Education

13th ITER International School announced

15 Apr 2024 - Alberto Loarte, Chair of the IIS Scientific Committee (ITER) and Sadruddin Benkadda, Director of the IIS (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS)

The 13th ITER International School (IIS) will be held from 9 to 13 December in Nagoya hosted by National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan.

Change in the ion velocity distribution function due to a magneto-hydrodynamic event (left) directly observed by a NIFS Charge eXchange Spectroscopy (CXS) system (right). (Credit: K. Ida et al., Communications Physics (2022) 5-228, © The Author(s). Published by Nature Portfolio. CC BY 4.0.)

The subject of the 2024 school is "Magnetic fusion diagnostics and data science," with a scientific program coordinated by Profs. M. Yokoyama and K. Tanaka (National Institute for Fusion Science) and Drs. M. Kocan and S. McIntosh (ITER Organization). Diagnostics are key to the achievement of ITER fusion power demonstration goals and they require the application of a wide range of techniques. But diagnostics are not enough to ensure ITER's success; only through the advanced analysis of the data they provide will it be possible to guide the experiments towards their fusion power goals. It is timely to address these multidisciplinary areas during the 13th ITER International School.

The ITER International School aims to prepare young scientists and engineers for working in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications associated with the ITER Project. The adoption of a "school" format was a consequence of the need to prepare future scientists and engineers on a range of different subjects and to provide them with a wide overview of the interdisciplinary skills required by ITER.