ICDDPS-8Daejeon 2027

Program

Program

ICDDPS-8 runs from 5 to 9 April 2027 at KAIST in Daejeon. Plenary and invited speakers, the session structure and the daily timetable will be announced on this page.

Scientific scope

Topics

01

Fusion & real-time control

Disruption prediction, reinforcement-learning plasma control, tokamak surrogate transport models, KSTAR and ITER data

02

Processing & digital twins

Etch and deposition modelling, virtual metrology, run-to-run and chamber-matching control, semiconductor process data

03

Surrogates & differentiable physics

Neural operators, physics-informed networks, reduced-order models, uncertainty quantification, accelerated kinetic simulation

04

Diagnostics & inverse problems

Image and spectral analysis, tomography, sensor fusion, automated interpretation of high-rate diagnostic streams

05

Data infrastructure & benchmarks

FAIR data practice, cross-section and reaction databases, shared benchmarks, reproducibility in plasma ML

06

Foundation models & autonomous labs

LLM agents for experiment planning, self-driving plasma experiments, active learning and Bayesian optimisation

Format

In the tradition of the series

ICDDPS-8 is planned as a 4.5-day event following the shape of previous editions. The elements below describe that format; the ICDDPS-8 timetable is not yet fixed.

  • Four and a half days. The scientific programme runs from Monday to Friday lunchtime on a single track, so the whole meeting stays in one room.
  • Plenary and invited lectures. Plenary talks set the agenda across fusion, low-temperature and processing plasmas; invited speakers carry the depth within each topic.
  • Contributed talks and posters. Contributed talks and extended poster sessions are where most of the work is presented and discussed.
  • School of DDPS. A tutorial day for students and newcomers accompanies the main programme, in the tradition established by earlier editions.
  • Industry–academia session. A dedicated session brings process and equipment engineers into the same discussion as the modelling and machine-learning community.

The conference language is English. Recent editions have been accompanied by Physics of Plasmas special topics open to conference participants.

Still to be announced

What will follow

Call for abstracts
To be announced
Plenary and invited speakers
To be announced
School of DDPS
To be announced
Industry–academia session
To be announced
Timetable
To be announced