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ANS@UCI is proud to continue our outreach presentations by spotlighting BIPoC and Women in the fields of Nuclear Science and Engineering. We strongly believe in encouraging diversity and promoting representation amongst BIPoC communities. The Pandemic and BLM protests have highlighted the need to continue outreach.

We invite you to join us in hearing Erica Salazar speak about her experience and career in becoming a Nuclear and Superconductor Engineer. Erica Salazar is a PhD student at MIT in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering working at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. She received both her Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University where she delved in research projects such as building jet engines, designing piston seals for high compression piston engines, and analyzing microchip heat transfer.  At MIT, she is working on high temperature superconducting magnet design and research for the SPARC project--a fusion device with the goal of reaching net fusion energy. Erica has 8+ years of experience working with superconducting magnets for fusion applications. Prior to MIT, Erica worked at General Atomics as a mechanical engineer and process manager on the ITER Central Solenoid superconducting magnet manufacturing project. She has enjoyed learning and exploring the limits of superconducting magnets through her experiences with both ITER and SPARC magnets; and looks forward to continuously making an impact in the fusion and superconducting community.

Her talk will retell her experience, successes, and obstacles throughout her career. With this, this talk is geared towards undergraduate, high school, and beginning graduate students.

Register at: https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocuytpzktH9LUPPGo3lzWM7M8MeuvJxpk 

In collaboration with Women in Physics & Astronomy (WiPA), we are pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Ami DuBois. 

We invite you to join us in hearing Dr. DuBois speak about her experience and career as a plasma physicist. Dr. DuBois has had a successful career starting at Auburn University in Alabama where she worked on her PhD under Professor Edward Thomas Jr. After receiving her PhD on the dynamics of shear flows in a plasma boundary layer, she worked at the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) experiment in Wisconsin where she helped develop a fast x-ray detector to study fast electron dynamics. She went on to work at TAE Technologies Inc. where she worked on the C-2W FRC device .

Dr. DuBois is now working at the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. where she is investigating plasma physics for space based applications.

Her talk will retell her experience, successes, and obstacles throughout her career. With this, this talk is geared towards undergraduate, high school, and beginning graduate students.