FuseNet PhD Event 2015
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU Prague

The fifth edition of the FuseNet PhD event will take place from 15 - 18 November 2015 in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic.
Organized by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague under the umbrella of the FuseNet Association and with financial support by EUROfusion, the PhD Event 2015 brings together PhD students working in the field of fusion science and engineering.
The event is building on the experience and feedback from the 4 previous editions, and is for large part organized by a student committee.
The aim of the event is to enable students to disseminate their research, develop a network of contacts and learn from each other's experiences.
This will be achieved by:
- PhD student presentations (posters and/or oral session for all students)
- Appealing line-up of Invited speakers, among them are Richard Pitts of ITER, Jochen Linke of FZJ and Ambrogio Fasoli of EPFL
- Excursion options:
- HiLase & ELI (Laser Centers)
- COMPASS (tokamak) & PALS (Laser System)
- Research Centre Rez (Fusion technology)
- GOLEM (Tokamak)
- Social events
- Discussion sessions and soft-skill sessions
- Programme
The PhD Event in Fusion Science and Engineering is open to all PhD students, whose topic is associated to nuclear fusion research and registered at a European university, or at a FuseNet member university.
Financial support for attending students is available, granted by EUROfusion through FuseNet, at the FuseNet website.



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Check-in at Hotel (continuously possible until 24:00) IBIS Praha Old Town
IBIS Praha Old Town
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Registration at FNSPE + Teambuilding game: Scientific Exploration Game (Outdoor in Prag...
Handout of programme and instructions.
Teambuilding in groups (each time sufficient people came in) for a Scientific Exploration of Prague (indoor activities in case of bad weather) (V. Svoboda).
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Official Opening and Speed Dating Atrium
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Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU Prague
Břehová 7 115 19 Praha 1Convener: Prof. Kieran Gibson-
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Official Opening Address + Speed DatingSpeaker: Prof. Kieran Gibson
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Welcome party (including dinner)
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Plenary talks: Keynote by Dr. Richard Pitts (ITER): ITER status and challenges
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Introduction, info B103
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Speaker: Dr Jan Mlynář (IPP.CR)
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Group Photo + Coffee Break Atrium, Corridors
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Plenary Oral Presentations: Session 1 by PhD studentsConvener: click to see the contributions *
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Gyrokinetic investigation of turbulent flow dynamics in tokamak plasmasSpeaker: Mr Paavo Niskala (Aalto University)
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Experimental Study of Radial Turbulence with an Ultra-fast-swept Reflectometer at ASDEX UpgradeSpeaker: Ms Anna Medvedeva (Technische Universität München, Université de Lorraine)
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Study of the poloidal asymmetry of edge turbulence at ASDEX Upgrade tokamak with microwave reflectometrySpeaker: Ms Valentina Nikolaeva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technische Universität München)
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Interaction between neutral beam fast particles and plasma in fusion experimentsSpeaker: Mr Pietro Vincenzi (University of Padova)
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Erosion and Deposition in JETSpeaker: Mr James Beal (University of York)
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Plasma cleaning of ITER First MirrorsSpeaker: Mr Moser Lucas (University of Basel)
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Poster presentations: Group 1Convener: click to see the contributions *
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3D ECEI studies of ELMsSpeaker: Ms Branka Vanovac
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Advanced tools for three-dimensional modeling and control of thermonuclear fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Leonardo Pigatto
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Advanced transport modeling in tokamak plasmasSpeaker: Mr Ivan Erofeev
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Alternative target concepts for power and particle exhaust in fusion applicationSpeaker: Mr Vladimir Kvon
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Analysis of the energy distribution of escaping suprathermal ions in neutral-beam injection phase of the TJ-II stellaratorSpeaker: Mr Marco Martinez
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Assessment of retention of plasma components in Tungsten in the presence of neutron irradiation: multi-scale modelling approach.Speaker: Mr Petr Grigorev
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BOUT++ CodeSpeaker: Mr David Schwörer
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Coherent electromagnetic activity in TJ-II palsmasSpeaker: Mr Baojun Sun
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Comparison of beam light and electron density fluctuations using Li-BESSpeaker: Mr Jaroslav Krbec
