CER Events

2023 High Energy Density Summer School

UC San Diego

This 2-week summer school will promote scholastic development through technical lectures given by field experts as well as professional development sessions aimed at early-career researchers in HEDS fields of study.

When:  July 17-28, 2023
Where: In Person at UC San Diego

Mixing Matters: Revealing Rock-Ice Miscibility in Massive Water World Interiors

CMEC Seminar Series

Tanja Kovačević
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

When:  June 14, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom | Meeting ID: 968 3519 2697

Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification for Cooperative Wind Farms at Utility-Scale

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Michael F. Howland
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT

When:  June 7, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Designing a Sustainable and Reliable Future: Simulating Next Generation Energy Systems

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Bri-Mathias Hodge
Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Associate Director and Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado

When:  May 31, 2023 | 11:30 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Studying Protostellar Jets by Generating “Accretion-fed” Outflows with Wire Arrays

Postdoctoral Candidate Talk

Hannah R. Hasson
University of Rochester

When:  May 17, 2023 | 11:30 a.m.
Where: SERF 232

Producing Kilojoule Fusion Yields and Hot-Spot Fuel Gain > 1 in OMEGA Direct-Drive ICF Implosions

Postdoctoral Candidate Talk

Connor Alexander Williams
University of Rochester/Laboratory for Laser Energetics

When:  May 17, 2023 | 2:00 p.m.
Where: SERF 232

Thermodynamics of Planetary Building Blocks

CMEC Seminar Series

Kaitlyn Amodeo
UC Davis

When:  May 10, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Leveraging Unsteady Flows for Enhanced Performance in Wind-Energy Systems

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Nathaniel Wei
California Institute of Technology

When:  May 3, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Simulating Shock in Silicon and Diamond Carbon

CMEC Seminar Series

Alex Li
UC San Diego

When:  April 12 | 11:00 a.m. 
Where: Zoom

CER & OASIS Reception

CER faculty and researchers will connect with first year students in the UCSD OASIS program, which seeks to support and offer research experiences to first generation college students and students from underserved populations.

When:  April 11 | 4:00 p.m. Mingle; 4:30 p.m. Faculty Panel + Q&A
(Lab tours will take place on April 19 from 4-5 p.m.)
Where: Green Table Room in Price Center

Interface Dynamics in Ideal and Realistic Fluids

CER Seminar/CMEC Special Seminar

Snezhana I. Abarzhi
The University of Western Australia

When:  March 1, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Repurposing Used Electric Vehicle Batteries as Electricity Grid Energy Storage

CER Seminar

Chris White
Dalhousie University’s Renewable Energy Storage Laboratory in Halifax, Canada

When:  March 1, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: In person in SERF 232 & via Zoom

Extreme Material Dynamics Experiments on SNL’s Z Machine

Hosted by the Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions, CMEC

Pat Kalita
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

When:  February 22, 2022 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Pushing the physics of transport barriers towards the wall: How do boundary conditions impact the confinement transitions in tokamaks

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Mathieu Peret
Oak Ridge Associated Universities

When:  February 15, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Time series forecasting: Enabling the energy transition with smart meter data

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Lola Botman
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

When:  February 8, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom

Machine Learning-Enhanced Optimization and Wildfire Risk Mitigation for Power Systems

Joint CER/MAE Energy Seminar Series

Alyssa Kody
Argonne National Laboratory

When:  February 1, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Where: Zoom