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Prof Hare has received this prestigious award from the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics, with the citation "For the development and exploration of...
Graduate student Thomas Varnish recently finished two weeks of experiments on the COBRA facility at Cornell, assisted by MIT grad student Lansing Horan Thomas again...
Thomas won an Outstanding Poster award for his research on "Two-Fluid Effects in Pulsed-Power-Driven Reconnection" at the 2025 NNSA Stewardship Science Academic Programs...
The Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering has this neat set up where they record and edit short interviews with their colloquium speakers Here's a very...
Graduate student Thomas Varnish's recent paper in Physics of Plasmas has been selected as a Featured Article Thomas studied some mysterious density structures which appeared in...
Profs Jack Hare and Sander Lavine at the Cornell Laboratory for Plasma Studies recently finished two weeks of experiments on COBRA with Drs Hannah Hasson and Matt Gomez from...
With a flash and some sparks, PUFFIN achieves first plasma! After four years of design, fabrication, assembly and commissioning came to an end: last week we fired our first shot...
We had a great time in Atlanta GA for this year's APS DPP, presenting talks and posters on our research Here are the titles of our presentations for this year, and you can find...
We offer our heartfelt congratulations to Dr Rishabh Datta, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Radiatively Cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments Driven by Pulsed...
We’re back from two weeks of experiments on the COBRA pulsed-power generator at Cornell University Graduate student Rishabh Datta wrote a proposal which was funded through...
In January 2025, the PUFFIN group is moving from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT to the Laboratory for Plasma Studies at Cornell Jack is joining the faculty at the...
