Seminars, Lectures and Outreach

Seminars, colloquia, guest lectures, panels and invited talks outside conferences.

25 seminars and colloquia
9 guest lectures
4 panels
16 invited and outreach talks
20265 talks
OctoberLecture
On the application of surrogate-based optimization techniques to solve complex physics problems in nuclear fusion research

Sample Efficient Optimization course, HEC Montréal · Montreal (Canada) · October 8, 2026

AugustTalk
Hacia la Energía del Futuro: Realidades y Retos de la Fusión Nuclear

Mentalidad 10x, Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) · online · August 27, 2026

FebruaryLecture
Present and Future of Fusion Energy: Why, What and How?

Business Technology Innovation undergraduate program, Boston University, Questrom School of Business · Boston (MA) · February 18, 2026

FebruaryLecture
Present and Future of Fusion Energy: Why, What and How?

Technology & Strategy MBA program, Boston University, Questrom School of Business · Boston (MA) · February 9, 2026

JanuarySeminar
On the use of surrogate-based optimization to accelerate expensive plasma transport simulations

Fusion for Energy (F4E) · online · January 19, 2026

202511 talks
OctoberLecture
On the application of surrogate-based optimization techniques to solve complex physics problems in nuclear fusion research

Sample Efficient Optimization course, HEC Montréal · Montreal (Canada) · October 2, 2025

SeptemberSeminar
La energía de fusión: el porqué, el qué y el cómo

Fundación Innovación Bankinter · online · September 25, 2025

Video

SeptemberSeminar
Lunch & Learn: An overview of the core plasma physics of SPARC

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, FEED Engineering · Somerville (MA) · September 24, 2025

JuneSeminar
Core transport predictions of SPARC tokamak plasmas with flux-matched nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT · Madrid (Spain) · June 20, 2025

JunePanel
Role of AI and machine learning in plasma prediction and stability

“Where Ideas Meet Impact” Meeting, ENI · Milan (Italy) · June 17–18, 2025

JuneSeminar
Core transport predictions of SPARC tokamak plasmas with flux-matched nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) · Garching (Germany) · June 13, 2025

JunePanel
On tokamaks, high-field path and the state of fusion performance predictions

Future Trends Forum: Fusion Forward, Fundación Innovación Bankinter · Madrid (Spain) · June 4–6, 2025

AprilPanel
The Role of Theory and Computation in Fusion Power Plant Design

2025 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference · New York City (NY) · April 7–9, 2025

MarchSeminar
Core transport predictions of SPARC tokamak plasmas with flux-matched nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center · Cambridge (MA) · March 21, 2025

MarchColloquium
Core transport predictions of SPARC tokamak plasmas with flux-matched nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

Frontiers of Plasma Physics Colloquium, Journal of Plasma Physics · online · March 6, 2025

Video

JanuarySeminar
Enabling first-principles predictions of core performance in tokamaks with surrogate optimization techniques

Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy Department · Hanover (NH) · January 21, 2025

20244 talks
NovemberTalk
Present and future of fusion energy: MIT’s vision

Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) · online · November 1, 2024

OctoberLecture
On the application of surrogate-based optimization techniques to solve complex physics problems in nuclear fusion research

Sample Efficient Optimization course, HEC Montréal · Montreal (Canada) · October 3, 2024

JuneTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Frontiers of Innovation & Entrepreneurship workshop, MIT Sloan and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · June 10, 2024

MarchTalk
The promise of fusion energy at MIT

Fireside chat, Richi Innovation Camp · Cambridge (MA) · March 14, 2024

202310 talks
DecemberLecture
Predicting core performance in burning plasmas: from empirical models to nonlinear simulations

Course 22.016, Seminar in Fusion and Plasma Physics, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering · Cambridge (MA) · December 13, 2023

SeptemberSeminar
Enabling multi-channel profile predictions with nonlinear gyrokinetics via surrogate-based optimization techniques

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Computational Sciences Department · Princeton (NJ) · September 28, 2023

JulyTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

UPM Tech Boston Program, Real Colegio Complutense and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid · Cambridge (MA) · July 13, 2023

JuneColloquium
Fusion energy at MIT: from empirical to first-principles understanding of burning plasmas

Plasma Physics Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT UAM/CSIC) · Madrid (Spain) · June 26, 2023

Announcement

JuneLecture
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, cheaper, faster

Nuclear Science and Technology graduate program and Erasmus-Mundus SARENA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSII) · Madrid (Spain) · June 6, 2023

JuneTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Frontiers of Innovation & Entrepreneurship workshop, MIT Sloan and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · June 5, 2023

