Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Seminars

To Ignition and Beyond

Quantifying Dynamics of Plasmas Out of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium

X-ray Spectroscopy for High-energy-density Plasma Studies

Electron-beam Generated Plasmas and Their Applications – from Materials Processing to Space Propulsion

Using High Energy Density Plasmas for Nuclear Experiments Relevant to Nuclear Astrophysics

Integrating Physics and Engineering for Fusion Reactor Design, Assessment, and Optimization

Modeling and Simulation of Plasma-Surface Interactions in Nanofabrication

Plasmas for Propulsion: Alternative Propellants and (Some) Emerging Concepts

Multiscale Modeling of Molecular Ion Beams and Beam-Surface Interactions

The Giant Planets as Unique Laboratories for Space Plasma Processes

New Lens on the Frontier of Matter in Extreme Conditions

The APEX (A Positron-Electron eXperiment) Collaboration: Progress & Future Developments

Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasma Physics at MIT

Moving to Address the Curse of Dimensionality to Enable ‘First Principle’ Optimal Design in Fusion System

How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved in Inertial Fusion

Critical Developmental Challenges and Potential Advancement Paths for Megawatt-Scale Nuclear Electric Propulsion Systems

Unraveling Implosion Physics in Inertial Confinement Fusion: Direct-drive Simulations, Experiments, and Physics-informed Data Science

Trying to Build Better Mouse-traps: From Hollow Cathodes to a Plasma Density “Standard Candle”

Extreme Plasma Astrophysics

Turbulence and Transport Research Beyond the Burning Plasma Era

CANCELED: Progress Toward Understanding Turbulence and Transport in I-mode Plasmas

Plasma Irregularities in the Earth’s Ionosphere and Plasmasphere

Z-pinch Research at UC San Diego

Fundamental Tests with Antihydrogen Atoms

A Cocktail of Active Ingredients – Benefits and Challenges for Plasma Medicine

Dynamics of Low Temperature Magnetized Plasmas: Self-Organization and Anomalous Electron Transport

The Plasma-Water Interface: Modern Challenges and New Software Tools

Physics Impacts to Plasma Wave Thruster Design

A New Regime of HED Physics: Coupling High-Rep-Rate Lasers with Cognitive Simulation

Scaling Intense Laser-Atom Interactions from Low to High Frequency

Physics of Partially Magnetized ExB Plasmas in the Laboratory and Space

Mode Transitions in Low-temperature Aerospace Plasmas

Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch

Shining a Light on the Complex Physics of Low-temperature Plasmas

Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report

Journey to the Sun

Exploring Transformative Startup Solutions for Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas

Lasers, Z Pinches, and Nuclear Weapons: The Importance of Plasma Physics to the NNSA

Quantum Hydrodynamics and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth

Relativistic Nanophotonics: Creating Extreme Plasma Conditions and Fields with Ultrafast Lasers

CANCELED: Journey to the Sun

CANCELED: Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth

CANCELED: Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter

CANCELED: Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch

Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty

The Schwinger Plasma: An Experimental Program to Study the Plasmas That Exist Inside the Vacuum

Substorms, Dipolarization, and Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere

Hydroxyl Radicals in Gas-Liquid Water Plasma Reactors

Plasma Diagnostics Package for Studying High-Power Hall Thrusters in Flight

Simulation-Guided Design of a MegaJoule Dense Plasma Focus

High Energy Density Physics Experiments at Imperial College Megaamps and Megabars

Electric Breakdown in Thunderstorms and Plasma Technology Chances and Puzzles

Laser Wakefield Driven X-ray Sources in Canada: A Brilliant Future for Agriculture and Global Food Security

Deconstructing Integrated High Energy Density Physics Experiments into Fundamental Models for Validation

Kinetics of Nanosecond Discharges at High Specific Energy Release

Solving (Stellar) Flows: Methods, Software, and Results

Plasma Interactions with Materials, Metamaterials, and Photonic Crystals

Use of Computation for Understanding Plasmas

Electron Emission from Two-Dimensional Novel Materials and Applications

Plasma Treatment of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Ion Exchange Brine Solutions: Reactor Design Challenges and Physicochemical Processes at the Plasma-liquid Interface

