This spring our fusion group has contributed with three lectures to the Fusion Technology Course of the Nuclear Engineering Master organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. This course is designed to offer the students an comprehensive overview on key topics in Fusion Technology, delivered by specialist lecturers from F4E, CIEMAT, CEA, IPP, UPC and BSC/Fusion group.
From May the 15th to the 18th, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center held the European HPC Summit Week 2017 and the PRACEdays17, an event focused on the usage of High Performance Computing in the industry and the academia.
We are particularly pleased to report that our Master student Felipe Nathan de Oliveira won the PRACE award for the best poster. His work entitled “Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization of ITG micro-turbulence by ICRF-driven fast ions in ASDEX Upgrade” was short-listed for the presentation on May the 16th with other two candidates.
Next week, the documentary film entitled “Let There Be Light” will arrive at the 2017 DOCSBARCELONA international documentary film festival. The movie will be shown in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) on Friday 26th of May at 8 pm and Sunday 28th of May at 5 pm.
This week our group leader Mervi Mantsinen has worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) at Garching, Germany where she has participated in the experimental campaign on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak as part of the 2017 EUROfusion Medium Size Tokamak (MST1) campaigns.
From the 2nd to the 4th May, three members of the Fusion Group at BSC participated in the 4th Severo Ochoa Doctoral Symposium, two of them as Poster Presenters and one as volunteer to help its organization.
The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to provide a framework to share the research results that form the theses being developed by young researchers and postgraduate students at BSC. On the other hand, it offers training sessions on topics and skills that may be useful to future researchers and professionals.
Felipe Nathan de Oliveira, a Master student working in our fusion group, presented his work on “Stabilization of microturbulence by fast ions”. His poster is part of an ongoing investigation aiming to find evidence of electromagnetic stabilization of Ion Temperature Gradients, a microturbulence found in tokamak-like fusion reactors.
Over the past couple of weeks, our Fusion group has counted with the visits of two Fusion Scientists from United States and Germany under the Severo Ochoa mobility program of Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The program aims at enhancing partnerships between BSC and other institutions through grants for ongoing and incoming researchers.