IPP Summer University 2025

8 Sept 2025, 08:30 → 12 Sept 2025, 17:30 Europe/Berlin

Hörsaal (Garching)

Ingrid Kaufmann (MPPL), Roberto Bilato (IPP - TOK)

Summer University for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research

The course covers the main aspects of plasma physics with emphasis on nuclear fusion: basics of plasma physics – kinetic theory and magneto-hydrodynamic description of a plasma – concepts and experimental results of tokamak and stellarator configurations – external heating and diagnostics of a fusion device – plasma wall interaction and material research – safety and environmental aspects of fusion – ITER and the next steps towards a reactor. It includes a tour of the IPP-tokamak experiment, ASDEX Upgrade.

The lectures are for physics and engineering students at European universities who have passed their bachelor's courses or for master's students at European universities who have not decided on their PhD topic yet.

All participants will be notified whether their application has been accepted or not.

Selected applicants will be required to confirm their participation by submitting a non-refundable fee of 50 euros.

www.ipp-summeruni.info

SU25_TimeTable.pdf

Monday 8 September

1 Welcome

Speaker: Sybille Günter

SU25_Welcome_Guenter.pdf

2 Basics of Nuclear Fusion and Safety Aspects

Speaker: Rachael Mc Dermott

10:30 Coffe Break

3 Basics of Plasma Physics

Speaker: Elisabeth Wolfrum

SU25_BasicsPlasma_Wolfrum.pdf

12:30 Lunch

4 Plasma Kinetics

Speaker: Roberto Bilato (IPP - TOK)

15:00 Coffee Break

5 Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics MHD

Speaker: Omar Maj

6 HEPP

Speaker: Tim Happel

7 SMS

Speakers: Alessandro Mancini, Hannah Lindl, Robert Babin

18:30 Receptiom

Tuesday 9 September

8 Numerical Methods In Plasma Physics

Speaker: Eric Sonnendruecker (MPPL)

10:30 Coffee Break

9 Plasma Wall Interaction and First Wall

Speaker: Mikhail Zibrov

12:30 Lunch

10 Diagnostics for Fusion Plasmas

Speaker: Ralph Dux

15:00 Coffee Break

11 Plasma Auxiliary Heating: RF and NBI

Speakers: Christian Hopf, Volodymyr Bobkov

12 Posters

Wednesday 10 September

13 Stellarator: Equiilibrium, Stability

Speaker: Ralf Kleiber (IPP)

10:30 Coffee Break

14 Stellarator: Experimental Results

Speaker: Golo Fuchert

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Deutsches Museum

18:30 Social Dinner

Thursday 11 September

15 Basics of Transport in Fusion Plasmas

Speaker: Clemente Angioni

10:30 Coffee Break

16 Tokamak: Equilibrium, Stability

Speaker: Wolfgang Suttrop

12:30 Lunch

17 Tokamak: Experimental Results

Speaker: Matthias Willensdorfer

15:00 Coffee Break

18 ASDEX Upgrade and laboratories

Friday 12 September

19 ITER: The Next Step

Speaker: Richard Pitts

10:30 Coffee Break

20 Envisioning a Fusion Reactor

Speaker: Hartmut Zohm

12:30 Lunch

21 Round Table