Invited Talks at International Conferences

I was the first-author presenter of all invited talks listed.

1. QH-Mode in DIII-D as a Potential ITER Burning Plasma Regime, Invited talk, ITPA-Integrated Operating Scenarios Fall Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France, 28-31 October, 2024.
2. Results of the 2022 U.S. Joint Research Target on Intrinsically Non-ELMing Enhanced Confinement Regimes, Invited Paper, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, Colorado, October 30-November 3, 2023.
3. Recent Experiments and Simulations to Develop Intrinsically Non-ELMing Enhanced Confinement Regimes, 2023 European Physical Society Plasma Physics Conference, Bordeaux, France, July 3-7, 2023. (overview of 2022 Joint Research Target)
4. New Developments in Wide Pedestal QH-Mode Transport from Core to SOL, Plenary Talk, 2022 U.S.-E.U. Transport Task Force Meeting, Santa Rosa, California, April 5-8, 2022.
5. FY22 JRT Progress, Plans and Discussion: Intrinsically ELM-stable Enhanced Confinement Regimes, 2022 Edge Coordinating Committee Meeting, Santa Rosa, California, April 6, 2022.
6. Favorable Core and Pedestal Transport Properties of the Wide Pedestal QH-Mode Regime, Invited Paper, 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 9-13, 2020. Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 65(11), NI02.6.
7. Favorable Transport Properties of the Wide Pedestal QH-Mode Regime, Invited Talk, 2019 US Transport Task Force Workshop, Austin, Texas, March 18-21, 2019.
8. Viability of Wide Pedestal QH-Mode for Burning Plasma Operation, Proc. 27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Gandhinagar, India, October 22 – 27, 2018, IAEA-CN-258/EX/2-2. 
9. Partnership for Multiscale Gyrokinetic Turbulence – FASTMath and RAPIDS Applications, invited talk, FASTMath All-Hands meeting, Argonne National Laboratory (2018).
10. Observation of Discrete, Coherent Trapped Electron Modes in DIII-D QH-Mode Plasmas with Strong Electron Heating and Validation of Gyrokinetic Simulations, 21st EU-US Transport Task Force meeting (5-8 Sept 2016, Leysin, Switzerland). Plenary talk in session “Validation of fundamental turbulence properties against turbulence measurements”.
11. Role of Density Gradient Driven TEM Turbulence in H-Mode Inner Core with Strong Electron Heating, Invited Speaker, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 16-20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, Paper NI3.3, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 60(19) (2015).
12. Controlling H-Mode Particle Transport with Modulated Electron Heating in DIII-D and Alcator C-Mod via TEM Turbulence, in Proc. 2014 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, invited oral paper IAEA-CN-221/EX/2-3.
13. Nonlinear Upshift of the TEM Critical Density Gradient: Simulation and Experiment, Invited Speaker, 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Providence, Rhode Island, October 29, 2012. Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 57 (12) 105 (2012).
14. Nonlinear Upshift of the TEM Critical Density Gradient: Experiments and Simulation, Plenary Session, US Transport Task Force Workshop, Annapolis, Maryland, April 10-13, 2012.
15. Role of zonal flows in trapped electron mode turbulence through nonlinear gyrokinetic particle and continuum simulation, APS Invited Paper YI2.3, 50th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 17-21, 2008.
16. Role of zonal flows in TEM turbulence through nonlinear gyrokinetic particle and continuum simulation, 22nd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, TH/P8-39 (2008).
17. Direct Observation of TEM Turbulence and Nonlinear Upshift of TEM Critical Density Gradient, oral presentation, 2007 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Annapolis, April 23 – 25, 2007.
18. Identification of TEM Turbulence through Direct Comparison of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations with Phase Contrast Imaging Density Fluctuation Measurements, Proc. 21st IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Chengdu, China, oral paper IAEA-CN-149/TH/1-3 (2006).
19. Recent Progress in the Theory and Simulation of Electron Transport, Invited plenary review talk, 11th EU-US International Transport Task Force Workshop, Marseille, France, September 4-7, 2006. 
20. Mechanisms for ITB Formation and Control in Alcator C-Mod Identified through Gyrokinetic Simulations of TEM Turbulence, Proc. 20th Int’l. Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal, 1-6 November 2004, oral paper IAEA-CN-116/TH/4-1.
21. MIT PSFC Theory Cluster, invited oral presentation, Special session on Cluster Architecture, 2005 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Stateline, Nevada, USA, Apr 11-13, 2005.
22. Gyrokinetic Simulations of Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence in Alcator C-Mod Internal Transport Barriers, Invited Oral presentation, Sherwood International Fusion Theory Conference, Missoula, Montana, April 26-28, 2004.
23. Role of trapped electron mode turbulence in internal transport barrier control in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak, APS Invited Paper UI1.05, 45th American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, 2003.
24. Enhanced Confinement without Bifurcations or Transitions and the Role of ExB Shear in Confinement Scalings, Advances Toward Steady State Regimes with Internal Transport Barriers, IEA Three Large Tokamak Workshop (W41), JET Facility, Oxon, UK, June 22, 1999.
25. Transitionless Enhanced Confinement and the Role of Radial Electric Field Shear, APS Invited Paper J5I1.04, 40th American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 16-20 November, 1998.
26. The Unifying Role of Radial Electric Field Shear in the Confinement Trends of Transitionless Regimes in TFTR, 17th Int’l. Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 19-24 October 1998, Paper IAEA-CN-69/EXP1/14(R). Rapporteured oral presentation.
27. Radial Electric Field and Model for TFTR Supershot Confinement, plenary session, 1998 DOE National Transport Task Force Meeting, March 18-20, 1998, Atlanta, GA.