Official group picture for the 27th Workshop on MHD Stability and Control meeting held in Boulder, CO.

The 27th Workshop on MHD Stability and Control was held in Boulder, Colorado, from October 26th to 28th, 2023.

The central theme of this year’s workshop was “MHD control requirements for burning plasma devices,” complementing the customary discussions related to MHD stability and control in tokamak plasmas.

Numerous members of the MIT PSFC Disruption Group participated in the hybrid workshop, including scientists Cristina Rea, Cesar Clauser, Ryan Sweeney (CFS), and Gregorio L. Trevisan. During the event, Gregorio L. Trevisan remotely presented initial findings on magnetic field decomposition using Gauss’ Separation Algorithm for the SPARC tokamak. Additionally, students Stuart Benjamin (MIT Physics) and Andrew Maris (MIT NSE) delivered two contributed oral presentations in person. Benjamin shared insights into preliminary investigations of tearing-free scenarios relevant to reactors, employing cylindrical tearing theory. Meanwhile, Maris presented results from a multi-machine database analysis of density-limit disruptions, focusing on the application to DIII-D data.

The table below provides a summary of the diverse contributions, while the complete scientific program can be accessed on the MHD Workshop agenda.

Presenter Title
SR Benjamin Towards Prediction of Tearing-Free Scenarios with Physics Informed Machine Learning
A Maris Density limit prediction at DIII-D: an offline analysis
GL Trevisan Initial results of Magnetic Field Decomposition of SPARC simulations using Gauss’ Separation Algorithm