Recent events, research visits and conference participations

2025

From 17 to 21 February, Ezequiel Goldberg participated in a meeting of the EUROfusion Work Package “Preparation for ITER Operation” (WPPrIO) SP5, “Neutronics, Nuclear waste and Safety”.
On 21 January, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the diversity and inclusion working group meeting of the Plasma Physics Division Board of the European Physical Society to prepare for the Women in Plasma Physics Lunch Event at the forthcoming EPS Plasma Physics conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, July, 2025, online.
On 22 January, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the 6^th Fusion HPC Workshop Programme Committee meeting, online.
From 28 to 30 January, Mervi Mantsinen attended the 32^nd European Fusion Programme Workshop in Granada, Spain.
On 12 February, Mervi Mantsinen and Irene Agudo, an internship student in our group from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, participated in the Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (CASE) Department Open Day 2025, Barcelona, Spain.
On 6 March, Dani Gallart participated at the Mobile World Congress 2025 (Barcelona) where he gave a presentation entitled “Alya4Fusion: Towards a Fusion Reactor Digital Twin”.
On 14 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated in the 36^th Meeting of the IFERC Project Committee in the Broader Approach Activities, online.
From 17 to 21 March, Mervi Mantsinen and Dani Gallart participated in the 18^th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems. Mervi participated in the International Programme Advisory Committee Meeting, and Dani gave an invited talk entitled “Novel method for the detection of alpha heating in JET-ILW DT plasmas” .
On 21 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated as a member in the panel meeting to evaluate the nominations for the 2025 EPS-PPCF Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize, online
From 23 to 25 March, Mervi Mantsinen, Federico Cipolletta and Dani Gallart participated at the ITER Business Forum (IBF) 2025. They had the chance to explore the industrial ecosystem in fusion technology by holding b2b meetings and showing BSC’s and the Fusion Group relevant work on this field.
On 27 March, Mervi Mantsinen participated as an invited member in the panel meeting to evaluate the doctoral theses submitted for the first edition of the Best Doctoral Thesis Award of the GEFP(Grupo Especializado de Física de Plasmas) of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF), online.
On 28 March, Xavier Sáez gave a lecture entitled “HPC codes for Fusion” as part of the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain.
From 7 to 10 April, Hernán Domingo attended the 51^st IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference held in London. He was invited to do an oral presentation about Alya4fusion, a project that the Fusion Group is working on to develop a Digital Twin framework for fusion reactors.
On 8 April, Federico Cipolletta, Eduardo Cabrera, Augusto Maidana, and Mervi Mantsinen attended the first online session of the Artificial Intelligence Technology Mapping Workshop, organized by F4E.

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