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| Lucio's research on astrophysical plasmas featured in Physical Review Letters | Fri, 01/15/2021 |
Lucio's research on "dynamic phase alignment", a new fundamental paradigm in the turbulence of plasmas and fluids, has been recently published in Physical Review Letters. The work, carried out in collaboration... |
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| Rogério Jorge receives the Physics Doctoral Thesis Award at EPFL | Thu, 12/19/2019 |
Rogério defended his PhD thesis in January 2019 at EPFL, supervised by Prof. Paolo Ricci and co-supervised by Nuno. His thesis received the Physics Department award at EPFL! He is now a post-doctoral researcher at Univeristy of Maryland Congratulations to Rogério! |
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| Les Houches Plasma Physics School starting soon! | Sun, 05/05/2019 |
Nuno is co-organizing this year's edition of the Les Houches Plasma Physics School, which will take place May 13-24. The school features a set of lectures on a wide range of topics by a group of very distinguished lectures. Muni will be attending! |
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| GPAP Summer School on Plasma Physics for Astrophysicists | Tue, 04/30/2019 |
Nuno is organizing the 1st GPAP Summer School on Plasma Physics for Astrophysicists, in collaboration with Prof. Mike Brown (Swarthmore), Prof. Kris Klein (U. Arizona), Prof. Matt Kunz (Princeton), Prof. Karolyn Kuranz (Michigan) and Dr. Jason Tenbarge (PPPL). |
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| Nuno wins Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant | Mon, 02/11/2019 |
Nuno won the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant, which supports innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing. His project, conducted in colaboration with Professors Dirk Englund (EECS) and Leonid Levitov (Physics), involves applying plasma... |
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| Libby gives IAP talk on fusion and the SPARC project | Tue, 01/15/2019 |
Libby gave an outreach talk during IAP introducing magnetic fusion and the SPARC talk. |
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| Nuno attends the "Plasma Physics of Neutron Star Mergers" Workshop | Sat, 10/13/2018 |
An NSF-sponsored workshop on the plasma physics of Neutron star mergers was hosted by the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, on Oct. 1-3, 2018. Nuno gave an ... |
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| Giannandrea won EPS 2018 Best Video in Plasma Physics award | Fri, 07/06/2018 |
Giannandrea has been awarded the EPS 2018 Best Video in Plasma Physics prize at the “45th Conference on Plasma Physics” organized by the European Physical Society and held in Prague (July 2-6 2018). In his video titled “Turbulence | Voice of Space”, Giannandrea shows results from recent... |
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| Nuno spoke at the CoSI evening at Sidney Pacific residence | Fri, 06/15/2018 |
Nuno intervened at the CoSI (Committee on Scholarly Interactions) evening held at MIT Sidney-Pacific residence on June 15th. CoSI is a graduate organization dedicated to sustaining an intellectual, supportive, and resilient community at MIT. During the discussion, Nuno answered MIT students'... |
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| Jesse Viola completes a research project on "Particle Motion Through an Electric and Magnetic Field" | Fri, 05/25/2018 |
Brookline High School junior, Jesse Viola, completes his year-long internship with Giannandrea Inchingolo and supervised by Nuno Loureiro culminating with a presentation of “Particle Motion Through an Electric and Magnetic Field.” Jesse began by helping to create the... |
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| Nuno spoke at FAIL! - the moment we generally don't share | Thu, 05/17/2018 |
Nuno spoke at FAIL! - the moment we generally don't share - held at MIT on May 17th. FAIL! is a series of TED-style talks where eminent figures from academia and other different contexts share their personal stories of failures and how they transform their failures into success. Failure can... |
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| Nuno gives Physics & Astronomy Colloquium at Dartmouth College | Fri, 05/04/2018 |
Nuno gave a colloquium at the Physics and Astronomy Department of Dartmouth College entitled "New insights into plasma turbulence", reflecting recent work on the role of magnetic reconnection in fluid and kinetic turbulence that he has done in collaboration with Prof. Stas Boldyrev from the... |
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| Nuno spoke at the Zooetics+ Symposium at MIT | Sat, 04/28/2018 |
Nuno spoke at the Zooetics+ Symposium held at MIT on April 27-28, 2018, during the seminar “Futures of symbiotic assemblages: multi-naturalism, monoculture resistance and ‘the permanent decolonization of thought’.” More details on the event can be found here:... |
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| Nuno and Professor Joe Paradiso of the MIT Media lab installed synthisizer near C-Mod experiment | Fri, 04/27/2018 |
Nuno, in collaboration with Professor Joe Paradiso of the MIT Media Lab, transforms Alcator C-Mod, MIT PSFC’s tokamak, into an audio experience. Professor Paradiso designed and built one of the world’s largest modular synthesizers. The synth was recently installed near the C-Mod cell and creates... |
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| Ryan published his work “Symmetries of a reduced fluid-gyrokinetic system” in Journal of Plasma Physics | Mon, 04/02/2018 |
Congratulations to Ryan for his recent publication in Journal of Plasma Physics of his work “Symmetries of a reduced fluid-gyrokinetic system” From the abstract: “Symmetries of a fluid-gyrokinetic model are investigated using Lie group techniques. […] A large... |
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| Muni won the 2018 NSE Expo poster award | Fri, 03/16/2018 |
Congratulations to Muni for being awarded a best poster prize at the 2018 NSE Expo. Muni’s poster was on “Understanding the generation of the magnetic field in the universe”. |
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| Ryan gave a talk at the Courant Institute | Tue, 03/13/2018 |
Ryan was recently invited to give a talk on his study on “Emergent Symmetries in low beta gyro kinetics” at the Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar of the Courant Institue of New York University. More details on Ryan’s talk:... |
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| MIT PSFC announced SPARC Project | Sat, 03/10/2018 |
The Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), in collaboration with a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), today announced the start of the SPARC tokamak project. Using high-field magnets built with newly available high-temperature superconductors, this experiment would be the... |
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| Elizabeth published her work “Development of tearing instability in a current sheet forming by sheared incompressible flow” in Journal of Plasma Physics | Wed, 02/21/2018 |
Congratulations to Elizabeth for her recent publication in Journal of Plasma Physics of her work “Development of tearing instability in a current sheet forming by sheared incompressible flow” From the abstract: “Sweet–Parker current sheets in high Lundquist... |
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| Happy Holidays | Tue, 12/19/2017 |
The Loureiro Group wishes you all Happy Holidays! 2017 was an extremely productive year for the Loureiro Group: several publications were released, students graduated, increasing the collaborations of the Loureiro Group with different... |
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