Wednesday November 12, 2025
Session Chair: Xueqiao Xu
8:30-9:15
Invited: Nanyi Zheng - University of Delaware
A Semi-Lagrangian Adaptive Rank (SLAR) Method for High-dimensional Vlasov Dynamics
9:15-10:00
Invited: Kentaro Hara - Stanford University
Sequential data assimilation for plasma dynamics
10:00-10:30 Break
Session Chair: Ionut Farcas
10:30-11:00
Xishuo Wei - University of California Irvine
The low-dimensional representation of Quasi-Helical stellarator geometry
11:00-11:30
Gijs Derks - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
On the validation of dynamic models for (exhaust) control in Nuclear Fusion; a comparison to experiments in the TCV tokamak
11:30-12:00
Byung Kyu Na - Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Structure-preserving hybrid MHD-drift kinetic code for simulations of wave-particle interactions
12:00-12:30
Haotian Chen - Peking University
Geometry e_ects on zonal flow dynamics and turbulent transport in optimized stellarators
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Session Chair: Genia Vogman
14:00-14:30
Andrew Christlieb - Michigan State University
Adaptive rank solutions for quantum Boltzmann models
14:30-15:00
Sining Gong - Michigan State University
A Conservative Adaptive-Rank Approach for Wigner-Poisson Equations
15:00-15:30
Peiyi Chen - University of Wisconsin Madison
Control a Uniformly Magnetized Plasma with an External Electric Field
15:30-16:00
Uri Shumlak - University of Washington
Exploring Kinetic Physics of Multi-Species Burning Plasmas: Atomic and Nuclear Reaction
Effects
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:50
Poster Presentations
18:00-20:00
Banquet at Grand Ballroom of Wedgewood's University Club
Thursday November 13, 2025
Session Chair: Jingwei Hu
8:30-9:15
Invited: Micol Bassanini - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Advanced IMEX time integration for the two-fluid model of tokamak edge turbulence
9:15-10:00
Invited: Justin Angus - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-performance collisional implicit particle-in-cell methods for fully kinetic simulations of dynamically compressing plasmas
10:00-10:30 Break
Session Chair: Zhihong Lin
10:30-11:00
Ayumi Takano / Tomohiko Watanabe - Nagoya University
Field-aligned spectral method for simulation of ballooning mode turbulence
11:00-11:30
Golo Wimmer - Los Alamos National Laboratory
An Efficient Solver for Finite Element-based Constrained Transport in Magnetohydrodynamics
11:30-12:30
William Tang - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
John Dawson Award Plenary
AI, Machine Learning, & High-Performance Computing Enabled Scientific Discovery
William M. Tang is awarded the 2025 ICNSP John Dawson Award for his seminal contributions and leadership in high-performance numerical simulation of plasmas, including the growing area of artificial intelligence and machine learning for accelerating scientific discovery in plasma physics.
12:30-14:00
Lunch break
Session Chair: Justin Angus
14:00-14:30
Jingwei Hu - University of Washington
Structure-Preserving Particle Method for Collisional Plasmas
14:30-15:00
Logan Tate Meredith - Sandia National Laboratory
Stochastic Numerical Heating in Collisional Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Methods
15:00-15:30
D. C. Barnes - Coronado Consulting
New Darwin energy-conserving PIC algorithm
15:30-16:00
Jean-Luc Vay - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Energy-preserving coupling of explicit particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions
16:00-16:30
Optional trip to Laguna Beach
16:30-19:00
Sunset on the beach and dinner on your own
Friday November 14, 2025
Session Chair: Frank Jenko
8:30-9:15
Invited: Yao Zhou - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic simulations of stellarator plasmas
9:15-10:00
Invited: Ionut Farcas - Virginia Tech
Advancing predictive capabilities in fusion plasmas through data-driven learning
10:00-10:30 Break
Session Chair: Tomohiko Watanabe
10:30-11:00
Luis Chacon - Los Alamos National Laboratory
A scalable multidimensional fully implicit solver for Hall magnetohydrodynamics
11:00-11:30
Alexandra Dudkovskaia - University of York
Dynamic mode decomposition for gyrokinetic eigenmode analysis in electromagnetic fusion plasmas
11:30-12:00
Xueqiao Xu - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ABOUND SciDAC: Advancing Boundary Plasma Dynamics through Physics, High-Performance Computing, and AI Integration
12:00-12:30
Frank Jenko - Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Advancing Fusion Research Through Predictive Simulations and Digital Twins
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Session Chair: Andrew Christlieb
14:00-14:30
