2024
- On 25 January, our group participated in the BSC Annual Meeting 2023.
- On 12 February, Hernán Domingo joined to our group.
- On 2 April, Eduardo Cabrera joined to our group.
- On 26 April, Dani Gallart gave a lecture entitled “Plasma Heating with RF Waves” as part of the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain.
- On 10 May, 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 30 May, the paper “The Advanced Computing Hub at BSC: improving fusion codes following modern software engineering standards” written by Xavier Sáez as first author was published on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion journal by IOP Publishing. Alejandro Soba and Mervi Mantsinen also collaborated in its development. The paper describes the work developed on the BSC-ACH.
- On 5 July, Tomas Bensadon was granted with the title of PhD in physics after successfully defending his thesis entitled “Analysis of ICRF schemes for tokamaks using predictive integrated plasma modelling” at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona.
- On 16 September, Diego Bonato joined to our group.
- On 20 September, Hernán Domingo, successfully defended his Master’s Thesis, titled “MAXWEL: FEM software module to compute EM fields within a magnetically confined fusion reactor”.
- From 7 to 9 October, Eduardo Cabrera, Federico Cipolletta, Augusto Maidana, Xavier Sáez and Alejandro Soba participated in the 6th MareNostrum Hackathon, using the codes assigned to our ACH to improve them under the guidance of expert mentors.