2022
- On 14 January, Mervi Mantsinen participated as committee member in the PhD degree thesis defense of Mathias Hoppe at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gotherburg, Sweden. The title of his thesis is “Runaway-electron model development and validation in tokamaks”.
- On 9 May, Julio Gutiérrez gave a lecture on “Computational Modelling of Fusion Materials at the Atomic Scale” as part of the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain.
- From 5 to 7 April, Irina Gasilova, Ezequiel Goldberg and Xavier Sáez attended the online course Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X given by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Austria.
- On 13 May, Julio Gutiérrez gave an invited oral presentation at the International Fusion Research Center – Computational Simulation Center (FERC-CSC) Workshop on Japan Fusion Reactor Simulator (JFRS-1) and presented our FusionCAT work on tungsten metal simulations.
- On 10 May, Dani Gallart gave a lecture entitled “Plasma heating with RF waves” and Xavier Sáez gave a lecture entitled “Simulation codes in Fusion Technology” as part of the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain.
- On 12 May, Mátyás Aradi, Mary Kate Chessey, and Tomás Bensadon presented contributed oral papers at the 9th BSC Doctoral Symposium 2022 in Barcelona and presented our FusionCAT work on numerical simulations for the atomic beam probe, tungsten metal simulations, and integrated modelling of plasma heating in ITER.