The seminar will be web-simulcast via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91810335233
Passcode: MIPSE
For many decades the running joke in fusion re-search has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion igni-tion, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarka-ble! In this talk, I tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and I will try and dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of iner-tial fusion research.
Speaker(s): Dr. Omar Hurrican,
Agenda:
3:30 pm Introduction
3:35 pm Start of talk
4:30 pm event ends
ALL times are in EST/EDT
Room: 3213 (Johnson Rooms), Bldg: Lurie Engineering Center, 1221 Beal Ave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351319