Monday Physics Meetings

NSTX-U Monday Physics Meetings are held at 1:30pm in B318

Slides from past meetings can be found here

Upcoming schedule: 

2026

1/19

MLK - no meeting

1/26

Hendrik Meyer (UKAEA) (in person) Update on the STEP plasma design and how NSTX-U experiments can reduce uncertainties

Colin Roach (UKAEA) (remote) Recent Progress in Understanding Electromagnetic Turbulence in STEP

2/2

Laszlo Horvath Main chamber neutral fueling asymmetries in DIII-D H-mode plasmas

Quinn Pratt Multi-diagnostic characterization of neutrals and particle transport in the near X-point confined region of DIII-D

2/9

James Yang Development of the reference scenario for NSTX-U first plasma

    Jinwoo Gwak (SNU) (remote) First-principle startup modeling from conventional to ST tokamaks: EC-breakdown in KSTAR and Ohmic-discharge in VEST

2/16

President's day - no meeting

2/23

Josiah Wai (CFS) (remote) NSTX-U equilibrium trajectory optimization

Andrey Lvovskiy (GA) (remote) GA TokSys tools for plasma startup (with lessons learned on MAST-U)

3/2

    Joseph T. McClenaghan (GA) (remote) Pedestal Stability and KBM Transport Limits in spherical Tokamaks using QLGYRO

3/9

    Domenica Corona AI/ML SPARC

3/16

Ping-Yu Li (Texas) (remote) Importance of dB parallel on ETG stability, turbulence, and transport in NSTX

3/23

     Santanu Banerjee Enhanced ballooning stability and ELM suppression by Boron injection in DIII-D: a path towards facilitated Super-H access