Workshop II: Learning Models from Data for Multi-Fidelity Fusion Plasma Physics - IPAM

Workshop II: Learning Models from Data for Multi-Fidelity Fusion Plasma Physics

Part of the Long Program Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy
April 13 - 17, 2026

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 13, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:45
Steve Cowley (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

Multi-scale Plasma Turbulence — the key to fusion power

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Li Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Suppressing Plasma Instability Through Constrained Optimization

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
3:30 - 4:15 Break & Walk to CNSI
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: CNSI Auditorium
5:45 - 6:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Peter Benner (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg)

Discovery and Model Reduction of Hamiltonian Systems

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Luis Chacon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Data-driven closure learning for radiation transport and plasmas

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
3:30 - 4:15 Break & Walk to Royce Hall
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: Royce Hall, Room 314

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Karen Willcox (University of Texas at Austin)

Multifidelity Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete (University of Texas at Austin)

Generative Artificial Intelligence methods for turbulence and kinetic computations

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Cristina Rea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Data-driven learning for disruption prevention and performance optimization

12:30 - 12:35 Group Photo
12:35 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
3:30 - 3:45 Lightning Poster Round
3:45 - 5:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Benjamin Sanderse (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Structure-preserving SciML for discovering ODEs and SDEs in fluid flows

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
Luis Oliveira e Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon)

Ab initio PIC simulations and data-driven techniques for multi-fidelity or reduced plasma models

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45

Friday, April 17, 2026

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Alexander Velberg (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)

Data-driven discovery of sub-grid models for collisionless magnetic reconnection

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Shantenu Jha (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)