Columbia undergraduates, including Marco Andres Miller (undecided), Cade Guitron (Physics), Tony Qian (Physics), Connie Kang (Applied Physics), Jessica Li (Applied Physics), and Jessie Ruixuan Yan (undecided), participated in the 2017 Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Introductory Course in Plasma Physics at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Prof. Michael Mauel was one of the featured speakers at the event.
John Brooks, a Plasma Physics graduate student in Prof. Michael Mauel's group, was selected to receive a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award for a proposed research project entitled “Controlling MHD instabilities through active feedback on scrape-off-layer currents.” The project will be conducted at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) this summer and next fall.
Dr. Ping Ge, in the DOE's Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, stated "The selection of John Whitlock Brooks for the SCGSR award is in recognition…
John Brooks, a Plasma Physics graduate student in Prof. Michael Mauel's group, recently returned from the week-long, 9th ITER International School (IIS) in southern France, which he received a United States Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO) scholarship to attend.
The goal of IIS is to prepare young scientists for working in the field of nuclear fusion and its application to research topics associated with the ITER project. The focus of this year’s IIS was on the physics of plasma disruptions and their active control methods, and it included a trip to see ITER, the world’s…
APAM senior research scientist and adjunct professor Dr. Steven A. Sabbagh will lead a new joint international grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study high performance tokamak plasma disruption prediction and avoidance in the long-pulse Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) located in Daejeon, South Korea. APAM associate research scientist Dr. Young-Seok Park will be lead researcher on the project for Columbia. This effort, which directly addresses one of two Tier 1 (highest priority) elements of the US magnetic fusion program as defined by the DOE, is a joint international…
How do you control Columbia University’s high-temperature plasma control experiment? Very carefully, safely, and easily using a new real-time digital process controller built by two SEAS students.
SEAS undergraduate students Edwin Vargas (SEAS APAM Class of 2017) and Steve Jaycox (SEAS EE Class of 2016) have completed the design, construction, programming, and testing of a new digital process controller for Columbia’s High Beta Tokamak Experiment - Extended Pulse (HBT-EP). The new controller will give HBT-EP student and faculty researchers a modern and easy-to-program system for managing…
Dr. John W. (Jack) Berkery and Dr. Steven A. Sabbagh of the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics (APAM), along with European colleagues Yueqiang Liu of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK (CCFE) and Holger Reimerdes of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) were awarded the 2016 Landau-Spitzer Award, presented jointly every two years by the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society (APS and EPS).
The Award is given to an individual or group of researchers for outstanding theoretical, experimental, or technical contributions…
Applied Physics Professor Michael E. Mauel has been appointed the new editor-in-chief of Physics of Plasmas, the foremost scientific journal on plasma physics published monthly by the American Institute of Physics.
“This is a great honor for me,” Mauel says. “Physics of Plasmas is dedicated to the publication of original experimental and theoretical contributions in plasma physics and I am excited to be leading the next chapter of this journal as our field evolves and grows. We are looking forward to continuing to feature the highest quality research in plasma physics from around the world…