Congratulations Michail!
Congratulations to Michail Anastopoulos Tzanis, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in November 2019. Michail’s thesis is entitled “Beyond Axisymmetry in Tokamak Plasmas” and...
Congratulations László!
Congratulations to László Horváth, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. László’s thesis is entitled “Isotope dependence of the H-mode pedestal in...
New podcasting kit!
In April 2019 the ‘A Glass of Seawater’ podcast team won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize and in January the team spent their prize money on new podcasting equipment....
S4E1 – Laser Fusion Schemes
A second round on laser fusion energy ignition research! Here we discuss advanced ignition schemes and big laser facilities. We also get to have a closer look at what Phil,...
Congratulations Siobhan!
Congratulations to Siobhan Smith, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended her thesis at viva in December 2019. Siobhan’s thesis is entitled “Numerical simulations of edge localised mode instabilities...
Congratulations Ben!
Congratulations to Ben Woods, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. His thesis is entitled “Nonlinear wave-particle resonance in deterministic and stochastic...
Sam and Bhavin – research trips to San Diego
Sam Gibson and Bhavin Patel have both recently returned from successful research trips to General Atomics in San Diego. Sam Gibson (a fourth year Durham University Fusion CDT student) was...
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S3-E8 Superconductors
Magnets are mission critical to magnetic confinement nuclear fusion energy and find their way into laser fusion too. Understanding the strongest magnetic fields using near-absolute zero temperature materials science would...
Research trip to IPP CAS, Prague
Steven Thomas, a third year Fusion CDT student based at University of York, recently completed his collaboratory research project at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of...
Welcome to the 2019 Fusion CDT cohort!
In September we welcomed our new cohort of Fusion CDT students across the five university partners. The plasma strand students spent the first few weeks of term together here in...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy