Welcome to the website of the Fusion Theory research group at Chalmers University of Technology. We belong to the Division of Nuclear Engineering of the Applied Physics Department.
Peter Catto appointed as honorary doctor
Our long term collaborator and mentor Peter Catto, Assistant Director
and Head of Theory at Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, has
been awarded
a honorary
doctorate at Chalmers. The promotion ceremony has taken place 12 May.
Doctor Honoris Causa Peter Catto and his academic grandson Dr Istvan Pusztai
Upcoming research visits
Annika Ekedahl from CEA, Cadarache will visit 8-11 June to give her installation lecture for the Adjunct Professor title on 8 June and to take part in the MSc thesis presentations of Emelie Nilsson and Jakob Rydén on 11 June.
Ongoing courses
A course about collisional transport in magnetized plasmas is ongoing. For details visit the course webpage or mail Tünde.
Upcoming conferences
Sara will have an oral contribution with the title "Application of Fractional Kinetics in Turbulent Fusion Plasmas" at
the 9th
AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and
Applications, Orlando, Florida, July 1-5, 2012
Tünde, Gergely, Emelie, Albert, Anna, Adam and Yevgen are planning to attend the EPS/ICPP conference in Stockholm, 2-6 July, 2012. We are main or co-authors on 10 contributions.
István will have an invited talk with the title "Turbulent transport of impurities and their effect on energy confinement" at the conference on Theory of Fusion
Plasmas, August 27-31 , 2012, in Varenna, Italy
Tünde and Gergely are planning to attend the Dynamics Days Europe conference in Göteborg, 2-7 September.
Sara and Albert are planning to attend the Joint EU-US TTF Workshop in Padua, Italy,
September 3-6, 2012
Sara and Gergely are planning to attend the 24th Fusion Energy Conference,
8-13 October 2012,
San Diego, USA
Sara is planning to attend the 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 29- November 2, 2012, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.