Emerging Research Topics in Plasma Science: Plasma-control of Electromagnetic Waves and High Energy Density Plasma Jets and Their Interactions

Ion Propulsion and the Job-Creating Power of the Rocket Equation

Creating, Diagnosing, and Controlling High Energy Density Matter with the National Ignition Facility

Energy Transfer in Compressible Magneto-hydrodynamic Turbulence

Bridging HED Plasma Sciences to Stockpile Stewardship and Defense Applications

Recent Advances in Theory of Multipactor Discharges

Nanosecond Pulsed Power-Generated Transient Plasma for Energy and Environmental Applications

Plasma Instabilities in Electric Propulsion Devices

Microfabricated Indium-fueled Electrospray Thruster Development

Magnetic Field Amplification by Turbulence in High-power Laser Experiments

Magnetic Direct Drive Fusion Experiments on the Z Facility

Plasma Diagnostics of Sputtering Magnetrons from DC to HiPIMS Modes

Plasma Onco-Immunotherapy: From Laboratory to the Clinic

High Energy Density Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Overview of Research Using the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA

In Silico Plasmas under Extreme Conditions: from Particle Accelerators to Pair Plasmas in Pulsars

Electron and Ion Heating, Acceleration and Energy Partition During Magnetic Reconnection

Magnetic Reconnection in the Lower Solar Atmosphere (Joint CLaSP-MIPSE seminar)

Plasma Physics at the National Science Foundation

In Pursuit of Ignition at the National Ignition Facility – Progress and Challenges

Plasma Dynamo at Last?

Coding Plasma Chemistry for Cellular Metabolism

The Macrophysics and Microphysics of Cosmic Rays

Novel Plasma and Electron Beam Source Studies at AFRL

Reducing the Cost and Scale of Fusion Devices and the Problem of Stability

Plasma in a Bottle: The Strange Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Ionic Liquids

Microplasmas for Reconfigurable Radio-Frequency Electronics

Compact Approach to Fusion Energy with the Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch

Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of Charged Particles

Extremely Difficult, Hard to Validate, Painful to Analyze (but Exciting!): Experiments Studying Radiation and Heat Transport of Laboratory Plasmas at near Astrophysical Conditions

Fowler-Nordheim, Field Emission and Field Enhancement

First-Principles Simulations of Particle Acceleration at Astrophysical Shocks

Reaching the Extremes of Planet Formation: Shockwave Experiments in the Giant Impact Regime

Noninvasive Measurements of Plasma Parameters Via Optical Emission Spectroscopy

Numerical Modeling of Flow Control with Electrical Discharges

The Role of Benchmark Tests Problems and Developing High Order Kinetic Methods

Low-Temperature Plasma Surface Interactions: Nanoscale Graphit-ic Film Formation, Atomic Layer Etching & Atm. Pressure Plasma Jet Modification of Biomolecules

Experimental Exploration of Dynamic, Astrophysically-Relevant MHD Plasmas

Nonlinear, Nonstationary, Selforganized Asymptotic States in High Energy Density Plasmas

Unusual Narrow Radiation Rings Observed by Van Allen Probes

Laser Plasma Accelerators and MeV Photon Sources

CANCELED: ITER: An International Project Aimed at Demonstrating the Scientific and Technological Feasibility of Fusion Energy

Exploring the Physical Properties of Matter in Extreme Conditions (Joint NERS/MIPSE seminar)

High Frequency Gyrotrons and Their Applications

Physics and Medical Applications of Cold Atmospheric Plasmas

Plasma Lens for Active Optical Path Difference Control

Simulations of Plasma Processes and Equipment for Semiconductor Device Fabrication

Creating Electron-Positron Jets and Plasmas Using Lasers

Reconnection-driven MHD Turbulence on the SSX Plasma Wind Tunnel

Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment: A User Facility for Complex Plasma Research

