Our fusion research group was delighted to host Dr Donald A. Spong from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) during his visit to Barcelona Supercomputing Center from the 1st to the 6th of July 2016.
BSC Fusion group at the European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics
The BSC Fusion group has attended this week, from 4 to 8 July 2016, the 43rd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics in Leuven, Belgium. It is the largest annual conference in the field of plasma physics and controlled fusion in Europe.
We presented our recent research in a total of three contributions as lead authors:
- Non-linear MHD Simulations of Pellet Triggered ELMs in JET and ASDEX Upgrade tokamaks by S. Futatani et al.
- Simulations of combined ICRF and NBI heating for high fusion performance in JET by D. Gallart et al.
- Third harmonic ICRF heating of deuterium beam ions on ASDEX Upgrade by M.J. Mantsinen et al.
BSC Fusion PhD student wins prestigious “La Caixa” 2015 Fellowship
Last Tuesday 28/06/2016, our fusion group member Dani Gallart received one of the prestigious grants from “La Caixa” in order to support his PhD studies at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
The ceremony was hosted at the Caixa Fòrum of Barcelona presided by Jaume Giró, General Director of “La Caixa” Foundation Bank, Carmen Vela, Secretary of State of Research, and Jordi Portabella, director of Research and Knowledge of “La Caixa”.
Dani was accompanied at the ceremony by Prattya Datta, another winner of the 2015 edition from BSC, Prof. Mateo Valero, Director of BSC, and Merce Calvet, Head of BSC Management Department.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the Top500 list
The TOP500 project lists twice a year the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The objective of the list is to observe trends in technology related to High Performance Computing and enlighten, ultimately, the importance of supercomputation to the development of Science and Engineering.
The MareNostrum supercomputer hosted by Barcelona Supercomputer Center occupies the position 106 in the TOP500 list this year.
Call for Proposals for EUROfusion Researcher Grants
The call to send in proposals for the next round of EUROfusion Researcher Grants has been published. The deadline is 8 September 2016, and the start date of the grant of the succesful candidates is no later than on the 30 June 2017.
The action supports the initial training of researchers, typically during the first years of their careers in research. It is directed towards researchers of all nationalities, who meet the following criteria:
- Researchers in possession of a doctoral degree (PhD) who have completed their PhD and defended their thesis in the two years preceding the deadline for proposal submission of the present call;
- Engineers/technicians, not having a PhD degree, but who are in possession of a master degree in Engineering (or any equivalent university degree in Engineering) with a professional experience of at least 3 years up to 5 years after the master degree.
Detailed information is available for download can be found here.
Please contact our Fusion Group Leader Mervi Mantsinen if you are interested in preparing an application with Barcelona Supercomputing Center as your host institute.
BSC at Fusion Materials Meeting
On June 7-9, the BSC researchers Georg Huhs, Stephan Mohr and Mervi Mantsinen from the CASE department participated in a EUROfusion meeting on fusion materials. Their presentation on Recent advances in large-scale atomistic materials modeling at Barcelona Supercomputer Center was well received. The meeting was organized by Prof. María José Caturla at the University of Alicante, Spain.
Materials research is a key topic for the European and worldwide fusion research programme as the technological feasibility of fusion energy depends on the availability of materials that are capable of withstanding the operational conditions of fusion reactors.