Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2021 Spring Semester
January 2021
- Monday, January 25th
- Rajesh Maingi and Andrei Khodak, PPPL
- Status and progress in the domestic liquid metal plasma-facing component design program
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting, hosted by Chris Hegna
February 2021
- Monday, February 1st
- Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL
- Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders
- 12:00 pm, Join Zoom Meeting https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91835419103?pwd=YXhDdGlFeEZtc0c0MlZySUp0Q1FrUT09, hosted by Chris Hegna
- Monday, February 8th
- Aaron Bader, UW-Madison
- Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting, hosted by Chris Hegna
- Monday, February 15th
- Bob Wilcox, ORNL
- Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting, hosted by Chris Hegna
- Monday, February 22nd
- Richard Buttery, GA
- DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy
- 12:00 pm, Zoom, hosted by Chris Hegna
March 2021
- Monday, March 1st
- Matt Beidler, ORNL
- Predicting runaway electron generation, confinement, and mitigation at ORNL
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, March 8th
- Prof. Zach Hartwig, MIT
- Progress on high-field HTS magnets for SPARC, a compact net-energy fusion tokamak
- 12:00 pm, Zoom
- Monday, March 15th
- Prof. Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
- Magnetically dominated plasma turbulence
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, March 22nd
- Prof. Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Fusion plasma physics issues for tokamak DEMOnstration reactors
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, March 29th
- Prof. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Univ of Maryland-Baltimore County
- The Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment (CMFX): Parameter Space Design, Diagnostics and Construction Process
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
April 2021
- Monday, April 5th
- Dr. Stefan Gerhardt, PPPL
- NSTX-U Recovery — Motivation and Progress Toward the Resumption of Plasma Operations
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, April 12th
- Prof. Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
- Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, April 19th
- Prof. Troy Carter, UCLA
- Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
- Monday, April 26th
- K A Lynch, Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy, for the ARCS team
- Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: a Heliophysics mission concept for decoding the aurora
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting
May 2021
- Monday, May 3rd
- Prof. David Larbalestier, Florida State University
- Lessons learned from Pushing REBCO coated conductor coils from 30 to 45 Tesla
- 12:00 pm, Zoom Meeting