Scientific Calendar Event



Description

An ICTP-IAEA Meeting
 
Participants will attend two week-long intensive school featuring experts' lectures from the academia and the private sector, to develop a wider understanding of fusion energy and provide them opportunities to connect with leading researchers.

Research into fusion is entering an exciting new era with several large facilities aiming to achieve the crucial milestone of net energy gain. To create sustained fusion reactions, fusion fuel must be heated to 100 million degrees. The fuel is rapidly converted to plasma, which is extremely difficult to confine and control. New international facilities using high energy lasers and superconducting magnets are crucial steps on the way to reliable fusion energy but there are still many challenges to overcome. This school will prepare to address these challenges. Participants will be introduced to the skills in computational and experimental plasma physics, and conduct cutting-edge research and technology under the guidance of leading international scientists and engineers. Participants will have the opportunities to interact with world-class international fusion experts, making the Fusion Energy School an excellent way to explore your interest in fusion and prepare for a career in this field.
 
Core lectures:
  • Plasma Physics for Fusion
  • Magnetic Confinement Fusion
  • Inertial Confinement Fusion
  • Plasma Diagnostic Techniques
  • Fusion Energy Technology
  • Fusion Fuel Cycle
  • Fusion Safety and Regulation
  • Fusion Legal and Institutional Aspects
  • Workshop on Designing DEMOs and Pilot Plants
  • Fusion Laboratory

Option lectures:
  • High Performance Computing
  • AI/ML Methods in Fusion
  • Low Temperature Plasma Science and Technology
  • Laser Interactions and High Density Plasmas
  • Astrophysical Plasmas
  • Lasers and Atom-Light Interactions
  • Nuclear Data

