EUROfusion E-TASC General Meeting #2

9 Feb 2026, 13:00 → 13 Feb 2026, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

D2 Conference Room (Max Planck IPP)

The General Meeting offers a valuable opportunity to collectively deliberate on key issues shaping both the current operations and the strategic direction of E-TASC. Discussions will focus on several core themes:

• Strengthening collaboration and networking across Work Packages focused on Theory and Modelling development (DSO, WPTM, and EnR-MoD).

• Developing strategies to maximize the impact of ACHs and computing resources.

• Ensuring the timely release and operational readiness of simulation tools throughout 2026–2027.

• Promoting the dissemination of developed research software and training activities.

The meeting will feature a combination of plenary sessions and parallel breakout discussions, providing extensive opportunities for in-depth inter-project engagement.

If you have pressing topics that warrant attention at the global E-TASC level, or would like to propose a specialized discussion group, please contact us at your earliest convenience. Your input is essential to refining the agenda and ensuring it reflects the priorities and interests of all contributors.

Your input is vital in refining our agenda and ensuring it addresses the interests of all contributors.

ZOOM Connection

PLENARY	https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83200137145?pwd=AS6eAGY2laJ7ySUMRYx0n7Ku2m5DP1.1
Parallel - I	https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83200137145?pwd=AS6eAGY2laJ7ySUMRYx0n7Ku2m5DP1.1
Parallel - II
Parallel - III	https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81020366806?pwd=92X6whu07Y3PKIjujDULwmWmCMhThq.1

 

Agenda

Invitation Letter

Materials from E-TASC GM1 (Nov.2024)

Monday 9 February

13:00 → 13:20 WELCOME

Speaker: Gianfranco Federici

13:20 → 15:00 INTRODUCTION: Overview of new E-TASC organisation (Objectives, Scope, Interactions of different elements)

13:20 Goals of the meeting; Introduction to agenda

Speaker: Frank Jenko

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

Speaker: Frank Jenko

13:50 DISCUSSIONS

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

Speaker: Xavier Litaudon

14:35 DISCUSSIONS

15:00 → 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:30 → 18:00 Theory and Modelling programme outside EUROfusion

15:30 Theory and modelling programme in UK

Speaker: Rob Akers (UKAEA)

15:50 DISCUSSIONS

16:00 Theory and modelling programme in USA: Restructured US Tokamak Research and EU Program Engagement

Speaker: 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.

Speaker: Nathaniel Ferraro (PPPL)

16:50 DISCUSSIONS

17:00 Enabling Data-Driven Fusion Science: Platforms, Federation, and AI-Ready Workflows

Speaker: Sammuil Brian (General Atomics)

17:20 DISCUSSIONS

17:30 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS

Tuesday 10 February

09:00 → 10:30 POSTERS: Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)

Overview presentation followed by extended poster session

09:00 TSVV-A: H-Mode and Small/No-ELM Pedestals

Speaker: Dr Tobias Görler (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

09:05 TSVV-B: Plasma Particle/Heat Exhaust – Fluid Simulations

Speaker: Patrick Tamain (CEA)

09:10 TSVV-C: Plasma Particle/Heat Exhaust – Gyrokinetic Simulations

Speaker: Daniel Told (IPP)

09:15 TSVV-D: Plasma-Wall Interactions with Metallic Plasma-Facing Components

Speaker: Dmitry Matveev (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

09:20 TSVV-E: Impurity Sources, Transport, and Screening

Speaker: Guido Ciraolo (CEA, IRFM)

09:25 TSVV-F: Tokamak Disruptions and Runaway Electrons

Speaker: Matthias Hölzl (IPP Garching)

09:30 TSVV-G: Physics of Burning Plasmas

Speaker: Oleksiy Mishchenko (IPP)

09:35 TSVV-H: Reliable Prediction of Plasma Performance and Operational Limits in Tokamaks

Speaker: Michele Marin (DIFFER)

09:40 TSVV-I: Stellarator Optimization

Speaker: Joaquim Loizu (EPFL)

