Events

PSFC Seminars

Seminars are currently being held as hybrid events.
For further information & zoom link: jscarborough@psfc.mit.edu
PSFC address: NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge

Mar 11, 2016

High performance computing of HED physics: Advanced acceleration and ICF

Warren Mori

UCLA

3:00pm | NW17-218

Mar 11, 2016

Efficient and market-based thermal energy storage of renewable energy

David Baldwin

SunLight Power, Inc.

11:00am | NW17-218

Feb 24, 2016

Challenge by HTS Helical Fusion Reactor

Nagato Yanagi

National Institute for Fusion Science

11:00am

Feb 18, 2016

Stellarator confinement of fusion plasmas

Allen Boozer

Columbia University

11:00am | NW17-218

Jan 13, 2016

NIF- an unexpected journey, lessons learned to secure "Projects of Scale", and the future of ICF Research

Mike Campbell

Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

2:00pm | NW17-218

Dec 18, 2015

Compact, reliable and robust high-temperature superconducting magnets

Seungyong Hahn

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University

3:00pm | NW17-218

Dec 18, 2015

Acoustically-Driven Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion

Dr. Michel Laberge

General Fusion

Dr. Michel Laberge is a physicist and engineer with widespread practical experience in plasma physics and modern plasma diagnostic techniques.

11:00am | NW17-218

Dec 11, 2015

Landau damping and phase mixing in strongly turbulent plasmas

William Dorland

University of Maryland

Professor Dorland will present theoretical and numerical evidence for the limits of Landau damping — perhaps the most essentially kinetic phenomenon in plasma physics.

3:00pm | NW17-218

Dec 4, 2015

Chasing Fast Dynamos and other Pursuits in the Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory

Cary Forest

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cary Forest will give an overview a range of astrophysical experiments including experiments on self-exciting dynamos, collisionless magnetic reconnection, angular momentum transport and plasma wind generation.

3:00pm | NW17-218

Nov 23, 2015

TCV studies on alternative divertor configurations

Wouter Vijvers

FOM-Institute DIFFER

Dr. Wouter Vijvers will provide an overview of recent research results on alternative divertors, obtained on the TCV tokamak in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2:30pm | NW17-218

Nov 13, 2015