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Datta arms crossed in hall in front of photo display

March 28, 2023

Exploring the bow shock and beyond

Rishabh Datta’s main focus is, “Can we create this high energy plasma that is moving supersonically in a laboratory, and can we study it? And can we learn things that are hard to diagnose in an astrophysical plasma?”

PSFC News

Two female graduate students presenting plasma demos at a table

March 27, 2023

Engaging young women in plasma science

The PSFC journeyed to the Young Women's Conferemce at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to inspire young women to consider science as a field of study and a career.

PSFC News

Sciortino atop mountain in yellow jack, blue skies

March 2, 2023

Francesco Sciortino receives Piovesan Study Award

Recent MIT graduate Francesco Sciortino (MIT PhD’21) has been honored with the 2022 Piovesan Award for the best PhD thesis in "physics of controlled fusion."

PSFC News

January 27, 2023

Department of Energy presents Secretary’s Achievement Award to three from PSFC

Johan Frenje, head of the PSFC High-Energy-Density Physics Division, former Division Head Richard Petrasso and Research Scientist Maria Gatu-Johnson share, with other team members, the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award for achieving ignition and energy gain larger than 1.0.

PSFC News

4 men and 1 woman scientist stand in front of machinery that features a diagnostic knows as Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer (MRS).

December 19, 2022

MIT scientists contribute to the success of National Ignition Facility fusion milestone

On that morning of December 5, for the first time ever, the lasers delivered 2.1. megajoules of energy and yielded 3.15 megajoules in return, achieving an historic fusion energy gain well above 1—a result verified by diagnostic tools developed by the MIT PSFC.

PSFC News

Ian Hutchinson standing in front of Alcator C-Mod tokamak

November 29, 2022

Ian Hutchinson: Probing Plasma

“When I look up at the moon with my sweetheart, my wife of 48 years, I imagine that streaming from its dark side are electron holes that my students and I predicted and that we then discovered,” says Ian Hutchinson. “It’s quite sentimental to me.”

MIT News

graphic of plasma blob (yellow) with inset of tokamak interior

November 1, 2022

Machine learning facilitates “turbulence tracking” in fusion reactors

PSFC researchers and colleagues are using machine learning to track turbulent structures ("blobs") in fusion plasmas, which can affect the energy generated during fusion reactions.

MIT News

Faces of Nuno Loureiro and Fredrick Seguin

October 21, 2022

Seven from MIT (2 from PSFC) named APS Fellows for 2022

The American Physical Society elected Prof. Nuno Loureiro and Research Scientist Fredrick Seguin to be 2022 APS Fellows, 2 of 7 from MIT.

School of Science, MIT

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