Events During the 2023 Fall Semester
August 2023
September 2023
- Monday, September 11th
- Dr. Nick Murphy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Making plasma science open
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, September 18th
- Dr. Royce James, US Coast Guard
- "Rising Tides Lift all Boats: Fusion Energy Science, Plasma, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA)...
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, September 25th
- Prof. Cary Forest, UW-Madison Physics/ Realta
- The high-field, compact mirror path to fusion
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
October 2023
- Monday, October 2nd
- Thomas Pederson, Type One Energy
- The High-field Stellarator Path to Fusion Energy pursued by Type One Energy
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, October 9th
- Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- “Some Recent Developments of Compressible MHD Turbulence with Applications to Space and Astrophysical Plasmas”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, October 16th
- Alex Sainterme, UW-Madison
- Fluid Modeling of Runaway Electron Beams
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, October 23rd
- Noah Hurst, UW-Madison
- Non-disruptive tokamak operation far beyond traditional safety factor and density limits
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
November 2023
- Monday, November 6th
- Prof. Ulrich Stroth, IPP Garching, Germany
- On the physical principles of power exhaust and novel divertor solutions for tokamak fusion reactors
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, November 13th
- Antonio Coelho, EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, France
- Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, November 20th
- Benjamin Faber, UW-Madison
- “Results and Future Directions of the HSX stellarator“
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; Note: change of location - 1325 Computer Science, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, November 27th
- Dr. Jan W. Coenen, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-4), Juelich, Germany; and UW-Madison
- “The Challenge of Fusion - Being Caught between Plasma and Wall"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
December 2023
- Monday, December 4th
- Dr. Jean-Paul Allain, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) Associate Director
- Dept of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Town Hall
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem
- Monday, December 11th
- Dr. Troy Carter, Director of Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) at UCLA
- Fusion-relevant studies using the LAPD: ICRF and mirror physics
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Steffi Diem