Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2025 Spring Semester
January 2025
- Monday, January 27th
- Michael Gerard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- "Optimizing a quasi-helically-symmetric stellarator for reduced TEM-driven transport"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
February 2025
- Monday, February 3rd
- David Bindel, Cornell University
- "Learning magnetic field structure from trajectories"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, February 10th
- Adrian Fraser, University of Colorado - Boulder
- "Chemical mixing by stratified MHD turbulence in stars"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, February 17th
- Anna Tenerani, University of Texas at Austin
- "Solar wind turbulence in the young solar wind"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Adelle Wright
- Monday, February 24th
- Jack Hare, Cornell University
- "Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments on the Z Machine"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof.Adelle Wright
March 2025
- Monday, March 3rd
- Michael Churchill, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- "Multi-fidelity digital models for fusion energy device optimization, design, and operation"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, March 10th
- Ionut Farcas, Virginia Tech
- "Structure-exploiting sparse grid approximations for efficient uncertainty quantification and surrogate model construction"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, March 17th
- Enrique Miralles-Dolz , PPPL/UW-Madison
- "Uncertainty quantification in fusion power plant design”
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, March 31st
- Tess Bernard, General Atomics
- Effects of magnetic geometry and neutrals in gyrokinetic simulations of magnetized boundary plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
April 2025
- Monday, April 14th
- Cole Stephen, University of Texas at Austin
- "A Ritz variational principle for local collisionless gyrokinetic instabilities"
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
- Monday, April 21st
- Luis Chacon , Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Modeling (mis)adventures with the extremely anisotropic heat transport equation in fusion-grade magnetized plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- Monday, April 28th
- Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete, University of Texas at Austin
- A Generative Artificial Intelligence framework for long-time plasma turbulence simulations
- 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall, hosted by Prof. Adelle Wright
May 2025