Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
- Thursday, January 22nd
- Xu Chu , PPPL
- Nonlinear Saturation of Ballooning Modes in Stellarators
- 1:00 pm; Sterling Hall B343, hosted by Tony Qian
- Monday, January 26th
- Professor Misha Khodak , University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Efficiently Learning Linear System Solvers for Fast Numerical Simulation
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; EH 1227
February 2026
- Monday, February 2nd
- Dr. David Gates, Thea Energy
- Helios Design: A Practical Planar Coil Stellarator Fusion Power Plant
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Monday, February 23rd
- Dr. Wrick Sengupta , Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Optical analogy for stellarators: Ridges as caustics and coils as singularities
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227
March 2026
- Monday, March 2nd
- Dr. Daniel Andruczyk, University of Illinois at Urbanan-Champaign
- The Case for Using Liquid Lithium for Low Recycling Fusion Reactor Operations and Why the Sun Works!
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall 1227 , hosted by Stephanie Diem
- Monday, March 9th
- Prof. Marien Simeni, University of Minnesota
- Versatile Nonlinear Laser-based Diagnostics for High Spatio-temporal Measurements in High to Low Pressure Plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Monday, March 16th
- Prof. Mike Brown , Swarthmore College
- Title: BC
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227
- Monday, March 23rd
- Joshua W. Burby, University of Texas at Austin
- Statistical equilibrium model for stellarators
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall 1227
April 2026
- Monday, April 6th
- Professor Steven Cowley, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Explosive Instability in Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227 , hosted by Stephanie J. Diem
- Monday, April 20th
- Dr. Tess Bernard, General Atomics
- Effects of magnetic geometry and neutrals in gyrokinetic simulations of magnetized boundary plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Engineering Hall - 1227 , hosted by Stephanie J. Diem
May 2026