Graduate Summer School Description

In 2024 the school was a collaboration between PPPL and the Simons Foundation Hidden Symmetries & Fusion Energy project. The school focused on the scientific and engineering challenges of designing and deploying stellarators for fusion. It consisted of the following 5 mini-courses, totalling 16 1-hour lectures:

• Intro to stellarator theory (INT)
• Magnetic fields as dynamical systems (MFDS)
• Gyrokinetics (GK)
• Optimization (OPT)
• Stellarator experiments (EXP)

as well as an introductory lecture on fusion by PPPL Director, Prof. Steve Cowley.
The topics are approached from a broad perspective and minimal prerequisites.
In-person participants presented on their research at a poster session during the week. Virtual participants gave "Flash Talks" about their research. Most of the talks can be found linked in the agenda.

Instructors

Agenda