“This year we could feel a palpable excitement about being back in the classroom, without virtual borders between the lecturers and the participants of the programs,” says Cristina Rea.
MIT has contributed to the success of the ignition program at the National Ignition Facilty for more than a decade by providing and using a dozen diagnostics, implemented by MIT PhD students and staff, which have been critical for assessing the performance of an implosion, like the one pictured.
It is with great sadness and profound appreciation that we note the passing at age 89, of Dr. Donald Bruce Montgomery, a pioneer in the development and engineering of large-scale electro-magnets.
Noah Mandell, a postdoctoral fellow at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is one of two recipients of a 2022 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award.
MIT spinout Quaise Energy wants to repurpose coal and gas plants into deep geothermal wells by using PSFC Research Engineer Paul Woskov's gyrotron drilling technology to melt rock.
Graduate student Evan Leppink will explore a new way to drive current in a tokamak plasma using radiofrequency (RF) waves during his residency at DIII-D in San Diego, CA.