Recent events, research visits and conference participations

2024

On 9 January, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the IFERC HPC Follow Up Working Group Quarterly Meeting, online.
On 25 January, our group participated in the BSC Annual Meeting 2023.
On 12 February, Hernán Domingo joined to our group.
From 12 to 16 February, Federico Cipolletta attended the 2024 JOREK code general meeting at EPFL in Lausanne, where he presented a contribution titled “Updates regarding vacuum response matrix compression + next steps”.
On 23 February and 14 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated in an EPS Plasma Physics Division Board meeting, online.
From 11 to 15 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated in a JET Analysis and Modelling week at Culham Science Center, Culham, UK.
From 18 to 21 March, Ezequiel Goldberg attended the Third Tritium School.
On 22 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the 34^th Meeting of the IFERC Project Committee in the Broader Approach Activities, online.
On 2 April, Eduardo Cabrera joined to our group.
From 8 to 10 April, Ezequiel Goldberg attended the 15^th ITER Neutronics meeting and Fusion Neutronics Workshop.
On 11 April, Mervi Mantsinen participated in an online meeting with the Generalitat of Catalunya on the emerging sector RIS3CAT projects.
On 11 April and 7 May, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the 5^th HPC Fusion Workshop PC meeting, online.
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 8 May, Dani Gallart and Mervi Mantsinen participated in a EUROfusion WPW7X 2024 Kick-off meeting for Physics Preparation, online.
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.
From 22 to 23 May, our group participated in the annual Retreat of the BSC CASE Department in Altafulla, Spain.
On 27 May, Ezequiel Goldberg attended the NEA workshop for Radiation Transport Simulation Developers.
From 27 to 28 May, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the annual Finnfusion seminar at the University of Helsinki and gave a talk “Advanced Computing Hubs within EUROfusion E-TASC programme”.
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 6 June, Federico Cipolletta held an online EUROfusion HPC webinar, titled “Response matrix compression in the free-boundary and resistive wall extension: method and instructions” for the JOREK’s users community and the EUROfusion ACHs in general.
From 18 to 19 June, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the EUROfusion E-TASC Review Meeting, online.
On 19 June, Mervi Mantsinen gave a science seminar “Fusion Research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center” online organized by Renaissance Fusion, France.
On 26 June, Mervi Mantsinen participated as an evaluation committee member at the PhD thesis defense of Sven Korvig at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
On 28 June, Mervi Mantsinen participated in an EPS Plasma Physics Division Board meeting, online.
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 7 July, Mervi Mantsinen participated in an EPS Plasma Physics Division Board meeting in Salamanca, Spain.
From 8 to 12 July, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics in Salamanca, Spain and gave a talk “Experiments with second harmonic ICRF heating of Tritium in JET third major campaign with D-T plasmas (DTE3)”.
On 16 July, Mervi Mantsinen participated as an evaluation committee member at the PhD thesis defence of Guilherme Telles at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
On 23 July, Mervi Mantsinen visited the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
On 2 September, the paper “Implementation of matrix compression in the coupling of JOREK to realistic 3D conducting wall structures”, written by Federico Cipolletta as the first author, was published in the “Special Issue of High Performance Supercomputing (HPC) in Fusion Research 2023” of the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion journal. Alejandro Soba and Mervi Mantsinen contributed as co-authors.
From 2 September to 8 November, Rick Van Schaik (TU/e master student) carried out his internship under Dani Gallart‘s supervision. He devoted his work on upgrading and advancing MAXWEL module, from now on called EMWAVE module, on ALYA framework.
From 9 to 13 September, Mervi Mantsinen participated in a JET Analysis and Modelling week at Culham Science Center, Culham, UK.
On 11 September, the paper “Non-linear MHD modelling of transients in tokamaks: a review of recent advances with the JOREK code”, where Federico Cipolletta is co-author, was published on Nuclear Fusion journal.
On 12 September, Mervi Mantsinen participated in an EPS Plasma Physics Division Board meeting, online.
On 16 September, Diego Bonato joined to our group.
On 18 September, Mervi Mantsinen participated as an evaluation committee member at the PhD thesis defence of Pablo Oyola Dominguez at the University of Seville, Spain.
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 30 September to 4 October, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the ITPA Energetic Particles Topical Group meeting, online.
On 2 October, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the 5^th HPC Fusion Workshop PC meeting, online.
From 7 to 9 October, Eduardo Cabrera, Federico Cipolletta, Augusto Maidana, Xavier Sáez and Alejandro Soba participated in the 6^th MareNostrum Hackathon, using the codes assigned to our ACH to improve them under the guidance of expert mentors.
On 9 October, Mervi Mantsinen organized an online meeting to prepare the Women in Plasma Physics Event at the 2025 EPS Conference on Plasma Physics in Vilnius, Lithuania.
On 11 October, Dani Gallart made a presentation together with Ferran Albajar (F4E) under the Fusion Teacher Day 2024. Educational material is presented and a gentle overview on the Fusion progress.
On 14 October, Dani Gallart and Mervi Mantsinen participated at the Workshop “Hacia la Estrategia Nacional en Fusión”, CDTI, Madrid and gave a talk “Challenges in massive data analysis and simulation: HPC and IA”.
On 23 October, Mervi Mantsinen participated in 35^th Meeting of the IFERC Project Committee in the Broader Approach Activities, online.
On 28 and 29 October, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the Flagship Workshop “Challenges and perspective in computational modelling for fusion reactors” at CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and gave a talk “High performance computing for fusion research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center”.
From 11 to 15 November, Mervi Mantsinen, Alejandro Soba, and Federico Cipolletta from the CIEMAT-BSC ACH attended the EUROfusion ETASC General Meeting at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Munich.
On 18 November, Rick Van Schaik made the presentation at TU/e of the work he carried out at the BSC on improving the antenna model and the scripts for post-processing.
On 19 November, Mervi Mantsinen and Alejandro Soba participated in the 15^th E-TASC Scientific Board meeting to finalize the 2025 ACH work programme.
On 20 November, Mervi Mantsinen participated as an evaluation committee member at the PhD thesis defence of Enrique Zapata at the Aix-Marseille Université, France.
On 25 November, Dr.Cyd Cowley from Digilab, UK, visited our group at BSC and gave a talk “Trustworthy AI for data-driven decision intelligence”.
From 27 to 28 November, our Fusion Group had the honor of hosting the 2^nd Annual Meeting of the EUROfusion HPC Advanced Computing Hubs (ACHs). Our research group participated in the meeting with talks on the work performed in the following codes: BIT1 (Xavier Sáez), BOUT++ (Carlos Romero), ERO2.0 (Augusto Maidana), GENE-X (Carlos Romero), JOREK (Federico Cipolletta), SPICE (Alejandro Soba) and XTOR-K (Eduardo Cabrera).
From 2 to 3 December, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the EPS Plasma Physics Division Board meeting in Padua, Italy.

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