The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna, Austria) is organizing a Conference on Models and Data for Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices.

The conference will bring together researchers from fusion energy science and materials science in order to review advances in computational studies of plasma-material interaction processes and evolution of material microstructure in fusion devices, including effects of radiation damage and with special interest in hydrogen (tritium) trapping and transport in wall material.

More information and subscriptions are possible via the website of the 2014 ICTP-IAEA conference. Deadline for registration is June 23, 2014.

The conference programme will emphasize uses of the more fundamental computational tools (based on quantum mechanics) and parameterization of results from such tools in the form of interaction potentials and transition rates for applied studies. Specific topics include the following.

• Direct uses of ab initio and semi-empirical quantum mechanical codes for study of materials microstructure, trapping and transport of hydrogen and helium in fusion wall materials.
• Optimization of parameters in semi-empirical codes and parameterization of results of quantum mechanical calculations in the form of interaction potentials and transition rates for classical models.
• Molecular Dynamics, Binary Collision Approximation and Kinetic Monte Carlo studies of plasma-material interaction, radiation damage processes and material and surface evolution.
• Multi-method and multi-scale simulations; acceleration approaches.
• Uncertainty estimation and uncertainty propagation from quantum mechanical calculations through interaction potentials to outputs of longer time-scale calculations.
• Parameterization of material microstructure and its effect on mobility and trapping of hydrogen and helium in fusion wall materials.
• Simulation and interpretation of diagnostics of material microstructure, radiation damage, hydrogen and helium in fusion materials and plasma-material interaction

Participants will be active researchers in the subject area of the conference and a scientific contribution (talk or poster) is expected from each participant.