Partnering on grand-challenge opportunities at the fusion-energy-science frontiers
Event details
| Date | 29.06.2015 |
| Hour | 10:30 › 11:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Mark Koepke - Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA |
| Location |
PPB 019
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Fusion energy sciences aims to expand the fundamental understanding of matter across wide ranges of temperature, density, and energy-density and to build the scientific foundation needed to develop a fusion energy source. This is accomplished by studying plasma parameters, dynamics, and interactions with its surroundings, by resolving the essential physics principles, and by creating predictive theoretical and computational models. In order to also achieve the broadest range of plasma science discoveries, institutional and agency partnerships in select physics-discovery frontiers can be emphasized to resolve grand scientific challenges in some areas of every U.S. DOE Fusion Energy Sciences subprogram in all constrained-budget scenarios. This talk will provide a perspective on critically important questions in these areas and on scientific gaps where opportunity exists for the U.S. to make important contributions to the international collaboration in fusion energy development. I will briefly describe the Z Astrophysical Plasma Properties (ZAPP) collaboration at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z Pulsed Power Facility and the Space-Plasma Campaign at UCLA’s Basic Plasma Science Facility as examples of intermediate user facilities contributing at the astronomical-observation and laboratory-plasma interface.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. P. Ricci
Contact
- Prof. P. Ricci