Name: 19th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems
Start: 2026-09-28T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-02T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

19th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems

from Monday, September 28, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 2, 2026 (6:30 PM)

Monday, September 28, 2026

8:00 AM Doors open for badge pick-up
Doors open for badge pick-up
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center

9:00 AM Welcome and Meeting opening

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
9:10 AM Physics of EP modes and transport
9:10 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

9:10 AM Experimental investigations of Alfvén eigenmode control and energetic-particle diagnostics in TCV fast-ion plasmas - Anton Jansen van Vuuren (Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL)

9:45 AM Observations and modelling of energetic particle-driven ion cyclotron emission in MAST Upgrade - Ken McClements (UKAEA)

10:10 AM RF modified fast-ion distribution function in the full-orbit description - Pablo Oyola (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
10:35 AM Coffe berak
Coffe berak
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
11:00 AM Synergy EP and turbulence
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

11:00 AM Theory of Zonal Fields Beat Driven by Alfvén Eigenmodes in Tokamak Plasmas - LIU CHEN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE)

11:35 AM On the Beat Driven Nonlinear Excitation of Zero Frequency Zonal Fields by Alfvén Eigenmodes - Riccardo Stucchi

12:00 PM First Experimental Studies of Energetic Particle-Turbulence Dynamics in Spherical Tokamak Plasmas - Phillip Bonofiglo (PPPL - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (US))

12:25 PM Fine Structure of Sheared Flow Driven by Fishbone Instability in Tokamak Plasma - Yuehao Ma (University of Science and Technology of China)
12:50 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
2:20 PM Poster session I and Coffee break
2:20 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

2:25 PM Fishbone-driven fast-ion transport in ASDEX Upgrade and the electric field it generates - Erik K. Eidsvig (IPP - Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (EU))

2:25 PM Observations and modelling of energetic particle-driven ion cyclotron emission in MAST Upgrade - Ken McClements (UKAEA)

2:45 PM Energetic-particle observations of second harmonic tritium heating in JET DTE3 and comparison with H-minority heating - Mervi Mantsinen (Barcelona Supercomputing Center (EU))

2:45 PM Influences of fast ions from neutral beam injection in synergy with ICRF waves on fishbone instability - Runzhe Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)

3:00 PM Observation of nonlinear mode coupling and fast ion loss during sawtooth oscillations in tokamak plasmas - Yufan Qu (Southewestern Institute of Physics)

3:00 PM Reduced model of the interaction between microturbulence, energetic particles and energetic particle driven modes. - Tommaso Barberis (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

3:00 PM On nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode due to thermal plasma nonlinearities - Ningfei Chen (Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

3:00 PM Effect of externally applied magnetic perturbations on ICRH fast-ion confinement in ASDEX-Upgrade - Alex Reyner Viñolas (University of Seville)

3:00 PM Optimization of active control of ICRH-driven TAE using 3D magnetic perturbations - Daniil Kabirov (Dpto. de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla; Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (Universidad de Sevilla, Junta de Andalucía, CSIC))

3:00 PM The saturation mechanism of fishbone - Huishan Cai (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

3:00 PM Perturbed bootstrap current of alpha particles and its contribution to tearing-mode stability - xiaoxi zhang

3:00 PM Fast-ion transport in EAST plasmas under the combined tearing mode and edge-localized mode perturbations: a particle-tracing simulation - Feng Wang DLUT (Dalian University of Technology (CN))

3:00 PM Numerical Investigation of NBI–ICRF Synergistic Fast-Ion Phase-Space Evolution and Neutron Signatures in EAST Plasmas - Xiangfeng Wu (Dalian University of Technology)

3:00 PM Self-consistent Interactions Between Full-energy Helium Ions and a Drift Wave-Zonal Flow System in Burning Plasmas - Weixin Guo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

3:00 PM Behavior of kinetic instabilities in a dynamically forming resonant distribution - Eamon Hartigan-O'Connor (Princeton University)

3:00 PM Neoclassical collision physics regularization of 4D fast-ion distribution reconstructions in constants of motion space - Otso Hyvärinen (University of Helsinki)

3:00 PM ASCOT-RFOF modelling of ion cyclotron heated fast ion loads on ASDEX Upgrade antenna limiters - Seppo Sipilä (Aalto University)

3:05 PM Simulation results of energetic particle driven instability in a tokamak configuration - Hao Wang (National Institute for Fusion Science)

3:25 PM Implementation of full-orbit energetic-particle dynamics in the kinetic–MHD hybrid simulation code MEGA - Hanzheng Li (National Institute for Fusion Science)

3:45 PM Energetic particles, Shafranov shift and finite-β effects on Alfvén Eigenmodes and microinstabilities in global electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations - Baruch Rofman (EPFL - SPC)
4:15 PM EP impact on machine operations and safety
4:15 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

4:15 PM Tungsten sputtering due to fast particles in ITER - Antti Snicker (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.)

