The 16th International West Lake Symposium on the Physics of Fusion and Space Plasmas was successfully held

The 16th International West Lake Symposium on the Physics of Fusion and Space Plasmas was successfully held from April 10 to 12, 2026, at the Zhejiang Narada Grand Hotel in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The symposium was organized by the School of Physics, Zhejiang University, and the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS), Zhejiang University.

The symposium aimed to provide a platform for international scientific exchange, bringing together researchers to discuss recent advances and frontier issues in fusion energy and space plasma physics. The program covered a wide range of topics, including fusion energy, space plasmas, fundamental plasma physics, and inertial confinement fusion, spanning from theoretical foundations to engineering applications.

Prof. Ju Bingfeng, Dean of the Office of Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a welcome address. He extended a warm welcome to all participants and highlighted Zhejiang University’s strategic initiatives and achievements in fundamental research and frontier exploration. During the symposium, scholars engaged in in-depth discussions on key topics such as Alfvén wave physics, energetic particle transport, microturbulence and transport barriers, confinement optimization in tokamaks and stellarators, magnetic reconnection and wave phenomena in space plasmas, and novel ignition schemes for inertial confinement fusion.

A total of nine overseas participants from the United States, Italy, France, Japan, South Korea, and other countries and regions attended the symposium, along with more than 130 domestic experts, scholars, and students from over 40 Chinese universities and research institutions, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, the University of Science and Technology of China, the Institute of Physics (CAS), the Institute of Plasma Physics (CAS), the Southwestern Institute of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, and Sichuan University. The scientific program featured 33 invited talks and 34 poster presentations.

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) at Zhejiang University. A brief commemorative event was held during the symposium. In addition, a special session on fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas was organized in honor of Professor Liu Chen, the founding director of IFTS (2006–2016), in recognition of his outstanding academic contributions.

Participants agreed that the symposium provided a high-level academic platform for researchers in plasma physics and fusion science, showcased the latest research achievements, and fostered interdisciplinary collaboration, which will effectively promote continued innovation and development in the field.

