Review and invited speakers
Monday, May, 19, 2025 (ordered by presentation):
Special session “Role of RF Power in Next Step Devices”
● Review R-1, Walid Helou, ITER Organization, France, ”The ITER ICRF system under the new ITER baseline: latest updates and technological development” (PPTX, 30 MB)
● Invited I-01, Maria Usoltseva, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, USA, “Overview of the ICRF heating system in SPARC”
● Invited I-02, Yuichi Takase, Tokamak Energy Ltd., UK, ”Ramp-up and Sustainment Scenarios for Tokamak Energy’s Fusion Pilot Plant” (PDF, 3 MB)
● Invited I-03, Samuel Frank, Realta Fusion, Madison, USA, ”Radiofrequency Heating Systems, Experiments, and Modeling on WHAM and Implications for Next Generation Mirror Fusion Devices” (PPTX, 50 MB)
● Invited I-04, Wayne Harris, TAE Technologies, Foothill Ranch, USA, ”RF Heating Experiments and Plans for C-2W and Copernicus” (PPTX, 95 MB)
● Invited I-05, Chengming Qin, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, ”Conceptual design for the ICRF system of CFETR” (PDF, 6 MB)
● Invited I-06, Alessandro Di Siena, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany, ”Resonant Interactions Between Fast Ions and ITG Turbulence: Implications for Confinement Improvements in Fusion Reactors” (PDF, 10 MB)
Tuesday, May, 20, 2025 (ordered by presentation):
● Invited I-07, Mervi Mantsinen, Barcelona Supercomputing Center amd ICREA, Spain, ”40 Years of ICRF Physics on the JET Tokamak: Highlights and Lessons Learned for Future Facilities” (PDF, 2 MB)
● Invited I-08, Wei Zhang, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, ”Recent progress in ICRF experiments on EAST” (PDF, 4 MB)
● Invited I-09, Remi Dumont, CEA, IRFM, France, ”RF power experiments in WEST to prepare for next-step fusion device operation” (PDF, 2 MB)
● Invited I-10, Christoph Slaby, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany, ”ICRH simulations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator” (PDF, 30 MB)
● Invited I-11, Yurii Kovtun, Institute of Plasma Physics, NSC KIPT, Ukraine, ”Overview of ICRF plasma production and heating in gas mixtures in stellarators” (PDF, 8 MB)
● Invited I-12, Dmitry Moseev, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany, ”Exploring ICE Dynamics in Wendelstein 7-X: From Startup to Fast Ion-Driven Instabilities” (PPTX, 23 MB)
● Invited I-13, Pierre Dumortier, LPP-ERM/KMS, Belgium, ”40 Years of ICRF Operation on JET: Achievements and Challenges” (PDF, 4 MB)
● Invited I-14, Simone Porporato, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, ”Radar arc and impairment detection and localization for the ITER ICRF antenna” (PPTX, 2 MB)
● After-Dinner Review R-2, James Myra, Lodestar Research Corporation, USA, ”ICRF boundary-plasma interactions: reflections on progress and challenges” (PPTX, 10 MB)
Wednesday, May, 21, 2025 (ordered by presentation):
Special session “Trends in Numerical Methods and Theory”
● Review R-3, Syun'ichi Shiraiwa, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA, ”Finite element modeling of RF waves in fusion plasmas: progress in past decades and future role” (PPTX, 97 MB)
● Invited I-15, Elena Moral Sánchez, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany, “A structure-preserving spline Finite Element solver for the cold-plasma model” (PDF, 8 MB)
● Invited I-16, Philippe Lamalle, LPP-ERM/KMS, Belgium, ”Integral dielectric kernel approach to modelling RF heating in toroidal plasmas” (PDF, 7 MB)
● Invited I-17, Atsushi Fukuyama, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, ”Kinetic Full Wave Analyses in Inhomogeneous Plasmas Using Integral Form of Dielectric Tensor” (PDF, 9 MB)
● Invited I-18, Omar Maj, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany, ”Beam Tracing in Phase Space: Paraxial Description of High-Frequency Wave Beams in Turbulent Plasmas” (PDF, 4 MB)
● Invited I-19, Jeff Lestz, General Atomics, USA, ”Experimental Evidence of Helicon Wave Heating and Current Drive in DIII-D” (PDF, 32 MB)
● Invited I-20, Julien Hillairet, CEA, IRFM, France, ”Design of the Actively Cooled Ion Cyclotron Traveling Wave Array System for WEST” (PDF, 2 MB)
Thursday, May, 22, 2025 (ordered by presentation):
● Invited I-21, Bojiang Ding, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, ”Exploration in LH coupling and current drive towards long-pulse operation on EAST” (PDF, 5 MB)
● Invited I-22, Evan Leppink, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, USA, ”First Results from the High Field Side Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiment in DIII-D” (PPTX, 57 MB)
● Invited I-23, Zhe Gao, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, China, ”Spectrum Evolution and Density Limit in Self-consistent Modeling of Lower Hybrid Wave Propagation with Parametric Instabilities” (PDF, 7 MB)
● Invited I-24, Atul Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, ”Tungsten Erosion and Transport Induced by RF Sheaths at Antenna Structures in the WEST Tokamak” (PPTX, 34 MB)
● Invited I-25, Raymond Diab, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, USA, ”Mitigation of ICRF - Edge Plasma Interaction in Alcator C-Mod” (27 MB)
● Invited I-26, Joshua Larson, University of California, USA, ”Wave-filament Interaction Experiments on the LArge Plasma Device (LAPD)” (PPTX, 57 MB)
● Invited I-27, David Smithe, Tech-X Corporation, USA, ”Modeling of Turbulence, Transport, and RF-induced Convective Cells in Tokamak Boundary Plasma” (PPTX, 15 MB)
● Invited I-28, Álvaro Sánchez-Villar, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA, ”Automated ICRF heating surrogate models via machine learning” (PDF, 9 MB)