The 25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas will be held in-person from May, 19 to May, 22, 2025 in the castle "Schloss Hohenkammer" (close to Munich, Germany). The conference is organized by Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics. [mehr]
Normalerweise ist es nur wenigen Fachleuten zugänglich: das Plasmagefäß der Fusionsforschungsanlage ASDEX Upgrade im Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Garching bei München. Eine Sonderführung anlässlich des „Wissenschaftsjahres 2025 – Zukunftsenergie“ bringt Schulklassen jetzt mitten hinein in das Herz der Anlage. ASDEX Upgrade auch von innen erleben zu können – eine Kooperation des IPP mit dem Zentrum für Virtuelle Realität und Visualisierung am Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (LRZ) macht das nun möglich. [mehr]

Fusion at Columbia: Fundamental Research and Industry Engagement

AUG Seminar
  • Datum: 19.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 12:20 - 13:15
  • Vortragender: Carlos Paz-Soldan
  • Carlos Paz-Soldan is an Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York. He received his B.Sc.E degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University at Kingston in 2007 and his Ph.D degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. After his Ph.D he worked as a scientist at General Atomics in San Diego until he was appointed with tenure to Columbia University in 2021. Carlos Paz-Soldan’s research interests are motivated by the desire to solve the scientific and technological challenges standing in the way of harnessing controlled fusion energy on earth. In particular, he is interested the control of transient off-normal events that can prevent the reliable operation of magnetic fusion device concepts. Dr. Paz-Soldan is the recipient of the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2013 and the Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research in 2021, both from the American Physical Society.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Seminarraum D3
Culminating in the recently announced launch of the Columbia Fusion Research Center, Fusion at Columbia has been expanding into new directions and with new partners. This presentation will discuss a mix of fundamental research carried out at Columbia, sponsored by the federal government, and research in support of the growing private fusion sector, sponsored directly by industry. Technical topics to be discussed will be in the area of disruptions and MHD, which is particularly important for tokamaks under construction, as well as reactor design more broadly and applied to negative triangularity tokamaks specifically, and if time allows touch on fusion technology and stellarators. The role of partnerships will be emphasized, whether in collaboration with industry, national laboratories, or international partners. Finally, an informal summary on recent changes in the US research ecosystem and associated impacts will be provided. [mehr]

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

Thermal and RF sheath boundary conditions for low frequency turbulence and blob-filaments

TOK Seminar
This tutorial-style presentation will begin with a brief review of basic sheath physics and thesheath boundary conditions for low frequency turbulence simulations. A few consequences ofsheaths for scrape-off layer (SOL) instabilities will then be discussed using analytical models toprovide insight. Using a scaling correspondence between linear instabilities and turbulentstructures, semi-quantitative sheath-related propagation regimes of blob-filaments will bediscussed and compared with experimental measurements. Turning to RF sheaths, afterreviewing the physics of RF rectification, thermal sheath boundary conditions are generalized todescribe the effect of RF-driven sheaths on low frequency turbulence. ICRF-driven sheathstypically have much higher sheath potentials than their thermal sheath counterparts. Recentwork using the Hermes turbulence code to model ICRF driven convection and changes in theSOL density profile will be summarized. In this work the importance of 3D geometry for themodeling is emphasized. Convective cells near an antenna are shown to influence the transportof impurity ions that originate from RF-induced sputtering. Finally, some comments,speculations and challenges for modeling grazing magnetic angle sheaths will be presented. [mehr]

Energy Economics: climate policies to avoid the rush-to-burn

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 23.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Kai Konrad
  • Kai A. Konrad completed his doctoral studies in economics in 1990 and habilitated in 1993 at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. From 1994 to 2009, he was a university professor in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, and from 2001 to 2009, he was also the director of the Department of Market Processes and Governance at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Since 2009, he has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, since 2011 he is serving as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Since 1999, Konrad has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance, serving as its chair from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel in 2023, primarily for his ‘fundamental theoretical contributions to the economic analysis of strategies in tournaments with applications in industrial economics as well as in political economy’.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

28. Career Dialogue "Tobias Hartmann"

Career Dialogue
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

Divertor tokamak test facility: status of the construction and preparation for the exploitation

