MFE: Stellarator Research I

Presentations

• Finding the low-dimensional distribution of quasi-symmetric stellarator geometries using machine learning methods

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Xishuo Wei

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Xishuo Wei

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Handi Huang

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Haotian Chen

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Zhe Bai

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zhihong Lin

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Exploration of the CNT parameter space

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Stefan Buller

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Stefan Buller

    • Princeton University

  • Wrick Sengupta

    • Princeton University

  • Andrew Giuliani

    • Flatiron Institute

  • Misha Padidar

    • Flatiron Institute

  • Antoine Baillod

    • Columbia University

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• Geometry effects on zonal flow dynamics and turbulent transport in optimized stellarators.

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM

  Publication: Geometry effects on zonal flow dynamics and turbulent transport in optimized stellarators, Haotian Chen, Xishuo Wei, Hongxuan Zhu, and Zhihong Lin, Nuclear Fusion 65, 074002 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Haotian Chen

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Haotian Chen

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Xishuo Wei

    • University Of California, Irvine

  • Hongxuan Zhu

    • Zhejiang University and Princeton University
    • Princeton University and Zhejiang University

  • Zhihong Lin

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Investigating the relationship between the radial electric field and neutral beam injected energetic particles in LHD

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM

  Publication: Planned Paper: Energetic particle transport under the effects of the radial electric field in LHD

  Presenters

  • Ethan Maxwell Green

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Ethan Maxwell Green

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Wataru Hokulea Jason Hayashi

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Haotian Chen

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Masaki Osakabe

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Masaki Nishiura

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Kunihiro Ogawa

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Abhiyan Paudel

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Jacob Merson

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Ryohsuke Seki

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • hideo nuga

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • William Walter Heidbrink

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Zhihong Lin

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Plasma profile development with pellet injection on Wendelstein 7-X

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kenneth C Hammond

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ, USA
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  Authors

  • Kenneth C Hammond

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ, USA
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Juergen Baldzuhn

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, 17491 Greifswald

  • Larry Robert Baylor

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Torsten Bluhm

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Sergey Bozhenkov

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Kai Jakob Brunner

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Mark de Haas

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Andreas Dinklage

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Golo Fuchert

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Jens Knauer

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Ameer Insaf Mohammed

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Novimir A Pablant

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Timo Schröder

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Gregory L Schmidt

    • Princeton University

  • Torsten Stange

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, 17491 Greifswald

  • Naoki Tamura

    • Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Sherwin Trieu

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Gavin M Weir

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

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• Optimization for Quasi-Poloidal Symmetry

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Mohammed Haque

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Mohammed Haque

    • Columbia University

  • Elizabeth J Paul

    • Columbia University

  • Rishin Madan

    • Princeton University

  • Wrick Sengupta

    • Princeton University

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• Study of TEMs and Quasi-Coherent Modes via Synthetic and Experimental Reflectometer Measurements at the HSX Stellarator*

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Henrique Oliveira Miller Hillebrecht

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Henrique Oliveira Miller Hillebrecht

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Michael Jeffrey Gerard

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Michael James Richardson

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Xiang Han

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Gavin Wayne Held

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Gavin M Weir

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Benjamin J Faber

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • M.J. Pueschel

    • Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research

  • Benedikt Geiger

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Optimizing Particle Transport for Enhanced Confinement in Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM

  Publication: Optimizing Particle Transport for Enhanced Confinement in Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators, to be submitted to PRL

  Presenters

  • Frank Jenko

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Frank Jenko

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Alejandro B Navarro

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)
    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching

  • Andrea Merlo

    • Proxima Fusion

  • Emanuel Laude

    • Proxima Fusion

  • Alessandro Di Siena

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)

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• Stellarator Boundary Simulations with BSTING

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Ben Zhu

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Ben Zhu

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Benjamin Dudson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brendan Shanahan

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • David Bold

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Tobias Tork

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Miguel Madeira

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Felix Reimold

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

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• Analysis of non-resonant divertor experiments with EMC3-EIRENE in W7-X and HSX

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Dieter Boeyaert

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Dieter Boeyaert

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Amit Kohinoor Kharwandikar

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Heinke G Frerichs

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Kelly A Garcia

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
    • University of Wisconsin – Madison; Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; University of Greifswald

  • Oliver Schmitz

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Robert Davies

    • Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik

  • Joachim Geiger

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Tamara Andreeva

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Michael Jeffrey Gerard

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Mark D Nornberg

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Alexis Renee Wolfmeister

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Benedikt Geiger

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Designing A Buildable Optimized Stellarator to Confine an Electron-Positron Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Pedro F Gil

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  Authors

  • Pedro F Gil

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Paul Huslage

    • Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Jason Smoniewski

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Rogerio Jorge

    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

  • Eve Virginia Stenson

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Timo Thun

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Elisa Buglione-Ceresa

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Tristan Schuler

    • SchulerTEC

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• nT-Tao quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator design and experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM

  Publication: Planned submission (in writing): IOP Nuclear Fusion - "A quasi-axisymmetric pulsed Stellarator design and experiments"

  Presenters

  • Itay Gissis

    • nT-Tao

  Authors

  • Itay Gissis

    • nT-Tao

  • Yoav Shoshani

    • nT-Tao

  • Nadav Snir

    • nT-Tao

  • Daniel Maler

    • nT-Tao

  • Yasha Nikulshin

    • nT-Tao

  • Boaz Weinfeld

    • nT-Tao

  • Yuri Orlov

    • nT-Tao

  • Gal Shaked

    • nT-Tao

  • Natan Schecter

    • nT-Tao

  • Eitan Petel

    • nT-Tao

  • Ohad Antebi

    • nT-Tao

  • Uri Avni

    • nT-Tao

  • Ori Katz-Saporta

    • nT-Tao

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• A BOUT++ transport model for island diverted stellarators including drifts

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Tobias Tork

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  Authors

  • Tobias Tork

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Felix Reimold

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • David Bold

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Brendan Shanahan

    • Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald

  • Benjamin Dudson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Andreas Stegmeir

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching

  • Peter Manz

    • Universität Greifswald

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• Zonal flow suppression of turbulent transport in the optimized stellarators W7-X and QSTK

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 5:00 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12722

  Presenters

  • Animesh Kuley

    • Indian Institute Of Science

  Authors

  • Animesh Kuley

    • Indian Institute Of Science

  • Jaya Kumar Alageshan

    • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

  • Zhihong Lin

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Gareth Roberg-Clark

    • Max-Planck-Institut f ̈ur Plasmaphysik, D-17491 Greifswald

  • Gabriel G Plunk

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Pavlos Xanthopoulos

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Abhishek Tiwari

    • Indian Instute of Scienece Bangalore

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