Conference Program

April9^th, 2026Thursday
Venue			Zhejiang Narada Grand Hotel, Hangzhou （No. 122, Shuguang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China）
Registration			13:00-21:00, Zhejiang Narada Grand Hotel Lobby
Dinner			18:00-20:00
April10^th, 2026Friday
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
8:30-9:40	OpeningCeremony						Guoyong Fu
9:40-10:00	Group Photo & Coffee Break
Session Ⅰ：Fundamental processes in plasmas in honor of Prof. Liu Chen
Session Ⅰ-1
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
10:00-10:25 talk #1	Physics of Alfvén waves and energetic particles in fusion plasmas.pdf				Fulvio Zonca ENEA Research Centre, Italy & ZJU		Wulv Zhong
10:25-10:50 talk #2	Zonal flows from tokamak to stellarator.pdf				Zhihong Lin UC Irvine
10:50-11:15 talk #3	Theory and modeling of nonlinear spectrum evolution and density limit by parametric instabilities during the injection of lower hybrid waves.pdf				Zhe Gao Tsinghua University
11:15-11:40 talk #4	Drift wave solitons and zonal flows implications for staircase formation.pdf				Zhiyong Qiu Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:40-12:05 talk #5	On How Zonal Fields Suppress Reversed Shear Alfvén Eigenmode in Tokamak Plasmas Simulation and Theory.pdf				Ruirui Ma Southwestern Institute of Physics
12:15-14:00	Lunch Break
Session Ⅰ-2
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
14:00-14:25 talk #6	A statistical theory of interaction between a pump Alfvén wave and backgroundturbulence				Hogun Jhang Korea Institute of Fusion Energy		Wenlu Zhang
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
14:25-14:50 talk #7	Study of Low-Frequency Core-Edge Coupling in KSTAR Double-Peaked Fishbone Observations and Numerical Analyses.pdf				Andreas Bierwage National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology		Wenlu Zhang
14:50-15:15 talk #8	Nonlinear interplay of zonal structures, ion temperature gradient modes, and energetic particles, in tokamaks				Alessandro Biancalani De Vinci Higher Education, De Vinci Research Center		Wenlu Zhang
15:15-15: 35	Coffee break
Session Ⅰ-3
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
15:35-16:00 talk #9	Frequency Chirping of Chorus Waves in Space Plasmas				Xin Tao University of Science and Technology of China		Dejin Wu
16:00-16:25 talk #10	A Scheme for Reconstructing Diagnostic Data Based on Compressed Sensing Theory.pdf				Haotian Chen Southwestern Institute of Physics
16:25-16:50 talk #11	A Scheme for Reconstructing Diagnostic Data Based on Compressed Sensing Theory.pdf				Liu Chen UC Irvine / ZJU
18:00-20:00	Banquet
April11^th, 2026Saturday
Session Ⅱ: Transport in tokamaks and stellarators
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
8:30-8:55 talk #12	A Unified View of Neoclassical Transport in 3D Magnetic Configurations.pdf				Xavier Garbet NTU/CEA		Shaojie Wang
8:55-9:20 talk #13	Develop Particle-Orbit-Tracking Model for Tokamak Burning Plasmas.pdf				Zhengxiong Wang Dalian University of Technology
9:20-9:45 talk #14	The power of integrated gyrokinetic studies toward predictive understanding of drift-wave microinstabilities and transport in tokamaks.pdf				Yong Xiao Zhejiang University
9:45-10:10 talk #15	Characterizing the Transport Properties of Quasi-symmetric Stellarators from Their Equivalent Tokamaks.pdf				Hongxuan Zhu Zhejiang University
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
Session III: Astro and space physics
10:30-10:55 talk #16	High-field physics in neutron-star radio emissions.pdf				Hui-chun Wu Zhejiang University		Jiquan Li
10:55-11:20 talk #17	The Rate of Magnetic Reconnection in a Non-steady State.pdf				Quanming Lu University of Science and Technology of China		Jiquan Li
11:20-11:45 talk #18	Effective Resistivity for Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection.pdf				Haowei Zhang Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics		Jiquan Li
12:00-14:00	Lunch Break
Session Ⅳ: Inertial confinement fusion
Time	Title				Name /Affiliation		Chair
14:00-14:25 talk #19	Advances in the Physics and Target Design of the Double-Cone Ignition Scheme for Inertial Confinement Fusion				Zhengming Sheng Shanghai Jiao Tong University		Baifei Shen
14:25-14:50 talk #20	Characteristics of shock waves and interfacial instabilities in plasmas.pdf				Hongbo Cai Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics
14:50– 15:15 talk #21	Approaches to Enhanced Fusion Energy Gain.pdf				Zhengmao Sheng Zhejiang University
15:15-15:35	Coffee Break
15:35-17:35	Poster Session
18:00-20:00	Dinner
April12^th, 2026Sunday
Session Ⅴ: Transport barrier
Time		Title		Name /Affiliation		Chair
8:30-8:55 talk #22		Linear and nonlinear dynamics in magnetic-shear free plasmas leading to ITBs.pdf		Yasuaki Kishimoto Kyoto Univ.		Yunfeng Liang
8:55-9:20 talk #23		NLT simulation of the internal transport barrier formation.pdf		Shaojie Wang University of Science and Technology of China
9:20-9:45 talk #24		Particle and heat transport induced by drift- Alfvén wave in I-mode pedestal plasmas.pdf		Lu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
9:45-10:05		Coffee Break
Session VI: Super-conducting tokamaks and MHD instabilities
Time		Title		Name /Affiliation		Chair
10:05-10:30 talk #25		Comparison between tokamaks with high-temperature and low-temperature superconducting coils.pdf		Guosheng Xu Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences		Zhiwei Ma
10:30-10:55 talk #26		Centrifugal Force Driven Low frequency modes in Spherical Tokamak		Guangzhou Hao Southwestern Institute of Physics		Zhiwei Ma
Time		Title		Name /Affiliation		Chair
10:55-11:20 talk #27		Development of a Surrogate Model for Large-Scale Tokamak Numerical Simulations Based on Integrated Deep Learning Methods		Wei Zhang Zhejiang University		Zhiwei Ma
11:30-14:00		Lunch Break
Session VII: Energetic particle-driven instabilities, EP transport and EP interaction with turbulence
Time		Title		Name /Affiliation		Chair
14:00-14:25 talk #28		Multiscale Synergies in Fusion Plasmas Turbulence, MHD Modes, Fast Particles, and Alfvénic Instabilities.pdf		Oleksiy Mishchenko Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics		Youwen Sun
14:25-14:50 talk #29		Toward Predictive Energetic Particle Transport.pdf		Matteo Valerio Falessi ENEA
14:50-15:15 talk #30		Nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode by self-organized zonal fields.pdf		Jian Bao Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:15-15:35		coffee break
Session VIII: MHD and energetic particles
Time		Title		Name /Affiliation		Chair
15:35-16:00 talk #31		Optimization of ELM control using RMPs with minimal fast-ion loss.pdf		Youwen Sun Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences		Zhiyong Qiu
16:00-16:25 talk #32		Investigation of double frequency Fishbone in EAST with neutral beam injection.pdf		Wei Shen Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:25-16:50 talk #33		Electron modelling for MHD simulation in fusion plasmas.pdf		Dongjian Liu Sichuan University
16:50-17:20		Closing Ceremony

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