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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Today is the third Energy Club Lecture of the semester.
Details are below.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cheers,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kristian Bodek</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Vice President, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy/">MIT
Energy Club</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>"The
Future and Challenges of Fusion Energy"</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Professor
Jeffrey Freidberg, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wednesday
October 18, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5:00–6:00pm</span></font><font
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E51-145 (</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Abstract</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>An overview is given describing the potential role that
magnetic fusion may play in contributing to the world's supply of
electricity. Discussed are the promise, problems, progress, and prognosis
for future success.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Biography</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Professor Jeffrey Freidberg received his BSEE (1961), MS
Electrophysics (1962) and PhD in Electrophysics (1964) from Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Freidberg has carried out
research in the field of plasma physics for over 30 years, with fusion being
the primary application. His career began at Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn where from 1964-1966 he was an Assistant Professor of
Electrophysics. Following that he was a research scientist during
1966-1967 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU and then
held a one-year position as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Culham Laboratory in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Great
Britain</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Upon his return to the </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>United
States</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> in 1968 he joined the Fusion Division of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. There he was first a staff member and then group
leader of the Fusion Theory group. Professor Freidberg had the major
responsibility of developing the theory of the high-beta stellarator
experiment, (Syllac), the main fusion experiment at </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Los Alamos</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>He left </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Los Alamos</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in 1979 to
become a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at MIT where he has been ever since.
He served as Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering (renamed the
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering in January 2005) at MIT from July
1997 through June 2003. He is currently serving his second term as
Associate Director of the Plasma Science and </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fusion</span></font><font
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Professor Freidberg has continued his theoretical research in the area of
tokamak physics and has initiated new research in the area of superconducting
magnet engineering research. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Professor Freidberg has published over 80 refereed articles,
a textbook on Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics and several major review
articles. He is currently working on a textbook for an introductory
graduate course in plasma physics and fusion energy in nuclear engineering to
be published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. He is a fellow of the
American Physical Society. He has also won four teaching awards at MIT.</span></font></p>
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