 2022  
 8:30 am CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST  
 9:30 am Amitava Bhattacharjee
Princeton University
Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy: An Overview
10:30 am BREAK  
11:00 am Joaquim Loizu
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Fast 3D MHD Equilibrium and Stability Calculations in the
Presence of Islands and Chaos
12:00 pm LUNCH  
 1:00 pm Per Helander
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Optimizing Plasma Confinement
 2:00 pm BREAK  
 2:30 pm Elizabeth Paul
Princeton University
Advancing the Stellarator with Adjoint-Based Optimization
 3:30 pm BREAK  
 4:00 pm Peter Constantin
Princeton University
On Magnetohydrostatic Equilbria
Friday, Mar 25, 2022  
 8:30 am CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST  
 9:30 am Matt Landreman
University of Maryland
Innovations in Stellarator Optimization for Quasisymmetry
10:30 am BREAK  
11:00 am Florian Wechsung
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Derivative-Based Algorithms to Find Coil Designs That Are
Robust to Manufacturing Errors
12:00 pm LUNCH  
 1:00 pm Thomas Sunn Pedersen
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
 Towards an Optimized Stellarator Reactor Design
 2:00 pm MEETING CONCLUDES