Programme / General Topics

The draft programme of the CMSS-2024 (as of 23 April 2024) PDF.

The CMSS programme is aligned along the following topics:

Fusion energy (FE)

Energy resources and prospects for fusion
Status and outlook of fusion research
Thermonuclear burn criteria
Deuterium-tritium fusion experiments
Scaling and extrapolation to reactors
ITER and DEMO
Reactor safety

Confinement concepts (CC)

Magnetic fields and plasmas
Tokamaks
Stellarators
Operational limits
Transport barriers
Degraded and improved confinement
Control of plasma discharge

Theory and modelling of fusion plasma (TM)

Guiding center motion
Plasma equilibrium
Kinetic and gyro-kinetic descriptions of plasmas
Macroscopic description of plasmas
Ideal and resistive MHD instabilities
Micro-instabilities
Classical and neoclassical transport
Anomalous transport, turbulence and fluctuations
Transport codes

Plasma heating, current drive and fast particle physics (HC)

Neutral beam injection
Propagation and absorption of waves in confined plasmas
Wave heating (ECRH, ICRH)
Current drive
Energetic particle driven instabilities

Diagnostics and data analysis (DD)

Fusion plasma diagnostics
Microwave diagnostics
Optical emission spectroscopy
Fusion product diagnostics
Methods of surface analysis
Methods of data analysis

Plasma wall interaction (PW)

Transport processes in the plasma edge
Erosion and deposition mechanisms in fusion plasmas
Fusion ash removal and impurities
Neutral particles and recycling
Radiation phenomena
Stochastic boundary plasmas
Limiter and divertor concepts

Fusion reactor materials (FM)

Basics of material science
Plasma facing, structural and functional materials and components
Degradation of material properties and effects of neutrons
Fuel retention in wall materials
Wall conditioning
Laboratory experiments to study plasma material interaction



Contact   

Laboratory for Plasma Physics
Avenue de la Renaissance 30
1000 Brussels, Belgium

Local organizing committee:
Dr. Yevgen Kazakov (co-chair)
Dr. Maarten Vergote (co-chair)
Dr. Kristel Crombé

Email: cmss2024bru@gmail.com

Sponsors:
Renaissance Fusion