Assignments

There will be a short term paper, 5-10 pages, on a plasma and fusion science topic.
The term paper is due the last day of class. A list of ideas for term papers is provided below.

Please discuss your topic with me before you begin your work. 
Feel free to select a topic that is not on this list!

If you hand in a draft by April 8th, I will give you feedback before
 you write your final paper.

Ideas for Term Paper Topics:

• ITER
• Plasma facing components
• National Ignition Facility (NIF)
• Inertial confinement fusion
• Your favorite toroidal fusion device: JT-60, NSTX, DIII-D, JET, TFTR
  ASDEX, Wendelstein 7-AS, EAST, or K-STAR, etc…
• Turbulence in plasmas
• The role of particle accelerators in fusion research
• Computer simulation and numerical modeling of plasmas
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
• Waves in plasmas
• Reconnection
• Landau damping
• Plasma wakefield accelerators
• Heating/current drive methods (ICRF, LH, ECH, or neutral beams)
• Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX)
• Stellarators
• Fusion-fission hybrids
• Proton-boron fusion
• Mirror devices for fusion
• Cold fusion
• Bubble fusion