People
Matt LandremanAssociate Research ScientistRoom 3369 A. V. Williams building 8223 Paint Branch Drive College Park, MD 20742, USA Cell: (+1) 651-366-9306 mattland at umd dot edu |
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Alan KaptanogluAlan is a post-doctoral researcher working on new optimization techniques for stellarators, algorithms and applications for physics-informed neural networks, and sparsity promotion across plasma physics. [CV] [Google Scholar] [YouTube] [GitHub] |
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Stefan BullerPostdoc, working on stellarator optimization with a background in stellarator transport. Likes playing and working with computers. |
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Siena HurwitzPhD student, currently working to better understand why some stellarator magnetic field configurations may be more difficult to realize with electromagnetic coils than others. |
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John KappelJohn is a PhD student studying stellarator coil complexity and how it may be understood in terms of scale lengths in magnetic fields. |
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Byoungchan JangByoungchan 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. |
Patrick Kim
Undergraduate, working with Bill Dorland on gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microinstabilities in stellarator geometry.
Alex Wiedman
Undergraduate, designing electromagnetic coils for quasi-helically symmetric stellarators.
Collaborators at Maryland
On campus we work with Bill Dorland, Tom Antonsen, Ian Abel, Jim Drake, Adil Hassam, Marc Swisdak, and Ricardo Nochetto.
Past group members
- Daniel Alex, undergraduate, 2021 TREND program.
- Rogerio Jorge, postdoc, now at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- Arthur Carlton-Jones, undergraduate.
- Alessandro Geraldini, postdoc, now at the Swiss Plasma Center (EPFL).
- Mike Martin, PhD 2020, [thesis], now at Princeton Stellarators Inc.
- Elizabeth Paul, PhD 2020, [thesis], APS-DPP Rosenbluth award, now Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
- Brian Reed, undergraduate.
- Ben Cha, undergraduate.