Conferences and research opportunities

This page contains a set of links to major plasma physics and nuclear fusion conferences, workshops, and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

Conferences in 2024:

Undergraduate opportunities:

The Courant Institute has a nice list accessible for NYU students, as well as here.

  1. PFURO program
  2. SULI internships at a US DOE national lab
  3. Courant’s SURE program
  4. REU summer programs, same link as above Courant link, although these are very common programs across the country.

Workshops/summer schools/other programs for undergraduates:

  1. CRANE program
  2. PPPL summer school for early undergraduates 
  3. PPPL 2023 Introduction to Fusion Energy and Plasma Physics Course 
  4. Women in Physics (CUWIP) conferences 

Graduating senior/master’s/PhD level opportunities:

Lots of good stuff (including much of what I list below) can be found at https://www.iter.org/education.

In order to go to the annual APS-DPP meeting, you need to register as a member of the DPP community: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/home. The weekly emails also often have post-doctoral opportunities.

  1. SULI internships at a US DOE national lab
  2. SCGSR PhD internships at a US DOE national lab
  3. Summer schools:
      1. https://gss.pppl.gov/2024/ (this years summer school will be on stellarators)
      2. https://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2023/computational-physics-school-for-fusion-research-at-mit
      3. https://culhamsummerschool.org.uk/
      4. https://www.gpapschool.com/
      5. https://www.iter.org/education/summerschools/carolus
      6. https://www.iter.org/education/iis
      7. https://sites.google.com/psfc.mit.edu/cps-fr-2024/home

Community support and engagement:

  1. APS-DPP Pride Luncheon on the Wednesday of the conference
  2. Women+ in Plasma Physics, W+IPP
  3. APS-DPP Allies program
  4. APS-DPP Student Day before the APS DPP meeting