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SUMMARY:Helios Design: A Practical Planar Coil Stellarator Fusion Powe
 r Plant \, Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar\, Dr. David Gat
 es\, Thea Energy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Gates\, is the Chief Technology Officer at Thea 
 Energy\, a fusion technology company leveraging simpler\, manufacturab
 le hardware and software controls to create abundant energy. Since lau
 nching the company in 2022\, David has helped to grow the Thea Energy 
 team to over 70 employees and demonstrated the Company’s core techno
 logies at fusion relevant scale at its headquarters in Kearny\, NJ. Pr
 ior to co-founding Thea Energy\, Dr. Gates was the Head of the Advance
 d Projects Department of PPPL and the stellarator physics leader at th
 e Laboratory. He also held a joint appointment as a Senior Research Sc
 holar at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. David pr
 eviously led collaborative efforts with the Wendelstein 7-X stellarato
 r in Greifswald\, Germany and also on the Large Helical Device in Toki
 \, Japan. He served as the Principal Investigator of the ARPA-E projec
 t “Stellar Simplification using Permanent Magnets”.<br>\n<br>\nPri
 or to taking the role as stellarator leader\, he was the leader of the
  NSTX Advanced Scenarios and Control topical science group as well as 
 head of the Magneto-Hydrodynamic (“MHD”) Stability group. He also 
 was a Physics Operator on NSTX. David did his undergraduate studies in
  Physics and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and di
 d his graduate studies at Columbia University where he received his M.
 S.\, M. Phil.\, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics. He was a research associ
 ate at Culham Laboratory in Oxfordshire\, England from 1993-1997 where
  he worked on the COMPASS-D and START devices. David was a visiting pr
 ofessor at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Toki\, Japan i
 n 2010 and 2011. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society i
 n 2013. 
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