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: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting
• Sherwood Theory meeting: http://www.sherwoodtheory.org/
• 24th International Stellarator-Heliotron Workshop (ISHW), September 9 to 13, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan, (https://ishw2024.github.io/)
• Reduced-order modelling conference (MORE24) https://more2024.sciencesconf.org/
• 21st International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2024), in Ghent, Belgium, from September 8 to 13, 2024 (https://icpp2024.ugent.be/). Conflicts with MORE24 and ISHW this year.
• Simons Hidden Symmetries group annual meeting in Princeton/NYC, March 18-22, https://hiddensymmetries.princeton.edu/events/2024-hidden-symmetries-and-fusion-energy-team-meeting
• 33 Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2024), Dublin City University, Ireland from 22 to 27 September 2024, https://soft2024.eu/
• ICDDPS-5: The 5th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science, https://na.eventscloud.com/website/63026/, August 12-16
• Synergistic approaches to particle transport in magnetized turbulence: from the laboratory to astrophysics, April 15-17, https://pcts.princeton.edu/events/2024/synergistic-approaches-particle-transport-magnetized-turbulence-laboratory-astrophysics
• Plasma NET workshop April 12-14, 2024, https://sites.google.com/view/plasmanetus/conferences-workshops/pnet-2024?authuser=0
• 15th ISS workshop, plan.events.mpg.de/event/152

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Undergraduate opportunities:

The Courant Institute has a nice list accessible for NYU students: https://math.nyu.edu/dynamic/undergrad/ba-cas/activities-research/activities-research-overview/ and https://wp.nyu.edu/math_undergraduate_research/

1. PFURO program (https://www.pppl.gov/plasma-and-fusion-undergraduate-research-opportunities-pfuro)
2. SULI internships at a US DOE national lab (https://science.osti.gov/wdts/suli)
3. Courant’s SURE program (https://math.nyu.edu/dynamic/undergrad/ba-cas/activities-research/summer-undergraduate-research-experience/)
4. REU summer programs, same link as above Courant link (https://math.nyu.edu/dynamic/undergrad/ba-cas/activities-research/activities-research-overview/), although these are very common programs across the country.

Workshops/summer schools for undergraduates:

1. PPPL summer school for early undergraduates https://www.pppl.gov/workshop-plasma-physics-undergraduates
2. PPPL 2023 Introduction to Fusion Energy and Plasma Physics Course https://www.pppl.gov/welcome-2023-introduction-fusion-energy-and-plasma-physics-course
3. Women in Physics (CUWIP) conferences https://www.pppl.gov/aps-conference-undergraduate-women-physics

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 (https://science.osti.gov/wdts/suli)
2. SCGSR PhD internships at a US DOE national lab (https://science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery)
3. Summer schools:
   1. 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 https://engage.aps.org/dpp/programs/plasma-pride/events-and-activities
2. W+IPP https://engage.aps.org/dpp/programs/women-in-plasma-physics
3. APS-DPP Allies program https://engage.aps.org/dpp/programs/women-in-plasma-physics/allies
4. APS-DPP Student Day before the meeting https://engage.aps.org/dpp/programs/students-early-career-scientists