21st European Fusion Theory Conference

Sep 23, 2025, 7:45 AM → Sep 26, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Aix-en-Provence

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Tue, September 23

7:45 AM → 8:15 AM Registration

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Welcome

8:30 AM → 9:20 AM I.1-Barabaschi: Status of the ITER project

Speaker: Dr Pietro Barabaschi (Iter)

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM I.5-Zarzoso: Energetic particle transport in theory, modelling and experiments in magnetically confined plasmas

Speaker: David Zarzoso (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université)

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM O.1-Grondin-Exbrayat: Numerical Investigation of Fishbone Phase-space Nonlinear Dynamic : Impact of the MHD Nonlinear Effects

Speaker: Alodie Grondin-Exbrayat (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, PIIM UMR7345, Marseille, France)

10:25 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:30 AM I.6-Brochard: Transformation of energetic particle distributions into constants of motion coordinates for realistic simulations of EP-driven modes, and application to Alfvén eigenmodes stability in DIII-D plasmas

Speaker: Guillaume Brochard (CEA Cadarache)

11:30 AM → 11:55 AM 0.2-Votta: Runaway electron dynamics in ITER shattered pellet injection mitigated disruptions

Speaker: Lorenzo Votta (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

11:55 AM → 12:20 PM O.3-Edes: Resistive Wall Tearing Modes in View of Natural Disruption Dynamics

Speaker: Lili Édes (EPFL SPC)

12:20 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Poster 1

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:40 PM I.7-Vallhagen: Semi-analytical model for the pellet rocket effect in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas

Speaker: Oskar Vallhagen (Chalmers University of Technology)

4:40 PM → 5:05 PM 0.4-Ciraolo: Transport and turbulence in edge tokamak plasma: Hierarchy of models in SOLEDGE3X code and comparison with experiments

Speaker: Guido Ciraolo (CEA)

5:05 PM → 5:30 PM O.5-Hallatschek: Non-gyrokinetic high-frequency mode instability for tokamak edge like gradients

Speaker: Dr Klaus Hallatschek (Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics)

Wed, September 24

8:30 AM → 9:20 AM I.2-Alonso: Fundamental physics and technology considerations of stellarator reactor design

Speaker: Arturo Alonso (CIEMAT)

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM I.8-Goodman: Searching for SQuIDs: Developments in the optimisation of Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Designs

Speaker: Alan Goodman (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM O.6-Calvo: A new class of optimized stellarators with zero bootstrap current

Speaker: Ivan Calvo (Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)

10:25 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:30 AM I.9-Paul: Reduced models for energetic particle transport in 3D magnetic fields

Speaker: Elizabeth Paul (Princeton University)

11:30 AM → 11:55 AM O.7- De Gianni: Effect of the magnetic geometry on Trapped Electron Modes instability: linear and non linear analysis

Speaker: Ludovica De Gianni (CEA Cadarache)

11:55 AM → 12:20 PM O.8-Zestanakis: Geometric Identification of Mode-Particle Resonances and Transport Barriers in Realistic Tokamak Equilibria

Speaker: Panagiotis Zestanakis (National Technical University of Athens)

12:20 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Poster 2

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:40 PM I.10-Duarte: Shifting and Splitting of Resonance Lines due to Dynamical Friction in Plasmas

Speaker: Vinicius Duarte (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

4:40 PM → 5:05 PM O.9-Sanchez: CIEMAT-QI4X: a reactor-relevant stellarator configuration compatible with an island divertor

Speaker: Edilberto Sanchez

5:05 PM → 5:30 PM O.10-Jamann: Insights into the ExB staircase via synthetic reflectometry and gyrokinetic modeling

Speaker: Antoine Jamann (CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France)

Thu, September 25

8:30 AM → 9:20 AM I.3-Hizanidis: A quantum computing approach to electromagnetic wave propagation in fusion plasmas

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM I.11-Ewart: Rapid thermalisation, and non-thermal equilibria in near-collisionless plasmas

Speaker: Robert Ewart (Princeton University)

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM O.11-Turica: Drift-kinetic electron-temperature-gradient turbulence and cascade suppression by density gradients

Speaker: Leonard-Petru Turica (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX13PU, UK, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK, University College, Oxford, OX1 4BH, UK)

10:25 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:30 AM I.12-Foster: Alpha-particle orbits near rational flux surfaces in stellarators

11:30 AM → 11:55 AM O.12-Rofman: Finite beta effects in global, electromagnetic, gyrokinetic, linear and nonlinear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes and microturbulence

Speaker: Baruch Rofman (Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, Swiss Plasma Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

11:55 AM → 12:20 PM O.13- De Lucca: Electromagnetic suppression of drift-wave turbulence and the LH transition

Speaker: Brenno Jason Sanzio Peter De Lucca

12:20 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:10 PM I.13-Garcia: Resilient Stellarator Divertor Characteristics in the Helically Symmetric eXperiment

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Iter visit

Fri, September 26

8:30 AM → 9:20 AM I.4-Belli: Multiscale analysis of improved confinement regimes in D-T plasmas

Speaker: Emily Belli

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM I.14-Mishchenko: Global electromagnetic turbulence and waves in stellarator plasmas

Speaker: Alexey Mishchenko

10:00 AM → 10:25 AM O.15-Mariani: Predicting the transport of a DTT negative triangularity scenario

Speaker: Alberto Mariani (ISTP-CNR Milano)

10:25 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:30 AM I.15-Kazakov: Alpha-Particle Physics Studies in D-3He Plasmas at JET and JT-60SA in Support of the ITER Rebaseline

Speaker: Yevgen Kazakov (Laboratory for Plasma Physics, LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels, Belgium)

11:30 AM → 11:55 AM O.16-Singh: JOREK modelling of Runaway Electron beam benign termination in JET

Speaker: Lovepreet Singh (CEA IRFM)

11:55 AM → 12:20 PM O.17-Lanzarone: Comparison of Neural Network and XGBoost Decision Trees as Reduced Linear Gyrokinetic Model Surrogates for Growth Rate and Stability Prediction

Speaker: Matisse Lanzarone (Universite Aix-Marseille)

12:20 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:10 PM I.16-Ferraro: Extended-MHD Stellarator Modeling with M3D-C1

2:10 PM → 2:50 PM I.17-Garcia-Regana: The role of impurities on electrostatic stellarator turbulence

Speaker: Jose Manuel Garcia-Regana (CIEMAT)

2:50 PM → 3:15 PM O.14-Varadarajan: Integrated Modelling of Tungsten Erosion, Transport, and Radiation in WEST Geometry

Speaker: Naren Varadarajan (IRFM)

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Closing session