Events During the 2024 Fall Semester
August 2024
September 2024
- Monday, September 9th
- Dmitry Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- First plasma experiments in WHAM
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Cary Forest
- Monday, September 16th
- Prof. Michael Mauel, Columbia University
- Hot Electron Instabilities in Magnetic Mirrors and Dipoles
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Cary Forest
- Monday, September 23rd
- Alexis Wolfmeister, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Experimental and Modeling Results from the HSX Stellarator
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
- Monday, September 30th
- April Novak, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- High-Fidelity Multiphysics for Nuclear Engineering
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff and Paul Wilson (NEEP)
October 2024
- Monday, October 14th
- Bill Capecchi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Improved NBI and diagnostics on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment-β
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
- Monday, October 21st
- Prof. Uri Shumlak, University of Washington-Seattle and ZAP Energy
- Thermonuclear Fusion in a Stabilized Z Pinch and Integration into a Technology Demonstrator
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
- Monday, October 28th
- Sam Frank, Realta Fusion
- Realta Fusion's axisymmetric mirror development program
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
November 2024
- Monday, November 4th
- James Juno, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- A novel parallel-kinetic-perpendicular moment model for magnetized plasmas
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Vladimir Zhadankin and John Sarff
- Monday, November 11th
- Alex Creely, Common Wealth Fusion Systems
- The Physics of SPARC and ARC: Predictive Results and Open Questions
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
- Monday, November 18th
- Aaron Tran, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Drift-cyclotron loss cone instability in 3D kinetic-ion simulations of WHAM
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Monday, November 25th
- Sasha Philippov, University of Maryland and SCEECS
- TBD
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by John Sarff
December 2024
- Monday, December 2nd
- Elizabeth Tolman, Flat Iron Institute
- TBD
- 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Vladimir Zhadankin, John Sarff
- Richard Nebel, Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc
- Advanced Fuel Oscillating Fusion Reactor
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 106 Engineering Research Building (access via Materials Science Building), hosted by John Sarff