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Design and operation of antennas at the ion cyclotron and lower hybrid frequencies for nuclear fusion reactorsSpeaker: Mr Walid Helou
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Determination of the nature of radial transport in quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator config. for the confinement of fusion plasmasSpeaker: Mr Jorge Alberto Alcusón
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Development of advanced carbon based film for application in neutron detectorsSpeaker: Ms Federica Inzoli
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Development, optimization and testing of high performance cooling systems for fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Giulio Gambetta
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Disruptions in tokamaksSpeaker: Mr Vadim Yanovskiy
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Dust resuspension phenomena experiments and modeling in case of loss of vacuum accidents inside tokamaksSpeaker: Mr Luigi Antonio Poggi
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Electron Cyclotron Emission Measurements at the Stellarator TJ-KSpeaker: Mr Gabriel Sichardt
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Experimental and numerical study of turbulence in fusion plasmas using gyrokinetics codes data in reflectometry synthetic diagnoSpeaker: Mr Georgiy Zadvitskiy
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Experimental investigation of ICRF wave field/SOL plasma interactions with RF and electrostatic probesSpeaker: Mr Guillermo Suarez Lopez
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Global Modelling of Turbulence and Transport in Magnetically Confined PlasmaSpeaker: Mr Michael Løiten
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Hybrid MHD-Particle Simulations of ELMs in ITER Divertor ConditionsSpeaker: Mr Daan van Vugt
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Hydrogen and impurities retention studies on Tungsten-Lithium divertor materials by using Glow Discharge and Laser techniquesSpeaker: Mr Alfonso de Castro
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Identification of trapped electron modes in frequency fluctuation spectra of fusion plasmaSpeaker: Mr Hugo Arnichand
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Implementation of a X-mode multichannel edge density profile reflectometer for the new ICRH antenna on ASDEX UpgradeSpeaker: Mr Aguiam Diogo
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Impurity transport in the W7X stellarator.Speaker: Mr Pranay Valson
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Industrial engineering: Energy from Nuclear FusionSpeaker: Mr Michele Lungaroni
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Investigation of the parameters of a particle beam by numerical models and diagnostic calorimetrySpeaker: Mr Antonio Pimazzoni
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Ion Cyclotron Antennas for Fusion DevicesSpeaker: Mr Riccardo Ragona
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Ion velocity measurements by LIF in IEC fusion reactorSpeaker: Mr Bram Wolf Dutch
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Magnetic Reconnection on fusion plasmasSpeaker: Mr Luigi Cordaro
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Main subject is about fusion plasma diagnostics, in particular gamma and neutron spectroscopy for a thermonuclear fusion reactorSpeaker: Mr Davide Rigamonti
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MCNP Calculations of Neutron Distribution at the GIT-12 DeviceSpeaker: Mr Ondřej Šíla
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Mm-wave scattering by electron density perturbation in fusion plasmasSpeaker: Ms Oulfa Chellaï
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Modelling and control of RFX-mod tokamak equilibriaSpeaker: Mr Abate Domenico
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Modelling radiation damage within a fusion environmentSpeaker: Mr Luke Menzies
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Multi-scale thermal-hydraulic modeling for nuclear fusion reactorsSpeaker: Mr Antonio Froio
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Neutron transport and radioactive processes analysis in nuclear fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Andrius Tidikas
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Nitriding of titanium and steels in plasma of non-self-maintained gas discharge with hollow anodeSpeaker: Mr Ivan Misiruk
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Plasma edge modeling with ICRF couplingSpeaker: Mr Wei Zhang
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Plasma facing componentsSpeaker: Mrs Marwa Ben Yaala
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Plasma PhysicsSpeaker: Mrs Embie Hasan
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Plasma wall interaction in the context of nuclear fusionSpeaker: Ms Catalina Quiros Lara
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Runaway electron losses induced by various MHD events in the COMPASS tokamakSpeaker: Mr Ondřej Ficker
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Simulations of electric probes in magnetized plasmaSpeaker: Mr Aleš Podolník
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Stability of fusion superconductorsSpeaker: Mr Tommaso Bagni
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Study of H, D and N atoms on/in fusion relevant wall materialsSpeaker: Mr Marek Pribula
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Study of RF discharge enhancement for LIBS analyses of fusion-relevant wall materialsSpeaker: Ms Mária Suchoňová
