The Kyushu University Itoh project prize is awarded each year in association with the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. The prize aims to recognize doctoral students who have performed excellent research on plasma turbulence, transport, confinement, or any related topic. The winner is offered the opportunity to visit Kyushu University, Japan, for one week, including paid flights and living expenses. The competition is judged by a panel of experts chaired, in 2023, by Professor Akihide Fujisawa of Kyushu University.<\/p>\n
Winners of the Kyushu University Itoh Project Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n The Kyushu University Itoh project prize is awarded each year in association with the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. The prize aims to recognize doctoral students who have performed excellent research on plasma turbulence, transport, confinement, or any related topic. … Continue reading \n
\nThe three selected presentations were: Mario Raeth<\/strong> for “Excitation of high frequency waves in 6D kinetic Vlasov ITG simulation”, Jean Cazobonne<\/strong> for “Experimental and numerical evidence of electron turbulent transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron waves in tokamaks” and Oliver Panico<\/strong> for “Transport and zonal flows dynamics in flux-driven interchange and drift waves turbulence”.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nTwo other students were highly recommended: Zongyu Yang<\/strong> (Southwestern Institute of Physics, China) for “An interpretable, transferable, and real-time disruption predictor in HL-2A based on deep learning” and Paul Mulholland<\/strong> (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) for “KBM and finite beta ITG turbulence in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator”.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nDiego Jose Cruz Zabala<\/strong> (U. Seville – Spain – Characterization of edge poloidal impurity asymmetries at ASDEX Upgrade), Nicola Offeddu<\/strong> (EPFL – Switzerland – Direct measurements of parallel blob extension) and Prapti Bajaj<\/strong> (Deutsches Zentrum f\u00fcr Luft- and Raumfahrt – Germany – Wave turbulence in fluid complex plasmas) were highly recommended.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nAnother student was highly recommended: Aylwin Iantchenko<\/strong>, EPFL (Switzerland) “Modeling of Turbulent fluctuations measured in the TCV tokamak with gyrokinetic simulations and a synthetic phase contrast imaging diagnostic”.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nTwo other students were highly recommended: Ondrej Grover<\/strong>\u00c2\u00c2\u00a0(CAS IoP and CTU, Czech Republic) for “Search for zonal structures on the radial electric field and Reynolds stress profiles on COMPASS”\u00c2\u00c2\u00a0 and Luis Gil\u00c2\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>(IST, Portugal) for “Edge instabilities across the L-H transition and in H-mode of ASDEX Upgrade”.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nTwo other students were highly commended: Nicola Bonanomi<\/strong><\/em> (Universit\u00e0 di Milano-Bicocca & JET) for \u201cRole of small-scale tubulence and multi-scale interactions in electron heat transport in JET\u201d and Alsu Sladkomedova<\/strong><\/em> (Ioffe Institute) for \u201cImpurity transport studies on the Globus-M tokamak\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nTwo other students were highly commended: S. Thrys\u00c3\u00b8e<\/strong><\/em> (DTU) for \u201cGas puff fuelling simulation with a combined neutral\/HESEL model\u201d and A. Lebschy<\/strong><\/em> (IPP, TU Munich) for \u201cMeasurement of the ExB velocity across the LOC-SOC transition\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nTwo other students were highly commended: C. Norscini<\/strong><\/em> (CEA\/IRFM, France) for “Pedestal formation and turbulence self-organization at the separatrix between open and closed field lines” and M. Cavedon<\/strong><\/em> (IPP, Germany) for ” Study of the edge radial electric field during the L-H transition at ASDEX Upgrade”.<\/span><\/li>\n