Two MIT graduate students, Patrick Adrian and Graeme Sutcliffe, have been awarded distinguished fellowships to further their studies of high-energy-density physics.
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?”
After 45 years at MIT’s PSFC and 15 years heading their High-Energy-Density Physics (HEDP) Division, Senior Research Scientist Richard Petrasso has stepped down to pursue new research interests.
From their home offices, four undergraduates this summer made significant contributions to research into high-energy-density physics projects at the PSFC.
Officially entitled the Center for Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics and Platforms for Inertial ICF and HEDP at Omega, NIF and Z, the new Center will focus on the properties of plasma under extreme conditions of temperature, density and pressure.
