Sunday, 20 September 2026
16:00 – 19:00
Registration in Villa Monastero
Monday, 21 September 2026
9:00
Welcome — G. Gorini and J. Graves
Session 1: Fundamental Theory of Turbulence and Transport
9:10
I-1
A. Schekochihin
Tutorial: "As simple as possible but not simpler": physics of turbulence and transport via reduced fluid models
9:55
I-2
G. Acton
Computational and Theoretical Advances for Zonal Flows in Stellarators
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
I-3
J. Burby
A statistical equilibrium model for stellarators
11:55
I-4
P. Costello
Constrained optimal modes: tightening thermodynamic bounds on the linear growth rate of microinstabilities
12:40
Group photo in Villa Monastero's garden
12:50
Lunch
Session 2: Tokamak Plasma Regimes
15:00
I-5
N. Rivals
Understanding of the X-Point Radiator regimes in tokamaks through an example in the WEST device
15:45
I-6
F. Maiden
The theory behind solenoid-free microwave driven start-up in tokamaks
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
I-7
K. Zhang
Turbulence in the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime
17:45
End
19:30
Welcome Party — Blanco Lounge Bar, Varenna
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Session 3: Fast Ions, Runaways and Heat Transport in Stellarators
9:00
I-8
T. Foster
Analytical formulas for alpha-particle orbits in stellarators
9:45
I-9
M. Fitzgerald
Conservation and destruction of alpha particle invariants in optimized stellarators
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
I-10
I. Ekmark
Runaway electrons in stellarators: Unlikely or unavoidable
11:45
I-11
H. Thienpondt
Nonlinear critical gradients in W7-X: Insights from massive gyrokinetic simulations and experimental measurements of turbulent heat transport
12:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Poster session 1: P1 – P14
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Poster session 2: P15 – P28
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
Session 4: Microturbulent Transport and Gyrokinetics in Tokamaks
9:00
I-12
H. Sun
The unusual dynamics of turbulent transport in spherical tokamaks with large field line pitch angle
9:45
I-13
L. De Gianni
Understanding Trapped Electron Modes in negative triangularity
10:30
I-14
S. Liu
Development of the Gyrokinetic-MHD Hybrid Code cuGMEC and Its Nonlinear Simulations of Alpha Particle-driven Alfvén Eigenmodes in ITER
11:15
Coffee break
11:35
I-15
S. Choudhary
Gyrokinetic Transport in flat-Temperature Tokamak Plasmas
12:20
I-16
J. McClenaghan
Integrating Gyrokinetic Flux Predictions with Ideal MHD Stability Boundaries
13:05
Lunch
19:30
Conference dinner — Ristorante La Breva, Lierna (dinner at 20:00, bus at 19:30)
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Session 5: Stellarator Optimisation
9:00
I-17
J. Velasco
Tutorial: New avenues for stellarator design enabled by piecewise omnigenity
9:45
I-18
W. Sengupta
Periodic Korteweg-de Vries soliton potentials generate quasisymmetric magnetic field strength in both vacuum and finite plasma-beta equilibrium
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
I-19
A. Goodman
Searching for SQuIDs: Developments in the optimisation of Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Designs
11:45
I-20
P. Jurašić
Designing stellarator island divertors by controlling the island flux
12:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Poster session 3: P29 – P42
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Poster session 4: P43 – P56
Friday, 25 September 2026
Session 6: Fast Ion and Nonlinear Physics in Tokamaks
9:00
I-21
H. Cai
Cross-scale Interaction between Microturbulence and Fishbone in Fusion Plasmas
9:45
I-22
D. Korger
A nonlinear Schrödinger equation for the description of geodesic-acoustic-modes in tokamaks
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
I-23
J. Wang
Comprehensive simulations of bursting shear Alfvén waves in tokamaks and their control via phase space engineering with ICRF waves
11:45
I-24
E. G. Devin
Nonlinear evolution of strongly driven perturbative kinetic instabilities
12:30
Closing session
12:45
End