Name: EUROfusion E-TASC General Meeting #2
Start: 2026-02-09T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-13T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Max Planck IPP

EUROfusion E-TASC General Meeting #2

from Monday 9 February 2026 (13:00) to Friday 13 February 2026 (13:00)

Monday 9 February 2026
13:00 WELCOME - Gianfranco Federici
WELCOME
- Gianfranco Federici
13:00 - 13:20
Room: D2 Conference Room
13:20 Overview of new E-TASC organisation (Objectives, Scope, Interactions of different elements)
Overview of new E-TASC organisation (Objectives, Scope, Interactions of different elements)
13:20 - 15:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

13:20 Goals of the meeting; Introduction to agenda - Frank Jenko

13:30 Digital Solutions for fusion Office (DSO) objectives - Frank Jenko

13:50 DISCUSSIONS

14:15 Work Package Theory and Modelling (WPTM) Objectives - Xavier Litaudon

14:35 DISCUSSIONS
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
15:00 - 15:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
15:30
15:30 - 18:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

15:30 Theory and modelling programme in UK - Rob Akers (UKAEA)

15:50 DISCUSSIONS

16:00 Theory and modelling programme in USA: Restructured US Tokamak Research and EU Program Engagement - David Humphreys (General Atomics)

16:20 DISCUSSIONS

16:30 Theory and modelling programme in USA: Plans for Simulation and Validation in the US Tokamak Research Program. - Nathaniel Ferraro (PPPL)

16:50 DISCUSSIONS

17:00 Enabling Data-Driven Fusion Science: Platforms, Federation, and AI-Ready Workflows - Sammuil Brian (General Atomics)

17:20 DISCUSSIONS

17:30 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS
Tuesday 10 February 2026
09:00 Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)
Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 TSVV-A: H-Mode and Small/No-ELM Pedestals - Tobias Görler (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

09:05 TSVV-B: Plasma Particle/Heat Exhaust – Fluid Simulations - Patrick Tamain (CEA)

09:10 TSVV-C: Plasma Particle/Heat Exhaust – Gyrokinetic Simulations - Daniel Told (IPP)

09:15 TSVV-D: Plasma-Wall Interactions with Metallic Plasma-Facing Components - Dmitry Matveev (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

09:20 TSVV-E: Impurity Sources, Transport, and Screening - Guido Ciraolo (CEA, IRFM)

09:25 TSVV-F: Tokamak Disruptions and Runaway Electrons - Matthias Hölzl (IPP Garching)

09:30 TSVV-G: Physics of Burning Plasmas - Oleksiy Mishchenko (IPP)

09:35 TSVV-H: Reliable Prediction of Plasma Performance and Operational Limits in Tokamaks - Michele Marin (DIFFER)

09:40 TSVV-I: Stellarator Optimization - Joaquim Loizu (EPFL)

09:45 TSVV-J: Stellarator Core Turbulence - Jose Manuel Garcia Regana (CIEMAT)

09:50 TSVV-K: Neutral Particle Models - Dmitriy Borodin (FZJ)

09:55 ACH-CIEMAT: High-Performance Computing - Mervi Mantsinen (CIEMAT)

10:00 ACH-EPFL: High-Performance Computing - Paolo Ricci (CRPP - EPFL)

10:05 ACH-MPG: High-Performance Computing - Roman Hatzky (IPP)

10:10 ACH-IPPLM: Modelling Frameworks and Standardized Workflows - Marcin Plociennik

10:15 DTE-ENG: A highly scalable and flexible digital twin of fusion power plants - Cristian Sommariva (EPFL)

10:20 DTE-ENG: TWINTOK-IDA: An Integrated Validation and Benchmarking Framework for the EUROfusion Digital Twin Environment - Anna Glasser (CEA)

10:25 DTE-DDM: TWIN4RTF: A Machine-Agnostic Digital Twin Framework towards Fast Simulation and Real-Time Plasma Prediction and Control - Alessandro Pau (EPFL)
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 10:50
Room: D2 Conference Room
10:50 Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)
Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)
10:50 - 12:30
Room: Library
Contributions

