This week our Fusion Group Leader Dr Mervi Mantsinen visited the largest Italian computing centre, CINECA. Located in Bologna, Italy, CINECA hosts Marconi-Fusion, the new European High Performance Computer for fusion applications which was inaugurated on 14 September 2016.
Today, our fusion group had the pleasure of hosting a meeting on Monte-Carlo Random Numbers with a multidisciplinary group of experts from the Institute of Photonic Sciences ICFO, Spain; National Institute for Fusion Science NIFS, Japan; CIEMAT Fusion National Laboratory and Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
El programa “Cazador de cerebros” de RTVE explora esta búsqueda de nuevas fuentes de energía, como la energía solar en España y el reactor de fusión nuclear ITER.
Today, Allah Rakha and Dani Gallart, two PhD students from our fusion group under the supervision of ICREA Prof. Mervi Mantsinen, exposed and defended their PhD research plans at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
In the week from 5th to 8th of September, the Fusion group member Felipe Nathan participated in the 21th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, held in Leysin, Switzerland. The meeting gathered scientists from different parts of the world in the field of Thermonuclear Plasma Transport, mostly turbulent transport, and share their successes and failures, in order to strengthen and uplift the scientific pursuit of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion.
Our Fusion group member, Carles Riera, successfully presented his Master thesis, titled: “Development of a Deterministic Neutron Transport Code Based on the Alya System at Barcelona Supercomputing Center”, based on the work he has been carrying out since last February. The oral exposition took place at the Faculty of Sciences of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.