Seminars at the psfc

Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

All Seminars are on Friday at 3PM,unless otherwise noted.
NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge

For further information, info@psfc.mit.edu

February 17

Odd Eric Garcia
MIT

Turbulence and transport in scrape-off plasmas

February 24

Regina Sullivan

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Plasma-surface interactions in thrusters and tokamaks

March 2

Saskia Mordijck
College of William and Mary
Experimental changes in particle transport from resonant magnetic
perturbations (RMPs) in DIII-D

March 9

Michael Brown
Swarthmore College

Turbulence and relaxation studies in an MHD wind tunnel

March 16

Serguei Ovtchinnikov
SAIC
Modeling of high-current electron beam lithography systems

March 23

George Sips
JET
Latest results from JET and the integrated Operation Scenario Topical Group

April 13

David Gates

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Origin of Greenwald density limit

April 20

George McKee
General Atomic
Long-wavelength turbulelnce investigations in DIII-D

April 27

Stephen Jardin
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Simulation of sawteeth and other global tokamak dynamics on the transport time scale

May 4

Merav Opher
Boston University
The heliosheath as a giant reconnection laboratory

May 11

Chris Holcomb
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steady-state scenario development on DIII-D with off-axis neutral beam injection

May 18

Dmitri Ryutov
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Snowflake Diverter