OSSFE 2026 Programme
OSSFE 2026 technical programme committee
Here you will find the schedule and abstracts for the OSSFE 2026 conference
Tuesday¶
🎉 Welcome statement: 08:40 - 09:00¶
Room: Auditorium
Presenter: Remi Delaporte-Mathurin
Plenary Session 1: 09:00 - 10:00¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Open Source License Compliance - Trust, Tips, Trends | Martin Yagi | First Light Fusion |
| P2 | Free Function API for CadQuery | Adam Urbańczyk | CadQuery |
☕ Break: 10:00 - 10:20¶
Coffee, tea refreshments and pastries will be served in the Foyer.
Sessions: 10:20 - 11:20¶
Oral Session A¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Probabilistic characterisation of neutron spectra with the nFoils package | Louis Butt | University of Birmingham |
| A2 | Gaussian Processing Framework for Neutron Generator Diagnostics and Uncertainty Quantification | Collin Dunn | MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center |
| A3 | Summary of V&V efforts for OpenMC | Jonathan Shimwell | Proxima Fusion |
Oral Session B¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1 | The IAEA Fusion Data Lake Project - Progress, Prototype, and the Path Ahead | Daljeet Singh Gahle | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| B2 | A comparison of open source data distribution tools for global data sharing | Stephen Dixon | UKAEA |
| B3 | Open-source MDSplus and Trends in Fusion Data | Joshua Stillerman | MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 1¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Struphy 3.0 - Using Python for HPC Plasma Modeling | Stefan Possanner | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics |
| T2 | Tutorial: an introduction to the Gkeyll simulation framework for both research and education | James Juno | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
🖼️ Poster Session: 11:20 - 12:20¶
A full list of the posters and their abstracts can be found in the List of posters
🍽️ Lunch break: 12:20 - 13:40¶
Lunch is provided in the Munich Urban Colab restaurant (ground floor) for all conference attendees.
🗣️ Panel Session: 13:40 - 14:40¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
A panel session will be held with the following members:
| Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| TBC | TBC |
| TBC | TBC |
| TBC | TBC |
| TBC | TBC |
Sessions: 14:40 - 15:40¶
Oral Session C¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Constraining Equilibria with Toroidal Harmonics in the Bluemira Design Framework | Clair Mould | UKAEA |
| C2 | Exploring fusion power plant trade-offs with FUSE: An open-source multi-objective optimization framework | Tim Slendebroek | UCSD |
| C3 | FUSE Integrated Modeling Framework for FPP design, Scenario Optimization and Model Validation | Tom Neiser | General Atomics |
Oral Session D¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | The FEniCS Finite Element framework: introduction and applications in nuclear fusion simulations | Massimiliano Leoni | Proxima Fusion |
| D2 | Automatic Differentiation for CAD | Max Asseily | Proxima Fusion |
| D3 | Overview of the capabilities in the Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment and recent activities in modeling and simulation for fusion energy systems | Guillaume Giudicelli | INL |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 2¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T3 | Getting started with IMAS open-source: a beginner’s tutorial | Olivier Hoenen | ITER Organization |
☕ Break: 15:40 - 16:00¶
Coffee, tea refreshments and pastries will be served in the Foyer.
Sessions: 16:00 - 17:00¶
Oral Session E¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Modeling Permeator Probe for Tritium Concentration in Liquids | Kaelyn Dunnell | MIT PSFC |
| E2 | Toward ParaTAN–FESTIM Coupling: An MBSE-Oriented Open-Source Workflow for Neutronics and Tritium Transport in Mirror Fusion Devices | Hitarth Shah | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| E3 | Uncertainty Quantification Tools for Lithium Ceramics-based Tritium Breeding Module | Yehor Yudin | Bangor University |
Oral Session F¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | DESC Stellarator Equilibrium and Optimization Code | Lee Kadz | Princeton University |
| F2 | ConStellaration: A dataset of QI-like stellarator plasma boundaries and optimization benchmarks | Santiago Cadena | Proxima Fusion |
| F3 | Simsopt: A flexible framework for stellarator optimisation | Chris Smiet | EPFL |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 3¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T5 | Modular Tokamak Design and Simulation Open Source Framework | Alexei Zhurba | Next Step Fusion |
| T6 | TokaLab: A Modular Virtual Tokamak Laboratory for Education, FAIR Principles, and Algorithm Benchmarking | Riccardo Rossi | “Tor Vergata” University of Rome |
Wednesday¶
Plenary Session 2: 09:00 - 10:00¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: -46
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| P3 | Solving fusion problems in FEniCSx | Joseph Dean | University of Cambridge |
| P4 | Fusion & Nuclear Engineering at scale | Andrew Davis | UKAEA |
☕ Break: 10:00 - 10:20¶
Coffee, tea refreshments and pastries will be served in the Foyer.
