Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Michael Guidry

Room: 308

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Lucas Platter

Room: 104

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Room: 403

Pre-Colloquium Reception Room: 3rd Floor Atrium

Colloquium: Lighting the Way: How ORNL is making fusion energy a reality

• Troy Carter (ORNL)

Room: 307 Fusion energy promises to be a transformative, long-term solution to global energy needs—offering abundant, safe, and carbon-free power. This talk will introduce the fundamentals of fusion, the technical challenges of harnessing it for practical energy production, and the strategies being pursued to overcome these challenges. The talk will highlight recent progress in both public and private sector efforts and outline the path toward a fusion pilot plant. I will highlight the challenges in plasma physics, plasma-materials interaction, and condensed matter/materials science that represent opportunities for collaboration between UTK and ORNL.

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty Room: 604 Robert Grzywacz