CONFERENCE DAILY PROGRAM

The invited talks and oral presentations will take place in the Plenary Room (Auditorio Embajadores).


Tentative Programme
Time	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday		Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		Registration
8:30-9:00		OPENING	Registration
9:00-10:30		I01: H. Yamada	I08: S. Lazerson		I15: M. Kriete	I20: C. Killer	I27: N. Panadero
		I02: G. Weir	I09: S. Kumar		I16: S. Thiede	I21: A. Kharwandikar	I28: D. Panici
		I03: H. Hillebrecht	I10: A. De		I17: T. Tokuzawa	I22: Z. Tecchiolli	I29: Y. Zhou
10:30-11:00		Coffee Break
11:00-12:00		Comment by LNF-CIEMAT DIRECTOR	I11: I. F-Berceruelo		I18: D. Andruczyk	I23: G. Plunk	I30: C. Brandt
		I04: A. Alonso	I12: H. Yamaguchi		I19: M. Nunami	I24: H. Chen	O18: K. Liu
12:00-12:40		I05: S. Kobayashi	O08: N. Pablant		O12: K. Garcia	O14: D. Carralero	O19: E. Balkovic
		O01: K. Tanaka	O09: C. Paz-Soldan		O13: N. Allen	O15: A. B-Navarro	CLOSURE
12:40-14:30		Lunch Break
14:30-15:30		I06: Y. Xu	I13: E. Miralles-Dolz		Free	I25: T. Kobayashi
		I07: J. M. G-Regaña	I14: M-Landreman			I26: R. Churchill
15:30-16:10		O02: R. Davies	O10: I. Palermo			O16: X. Chen
		O03: H. Liu	O11: J. Romazanov			O17: M. Richardson
16:10-16:40	Registration	Coffee Break				Coffee Break
16:40-18:00		O04: T. Lyytinen	Poster Session 1	Industry Info Session		Poster Session 2
		O05: I. Calvo
		O06: R. Nies
		O07: P. Helander

Social Events		19:30 Welcome Reception			18:45 Mosque-Cathedral Private Visit	20:30 Conference Dinner


Monday, 20
TIME	PRESENTATION
8:30 - 9:00	OPENNING
9:00 - 10.30	Session 1: Chair Robert Wolf	Industry and Exhibition area (Patio Mudéjar)
9:00	I01: Hiroshi Yamada. NIFS, Japan Achievements of the LHD Project and Lessons Learned for the Next Step
9:30	I02: Gavin Weir. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany The effect of geometry and profiles on turbulent electron transport in W7-X
10:00	I03: Henrique Hillebrecht. University Wisconsin-Madison, USA Modeling, Measurement, and Modification of TEM Turbulence and Quasi-Coherent Modes in the HSX Stellarator
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:40	Session 2: Chair Teresa Estrada
11:00 - 11:20	Comment by LNF-CIEMAT DIRECTOR
11:20	I04: Arturo Alonso. CIEMAT, Spain A wind tunned approach to the design of pre-reactor stellarator devices
11:50	I05: S. Kobayashi. Kyoto University, Japan Compatibility of Edge and Electron/Ion Internal Transport Barrier in High-Density NBI Plasmas of Heliotron J
12:20	O01: Kenji Tanaka. NIFS, Japan Configuration effects on transport in LHD; Lessons for configuration optimization
12:40 - 14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:10	Session 3: Chair Kenichi Nagaoka
14:30	I06: Yuhong Xu. Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Demonstration of high-precision magnetic topology and reduced neoclassical transport in the Chinese First Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator (CFQS)
15:00	I07: José Manuel García-Regaña. CIEMAT, Spain. Transport in high-performance TJ-II plasmas: insights from first-principles simulations and experimental validation
15:30	O02: Robert Davies. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Fast edge magnetic field optimisation techniques and application to Wendelstein 7-X and tokamak-stellarator hybrids
15:50	O03: Haifeng Liu. Southwest Jiaotong University, China Recent Studies on Physical Issues in the Chinese First Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator (CFQS)
16:10 - 16:40	COFFEE BREAK
16:40 - 18:00	Session 4: Chair Jong-Kyu Park
16:40	O04: Tommi Lyytinen. VTT Technical Research Center, Finland Neutron and alpha particle transport in modern quasi-isodynamic stellarators
17:00	O05: Ivan Calvo. CIEMAT, Spain New classes of optimized stellarators with small bootstrap current
17:20	O06: Richard Nies. University of Oxford, UK Rotation in quasisymmetric stellarators
17:40	O07: Per Helander. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Runaway electrons during a coil quench in stellarators
19:30	Welcome Reception


