News – Fusion Group

Welcoming our New Master’s Student: Deep Learning for HTS Simulations

October 17, 2024

Hi! I’m Diego Bonato, and I have joined the Fusion group to carry out my master’s thesis! My internship will last 6 months, from September 2024 to March 2025, and it’s funded by FuseNet. I will be supervised by Alejandro Soba and Eduardo Cabrera.

During my stay at BSC, I will be working on the development of a Deep Learning model to accelerate the solution of Maxwell’s equations in the context of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) simulations. This tool will help improve the performance of MAGNET, a package developed in the Fusion group, which simulates HTS in various scenarios. This will be crucial to study the next generation of fusion reactors.

MNHACK24: 6th MareNostrum Hackathon

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024

Between October 7 and 9, the 6^th MareNostrum Hackathon took place in the Auditorium of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Headquarters.

The members of the Fusion Group who belong to the EUROfusion Advance Computing Hub (ACH) attended this event to deploy, test, port, and optimize plasma fusion codes on the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer. With the assistance of an extraordinary team of mentors and experts, we worked together on the improvement of several codes assigned to our ACH. The group worked on ERO2, BIT1 and XTORK, sharing expertise, experiences and suggestions.

Abstract submission is now open for the 5^th Fusion HPC Workshop!

June 26, 2024

It is our pleasure to host the 5^th Fusion HPC Workshop as an online event on November 21-22, 2024.

This workshop follows the virtual 4th Fusion HPC Workshop, which took place on November 29-30, 2023, and attracted 385 registrations worldwide.

ITER organises its 15th Neutronics Workshop in Cadarache

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

From April 8^th through 10^th (2024) the ITER Organization gathered researchers, industry partners and all members of the international neutronics community in Cadarache, where the fusion reactor homonymous to the organisation is undergoing construction, to host the 15^th Neutronics Meeting and Fusion Neutronics Workshop. Aiming to discuss recent advancements, issues and successes in the neutronics field, the meeting covered several topics including ITER neutronics, safety issues, computational tools and nuclear data relevant to nuclear fusion, shielding materials, damage, heating, waste production and management and neutron sources, among others.

Ezequiel Goldberg, member of the Fusion Group, attended the meeting where researchers made presentations from both public and private institutions from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Slovenia, the UK, the US, Russia, India, Korea, Japan, China, and international organisations such as the ITER Organization and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

Celebrating 2024 Sant Jordi

April 23, 2024

In Catalonia, the 23rd of April marks a special day in tradition and cultural significance: the Diada de Sant Jordi, or Saint Jordi’s Day. This celebration uniquely combines culture and love in a vibrant display of Catalan identity. On this special day, the streets of Catalan cities and villages come alive with the enchanting sight of stalls brimming with roses and books.

On this day, we express our love and affection to our loved ones by exchanging roses and books, symbolizing the timeless values of love and knowledge. But beyond its romantic connotations, Sant Jordi holds a deeper meaning for Catalans—it is a celebration of their rich literary heritage and a tribute to the patron saint of Catalonia, Saint George.

TITANS Project hosts the Third Tritium School for the nuclear research community

April 9, 2024

Third Tritium School flyer. Source: TITANS Project.

Group Member Ezequiel Goldberg attended the Third Tritium School, organized from 18 to 22 of March in hybrid format by the TITANS Project (Tritium Impact and Transfer in Advanced Nuclear reactorS). The project combines the expertise of international experts from material sciences, process engineering, biology, environmental sciences and modelling into a transdisciplinary project concentrating on the management of nuclear facilities, focusing particularly on tritium management. TITANS contributes to mitigating nuclear environmental impact, as well as facilitating the growing nuclear energy demand as Europe, and our world, transition to low-carbon energy sources.