Wolfgang Pauli Institute,
Vienna
17th Plasma Kinetics Working Meeting
27 July - 7 August 2026
Organised by Alex Schekochihin (Oxford)
"Programme Committee": Archie Bott (Oxford), Plamen Ivanov (UKAEA), Toby Adkins, Felix Parra (PPPL), Robbie Ewart, Matt Kunz (Princeton), David Hosking (Cambridge)
17th Plasma Kinetics Working Meeting
27 July - 7 August 2026
Organised by Alex Schekochihin (Oxford)
"Programme Committee": Archie Bott (Oxford), Plamen Ivanov (UKAEA), Toby Adkins, Felix Parra (PPPL), Robbie Ewart, Matt Kunz (Princeton), David Hosking (Cambridge)
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AGENDA
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Invited Participants
| Name | Affiliation | Wk I |
Wk II |
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Seminar Title |
Background Reading |
Download |
| Ian
Abel |
GridFire Ltd |
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| Georgia
Acton |
IPP Greifswald |
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| Toby
Adkins |
PPPL/Edinburgh |
F |
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| Alessandro
Balestri |
EPFL |
F |
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| Justin
Ball |
EPFL |
F |
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| Aikya
Banerjee |
Oxford |
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| Nicolas
Besse |
OCA Nice |
F |
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| Archie
Bott |
Oxford |
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| Ben
Chandran |
New Hampshire |
28-1 |
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| Steve Cowley | Princeton/PPPL |
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| Bruno
Despres |
Sorbonne |
F |
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| Riju Dutta |
Oxford |
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| Robbie
Ewart |
Stanford |
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| Cary
Forest |
UW Madison/Realta |
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| Thomas Foster |
Princeton |
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| Sam
Frank |
Realta Fusion Inc |
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| Zach Hemler |
Princeton |
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| David
Hosking |
Cambridge/Edinburgh |
F |
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| Plamen
Ivanov |
UKAEA |
F |
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| Archis
Joglekar |
Ergodic LLC |
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| Anjor
Kanekar |
Platypus Tech Ltd |
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| Philipp
Kempski |
IST Lisbon |
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| Patrick
Kim |
Princeton |
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| Matt
Kunz |
Princeton |
25- |
-5 |
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| Ralf Mackenbach | EPFL |
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| Rishin
Madan |
Princeton |
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| Michael Nastac |
Oxford |
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| Richard
Nies |
Oxford |
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| Felix
Parra |
Princeton/PPPL |
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| Bhavin
Patel |
GridFire Ltd |
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| Chris
Reynolds |
Maryland |
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| Alex Schekochihin | Oxford |
25- |
-7 |
H |
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| Yujia
Zhang |
UKAEA |
Week I
Dinner on Saturday 25 July:
Dinner on Sunday 26 July:
Dinner on Sunday 26 July:
| Monday 27 July |
Tuesday 28 July |
Wednesday 29 July |
Thursday 30 July |
Friday 31 July |
| 9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros |
9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee |
Dinner on Saturday 1 August:
Week II
Dinner on Sunday 2 August:
| Monday 3 August |
Tuesday 4 August |
Wednesday 5 August |
Thursday 6 August |
Friday 7 August |
| 9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros |
9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee |
JPP-CUP Best Student Talk Prize (panel: TBA):
TBA
Logistics
The workshop will be held at
Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna,
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
All seminars are in Seminar Room 08.135 (8th floor)
Hotels: Pension Ani-Falstaff (no-nonsense but very affordable option),
Deutschmeister (perfectly fine),
Harmonie (somewhat self-indulgent, has AC!).
City-airport train
Vienna information
Previous WPI workshops in this series: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, (2008), (2007), (2007)
