Professor Allain was invited to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Materials Science & Technology Division where he presented the seminar titled “Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors”.
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Michael Toriyama selected to attend NCRC Conference
Congratulations to Michael Toriyama for being selected by the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) to present RSSEL’s work on Multi-Scale Computational Irradiation Surface Science at the 2017 National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard University.
Prof. Allain named 2016-17 Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow
Prof. Allain has been chosen as an Engineering at Illinois’ Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow for the 2016-17 year. He joins the second class of Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows, a program first of its kind in a U.S. College of Engineering supported by a group of passionate alumni. Fellows focus on bringing their work to the world by developing a technology and […]
Prof. Allain IEEE – NPSS Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Allain has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society for his lectures “Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors” and “Directed Irradiation Synthesis: manipulating matter in nanoscale self-organized systems“. NPSS Distinguished Lecturers are volunteers who are nominated by the NPSS […]
Sandra Arias presents contributed talk at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress
Sandra Arias will give the contributed talk Magnetic bacterial nanocellulose for neurovascular reconstruction in cerebral aneurysm treatment applications at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC) to be held in Montreal, Canada from May 17 -22, 2016. With over 3500 abstracts submitted by the September 30, 2015 deadline, WBC2016 is on track to be the largest scientific gathering of biomaterials scientists […]
First Plasma in Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA)
HIDRA, the former WEGA stellarator/tokamak, arrived at Illinois in Nov. 2014 from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik and has been under assembly for the last 18 months (watch assembly). On Friday April 22, 2016 HIDRA had its first confined plasma at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, event attended by over 100 people including the Dean of Engineering, the Nuclear, […]
Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors
Professor Allain was invited to present the talk titled Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors in the 2015 – 2016 Nuclear Engineering Colloquium Series at The University of Tennessee this past February, 2016. The complete talk is available for viewing at the following link: View Nuclear Colloquium […]
Intelligent Design of Advanced Nanostructured Biointerfaces for Regenerative Medicine Applications
Professor Allain was invited speaker at the II International Seminar on Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Regenerative Medicine at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Professor Allain presented the talk Intelligent Design of Advanced Nanostructured Biointerfaces for Regenerative Medicine Applications and also visited Ruta N Corporation, an institution that is pursuing the consolidation of Medellin as a city of knowledge undertaking the development of a technology district.