BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ORGANIZER;CN=Michael McDonald:mailto:michael.mcdonald@fsu.edu DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:"Predictive Design and Control of Fusion Pilot P lant Burning Plasmas"\n\nTomasz Plewa\nProfessor\, Department of Scientifi c Computing\nFlorida State University\n\nPlease feel free to forward/share this invitation with other groups/disciplines that might be interested in this talk/topic. All are welcome to attend.\n\nNOTE: In-person attendance is requested in our 499 Dirac Science Library (DSL) Seminar Room. Zoom ac cess is intended for external (non-departmental) participants only.\n\nhtt ps://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552\nMeeting # 942 7359 5552\n\n\nšŸŽ¦ Colloqui um recordings will be made available here\, https://www.sc.fsu.edu/colloqu ium\n\n\nWednesday\, Apr 22\, 2026\, Schedule:\n\n* 3:00 to 3:30 PM Easte rn Time (US and Canada)\nā˜• Nespresso & Teatime - 417 DSL Commons\n\n* 3: 30 to 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nšŸ•Ÿ Colloquium - 499 DSL Semi nar Room\n\n\nAbstract:\nFusion energy is clean\, safe\, and effectively l imitless. This project builds the computational foundation needed to make it practical ā€” connecting rigorous physics\, NIF experimental data\, and modern AI into a single learning system that grows smarter as the plant o perates.\n\nA fusion pilot plant must fire a tiny hydrogen fuel capsule mi llions of times a year. Each shot must release more energy than it consume s. No human operator can adjust thousands of variables fast enough between shots. The plant needs to learn\, adapt\, and run itself.\n\nWe are build ing a digital twin of a fusion pilot plant burning core. A digital twin is a virtual replica that mirrors the real system in real time. It learns fr om data. It predicts what comes next. Eventually it controls the plant ā€” shot by shot ā€” without human intervention.\n\nThe first step is underst anding what happens inside the burning plasma. We have built a fast physic s model of the hot compressed core ā€” the hot spot ā€” that forms at the moment of fusion. The model runs in seconds. We have tested it carefully a gainst known solutions\, then tuned it to match real NIF experiments ā€” t he world's most powerful laser fusion facility. It correctly reproduces wh en ignition occurs\, how hot and dense the plasma gets\, and how much fuel is consumed.\n\nWe are using this model to generate large datasets of sim ulated shots. A machine learning surrogate will be trained on these datase ts. The surrogate will be thousands of times faster than the physics model . It will be embedded in the plant control system. After each real shot\, the system reads the diagnostics\, updates its picture of the plasma\, and sets the conditions for the next shot ā€” autonomously.\n\n\nAdditional c olloquium details can be found here.\nhttps://www.sc.fsu.edu/news-and-even ts/colloquium/1929-colloquium-with-tomasz-plewa-2026-04-22\n UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000F061386C8ED1DC01000000000000000 010000000770A0AFE3BAAB44686BDEE49804F99CF SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:Scientific Computing Colloquium with Tomasz Plewa DTSTART;TZID=Eastern Standard Time:20260422T153000 DTEND;TZID=Eastern Standard Time:20260422T162500 CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20260421T125735Z TRANSP:OPAQUE STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 LOCATION;LANGUAGE=en-US:https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:2124720369 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-LOCATIONDISPLAYNAME:https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552 X-MICROSOFT-LOCATIONSOURCE:None X-MICROSOFT-LOCATIONS:[{"DisplayName":"https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552"\, "LocationAnnotation":""\,"LocationUri":""\,"LocationStreet":""\,"LocationC ity":""\,"LocationState":""\,"LocationCountry":""\,"LocationPostalCode":"" \,"LocationFullAddress":""}] BEGIN:VALARM DESCRIPTION:REMINDER TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT5M ACTION:DISPLAY END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR