Scientific Program

The two-week retreat will span all Simons collaboration topics but focus in areas in which the Australian team specialises: MHD, field lines, particle transport, and computational methods. The program will feature both broad plenary talks and focused sessions, include plenty of discussion and workshop time, and coding opportunities.

Morning and afternoon tea/ coffee and light refreshments are available throughout the day, and we will pause before the start of each talk for a break.

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

(PDF, 414.95 KB)

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)

(PDF)

17:00-18:00 - Conference Reception

Tuesday 05 December

Zoom recording

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

(PDF)

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

(PDF, 2.5 MB)

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

(PDF, 1.64 MB)

Wednesday 06 December

Zoom recording

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

(PDF, 7.29 MB)

10:30-11:00 - Alan Glasser: DCON3D

(PDF, 2.52 MB)

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

(PDF)

12:00-14:00 - Lunch

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

(PDF, 2.19 MB)

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

(PDF, 6.42 MB)

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

(PDF, 907.8 KB)

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

(PDF)

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

(PDF, 118.26 KB)

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

(PDF)

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

(PDF, 3.39 MB)

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

(PDF, 817.11 KB)

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

(PDF)

Tuesday 12 December

Zoom recording

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

(PDF, 1.47 MB)

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

(PDF, 1.06 MB)

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

(PDF, 3.4 MB)

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