Michael Lively was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship, a prestigious, nationally competitive fellowship offered by the National Science Foundation in 2014. Mike’s research at RSSEL focuses on computer modeling for directing ion beams to make nano-patterns on material surfaces such as silicon, used by the semi conductor industry primarily for computer chips. The department of Nuclear, Plasma, […]
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Professor J.P. Allain 2015-2016 U.S. Fulbright Scholar
Prof. Allain has been selected as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Colombia and awarded the 2015-2016 Fulbright – Colciencias Innovation and Technology Award through a partnership between the United States Commission for Educational Exchange and the Colombian Government’s Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. Professor Allain will conduct research with collaborators from the Universidad de […]
Professor Allain chairs IEEE Symposium On Fusion Engineering – SOFE 2015
Prof. J.P. Allain chairs the 26th IEEE Symposium On Fusion Engineering – SOFE 2015, which will take place from May 31 – June 4, 2015 in Austin, Texas. The meeting will be co-located with the 20th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference – PPC 2015 at the Hilton Austin Hotel. Registration information is available online. Abstract submission deadline is January […]
NPRE gains major plasma/fusion facility HIDRA, unique in that it combines a tokamak and a stellarator
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald has gifted a multimillion dollar plasma/fusion advanced physics testing facility to the University of Illinois as a result of the relationship the NPRE – Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering’s plasma/fusion group has developed with the German institute. The HIDRA (Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications) facility will boost the ability to perform fusion-relevant experiments on plasma-materials […]
Invited talk at the American Vacuum Society – AVS International Symposium and Exhibition
Prof. Allain will be giving an invited talk at the American Vacuum Society 61st International Symposium and Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland, November 11, 2014. The talk will head off the Plasma-Material Interactions I session and is titled: “Directed Irradiation Synthesis: Manipulating Matter in Nanoscale Self-Organized Systems”. During the symposium Zak Koyn will be presenting his work on: “Oxidation and nanopatterning […]
Prof. Allain invited by the Colombian National Council of Accreditation to join academic peer review team for Los Andes University’s Re-Accreditation Process
Prof. Allain recently visited Universidad de Los Andes (Uniandes) in Bogota, Colombia invited by the Colombian National Council of Accreditation – CNA (Consejo Nacional de Acreditación) as the international peer reviewer for the institutional re-accreditation process of this prestigious university, ranked 5th best in Latin America by the QS University rankings. Prof. Allain also leads […]
Brandon Holybee will give invited talk at the 22nd International Conference on Ion-Surface Interactions
Brandon Holybee has been invited to participate and give an invited talk at the 22nd International Conference on Ion-Surface Interactions ISI-2015 to be held in Moscow from 20 to 24 August 2015. ISI-2015 will be the next one in a series of traditional biennial meetings devoted to problems of physics of atomic collisions with solids and related topics. Brandon will be […]
56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Anton Neff and Felipe Bedoya presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 27-31, 2014 • New Orleans, Louisiana. Anton presented latest work on lithium coatings on tungsten exposed to high-temperature, high-heat flux plasmas in collaboration with DIFFER and Felipe presented latest work on MAPP used in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX) in […]