Fusion-EP Summer Event 2026

Jul 6, 2026, 5:30 PM → Jul 10, 2026, 11:00 AM Europe/Prague

B103

Defences of students of FUSION-EP cohort 2024-2026 and accompanying program.

Mon, July 6

5:30 PM → 7:30 PM SC meetings: SC meeting placeholder - SE unrelated business

Meetings of the Steering comittee + people specficically invited
Smaller room, perhaps B-114

7:45 PM → 9:15 PM Dinner - lunch boxes or restaurant

Tue, July 7

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Other presentations block: Welcome and invited

9:00 AM Welcome to Prague and the Fusion-EP summer event

Organisation info and a bit of history

Speaker: Ondřej Ficker (CTU FNSPE)

Fusion-EP-intro-just-practical-info.pdf

9:30 AM Development of Magnetic sensors for MCF

Speaker: Dr Ivan Ďuran (IPP CAS)

10:10 AM My journey and EMTRIAC

Speaker: Dr Jordan Cavalier

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break - next session chair - Peter

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM On the role of density-potential coupling in the interplay of zonal-flow and intermittency formation

Speaker: Lilian Harumi Yoshida (University of Stuttgart)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Helium sputtering/retention on tungsten oxide WO3

Speaker: Paula Rial Plaza (University Stuttgart)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Impact of Suprathermal Electrons on Xray Emissions in WEST Plasmas

Speaker: Dani Al Halabi (Aix-Marseille University)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch - next session chair: Kieran

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Hydrogen isotope retention in boron as a plasma facing material

Speaker: Sara Gjorgievska (Aix Marseille Université)

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Uncertainty Quantification in HPC Codes

Speaker: Jordi Ferré Ortega (Czech Technical University in Prague)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Investigation of the Impact of Pellet Injection on Fast-Ion Distribution and Losses in TJ-II Plasmas

Speaker: Adam Brown (Carlos III de Madrid)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffeebreak, next session chair: Carsten

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Predictive Modeling of Transport Phenomena in COMPASS-U

Speaker: Katherin Paola Gómez Romero (Czech Technical University in Prague)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Investigation of Triple Probe Diagnostics for Measuring Electron Temperature in TJ-K Plasma

Speaker: Rimae Lamara Mhend (Stuttgart University)

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM SC meetings: SC meeting Monday

Meetings of the Steering comittee + people specficically invited
Smaller room, perhaps B-114

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Dinner at Masarykova kolej hotel

to be specified

Wed, July 8

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Development of a synthetic diagnostic for langmuir probes

Speaker: Gaurav Shere (Aix Marseille Universite)

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Designing the QI4X Stellarator via Genetic Algorithm

Speaker: Lydon Bindal (UCM/UC3M)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Transmission electron microscopy study of helium nano-bubbles in the context of nuclear fusion

Speaker: Vashista Muralidhara Srivatsa (Aix Marseille University)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Analysis of Artificial MHD Turbulence

Speaker: Carlos Oviedo Rodriguez (Ghent University)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Role of Neoclassical Physics in the Dynamics of Magnetic Islands

Speaker: Fanghao Dong (Aix Marseille University)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM High-strength material for fusion reactor magnet sections

Speaker: Fareeha Ashraf (University of Stuttgart , Germany Institute for Technical Physics , ITEP, KIT Germany)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Influence of Flow Shear Modulation on Turbulent Transport Regulation

Speaker: Carmen Sofia Vergara Interian (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Investigation of the interplay between zonal flow dynamics and profile evolution in the context of flux-driven turbulence

Speaker: Dana Valentina Lopez Noguera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Other presentations block: Presentation of M2 sites by M1 students heading there

2:30 PM M2 site analysis

Marseille, Prague, Nanancy, Stuttgart

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Other presentations block: Fusenet/alumni talks

3:30 PM Flashtalks by recent alumni

4:10 PM FuseNet: Mobility Support for Master Students

Speaker: Dr Dario Cruz (FuseNET)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee break

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM SC meetings

Meetings of the Steering comittee + people specficically invited
Smaller room, perhaps B-114

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Other events: Show at Planetum

7:45 PM → 9:15 PM Dinner at Masarykova kolej hotel

Thu, July 9

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Lithium Wetting Optimization and Liquid Metal Particle Ejection Characterization for the OLMAT High Heat Flux Facility

Speaker: Sona Sabu (UCM and UC3M)

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Advanced detection of plasma instabilities in tokamaks using machine learning

Speaker: Steven Marin Sosa (Ghent University)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Bayesian Calibration of Doppler Reflectometer Launch Angles by Automated Radial Electric Field Reconstruction in Wendelstein 7-X

Speaker: Robin Mahieu (Complutense and Carlos III Universities of Madrid)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Real-time integrated Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic equilibria and kinetic profiles for the WEST tokamak

Speaker: Iván Alcaraz Aguado (Ghent University)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Optimizing ITG heat transport in W7-X-like stellarator configurations using the toroidally-averaged triangularity metric

Speaker: Kristen Giesbrecht (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Real-time detection of low-frequency MHD instabilities through Electron Cyclotron Emission measurements in WEST

Speaker: Jorge Paz-Peñuelas Oliván (Czech Technical University in Prague)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:10 PM Anticipating failure in fusion magnets made of Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide

Invited/alumnus

Speaker: Dr Alexis Devitre (University of Tennessee)

2:10 PM → 2:50 PM From Erasmus Mundus lectures to COMPASS Upgrade research plan

Speaker: Dr Michael Komm (IPP CAS)

2:50 PM → 3:00 PM Closing of the lecture program

Speaker: Ondřej Ficker (CTU FNSPE)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffeebreak

3:15 PM → 5:30 PM SC meetings

Meetings of the Steering comittee + people specficically invited
Smaller room, perhaps B-114

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Other events: City walk / getting ready for the diploma awarding and Summer event closing dinner

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Other events: Certificate awarding ceremony

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Other events: Summer event closing dinner