CER Events
This is a listing of general CER events. To view our Outreach events instead, visit the page here.
  Upcoming  
2026 Innovative Concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy (IC-IFE)
Recent
May 
21
Characterizing and Mitigating Radiation Effects in Inertial Fusion Energy Devices
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Daniel Thorn (Zephyr Spectral)
May 
14
Journey to the Center of the Earth: Using High Power Lasers to Explore Extreme Regimes
CMEC Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Marc Meyers (UCSD)
Apr 
30
Fast and Furious: Diagnostics in Extreme Environments
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Bruce Schumm (UC Santa Cruz)
Apr 
16
Inertial Fusion Energy Activities at General Atomics
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Neil Alexander (General Atomics))
Apr 
2
The quest for high fusion gain two years after the demonstration of ignition in the laser inertial fusion approach
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Prof. Siegfried Glenzer (Stanford University)
Mar 
12
High energy lasers: opportunities and challenges for fusion energy and national security (Final for W25)
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Mike Campbell (UC San Diego)
FEB 
26
Harnessing Geothermal for District Heating: A Case Study on Cascade, Idaho & Federal Policy Uncertainty
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speakers: Zhenhua Zhang, Jenny Nicolas, & Shiny Choudhury (UC San Diego)
FEB 
19
OpenStar Technologies: Developing the Levitated Dipole concept for fusion
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Darren Garnier (OpenStar Technologies LTD)
FEB 
19
Assessing the scaling potential of carbon removal technologies
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Daniela Faggiani Dias (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
FEB 
12
Flexibility in Low-Carbon Industrial Processes
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Michael Davidson (UC San Diego)
FEB 
12
Laboratory Exploration of Early Universe Magnetogenesis via the Biermann Battery Effect
CMEC Seminar Series
Speaker: Tristan Bachmann (University of Rochester)
FEB 
6
Gyrokinetic Analysis for Fast Ion Effects on Turbulence in the FIRE Mode Discharge in KSTAR
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Choongki Sung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon)
FEB 
5
Electric Vehicles and Human Behavior: Can Environmental Messaging and Incentives Improve Drivers' Charging Outcomes?
MAE+CER Energy Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ryan Hanna & Jeffrey Myers (UCSD CER & GPS)
JAN 
22
Phase separation of planetary ices explains magnetic disorder on Uranus and Neptune
Joint CDAC + CMEC Seminar
Speaker: Burkhard Militzer, PhD (UC Berkeley)
JAN 
22
Designing fusion to process nuclear waste: Engineering challenges and solutions
MAE+CER Energy Seminar (1/22) with Prof. Dennis Whyte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
JAN 
8
Pressure effects on thermal conductivity: measurements of shock window LiF and natural samples (iron meteorite)
CMEC Seminar Series
Speaker: Mecedes Vasquez (UC Berkeley)
DEC 
10-11