[E&E seminars] Energy Club Lecture on Fusion Energy

[Kristian Bodek]

Today is the third Energy Club Lecture of the semester. Details are below.

 

Cheers,

 

 

Kristian Bodek

Vice President, MIT <http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy/>  Energy Club

 

 

"The Future and Challenges of Fusion Energy"

Professor Jeffrey Freidberg, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering

Wednesday October 18, 2006  5:00-6:00pm
 E51-145 (Tang Center)

 

Abstract

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.

 

 

Biography

Professor Jeffrey Freidberg received his BSEE (1961), MS Electrophysics
(1962) and PhD in Electrophysics (1964) from Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn.

 

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 Great Britain.

 

Upon his return to the United States 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 Los Alamos.

 

He left Los Alamos 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 Fusion Center.  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. 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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