Events During the 2024 Spring Semester
January 2024
- Monday, January 29th
- Prof. Andrew Christlieb, Michigan State University
- Challenges and opportunities associated with first principal optimal design of fusion energy systems
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
February 2024
- Monday, February 5th
- Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison
- Magnetohydrodynamics of tokamak disruptions
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
- Monday, February 12th
- Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, National Institute for Fusion Studies
- "Stellarator optimization through coil shaping"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, February 19th
- Noah Hurst, WiPPL, UW-Madison Physics Department
- "Coherent structures in non-neutral electron plasmas, 2D fluids, and beyond"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Physics
- Monday, February 26th
- Dr. Bhuvana Srinivasan, Director, PLASMAWISE Laboratory - Univ of Washington
- "From the laboratory to astrophysics: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by SOLIS
March 2024
- Monday, March 4th
- Dr. Chang Liu, PPPL (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: "Plasma instabilities associated with runaway electron beam and their potential influences”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
- Monday, March 11th
- Elizabeth Paul, Columbia University
- "Advances in optimization for stellarator design"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec and Prof. Chris Hegna
- Monday, March 18th
- Josh Sauppe, LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- "Cylindrical Implosion Experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
April 2024
- Monday, April 1st
- Ryan Sweeney, MIT PSFC/CFS
- “Disruption physics gaps encountered in the SPARC design pertinent to the design of the ARC power plant”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
- Monday, April 8th
- Florian Effenberg, PPPL
- “Controlling plasma-material interactions with real-time powdered material injection”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Dr, hosted by Prof. Oliver Schmitz and Prof. Carl Sovinec
- Monday, April 15th
- Manaure Francisquez, PPPL
- “Continuum gyrokinetic study of high-field mirror fusion plasmas”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Cary Forest and Prof. Carl Sovinec
- Monday, April 22nd
- Frank Jenko, IPP
- "Advancing Fusion Research through Virtual Design"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Carl Sovinec
May 2024