Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2014 Fall Semester
August 2014
September 2014
- Monday, September 8th
- John Edwards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- In pursuit of Ignition - recent progress and directions at the National Ignition Facility
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building, hosted by Carl Sovinec
- Eric Howell, University of Wisconsin Madison
- A parametric study of extended MHD effects on interchange modes in spheromak equilibria
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Monday, September 15th
- Brian Victor, University of Washington
- Part I: Sustained spheromaks with ideal n = 1 kink stability and pressure confinement and Part II: The development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Monday, September 22nd
- Guo-Yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Kinetic-fluid hybrid simulation of energetic particle interaction with MHD instabilities in toroidal plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Monday, September 29th
- Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute
- Coherent structures and magnetic reconnection in collisionless turbulence from the perspective of kinetic particle simulations
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by Dr Stanislav Boldyrev
October 2014
- Monday, October 6th
- Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Chaotic coordinates for the Large Helical Device
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Monday, October 13th
- Igor Golovkin, Prism Computational Sciences
- Radiation Physics in HEDP (High Energy Density Plasma) Experiments, Typical Applications and Modeling Tools
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by Center for Plasma Physics and Computation
- Monday, October 20th
- Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by Center for Plasma Physics and Computation
- Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by Center for Plasma Physics and Computation
November 2014
- Monday, November 3rd
- Tyler Rowe, UW ECE
- Metamaterial-enhanced resistive wall amplifiers
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by CPTC
- Monday, November 10th
- David Smithe, Tech-X Corporation
- 3D Modeling of RF Antennas, Sheaths, and Slow Waves in Time Domain
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by CPTC
- Monday, November 17th
- Stefano Munaretto, UW Physics
- Control of 3D equilibria with RMP in MST
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by CPTC
- Monday, November 24th
- Brian Albright, LANL
- Progress on the generation and application of ion beams driven by high-intensity short-pulse lasers
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 514 ERB, hosted by CPTC
December 2014
- Monday, December 1st
- Carl Sovinec, UW
- A retrospective on Dalton Schnack's contributions to plasma science
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by CPTC
- Monday, December 8th
- Boris Breizman, The University of Texas at Austin
- Relativistic runaway electrons
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by CPTC