11/04/23
The HSX group joins this year’s APS meeting in Denver, Co.
Several HSX scientists and graduate students attended his year’s APS-DPP conference. The conference was a great success and three contributed talks, one invited talk and seven posters were presented.
10/11/23
Prof. Geiger delivers a lecture about HSX for students at Charkiw University
The Charkiw Lectures are a series of lessons introducing the stellarator concept for magnetic confinement fusion. The lectures address master and Ph.D. students with a background in general physics. Prof. Geiger contributed to this lecture series with a 90 min seminar on “Key results and future directions of the HSX stellarator”.
08/31/23
HSX successfully resumes plasma operation after a first wall reset.
Video of a fast-framing camera during conditioning discharges showing hot-glowing particles that are accelerated when the plasma touches the plasma vessel for the first time.
05/2023
HSX student Michael Gerard receives the PhD poster award of the Transport Task Force (TTF) meeting for this work on: “Progress towards optimizing the HSX stellarator for reduced microinstability and turbulence”.