MIPSE Early Career Award – Material Properties Inside Stars and Fusion Plasmas
MIPSE Seminar
Accurate simulations of fusion experiments and astrophysical objects such as stars require material data including equation of state, opacity, and particle transport coefficients under extreme conditions. These conditions range from approximately 10,000 to 100,000,000 K and densities from 1 to 1,000,000 g/cm³.
In these regimes, atoms are partially ionized and significantly overlap, making conventional low-density plasma physics methods inaccurate. Dr. Charles Starrett will discuss methods developed by his research group at Los Alamos National Laboratory to accurately model these plasmas, review recent progress, and discuss major outstanding challenges in this rapidly developing field.
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- 36 EECS Bldg., 1301 Beal Avenue
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- United States 48109
- Building: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
- Room Number: 1003 EECS
Speakers
Dr. Charles Starrett from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Biography:
Dr. Charles Starrett received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast in 2007, where he studied positronium collisions with matter. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), where he began studying the structure of matter in warm and hot dense plasmas. In 2010, he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he continues his research in this field. He has developed models for predicting material properties including equation of state, particle transport, and opacity, with applications ranging from fusion to astrophysics.
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3:10 PM – Welcome and introduction
Technical presentation – Material Properties Inside Stars and Fusion Plasmas
Questions and discussion
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Presented by the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE).