Ort: IPP Garching

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]

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
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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
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