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SUMMARY:Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC - 
 Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority
DTSTART:20221020T120000Z
DTEND:20221020T133000Z
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CONTACT:James Fergusson
DESCRIPTION:Fusion holds the promise to deliver carbon free\, almost limit
 less amounts of energy to power our world. A promising avenue to achieve F
 usion is the Tokamak\, a doughnut-shaped machine where plasma\, a quasi-ne
 utral ionised gas\, is confined by means of magnetic fields. The UK has th
 e ambition to deliver the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) b
 y 2040 - this will be a fully working Fusion power plant. A number hurdles
  still need to be overcome on the way to making Fusion a reality. However\
 , we now have access to some powerful tools unavailable to the scientists 
 and engineers of the past: modern AI and exascale HPC solutions may just f
 inally unlock commercial Fusion power. In this talk I will introduce some 
 of the challenges that are unique to Fusion\, and will showcase how these 
 are approached with a holistic view at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. I w
 ill then take a dive into our efforts within the Advanced Computing Depart
 ment to tame Fusion using HPC and AI.\n\nLorenzo is an AI Specialist in th
 e Advanced Computing Department at the UK Atomic Energy Authority research
 ing AI applications for Fusion energy. Prior to joining UKAEA in October 2
 021 he obtained a PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Southampton whe
 re he used deep generative models to compare galaxies in simulations to re
 al galaxies. He also devised Monte Carlo methods to study galaxy structure
  and he applied similar techniques to modelling blood pressure treatment i
 n presence of measurement uncertainty\, for which he won an early-career S
 TEM for Britain silver medal awarded at Westminster. He is interested in a
 ny and all AI methods that can speed up the delivery of Fusion power and b
 elieves in collaborative science as the only means to achieve big scientif
 ic breakthroughs. To this end\, he recently won an award by the Alan Turin
 g Institute to promote Fusion as a use case in the AI and Computer Science
  community. You can find more details about my Turing grant at https://www
 .gov.uk/government/news/ai-has-star-power-to-accelerate-fusion\n
LOCATION:Kavli Large Meeting Room\, Kavli Building
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