We are proud to announce that Dr. S. Joung has been honored with the 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award by Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), IOP Publishing. This award recognizes individuals who have provided exceptionally …
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R. Albosta gives an invited talk at the High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics Conference
Ryan Albosta gave an invited talk on measurements of fast pedestal dynamics in the DIII-D tokamak with a new set of spectrometers combining edge Motional Stark Effect and Charge Exchange Recombination measurements at the 26th …
M. Zepp selected for post-doctorate mentoring award
Dr. Michael Zepp has been selected as the Runner-Up for the College of Engineering Award for Post-Doctorate Mentoring at UW-Madison. This award is given to honor the outstanding ways postdoctoral researchers support students in and …
M. Zepp wins poster award at LAPD Symposium
Dr. Michael Zepp has been awarded the prize for the second best poster in low temperature plasmas at the 21st International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics (LAPD) in Saillon, Switzerland. The LAPD biennial symposium brings …
New DOE award for entangled photons and atomic magnetometry
We’re proud to receive a new DOE award for entangled two-photon absorption and atomic magnetometry with Rubidium vapor cells. The projects are a collaboration between Jennifer Choy, David Smith, and Benedikt Geiger.
G. McKee gives an invited talk at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in London
George McKee gave an invited talk on the isotope effect for tokamak transport at the 2023 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in London. Also, Zheng Yan and David Smith present posters covering LH transition physics and …
ML collaboration meeting in Princeton
Semin Joung, Kevin Gill, Aidan Edmondson, and David Smith joined the multi-institution ML collaboration for a group meeting at Princeton University. Other collaborators are Carnegie Mellon University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
Commissioning of the Charge Exchange Imaging (CXI) system on DIII-D
Congratulations to Max Major, Chris Seyfert, Kurt Jaehnig, George McKee, Benedikt Geiger, and Xiang Han for commissioning the Charge Exchange Imaging (CXI) system on DIII-D. The CXI system will capture the fast (2 MHz) dynamics …
K. Gill attends the 12th ITER International School
Grad student Kevin Gill attends the 12th ITER International School in France.
UW hosts the 2023 US TTF meeting!
George McKee is the chair and local host for the 2023 US Transport Task Force meeting in Madison! In addition, Filipp Khabanov, Xijie Qin, and Xiang Han gave talks at the meeting, and Michael Gerard …
Congrats to M. Gerard for Nuclear Fusion paper
Congratulations to Michael Gerard for the Nuclear Fusion publication on “Optimizing the HSX stellarator for microinstability by coil-current adjustments”.
Two researchers visit W7-X to participate in experiments
Xiang Han and Colin Swee visited W7-X in January 2023 to participate in the W7-X experimental campaign and collaborate on diagnostics for impurity measurements, beam emission spectroscopy, and reflectometry.
Four RSI papers are published in the 2022 HTPD conference proceedings
Our group published four RSI papers in the 2022 HTPD conference proceedings for turbulence and spectroscopy diagnostic systems at W7-X, HL-2A, and DIII-D. See here: Publications
G. McKee delivers the UW plasma seminar on the isotope mass scaling
George McKee delivers the UW plasma seminar on “Isotope Mass Dependence of Turbulence and Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on DIII-D”
Eight group members travel to DIII-D to carry out research activities
Eight group members traveled to DIII-D this summer to carry out a variety of research activities including: Xijie Qin for UF-CHERS Ryan Albosta for Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy Sam Stewart for CXI data acquisition Elizabeth Perez …
Five group members attend the 2022 ITER International School
Our group had strong representation at the 2022 ITER International School: https://iis2022.burningplasma.org. Attending were: Semin Joung Jeff Zimmerman Kevin Gill Sam Stewart Xijie Qin
D. Smith delivers UW plasma seminar on “edge ML” applications with BES turbulence measurements at DIII-D
Seminar presentation: UW_Plasma_Seminar_14Feb2022_DSmith_v2.pdf
McKee takes leadership role at DIII-D fusion research facility
DOE grants for fusion energy research at Wendelstein 7-X
Z. Yan gives talk at 2020 IAEA FEC
Z. Yan delivers results on turbulent flows at the LH transition at the 2020 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference