Speaker
Zorah Lähner
(University of Bonn)
Description
Plasma fusion has the potential to provide an efficient and safe energy source, however, several technological challenges still remain before fusion reactors can be realized at large scale. One promising direction is called stellarator in which the plasma is guided into a possibly complex equilibrium flow by magnetic fields. The optimal form for this flow is still unknown and only very sparse data about different configurations is known. The problem can be formulated as a geometry optimization problem of the surface of a torus. In this talk, I will give an introduction to the topic and present the technical challenges and open problems.
