MIPSE | Seminars 2015-2016

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

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)