10:50 DTE-ENG: Digital Twin platform for integrated design of tokamak components – case studies on EU DEMO divertor and ITER divertor - Domenico Marzullo (ENEA)

10:55 DTE-ENG: Integrated Digital Twin Framework for Breeding Blanket Systems: Coupling Plasma, Fuel Cycle, and Thermal-hydraulics dynamic - Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT)

11:00 DTE-ENG: IMPACT: a Comprehensive Numerical Platform for Advanced Thermal Protection of Tokamaks - Marie-Helene Aumeunier (CEA)

11:05 DTE-PDT: Development of Generic Coupling between Transport and Free-Boundary Equilibrium Codes with Breakdown Modules for Pulse Design Tools - Stefano Marchioni (IPP-CAS)

11:10 DTE-DDM: A Novel Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin Architecture for Real-Time Monitoring, Integration and Control of the Breeding Blanket - Antonio Cammi (ENEA)

11:15 DTE-PDT: Simulator-agnostic Digital Twin Environment (DTE) integration - towards a consolidated framework with an ITER relevance - Sven Wiesen (DIFFER)

11:20 DTE-ENG: Development of a Digital Twin Framework for Fusion - Andrew Davis

11:25 DTE-VIZ: VIVID-DTE — Verification-oriented Interactive VISualisation and Decision support for the Digital Twin Environment - Leon Kos (UL)

11:30 EnR-MOD: Developing reduced turbulence transport models for the tokamak scrape-off layer - Maurizio Giacomin (ENEA)

11:35 EnR-MOD: Advanced algorithms for uncertainty quantification in plasma edge simulation chains - Martine Baelmans (LPP-ERM-KMS)

11:40 EnR-MOD: Integral kernel approach to modelling wave heating of stellarator plasmas: breaking further ground in theory and numerical implementation - Philippe Lamalle (Belgium_ERM-KMS)

11:45 EnR-MOD: Geometric Orbital Spectrum Analysis of Resonant Ion-Mode Interactions and Transport in Tokamaks and Stellarators (GOSARIT) - Panagiotis Zestanakis (NCSRD)

11:50 EnR-MOD: Pedestal Inference Engine (PIE) - Aaro Järvinen (VTT)

11:55 EnR-MOD: Massive ASCOT simulations for fast ion tomographic reconstructions and surrogate model training - Antti Snicker (VTT (FinnFusion))

12:00 DATA-DMP: Data Management Plan - Pär Strand (VR)

12:05 DATA-DB: Multi-Machine Data Bases - Alessandro Pau (EPFL)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 DTE Community (self-organisation)
DTE Community (self-organisation)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: D2 Conference Room

TSVV Community (self-organisation)
TSVV Community (self-organisation)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Seminar Room (2nd floor)

ACH Community (self-organisation)
ACH Community (self-organisation)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: R3.054

15:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 16:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
16:00 Feedback from break-out sessions and cross-activities
Feedback from break-out sessions and cross-activities
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 Summary from DTE discussions - Frank Jenko

16:20 Summary from TSVV discussions - Xavier Litaudon

16:40 Summary from ACH discussions - Mervi Mantsinen (CIEMAT)

17:00 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS
Wednesday 11 February 2026
09:00 Community demand for theory and modelling
Community demand for theory and modelling
09:00 - 10:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Plasma Physics Department - Marco Wischmeier (EUROfusion PMU)

09:10 WP-Tokamak Exploitation - Nicola Vianello (ENEA)

09:20 WP-Plasma-Wall Interactions and Exhaust - Sebastijan Brezinsek (FZJ)

09:30 WP-Stellarators - Ivan Calvo (CIEMAT) Marcin Jakubowski (IPP)

09:40 WP-JT-60SA Exploitation - Carlo Sozzi (ENEA ISTP-CNR Milano)

09:45 DISCUSSIONS
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 10:50
Room: D2 Conference Room
10:50 Community demand for theory and modelling
Community demand for theory and modelling
10:50 - 12:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

