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, Germany) Title:Gyrokinetic simulations for stellarator plasmas
Speaker: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan) Title: Design activity of a flexible stellarator in National Institute for Fusion Science
Speaker: Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Titile: 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
Invited talks
Alvaro Martinez Pechero (University of Oxford): OXFORD-UMAT, the Crystal Plasticity code used to address STEP materials
C. Zhu, H. Liu, G. Yu, G. Zhuang (University of Science and Technology of China): Optimizing Stellarators with Hidden Symmetry
Evgeny Adishchev (Next Step Fusion s.a.r.l.): Reinforcement Learning Controllers for Fusion Scenario Development and Control
Jesús José Domínguez-Palacios Durán (Fiat Lux LLC): Extended-MHD modeling of a Wide Pedestal Quiescent H-mode DIII-D plasma including multispecies collisional effects
Tyler Brandes (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison): Modelling MHD Pressure Drop in Pumped Liquid Metal Fusion Blankets
Contributed talks
Abhishek Tiwari (Indian Institue of Science): Zonal flow suppression of turbulent transport in the optimized stellarators W7-X and QSTK
Albert Civit-Bertran (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya): Analysis of 3D non-linear MHD simulations of core density collapse event in LHD plasma
Alberto Bottino (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics): Time evolving control variates in global particle-in-cell simulations
Alberto Fraile (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), BIST & CSIC): High velocity impacts on plasma facing materials. Vacancies, He, He bubbles, and polycrystalline targets
Álvaro López Cazalilla (BSC): The role and efficiency of machine-learning interatomic potential in the hydrogen-induced bubble growth in metals
Arkady Serikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): Pitagora HPC neutronics computations for the nuclear safety and radwaste issues of the IFMIF-DONES Target Assembly
Augusto Maidana (BSC): Porting ERO2.0 to exascale GPU architectures
Cristian Diego Denton Zanello (Universidad de Alicante): Molecular dynamics study of He bubbles in FeCr
Daniel Ward (Hartree Centre, STFC, UKRI): Progress towards a scalable liquid-metal MHD solver in MFEM for fusion breeding blankets
E.d.D. Zapata Cornejo (MIT PSFC): Discovering features for confinement regime operational spaces using classification and Bayesian optimization
Edoardo Carrà (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics): GPU Acceleration of Hybrid Fluid-Kinetic Simulations of Runaway Electrons in JOREK
Efstratios Koukoutsis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens): Quantum Simulation of Transient Scattering: From Dielectrics to Plasmas
Fabio Calzavara (Politecnico di Torino): Systematic Monte Carlo analysis of binary compounds for neutron shielding in a compact nuclear fusion reactor
Federico Ledda (Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology): Atomistic simulation framework for radiation damage assessment in YBCO
Foteini Litovoli (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Stochastic modeling and numerical analysis of the DEMO divertor via 3D DSMC simulations
Giorgio Daneri (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics): GPU Acceleration and Portability of the TRIMEG Code for Global Gyrokinetic Plasma Simulations using OpenMP
Giorgio Lo Presti (INFN-LNS / CNR-IMM): Fast dimensional extensions of multicomponent 0D plasma models for multiscale applications to fusion reactors
Henrique Bergallo Rocha (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority): New Developments in MFEM-Enabled MOOSE Simulations
Jie Huang (Southwestern Institute of Physics): Integrated 3D Nonlinear Simulation of Edge Localized Mode Dynamics in the HL-3 Tokamak
Jintong Wu (University of Helsinki): Unveiling long-term defect evolution in fusion materials: a dynamic coupling of Molecular Dynamics with Object Kinetic Monte Carlo for iron and tungsten
Kalp Pandya (Junior Research Fellow at Smart Energy Learning Center): Fourier Neural Operator based Surrogate Modeling for Accelarated Plasma Simulations
Libin Varghesen (Dhirubhai Ambani University (DAU): An Adaptive Self-Aware Sorting Mechanism for Improving Performance of Particle-In-Cell Codes
Mary Kate Chessey (BSC): Atomic-scale study of defect-induced thermal conductivity degradation in irradiated tungsten using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) and the Creation Relaxation Algorithm (CRA)
Niccolò Di Eugenio (Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino): Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials for Radiation Damage Analysis in High-Temperature Superconductors
Óscar Amaro (1 GoLP/Instituto de Plasma e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa): Extracting Plasma Dispersion Relations using a Quantum Algorithm
Pedro, J. Delgado (Consorcio IFMIF-DONES): Development of a Fe-C fusion ready potential within the NEP approach
Pranav Puthan (UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham campus): Analysis and Validation of Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Turbulence for Multiphysics Fusion Applications
First day – 24 February 2026 Timezone CET (Central European Time)
