6th Fusion HPC Workshop

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to host the 6th Fusion HPC Workshop as an online event on February 24-25, 2026.

This workshop follows the virtual 5th Fusion HPC Workshop, which took place on November 21-22, 2024, and attracted more than 300 participants around the world.

The event will cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Energy and particle transport 
  • Multi-physics modelling
  • Plasma turbulence and related transport processes
  • Plasma hydrodynamics including linear, nonlinear and/or extended MHD
  • Plasma instabilities
  • Edge and plasma-material interactions
  • Heating, fuelling and current drive
  • Laser-plasma interactions
  • Fast particle physics and burning plasma issues
  • Scenario development and control
  • Fusion reactor materials
  • Fusion reactor technology

The workshop will be held in English and is open to all.

There will be keynote, invited and contributed presentations. The abstract submission is now open, and closes on October 31, 2025 at 1pm CEST.

Participants at the Fusion HPC Workshop will gain a broad understanding of the status of fusion HPC research internationally by attending presentations by leading researchers on a broad range of topics. Question and answer sessions will follow presentations with the option to either write or use the microphone to ask questions. Participants are encouraged to network on an individual basis, and may use the Zoom chat feature during sessions of invited and contributed presentations.

Following the success of last year, early career scientists will once again have the opportunity to receive feedback from expert reviewers and qualify for the recognition we give to outstanding presentations.

Similar to the process for last year’s Special Issue in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion journal, selected presentations will be invited, by mutual agreement, to submit a journal paper after the workshop to a special issue published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (IOP).

Confirmed keynote speakers

Speaker: Alba Cervera – Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Title: Quantum-HPC integration: state-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities

Speaker: Carolin Nuehrenberg – Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany
Title:  Gyrokinetic simulations for stellarator plasmas

Speaker: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi – National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan 
Title: Design activity of a flexible stellarator in National Institute for Fusion Science

Speaker: Jaime Marian – University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title: Multiscale materials modeling for simulating the response of structural materials to fusion reactor conditions

Speaker: Misun Min – Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Title: Exascale MHD Simulations for Liquid Metal Fusion Blankets

Speaker: Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez – MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, USA
Title: On the use of surrogate-based optimization methods to accelerate transport modeling in magnetic confinement fusion devices

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the workshop!

The Fusion HPC Workshop Organization Committee