4:50 PM Quantitative assessment of ICRF antenna limiter tiles performance under sustained fast ion heat loads on ASDEX Upgrade - Roman Ochoukov (IPP - Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (EU))

5:15 PM Fast-ion heat loads due to static 3D fields and diagnostic design for tokamak power plant - Fabio Camilo de Souza (UKAEA)
6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
9:00 AM EP in stellarators and 3D configurations
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

9:00 AM Energetic particle instability characteristics of reactor-scale stellarators - Don Spong (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

9:35 AM Effects of Pressure Gradients of Multiple Fast-Ion Species on Fast-Ion-Driven Instabilities in the Large Helical Device - Ryosuke SEKI (National Institute for Fusion Science)

10:00 AM Properties of Magnetohydrodynamics Instabilities in ITER-Scale Helical Core Plasmas - Panith Adulsiriswad (adulsiriswad.panith@qst.go.jp)

10:25 AM Resonant plateau collisional passing alpha losses - Miguel Calvo Carrera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:50 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
11:15 AM Physics of EP modes and transport
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

11:20 AM Alfven eigenmodes driven by α particles in JET D-T plasmas - James Oliver (UKAEA)

11:55 AM Vertical Displacement Oscillatory Modes in Tokamak Plasmas - Francesco Porcelli (Politecnico di Torino)

12:20 PM Impact of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes and sawtooth crashes on NBI fast ions on ST40 - Jari Varje (Tokamak Energy Ltd)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
2:15 PM Poster session II and Coffee break: Poster session II and Coffee break
Poster session II and Coffee break
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

2:15 PM The resilience of Elliptical Alfvén Eigenmodes (EAEs) in high-pressure tokamaks - Arkaprava Bokshi (UKAEA)

2:35 PM Gyrokinetic Simulations for Spherical Tokamak Energetic Particle-Turbulence Experiments - Cosmo Gallaro

2:55 PM Measurement and validation of sawtooth induced fast ion transport on DIII-D - Deyong Liu (General Atomics)

3:00 PM EP transport induced by core density collapse in LHD - Jacobo Varela Rodriguez (Institute for Fusion Studies UT-austin)

3:00 PM Probing Marginally Confined Energetic Ions Using Polarization-Resolved Ion Cyclotron Emission Measurements in KSTAR - Seongbin Hong (POSTECH)

3:00 PM Magnetohydrodynamic Stability of ITER-Scale Helical Core Plasmas - Panith Adulsiriswad (adulsiriswad.panith@qst.go.jp)

3:15 PM Runaway electrons during a coil quench in stellarators - Pavel Aleynikov (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)

3:35 PM FIRM3D: Fast ion reduced models in 3D - Elizabeth Paul (Columbia University)

3:40 PM Enhancing Tomographic Reconstructions of Energetic Particle Distributions Using Variational Auto Encoders - Henrik Järleblad (Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark)

3:40 PM On the drive of axisymmetric modes by fusion alpha particles in tokamaks - Lars-Göran Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

3:40 PM Development of an action-angle quasilinear theory for wave-particle interactions in stellarators - Avigdor Veksler (Columbia University)

3:40 PM Optimized confinement of alpha particles vs. optimized confinement of NBI ions at high beta in stellarators: a case study of W7-X - Dmitry Moseev (IPP Greifswald)

3:40 PM Nonlinear Multi-n TAE Dynamics in KSTAR: Mode Competition, Inter-n Energy Coupling, and Zonal Flow Drive - Haider Rizvi (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

3:40 PM NIMROD MHD simulation of axisymmetric modes observed in the TCV tokamak - DEBABRATA BANERJEE (POLITECNICO DI TORINO)

3:40 PM Investigation of electromagnetic waves generated by runaway electrons - Olivier Panico (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), Lausanne)

3:40 PM Frequency-guessing method for reduced modeling of energetic particle modes (EPM) - Andreas Bierwage (QST)

3:40 PM Analytical fusion product spectrum calculations including bulk temperature effects in magnetized plasmas - Andrea Valentini (University of Milano Bicocca)

3:40 PM Large-bandwidth phase space resolved measurements of fast ion density fluctuations and energy transfer induced by Alfven eigenmodes - Jose Rueda Rueda (Postdoctoral Researcher)

3:40 PM Local gyrokinetic simulations of linear Alfv\'en wave growth in reactor-scale W7-X and Thea Energy’s Helios - Amelia Chambliss

3:40 PM Consistent workflow for evaluating beam-target fusion rate with the orbit-following code ASCOT5 - Joona Sissonen

