Attention all APS DPP student registrants,
Please join us for Student Day at this year’s APS Division of Plasma Physics Conference in Chicago! Student Day will take place on Sunday, November 1 (12 - 6 p.m. local time), but students can arrive at any time in that window. This event is aimed at high school, undergraduate, and graduate students and will feature useful student-led introductions to 4 subfields represented at DPP: Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Laser-Plasma Interactions, High Energy Density Plasmas/Inertial Confinement Fusion, and Dusty/Low Temperature Plasma. These interactive tutorials will be interspersed with breaks and physics games, allowing attendees plenty of time to enjoy the catered food at the event.
If you are a mentor viewing this message, please share this information and the attached flyer with your students! Please consider encouraging them to arrive early on Sunday and attend Student Day. Our program is full of useful tutorials and networking that will make the conference a more palatable and meaningful experience for students at all levels. Thank you!
We hope to see you there,
The DPP Student Day Organizing Committee
Brooks Howe, Julia Marshall, Aniyah Brunson, Isaac Huegel, Jessica Gonzalez, Sophie Redd, Clarissa Zuo, and Vasilii Khavin
This year at APS-DPP, CONNECT will be hosting a Luncheon event on Monday, November 2nd. This event is targeted at graduate students and undergraduate students, but post-doc and early-career scientists are encouraged to attend as well! Registration for the Luncheon must be done in advance, as detailed here: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting/registration.
At the Luncheon, Professor Arsene Tema Biwole from Hampton Univeristy will speak on "Building a Career in Fusion: The Path to a Faculty Position". In this seminar, the speaker will discuss his journey matriculating from graduate student to physics professor in plasma physics, and the obstacles and challenges overcome along the way. Following this presentation, a career panel will be hosted showcasing the experiences of early and mid-career scientists from a variety of plasma physics career trajectories including: public policy, university research, and private fusion start-ups.
Speaker Bio
Professor Arsene Tema Biwole is a newly appointed Assistant Professor of Plasma Physics at Hampton University in Virginia. He is currently building a university scale stellarator, STAR-lite, for fusion energy research and education. Prior to his professorship, Arsene was a postdoctoral researcher with MIT stationed at the DIII-D tokamak charged with running the Laser Blow-off impurity injection system. He completed his graduate studies at the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) at the Swiss Plasma Center under the supervision of Ambrogio Fasoli and Laurie Porte, implementing a vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic system.