Location and Times

Classes will be held in room 24-115 each Thursday, from 3:30 to 5:00PM.

February

4

Global Energy Picture

Prof. Anne White

11

Fusion Overview

Prof. Jeff Freidberg

18

Physics of magnetic confinement: Tokamaks

Prof. Anne White

25

Laboratory tour: Alcator C-Mod tokamak, NW17-218

Roman Ochoukov

March

4

Fusion Science and Technology

Dr. Joseph Minervini

11

Physics of magnetic confinement: Levitated Dipole Experiment Seminar & Laboratory tour

Dr. Darren Garnier

18

Heating and current drive by radio frequency waves in tokamaks

Dr. Abhay Ram

25

Spring Break

April

1

Dancing with the stars: quest for fusion energy (part of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Seminar Series at MIT)

Dr. Abhay Ram

8

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and the National Ignition Facility (NIF)

Prof. Anne White

15

Magnetic reconnection, Laboratory tour: VTF

Prof. Jan Egedal

22

Accelerators and Gyrotrons

Dr. Richard Temkin/research team member

29

Accelerators and Gyrotrons, Laboratory tour: Temkin research group

May

6

The Challenges of Material Walls and Boundary Plasmas in Magnetic Fusion

Prof. Dennis Whyte

13

Turbulence in tokamaks

Prof. Anne White