Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2015 Fall Semester
August 2015
September 2015
- Monday, September 14th
- Jon Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg, hosted by UW
- Monday, September 21st
- Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Smaller and Sooner: Exploiting new superconductor technology to accelerate fusion's development
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by UW
- Monday, September 28th
- Carlos Paz Soldan, General Atomics
- Linear and non-linear 3D plasma response for tokamak control
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
October 2015
- Monday, October 5th
- Professor Jungyeon Cho, Chungnam National University, Korea
- Turbulence Dynamo and Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters.
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Paul Terry
- Monday, October 12th
- Kathreen Thome, Engineering Physics
- H-mode and ELM Studies at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Engineering Physics
- Monday, October 19th
- David Hatch, Institute for Fusion Studies, UT Austin,
- The JET-ILW Pedestal and the Fate of the H-mode
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by UW
- Monday, October 26th
- M.J. Pueschel, Physics, UW
- Badger Gyrokinetics: Recent Advances in Plasma Microturbulence
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Plasma Physics
November 2015
- Monday, November 2nd
- Oliver Schmitz, Engineering Physics, UW
- Enhanced helium exhaust due to resonant magnetic perturbations at the TEXTOR tokamak and the LHD heliotron“
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Paul Terry, UW
- Monday, November 9th
- Jay Anderson/Stefano Munaretto, UW Madison, Plasma Physics
- Dynamics of a reconnection-driven runaway ion tail in a reversed field pinch plasma/ Effect of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on 3D equilibria in the MST RFP
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Plasma Physics
- Monday, November 23rd
- Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Theory and Modeling of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Magnetic Reconnection
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by Jan Egedal, UW Physics
- Monday, November 30th
- Christopher Hansen, University of Washington
- MHD SIMULATIONS IN DEVICES WITH COMPLEX 3D BOUNDARIES: THE PSI-TET CODE AND ITS APPLICATION
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
December 2015
- Monday, December 7th
- John Goree, University of Iowa
- Dusty plasmas for fundamental physics, fusion, semiconductor manufacturing, and astronomy
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics, hosted by Paul Terry, UW
- Monday, December 14th
- Paul Terry, UW Madison
- Plasma Microinstability Saturation in Toroidal Plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg , hosted by UW Madison