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

SC meetings: SC meeting placeholder - SE unrelated business

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

7:45 PM Dinner - lunch boxes or restaurant

Tue, July 7

Other presentations block: Welcome and invited

1 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

2 Development of Magnetic sensors for MCF

Speaker: Dr Ivan Ďuran (IPP CAS)

3 My journey and EMTRIAC

Speaker: Dr Jordan Cavalier

10:30 AM Coffee break - next session chair - Peter

4 On the role of density-potential coupling in the interplay of zonal-flow and intermittency formation

Speaker: Lilian Harumi Yoshida (University of Stuttgart)

5 Helium sputtering/retention on tungsten oxide WO3

Speaker: Paula Rial Plaza (University Stuttgart)

6 Impact of Suprathermal Electrons on Xray Emissions in WEST Plasmas

Speaker: Dani Al Halabi (Aix-Marseille University)

12:30 PM Lunch - next session chair: Kieran

7 Hydrogen isotope retention in boron as a plasma facing material

Speaker: Sara Gjorgievska (Aix Marseille Université)

8 Uncertainty Quantification in HPC Codes

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

9 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 Coffeebreak, next session chair: Carsten

10 Predictive Modeling of Transport Phenomena in COMPASS-U

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

11 Investigation of Triple Probe Diagnostics for Measuring Electron Temperature in TJ-K Plasma

Speaker: Rimae Lamara Mhend (Stuttgart University)

SC meetings: SC meeting Monday

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

6:00 PM Dinner at Masarykova kolej hotel

to be specified

Wed, July 8

12 Development of a synthetic diagnostic for langmuir probes

Speaker: Gaurav Shere (Aix Marseille Universite)

13 Designing the QI4X Stellarator via Genetic Algorithm

Speaker: Lydon Bindal (UCM/UC3M)

14 Transmission electron microscopy study of helium nano-bubbles in the context of nuclear fusion

Speaker: Vashista Muralidhara Srivatsa (Aix Marseille University)

10:30 AM Coffee break

15 Analysis of Artificial MHD Turbulence

Speaker: Carlos Oviedo Rodriguez (Ghent University)

16 Role of Neoclassical Physics in the Dynamics of Magnetic Islands

Speaker: Fanghao Dong (Aix Marseille University)

17 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 Lunch break

18 Influence of Flow Shear Modulation on Turbulent Transport Regulation

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

19 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)

Other presentations block: Presentation of M2 sites by M1 students heading there

20 M2 site analysis

Marseille, Prague, Nanancy, Stuttgart

Other presentations block: Fusenet/alumni talks

21 Flashtalks by recent alumni

22 FuseNet: Mobility Support for Master Students

Speaker: Dr Dario Cruz (FuseNET)

4:30 PM Coffee break

SC meetings

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

Other events: Show at Planetum

7:45 PM Dinner at Masarykova kolej hotel

Thu, July 9

23 Lithium Wetting Optimization and Liquid Metal Particle Ejection Characterization for the OLMAT High Heat Flux Facility

Speaker: Sona Sabu (UCM and UC3M)

24 Advanced detection of plasma instabilities in tokamaks using machine learning

Speaker: Steven Marin Sosa (Ghent University)

25 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 Coffee break

26 Real-time integrated Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic equilibria and kinetic profiles for the WEST tokamak

Speaker: Iván Alcaraz Aguado (Ghent University)

27 Optimizing ITG heat transport in W7-X-like stellarator configurations using the toroidally-averaged triangularity metric

Speaker: Kristen Giesbrecht (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

28 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 Lunch break

29 Anticipating failure in fusion magnets made of Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide

Invited/alumnus

Speaker: Dr Alexis Devitre (University of Tennessee)

30 From Erasmus Mundus lectures to COMPASS Upgrade research plan

Speaker: Dr Michael Komm (IPP CAS)

31 Closing of the lecture program

Speaker: Ondřej Ficker (CTU FNSPE)

3:00 PM Coffeebreak

SC meetings

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

Other events: City walk / getting ready for the diploma awarding and Summer event closing dinner

Other events: Certificate awarding ceremony

Other events: Summer event closing dinner