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Seminars 2022-2023

MIPSE seminars are conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom (see the link below or on the PDF schedule). According to the U-M current masking policy, masks are encouraged, but not required.

The seminars are free and open to the public. The MIPSE Code of Conduct applies to all participants in the MIPSE seminar series.

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Winter 2023

Zoom link (passcode: MIPSE)

Download schedule as PDF

Date, Time, Location Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
Friday 13 January 2023 4:00 - 5:00 pm G906 Cooley (White Auditorium) Dr. Bruce Carlsten Los Alamos National Laboratory Joint NERS colloqium/MIPSE seminar Phase-space Manipulations in High-brightness Particle Beams
Friday 10 February 2023 4:00 - 5:00 pm G906 Cooley (White Auditorium) Dr. Luis Chacon Los Alamos National Laboratory Joint NERS colloqium/MIPSE seminarModern Multiscale Algorithms for High-Fidelity ICF Capsule and Hohlraum Simulations
Wednesday 8 March 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm 3213 LEC (Johnson Rooms) Dr. Omar Hurricane Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved in Inertial Fusion Presentation: PDF (9 MB), PPTX (26 MB) Video with slides
Wednesday 22 March 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm 133 Chrysler Center Add to Google Calendar Prof. Andrew Christlieb Michigan State University Moving to Address the Curse of Dimensionality to Enable ‘First Principle’ Optimal Design in Fusion System Presentation: PPTX (163 MB) Video with slides Zoom recording Transcript
Wednesday 29 March 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm 133 Chrysler Center Add to Google Calendar Prof. Jack Hare MIT Early Career Award Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasma Physics at MIT
Wednesday 12 April 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm 133 Chrysler Center Add to Google Calendar Dr. Eve Stenson Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany The APEX (A Positron-Electron eXperiment) Collaboration: Progress & Future Developments
Wednesday 19 April 2023 3:30 - 3:30 pm 133 Chrysler Center Add to Google Calendar Dr. Arianna Gleason SLAC / Stanford University New Lens on the Frontier of Matter in Extreme Conditions

Fall 2022

Date, Time, Location Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 14 September 2022 1:30 - 2:30 pm 1013 Dow Prof. Anne White MIT Turbulence and Transport Research Beyond the Burning Plasma Era
Wednesday 12 October 2022 3:30 - 4:30 pm 1005 Dow Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky University of Colorado, Boulder Extreme Plasma Astrophysics Presentation: PDF (13 MB), PPTX (73 MB) Video with slides
Wednesday 26 October 2022 3:30 - 4:30 pm 1005 Dow Dr. Michael McDonald US Naval Research Laboratory Building Better Mousetraps: Hollow Cathodes and the Path to a Plasma Density “Standard Candle” Presentation: PDF (7 MB) Video with slides Zoom recording Audio transcript
Wednesday 16 November 2022 1:00 - 2:00 pm 3213 LEC (Johnson Rooms) Dr. Radha Bahukutumbi Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester Unraveling Implosion Physics in Inertial Confinement Fusion: Direct-drive Simulations, Experiments, and Physics-informed Data Science Presentation: PDF (6 MB), PPTX (7 MB) Video with slides
Wednesday 30 November 2022 3:30 - 4:30 pm 1005 Dow Dr. Kurt Polzin NASA-George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Critical Developmental Challenges and Potential Advancement Paths for Megawatt-Scale Nuclear Electric Propulsion Systems Presentation: PDF (2 MB), PPTX (7 MB) Video with slides Zoom recording Audio transcript

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