In this episode, the second on the theme of nuclear fusion, I meet with Simon Pinches. Simon works at ITER at the test reactor site in Cadarache, near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. As section leader of the modelling and simulation team, he is responsible for crucial parts of the software. Contributions to the code (e.g. IMAS) are made from a wide range of different sources and we talk about how he manages to bring and keep it all together.

Here a few links

• https://www.iter.org ITER
• https://www.euro-fusion.org/ European Fusion Consortium
• https://conferences.iaea.org/event/251/contributions/20713/attachments/11191/16492/IMAS%20Tutorial%20-%20Pinches.pdf Introduction to the Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS)
• https://indico.euro-fusion.org/event/1246/sessions/728/attachments/1988/3798/IMAS_introduction_ACH_20210920.pdf The IMAS Data Dictionary: an introduction
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010465597001070 IMAS Integrated Modeling and Analysis System for the solution of optimal control problems
• https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020APS..DPPJ10009M/abstract
  OMAS: A Python Library to Interface with the ITER Integrated Modeling and Analysis Suite (IMAS)
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09198 The initial step towards JOREK integration in IMAS

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