Sherwood 2026

Sunday, April 26 [top]

3:00 – 6:00 PM

On-Site Registration

5:00 – 7:00 PM

Sherwood Reception

Monday, April 27 [top]

8:15 – 8:30 AM

Welcome and Announcements

Invited Session 1

Chair: Livia Casali

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Virginia Quadri (UTK)

3D turbulence modeling in detached divertor regimes: consequences for mean-field descriptions

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Francisco Saenz (PPPL)

General two-dimensional surface coil functional to achieve stellarator magnetic configurations

9:30 – 10:00 AM

Peter Manz (University of Greifswald)

The separatrix operational space concept

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Invited Session 2

Chair: Alessandro Zocco

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Javier Maurino (University of Oxford)

Turbulence-driven current in up-down asymmetric tokamaks

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Arsene Tema Biwole (MIT)

Asymptotic Mass and Charge Scaling of Turbulent Impurity Transport in Tokamaks

11:30 – 12:00 PM

Jacob Mencke (EPFL)

Full-f simulations of a tokamak device with fluctuations on all scales

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:30 PM

Poster Session 1

3:30 – 4:00 PM

Coffee / Beer Break

4:00 – 6:00 PM

Poster Session 2

Tuesday, April 28 [top]

Plenary & Invited Session 3

Chair: Xianzhu Tang

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Chris Stanek (LANL)

Advances in Quantum Computing

9:30 – 10:00 AM

Simon Pinches (ITER Organization)

Integrated Modeling in Support of ITER and Burning Plasma Research

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Invited Session 4

Chair: Eva Kostadinova

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Rohan Ramasamy (Proxima Fusion)

Performance assessments of a high field, Q>1 stellarator

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Andrew Irvin (UTK)

Accelerating predictions of off-axis EC H/CD profiles in present and future tokamaks with gaussian process regression

11:30 – 12:00 PM

Xu Chu (PPPL)

Extended theory of nonlinear saturation of ballooning modes

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

Invited Session 5

Chair: Felix Parra

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Panel Discussion

The role of theory and simulations on the path to fusion power plants
Panelists: Sam Frank (Realta), Orso Meneghini (Proxima), Camacho Mata (TypeOne Energy), Livia Casali (UTK), Yashika Ghai (ORNL), Nate Ferraro (PPPL)

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Industry Engagement

“New Mexico Innovation Hub” — David Perez

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Coffee / Beer Break

Poster Session

3:30 – 5:30 PM

Poster Session 3

7:00 – 9:00 PM

Banquet and Student Awards

Wednesday, April 29 [top]

Invited Session 6

Chair: TBD

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Sara Vaz Mendes (IPP Greifswald)

Alfvén Mode Excitation by ITG Turbulence and Mode Stability in W7-X Plasmas

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Julien Dominski (PPPL)

Theory of turbulent tungsten flux and peaking factor in the trace limit and the existence of minimum of peaking factor at intermediate electric charge states

9:30 – 10:00 AM

Atul Kumar (ORNL)

Understanding RF-Specific Plasma–Material Interaction and Whole-Device Impurity Transport in High-Power Helicon Operation on DIII-D

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Invited Session 7

Chair: Yashika Ghai

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Jacob Varela Rodriguez (IFS UT-Austin)

Effect of fish-bones on He Ash removal in reactor relevant

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Emma Devin (PPPL)

Nonlinear evolution of strongly driven perturbative kinetic instabilities

11:30 – 12:00 PM

Austin Welsh (UTK)

SICAS, a new integrated divertor-SOL-pedestal-core framework for self-consistent modeling of ion and impurity transport in fusion devices

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

Invited Session 8

Chair: Chris McDevitt

1:30 – 2:00 PM

Yanzeng Zhang (University of CN)

Shock-Regulated Pellet Assimilation in Magnetized Fusion Plasmas

2:00 – 2:30 PM

Fatima Ebrahimi (PPPL)

Multi-species extended MHD simulations of ELM-free negative triangularity DIII-D plasmas

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Feng Zichen (University of Colorado Boulder)

A coherent structure transport model for scrape-off layer turbulence

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Jesus Jose Dominguez (FiaT Lux)

Extended-MHD modeling of Wide Pedestal and standard Quiescent H-mode DIII-D plasmas using the NIMROD code

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Closing Remarks