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Study of tungsten and tungsten compound coatings for magnetic fusion research: damage, hydrogen retention and permeationSpeaker: Mr Andrea Pezzoli
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The Effect of Non-Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields in TokamaksSpeaker: Mr David Ryan
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The Improvement and Implementation of Ion-Impact Excitation in the Generalized Collisional Radiative Modelling of Fusion PlasmasSpeaker: Mr Matthew Bluteau
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The isotope effect in the FT-2 tokamakSpeaker: Mr Artur Perevalov
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Theoretical fusion plasma physicsSpeaker: Mr Vallejos Olivares
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Thermal-hydraulic analyses of plasma facing components (Blanket modules and Divertor) of Fusion Reactors (ITER and DEMO).Speaker: Silvia Garitta
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Thermo mechanical simulation for fusion power componentsSpeaker: Mrs Judit Szalai
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Thermo-hydraulic models and analyses for design optimization of cooling circuits and components of SPIDER and MITICA experimentsSpeaker: Mr Matteo Zaupa
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Thermo-mechanical analyses and design of components for fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Nisarg Patel
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Thermo-mechanical analyses of the DEMO Water Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) breeding blanket concept.Speaker: Mr Gaetano Bongiovì
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Thermo-mechanical characterization of novel coatings designed for harsh temperature and irradiation environmentsSpeaker: Mr Edoardo Besozzi
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Three-dimensional Physics of Revised Field Pinch and StellaratorSpeaker: Mr Yangyang Zhang
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Lunch in parallel with poster session + Light-packed dinner (optional) Atrium
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Excursion to COMPASS & PALS Institute of Plasma Physics CAS
Institute of Plasma Physics CAS
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Excursion to CV Řež Research Centre Řež
Research Centre Řež
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Excursion to ELI & HiLASE Institute of Physics CAS - ELI Beamlines
Institute of Physics CAS - ELI Beamlines
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Excursion to GOLEM (optional)
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Free time
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Plenary talks: Dr. Jochen Linke (FZ-Julich): Material issues for plasma facing components in future fusion devices B103
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Plenary note on 17th November B103
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Material issues for plasma facing components in future fusion devices B103
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Coffee Break Atrium
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Plenary Oral Presentations: Session 2 by PhD studentsConvener: click to see the contributions *
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Spectroscopic study of dense and hot plasma: detailed and statistical codeSpeaker: Ms Xieyu Na (University Paris-Saclay)
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Equilibrium and Stability of MHD 3D configurations using the SIESTA codeSpeaker: Mr Hugo Peraza Rodriguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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Modern real-time feedback control of MHD stability in fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Ondrej Kudlacek (University of Padova)
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Monitoring of Instrumentation for Critical Nuclear Fusion Plasma Control and Data Acquisition SystemsSpeaker: Mr Paulo Carvalho (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
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Thermal Hydraulic and Safety Analyses Fusion Reactors PHTSSpeaker: Mr Dario Carloni (Pisa University)
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High Field Superconductors for Fusion ApplicationsSpeaker: Mr Paul Branch (Durham University)
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Poster presentations: Group 2Convener: click to see the contributions *
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Analysis of the thermo-mechanic behaviour of fusion breeding blanketsSpeaker: Mr Pietro Arena
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Breakup and dynamics of metal droplets in a tokamak plasmaSpeaker: Mr Joshua Holgate
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Characterization of the dielectric strength in vacuum of RF drivers for fusion Neutral Beam InjectorsSpeaker: Mr Alberto Maistrello
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Characterization of the Internal Reconnection Event in spherical tokamak Globus-MSpeaker: Ms Alexandra Dudkovskaya
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Characterization of the poloidal asymmetries of Tungsten and its impact to the radial impurity transportSpeaker: Mr Tomáš Odstrčil
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Coupling of Kinetic Periphery Plasma Code to SOLPSSpeaker: Mr Menglong Zhao
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Design of electric and magnetic components of a negative ion accelerator in view of application to ITER neutral beam injectorSpeaker: Mr Daniele Aprile
