Plasma Seminars

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November 2025

Understanding the anomalous transport properties of weakly collisional plasmas

Speaker: Archie Bott
Institution: Oxford
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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May 2025

Helicon Wave Experiments on the LArge Plasma Device (LAPD) Space Debris

Speaker: Josh Larson
Institution: UCLA
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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March 2025

Development of a spatially-resolved TALIF diagnostic for measurements of ground-state atomic hydrogen density, temperature, and velocity in linear plasma devices

Speaker: Kaden Loring
Institution: Stanford University
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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February 2025

OpenStar Technologies: Developing the Levitated Dipole concept for fusion

Speaker: Darren Garnier
Institution: OpenStar Technologies
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Path to a Flying-Focus-Driven Laser-Plasma Accelerator for Single-Stage 100-GeV-Class Electron Beams on NSF OPAL

Speaker: Jessica Shaw
Institution: University of Rochester
Date: Friday, February 14, 2025 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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November 2024

Trend inference in the Large Plasma Device using machine learning

Speaker: Phil Travis
Institution: UCLA
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Grand Challenges Facing Wafer Equipment Suppliers

Speaker: Alex Paterson
Institution:
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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October 2024

Vortex Dynamics in Inertial Fusion and Astrophysics

Speaker: Michael Wadas
Institution: Caltech
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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July 2024

Self-organization in collisionless, high-beta turbulence

Speaker: Stephen Majeski.
Institution: Princeton
Date: Friday, July 12, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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May 2024

Advancements and Breakthroughs in C-2W's Field Reversed Configuration Experiment

Speaker: Tim DeHaas
Institution: TAE Technologies, Inc.
Date: Friday, May 31, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Radiatively cooled kinetic plasma physics in astrophysics and the laboratory

Speaker: Pablo Bilbao
Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Experiments on-high-energy-density rotating plasmas: towards laboratory modelling of accretion disks and jets at laser and pulsed-power facilities

Speaker: Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca
Institution: Princeton University
Date: Friday, May 3, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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March 2024

Reconstructing non-linear kinetic plasma dynamics from sparse measurements using physics-informed neural networks

Speaker: Zack Pine
Institution: UCLA
Date: Friday, March 22, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasma Physics at MIT

Speaker: Jack Hare
Institution: MIT
Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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February 2024

Bigger is Better: NLO-Boosted Excimer Lasers for Inertial Fusion Energy

Speaker: Conner Galloway
Institution: Xcimer Energy, Redwood City , CA
Date: Friday, February 16, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Embedding Lorentz transformation symmetry in data-driven reduced plasma models from fully kinetic simulation

Speaker: Madox C. McGrae-Menge
Institution: UCLA
Date: Friday, February 9, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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Beyond the Petawatt: Plasma Optics for Ultra-High-Power Lasers

Speaker: Matthew R. Edwards
Institution: Stanford University
Date: Friday, February 2, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
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January 2024

Two-stage approach to accelerate the progress of fusion reactor development from science to engineering: Detour or Ultra-fast-track?

Speaker: Yongkyoon IN
Institution: UNIST,Korea
Date: Friday, January 12, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: PAB 3-326 and on Zoom
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