2024 US-EU Transport Meeting Schedule

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

8:00 am – 9:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:45 am	Session 1: Stellarator Transport	Grand Ballroom
	Turbulence and Transport Physics of the Optimized Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator	Olaf Grulke
	Understanding and Optimizing 3D Turbulence in HSX	Benjamin Faber
10:45 am – 11:15 am	Break
11:15 am – 12:30 pm	Session 2: Stellerator + 3D Transport
	Full-Core Transport Modeling of Ion Temperature Clamping in the W7-X Stellarator Including Multi-Scale Gyrokinetic Turbulence	Noah Mandell
	Impact of Magnetic Islands on Turbulent Transport in KSTAR	Xishuo Wei
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch on own
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Poster Session: Core, Sellarator, NT, Impurity
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Session 3: New Capabilities
	Comparing Particle Transport Modulation Study Methodology	Jarred Loughran
	Role of Neutral Particles on Pedestal Structure for H-mode Experiments in DIII-D	Julio Balbin Arias
	Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Classification of Plasma Confinement Regimes via High-Bandwidth Edge Fluctuation Data in DIII-D	Kevin Gill
	Reconstruction of current profile from external magnetic data and MSE measurements on DIII-D	Xuexi Zhang
6:00 pm	Reception	Patio

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

8:00 am – 9:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:30 am	Session 1: Fundamental Dynamics	Grand Ballroom
	Examining an L-H Transition Model Based on Interchange-Drift-Alfvén Turbulence in DIII-D	Matthew Poulos
	Measurement of Turbulence-driven Reynolds Stress and Its Contribution to Toroidal Intrinsic Rotation in the DIII-D Tokamak	Xijie Qin
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 1:00 pm	Session 2: Transport Low Aspect Ration
	Energy transport analysis of NSTX plasmas with the TGLF reduced turbulent transport model	Galina Aveeva
	The Role of Edge Neutrals in Exciting Tearing Mode Activity and Achieving Flat Temperature Profiles in LTX-β	Santanu Banerjee
	Large Database Validation of TGLF on DIII-D and MAST-U Plasmas	Tom Neiser
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm	Lunch on own
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Session 3: Negative T/L-mode/LH
	On Zonal Flow Dynamics and ITG Turbulence Saturation in Negative Triangularity Tokamaks	Rameswar Singhy
	Transport Barrier Physics in DIII-D Negative Triangularity Plasmas	Lothar Schmitz
	Gyrokinetic Simulations of Pedestal Turbulence During NBI-Only and NBI+ECRH Plasmas	Elizabeth Perez
	Isotope Dependence of the Edge Radial Electric Field at the DIII-D Tokamak	Kyle Callahan
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Session 4: Core Turbulence
	Ion-scale turbulence characteristics measured with beam emission spectroscopy in MAST Upgrade L-mode plasmas at different toroidal fields	Steven Thomas
	Core heavy impurities control by ICRH on EAST	Shengyu Shi
	Modeling of Near-Edge Tokamak Profiles Using Control Volume Flux Matching	Steven Molesworth

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

8:00 am – 9:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:30 am	Session 1: Edge Modeling Advances	Grand Ballroom
	Fluctuation Entrainment in Tokamak Scrape-Off Layers: Implications for SOL Width and Detachment	Nami Li (for Xueqiao Xu)
	The Effect of Separatrix Density on H-mode Confinement: Results from the recent ITPA Database, Pedestal Simulations and Extrapolation to Burning Plasmas	Mike Kotschenreuther
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 1:00 pm	Session 2: Energetic Particles Orals
	TGLF-EP Predictions for Compact Use Case Scenarios	Eric Bass
	Excitation of Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes in Tokamak Disruptions and Impact on Runaway Electron Transport	Chang Liu
	Modeling interactions between runaway electrons and whistler waves in fusion plasmas	Yashika Ghai
	Fish Bones and their Impacts on Core Confinement in Mast and Mast-U	Henry Hingyin Wong
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch on own
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Poster Session: EP, Pedestal, SOL
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Session 4: Pedestal Physics Orals
	Core-Edge Correlation in High-Performance Wide Pedestal Quiescent H-Mode at DIII-D	Saeid Houshmandyar
	How Multi-scale Interaction Could Regulate Edge-Localized-Modes	Zeyu Li
	Microtearing Mode Characterization with Charge eXchange Imaging on the DIII-D Tokamak	Maximillian Major
	Inter-ELM Pedestal Dynamics of Wide-Pedestal QH-mode Discharges of DIII-D which ELM at Higher Density	Kshitish Barada
6:00 pm	Banquet	Top of the Plaza

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

8:00 – 9:30 am Breakfast

8:45 am – 10:30 am	Session 1: Burning Plasma & Isotope Physics	Grand Ballroom
	The EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation program in support of ITER and DEMO	Nicola Vianello
	ITER as a Burning Plasma Laboratory	Charles Greenfield
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm	Session 2: FPP-relevant Scenarios
	Predictions of Core Transport and Performance in SPARC First-Campaign Plasmas with Nonlinear CGYRO	Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez
	Direct Comparison of Gyrokinetic and Fluid Simulations of a Prospective Spherical Tokamak Pilot Plant Scrape-Off Layer	Akash Shukla
	Sensitivity Study of SPARC Full-Field H-Mode with a Quasi-Linear Transport Model	Marco Muraca
12:15 pm	Closing