ECE Fusion Researcher Sophia Rocco Educates Members of Congress
Fusion Day on the Hill is science advocacy event aimed at educating Members of Congress about the state of fusion research throughout the country. Last month, Cornell partnered with the University of Rochester and New York University to visit the New York delegation....
ZNetUS Workshop
David Hammer and E. Sander Lavine attend first ZNet Workshop Topics: Pulsed power technology Magneto inertial fusion Astrophysical plasmas and planetary science Mid scale User Facility MHD and hybrid codes development Magnetized high-energy density plasmas Student...
Congratulations Dr. Jacob Banasek
Jacob earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Wright State University in 2013. After graduation, he attend Cornell University and joined the Laboratory of Plasma Studies, where he spent most of his time developing various plasma diagnostics. ...
Graduate Students spend 2 days at the Laboratory of Laser Energetics at UofR
LPS graduate students Jacob Banasek and Sophia Rocco attended a two-day International Workshop on Optical Thomson Scattering hosted by the University of Rochester at the Laboratory of Laser Energetics (LLE). Participants shared recent advancements in diagnostic...
Undergraduate Paul Beck works in the LPS lab for the Summer of 2019
Over the Summer Paul worked with Dr. Sander Lavine and Professor Bruce Kusse to design a capacitor bank. The capacitor bank will deliver strong axial magnetic fields via a Helmholtz coil during the plasma Z pinch. This effect can be used in multifarious experiments to...
Undergraduate Paco Rilloraza spends Summer 2019 in the LPS lab
Worked with Professor David Hammer and Dr. Billy Potter designing a two-color interferometer as a future upgrade to the interferometry diagnostic currently in COBRA.
Undergraduate Jake Lawson’s Summer 2019 work in the LPS Lab
This summer he has been working with Dr. Sander Levine and Professor Bruce Kusse investigating why PLIF is not consistent day to day and coming up with a solution to improve the reproducibility and accuracy of PLIF. This has led him to develop a new calibration method...
Jay Angel, Chiatai Chen and Tommy Hentschel attend HEDS Summer School 2019
July 28 – August 10, 2019 UC San Diego campus, La Jolla, CA This 2-week summer school will promote scholastic development through technical lectures given by field experts as well as professional development sessions aimed at early-career researchers in HEDS...
Euan Freeman interns at LPS Summer 2019
Euan graduated from the University of Evansville (’19) and is at LPS this summer studying plasma spectroscopy in order to be able to perform visible light spectroscopy experiments, and assisting senior researchers and graduate students with their work in order...
Thomas Schmidt from the University of New Mexico spends Summer 2019 at LPS
Taking measurements of radiation spanning the millimeter-wave range up to the near infrared range. Making measurements of turbulent density fluctuations with a proposed Thomson scattering diagnostic which operates in the Bragg scattering limit. This summer so far: ...