Tutorial/Invited Session MFE: Fusion History, Design and Optimization

Presentations

• Fusion history lessons for our times

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 9:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 10:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Piero Martin

    • University of Padova

  Authors

  • Piero Martin

    • University of Padova

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• A high-confinement, no-ELM regime in JET: the EDA H-mode

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 10:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 AM

  Publication: L. Gil et al. A high-confinement, no-ELM regime in JET: the EDA H-mode [in preparation]

  Presenters

  • Luís Gil

    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  Authors

  • Luís Gil

    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Ernesto Lerche

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

  • Peter J Lomas

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

  • Carlos Silva

    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Michael Faitsch

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

  • Fulvio Auriemma

    • Consorzio RFX, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy

  • Rui Coelho

    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Mike Dunne

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

  • Daniel Hachmeister

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  • David Keeling

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

  • Benoit Labit

    • EPFL Swiss Plasma Center
    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Plasma Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Olivier Sauter

    • EPFL Swiss Plasma Center
    • EPFL, Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Plasma Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • SPC-EPFL

  • Emilia R Solano

    • Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid, Spain

  • Eleonora Viezzer

    • Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
    • Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Seville, Av. Reina Mercedes, Seville, 41012, Spain

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• Recent MAST Upgrade results to advance the physics basis for spherical tokamaks

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Elmore

    • UKAEA - United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

  Authors

  • Sarah Elmore

    • UKAEA - United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

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• Design and optimization of the Columbia Stellarator eXperiment

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM – Nov. 18, 2025, 12:00 PM

  Publication: Baillod, A., Paul, E. J., Rawlinson, G., Haque, M., Freiberger, S. W., & Thapa, S. (2025). Integrating novel stellarator single-stage optimization algorithms to design the Columbia stellarator experiment. Nuclear Fusion, 65(2), 026046. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ada6dd

  Presenters

  • Antoine Baillod

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Antoine Baillod

    • Columbia University

  • Carlos Alberto Paz-Soldan

    • Columbia University

  • Rohan Lopez

    • Columbia University

  • Avigdor Veksler

    • Columbia University
    • TAE Technologies, Inc.

  • Mohammed Haque

    • Columbia University

  • Melanie Russo

    • Columbia University

  • Dylan Schmeling

    • Columbia University

  • Kalen Richardson

    • Columbia University

  • Alexander R Skrypek

    • Columbia University

  • Thaddaeus J Kiker

    • Columbia University

  • Jennifer Xue

    • Columbia University

  • Beruktawit T Gebreamlak

    • Columbia University

  • Michael Campagna

    • William & Mary

  • Aiden R Hightower

    • Columbia University

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• Generation of Field-Reversed Configurations via Neutral Beam Injection

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – Nov. 18, 2025, 12:30 PM

  Publication: T. Roche et al. Generation of field-reversed configurations via neutral beam injection. Nat. Commun. 16, 3487 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Thomas Roche

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.
    • TAE Technologies

  Authors

  • Thomas Roche

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.
    • TAE Technologies

  • Peter Yushmanov

    • TAE Technologies

  • Sean Dettrick

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.

  • Scott Karbashewski

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.

  • Sangeeta Gupta

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.

  • Matt Tobin

    • TAE Technologies

  • Adrian Fontanilla

    • TAE Technologies, Inc.

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