{"id":1811,"date":"2023-06-26T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:55:01","slug":"fusion-energy-at-mit-from-empirical-to-first-principles-understanding-of-burning-plasmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/fusion-energy-at-mit-from-empirical-to-first-principles-understanding-of-burning-plasmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fusion energy at MIT: from empirical to first-principles understanding of burning plasmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SO(Colloquium).<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-e31fb33f\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-separators top\"><svg id=\"slant\" fill=\"var(--nv-primary-accent)\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"\"><path d=\"M0 0 L100 100 L100 0 Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-9394befc\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT).<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Abstrac<\/strong>t:&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fusion energy using magnetic confinement devices such as tokamaks is becoming closer to its realization as an energy source. Records are attained every year in experiments worldwide, ITER construction is progressing and private investment is flowing into the field. In this talk, we will introduce fusion, its challenges and how the SPARC tokamak (under construction by Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and in collaboration with MIT) is poised to achieve net plasma gain in a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: June 26, 2023, 3:00pm&nbsp;to&nbsp;4:30pm<br><strong>Location&amp;Place<\/strong>:&nbsp;CFTMAT Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rodriguez-Fernandez_colloquium-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rodriguez-Fernandez_colloquium-1.png 594w, https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rodriguez-Fernandez_colloquium-1-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><div style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\" class=\"taxonomy-category has-text-align-center has-link-color wp-elements-1f1b0f0e735d262df90dfd01bcdce4b8 wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-nv-text-dark-bg-color has-background has-neve-link-color-background-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/category\/colloquium\/\" rel=\"tag\">Colloquium<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO(Colloquium). Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT). Abstract:&nbsp; Fusion energy using magnetic confinement devices such as tokamaks is becoming closer to its realization as an energy source. Records are attained every year in experiments worldwide, ITER construction is progressing and private investment is flowing into the field. In this talk, we will introduce fusion, its challenges and how&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/fusion-energy-at-mit-from-empirical-to-first-principles-understanding-of-burning-plasmas\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fusion energy at MIT: from empirical to first-principles understanding of burning plasmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colloquium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/severo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}