Quasi-monoenergetic Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at FACET

Laboratory Studies of Supersonic Magnetized Plasma Flows: Jets and Collisionless Shocks

Relativistic Laser Science Research at CoReLS

Studying the Microphysics of Magnetic Reconnection in the Earths Magnetosphere and the Solar Wind

Magnetic Shielding in Hall Thrusters: Breakthrough Space Propulsion Technology for the 21st Century

Exploring Plasma Effects at the Edge of the Solar System: Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliosheath and Heliopause

Microplasmas Excited by Microwave Frequencies

Stars, Disks and Jets: The View From The Telescope, The Computer and The Lab

Complex Phenomena in Magnetized Plasmas in the Presence of Electron Emission

The Scientific Challenge of Burning Plasmas

The Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Air and Femto-second Optical Filamentation

Exploring QED-Plasmas with High-Intensity Lasers

Plasma Medicine: Low Temperature Plasma as a Transformational Technology for the Healthcare Field

From NSCL (National Superconducting Cyclotron Facility) to FRIB (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) at MSU

Shocks and Wakes in Plasmas

Biomedical Applications of Ambient Gas Plasma: The Confluence of Redox Biology and Plasma Science

Rapid Formation of High Density Microwave discharges for Application in Counter-HPM Protection

The Use of Gas Discharge Plasmas to Control Combustion and Aerodynamic Flows

Numerical Simulation of High Power Microwave Devices with ICEPIC

CANCELED

Experimental Verification of the Stationary Alfvén Wave and Its Relevance to Auroral Plasma Physics

Ion Implantation Technology for Precision Materials Modification: Recent Progress in Beamline and Plasma Devices

The Naval Research Enterprise and Plasma Physics Research at the Naval Research Lab

Microcavity Plasma Science and Recent Applications: Bound-Free Coupling, Transistors and Illumination

The Solar Wind Plasma

High Energy Density Plasma Physics: An Evolving Role on the National Scene

Nanosecond Pulse Nonequilibrium Discharges for High-Speed Flow Control and Plasma Assisted Combustion

Plasma Based Acceleration: A Path Towards Compact Particle Accelerators

Dynamics of Droplet Impact and Solidification in Plasma Spray Process

Microwave-Driven Breakdown: From Dielectric Surface Multipactor to Ionization Discharge

Mode Switching in Relativistic Magnetrons and Hysteresis

High-Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Plasma Physics

Compressing Waves in Plasma

When Low Temperature Plasmas Meet Surfaces

Plasma Polymerization of Biocompatible Thin Films: Applications of rf Plasmas in Biomedical Engineering

Physics of Low Pressure Inductive Discharges

Ion Acceleration by Beating Electrostatic Waves: Theory, Experiments and Relevance to Spacecraft Propulsion

Neutral Atom Imaging of the Terrestrial Magnetosphere

From High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics to Extreme Materials Science: Pushing the Frontiers of Experimental Science

Turbulent Plasmas in Astrophysics and Fusion

Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Involving Flux Ropes and Alfvén Waves

Bottom-Up Solutions to Plasma Synthesis of Nanomaterials

Explosive Nucleosynthesis Studied in the Laboratory

Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory and Space Plasmas

Dynamo Experiments: From Liquid Metals to Plasmas

Universal Magnetic Structures in Lab to Astrophysical Domains

Plasma Medicine: Mechanisms of Direct Non-Thermal Plasma Interaction with Living Tissue

Plasma Science in Development of industrial Etching and Depostion Tools: The Presence of Normal Modes Above a Capacitive Plasma Applicator

Universal Scaling of the Electron Distribution Function in Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions (Dr. Sherlock)

Novel Particle- In-Cell Simulation Methods in Hevy-Ion Fusion Science and Related Fields

Energy Transport and Frequency Dependent Ion Kinetics in a Capacity Coupled Plasma Reactor

Up Against the Wall: Liquid Lithium for the Chamber Technology Challenge in Fusion Energy