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Collaborative International Laboratory for Advanced Stellarator Divertors was funded by Helmholtz Association in Germany.

Posted on October 28, 2019

The Helmholtz International Laboratory for Advanced optimized Divertors in Stellarators (HILOADS) was selected for funding by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF). This project is build to enhance the existing collaboration between the …

Posted in 2019

Two invited talks on impurity transport and detached divertor physics topics in 3D boundaries presented at APS-DPP meeting 2019.

Posted on October 20, 2019

Two invited talks were delivered at the 2019 venue of the APS-DPP divisional conference in Fort Lauderdale. Edward Hinson reported on first time results on helium decontamination of future burning fusion plasmas by application of …

Posted in 2019

2019 venue of the Plasma Academy, an NSF funded plasma outreach program for high school teachers and students, was conducted.

Posted on August 6, 2019

Three teachers and seven students participated in the 2019 venue of the Plasma Academy, an outreach event targeted at high-school teachers and students. Participants are introduced to the basics of plasma physics in the form …

Posted in 2019

Showcase of 3D Plasma Edge and Material Interaction Research and Plasma Helicon Research for the AWAKE Project at CERN at UW Madison at APS-DPP meeting in Portland, Oregon

Posted on November 5, 2018

The 3D-PSI group has a strong appearance on this year’s annual meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the American Physics Society (APS) in Portland, Oregon. Contributions are ranging from seminal advances in …

Posted in 2018

Talk about first results from divertor heat flux control experiments at Wendelstein 7-X delivered on 2019 Fusion Energy Conference of the IAEA in Mahatma Mandir, India.

Posted on October 26, 2018

PhD Florian Effenberg, who just graduated in July of this year, has presented the results of his thesis and from very recent experiments developed and coordinated by him at the 2019 venue of the Fusion …

Posted in 2018

August issue of Nature Physics with title story on Wendelstein 7-X paper co-authored by UW Madison researchers.

Posted on August 14, 2018

The title story of the August 2018 issue of Nature Physics is based on a paper co-authored by personnel of the 3D-PSI group at UW Madison. In the paper by A. Dinklage et al. on “Magnetic Confinement …

Posted in 2018

Outreach activities on Plasma Physics commencing in Summer 2018.

Posted on June 4, 2018

Professor Schmitz has conceptualized in the past two years a number of outreach activities and these outreach activities are now commencing for the first time. The declared goal of this program in the K-12 education …

Posted in 2018

A paper comparing particle exhaust in the island divertors of W7-X and HSX published in Physics of Plasmas and selected as a monthly highlight.

Posted on May 31, 2018

A paper published in the AiP journal Physics of Plasmas by Dr. Laurie Stephey, a former PhD student at HSX, was selected as a monthly highlight. In this paper, a comprehensive comparison of particle transport and exhaust features of …

Posted in 2018

A numerical study explores the sensitivity of Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor at DIII-D on toroidal asymmetries!

Posted on February 20, 2018

A paper published as a Letter in the IoP journal Nuclear Fusion this week by Dr. H. Frerichs studies for the first time the sensitivity of the Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor at DIII-D on toroidal asymmetries. Such asymmetries can be …

Posted in 2018

PhD student Florian Effenberg was awarded the 2017 James D. Callen Fellowship for Excellence in Plasma Theory. Congratulations!

Posted on December 13, 2017

The 2017 James D. Callen Fellowship for Excellence in Plasma Theory was warded to PhD student Florian Effenberg. Florian works on numerical modeling of 3D plasma edge transport and radiative divertor scenarios for the Wendelstein …

Posted in 2017
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