MarchSeminar
Enabling first-principles predictions of core performance in tokamaks with surrogate optimization techniques

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center · Cambridge (MA) · March 3, 2023

Video

FebruaryColloquium
Core transport and performance of burning plasmas in the SPARC tokamak

Plasma Physics Colloquium, Columbia University · New York (NY) · February 17, 2023

Announcement

JanuarySeminar
Energía de fusión en el MIT: El camino de los campos magnéticos de alta intensidad y el tokamak SPARC

University of Seville · Seville (Spain) · January 20, 2023

Video

JanuaryColloquium
The high-field path to fusion energy and the SPARC tokamak

Colloquium Series, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) · Barcelona (Spain) · January 13, 2023

Announcement

20228 talks
DecemberPanel
Contributions of Fusion Power to Global Climate Action

Counting Stars Workshop, Online Youth Council on Science, Law & Sustainability · online · December 15, 2022

Video · Announcement

SeptemberColloquium
The high-field path to fusion energy and the SPARC tokamak

Physics Colloquium, Wesleyan University · Middletown (CT) · September 29, 2022

SeptemberTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Workshop in International Economics and Global Civil Society, Harvard University and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · September 28, 2022

AugustLecture
Optimization projects for the advancement of fusion energy

Computational Physics School for Fusion Research (CPS-FR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge (MA) · August 22, 2022

Announcement

JulyTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

International Master on Leadership in Engineering and Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · July 11, 2022

JuneColloquium
The high-field path to fusion energy and the SPARC tokamak

Physics Colloquium, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) · Mexico City (Mexico) · June 1, 2022

Video · Announcement

AprilVideo
Introduction to Fusion

Educational video, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center · online · April 2022

Video

AprilTalk
¿Qué es la energía de fusión? ¿Puede convertirse en una fuente alternativa de energía en los próximos años?

Becarios Knowledge Day, Fundación "la Caixa" · online · April 26, 2022

Video

20215 talks
OctoberSeminar
La promesa y los avances en energía de fusión en el MIT

Universidad Nacional de La Plata · La Plata (Buenos Aires) · October 15, 2021

Video

JuneLecture
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, cheaper, faster

Nuclear Science and Technology graduate program and Erasmus-Mundus SARENA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSII) · Madrid (Spain) · June 28, 2021

Announcement

JuneSeminar
Energía de fusión en el MIT: promesas y retos

Association of Spanish Scientists in Sweden (ACES) · online · June 16, 2021

Announcement

AprilSeminar
Transport modeling and performance predictions for burning plasmas in the SPARC tokamak

Plasma Seminar, University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder (CO) · April 23, 2021

Announcement

JanuarySeminar
The SPARC tokamak: towards a burning plasma in this decade

Independent Activities Period (IAP), Plasma Physics Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge (MA) · January 15, 2021

Video

20202 talks
OctoberSeminar
Core transport model validation towards building the physics basis for the SPARC tokamak

Plasma Physics Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison (WI) · October 5, 2020

Announcement

OctoberColloquium
Predictions of core plasma performance for the SPARC tokamak

Frontiers of Plasma Physics Colloquium, Journal of Plasma Physics · online · October 1, 2020

20194 talks
DecemberTalk
Heating by Cooling: perturbing fusion plasmas to predict SPARC performance

Del Favero Prize Lecture, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering · Cambridge (MA) · December 5, 2019

Announcement

SeptemberSeminar
Integrated modeling and predict-first experiments of perturbative cold pulses in tokamak plasmas

Magnetic Fusion Science Seminar, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) · Princeton (NJ) · September 9, 2019

JuneTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Call for Talent workshop, Fundación Universidad-Empresa and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · June 27, 2019

JuneTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Frontiers of Innovation & Entrepreneurship workshop, MIT Sloan and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · June 25, 2019

20184 talks
NovemberTalk
Fusion Energy at MIT: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster

Call for Talent workshop, Fundación Universidad-Empresa and Rafael del Pino Foundation · Cambridge (MA) · November 29, 2018

AugustSeminar
Validation of TGLF in steady-state and perturbative experiments

Fusion Seminar, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) · Eindhoven (Netherlands) · August 14, 2018

AprilSeminar
Understanding Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models

DIII-D Friday Science Meeting, General Atomics · San Diego (CA) · April 27, 2018

MarchTalk
Integrated modeling simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research

Graduate Research Expo, signature presentation, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering · Cambridge (MA) · March 20, 2018

Announcement

20171 talk
JuneTalk
Fusion energy: promise, challenges and perspectives

2nd Joint Meeting of Spanish Scientists in US · Cambridge (MA) · June 5, 2017