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Seminars 2015-2016

Fall 2015

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
16 September 2015 Prof. Uri Shumlak University of Washington Compact Approach to Fusion Energy with the Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch Video with slides Download slides: (PPT, 31.1 MB), (PDF, 6.2 MB)
30 September 2015 Prof. Sergey Macheret Purdue University Microplasmas for Reconfigurable Radio-Frequency Electronics Video with slides Brief video interview
7 October 2015 Dr. Edmund Synakowski U.S. Department of Energy Graduate Student Symposium - Special Seminar Leading Challenges and the Role of Transformation in the Fusion and Plasma Sciences Video with slides Download slides: (PPTX, 21.2 MB) Brief video interview
9 December 2015 Prof. Lyon (Brad) King Michigan Technological University Plasma in a Bottle: The Strange Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Ionic Liquids Video with slides Download slides: (PPTX, 57.6 MB), (PDF, 9.1 MB) Brief video interview

Winter 2016

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
13 January 2016 Prof. Steven Cowley TED Talk, 2009 UK Atomic Energy Authority and Imperial College, London Reducing the Cost and Scale of Fusion Devices and the Problem of Stability Video with slides Download slides: (PPT, 13 MB) Brief video interview
27 January 2016 Dr. Brad Hoff AFRL Novel Plasma and Electron Beam Source Studies at AFRL Video with slides Download slides: (PPTX, 115 MB), (PDF, 4.6 MB) Brief video interview
10 February 2016 Prof. Ellen Zweibel University of Wisconsin-Madison The Macrophysics and Microphysics of Cosmic Rays Video with slides Download slides: (PDF, 4.2 MB) Brief video interview
24 February 2016 Prof. Michael Kong Old Dominion University Coding Plasma Chemistry for Cellular Metabolism Video with slides Download slides: (PPTX, 21.0 MB) Brief video interview
23 March 2016 Prof. Alexander Schekochihin University of Oxford, UK Plasma Dynamo at Last? Video with slides Download slides: (PDF, 15.5 MB, PPTX, 152.0 MB) Brief video interview
13 April 2016 Dr. John Edwards Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In Pursuit of Ignition at the National Ignition Facility - Progress and Challenges Video with slides Download slides: (PDF, 36 MB)