Over the past couple of weeks, our Fusion group has counted with the visits of two Fusion Scientists from United States and Germany under the Severo Ochoa mobility program of Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The program aims at enhancing partnerships between BSC and other institutions through grants for ongoing and incoming researchers.
During his two-week stay at BSC, Dr. Hauke Doerk from the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP, Germany) collaborated with our group in the field of nonlinear electromagnetic microturbulence stabilization by fast ions.
Our second visitor was Dr. Donald Spong from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. His visit brought forward our collaboration on the modelling of Alfven eigenmodes in three-dimensional magnetic geometries.
The results of our collaborations will be presented at the forthcoming European Physical Society Conference Plasma Physics, that will take place in Belfast at the end of June, and the Fusion Theory Conference in Athens in October.
We acknowledge the support given by the Severo Ochoa mobility grants to strengthen these collaborations.