Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar

Open questions for designing nuclear fusion reactors

Speaker: Alan Kaptanoglu, Courant Institute, New York University

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Friday, November 15, 2024, 1 p.m.

Synopsis:

I will give a tutorial on the challenges of building nuclear fusion reactors. In addition, I will highlight some of my work on three-dimensional equilibrium devices called stellarators and mention some of the open questions at the intersection of nuclear fusion and applied and theoretical mathematics.