Tuesday, 21
TIME	PRESENTATION
9:00 - 10:30	Session 5: Chair David Maurer		Industry and Exhibition area(Patio Mudéjar)
9:00	I08: Samuel Lazerson. Gauss Fusion GmbH, Germany Physics overview of the Gauss Fusion power plant conceptual design
9:30	I09: Santhosh Kumar. Thea Energy, USA The physics basis for the pre-conceptual design of the Helios Fusion Pilot Plant
10:00	I10: Aritra De. Type One Energy, USA Divertor modeling of Infinity Two
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:40	Session 6: Chair Iole Palermo
11:00	I11: Iván Fernández-Berceruelo. CIEMAT, Spain Breeding blanket studies for stellarator reactors based on CIEMAT-QI configurations
11:30	I12: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi. NIFS, Japan Physics and engineering design activity for the post-LHD project
12:00	O08: Novimir A. Pablant. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA Recommendations from the US Stellarator Technology and Advanced Research Strategies (STARS) Report
12:20	O09: Carlos Paz-Soldan. Columbia University, USA Progress in the Design and Construction of Stellarators at Columbia
12:40 - 14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:10	Session 7: Chair Daniel Andruczyk
14:30	I13: Enrique Miralles-Dolz. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA. Progress in Neutronics and Equilibrium Optimization for Stellarator Power Plants
15:00	I14: Matt Landreman. Type One Energy, USA Including ferritic blanket components in stellarator coil optimization
15:30	O10: Iole Palermo. CIEMAT, Spain Nuclear Optimization of Dual Coolant Lithium-Lead Breeding Blanket (DCLL BB) for the HELIAS reactor and implementation over a new CIEMAT-QI4X stellarator configuration
15:50	O11: Juri Romazanov. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Tungsten vs. carbon in W7-X: erosion and impurity transport assessment using ERO2.0 for a hypothetical metallic divertor upgrade
16:10 - 16:40	COFFEE BREAK
16:40 - 18:00	Poster Session 1 (Patio Mudéjar & Patio Medina Azahara)	Industry Info Session (Auditorio Embajadores)


Wednesday, 22
TIME	PRESENTATION
9:00 - 10:30	Session 8: Chair Kazunobu Nagasaki	Industry and Exhibition area (Patio Mudéjar)
9:00	I15: Matt Kriete. Auburn University, USA How scrape-off layer drift effects change with magnetic field strength in W7-X
9:30	I16: Sebastian Thiede. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Analysis of the 3D heat fluxes in the island divertor of W7-X
10:00	I17: Tokihiko Tokuzawa. NIFS, Japan Multi-scale turbulence interaction in LHD
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:40	Session 9: Chair Haifeng Liu
11:00	I18: Daniel Andruczyk. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA HIDRA Steady State Plasmas for PMI Studies and Technology Development
11:30	I19: Masanori Nunami. NIFS, Japan Impact of Three-Dimensional Effects on Microturbulent Transport and Mode Identification in the VAST Stellarator Concept
12:00	O12: Kelly A. Garcia. Greifswald University, Germany Reactor-Scale Island Divertor Simulations of W7-X-like Configurations
12:20	O13: Nicholas R. Allen. Auburn University, USA Observational Studies of Non-Resonant Divertor Strike Line Resiliency in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid Experiment
12:40 - 14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 18:00	Free time
18:45	Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral private visit (Entrance to the Palacio de Congresos)


Thursday, 23
TIME	PRESENTATION
9:00 - 10:30	Session 10: Chair Felix Parra Diaz	Industry and Exhibition area (Patio Mudéjar)
9:00	I20: Carsten Killer. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Improving plasma confinement by placing magnetic islands inside the LCFS in W7-X
9:30	I21: Amit Kharwandikar. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Empirical Scaling of Heat Transport in the W7-X Island Divertor
10:00	I22: Zeno Tecchiolli. Swiss Plasma Center - EPFL, Switzerland Validation of global edge plasma turbulence simulation of the optimized HSX stellarator configuration
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:40	Session 11: Chair Caoxiang Zhu
11:00	I23: Gabriel Plunk. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Optimizing the turbulence and confinement of quasi-isodynamic stellarators
11:30	I24: Haotian Chen. Peking University, China Geometry effects on zonal flow dynamics and turbulent transport in optimized stellarators
12:00	O14: Daniel Carralero. CIEMAT, Spain A multi-machine study on turbulence suppression by density peaking in stellarators
12:20	O15: Alejandro Bañón-Navarro. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Optimizing Particle Transport for Enhanced Confinement in Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators
12:40 - 14:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:10	Session 12: Chair Carlos Hidalgo
14:30	I25: Tatsuya Kobayashi. NIFS, Japan Phase-space tomography for wave-particle interaction study and fluctuation diagnostic integration via Bayesian inference
15:00	I26: Randy Michael Churchill. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA AI-Accelerated Gyrokinetic Predictions of Turbulent Transport for Stellarator Design Optimization and Experimental Planning
15:30	O16: Xi Chen. Southwest Jiaotong University, China Experimental observation of zonal flow oscillations in CFQS-T plasmas
15:50	O17: Michael Richardson. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Assessing the Impact of Density Profile Shaping on Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence and Confinement in the HSX Stellarator
16:10 - 16:40	COFFEE BREAK
16:40 - 18:00	Poster Session 2 (Patio Mudéjar & Patio Medina Azahara)
20:30	Conference Dinner


Friday, 24
TIME	PRESENTATION
9:00 - 10:30	Session 13: Chair Ivan Calvo	Industry and Exhibition area (Patio Mudéjar)
9:00	I27: Nerea Panadero. CIEMAT, Spain Fuelling a fusion reactor: a comparison of stellarators and tokamaks
9:30	I28: Dario Panici. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA Enabling Comprehensive Stellarator Reactor Optimization with DESC
10:00	I29: Yao Zhou. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of Ideal Ballooning Modes in High-Beta W7-X Plasmas
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:20	Session 14: Chair Shinji Kobayashi
11:00	I30: Christian Brandt. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany Stability of high beta plasmas in Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
11:30	O18: Ke Liu. University of Science and Technology, China Directly Construction of the Vacuum Flux Surface with Desired Field by Near-Surface Expansion
11:50	O19: Erol Balkovic. EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, Switzerland SPECTRE: a fast and robust solver for MHD equilibria with arbitrary magnetic topology
12:20	CLOSURE

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