In the academic year 2024, a total of twelve students from the Department of Advanced Energy and the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering completed the program.
Prof. Hiroshi Yamada of the Department of Advanced Energy delivered his final lecture, titled “Exploring Fusion Science and the Concept of ‘Kiwa (際)’ ”, at the Kashiwa Campus. The event was well attended, with many participants joining both in person and online. Following the lecture, a commemorative party was held, where attendees shared memories with Prof. Yamada in a warm and friendly atmosphere. Prof. Yamada will be the position of Director of the National Institute for Fusion Science in April 2025. We sincerely wish him continued success in this new chapter of his career.
We invited students from the University of Science and Technology of China to Japan for a week, and they visited the University of Tokyo, Nagoya University and the National Institute for Fusion Science, where they gave research presentations and participated in discussions, and also toured the facilities and equipment. This project was carried out as part of the Sakura Science Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
At the 41st Annual Meeting of the JSPF, held in Tokyo from 17th to 20th November 2024, a staff member and a student gave presentations on the following topics and received the Young Scientist Presentation Award in the regular member and student categories, respectively. Yuki Hayashi (Assistant Professor in the Dep. of Complexity Science and Engineering) Dynamic response of detached plasma to superimposed heat pulse in linear plasma device Magnum-PSI Tetsuji Kato (2nd year Ph.D student in Dep. of Advanced Energy) Correlation between energy flux and energy exchange in ITG-TEM turbulence