Monday 04 December

Zoom recording

09:00-10:00 - Arrivals/Registration

10:00-11:00 - Welcome (10 mins) and Elevator pitch talks (Sign up to give a talk)

11:00-12:00 - Elevator pitch talks

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Robert Dewar: Almost-ideal relaxation towards 3D MHD equilibria with localised reconnection

15:00-15:30 - Wrick Sengupta: Quasisymmetric 3D High-Beta MHD Equilibria

16:00-16:30 - Justin Hew: Helicity conservation and reconnection in the Universe (and stellarators)

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17:00-18:00 - Conference Reception

Tuesday 05 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Dario Panici: DESC

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10:30-11:00 - Egemen Kolemen:  Stellarator design & DESC updates

11:30-12:00 - Rory Conlin: DESC tutorial

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Rahul Gaur: Omnigeity database using DESC

15:00-15:30 - Todd Elder: Coil simplification

16:00-16:30 - Naik Shibrabrat: Isodrastic Fields

Wednesday 06 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Stuart Hudson: Verification free Boundary calculations with VMEC and SPEC

10:30-11:00 - Alan Glasser: DCON3D 

11:30-12:00 - Lanke Fu: Fast global stellarator coil optimization with quadratic objectives

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12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Alkesh Punjabi: Nonresonant stellarator divertor

15:00-15:30 - Robert Davies: Stellarator Divertor Optimization

16:00-16:30 - Daniel Dudt: Omnigenity Optimization

Thursday 07 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00- Bharat Medasani: SIMSOPT

10:30-11:00 - TBC

11:30-12:00 - Benjamin Faber: Julia Stellarator Optimisation

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Paul Huslage: Coil optimization under engineering constraints

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15:00-15:30 - Adelle Wright: Innovations in High-fidelity Magnetohydrodynamic Modelling for Advanced Stellarators

16:00-16:30 - Joshua Doak: Impact of anisotropy on ELMS

Friday 08 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - David Bindel: Stellarator Stability

10:30-11:00 - Chris Smiet: Towards single stage optimisation of islands

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11:30-12:00 - John Kappel: The Magnetic Gradient Scale Length Explains Why Certain Plasmas Require Close External Magnetic Coils

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Thomas Kruger: all planar stellarator

15:00-15:30 - Darren Garnier OpenStar 

16:00-16:30 -David Bindel and Matt Landreman: Discussion: Private / Public partnership.

16:30-17:00 - David Bindel and Matt Landreman: Goals for Simons collaboration 2024

Monday 11 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Eve Stenson & Jason Smoniewski: EPOS project and design and requirements

10:30-11:00 - Caoxiang Zhu: Simplifying Stellarator Coils

11:30-12:00- Allen Boozer (Remote): 

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Dean Muir and Rongping Tang: A Discontinuous Galerkin approach to MRxMHD

15:00-15:30 - Timo Thun (Remote): Neural Networks as ideal MHD solution operators for the inverse problem.

16:00-16:30 - Yao Zhou: Modelling of Stellarators using M3D-C1

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Tuesday 12 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Maximilian Ruth: Search for invariant tori

10:30-11:00 - Naoki Sato: MHS

11:30-12:00 - David Perrella: Grad's conjecture

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:00 - David Pfefferle: Magnetic fields as non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems

15:30-16:00 - MSI afternoon tea (Level 3 Kitchen)

16:00-17:00 - MSI Colloquium: Amitava Bhattachaarjee: Accelerating Fusion through Integrated Whole Device Model of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma

Wednesday 13 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Pedro Gil: Stochastic single stage optimization, MPI issues on SIMSOPT

10:30-11:00 - Stefan Buller: Optimisation to turbulence

11:30-12:00- Sandra Jeyakumar: Structure-preserving particle discretisations for collision operators

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 -Gabriel Plunk: Zonal flows in stellarators

15:00-15:30 - David Martinez del Rio: application of converse KAM to the characterisation of toroidal fields

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16:00-16:30 - Alan Goodman: QI + MHD + Turbulence Optimisation

19:00-23:00 - Conference Dinner at Monster Restaurant - location - courtesy of Simons Collaboration.

Thursday 14 December

Zoom recording

09:30-10:00 - Dieter Boeyaert (Remote): Plasma edge simulations for a non-resonant divertor

10:30-11:00 - Nathan Duignan: Chaos detection methods

11:30-12:00 - Nicholas Bohlsen: Chaos detection through Topological Data Analysis 

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-14:30 - Alan Kaptanoglu: Optmization

15:30-16:00 - MSI afternoon tea  (Level 3 Kitchen)

16:00-17:00 - MSI Colloquim: David Bindel: Optimizing magnetic confinement devices for fusion plasmas

Friday 15 December

09:30-12:00 - Free morning

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:30 - Free afternoon