{"id":2375,"date":"2017-11-16T00:31:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:45:28","slug":"world-leading-fusion-expert-visits-bsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2017\/11\/16\/world-leading-fusion-expert-visits-bsc\/","title":{"rendered":"World-leading fusion expert visits BSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2382\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-e1510826685256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-e1510826685256.jpg 4218w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-e1510826685256-400x215.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-e1510826685256-1024x552.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, we have been honoured\u00a0to receive\u00a0a visit\u00a0by <strong>Dr. Sergei Sharapov<\/strong> from <strong>Culham Center for Fusion Energy<\/strong>, UK, to BSC\u00a0under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsc.es\/join-us\/why-to-work-at-bsc\/mobility-programmes\/so-mobility-grants\"><strong>Severo Ochoa mobility programme<\/strong><\/a>. Sergei visited us\u00a0for two weeks from the 23rd of October to the\u00a03rd of November, 2017 to collaborate\u00a0on the modelling of <strong>Alfvenic instabilities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TJ-II\">TJ-II<\/a> discharges<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his stay he also delivered a Severo Ochoa Research Seminar entitled &#8220;<em>Magnetic nuclear fusion and fast ion driven Alfv\u00e9n instabilities<\/em>&#8221; in the UPC-Nord Campus organized by BSC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dr Sergei Sharapov<\/strong> is Principal Research Scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culham.org.uk\">Culham Science Center,<\/a> UK. He has more than 35 years of expertise in theoretical and experimental plasma physics research in multidisciplinary environments, of which more than 23 years at Joint European Torus (JET, UK) and more than 20 years on START and MAST (CCFE, UK).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>His areas of expertise<\/strong> are acceleration and diagnostics of energetic particles in magnetic plasma devices, energetic particle-driven instabilities, MHD spectroscopy, neoclassical instabilities, nonlinear kinetic theory of wave-particle interaction and nonlinear waves. He is the developer of numerical MHD spectral codes of the MISHKA series with capabilities for studies of Alfv\u00e9n eigenmodes and MHD instabilities in realistic axisymmetric magnetic field configurations. Dr. Sharapov has authored <strong>more than 150 papers in refereed journals<\/strong>, including several invited review papers.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsc.es\/research-and-development\/research-seminars\/sors-magnetic-nuclear-fusion-and-fast-ion-driven-alfv%C3%A9n-instabilities\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we have been honoured\u00a0to receive\u00a0a visit\u00a0by Dr. Sergei Sharapov from Culham Center for Fusion Energy, UK, to BSC\u00a0under the Severo Ochoa mobility programme. Sergei visited us\u00a0for two weeks from the 23rd of October to the\u00a03rd of November, 2017 to collaborate\u00a0on the modelling of Alfvenic instabilities in the TJ-II discharges. 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