Sessions: 10:20 - 11:20¶
Oral Session G¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| G1 | Deep Learning–Based Surrogate Models and RL Control for Extreme Vacuum Environments in Fusion Research | Guillermo Rodríguez Llorente | HI Iberia |
| G2 | Pellet Fueling: AI-Enhanced Surrogate Model HPI2-NN and Integrated Modelling | Alex Panera Alvarez | DIFFER |
| G3 | An ML-based design approach for Fusion Energy components | Vignesh Perumal | UHV3D, Inc. dba CAMINNO |
Oral Session H¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | Integration of Open-Source Fusion Codes into Commercial Design Workflows | Sunil Acharya | Ansys Inc |
| H2 | Extending FLUNED with OpenMC Capabilities for Coupled CFD–Neutronics Simulation of Activated Coolants in Fusion Systems | Marco De Pietri | MIT-PSFC |
| H3 | foamForNuclear: A Modular Multiphysics Platform for Fusion and Fission Applications | Giovanni Nervi | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 4¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T7 | PathSim: An Open-Source Python Framework for Dynamic System Simulation in Fusion Energy Applications | Milan Rother | independent |
| T8 | PathView: a graphical interface for system modelling (using PathSim) | Remi Delaporte-Mathurin | MIT |
🖼️ Poster Session: 11:20 - 12:20¶
A full list of the posters and their abstracts can be found in the List of posters
🍽️ Lunch break: 12:20 - 13:40¶
Lunch is provided in the Munich Urban Colab restaurant (ground floor) for all conference attendees.
Plenary Session 3: 13:40 - 14:40¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: -46
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| P5 | Introducing the BLUEMIRA fusion reactor design tool | Matti Coleman | UKAEA |
| P6 | IMAS-compatible components of a digital twin environment | Daan van Vugt | Ignition Computing |
Sessions: 14:40 - 15:40¶
Oral Session I¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| I1 | An Open-Source Divertor Digital Twin Environment for Fusion Power Plants | Michael Battye | University of York |
| I2 | Using Gkeyll as a self-consistent gyrokinetic predictive tool for tokamak edge turbulence | Antoine Hoffmann | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| I3 | GSFit: Grad-Shafranov Fit – A new equilibrium reconstruction code for tokamak plasmas | Peter Buxton | Tokamak Energy Ltd. |
Oral Session J¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| J1 | FAIR and Flexible: Fusion Data Mapping with TokaMap and libTokaMap | Jonathan Hollocombe | UKAEA |
| J2 | Comparing APIs for semi-Lagrangian and particle-in-cell methods | Nils Schild | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Phyiscs |
| J3 | DECIMA: Open-Source AI-assisted analysis of MCNP PTRAC files for neutronics in fusion and fission | Quentin Ducasse | ASNR |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 5¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T9 | Overview of the FESTIM Workshop: Applications and Tutorial Introduction | Chirag Khurana | MIT PSFC |
| T10 | A FEniCS tutorial: finite element notebooks | Chris Richardson | University of Cambridge |
☕ Break: 15:40 - 16:00¶
Coffee, tea refreshments and pastries will be served in the Foyer.
Sessions: 16:00 - 17:00¶
Oral Session K¶
Room: Auditorium
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| K1 | Is there a space for freelancer in scientific open source development | Baptiste Mouginot | BaM Scientific Consulting |
| K2 | Using open-source tools and platforms to build a multi-tenant development environment for fusion research | Bartłomiej Pogodziński | Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center |
| K3 | Forecasting Fusion’s Role in the Marketplace of Tomorrow | Hugo Bullows Weeks | Fusion Advisory Services |
Oral Session L¶
Room: Projektraum
Chair: TBC, Affiliation
Number of presentations: 3
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | PROCESS Systems Code and its use in the STEP Concept Design Workflow | Christopher Ashe | UKIFS |
| L2 | SOLPS-NN: Neural Networks for Scrape-Off Layer Simulations | Stefan Dasbach | DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
| L3 | Latest Developments in TORAX: A Differentiable Simulator for Fusion Pulse Planning and Optimization | Philippe Hamel | Google Deepmind |
🛠️ Tutorial Session 6¶
Room: Seminar room 1
A series of tutorials will be available to attend for the following packages:
Number of tutorials: 2
| ID | Title | Presenter | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| T11 | GVEC - a flexible 3D MHD equilibrium solver | Robert Babin | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics |
| T12 | The Open FUSION Toolkit: An open-source suite of fusion modeling tools for engineering, analysis, and education | Chris Hansen | Columbia University |
🏆 Awards ceremony and closing remarks: 17:10 - 17:20¶
Room: Auditorium
Presenter: Remi Delaporte-Mathurin
Thursday¶
🚶 Proxima Fusion tour: 09:30 - 10:00¶
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Join us for an optional social event and get a behind-the-scenes look at Proxima Fusion’s facilities.
☕ Break: 10:00 - 10:20¶
Coffee, tea refreshments and pastries will be served in the Foyer.
🖳 OSSFE Hackathon: 10:20 - 12:20¶
An optional add-on event for conference attendees. This will be an oppertunity to interact work together with open-source developers on projects of interest and see the contiribution process first-hand.
Structure and details to be announced
🍽️ Lunch break: 12:20 - 13:40¶
Lunch is provided in the Proxima Fusion office for all Hackathon attendees.