NEWS: Earl Marmar

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

May 6, 2022

New leadership team launches a revisioning of the future of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Five from Center assume new duties to support the growth of collaborations, research, and education at MIT

PSFC News

September 2, 2021

Negative triangularity - a positive for tokamak fusion reactors

MIT researchers have teamed with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne to learn more about plasma edge dynamics and power and particle exhaust properties.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences

December 18, 2020

Three Questions: Francesco Sciortino on his HTPD invited talk

PhD candidate Francesco Sciortino works at the PSFC on plasma turbulence in tokamaks, with an emphasis on computational statistics and machine learning methods.

PSFC

December 14, 2018

Francesco Sciortino: Organizing the scientific life

Physics grad student Francesco Sciortino is exploring turbulence in fusion plasmas and is engaged in creating opportunities for colleagues, students, and the general public to learn about the benefits of fusion research to a world that will be demanding more and more sources of reliable energy.

PSFC

October 14, 2016

New record for fusion

Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor sets world record on final day of operation.

PSFC

October 14, 2016

High intensity fusion

MIT’s Alcator C-Mod nuclear reactor winds down — and defines its legacy on its final run.

School of Engineering

November 17, 2015

Breakthrough in superconducting materials opens new path to fusion

At the APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting in Savannah, GA, Alcator C-Mod project head Earl Marmar spoke about the PSFC's work on high magnetic field tokamak path on the approach to fusion energy.