Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy
Annual Team Meeting
March 17-19, 2025 (Princeton University)
701 Carnegie Center Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
GPS: 40.323907, -74.649496
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Agenda
| EDT Time (UTC+4) | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| March 16 | ||
| 5:00pm-7:00pm | Socialize - Meet at Triumph Restaurant & Brewery (20 Palmer Square) | |
| Mon - March 17 | Topic | |
| 08:30-08:50 am | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 08:50-09:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Elevator Pitch Order) (Elevator Pitch Slides - All) (Elevator Pitch Video - All) | Bindel / Landreman |
| 09:00-10:30 am | Elevator Pitches Part A (Slides-A) (Video-A) (90 min) 3/2 min presenter/discussion | Moderator: Bindel |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 am | Elevator Pitches Part B (Slides-B) (Video-B) (60 min) 3/2 min presenter/discussion | Moderator: Bindel |
| 12:00-01:30 pm | Lunch (1hr 30m) | |
| 01:30-03:00 pm | Elevator Pitches Part C (Slides-C) (Video-C) (90 min) 3/2 min presenter/discussion | Moderator: Bindel |
| 03:00-03:30 pm | Coffee | |
| 03:30-04:30 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Amitava Bhattacharjee | |
| 03:30-04:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarator with a Hard-Wired Transport Barrier? (Video) | Per Helander |
| 04:00-04:30 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Quasi-Isodynamic Figure-8 Stellarator (Key) (Video) | Gabe Plunk |
| 06:30-09:00 pm | Group Dinner at Nassau Inn | |
| Tue - March 18 | Topic | |
| 08:30-09:00 am | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 09:00-10:30 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Iván Calvo | |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Stochastic Single Stage Optimization (Video) | Pedro Gil |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Tailoring the Rotational Transform Profile for Improved Magnetic Flux Surfaces in Optimized Stellarator Configurations (Video) | Edi Sánchez |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Optimization with the Plasma Equilibrium Toolkit (Video) | Justin Walker |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Joaquim Loziu | |
| 11:00-11:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Direct Prediction of Nonlinearly Saturated Neoclassical Tearing Modes Using SPEC (Video) | Erol Balkovic |
| 11:30-12:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Distribution of Turbulent Fluctuations on Flux Surfaces in Stellarators (Video) | Hongxuan Zhu |
| 12:00-01:30 pm | Lunch (1hr 30m) | |
| 12:00-01:30 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Per Helander | |
| 01:30-02:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Exhaust Studies for Non-Resonant Divertors on HSX (Video) | Dieter Boeyaert |
| 02:00-02:30 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Piecewise Omnigenous Fields with Zero Bootstrap Current (Video) | Iván Calvo |
| 02:30-03:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Engineering Design and Assembly of the EPOS Stellarator (Key) (Video) | Paul Huslage |
| 03:00-03:30 pm | Coffee | |
| 3:30-04:30 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Adelle Wright | |
| 03:30-04:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Near-Ideal Relaxed MHD in Slab Geometry (Video) | Matthew Hole |
| 04:00-04:30 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Recent Progress in Stellarator Optimization (Video) | Amitava Bhattacharjee |
| Wed - March 19 | Topic | |
| 08:30-09:00 am | Check-In, Breakfast & Coffee | |
| 09:00-10:30 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Max Ruth | |
| 09:00-09:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Topological Optimisation for Stellarator Divertors (Video) | Robert Davies |
| 09:30-10:00 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Weighted Birkhoff Averaging for Measuring Energetic Particle Integrability (Video) | Alexandra Lachmann |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Direct Optimization of the Electric Field Profile Using NEOPAX+MONKES JAX Code Package (Video) | Eduardo Neto |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 pm | Research Talks – Moderator: Matthew Hole | |
| 11:00-11:30 am | Research Talk (30 min) -- Star_Lite Progress Update (Video) | Georg Harrer Shibabrat Naik |
| 11:30-12:00 pm | Research Talk (30 min) -- Visualizing the QUASR Stellarator Dataset (Video) | Andrew Giuliani |
| 12:00-12:10 pm | Research Talk (30 min) – Recent W7X Test Results (Video) | Per Helander |
| 12:10-12:30 pm | Discussion - Moderator: Amitava Bhattacharjee How SciDACs and private companies could carry on Hidden Symmetries-type activities | |
| 12:30 pm | Adjournment of the Hidden Symmetries Team Meeting 2025 | |
| 12:30-1:00pm | Travel to NYC to attend Collaboration Annual Meeting invitation only for “Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy” March 20-21, at Simons Foundation Bus pickups at 701 Carnegie, drop off at Princeton Junction Train Station for Train departures to Penn Station, NYC | |
| 1:00-2:30 pm | Stellarator Technology and Advanced Research Strategies (STARS) Workshop Town Hall (Held in the same MPR's B&C) | Adelle Wright |
| 2:45 - 3:00 pm | Bus pickups at 701 Carnegie, drop off at Princeton Junction Train Station for Train departures to Penn Station, NYC | |