Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

16th Plasma Kinetics Working Meeting
  21 July--1 August, 2025

Organised by A. Schekochihin (Oxford), Nuno Loureiro (MIT), Matt Kunz & Felix Parra (Princeton)

Name	Affiliation	Wk I	Wk II	h	Seminar Title	Background Reading	Download
Ian Abel	Maryland/GridFire	20-	-2	H
Toby Adkins	PPPL	19-	-2	D	Turbulent heating in collisionless low-beta plasmas: imbalance, Landau damping, and electron-ion energy partition, aka, When electrons punch above their weight	arXiv:2504.16177 JPP 90, 905900403 (2024)	pdf
Justin Ball	EPFL	21-25		F	Turbulent current drive from gyrokinetic symmetry-breaking by almost-rational surfaces	arXiv2503.08793 arXiv:2502.04459	pdf
Michael Barnes	Oxford	20-25		H	Scalings for short-wavelength ITG turbulence		pdf
Nicolas Besse	OCA Nice		25-3	F
Archie Bott	Oxford	20-25		D	Kinetic instabilities in burning inertial-confinement-fusion plasmas	JPP 90, 975900207 (2024) JPP 91, E45 (2025)	pdf
Yann Brenier	Paris-Saclay		27-7	F	Monge-Ampere gravity for cosmological simulations	arXiv:2404.07697	pdf
Ivan Calvo	CIEMAT	20-24		D	New class of stellarators with zero 1/nu transport and zero bootstrap current (via the concept of piecewise omnigenity)	PRL 133, 185101 (2024) arXiv:2505.02546	pdf
Peter Catto	MIT	20-25		H	Weakly collisional plasmas: simple, drift, and gyrokinetic	JPP 91, E80 (2025) JPP 91, E75 (2025) JPP 91, E25 (2025)	pdf
Ben Chandran	UNH	20-26		H	Intermittency in reflection-driven turbulence	arXiv:2502.04585	pdf
Paul Costello	IPP Greifswald	20-25			Tightening energetic bounds on linear gyrokinetic instabilities	arXiv:2505.17757 JPP 89, 905890419 (2023)	pdf
Steve Cowley	Princeton/PPPL		26-1	D	AI for fusion?
Bruno Despres	Sorbonne		27-4	D	Thoughts on machine learning, mathematics and plasma physics	TMLR 2025	pdf
Javier Escoto	CIEMAT				Fast and accurate calculation of the bootstrap current in low collisionality stellarator plasmas	NF 64, 076030 (2024) NF 65, 036017 (2025)	pdf
Robbie Ewart	Princeton		27-1	F	Cosmic ray transport (+some methodological questions)	arXiv:2507.19044	pdf
Thomas Foster	Princeton/PPPL	20-26			Collisional transport of alpha particles in stellarators		pdf
Zach Hemler	Princeton	20-28		F	Decaying MHD turbulence	PRX 11, 041005 (2021) NatComm 14, 7523 (2023) JFM 973, A13 (2023) MNRAS 518, 3312 (2023)	pdf
David Hosking	Cambridge	20-	-1	D	Entropic methods for convection	JPP 91, E35 (2025) +preprint on request	on request
Plamen Ivanov	UKAEA	20-25			The shear-induced ITG instability (shITG): how perpendicular flow shear can drive turbulence	preprint on request	on request
Archis Joglekar	Ergodic		27-2		Using differentiable simulations to tackle problems in fundamental plasma physics	JPP 88, 905880608 (2022) ML: Sci & Tech 4, 035049 (2023)	pdf
Alan Kaptanoglu	NYU		27-3	D	How to provide performance guarantees for data-driven models?	arXiv:2308.13819 PTRSA 372, 20130350 (2014)	pdf movies
Matt Kunz	Princeton	20-	-1	H	Abbreviated update on turbulence in weakly collisional, high-beta plasmas and application to ICM	JPP 90, 535900601 (2024) +preprint on request	pdf
Dion Li	MIT	20-	-2	D	Role of ion acoustic instability in magnetic reconnection	arXiv:2505.08983	pdf
Nuno Loureiro	MIT		27-2	H
Rishin Madan	Princeton		26-30	F	Interplay between macro- and microscales in ion-acoustic phase-space turbulence	arXiv:2503.17278	pdf
Norbert Mauser	WPI
Romain Meyrand	UNH/Otago				Informal update on the strange behaviour of TAI turbulence	JPP 88, 905880410 (2022)	pdf
Michael Nastac	Oxford		27-1	D	Phase-space turbulence in electrostatics and gravity	arXiv:2503.17278 arXiv:2501.01524	on request
Felix Parra	Princeton/PPPL	20-26		H	The Toroidal Secondary Mode (TSM): turbulence-driven propagating zonal flow	arXiv:2504.09785 arXiv:2409.02283	on request
Elizabeth Paul	Columbia		26-2	R	Optimising stellarators for improved energetic particle stability and confinement	arXiv:2503.03711	pdf
Benjamin Peherstorfer	NYU		28-30		DICE: Discrete inverse continuity equation for learning population dynamics	arXiv:2507.05107	on request
Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez	MIT		27-1	D	Using surrogate modeling to enable profile predictions with local nonlinear gyrokinetics	NF 62, 076036 (2022) NF 64, 076034 (2024)	pdf
Alex Schekochihin	Oxford	20-	-1	H
Luis Silva	IST Lisbon		28-31	H	In search of the (ground) truth and kinetic plasma simulators	ML: Sci. Tech. 5, 025048 (2024)	pdf
Silvia Trinczek	Princeton/PPPL	20-25		F	Neoclassical transport in the pedestal: theory and numerical comparison	arXiv:2504.03016 JPP 89, 905890304 (2023)	pdf
Leo Turica	Oxford		27-1	D	ML methods for assessing the reproducibility of pedestal data in JET-ILW; A suggestion for neural-network diagnostics for identifying non-linear features in non-linear simulations	arXiv:2504.17486	pdf

