Monday 17 (Chair: Matt Landreman)

9:15-9:30
Welcome by Joaquín Sánchez, Head of the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión at CIEMAT.

9:30-10:30
Peter Catto: “Ripple modifications to alpha transport in tokamaks”. PDF
10:30-11:30
Shinsuke Satake: “Magnetic shear and finite-orbit-width effects on the neoclassical toroidal viscosity”. PDF

12:00-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:30
Ksenia Aleynikova: “Kinetic ballooning modes in tokamak and stellarator plasmas”. PDF
14:30-15:30
Alexey Mishchenko: “Gyrokinetic stability of electron-positron and electron-positron-ion plasmas”. PDF

Tuesday 18 (Chair: Teresa Estrada)

9:30-10:30
Mike Martin: “The Parallel Boundary Condition for Turbulence Simulations in Low Magnetic Shear Devices”. PDF
10:30-11:30
Per Helander: “Available energy in stellarators and tokamaks”. PDF

12:00-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:30
Matt Landreman: “Direct construction of optimized stellarator shapes”. PDF
14:30-15:30
Gabriel Plunk: “Shapely stellarators”. PDF
15:30-15:40
Matt Landreman (brief comment): “A new Simons Foundation project on stellarator optimization”.

Wednesday 19 (Chair: Per Helander)

9:30-10:30
Albert Mollén: “On impurity transport calculations in stellarators”. PDF
10:30-11:30
José Luis Velasco: “KNOSOS: a fast orbit-averaged neoclassical code for arbitrary stellarator geometry”. PDF

12:00-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:30
Alejandro Bañón: “Status of the Global Stellarator version of GENE”.
14:30-15:30
Seikichi Matsuoka: “Development of GT5D for 2D/3D experimental configurations”. PDF

Thursday 20 (Chair: Peter Catto)

9:30-10:30
Masanori Nunami: “Gyrokinetic and drift-kinetic simulation studies on multi-species plasma transport in helical systems”. PDF
10:30-11:30
Michael Hardman: “A scale separated framework for studying cross scale interactions in plasma turbulence”. PDF

12:00-13:15
Lunch

13:15-13:30
Group photo

13:30-14:30
George Wilkie: “LightningBoltz: A fast spectral solver for the nonlinear Boltzmann equation”. PDF
14:30-15:30
Silvia Espinosa: “Theoretical explanations of I-mode impurity removal and H-mode turbulence reduction”. PDF

Friday 21 (Chair: Shinsuke Satake)

9:30-10:30
Jason Parisi: “Electron driven modes in fusion pedestals“. PDF
10:30-11:30
Manaure Francisquez: “Conservative discontinuous Galerkin scheme for Boltzmann-Maxwell equations”. PDF
11:30-12:30
Nicolas Christen: “New algorithm for background toroidal flow shear in the local gyrokinetic code GS2”. PDF

End of the meeting.