DIGILab Lunch Workshop:
Unlocking the Power of Explainable AI in Fusion Energy Development
Room: The Gallery room, third floor, Helix, DCU
Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
Number of participants: 50+
This workshop is open to all SOFT participants.
Brief description:
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll discover how AI can revolutionize the future of fusion energy. Whether you’re new to AI or simply curious about its potential, this session is designed to be accessible and engaging.
We’ll guide you through using AI to tackle complex challenges in fusion energy, even with limited data.
We’ll dive into a practical example using twinLab, a user-friendly tool, to apply these AI methods in real-time. You’ll work on a tritium desorption scenario, where you’ll see AI in action—predicting unseen scenarios and providing confidence bounds on those predictions.
This workshop is perfect for anyone interested in the intersection of AI and fusion energy, with no prior experience required.
Register for the workshop ahead of time to secure your place: https://forms.gle/L3ag9N45FZJXifsdA
Contact details: [email protected]
IEA Fusion Materials group meeting
Room: Nano Research Facility (NRF) seminar room, DCU campus (building 25 DCU campus map)
Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 13:00-15:00
This meeting is by invite only.
For further information please email mailto:[email protected]
Nuclear fusion: Talking about what’s beyond the Science
Science, Technology and Society Research Group Workshop:
Room: GG28, Life Sciences Institute (G), DCU (building 24 on DCU camps map)
Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 14:30-16:00
Information: What does it mean for fusion ‘to become available’? How long is the period between a prototype technically able to produce electricity and the moment fusion becomes an energy technology option ‘among the other options’? How would the path between those moments look, and what is the role of the research community in it once industry and commercial interests start to take the lead in fusion development? How should one respond to the critical statement that, in face of the urgent challenge to combat climate change, fusion ‘will come too late’? …
The ultimate goal of the event is to launch a meaningful dialogue related to these questions within the fusion research community rather than to come to consensus on the correct answers. The event also offers the opportunity to contribute to socio- economic research reflecting and discussing these and other relevant questions in relation to nuclear fusion and the current socio-economic, climate and energy context.
This topic for a SOFT2024 satellite event is proposed by the EUROfusion research team on Socio Economic Studies (SES) as part of a multi-year project aimed at gathering expert’s views, positions, opinions, attitudes on fusion technology and fusion research.
This workshop is open to all SOFT participants.
Gauss Fusion GmbH Workshop
Room: The Theatre, Helix
Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 18:00 – 18:30 (Reception)
18:30 – 19:30 (Workshop)
Gauss Fusion’s mission is to accelerate the industrialisation of fusion energy, to make it scalable and to turn it into a reality in Europe. The green energy company was founded in 2022 by private industrial companies from France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Gauss Fusion is actively engaged in the pursuit of industrializing and commercializing fusion energy, based on an approach aimed at minimising both technology development risk and the timescale to commercial fusion.
As one of the first stages of this process an internal scientific study was recently concluded, leading to the decision to adopt the stellarator as the core device for Gauss Fusion Power Plant (FPP). The primary outcomes of this study will be discussed, including considerations that highlight the inherent advantages of the stellarator, such as steady-state operation and cost-effective functionality relevant to power plants, as well as general insights and progress on optimizing stellarator design.
This contribution presents a unique, integrated, staged approach to the Fusion Power Plant (FPP): by incrementally upgrading the power plant facility, construction risks can be minimized, the licensing process expedited, and findings from materials and blanket research seamlessly integrated. Key technical highlights will include the development of enabling fusion technologies for a modular approach, specifically the design and manufacturing of demountable coils and the choice of a helium cooled pebble bed as tritium breeding blanket.
The presentation will also emphasize Gauss Fusion’s industrial roots and connections, providing insight into the company’s unique trajectory toward developing our Fusion Power Plant and establishing commercial fusion in Europe.
This workshop is open all SOFT participants.
For catering purposes please register your interest by email: mailto:[email protected]