Week I

Monday 21 July	Tuesday 22 July	Wednesday 23 July	Thursday 24 July	Friday 25 July
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
TRANSPORT 10:00 Trinczek INSTABILITIES 10:45 Li	TURBULENCE 10:00 Hemler TRANSPORT 10:45 Ball	INSTABILITIES 10:00 Ivanov 10:45 Parra	INSTABILITIES 10:00 Catto TURBULENCE 10:45 Chandran	SUMMARY+DISCUSSION 10:45 Abel, Adkins & Hosking
13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee
INSTABILITIES 16:15 Costello 17:00 Bott	TRANSPORT 16:15 Calvo 17:00 Escoto	TURBULENCE 16:15 Meyrand 17:00 Barnes	TRANSPORT 16:15 Foster TURBULENCE 17:00 Hosking
20:00 Dinner at Marcodi	20:00 Dinner at Fischerie After dinner drinks: Needle Vynil Bar	19:45 Dinner at Planter's Club/Livingstone After dinner drinks: this is also a bar	20:00 Dinner at Bolena After dinner drinks: Krypt	19:15 Dinner at Lebenbauer After dinner drinks: Krypt

Week II

Monday 28 July	Tuesday 29 July	Wednesday 30 July	Thursday 31 July	Friday 1 August
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
10:15 Cowley 10:45 Despres	10:00 Kaptanoglu 10:45 Madan	10:00 Silva 10:45 Turica	10:00 Rodriguez-Fernandez 10:45 Nastac	SUMMARY+DISCUSSION 10:30 Loureiro & Cowley
13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...
16:15 Coffee	16:15 Coffee	16:15 Coffee	16:15 Coffee
16:30 Joglekar 17:15 Ewart	16:30 Peherstorfer 17:15 Adkins	16:30 Brenier 17:15 Paul	16:30 Kunz
19:15 WPI Social Dinner at Casa Caribena After dinner drinks: Das 1090	20:00 Dinner at Takan's After dinner drinks: Das 1090	20:00 Dinner at Osteria del Salento After dinner drinks: Das 1090	20:00 Dinner at Stomach After dinner drinks: Krypt	[art by chatGPT via R. Ewart]

JPP-CUP Best Student Talk Prize (panel: I. Abel, T. Adkins, D. Hosking):
Thomas Foster



Official 2025 movie

Logistics

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Previous WPI workshops in this series: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, (2008), (2007), (2007)