Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2019 Spring Semester
January 2019
- Monday, January 28th
- Piero Martin, University of Padova and Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy
- The new Divertor Tokamak Test facility project
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
February 2019
- Monday, February 4th
- Per Helander, Max Plank Institue for Plasma Physics
- Available energy of magnetically confined plasmas
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 13th
- Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Lab
- Fusion concept exploration and basic plasma shock research on the Plasma Liner Experiment at Los Alamos
- 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 18th
- Philip Bonofiglo, UW-Madison
- Energetic Particle Physics in the 3D Reversed-Field Pinch
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 25th
- Emily Lichko , UW Madison
- Quantifying heating by magnetic pumping through in situ spacecraft observations
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
March 2019
- Monday, March 4th
- Lucas Morton, UW-Madison
- Ion-scale turbulence in the presence of a large magnetic island
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, March 11th
- John O'Bryan, University of Washington-Seattle
- Numerical modeling of magnetic self-organization at the top of the solar convection zone
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, March 18th
- spring break
- Monday, March 25th
- Zach Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics
- On The Interactions of Magnetic Fluctuations, Zonal Flows, and Microturbulence in Fusion Plasmas
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
April 2019
- Monday, April 1st
- John Finn, Tibbar Plasma Technologies
- Electrostatically driven helical plasma state
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 8th
- Prabal Chattopadhyay, Institute for Plasma Research (India)
- Observation of nonlinear coupling between Kelvin-Helmholtz and drift wave instability in IMPED
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 15th
- Hiroshi Gota, TAE Technologies
- Overview of TAE Technologies’ Norman/C-2W Field-Reversed Configuration Experiments
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 22nd
- Professor David C. Donovan, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK)
- Diagnosing impurity transport in the scrape-off layer of DIII-D using outer-midplane collector probes with isotopically enriched tungsten tracer particles
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 29th
- Martin Greenwald, MIT
- SPARC and the high-field, privately-funded path to fusion energy
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
May 2019