Nami Li - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
From Edge Turbulence to Magnetic Quenching: Universal Dynamics of Zonal Fields
14:30-15:00
John Zaris - University of Colorado
Numerically Simulating Laser Cooling of Large Trapped Ion Crystals for Quantum Sensing
15:00-15:30
Qi Tang - Georgia Institute of Technology
Super-particle dynamics for the Vlasov-Poisson system through a Hamiltonian-preserving closure
15:30-16:00
Andrew Ho - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Parameterized model of microinstability-driven anomalous transport informed by GPUaccelerated Vlasov simulations
Poster Presentations on Wednesday November 12, 2025
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Frida Brogren ◆ Gothenburg University◆ π-PIC: a toolbox for particle-in-cell simulations in Python
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Shiping Zhou ◆ Michigan State University◆ A deterministic particle method for the relativistic Landau equation
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F. Alejandro Padilla-Gomez ◆ Michigan State University◆ Quantum Kinetic Modeling of KEEN waves in a Warm-Dense regime
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Carolyn Wendeln ◆ Michigan State University◆ High-Order Numerical Methods for Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
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Takashi Shiroto ◆ Nagoya University◆ Radiative transfer equation in dynamical plasmas and its structure-preserving scheme
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Janghoon Seo ◆ Korea Institute of Fusion Energy◆ Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Collision for Discontinuous Galerkin Method
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Atsushi Fukuyama ◆ Kyoto University◆ Kinetic Full Wave Analyses in Inhomogeneous Plasmas Using Plasma Kernel Functions
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Ilon Joseph ◆ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory◆ A Tale of Two Polarization Paradoxes: The Diamagnetic Polarization and Spitzer Polarization Paradoxes
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Zhe Bai ◆ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ◆ FTL: Transfer learning nonlinear plasma dynamic transitions in low dimensional embeddings via deep neural networks
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Hamad El Kahza ◆ University of Delaware ◆ Adaptive-Rank Implicit Time Integrators with Application to Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Kinetic Models and Advection-Diffusion Equations with Variable Coefficients
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Kentaro Hara ◆ Stanford University ◆ Fluid Moment Modeling of Partially Ionized, Low Temperature Plasmas
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Ethan Green ◆ University of California Irvine ◆ Energetic particle transport under the effects of the radial electric field in LHD
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Young Dae Yoon ◆ Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics ◆ Kinetic instabilities beget three-dimensional magnetic reconnection and induce MHD-scale changes
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Ben Zhu ◆ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ◆ Stellarator Boundary Simulations with BSTING
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Zhihong Lin ◆ University of California Irvine ◆ Zonal flows: from Hasegawa-Mima equation to gyrokinetic simulation
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Gahyung Jo ◆ Korea Institute of Fusion Energy ◆ A derivative-free approach for extraction of plasma equilibrium features in free-boundary problem
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Sehoon Ko ◆ Korea Institute of Fusion Energy ◆ Comparison on Characteristics between Flux-driven and Gradientdriven Simulations Using GF2-BOUT++ code
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W.W. Lee ◆ Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ◆ Numerical Requirements for Simulating L-H Transition
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Sidney D. V. Williams ◆ University of California San Diego ◆ Determining the Effect of Domain Size on the Accuracy of Magnetic Field Response Calculations in Hermes-3
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David Eder ◆ University of Hawaii ◆ PISALE Simulation Capabilities for Debris, Shrapnel, and First-Wall Damage in Fusion Prototypes
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Claudia C. Parisuana Barranca (presented by Alice Koniges) ◆ Stanford University ◆ Modeling Shock Dynamics in Liquid Droplet Targets for High-Repetition-Rate HED Experiments using PISALE code