10:50 ITER - Simon Pinches

11:10 DISCUSSIONS

11:20 Beyond ITER - Clarisse Bourdelle (CEA)

11:40 DISCUSSIONS

11:50 Engineering - Ivo Moscato (EUROFUSION Consortium)

12:10 DISCUSSIONS
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 PPP – Theory and Modelling
PPP – Theory and Modelling
13:30 - 15:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

13:30 Proxima Fusion: Strengthening Europe’s modelling ecosystem through public-private collaboration - Orso Meneghini (Proxima Fusion)

13:50 DISCUSSIONS

14:00 Next Step Fusion: Overview of NSFsim application for plasma simulations and integrated modelling - Georgy Subbotin (Next Step Fusion)

14:20 DISCUSSIONS

14:30 Google DeepMind: Fast, differentiable, and scalable tokamak simulation using JAX at Google DeepMind: status, applications, and opportunities. - Jonathan Citrin (Google Deep Mind)

14:50 DISCUSSIONS
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 16:00
Room: D2 Conference Room

16:00 Open Discussions
Open Discussions
16:00 - 17:30
Room: D2 Conference Room

19:00 DINNER
DINNER
19:00 - 22:30
Thursday 12 February 2026
09:00 Software and Data standards within E-TASC
Software and Data standards within E-TASC
09:00 - 10:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 EUROfusion Standard Software - Frank Jenko

09:20 DISCUSSIONS

09:45 Recent IMAS developments - Simon Pinches

10:05 DISCUSSIONS
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 10:50
Room: D2 Conference Room
10:50 Data needs and delivery
Data needs and delivery
10:50 - 12:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

10:50 Availability of machine data through DMP - Pär Strand (VR)

11:10 DISCUSSIONS

11:30 Multi-Machine Data Bases - Alessandro Pau (EPFL)

11:40 DISCUSSIONS

11:50 Pedestal Data Base - Lorenzo Frassinetti (VR)

12:00 DISCUSSIONS

12:10 AMNS data - David Coster (MPG)

12:20 DISCUSSIONS
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Hands on: Tools for code development
Hands on: Tools for code development
13:30 - 15:30
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

13:30 New EUROfusion Gateway (EFGW): how to use tools (e.g. IMAS, IMAS-Python), how to setup environment. - Michal Owsiak (IPPLM)

14:30 Opportunity to improve communication between teams by promoting Mattermost, JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab. - Michal Owsiak (IPPLM)
Hands on: HPC specific tools
Hands on: HPC specific tools
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Seminar room (2nd floor)
Contributions

13:30 Instrumentation and profiling for efficient GPU porting - Gilles Fourestey (EPFL) Mathieu Peybernes (EPFL)

14:30 Towards Continuous Integration (CI): Lessons Learned from GVEC - Tiago Ribeiro (IPP)
TBD
TBD
13:30 - 15:30
Room: R3.054

15:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 16:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
16:00 Hands on: Available computing resources for code development
Hands on: Available computing resources for code development
16:00 - 18:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 Demo on Long-Term Data Storage Facility (LTDSF) - Maciej Brzezniak (PSNC) Norbert Meyer
Hands on: HPC specific tools
Hands on: HPC specific tools
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Seminar room (2nd floor)
Contributions

16:00 Unveiling the performance efficiency of codes using BSC performance tools - Marta Gracia Gasulla (BSC)

17:00 Simple and portable methods to extract performance metrics from software running on HPC clusters - Federico Cipolletta (CIEMAT - BSC)
E-TASC SB (Closed Session)
E-TASC SB (Closed Session)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: R3.054
Friday 13 February 2026

09:00 Goals for 2026-2027 and preparation for FP10
Goals for 2026-2027 and preparation for FP10
09:00 - 10:30
Room: D2 Conference Room

10:30 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 10:50
Room: D2 Conference Room
10:50 SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS
10:50 - 12:00
Room: D2 Conference Room
Contributions

10:50 • Meeting memorandum - Frank Jenko

11:45 Final remarks and closing the meeting - Frank Jenko Xavier Litaudon