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Detachment and instability studies on the York Linear Plasma DeviceSpeaker: Ms Hannah Willett
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Development a dynamical model of the RE beam current and horizontal position during the RE plateau.Speaker: Mr Mateusz Gospodarczyk
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Development of GEM detector for fast and thermal neutronSpeaker: Mr Andrea Muraro
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Development of innovative methods and tools for real-time control system in fusion devicesSpeaker: Mr Tautvydas Maceina
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Development of novel diagnostics for the MAST-Upgrade tokamak using FPGAsSpeaker: Mr Jack Lovell
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Dielectric properties of Fusion-relevant materialsSpeaker: Mr Dario Andres Cruz Malagon
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Doppler ReflectometrySpeaker: Mr Javier Rodrigo Pinzon Acosta
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Dynamical relation between gradient and transport in Fusion PlasmasSpeaker: Mr Javier Hernandez Nicolau
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Dynamics of turbulence filaments in the edge of tokamak plasmasSpeaker: Mr William Gracias
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Effects of ion irradiation on oxide dispersion strengthened steels for fusionSpeaker: Mr Masa Scepanovic
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Electromagnetic properties of edge turbulance in fusion plasma devicesSpeaker: Mr Bing Liu
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Electron heat transport in fusion plasmasSpeaker: Mr Nicola Bonanomi
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Embrittlement of fusion materials initiated by neutron irradiationSpeaker: Mr Andrii Dubinko
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Evaluation of methods for power calibration in large tokamaksSpeaker: Mr Aljaž Čufar
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Experimental and numerical study on advanced inorganic membranes for tritium processes in the Breeding BlanketSpeaker: Mr Rodrigo Antunes
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Experimental Devices within SUSEN Project in CV RezSpeaker: Mr Jan Prokůpek
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Experimental studies of RF sheath rectification in magnetized plasmas using fast and slow ICRF antennasSpeaker: Ms Mariia Usoltceva
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Experimental Study of Plasma Rotation During Tokamak DisruptionsSpeaker: Syed Ilyas Waseem Shah
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First NPA results on the COMPASS tokamakSpeaker: Ms Klára Mitošínková
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High Field Superconductors for Fusion ApplicationsSpeaker: Mr Paul Branch
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High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) with a view to creating niobium filmsSpeaker: Mr Francis Lockwood Estrin
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Homogeneity in breeder blanket modellingSpeaker: Mr Fred Thomas
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Investigation and simulation of the brittle fracture behavior of tungsten and tungsten lanthanum oxideSpeaker: Mr Marco Conte
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Irradiation induced structure and property changes in Tokamak functional materialsSpeaker: Ms Indra Krevica
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ITER Control SimulatorSpeaker: Mr Martynas Prokopas
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ITER relevant disruption and runaway electron studiesSpeaker: Ms Zana Popovic Croatian
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Large scale numerical simulation of nonlinear kinetic physics in plasma experiments for magnetically confined fusionSpeaker: Mr Benjamin Chapman
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Measurement of Heat Flux Widths in TokamaksSpeaker: Mr Alistair McGann
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Mechanical Properties of Fusion Relevant MaterialsSpeaker: Ms Vladica Nikolic
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Mechanical properties of ODS Steels for fusion reactorsSpeaker: Mr Julio Macías Delgado
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Modeling of heat transfer problems at the interface between different subsystems of a superconducting tokamakSpeaker: Mr Stefano Carli
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Modeling on non-linear ion cyclotron wave plasma interaction in magnetized plasma SOLSpeaker: Mr LingFeng Lu
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Modeling, analysis and design of superconductor cables for fusionSpeaker: Mr Jianfeng Huang
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Modelisation of the heat flux generated by electrons accelerated in front of lower-hybrid antennas in TokamakSpeaker: Mr Laurent Valade
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Monitoring of Instrumentation for Critical Nuclear Fusion Plasma Control and Data Acquisition SystemsSpeaker: Mr Paulo Carvalho
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Neutronics tools and design analysis for the stellarator power reactor HELIASSpeaker: Mr André Häußler
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Non-local Neoclassical Transport features of bulk plasma and a-particles in reactor relevant burning plasmasSpeaker: Ms Alena Gogoleva
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Nuclear analysis and computational development for the design of fusion installations.Speaker: Mr Aljaz Kolsek
