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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
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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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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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
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   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
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   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
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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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   Monday, April 29th
David Hosking, Princeton University
“Metastability of stratified magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and their relaxation”
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Vladimir Zhdankin and Prof. Carl Sovinec
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May 2024