Seminars at the psfc

PSFC 2008 Spring Seminar Series

All Seminars on Friday at 3:00 PM, unless other noted, NW 17-218, 175 Albany St., Cambridge.

For more information: info@psfc.mit.edu

Alberto Loarte
Senior Scientific Officer, Transport and Confinement Physics, ITER
Physics Basis for the Determination of Steady-State and Transient
Edge Power/Particle Fluxes in ITER

1:00 PM, February 8

Mike Kotschenreuther
Institute of Fusion Studies, Univ. Texas at Austin
SOL Widths: What Determines Them, and Why They are Important

Tuesday, February 12, 2:00 PM

Dr. Evgeny Velikhov
Theater Kurchatov Institute, Moscow
Global Energy Challenges of the XXI Century,
and World and Regional Nuclear Power

February 15, 2:00 PM, Bartos Theater

Bruce Lipschultz
Plasma Science & Fusion Center
Characteristics of D Retention in a High-Z Tokamak with Implications for ITER and Beyond
February 29

Otto Landen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Inertial Confinement Fusion on NIF: Physics and Challenges
March 7

Darren Garnier
Columbia University
The Joy of Levitation: Cooking Up a New Way to Confine Hot Plasma
April 4

Gennady Shvets
University of Texas at Austin
Accelerators of the Future: from Structures to Plasmas
April 11

James Drake
University of Maryland
Energetic Particle Production During Magnetic Reconnection
April 18

Russ Doerner
AM University of California, San Diego
Issues Associated with Codeposition in ITER; What to Expect

April 25, 2:00 PM

Gary Staebler
General Atomics
An Introduction to the Trapped Gyro-Landau Fluid Transport Model
May 2

Allen Boozer
Columbia University
Non-Axisymmetric Plasma Shaping: Fusion Applications and Physics
May 9

Richard Majeski
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Lithium Walls and Low Recycling: Results from CDX-U and Projections for LTX

May 16