Monday, May 4, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Elizabeth Paul

08:00-08:55

Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

08:55-09:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00-09:50

Cami Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Multi-Fidelity Integrated Modeling for Fusion Device Design with FREDA: From Workflows to Reliable Predictions

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Antoine Cerfon (Type One Energy)

Design and Validation of the Infinity Two Stellarator

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Anouk Nicolopoulos-Salle (Renaissance Fusion)

Engraved coils on simple surfaces: a new architecture for Stellarator design

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

Session Chair PM: Cami Collins

14:30-15:20

Tim Slendebroek (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

Exploring the fusion power plant design space: from tokamak optimization to million-case ITER studies

15:30-15:45

Lightning Poster Round

15:45-17:00

Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Antoine Cerfon

08:00-09:00

Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:50

Takeo Hoshi (National Institute for Fusion)

General data-analysis framework ODAT-SE and its applications

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Yong-Su Na (Seoul National University)

Fusion Reactor Core Design Revisited: Historical DEMO and Power Plant Studies, Design Methodologies, and Operation Scenarios

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Thomas Kruger (Thea Energy)

Optimization of the Planar Coil Stellarator

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

Session Chair PM: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

14:30-15:20

Alan Kaptanoglu (New York University)

Recent work on stage-1 and stage-2 stellarator optimization

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Discussion

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Takeo Hoshi

08:00-09:00

Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:50

Archis Joglekar ( Pasteur Labs)

Differentiable, Multi-Fidelity Simulation for Integrated Inertial Fusion Energy Design

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Designing tokamak core plasmas: from scaling laws to first-principles simulations

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Georg Stadler (New York University)

Towards single stage optimization for omnigeneity

Afternoon Session

12:20-12:30

Group Photo

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

Session Chair PM: Archis Joglekar

14:30-15:20

Hong Qin (Princeton University)

Machine Learning of Local Confinement and Transport from the International Multi-Tokamak Confinement Profile Database

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Discussion

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Thomas Kruger

08:00-09:00

Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:50

Lin Yang (Idaho National Laboratory)

Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling in Fusion Energy Systems Using Open-Source MOOSE-Based Tools: TMAP8 and SALAMANDER

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Egemen Kolemen (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

N/A

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Matthew Landreman (University of Maryland)

Opportunities for multi-fidelity methods in fusion device design

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

Session Chair PM: Alan Kaptanoglu

14:30-15:20

Michael Churchill (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

Using AI to accelerate fusion energy device design and operational excellence

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:45

Benjamin Peherstorfer (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Two-Parameter Flows for Learning Population Dynamics

Friday, May 8, 2026

Morning Session

Session Chair AM: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

08:00-09:00

Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:50

Jon Hillesheim (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)

Plasma physics basis for ARC design and operation

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

James Cook (UK Atomic Energy Authority )

Parametric Tokamak Design in BLUEMIRA

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Syunichi Shiraiwa (Princeton University)

N/A