2nd Annual Summer Student Poster Symposium

12 undergraduates working in the Columbia University Plasma Physics group participated in the 2nd Annual Summer Student Poster Symposium hosted by the APAM Department at Columbia Engineering. Many of the students were part of the Summer@SEAS program, while others had already been in the Plasma Physics group for a year or more and were continuing their research.

The symposium was attended by several advisors in the plasma physics program along with research scientists, post-docs, graduate students, masters students, and other undergraduates

Kalen Richardson received the best poster prize.

Participants included:

Henri Yoon - Shear Alfvén Waves in the Reduced-MHD Model

Franco Sorza-Enriquez - Designing and Building of Pedestal for CUTE

Jessica Fu and Andrea Vergara - TokaMaker Grad-Shafranov Equilibrium Solver Module in OMFIT Framework

Alyssa Jiggetts - Development of New Crown Design for The Columbia University Tokamak for Education (CUTE)

Vayu Singhal - Designing, Modelling and Manufacturing Parts for Future Plasma Containment Devices

Celeste Lamadrid - Cryogenic Pellet Production

Paulina Texier - Cryognic Pellets

Sander Miller - Modeling Resistive Wall Modes in ThinCurr

Maxwell Epstein - Field Control Coil Current Regulation with Raspberry Pi Pico Microcontrollers

Luke Filor - Kegerator Project Overview

Kalen Richardson - Prototype Magnet for the Columbia Stellarator Experiment (winner of best poster prize)