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. Some of the links are for past years but most of the conferences + workshops + summer schools run yearly, so it is easy to google the new website. 

Conferences in 2025:

• Annual APS-DPP meeting, Nov. 17-21, Long Beach
• Sherwood Theory meeting, May 6-8, NYC
• Simons Retreat, July 14-18, Madison 

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

• 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.

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. 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