Talks and Posters

August 2026 - Plasma Kinetics Workshop, Wolfgang Pauli Institute

AI as a Research Assistant: Give your agent better tools

Talk in Vienna, Austria

A. S. Joglekar, P. Travis, J. Coughlin, M. Gupta, J. Brodrick

[Slides]


June 2026 - EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

Learning nonlocal closures for inverse bremsstrahlung absorption with universal differential equations

Poster in Edinburgh, UK

J. P. Brodrick, J. B. Coughlin, P. Travis, A. J. Crilly, A. S. Joglekar, A. Lavin

[Poster]


May 2026 - 54th Anomalous Absorption Conference

Spectral phase optimization of broadband lasers enhances absolute instability thresholds beyond the coherence time limit

Contributed Talk in Whitefish, MT

A. S. Joglekar, R. K. Follett, D. H. Froula, J. P. Palastro

Optimizing designs and including multiscale physics in an implosion code via differentiable simulation

Poster in Whitefish, MT

P. Travis, J. Brodrick, A. Crilly, J. Coughlin, A. Joglekar


May 2026 - IPAM Workshop on Fusion Device Design and Engineering

Differentiable, multi-fidelity simulation for integrated inertial fusion energy design

Invited Talk at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

[Slides] · [Video] · [Abstract]


December 2025 - Journal of Plasma Physics Colloquium

Finding new kinetic physics and developing fluid models for it using ML-augmented kinetic and fluid simulations

Invited Talk, Virtual

[Slides]


November 2025 - APS Division of Plasma Physics

Applying differentiable programming to experimental, theoretical, and computational plasma physics

Invited Talk

[Slides]


July 2025 - 16th Plasma Kinetics Workshop, Wolfgang Pauli Institute

Using differentiable simulations to tackle problems in fundamental plasma physics

Talk in Vienna, Austria

[Slides]


May 2025 - 53rd Anomalous Absorption Conference

Optimal bandwidth spectra for minimizing two-plasmon decay using fluid simulations and gradient-based optimization

Contributed Talk in Sedona, AZ

A. S. Joglekar, R. K. Follett, D. H. Froula, J. P. Palastro


July 2023 - ICML Workshop on SynS & ML

ADEPT: Automatic Differentiation Enabled Plasma Transport

Invited, Contributed Talk in Honolulu, HI


June 2023 - Anomalous Absorption Conference

Applying Differentiable Programming to Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Plasma Physics

Invited Talk in Mammoth Lakes, CA


May 2022 - International Conference on Plasma Science

Physics discovery using auto-didactic plasma physics simulations

Invited Talk in Seattle, WA


January 2022 - Laser Plasma Accelerators Workshop on Control Systems and Machine Learning

Cloud Computing Platform for experimental data collection and post-processing

Invited Talk, Virtual