Congratulations to Val Aslanyan!
Valentin Aslanyan is a Fusion CDT student who has successfully defended his thesis recently. His thesis is entitled “Extreme ultraviolet lasers and their interactions with matter” and his supervisor is...
Congratulations to Jarrod Leddy
Jarrod is a Fusion CDT student based at the York Plasma Institute who successfully defended his thesis at viva on 6 April 2016. Jarrod’s supervisor is Dr. Ben Dudson. Jarrod’s thesis...
Experiment at Vulcan Target Area West
From 29 February to 1 April 2016 Leo Doehl participated in an experiment at Vulcan Target Area West at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Leo (at the back of the photo below)...
Outreach training, outreach triumph
Outreach activities have always been an important and valued part of the Fusion Doctoral Training Centre experience. However the students choose to be involved, from “behind the scenes work” to...
Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop – 25 to 27 April 2016
This year’s Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at the York Plasma Institute from 25 to 27 April 2016. This was a postgraduate workshop exploring the frontiers of fusion...
Proton Imaging of Laser-Produced Plasmas
Fusion CDT students returned to Orion for two more weeks in November 2015, along with a team of visiting PhD students from the University of York, Queen’s University of Belfast, Imperial...
MINOS conference at CEA Cadarache Research Centre
Fusion CDT students, Jack Haley and Robbie Abernethy, recently attended the MINOS conference at CEA Cadarache Research Centre on Flux and Dose effects in Nuclear Materials. Cadarache should be a...
PHD AND MSC FUSION OPEN DAY AT CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE
Thanks to those of you who managed to come along to Culham Science Centre on Wednesday 25 November. We hope you enjoyed your visit and tours and that the talks...
Award-Winning Student Presentation
Arka Bokshi reports on his recent attendance of the MIT-hosted workshop, and subsequent prize win: I had the opportunity to present at the US/EU Transport Task Force Workshop, hosted by...
Dave Shaw wins IPSI Poster Prize
The annual June meeting of the “Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin films” group took place at Loughborough University in June 2015. The programme consisted of ten oral and sixteen poster presentations. There...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy