PSFC Seminars

Reconstruction of R&D for HTS in Japan toward radical innovations of industry

Michiya Okada

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

The major Research and Development (R&D) projects relating with superconducting technology in Japan will be reviewed.

11:00am  |  NW17-218

Physics at the energy, intensity, temperature and space frontiers: Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT

Bolek Wyslouch

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

High temperature superconductors: advantages and key challenges in their deployment for high-field magnets and large scale applications

Luisa Chiesa

Tufts University

In this talk, the state-of-art manufacturing, properties and challenges of key HTS conductors will be discussed with particular focus on REBCO coated conductors.

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Particle and momentum transport experiments on multiple tokamaks

Tuomas Tala

JET

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Investigation of plasma flows and detachment in innovative divertor configurations

Maxim Umansky

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Precise particle placement: Manipulating beam ion phase space to improve tokamak performance

David Pace

General Atomics

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Two etudes on unexpected behaviour of drift-wave turbulence near stability threshold

Alex Schekochihin

Oxford University

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Black hole accretion

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Overview of the DIII-D metal tile campaign and utilization of isotopically enriched tungsten tracer particles

David Donovan

UTK/ORNL

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Introduction to hadrontherapy and how it can benefit from superconductivity today and in the future

Eric Forton

IBA

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

A new approach to kinetic full wave analysis in plasmas

Atsushi Fukuyama

Kyoto University

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Quasicollisional magneto-optic effects in turbulent plasmas

Mikhail Medvedev

University of Kansas

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Solar coronal loops as magnetic tori with gravity

Linda Sugiyama

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Initial investigation of core transport during the first W7-X experimental campaign

Novimir Pablant

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Progress and plans for research on NSTX Upgrade

Jon Menard

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Imaging runaway electron distribution functions in tokamaks

Carlos Paz-Soldan

General Atomics

11:00am  |  NW17-218

Exploring the synergies between laser-wakefield and direct-laser acceleration

Gennady Shvets

University of Texas, Austin

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

LIGO - Opening up a new window on the universe

David Shoemaker

MIT LIGO

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

In silico plasmas under extreme conditions: from particle accelerators to pair plasmas in pulsars

Luis O. Silva

Instituto Superior Téchnico

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Nonthermal particle acceleration in collisionless relativistic magnetic reconnection

Dmitri Uzdensky

University of Colorado Boulder; Institute for Advanced Study

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Controlling fusion power

Egemen Kolemen

Princeton University

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Detachment in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

Christian Theiler

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

3:00pm  |  NW17-218

Frontiers of laboratory studies of magnetic reconnection and a new user facility: FLARE

Hantao Ji

Princeton University

11:00am  |  NW17-218

Outlook towards a commercial fusion reactor

Guenter Janeschitz

Deputy Head, ITER Central Integration Office

10:30am  |  NW17-218

Magnetic pumping of the solar wind

Jan Egedal

University of Wisconsin - Madison

11:00am  |  NW17-218