09:45 TSVV-J: Stellarator Core Turbulence

Speaker: Jose Manuel Garcia Regana (CIEMAT)

09:50 TSVV-K: Neutral Particle Models

Speaker: Dmitriy Borodin (FZJ)

09:55 ACH-CIEMAT: High-Performance Computing

Speaker: Mervi Mantsinen (CIEMAT)

10:00 ACH-EPFL: High-Performance Computing

Speaker: Paolo Ricci (CRPP - EPFL)

10:05 ACH-MPG: High-Performance Computing

Speaker: Roman Hatzky (IPP)

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

Speaker: Marcin Plociennik

10:15 DTE-ENG: A highly scalable and flexible digital twin of fusion power plants

Speaker: Cristian Sommariva (EPFL)

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

Speaker: Anna Glasser (CEA)

10:25 DTE-DDM: TWIN4RTF: A Machine-Agnostic Digital Twin Framework towards Fast Simulation and Real-Time Plasma Prediction and Control

Speaker: Alessandro Pau (EPFL)

10:30 → 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 → 12:30 POSTERS: Status and plans of actuivities by projects (TSVVs, DTEs, DATA, EnRs)

Overview presentation followed by extended poster session

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

Speaker: Domenico Marzullo (ENEA)

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

Speaker: Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT)

11:00 DTE-ENG: IMPACT: a Comprehensive Numerical Platform for Advanced Thermal Protection of Tokamaks

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Dr 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

Speaker: Antonio Cammi (ENEA)

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

Speaker: Dr Sven Wiesen (DIFFER)

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

Speaker: Andrew Davis

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

Speaker: Leon Kos (UL)

11:30 EnR-MOD: Developing reduced turbulence transport models for the tokamak scrape-off layer

Speaker: Maurizio Giacomin (ENEA)

11:35 EnR-MOD: Advanced algorithms for uncertainty quantification in plasma edge simulation chains

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Dr 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)

Speaker: Panagiotis Zestanakis (NCSRD)

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

Speaker: Aaro Järvinen (VTT)

11:55 EnR-MOD: Massive ASCOT simulations for fast ion tomographic reconstructions and surrogate model training

Speaker: Antti Snicker (VTT (FinnFusion))

12:00 DATA-DMP: Data Management Plan

Speaker: Pär Strand (VR)

12:05 DATA-DB: Multi-Machine Data Bases

Speaker: Alessandro Pau (EPFL)

12:30 → 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 1: DTE Community (self-organisation)

Convener: Frank Jenko

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 2: TSVV Community (self-organisation)

Convener: Xavier Litaudon

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 3: ACH Community (self-organisation)

Convener: Mervi Mantsinen (CIEMAT)

15:30 → 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary: Feedback from break-out sessions and cross-activities

o Further development of the TSVV-ACH ecosystem
o Addressing the research gaps and opportunities discussed on Monday
o Expansion towards fusion engineering
o Input from experts from other communities

16:00 Summary from DTE discussions

Speaker: Frank Jenko

16:20 Summary from TSVV discussions

Speaker: Xavier Litaudon

16:40 Summary from ACH discussions

Speaker: Mervi Mantsinen (CIEMAT)

17:00 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS

Wednesday 11 February

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Community demand for theory and modelling

o Further development of the TSVV-ACH ecosystem
o Addressing the research gaps and opportunities discussed on Monday
o Expansion towards fusion engineering
o Input from experts from other communities

09:00 Plasma Physics Department

Speaker: Marco Wischmeier (EUROfusion PMU)

09:10 WP-Tokamak Exploitation

Speaker: Dr Nicola Vianello (ENEA)

09:20 WP-Plasma-Wall Interactions and Exhaust

Speaker: Sebastijan Brezinsek (FZJ)

09:30 WP-Stellarators

Speakers: Ivan Calvo (CIEMAT), Marcin Jakubowski (IPP)