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 13.06.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Francesco Romanelli
  • Prof. Francesco Romanelli is the President of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility at ENEA Frascati Research Center. He has been working in nuclear fusion since 1980. He has led from 1996 to 2006 the ENEA activities in Physics of Magnetic Confinement Fusion. In 2006 he became Leader of JET, the largest magnetic fusion experiment in operation, and from 2009 to 2014 Leader of the European Fusion Development Agreement. In 2015 he moved to the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he is now professor of Physics of Nuclear Energy. He is also Editor in Chief of Nuclear Fusion, the largest impact factor fusion journal.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de

Core transport predictions of SPARC and ARC plasmas with flux-matched nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

AUG Seminar

WP TE Task Force Meeting

WP TE Task Force Meeting

Online-Vortrag "Kernfusion - Auf der Zielgeraden zum Reaktor? - Prof. Dr. Josefine Proll

Die Verschmelzung von leichten Atomkernen, bekannt als Kernfusion, ist die Energiequelle der Sonne und ein langgehegter Traum für die Energiegewinnung auf der Erde. Nach über 70 Jahren intensiver Forschung stehen wir nun möglicherweise vor einer Zeitenwende: Zahlreiche Start-ups versprechen, in den kommenden Jahren Fusionsreaktoren ans Netz zu bringen. Doch haben wir es wirklich geschafft? Prof. Josefine Proll beleuchtet zunächst die Grundlagen der Kernfusion und untersucht die verschiedenen Konzepte, die darauf abzielen, die Energie der Sonne auf die Erde zu holen. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf dem modernsten Fusions-Experiment weltweit: dem Wendelstein 7-X- Stellarator in Greifswald. In dem Vortrag wird zudem herausgearbeitet, warum gerade der Wendelstein 7-X für die Start-ups von so großer Bedeutung ist. Darüber hinaus werden die bestehenden Herausforderungen sowohl aus physikalischer als auch technischer Sicht betrachtet und diskutiert, wie – und ob – die Start-ups diese Hürden überwinden können, um den Traum vom Fusionsreaktor Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Seien Sie dabei und erfahren Sie mehr über den aktuellen Stand der Forschung und die spannenden Entwicklungen auf dem Weg zur Kernfusion als Energiequelle der Zukunft. Bitte melden Sie sich an: https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/465/ [mehr]
Normalerweise ist es nur wenigen Fachleuten zugänglich: das Plasmagefäß der Fusionsforschungsanlage ASDEX Upgrade im Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Garching bei München. Eine Sonderführung anlässlich des „Wissenschaftsjahres 2025 – Zukunftsenergie“ bringt Schulklassen jetzt mitten hinein in das Herz der Anlage. ASDEX Upgrade auch von innen erleben zu können – eine Kooperation des IPP mit dem Zentrum für Virtuelle Realität und Visualisierung am Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (LRZ) macht das nun möglich. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Body language"

Career Center Workshop
  • postponed to 13 Aug 2025
  • Datum: 13.08.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Franziska Trischler, golin Wissenschaftmanagement, Berlin
  • Franziska Trischler, Freiburg, was born in the United States, moved to Germany in her early childhood and graduated at the University of Koblenz-Landau, majoring in Sprechwissenschaft [speech science and interpersonal communication] in 2009. She has been working as a freelance communication trainer for 12 years, giving individual lessons, workshops and seminars in the areas of rhetoric, recitation, voice training and interpersonal communication. She is also an academic staff member for speech and interpersonal communication at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg and has worked as a lecturer for various universities.
  • Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, Garching
  • Raum: WL-Saal
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
This workshop provides basic knowledge about physical expression and trains observational and implementation skills. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Stressfreies Sehen am Bildschirm"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 17.09.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Friedrich Hasse
  • Friedrich Hasse, Improved Reading Berlin, abgeschlossenes Studium (Philosophie/Geschichte) an der FU Berlin, HU Berlin und der Université Paris I (Sorbonne). Seit 2014 ist er ausgebildeter Visualtrainer für Stressfreies Sehen am Bildschirm und Mitgründer der Firma visiowert (www.visiowert.de).
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: zoom details after registration
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
unterhaltsamer und staunenswerter Vortrag über eines der brennendsten Themen im Berufsalltag – Stress durch Bildschirmarbeit [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Time Management"

Career Center Workshop

29. Career Dialogue "Thomas Eich"

Career Dialogue
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

Tag der offenen Tür 2025 im IPP Greifswald

  • Datum: 11.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 17:00
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Rubrik: Tag der Offenen Tür

30. Career Dialogue "Klara Höfler"

Career Dialogue
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]
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