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
 
Go to day
  • Monday, 6 May 2024
    • 09:00 - 10:30
      • 09:00 Registration Formalities 30'
        REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level). The Registration Desk will be open from 9.00 to 9.30
      • 09:30 IAEA Welcome and Introduction 15'
        Speaker: Ryan WAGNER (IAEA, Austria), Swadesh MAHAJAN (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
      • 09:45 ICTP Welcome Remarks 15'
        Speaker: Ralf KAISER (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 17:30
      • 10:30 Pathways to Commercially Fusion Energy 1h0'
        Speaker: Swadesh MAHAJAN (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Lectures on basic Physics- Interacting Nonlinear Waves1 1h0'
        Speaker: Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Structured research presentations- high student participation 1h0'
        Speaker: Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile), Palak JAIN (IAEA, Austria) Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany), Hamid SALEEM (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Structured research presentations- high student participation 2h0'
        Speaker: Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile), Palak JAIN (IAEA, Austria) Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany) Hamid SALEEM (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan)
  • Tuesday, 7 May 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Commercially Viable Fusion- Deeper Introduction 1h0'
        Speaker: Swadesh MAHAJAN (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:30 Lectures on basic Physics- Interacting Nonlinear Waves 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Designing and Constructing Moderate-Sized Fusion Machines - Part I 1h0'
        Speaker: Carlos Alejandro ROMERO TALAMAS (University of Maryland, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Structured research presentations- high student participation 1h0'
        Speaker: Hamid SALEEM (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan), Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile) Palak JAIN (IAEA, Austria), Carlos Alejandro ROMERO TALAMAS University of Maryland, USA), Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Structured research presentations- high student participation 2h0'
        Speaker: Hamid SALEEM (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan), Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile) Palak JAIN (IAEA, Austria), Carlos Alejandro ROMERO TALAMAS University of Maryland, USA), Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany)
    • 18:30 - 20:30
      • 18:30 Welcome Reception 2h0'
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception
  • Wednesday, 8 May 2024
    • 09:00 - 16:30
      • 09:00 Climate Change and Fusion 1h0'
        Speaker: Ralf KAISER (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:30 Gyro kinetics - Introduction 1h0'
        Speaker: Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Designing and Constructing Moderate-Sized Fusion Machines - Part II 1h0'
        Speaker: Carlos Alejandro ROMERO TALAMAS (University of Maryland, USA)
      • 12:30 Group Photo 5'
      • 12:35 Lunch Break 1h25'
      • 14:00 Challenges in Developing and Constructing tokamaks 1h0'
        Speaker: Ryan WAGNER (IAEA, Austria)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Lectures on basic Physics- Interacting Nonlinear Waves 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Felipe ASENJO (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
        Material: Slides
  • Thursday, 9 May 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Gyro kinetics: Gekyll Turbulence 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Ammar HAKIM (Princeton University, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:30 Gyrokinetic Stability- Transport Barriers (including H-mode) 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Designing and Constructing Moderate-Sized Fusion Machines - Part III 1h0'
        Speaker: Carlos Alejandro ROMERO TALAMAS (University of Maryland, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Poster session 1h0'
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Poster session 2h0'
  • Friday, 10 May 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Gyro kinetics: Gekyll Turbulence 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Ammar HAKIM (Princeton University, USA)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:30 Overall theory of Transport Barriers - The GK Constraint 1h0'
        Speaker: Gabriele MERLO (IPP, Germany)
      • 11:30 Gyro kinetics: Gekyll Turbulence 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Ammar HAKIM (Princeton University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Summing up - Questions and Answers 1h0'
        Speaker: Swadesh MAHAJAN (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Jain PALAK (IAEA, Austria) and the present Faculty
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Summing up - Questions and Answers 2h0'
        Speaker: Swadesh MAHAJAN (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Jain PALAK (IAEA, Austria) and the present Faculty
  • Monday, 13 May 2024
    • 09:30 - 17:00
      • 09:30 IAEA Welcome and introduction to the second week 30'
        Speaker: Matteo BARBARINO (IAEA, Austria)
      • 10:00 Review of plasma concepts 1h0'
        Speaker: Arturo DOMINGUEZ (PPPL, USA)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:20 Introduction to MFE 1h0'
        Speaker: Arturo DOMINGUEZ (PPPL, USA)
        Material: Notes Slides
      • 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
      • 14:00 Fusion meets society - interdiscplinary approach to commercialization 1h0'
        Speaker: Stephanie DIEM (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Ignition talks by all students (3 min each) 1h30'
  • Tuesday, 14 May 2024
    • 10:00 - 17:00
      • 10:00 Introduction to ICF 1h0'
        Speaker: Ryan MC CLARREN (University of Notre Dame,USA)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:20 Waves in Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: Troy CARTER (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
      • 14:00 Introduction to the plasma edge (MFE) 1h0'
        Speaker: Saskia MORDIJCK (William & Mary, USA)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 The National Ignition Facility 1h30'
        remote
        Speaker: Omar HURRICANE (LNLL, USA)
  • Wednesday, 15 May 2024
    • 10:00 - 17:00
      • 10:00 Turbulence and Transport 1h0'
        Speaker: Troy CARTER (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:20 Heating and current drive 1h0'
        Speaker: Stephanie DIEM (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
      • 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
      • 14:00 The ITER Project 1h0'
        remote
        Speaker: Alberto LOARTE (ITER, France)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Panel with all lecturers 1h30'
  • Thursday, 16 May 2024
    • 10:00 - 17:00
      • 10:00 Energy Conversion and Fuel Production 1h0'
        Speaker: Ryan MC CLARREN (University of Notre Dame,USA)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:20 Instabilities & mitigation 1h0'
        Speaker: Saskia MORDIJCK (William & Mary, USA)
      • 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
      • 14:00 Introduction to Plasma Focus Device and Applications 1h0'
        Speaker: Leopoldo Alejandro SOTO NORAMBUENA (Comision Chilena de Energia Nuclear)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:30 Panel with fusion energy stakeholders 1h30'
        Speaker: Achilleas Nestor EVANGELIAS (Renaissance, France), Filippo ELIO (Deutelio AG, Switzerland)
  • Friday, 17 May 2024
    • 10:00 - 13:00
      • 10:00 Future challenges in fusion and the future landscape 1h0'
        Speaker: Arturo DOMINGUEZ (PPPL, USA), Stephanie DIEM (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Matteo BARBARINO (IAEA, Austria)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:20 Future challenges in fusion and the future landscape 1h0'
        Speaker: Arturo DOMINGUEZ (PPPL, USA), Stephanie DIEM (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Matteo BARBARINO (IAEA, Austria)
      • 12:20 Award Ceremony 40'