09:40 WP-JT-60SA Exploitation

Speaker: Dr Carlo Sozzi (ENEA ISTP-CNR Milano)

09:45 DISCUSSIONS

10:30 → 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 → 12:30 Plenary: Community demand for theory and modelling

o Further development of the TSVV-ACH ecosystem
o Addressing the research gaps and opportunities discussed on Monday
o Expansion towards fusion engineering
o Input from experts from other communities

10:50 ITER

Speaker: Simon Pinches

11:10 DISCUSSIONS

11:20 Beyond ITER

Speaker: Clarisse Bourdelle (CEA)

11:40 DISCUSSIONS

11:50 Engineering

Speaker: Ivo Moscato (EUROFUSION Consortium)

12:10 DISCUSSIONS

12:30 → 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 → 15:30 Plenary: PPP – Theory and Modelling

o Training
o Building user communities
o Applications
o Resources

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

Speaker: Orso Meneghini (Proxima Fusion)

13:50 DISCUSSIONS

14:00 Next Step Fusion: Overview of NSFsim application for plasma simulations and integrated modelling

Speaker: 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.

Speaker: Jonathan Citrin (Google Deep Mind)

14:50 DISCUSSIONS

15:30 → 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary: Open Discussions

o Training
o Building user communities
o Applications
o Resources

Conveners: Frank Jenko, Xavier Litaudon

19:00 → 22:30 DINNER

Gasthof Neuwirt

Thursday 12 February

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Software and Data standards within E-TASC

o Training
o Building user communities
o Applications
o Resources

09:00 EUROfusion Standard Software

Speaker: Frank Jenko

09:20 DISCUSSIONS

09:45 Recent IMAS developments

Speaker: Simon Pinches

10:05 DISCUSSIONS

10:30 → 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 → 12:30 Plenary: Data needs and delivery

o Training
o Building user communities
o Applications
o Resources

10:50 Availability of machine data through DMP

Speaker: Pär Strand (VR)

11:10 DISCUSSIONS

11:30 Multi-Machine Data Bases

Speaker: Alessandro Pau (EPFL)

11:40 DISCUSSIONS

11:50 Pedestal Data Base

Speaker: Lorenzo Frassinetti (VR)

12:00 DISCUSSIONS

12:10 AMNS data

Speaker: David Coster (MPG)

12:20 DISCUSSIONS

12:30 → 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 1: Hands on: Tools for code development

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

Speaker: Michal Owsiak (IPPLM)

14:30 Opportunity to improve communication between teams by promoting Mattermost, JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab.

Speaker: Michal Owsiak (IPPLM)

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 2: Hands on: HPC specific tools

13:30 Instrumentation and profiling for efficient GPU porting

Speakers: Gilles Fourestey (EPFL), Mathieu Peybernes (EPFL)

14:30 Towards Continuous Integration (CI): Lessons Learned from GVEC

Speaker: Tiago Ribeiro (IPP)

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel 3: TBD

15:30 → 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 → 18:00 Parallel 1: Hands on: Available computing resources for code development

16:00 Demo on Long-Term Data Storage Facility (LTDSF)

Speakers: Maciej Brzezniak (PSNC), Norbert Meyer

16:00 → 18:00 Parallel 2: Hands on: HPC specific tools

16:00 Unveiling the performance efficiency of codes using BSC performance tools

Speaker: Marta Gracia Gasulla (BSC)

17:00 Simple and portable methods to extract performance metrics from software running on HPC clusters

Speaker: Federico Cipolletta (CIEMAT - BSC)

16:00 → 18:00 Parallel 3: E-TASC SB (Closed Session)

Conveners: Frank Jenko, Xavier Litaudon

Friday 13 February

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Goals for 2026-2027 and preparation for FP10

Conveners: Frank Jenko, Xavier Litaudon

10:30 → 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 → 12:00 Plenary: SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS

10:50 • Meeting memorandum

Speaker: Frank Jenko

11:45 Final remarks and closing the meeting

Speakers: Frank Jenko, Xavier Litaudon