April 7-9

Program

Program ~ Sherwood 2025 Conference
Location: Wyndham New Yorker Hotel in New York, NY

The program features one plenary talk, one panel discussion, 14 Invited Speaker presentations, and three poster sessions.

All technical sessions will be held in the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel in New York, NY. The Plenary and Invited presentations will be held in the Crystal Ballroom. The Poster Sessions will be held in the Grand Ballroom.

Presentation Formatting

Invited talks are recommended to use the 16:9 aspect ratio.
The venue accommodates poster sizes of 60" wide by 40" tall.

Program as pdf document.

Sunday:: Monday:: Tuesday:: Wednesday


Sunday, April 6 2025 [top]

 

 

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

On-Site Registration

 

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Sherwood Reception

(Location: Crystal Ballroom)

 

Monday, April 7 2025 [top]

 

(Location: Crystal Ballroom)

8:15AM - 8:30 am

 

Welcome and Announcements

Invited Session 1

 

Chair: Elizabeth Paul (Columbia)

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Matt Landreman (Maryland)

How does ion temperature gradient turbulence depend on magnetic geometry? Insights from data and machine learning

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Jonathan Arnaud (U. Florida)

Leveraging Physics-Constrained Deep Learning to Accelerate Integrated Modeling of Tokamak Disruptions.

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Jason Hamilton (LANL)

Physics basis of tokamak disruption mitigation via alignment of thermal and current quenches

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

(Location: Mezzanine)

10:30 am - 12:30 am

Poster Session

(Location: Grand Ballroom)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

(on your own)

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Travel

to Columbia University

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Columbia Reception and Plasma Lab Tour (Registration)

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Return Travel

to The New Yorker Hotel

 

Tuesday, April 8 2025 [top]

 

(Location: Crystal Ballroom)

Invited Session 2

 

Chair: Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck (PPPL)

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)

New insights into the CO2 greenhouse effect

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Noah Mandell (Type One Energy)

Turbulence-based predictions of core plasma performance for the Infinity Two stellarator Fusion Pilot Plant

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

(Location: Mezzanine)

Panel Discussion

 

Chair: Eva Kostadinova (Auburn)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Panelists: Fatima Ebrahimi (PPPL), Sam Frank (Realta), Dave Gates (Thea), Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT)

The role of theory and computation in advancing the FPP

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

(on your own)

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Poster Session 2

(Location: Grand Ballroom)

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Beverage Break

 

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Poster Session 3

(Location: Grand Ballroom)

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Banquet and Student Poster Awards

(Location: Sutton Place)

Wednesday, April 9 2025 [top]

 

(Location: Crystal Ballroom)

Plenary/Invited Session 3

 

Chair: Fatima Ebrahimi (PPPL)

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Jon Menard (PPPL)

Open science issues for compact high-performance steady-state fusion pilot plants

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Matt Beidler (ORNL)

Modeling Resilience of Fusion Blankets to Tokamak Disruptions

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

(Location: Mezzanine)

Invited Session 4

 

Chair: Paul Bonoli (MIT)

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Peter Catto (MIT)

What Landau Missed

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Michael Nastac (Oxford, UK)

Universal fluctuation spectrum of Vlasov–Poisson turbulence

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

David Hosking (Princeton)

Metastable states of a rotating Z-pinch

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

(on your own)

Invited Session 5

 

Chair: Alex Schekochihin (Oxford)

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Jeff Candy (GA)

A New Paradigm for Global Gyrokinetic Turbulence

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Toby Adkins (PPPL)

The gyrokinetic field invariant and electromagnetic instabilities in 'good-curvature' plasmas

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Coffee Break

(Location: Mezzanine)

Invited Session 6

 

Chair: Felix Parra (PPPL)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Thomas Foster (Princeton)

Alpha-particle orbits near rational flux surfaces in stellarators

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Eduardo Lascas Neto (UW Madison)

Direct optimization of the radial electric field profile in stellarators

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Ben Zhu (LLNL)

Bifurcation and hysteresis in global and local edge turbulence simulations

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Closing Remarks