People

Matt Landreman Associate Research Scientist Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics Room 3369, A. V. Williams building, 8223 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA Cell: (+1) 651-366-9306, email: mattland at umd dot edu Studying methods to design electromagnetic coils, stellarator optimization, and neoclassical and turbulent transport.
Thomas Antonsen, Jr Distinguished University Professor Department of Physics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics [UMD site] Developing adjoint methods to efficiently calculate derivatives for optimization and sensitivity analysis. Also interested in acclerators and radiation sources, kinetic theory and instabilities, and other topics.
Rory Conlin Postdoc, working on stellarator optimization and numerical methods for calculating neoclassical transport.
Todd Elder DOE FES postdoctoral fellow, working on stellarator optimization: coil simplification and divertor properties
Siena Hurwitz PhD student, currently working on methods to efficiently compute self-fields and self-forces for electromagnetic coils, for use in optimization.
John Kappel John is a PhD student studying stellarator coil complexity and how it may be understood in terms of scale lengths in magnetic fields.
Byoungchan (Chris) Jang Byoungchan is a PhD student researching new optimization techniques for stellarators. He is working on a project that seeks to use machine learning techniques to calculate MHD equilibria.

Alex Wiedman

Undergraduate, designing electromagnetic coils for quasi-helically symmetric stellarators.

Past group members

• Prof. Bill Dorland, 1965-2024. [obituary].
• Stefan Buller, postdoc, now at Princeton University.
• Patrick Kim, undergraduate, now PhD student at PPPL.
• Alan Kaptanoglu, postdoc, now faculty at NYU-Courant.
• Daniel Alex, undergraduate, 2021 TREND program.
• Rogerio Jorge, postdoc, now faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Arthur Carlton-Jones, undergraduate.
• Alessandro Geraldini, postdoc, now at the Swiss Plasma Center (EPFL).
• Mike Martin, PhD 2020, [thesis], now at Thea Energy.
• Elizabeth Paul, PhD 2020, [thesis], APS-DPP Rosenbluth award, now faculty at Columbia University.
• Brian Reed, undergraduate.
• Ben Cha, undergraduate.