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16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, 2025

The 16th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium took place on December 3, 2025, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. We had 49 student poster presentations from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and the University of Notre Dame. The symposium was a success, enabling our students to share the results of their state-of-the-art research and learn from their colleagues. Further information, including photographs and poster presentations, will soon be posted on this page.

The Symposium featured a special MIPSE seminar by Prof. David Ruzic of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Ruzic is the winner of the 2024 UM Plasma Prize.

16the MIPSE Graduate Symposium

Best Presentation Award

We had a great team of MIPSE judges for the best presentation competition - Dr. Jinbei Huang, Dr. Maryam Khaji, and Dr. Zhenyu Ma. The judges had a challenging task in selecting from the many outstanding presentations. The MIPSE Best Presentation Award winners are:

  • Gonçalo Cardoso (Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, UM)
  • Ari Eckhaus (Aerospace Engineering, UM)
  • Oluwatosin Ohiro (Chemical Engineering, UM)
  • Chelsea Tischler (Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, UM)

The winners received a MIPSE mug, an award certificate, and a plasma book of their choice.

Award winner with the judges
Gonçalo Cardoso with the judges
Award winner with judges
Ari Eckhaus with the judges
Award winner with the judges
Oluwatosin Ohiro with the judges
Award winner with judges
Chelsea Tischler with the judges

Poster Presentations (in alphabetical order)

  • Ibukunoluwa Akintola, Homogeneous vs. Plasma Chemistry in High Temperature Methane DBDs: A Global Kinetic and Graph Theory Analysis (PPTX)
  • Declan Brick, Model Based Investigation of Self-Consistent Closure in a Hall Thruster Model (PDF)
  • Khalil Bryant, Complexity Analysis of a Compact Torus Injection Experiment on BRB (PDF)
  • Gonçalo A. Cardoso, Controlling Energetic Neutral Beams Produced from Inductively Coupled Plasmas for Material Processing (PDF)
  • Alexander Cushen, Do Mercury’s Dipolarization Fronts Originate From Flux Ropes? MHD-AEPIC Simulations of Mercury’s Magnetosphere (PDF)
  • Briggs Damman, Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Hydrodynamic Transport Coefficients (PDF)
  • Md Arifuzzaman Faisal, Anisotropic Charge Transport and Current Crowding in Vertical Thin-Film Contacts with 2D Layered Materials (PDF)
  • Jiashu Han, Kinetic Vlasov-Poisson Simulations of Ion Acoustic Waves (PDF)
  • Yves Heri, Space-Charge and Circuit-Induced Distortion of Short-Pulse Beams in a Vacuum Diode (PDF)
  • Chenyao Huang, Charging Dynamics During Pulsed Plasma Etching of High Aspect Ratio Features in Dielectric Materials (PPTX)
  • Mitchell Indek, Effects of Europa’s Atmosphere on Its Magnetic and Plasma Environment: Application of Multi-Fluid MHD Simulations to Spacecraft Flybys (PDF)
  • Lan Jin, Photon-Assisted Thermionic Emission: A Theoretical Prediction for Photoelectron Energy Spectra, Emission Current, and QE (PDF)
  • Nicolas M. Kalem, Harnessing Ionization Effects for Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons (PPTX)
  • Kyle Kemmerer, Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electrical Conductivity in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas (PPTX)
  • Joshua L. Latham, Control of Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Plasma Interaction (PDF)
  • Miron Liu, Experimental Validation of a Spatial Anti-aliasing Plasma Wave Analysis Technique on a Hollow Cathode Plume (PDF)
  • Oluwatosin A. Ohiro, Multiscale Modeling of Radical and Vibrational Pathways in Plasma-Assisted Ammonia Synthesis on Fe(110) and Ni(111) (PDF, PPTX)
  • Md Wahidur Rahman, Effects of Annular Beam Properties on Gap Coupling in High Frequency Microwave Devices (PDF)
  • Alexandra K. Roosnovo, Heavy-ion Plasma Properties During Rotationally-driven Interchange Events: Insights From Juno Observations at Jupiter (PDF)
  • Cole Stewart, The Effect of Super-particle Weight Factor on Particle-in-Cell Simulations in Low-pressure Capacitively-Coupled Plasmas (PDF)
  • Chelsea M. Tischler, Generation of Diffuse Reactive Oxygen Plasma in an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet (PDF)