Events During the 2022 Fall Semester
August 2022
September 2022
- Monday, September 12th
- Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle University
- Formation and Particle Acceleration in Large-Scale Diamagnetic Cavities at the Boundary of Earth’s Magnetic Shield
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Benedikt Geiger
- Monday, September 19th
- Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison
- Challenges towards the engineering solution of fusion Blanket and Shield
- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Benedikt Geiger
- Monday, September 26th
- Philip Drews, Heinrich-Heine-Universitä Düsseldorf
- The plasma edge and beyond: application of plasma edge diagnostics at W7-X
- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Benedikt Geiger
October 2022
- Monday, October 3rd
- Bill Heidbrink, UC-Irvine
- Prospects for experiments to measure the lifetime of spin polarized fuel
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Benedikt Geiger
- Monday, October 10th
- Saskia Mordic, William & Mary
- The plasma density as the main lever to controlling fusion reactors
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Monday, October 24th
- Jens von der Linden, IPP Garching
- Exploring the new electron-positron plasma frontier: the annihilation signature of cold magnetically-confined pairs and accessing the relativistic and magnetized regime
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Monday, October 31st
- George McKee, UW Madison
- Isotope Mass Dependence of Turbulence and Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on DIII-D
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
November 2022
- Monday, November 7th
- Matt Landreman, University of Maryland
- The magnetic field scale length: an influential property of stellarators
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Thursday, November 10th
- U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E Program Director, et al., U.S. DOE
- Let's Talk Fusion Energy
- 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium, hosted by Oliver Schmitz
- Monday, November 14th
- Mel Abler, Space Science Institute
- Characterization of Intermittency and Energy Transfer via Three-Wave Coupling in a Turbulent Dipole Plasma
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Plasma Physics Group
- Monday, November 21st
- Liz Merritt, Los Alamos National Lab
- High-Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement Fusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Plasma Physics/ECE/NE 922 seminar
- Monday, November 28th
- Sophia Henneberg, IPP Greifswald
- Advanced Approaches in Stellarator Optimization
- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by ECE/NE/PHYSICS 922 Seminar in Plasma Physics
December 2022
- Monday, December 5th
- Professor Emeritus James D. Callen, UW-Madison
- Disruptive Tearing Modes In DIII-D IBS Discharges
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Monday, December 12th
- Philip Schneider, IPP Garching
- Heat and particle transport in the JET DT2 campaign
- 12:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by ECE/NE/PHYSICS 922 Seminar in Plasma Physics