Programme 2024

TDoTP Technical, Management & Advisory Board meeting

Thursday 26th September & Friday 27th September 2024
at the Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9BU

 

Thursday 26th September

 

Time Title Speakers
09:45 Coffee on arrival
10:00 Welcome & meeting overview
(including approval of agenda)
Roddy
10:25 “Gyrokinetic invariants and curvature-driven instabilities” Plamen Ivanov
11:10 “Measurement of zero-frequency fluctuations generated by coupling between Alfvén modes in the JET tokamak” Juan Ruiz Ruiz
11:45 “Impact of profile shearing on tokamak plasma micro-stability (global CGYRO)” Alexandra Dudkovskaia (remote)
12:15 LUNCH
13:00 Welcome and overview for External Advisory Board Roddy
13:15 Theme 1: Interaction between turbulence and flows Istvan and Alex
14:00 Theme 2: Microstability and turbulent transport in STs Michael and David
14:45 COFFEE
15:08 Theme 3: Multiscale diagnostics Kevin and Roddy
15:53 Theme 4: Optimising confinement for reactor scenarios Ben McMillan
16:38 Theme 5: Research data management Peter and Maciek
17:23 EAB closed session / general discussion
17:53 CLOSE
18:30 DINNER at Bar and Block 

 

Friday 27th September

 

Time Title Speakers
09:00 UKAEA update Colin / Anthony
09:35 “First measurements of ion-scale turbulence with the upgraded beam emission spectroscopy diagnostics in MAST Upgrade” Istvan Cziegler on behalf of Steve Thomas
10:10 COFFEE & PASTRIES
10:30 Simulation and analysis of a high-k electron scale turbulence diagnostic for MAST-U David Speirs
11:05 Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager: status & plans Ben Pritchard
12:00 LUNCH
12:30 TDoTP2 – strategy Michael and Roddy
13:30 (approx) Management, administration & finance update [management board academic staff only]
14:00 CLOSE