Program
Program ~ Sherwood 2024 Conference
Location: Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula in Missoula, MT
The program consists of one 24 Invited Speaker presentations selected out of 34 submissions.
The total number of abstract submissions is 100.
All technical sessions will be held in the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. The Plenary and Invited presentations will be held in the Ballroom. The Poster Sessions will be held in the Atrium.
Presentation Formatting
Invited talks are recommended to use the 16:9 aspect ratio.
The venue accommodates poster sizes of 7’ wide by 6’ tall.
Program as pdf document.
Sunday:: Monday:: Tuesday:: Wednesday
Sunday, 5 May 2024 [top] |
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1:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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On-Site Registration (Location: Atrium) |
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
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Sherwood Reception (Location: Atrium) |
Monday, 6 May 2024 [top] |
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8:15AM - 8:30 am |
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Welcome and Announcements |
Invited Session 1 |
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Chair: Scott Parker (Colorado) |
8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Steven Sabbagh (Columbia/PPPL) |
High Accuracy Physics-Based Tokamak Disruption Event Characterization and Forecasting with First Real-Time Application |
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Hank Strauss (HRS Fusion) |
Preventing RWTM Disruptions with Feedback |
9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Elena Belova (PPPL) |
Effects of global Alfvén eigenmodes on the beam ions in NSTX-U |
10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
(Location: Atrium) |
Invited Session 2 |
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Chair: Chang Liu (PPPL) |
10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Timothy Stolzfus-Dueck (PPPL) |
Self-consistent orbit-flux drive for electric field and toroidal rotation |
11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Andreas Kleiner (PPPL) |
Extended-MHD simulations of disruption mitigation via massive gas injection in SPARC |
11:30 am - 12:00 am |
Rinkle Juneja (ORNL) |
Machine learning informed multi-scale fracture modeling in tungsten plasma-facing materials |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
(Location: Atrium) |
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Beer Break |
(Location: Atrium) |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
(Location: Atrium) |
Tuesday, 7 May 2024 [top] |
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(Location: Ballroom) |
Invited Session 3 |
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Chair: Ben Zhu (LLNL) |
8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Xin Zhang (Tokamak Energy) |
Core-Edge Integrated Predictive Studies of ST40 Plasmas in Preparation for Compact Fusion Pilot Plant Design |
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
David Hatch (Texas) |
Enhancing fusion performance by control of edge density and temperature: a novel approach to core edge integration |
9:30 am - 10:0 am |
Haley Wilson (Columbia) |
Using integrated modeling to explore the core operational space around a reactor-class negative triangularity tokamak |
10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
(Location: Atrium) |
Invited Session 4 |
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Chair: Adele Wright (Wisconsin) |
10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Georgia Acton (Oxford) |
Optimisation of Gyrokinetic Microstability Using Adjoint Methods |
11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Joseph Duff (Wisconsin) |
Suppressing Trapped-Electron-Mode-Driven Turbulence in Quasisymmetric Equilibria via Optimization |
11:30 pm - 12:00 pm |
Rahul Gaur (Princeton) |
Novel Stellarator Design using the DESC Optimization Suite |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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Invited Session 5 |
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Chair: Cami Collins (ORNL) |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Orso Meneghini (GA) |
The FUSE framework and its use for fusion power plant design optimization |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Kyungijn Kim (ORNL) |
Coupled core, edge pedestal and SOL modeling in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D towards self-consistent simulation |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Panel Discussion |
Integrated Modeling |
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Beer Break |
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
(Location: Atrium) |
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7:00 PM - 9:00 pm |
Banquet and Student Awards |
(Location: Atrium) |
Wednesday, 8 May 2024 [top] |
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Invited Session 6 |
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Chair: Eric Howell (Tech-X) |
8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Alexandre Sainterme (Wisconsin) |
Resistive Hose Modes in Tokamak Runaway Electron Beams |
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Chang Liu (PPPL) |
Nonlinear Simulation of Alfvénmodes in Tokamak Disruptions and Impact on Runaway Electron Transport |
9:30 am - 10:0 am |
Chris McDevitt (Florida) |
Physics constrained deep learning of runaway electron generation in tokamak plasmas |
10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
(Location: Atrium) |
Invited Session 7 |
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Chair: Jacobo Varela-Rodriguez (Texas) |
10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Ilon Joseph (LLNL) |
On Electric and Thermodynamic Polarization of Magnetically Confined Plasmas |
11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Brad Shadwick (Nebraska) |
Gauge Invariance |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Stefan Tirkas (Colorado) |
A Subgrid Model for Electron-Scale Turbulence in Global Ion-Scale Gyrokinetic Simulations |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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Invited Session 8 |
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Chair: Andrew Ware (Montana) |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete (ORNL) |
A generative artificial intelligence surrogate model of plasma turbulence |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Richard Nies (Princeton/PPPL) |
Turbulence saturation by propagating zonal flows |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Mark Cianciosa (ORNL) |
Verification of 3D Free boundary equilibrium calculations |
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Nikita Nikulsin (Princeton) |
High-beta Grad-Shafranov model for quasisymmetric stellarators |