3:40 PM Progress of global gyrokinetic simulations for future fusion devices - Thomas Hayward-Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching)

3:40 PM Effects of resistive internal kink mode and fishbone instabilities on alpha particle redistribution and transport coefficients in ITER 15 MA scenario - Guanming YANG (Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, China)

3:40 PM The shear Alfvén continuum in quasi-symmetric and quasi-isodynamic stellarators - Abdullah Hyder (Columbia University)

3:40 PM Nonlinear saturation of Axisymmetric (n=0) modes driven by Energetic Particles in Tokamaks - Simone Cavallero (Polytechnic of Turin, Princeton University)

3:40 PM Isomagnetic transformation for trapped energetic particles under 3D magnetic perturbation - Gyungjin Choi
4:00 PM Physics of alphas and burning plasmas
4:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

4:00 PM Alpha Particles without DT: Alternative Routes in Future JT-60SA Plasmas - Rui Coelho (Instituto Superior Tecnico - IPFN)

4:35 PM Aspects of energetic particle physics in future tokamak devices - Philipp Lauber (MPG IPP Garching)

5:00 PM Recent progress in modeling and diagnosing energetic particles in the SPARC tokamak - Alex Tinguely

5:25 PM Alpha particle physics in ARC burning plasmas - A. LeViness (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
9:00 AM EP diagnostics and analysis methods
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing Marginally Confined Energetic Ions Using Polarization-Resolved Ion Cyclotron Emission Measurements in KSTAR - Seongbin Hong (POSTECH)

9:35 AM Investigation of Fast-Ion Velocity Distribution Functions via Neutron Emission Spectroscopy on EAST - Andong Xu (Peking University)

10:00 AM On confined alpha-particle studies in low-activation plasmas - Vasily Kiptily (UKAEA, United Kingdom)

10:25 AM Qualitative validation of CAD-based simulations of NBI-induced prompt fast-ion losses against IRTV measurements in KSTAR - Taeuk Moon (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)
10:50 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
11:20 AM Physics of EP modes and transport
11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

11:20 AM A Diffusive Electron Cyclotron Emission Fast Ion Transport Model - Kyle Callahan (UCI)

11:55 AM Maximising Beam-Plasma Fusion Rate in 1 MA MAST-U Discharges - Sergei Sharapov (UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK)

12:20 PM Radial electric field induced by NBI fast ions - Klara Bogar (Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic)
12:45 PM TCV visit (please indicate your interest when submitting your Registration Form, or visit https://tmep26.epfl.ch/visit-to-tcv/). Free afternoon.
TCV visit (please indicate your interest when submitting your Registration Form, or visit https://tmep26.epfl.ch/visit-to-tcv/). Free afternoon.
12:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Thursday, October 1, 2026
9:00 AM Synergy EP and turbulence
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

9:00 AM Energetic-particle-driven Alfvénic bursts and zonal structures in JET: DBS measurements and gyrokinetic simulations - Juan Ruiz ruiz (University of York (EU))

9:35 AM Experimental observation of microturbulence suppression induced by Alfvén Eigenmodes in DIII-D tokamak - Xiaodi Du (GAT - Fusion Energy Research General Atomics (US))

10:10 AM On How Zonal Fields Suppress Reversed Shear Alfvén Eigenmode in Tokamak Plasmas: Simulation and Theory - Ruirui Ma

10:35 AM Properties of Alfven eigenmodes during strong turbulence suppression* - William Heidbrink
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
11:20 AM Non-linear EP physics
11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

11:20 AM Phase-space mechanisms of ICRF-driven bursting shear Alfvén waves and their suppression via phase-space engineering - Jialei Wang (National Institute for Fusion Science)

11:55 AM Self saturation of Alfén eigenmodes with a reactor-like low ρ* - Eric Bass

12:20 PM Nonlinear wave-particle interaction and dynamics of energetic particle mode - Pengjuan Su (Key Laboratory of Frontier Physics in Controlled Nuclear Fusion and Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
2:15 PM Poster session III and Coffee break: Poster session III and Coffee break
Poster session III and Coffee break
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

2:15 PM Destabilization of ctr-TAE modes: general analysis and a specific example - Anton Tykhyy (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv, Ukraine)

2:35 PM Resonant mode-particle interaction priors for energetic particle phase-space tomography - Mads Rud Larsen (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

3:15 PM Properties of Alfvén Eigenmodes during Strong Microturbulence Suppression - William Heidbrink

3:15 PM Phase-space mechanisms of ICRF-driven bursting shear Alfvén waves in tokamak plasmas - Jialei Wang (National Institute for Fusion Science)

3:15 PM Measurements of Fast Ion Distribution During the Alfvén Eigenmode-Induced Microturbulence Suppression in DIII-D - Xiaodi Du (GAT - Fusion Energy Research General Atomics (US))

