2020 Summer School Schedule

EDT
(UTC-4)
Mon.
Aug. 17
Tue.
Aug. 18
Wed.
Aug. 19
Thur.
Aug. 20
Fri.
Aug. 21
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Overview
(Video)
(Amitava Bhattacharjee,
Georg Stadler)
       
10:00 - 11:00 Intro to Stellarators and Stellarator Optimization
(Slides)
(Video)
(Matt Landreman)
Unconstrained Optimization II
(Notebook)
(Video)
(David Bindel)
Metrics for Designing
a Stellarator

(Slides)
(Video)
(Sophia Henneberg)
Stochastic Optimization for Stellarators
(Slides)
(Video)
(Georg Stadler)
STELLOPT Labs  I & II
(Labs on Github)
(Videos)
(Elizabeth Paul, Coaxing Zhu)
11:00 - 12:00 Unconstrained Optimization I
(Notebook
(Video)
(David Bindel)
Unconstrained Optimization II
(Lab)
(Notebook)
(Video)
(Silke Glas)
Constrained
Optimization

(Slides)
(Video)
(Georg Stadler)
Optimization Under Uncertainty
(Lab)
(Video)
(Florian Wechsung)
STELLOPT Labs I & II
continued
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Virtual Meeting
Lounge
Virtual Meeting
Lounge
Virtual Meeting
Lounge
Virtual Meeting
Lounge
Virtual Meeting
Lounge
13:30 - 14:30 Unconstrained
Optimization I

Labs
(Video)
(Silke Glas)
Coils and MHD Models
(Slides)
(Video)
(Stuart Hudson)
Constrained
Optimization Lab

(Slides)
(Video)
(Andrew Giuliani)
Short Research Talks:
Stochastic Stellarator Coil Optimization
(Slides)
(Jim-Felix Lobsien)
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Developing a New Proxy
(Slides)
(Aaron Bader)
Short Research Talks:
Automatic Differentiation
(Slides)
(Nick McGreivy)
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Adjoint Methods
(Slides)
(Elizabeth Paul)
14:30 - 15:30 Elevator Talks I
(A-M)
(Video)
(Elizabeth Paul)
Elevator Talks II
(N-Z)
(Video)
(Caoxiang Zhu)
Gradient-Based
Vacuum Field Stellarator Optimization
Lab
(Video)
(Florian Wechsung)
Introduction to STELLOPT Lab
(Notebook)
(Slides)
(Video)
(Caoxiang Zhu)
STELLOPT Lab Team Presentations
(Video)
(Various)
Summer School Wrap-Up
(Video)
(Amitava Bhattacharjee)