NSE Research Expo 2022

Each year, the Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) department at MIT hosts the NSE Research Expo; an internal, half-day event, where students from the department can present their work as a poster, or invited talk. This year’s theme was “Foundations and Fontiers”, and students were encouraged to demonstrate the societal impact of their research field. Thomas presented some initial results from his experiments on the MAIZE pulsed-power facility at the University of Michigan, and how these results along with PUFFIN can help develop our understanding of space weather and solar storms. For his poster, Thomas was awarded both the Judges’ and Peoples’ choice awards; congratulations!

Thomas presenting his poster to fellow members of the NSE department. (Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl)

Nuno very much enjoyed seeing some experimental hardware for the first time. Thomas brought the same exploding wire array load that was used on the experiments at UMich to help explain the experiments. (Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl)