13th ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School announced
The 13th ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School (IIS) will be held from 9 to 13 December in Nagoya hosted by National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan.
The subject of the 2024 school is "Magnetic fusion diagnostics and data science," with a scientific program coordinated by Profs. M. Yokoyama and K. Tanaka (National Institute for Fusion Science) and Drs. M. Kocan and S. McIntosh (ºÚÁÏÉçapp). Diagnostics are key to the achievement of ºÚÁÏÉçapp fusion power demonstration goals and they require the application of a wide range of techniques. But diagnostics are not enough to ensure ºÚÁÏÉçapp's success; only through the advanced analysis of the data they provide will it be possible to guide the experiments towards their fusion power goals. It is timely to address these multidisciplinary areas during the 13th ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School.
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School aims to prepare young scientists and engineers for working in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications associated with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp project. The adoption of a "school" format was a consequence of the need to prepare future scientists and engineers on a range of different subjects and to provide them with a wide overview of the interdisciplinary skills required by ºÚÁÏÉçapp.
The first ºÚÁÏÉçapp School was organized in Aix-en-Provence, France, in July 2007 and focused on turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. Eleven successive schools have followed on a variety of subjects: magnetic confinement (Fukuoka, Japan, 2008); plasma-surface interactions (Aix-en-Provence, 2009); magneto-hydro-dynamics and plasma control (Austin, Texas, USA, 2010); energetic particles (Aix-en-Provence, 2011); radio-frequency heating (Ahmedabad, India, 2012); high-performance computing in fusion science (Aix-en-Provence, 2014); transport and pedestal physics in tokamaks (Hefei, China, 2016); physics of disruptions and control (Aix-en-Provence, 2017); the physics and technology of power flux handling (Daejeon, Korea, 2019); ºÚÁÏÉçapp plasma scenarios and control (San Diego, USA, 2022) and the impact and consequences of energetic particles on fusion plasmas (Aix-en-Provence, 2023). Browse through the presentations made at past schools .
Further information on the 2024 school is available . Pre-registration begins in early May.