3:15 PM Simulation study of nonlinear wave-particle interaction of energetic particle modes in tokamak plasmas - Pengjuan Su

3:15 PM Experimental characterization of fishbones and associated energetic particle transport via correlated FIDA and FILD measurements on the TCV tokamak - Quentin Kernel (EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)

3:15 PM Alpha Particles without DT: Alternative Routes in Future JT-60SA Plasmas - Rui Coelho (Instituto Superior Tecnico - IPFN)

3:15 PM TGLF-EP+Alpha reduced fast ion transport prediction validation against diffusive transport measurements - Kyle Callahan (UCI)

3:15 PM Qualitative validation of CAD-based simulations of NBI-induced prompt fast-ion losses against IRTV measurements in KSTAR - Taeuk Moon (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

3:20 PM Nonlinear frequency chirping of energetic-particle-driven Alfvénic fluctuations in ORB5 gyrokinetic simulations - Xin Wang

3:40 PM Nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfven eigenmode by self-organized zonal fields - Jian Bao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:55 PM Assessment of 1D critical gradient predictions of fast-ion transport in high q-min, high β, DIII-D steady-state scenario discharges - Jeff Lestz (University of California Irvine)

3:55 PM The Charged Fusion Product Detector (CFPD) on MAST-U - Edward Parr (UKAEA, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK)

3:55 PM Phase- and velocity-space sensitivity of collective Thomson scattering measurements in magnetized plasmas - Mirko Salewski (Technical University of Denmark (ZZ))

3:55 PM Global and local monitoring of fast-ion losses in the presence of external magnetic perturbations in the MAST-U spherical tokamak using IR thermography and a Fast Ion Loss Detector - Lina Velarde (Dpto. de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla; Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (Universidad de Sevilla, Junta de Andalucía, CSIC))

3:55 PM Plasma shaping effects on fast particles and Alfvén eigenmodes dynamics in spherical tokamaks - Francesco Palermo (UKAEA)

3:55 PM Development of scenarios and diagnostics for fast ion studies in next generation tokamaks without beryllium - Massimo Nocente (Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (EU))

3:55 PM Hybrid Kinetic-MHD Analysis of Energetic Particle (1,1) Modes in SPARC - Charlson Kim (SLS2 Consulting)

3:55 PM A two-fluid model of the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode - Yasushi Todo (National Institute for Fusion Science)

3:55 PM Energetic-ion Driven Instabilities during I-phase and inter-ELM in the HL-3 Tokamak - Xiao-Long Zhu (Southwestern Institute of Physics)

3:55 PM Electron Cyclotron Heating Modification of Toroidicity Induced Alfvén Eigenmode Activity in DIII-D - Michael Van Zeeland (GAT - Fusion Energy Research General Atomics (US))

4:10 PM Further development of a phase space transport code with consistent sources and sinks - Tristan Sterkl (IPP - Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (EU))
4:15 PM EP in stellarators and 3D configurations
4:15 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

4:15 PM Finite Larmor radius effects in stellarators – the hidden ripple inside hidden symmetry - Michael Fitzgerald (UKAEA)

4:50 PM Energetic particle transport induced during core density collapses in LHD and Stellarator reactor relevant configurations - Jacobo Varela Rodriguez (Institute for Fusion Studies UT-austin)

5:25 PM Suppression of Coherent Energetic Particle Phase Space Structures due to 3D fields - Alexandra Lachmann (Columbia University)
7:00 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, October 2, 2026
9:00 AM Fast electrons and runaways
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

9:00 AM The Effect of Externally Applied and Self-Excited Waves on Relativistic Electrons - Alexander Battey (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

9:35 AM Crested stationary spectra of weak turbulence - Boris Breizman (The University of Texas at Austin)

10:00 AM Nonlinear coupling between beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes and toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes in the EAST tokamak - chenxi luo

10:25 AM Nonlinear dynamics of resistive hose modes for runaway electron beams in post-disruption tokamak plasmas - Tong Liu (Dalian University of Technology)
10:50 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
11:20 AM Physics of EP modes and transport
11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center
Contributions

11:20 AM A workflow for testing energetic particle transport models - from experiments to model validation - Mario Podesta

11:45 AM Experimental characterization of fishbones and associated energetic particle transport via correlated FIDA and FILD measurements on the TCV tokamak - Quentin Kernel (EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)

12:20 PM Nonlinear evolution of perturbatively driven far-from-threshold kinetic instabilities - Emma Devin (Princeton University)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center

2:15 PM Panel discussion: Perspectives - from present experiments to future burning plasmas
Perspectives - from present experiments to future burning plasmas
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center

4:15 PM Closing remarks and Announcements

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Center