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:
- Annual APS-DPP meeting, Oct. 7-11, 2024 Atlanta, Georgia.
- Sherwood Theory meeting,May 6-8, 2024, Missoula, Montana.
- 24th International Stellarator-Heliotron Workshop (ISHW), September 9 to 13, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japanhttps://ishw2024.github.io/
- Reduced-order modelling conference (MORE24), September 9-13, San Diego, California.
- 21st International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2024), in Ghent, Belgium, from September 8 to 13, 2024. Conflicts with MORE24 and ISHW this year.
- Simons Hidden Symmetries group annual meeting in Princeton/NYC, March 18-22, 2024
- 33 Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2024), Dublin City University, Ireland, 22-27 September 2024
- ICDDPS-5: The 5th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science, August 12-16, 2024
- Synergistic approaches to particle transport in magnetized turbulence: from the laboratory to astrophysics, April 15-17, 2024
- Plasma NET workshop, April 12-14, 2024
- 15th ISS workshop, 1–9 August, 2024
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1ST FTPP ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL AL PLASMA PHYSICS CONFERENCE (AIAPC), October 28-30, 2024
Undergraduate opportunities:
The Courant Institute has a nice list accessible for NYU students, as well as here.
- PFURO program
- SULI internships at a US DOE national lab
- Courant’s SURE program
- 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:
- CRANE program
- PPPL summer school for early undergraduates
- PPPL 2023 Introduction to Fusion Energy and Plasma Physics Course
- 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.
- SULI internships at a US DOE national lab
- SCGSR PhD internships at a US DOE national lab
- Summer schools:
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- https://gss.pppl.gov/2024/ (this years summer school will be on stellarators)
- https://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2023/computational-physics-school-for-fusion-research-at-mit
- https://culhamsummerschool.org.uk/
- https://www.gpapschool.com/
- https://www.iter.org/education/summerschools/carolus
- https://www.iter.org/education/iis
- https://sites.google.com/psfc.mit.edu/cps-fr-2024/home
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Community support and engagement:
- APS-DPP Pride Luncheon on the Wednesday of the conference
- Women+ in Plasma Physics, W+IPP
- APS-DPP Allies program
- APS-DPP Student Day before the APS DPP meeting