Workshop III: Fusion Device Design and Engineering - IPAM

Workshop III: Fusion Device Design and Engineering

Part of the Long Program Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy
May 4 - 8, 2026

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 4, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Elizabeth Paul
08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Cami Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Multi-Fidelity Integrated Modeling for Fusion Device Design with FREDA: From Workflows to Reliable Predictions
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Antoine Cerfon (Type One Energy)
Design and Validation of the Infinity Two Stellarator
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Anouk Nicolopoulos-Salle (Renaissance Fusion)
Engraved coils on simple surfaces: a new architecture for Stellarator design

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair PM: Cami Collins
14:30-15:20
Tim Slendebroek (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Exploring the fusion power plant design space: from tokamak optimization to million-case ITER studies
15:30-15:45
Lightning Poster Round
15:45-17:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Antoine Cerfon
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Takeo Hoshi (National Institute for Fusion)
General data-analysis framework ODAT-SE and its applications
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Yong-Su Na (Seoul National University)
Fusion Reactor Core Design Revisited: Historical DEMO and Power Plant Studies, Design Methodologies, and Operation Scenarios
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Thomas Kruger (Thea Energy)
Optimization of the Planar Coil Stellarator

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair PM: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard
14:30-15:20
Georg Stadler (New York University)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Discussion

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Morning Session

TBA
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Archis Joglekar ( Pasteur Labs)
Differentiable, Multi-Fidelity Simulation for Integrated Inertial Fusion Energy Design
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Designing tokamak core plasmas: from scaling laws to first-principles simulations
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Alan Kaptanoglu (New York University)
End-to-end automated coil optimization for nuclear fusion reactors

Afternoon Session

12:15-12:20
Group Photo
12:20-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair PM: Archis Joglekar
14:30-15:20
Hong Qin (Princeton University)
Machine Learning of Local Confinement and Transport from the International Multi-Tokamak Confinement Profile Database
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Discussion

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Thomas Kruger
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Lin Yang (Idaho National Laboratory)
Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling in Fusion Energy Systems Using Open-Source MOOSE-Based Tools: TMAP8 and SALAMANDER
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Egemen Kolemen (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
TBA
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Matthew Landreman (University of Maryland)
Opportunities for multi-fidelity methods in fusion device design

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair PM: Alan Kaptanoglu
14:30-15:20
Michael Churchill (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Using AI to accelerate fusion energy device design and operational excellence
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Benjamin Peherstorfer (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Two-Parameter Flows for Learning Population Dynamics
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