Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy
Annual Team Meeting
March 20-22, 2023 (Princeton University)
701 Carnegie Center Princeton
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Agenda
| EDT Time (UTC+4) |
Title | Name |
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| March 19 | ||
| 5:00pm-7:00pm | Sunday evening reception at Alchemist & Barrister walk to 28 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542 from Nassau Inn |
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| March 20 | Overviews | |
| 08:00-08:10 am | Bus pickup at Nassau Inn, depart for 701 Carnegie Center | |
| 08:30-09:00 am | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 09:00-09:10 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Bindel / Landreman |
| 09:10-10:00 am | Institution Overviews | Moderator: Bindel |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Elevator Pitches Part A (45 min) 1 slide, <= 2 min per presenter | |
| 10:45-11:00 am | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:45 am | Elevator Pitches Part B (45 min) 1 slide, <= 2 min per presenter | |
| 11:45-12:30 pm |
Breakout - Gyrokinetics (45 min) Roberg-Clark: Turbulence Optimization Zocco: Ballooning vs ITG modes: A Local Comparative Study |
Chair: Rogerio Jorge |
| 12:30-02:00 pm | Lunch (1hr 30m) | |
| 02:00-03:00 pm |
Breakout - Coils (1hr) Gil: Quasisymmetric Measure and Coil Optimization for the EPOS Stellarator Huslage: Optimizing HTS Coils for a Pair Plasma Stellarator Kaptanoglu: New Coil Optimization Strategy |
Chair: Stuart Hudson |
| 03:00-03:15 pm | Coffee | |
| 03:15-05:00 pm |
Breakout - Optimization (1hr 45m) Lowe/Boozer: Optimized Stellarator Plans at Hampton/Issues in Stellarator Optimization Kolemen: Specifying the Stellarator Phase Space in New Ways With DESC Panici: Flexible Equilibrium Constraints in DESC Conlin: Constrained Optimization in DESC Stenson: Pair Plasma Stellarator Optimization/Design and Fusion Stellarator Optimization/Design |
Chair: Andrew Giuliani |
| 05:15-05:25 pm | Bus pickup at 701 Carnegie Center, depart for Nassau Inn | |
| 06:30-09:00 pm | Group Dinner at Nassau Inn | |
| March 21 | ||
| 08:00-08:10 am | Bus pickup at Nassau Inn, depart for 701 Carnegie Center | |
| 08:30-09:00 am | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 09:00-10:00 AM |
MHD Stability Tutorial (1hr) Hegna: MHD Stability Tutorial |
Chair: Matthew Hole |
| 10:00-10:45 AM |
Breakout - MHD Stability (45 min) Gaur: Optimizing Stellarators Against Linear Instabilities Glasser: Generalized Mercier Stability Criterion for Stellarators |
Chair: Matthew Hole |
| 10:45-11:00 AM | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:30 PM |
Breakout - QI (1hr 30m) Goodman: Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarator Optimization Dudt: QI Optimization Camacho: QI Construction Using Near-Axis Expansion Sanchez: A Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarator Optimized for Fast-Ion Confinement & Turbulent Transport |
Chair: Elizabeth Paul |
| 12:30-02:00 PM | Lunch (1hr 30m) | |
| 02:00-03:00 PM |
Panel Discussion with Start-up Companies (1hr) - Perspective from the private sector: What are important mathematical problems for stellarator design? Panelists: Thomas Kruger, Joritt Lion, Thomas Pedersen, Francesco Volpe, Michael Zarnstorff |
Moderator - Landreman |
| 03:00-03:15 PM | Coffee | |
| 03:15-05:00 PM |
Breakout - Energetic Particles (1hr 45m) Giuliani: Rare Event Sampling Algorithms for Efficient Estimation of Particle Losses Jeyakumar: A Structure-Preserving Way to Model Collisions in PIC Methods Paul: EP Transport in Configurations Close to QS with Alfvenic Perturbations Spong: EP Driven Instability Issues In Stellarator Reactors and Optimization Strategies Velasco: Quasi-isodynamicity and Fast Ion Confinement |
Chair: Sophia Henneberg |
| 05:15-05:25 pm | Bus pickup at 701 Carnegie Center, depart for Nassau Inn | |
| March 22 | ||
| 08:00-08:10 AM | Bus pickup at Nassau Inn, depart to 701 Carnegie Center | |
| 08:30-09:00 AM | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 09:00-10:00 AM |
Panel Discussion (1 hr) What questions do the mathematicians have for the physicists, and what questions do the physicists have for the mathematicians? Panelists: Peter Constantin, Per Helander, Elizabeth Paul, Georg Stadler |
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| 10:00-10:45 AM |
Breakout - Field Lines (45 min) Muir: Fast and Stable Method for Solving the Anisotropic Diffusion Equation Punjabi: A New Type of Stellarator Divertor - the Hybrid Divertor |
Chair: Aaron Bader |
| 10:45-11:00 AM | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 PM |
Breakout - Equilibrium (1 hr) Baillod: Equilibrium Beta Limit of a QA Stellarator w/Self-Consistent Bootstrap Current Sengupta: Exact Quasisymmetry and the KdV Equation Rodriguez: Near-Axis QI and QS Considerations |
Chair: Joaquim Loizu |
| 12:00-12:30 PM | Discussion of Future Grants / Collaboration time (30 min) | |
| 12:30 PM | Box Lunch Pickup | |
| 12:30 PM Adjournment | Travel to NYC to attend Collaboration Annual Meeting for “Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy” March 23-24, at Simons Foundation (invitation only) |
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12:45-1:00PM 2:30-2:45PM |
Bus pickups at 701 Carnegie Center, depart for Princeton Junction Train Station Train departures for Penn Station, NYC: Dep 1:05 pm Princeton Jct Arr 2:24 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3846 Dep 1:22 pm Princeton Jct Arr 2:42 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3848 Dep 1:57 pm Princeton Jct Arr 3:15 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3850 Dep 2:24 pm Princeton Jct Arr 3:43 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3852 Dep 3:12 pm Princeton Jct Arr 4:15 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3854 Dep 3:25 pm Princeton Jct Arr 4:44 pm Penn Station, Northeast Corridor #3856 |
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