Invited Speakers

Invited Speaker selections were made by the International Program Committee.

Presenter	Affiliation	Presentation Title
Aaron Bader	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Optimization of Quasi-Helically Symmetric Stellarators
Amitava Bhattacharjee	Princeton University	Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy: A New Project for Stellarator Optimization
Teresa Estrada	CIEMAT	Turbulence and Plasma Flow Asymmetries Measured Using Doppler Reflectometry at TJ-II Plasmas
Benjamin Faber	University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Role of 3D Geometry on Reducing Turbulent Transport in Stellarators
Benedikt Geiger	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Experimental Study of the Impurity Transport in W7-X Based on Laser Blow-off Injections
Sophia Henneberg	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Towards Novel Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator Designs
Marcin Jakubowski	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Towards Steady-state Operation of the Island Divertor at Wendelstein 7-X
Santhosh Kumar	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Effect of Neutral Friction on Parallel Ion Flow in a Quasi-symmetric Stellarator
Matt Landreman	University of Maryland	Optimized Stellarators without Optimization: Direct Construction of Stellarator Shapes with Good Confinement
Heinrich Laqua	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Overview of W7-X Results in the Operation Phase OP1.2
Alexey Mischenko	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Global Gyrokinetic PIC Simulations for Stellarators and Heliotrons with Emphasis on Experimentally Relevant Scenarios
Kazunobu Nagasaki	Institute of Advanced Energy	Response of Plasma Performance to Magnetic Configuration, Fueling and Heating/Current Drive in Heliotron J
Hideo Nuga	National Institute for Fusion Science	Studies of the Energetic Ion Confinement in LHD by Using Neutron Measurement and Integrated Codes
Matthias Otte	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Edge Plasma Properties from the First Island Divertor Campaign at Wendelstein 7-X
Novimir Pablant	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Validation of Neoclassical Ambipolar Radial Electric Fields in Ion-Root Plasmas on Wendelstein 7-X
Elizabeth Paul	University of Maryland	Adjoint Methods for Efficient Stellarator Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis
Masahiko Sato	National Institute for Fusion Science	Ion Kinetic Effects on Pressure Driven MHD Instabilities in Helical Plasmas
Ryohsuke Seki	National Institute for Fusion Science	Hybrid Simulations of Alfven Eigenmode Induced Fast-Ion Losses and its Validation with the Scintillator-Based Fast-Ion Loss Detector in the Large Helical Device
Brendan Shanahan	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Simulations of Plasma Filaments in Stellarator Geometries with BSTING
Jason Smoniewski	University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Dependence of TEM Turbulence on Geometry in Experiment and Simulation of the HSX Stellarator through Heat Fluxes, Density Fluctuations, and Zonal Flow Damping
Hiromi Takahashi	National Institute for Fusion Science	Performance Integration and Isotope Effect on the Confinement of High Temperature Plasmas in the Large Helical Device
Naoki Tamura	National Institute for Fusion Science	Impurity Transport Studies Using TESPEL in Stellarators: A Comparison Between W7-X and LHD
Tokihiko Tokuzawa	National Institute for Fusion Science	Study of Isotope Effects from the Viewpoint of Turbulence Observation in LHD
Boudewijn van Milligen	CIEMAT	On the Impact of Sheared Radial Electric Fields on Edge-SOL Coupling
Jose Luis Velasco	CIEMAT	Fast Calculation of Neoclassical Transport of Energy and Impurities in Arbitrary Stellarator Geometry with the Code KNOSOS
Adrian von Stechow	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Density Turbulence Reduction by Equilibrium Proﬁle Gradient Control in W7-X
Felix Warmer	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Impact of Magnetic Topology on Transport Processes in Large Non-Axisymmetric Devices
Gavin Weir	Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Heat Pulse Propagation and Core Turbulence Measurements on the Optimized Stellarator Wendelstein 7-X
Yuhong Xu	Southwest Jiatong University	Physical and Engineering Designs for Chinese First Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator (CFQS)