The following NSTX-U team members are available to give seminars at your institution on the topics / titles listed below, and may also be willing to speak on other related topics as well. I f you are interested, please contact the speaker directly and CC Stan Kaye (kaye@pppl.gov), or click on an e-mail link below.
Name |
e-mail |
Research interest / specialty |
Prospective Talk Title
|
Jack Berkery |
jberkery@pppl.gov |
Fusion plasma stability |
"Resistive wall mode stability in NSTX"
|
Walter Guttenfelder |
wgutten@pppl.gov |
Turbulence in magnetized fusion
plasmas |
"Understanding turbulence at 100 million degrees" |
Ahmed Diallo |
adiallo@pppl.gov |
H-mode pedestal, diagnostics
|
"Taming the plasma edge for optimum
fusion performance" |
Devon Battaglia |
dbattagl@pppl.gov |
Tokamak startup, H-mode physics,
high-performance computing |
“Physics operations and scenario
development on NSTX-U" |
Jon Menard
|
jmenard@pppl.gov |
Research program, next-step devices, MHD physics
|
"NSTX-U program overview" or
"Prospects for next-step STs"
|
David Smith
|
drsmith@pppl.gov |
Plasma turbulence and instabilities, turbulence diagnostics |
"Characterizing edge instabilities with
machine learning techniques" |
Clayton Myers
|
cmyers@pppl.gov |
Tokamak disruptions and error
fields, laboratory astrophysics
|
"Two Challenges for Steady State Tokamak Operation: Error Fields and Disruptions" or "Bringing the Cosmos Down to Earth: Studying Astrophysical Processes in Laboratory Experiments" |
Rory Perkins |
rperkins@pppl.gov |
Radio frequency heating
|
"Fast wave power flow along scrape-off-layer field lines in NSTX"
|
Steven Sabbagh
|
sabbagh@pppl.gov |
Tokamak plasma stability and
control for disruption prediction
and avoidance |
“Global Mode Stabilization for Disruption Avoidance in Tokamaks” |
Matt Reinke
|
mreinke@pppl.gov |
Plasma diagnostics,
impurities and exhaust
|
"Fusion Plasma Diagnostics - Making Measurements above a Million Degrees
|
Keith Erickson |
kerickso@pppl.gov
|
Real-time Linux solutions |
"Real-time plasma control software for fusion"
|
Roger Raman
|
rraman@pppl.gov
|
Coaxial helicity injection,
non-inductive plasma formation
|
"Solenoid-free Plasma Start-Up in STs"
|
Rajesh Maingi | rmaingi@pppl.gov | Boundary physics, lithium program | "The Benefit of Coating Plasma Facing Surfaces of Fusion Research Chambers with Low-Z materials" |
Past NSTX-U Outreach Seminars
Date | Presentation Location | Speaker | Title | 2/7/2017 | University of Washington | Walter Guttenfelder | NSTX-U first results, and progress in transport research | 12/9/2016 | MIT / PSFC | Jon Menard | Progress and plans for Research on NSTX Upgrade | 11/7/2016 | UC Berkeley | Jon Menard | Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori | 4/15/2016 | Auburn University | Jack Berkery | Progress and Plans for NSTX Upgrade and Kinetic Resistive Wall Mode Stability | 4/14/2016 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Jack Berkery | Progress and Plans for NSTX Upgrade and Kinetic Resistive Wall Mode Stability | 2/18/2016 | National Energy Technology Lab | Mike Jaworski | Overview of liquid and solid PFC research for fusion energy at PPPL | 2/11/2016 | UCLA | Walter Guttenfelder | Progress, challenges & plans in transport research in NSTX-U | 1/17/2016 | General Atomics | Mike Jaworski | NSTX-U upgrade plan for liquid-metal plasma-facing components | 11/03/2015 | The College of New Jersey
| Clayton Myers | Bringing the Cosmos Down to Earth: Studying Astrophysical Processes in Laboratory Experiments | 10/30/2015 | MIT / PSFC | Clayton Myers | Laboratory study of ideal MHD solar instability eruption mechanisms | 10/26/2015 | University of Washington | Jack Berkery | Progress and Plans for NSTX Upgrade and Kinetic Resistive Wall Mode Stability | 10/24/2015 | APS Mid-Atlantic Section Morgantown, WV | Jon Menard | Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori | 9/16/2015 | Fermilab | Jon Menard | Brief overview of PPPL, fusion, and NSTX-U | 9/14/2015 | University of Wisconsin | Jon Menard | Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori | 9/4/2015 | University of Rochester | Devon Battaglia | The Mission of NSTX-U Toward the Development of Fusion Energy | 9/3/2015 | West Virginia University | Rajesh Maingi | The Benefit of Coating the Plasma Facing Surfaces of Fusion Research Chambers with Low-Atomic- Number Materials in Keeping Plasma Hot, Confined, and Fusing | 5/8/2015 | Columbia University | Steve Sabbagh | Global MHD Mode Stabilization for Disruption Avoidance in Tokamaks | 4/20/2015 | Cornell University | Rajesh Maingi | The Benefit of Coating the Plasma Facing Surfaces of Fusion Research Chambers with Low-Atomic-Number Materials in Keeping Plasma Hot, Confined, and Fusing |
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