University of Wisconsin–Madison

2026

07/20/26:

Zeno Tecchiolli, a graduate student at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland), visited HSX to coordinate our further collaboration on plasma edge turbulent simulations. EPFL is developing the GBS turbulence edge code and Zeno recently published a Nuclear Fusion paper about the first GBS simulations of HSX (DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ae7c84).

HSX scientists Dieter Boeyaert and Alexis Wolfmeister together with Zeno Tecchiolli in front of HSX
From left to right, HSX scientists Dieter Boeyaert and Alexis Wolfmeister together with Zeno Tecchiolli in front of HSX

05/06/26:

Undergraduate Nick Merrell gave a successful presentation of his thesis project, which involved designing and building a new spectrometer for measuring plasma impurities in HSX.

Nick Merrel gives his undergraduate thesis presentation.

04/20/26:

Graduate student Henrique Miller Hillebrecht gave an invited talk at the International Stellarator and Heliotron Workshop in Cordoba (Spain). In his talk about “Modeling, Measurement, and Modification of TEM turbulence and quasi-coherent modes in the HSX stellarator”, Henrique presented his recent experiments in high and low elongated configurations and their comparison with GENE simulations.

Henrique Miller Hillebrecht gives an invited talk at the ISHW in Spain.