PSFC Seminar Series: Spring 2025
PSFC Seminar Series: Spri...
Seminars & In-Person Events

PSFC Seminar Series: Spring 2025

We are excited to announce the continuation of our popular PSFC Seminar Series in the upcoming spring semester. Please see below for this semester’s schedule of speakers. As with last semester, seminars will be held on Fridays at 2pm ET, unless otherwise noted. Topics are subject to change.

Please see below for the semester’s full schedule. (click to enlarge)

(text version of calendar below)

February

March

April

May

21 Mei Hong • MIT

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tau by Solid-State NMR

7 Patrick Knapp • Pacific Fusion

Modeling efforts in support of building Pacific Fusion’s magnetically-driven, pulsed-power machine for 100s of MJ yields

4 Svetlana Ratynskaia • KTH Stockholm

Modeling of transient-induced melt/vaporization damage to PFCs in tokamak plasmas

2 Haley Wilson • Columbia

Integrated modeling of negative triangularity fusion reactors

28 Chris Walsh • LLNL

Magnetized inertial confinement implosions on the National Ignition Facility

14 Tunde Fulop • Chalmers U.

A brief history of runaway electrons

11 Juan Ruiz • Oxford

Fast ion interaction with turbulence

9 Cami Collins • ORNL

Integrated Plasma and Engineering Design and Assessment for Tokamak Reactor Components

21 Hannah Rana • Harvard Astrophysics

Cryogenics and HTS magnet development integration and qualification for spaceflight

18 Erica Salazar • CFS

Quench detection in HTS cables and magnets

16 Novimir Pablant • PPPL

Overview of Wendelstein 7-X performance and prospects

28 Libby Tolman • Flatiron Institute

Tearing-mediated reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic poorly ionized plasmas

25 Laurent Colas • CEA France

A review of experimental RF sheath physics in magnetic fusion devices, along with the recent WEST results

23 Kevin Verhaegh • Eindhoven University of Technology
Power handling in advanced divertors, experiments on MAST-U

 

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