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Postdoctoral Associate Ted Golfinopoulos demonstrates properties of magnetism.

May 10, 2016

PSFC fusion outreach ignites in Spring

Students and staff members at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) have completed their third outreach event in as many weeks: the USA Science and Engineering Festival, MIT 2016 Open House and PSFC Middle School Outreach Day.

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Jagadeesh Moodera, MIT

May 4, 2016

Jagadeesh Moodera: building next-generation quantum computers

MIT Physics Department and PSFC Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh S. Moodera was one of the pioneers in the field of spin-polarized magnetic tunnel junctions, which led to a thousand-fold increase in hard disk storage capacity. 

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cross-section of a plasma

March 8, 2016

Multi-Scale Simulations Solve a Plasma Turbulence Mystery

Researchers at MIT’s PSFC, in collaboration with colleagues at UCSD and General Atomics, have performed high-resolution multi-scale simulations to simultaneously resolve multiple turbulence instabilities that have previously been treated in separate simulations.

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