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13th ITER International School announced
Alberto Loarte, Chair of the IIS Scientific Committee (ITER) and Sadruddin Benkadda, Director of the IIS (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS)
Education | 13th ITER International School announced
The 13th ITER International School (IIS) will be held from 9 to 13 December in Nagoya hosted by National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan.
The next ITER International School will take place in Nagoya, Japan, hosted by the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS).
The subject of the 2024 school is "Magnetic fusion diagnostics and data science," with a scientific program coordinated by Profs. M. Yokoyama and K. Tanaka (National Institute for Fusion Science) and Drs. M. Kocan and S. McIntosh (ITER Organization). Diagnostics are key to the achievement of ITER fusion power demonstration goals and they require the application of a wide range of techniques. But diagnostics are not enough to ensure ITER's success; only through the advanced analysis of the data they provide will it be possible to guide the experiments towards their fusion power goals. It is timely to address these multidisciplinary areas during the 13th ITER International School.
The ITER International School aims to prepare young scientists and engineers for working in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications associated with the ITER Project. The adoption of a "school" format was a consequence of the need to prepare future scientists and engineers on a range of different subjects and to provide them with a wide overview of the interdisciplinary skills required by ITER.
Change in the ion velocity distribution function due to a magneto-hydrodynamic event (left) directly observed by a NIFS Charge eXchange Spectroscopy (CXS) system (right). (Credit: K. Ida et al., Communications Physics (2022) 5-228, © The Author(s). Published by Nature Portfolio. CC BY 4.0.)
The first ITER School was organized in Aix-en-Provence, France, in July 2007 and focused on turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. Eleven successive schools have followed on a variety of subjects: magnetic confinement (Fukuoka, Japan, 2008); plasma-surface interactions (Aix-en-Provence, 2009); magneto-hydro-dynamics and plasma control (Austin, Texas, USA, 2010); energetic particles (Aix-en-Provence, 2011); radio-frequency heating (Ahmedabad, India, 2012); high-performance computing in fusion science (Aix-en-Provence, 2014); transport and pedestal physics in tokamaks (Hefei, China, 2016); physics of disruptions and control (Aix-en-Provence, 2017); the physics and technology of power flux handling (Daejeon, Korea, 2019); ITER plasma scenarios and control (San Diego, USA, 2022) and the impact and consequences of energetic particles on fusion plasmas (Aix-en-Provence, 2023). Browse through the presentations made at past schools here.
Further information on the 2024 school is available https://iis2024.org/. Pre-registration begins in early May.
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