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Plasma diagnostic using new FPGA tecnologySpeaker: Mr Marco Gottardo
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Plasma physicsSpeaker: Mrs Plamena Marinova
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Plasma response field to RMP on COMPASS - measurements and modellingSpeaker: Mr Tomáš Markovič
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Potential of ECE Diagnostics for Runaway Electron StudiesSpeaker: Mr Miloš Vlainić
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Power Exhaust data analysis and modeling of the EAST experiment in advanced divertor configurationSpeaker: Mr Giulio Rubino
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Production and characterization of strengthened copper alloys for cooling device in fusion reactorsSpeaker: Mr Gabriel Carro Sevillano
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Scrape-off layer heat flux profile measurement in the medium and long wavelength infrared on COMPASSSpeaker: Mr Petr Vondráček
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Studies & experimental activities to qualify behavior of RF power circuits for Negative Ion Sources of NBI for ITERSpeaker: Ms Palak Jain
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Studies of Coherent Structures in Magnetically Confined PlasmasSpeaker: Mr Jeppe Miki Busk Olsen
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Study of magnetized radio frequency sheaths using kinetic simulationsSpeaker: Ms Aoife Somers
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Study on NIO1 and SPIDER Ion sources optics and spectroscopySpeaker: Mr Carlo Baltador
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Synergestic Effects of Plasma and Neutron IrradiationSpeaker: Mr AsaD Hussain
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The effect of ion flux and radiation damage on deuterium retention in tungsten-based materials Indico - Integrated Digital Conference Powered by IndicoSpeaker: Mr Mikhail Zibrov
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The influence of neutral particles on blob filaments in magnetically confined plasmaSpeaker: Mr Alexander Simon Christensen
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Thermal Hydraulic and Safety Analyses Fusion Reactors PHTSSpeaker: Mr Dario Carloni
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Thermal Stratification Investigation for The TOKAMAK Cooling Water SystemSpeaker: Mr Jie Zheng
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Understanding plasma detachment through advanced diagnosisSpeaker: Mr Karol Jesko
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Plenary talks: Fusion and public communication B103
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Fusion and public communicationSpeakers: Mr Daniel Clery (Scientific Journalist), Mrs Sabina Griffith (ITER)
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Coffee Break
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Parallel talks and preparations of group presentations: Magnetosphere of the EarthConvener: Prof. O. Santolík (Institute of Atmosferic Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Magnetosphere of the Earth and other planetsSpeaker: Prof. Ondřej Santolík (Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Report preparation to the talk of prof. Santolík
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Parallel talks and preparations of group presentations: Plasma accretion near black holes B114
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Acceleration of magnetised plasma near a black holeSpeaker: Dr Jaroslav Hamerský (Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Report preparation to the talk of dr. Hamerský
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Parallel talks and preparations of group presentations: Plasma technologiesConvener: Prof. P. Chráska (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Plasma technologiesSpeaker: Prof. Pavel Chraska (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Report preparation to the talk of prof. Chraska
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Plenary talks: Groups presentations on parallel talks and voting B103
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Report to the Plasma Technologies
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Report to the Plasma accretion near black holes
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Report to the Magnetosphere of the Earth and other planets
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Voting
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Plenary talks: Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli (EPFL): Plasma physics challenges for burning plasmas B103
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Plasma physics challenges for burning plasmasSpeaker: Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli (EPFL)
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Closing wordConvener: Prof. Kieran Gibson (FuseNet)
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Closing wordClosing word, handout of certificate of attendance and travel support instruction A4Speaker: Prof. Kieran Gibson (FuseNet)
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Boat cruise and Dinner, with Tokamak Music Experience Cecílie boat on the river Vltava
Cecílie boat on the river Vltava
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Check-out of Hotel IBIS Old Town Prague
IBIS Old Town Prague
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Additional opportunity to visit COMPASS & PALS
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