Princeton graduate student wins prestigious plasma physics award
Eduardo Rodriguez, a 2022 graduate of the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, has won the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. (Photo credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Communications Department)
Four PPPL researchers featured in the Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection
PPPL’s Ben Israeli, Stephen Majeski, Ian Ochs and Willca Villafana authored papers included in the 2023 Early Career Collection. (Photo credit: Elle Starkman, Michael Livingston, Ariel Mitnick and Kyu Oh)
Ian Ochs wins highly competitive Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Physicist Ian Ochs. (Photo by Ariel Mitnick.)
Scientists discover shortcut that aids the design of twisty fusion facilities
Graduate student Alexandra LeViness stands next to part of a stellarator, a twisty fusion device designed to confine ultrahot plasma to facilitate fusion reactions. (Photo courtesy of Elle Starkman)
Princeton University awards plasma physics graduate student Suying Jin a highly selective honorific fellowship
Honorific fellowship winner Suying Jin. (Photo courtesy of Suying Jin; composite by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications.)
Ripples in the fabric of the universe may reveal the start of time
Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & Zuse-Institut Berlin)
The surprising attractiveness of a hurdle to developing safe, clean and carbon-free energy
Physicist Richard Nies with huge cryostat under construction to cool ITER vacuum vessel and superconducting magnets. (Cryostat courtesy of ITER; Richard Nies courtesy of Richard Nies; Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan.)
Fisch receives funding for ‘unlikely but fantastic’ clean energy technology
Nat Fisch, second left, and his research team include two postdocs, Ian Ochs, right, and Elijah Kolmes, center, both 2022 Ph.D. alumni of Princeton, and graduate students, Mikhail Mlodik, second right, and Tal Rubin, left. (Photo by Denise Applewhite, Princeton Office of Communications.)
New insight into blobs improves understanding of a universal process
PPPL unravels a puzzle to speed the development of fusion energy
Yichen Fu, center, lead author of the path-setting paper with co-authors Laura Xing Zhang and Hong Qin. (Photos of Fu and Qin by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications; collage by Kiran Sudarsanan.)
Plasma physics graduate student Eduardo Rodriguez wins prestigious Fellowship
Plasma physics graduate student Eduardo Rodriguez won the Princeton University Honorific Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship, which provides winners full tuition and a stipend for the 2021-2022 academic year. (Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan)
New insights into heat pathways improve understanding of fusion plasma
Physicist Suying Jin with computer-generated images showing the properties of heat pulse propagation in plasma (Headshot courtesy of Suying Jin / Collage courtesy of Kiran Sudarsanan)
Author and co-authors with figure from paper. Clockwise from top left: Lead author Yuri Barsukov with co-authors Igor Kaganovich, Alexander Khrabry, Omesh Dwivedi, Sierra Jubin, Stephane Ethier. Credits: Batalova Valentina, Elle Starkman/Office of Communications, Elle Starkman, Han Wei, Hannah Smith, Elle Starkman. Collage by Elle Starkman.
Discovery of 10 faces of plasma leads to new insights in fusion and plasma science
Physicists Hong Qin, left, and Yichen Fu, with rendering of 10 phases of plasma from their Nature Communications paper. (Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications.)
New computer model helps brings the sun into the laboratory
Physicist Andrew Alt in front of an image of a coronal mass ejection (Composite image by Elle Starkman/Solar image by NASA Goddard Media Studios)
Found: A fast and accurate way to optimize fusion energy devices
Physicist Nick Lopez with wave field near caustic outlined in purple behind him. (Collage and photo of Lopez by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications. Image of wave field courtesy of Journal of Optics)
Advancing the arrival of fusion energy through improved understanding of fast plasma particles
Physicist Laura Xin Zhang with figures from her paper. Collage by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications
Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
Physicist Himawan Winarto with figures from paper behind him. (Collage by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications.)
Scientists propose a novel method for controlling fusion reactions
Physicist Suying Jin. (Photo courtesy of Suying Jin.)
Graduate student at PPPL Ian Ochs wins top Princeton University fellowship
Physicist Ian Ochs.
New findings could improve understanding of potentially damaging solar storms
Physicist Kendra Bergstedt in front of an artist's conception of the Magnetiospheric Multiscale Mission and the Earth's magnetosphere
Physicists propose new method to improve design of algorithms that simulate fusion plasmas
PPPL physicist Alex Glasser
Doctoral graduate Yuan Shi wins 2020 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Physicist Yuan Shi. (Photo courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.)
PPPL physicist Ammar Hakim, left, and graduate student Noah Mandell with figures from Mandell’s paper showing the first computer simulations of kinetic plasma turbulence near the edge of fusion devices that can account for fluctuations of magnetic field lines. (Photos by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications and Krell Institute; composite by Elle Starkman.)
Artificial intelligence helps prevent disruptions in fusion devices
Physicist Yichen Fu. Photo and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications.
Feeding fusion: hydrogen ice pellets prove effective for fueling fusion plasmas
Physicist Oak Nelson. Photo and composite by Elle Starkman.