Third Annual Summer Student Poster Symposium

Seventeen undergraduate students from the Columbia University Fusion Research Center participated in the third Annual Summer Student Poster Symposium, hosted by the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics (APAM) at Columbia Engineering. The participants included students from the Summer@SEAS program, NSF-funded REU students, and continuing student members of the Fusion Research group, some of whom had been conducting research in the group for over a year.

The symposium was attended by faculty advisors in the plasma physics program, as well as research scientists, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, master’s students, and other undergraduate students.

Participants Included: 

Hanga Andras-Lentanovszky: Is There Alfvénic Turbulence at the Apex of Solar Coronal Loops?

Rithik Banerjee: Application of Single Stage Optimization to Generate “Banana Coil” Configurations for Upgrade on Columbia HBT Experiment

Alexander Boeckmann: Predicting HBT-EP Plasma Mode Amplitude and Phase with High Speed Image Data

Michael Campagna: Effect of Symmetry Breaking on Neoclassical Flow Damping in the Columbia Stellertor eXperiment (winner of best poster prize)

Emily Epstein: Power Supply Systems Development for the CUTE Tokamak

Beruktawit Gebreamlak: High-Temperature Superconducting Non-Planar Coil Development: From Design to Cryogenic Testing

Aiden Hightower: Methods for Improving the Design and Fabrication of Nonplanar HTS Magnets for the Columbia Stellerator eXperiment (CSX)

Amelia Koff: Attainable Plasma Configurations for the Columbia University Tokamak for Education using TokaMaker

Julia Kirby: Automation and Operation of Pellets at Columbia

Cassandra McGinley: Application of Diagnostic Systems in the Pellets at Columbia Test Stand

Shean Rahman ELM State Classification Using Machine Learning and Hybrid Deep Neural Networks

Samuel Sebastian: Magnetic Field Curvature and its Role in Particle Acceleration by Relativistic Curvature

Vayu Singhal: Design and Manufacturing of TF Magnet and Support Structures for CUTE

Alexander Skrypek: CalcSX: A lightweight toolkit optimized for analysing non-planar coils

Sonia Sobel: Energy-resolved Detection of Hard X-Rays on the HBT-EP Tokamak

Franco Sorza-Enriques: Disassembly and Relocation of CUTE

Brianna Yang: Operations and Hardware Developments of Pellets at Columbia