CETOP SciDAC Agenda - Quarterly meeting 

 June  8 and 9th, 2026

Onsite - PPPL / All times EST

June  8, 2026 

Location: C-Site  C-Site A104  Conference Room 

9:00 am    Fatima Ebrahimi/ Introduction

Session 1 [Working session]

Location: C-Site  C-Site A104  Conference Room & B343 conference room&B3210(small)

[9:15am - 11:30am] Working sessions 

11:45 am Lunch

Session 2 [MHD Validations/benchmark/Dataset]

Location: C-Site  C-Site A104  Conference Room 

12:45pm    Jon Menard (STAR and challenges for ST pedestal)

1:30 pm      Andreas Kleiner -  Development of an Extended-MHD Database for

Machine Learning and Stability Simulations in MAST-U and NSTX 

2:10pm      Alexei Pankin -Standardizing extended-MHD outputs for ML-ready studies of -free scenarios in tokamaks and STAR simulations 

2:50 pm      Jesus Domínguez-Palacios - Updates on QH DIII-D simulations with NIMROD

3:05 pm       Fatima Ebrahimi - Updates on DIII-D Negative Triangularity simulations with multi-species

3:15pm break & group photo

3:25 pm  Andres Cathey (Jesus) - updates on QH EU-US benchmark Andres/Wagner/Jesus/Jake/Yueqiang/Fatima 

3:45 pm         Qian Gong -  introducing scientific campaign management and IMAS data conversion to ADIOS

4:00 pm         Yueqiang Liu – Numerical database for QH linear stability analysis

Session 3 [Gyrokinetic XGC/Drift kinetic]

4:25 pm     Jessica Li - Updates on PT/NT core turbulence studies using XGC

4:50pm      Seung-Hoe Ku - XGC for TCV benchmark

6:30 pm CETOP dinner

June  9, 2026 

Location: C-Site A104  Conference Room 

Session 4 [Time-integration/GPU] 

9:00 am    Eric Held  - Advanced Time Integration for Continuum Drift Kinetic 

9:20 am    David Gardner -  Update on plasma-aai (plasma accelerated atomic integration)

9:40 am   Jake King - Enabling High-Fidelity Edge Modeling:

Incorporating Atomic Radiation and Performance Portability into the NIMROD Code

10:00 am  Break

Session 5 [ML/AI] 

10:15 am      Qian Gong (onsite) - ML MHD stability 

10:35 am      Tom Flynn (onsite)/Andreas - ML training for MHD Stability regions   

11:00 am      Zach Daniel - BES, ECEi, Equilibrium Data and Clustering for ELMing/ELM free -  Chris Hanson (onsite) 

11:30 am      Anirban Samaddar (onsite) - HELIOS- Multi-diagnostic forecasting and infill - Sandeep 

12:00 pm      Semin Joung (onsite) - Spatiotemporal Stitching, explainable AI for diagnostics Enhancement, and recent experiment results on Stitching method - / David 

Session 6 [Working session ] 

Location: C-Site A104  Conference Room & B318 conference room

1:30pm-5:00 pm Discussion & working group  

Monday Zoom connection:

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Tuesday zoom connection:

Meeting host: jjones@pppl.gov

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