US & European Universities Offering Graduate Plasma Physics Programs for Fusion

[Winzer]

What are some U.S. & European Universities that have a good graduate program for studying Plasma Physics? I am specifically interested in application to fusion.

I know Princeton has the plasma laboratory, but that might be too competitive for me.

 

[cmos]

If you're looking specifically at fusion applications, you might also consider looking at the engineering departments. Specifically, mechanical, nuclear, and electrical engineering departments will sometimes house applied plasma research.

I think UC San Diego had some work in this area a few years back. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute also has programs in this area.

 

[damoj]

Theres a graduate program in Nuclear fusion Science and Engineering Physics.
Its an erasmus mundus program. check it out
http://www.em-master-fusion.org/index.asp

 

[Astronuc]

What are some U.S. & European Universities that have a good graduate program for studying Plasma Physics? I am specifically interested in application to fusion.

I know Princeton has the plasma laboratory, but that might be too competitive for me.

There's MIT's program, but that's probably competitive like the one at Princeton
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/
http://web.mit.edu/space/www/ - space plasmas

The Plasma Theory and Simulation Group
ptsg.eecs.berkeley.edu

Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering | Engineering at Illinois | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://npre.illinois.edu/ - not sure how strong it is at the moment

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Plasmas and Fusion Technology
sprott.physics.wisc.edu/FUSION.HTM
sprott.physics.wisc.edu/theory/home.htm
Plasma Physics Group
plasma.physics.wisc.edu/
http://plasma.physics.wisc.edu/mst/html/mst.htm

Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory Homepage!
U Michigan - http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/labs/plasma/

Institute of Fusion Studies - U. of Texas, Austin
http://hagar.ph.utexas.edu/ifs/

Columbia University Plasma Physics Lab
www.apam.columbia.edu/apam/plasma/plasmaintro.html[/URL]

The University of Iowa - Department of Physics and Astronomy
[url]www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate/plasma.html[/url]
[url]www.physics.uiowa.edu/[/url]

Plasma Sciences Laboratory (PSL) at Auburn U
[url]http://narn.physics.auburn.edu/[/url]

Stanford Plasma Physics Laboratory - SPPL
[url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pdl/[/url]

Plasma Physics group @ West Virginia University
ulysses.phys.wvu.edu/~plasma/

Institute for Plasma Research - University of Maryland, USA (actually one I considered 27 years ago).
[url]http://www.ireap.umd.edu/[/url]


The UK and EU have programs

If you feel like a change of hemispheres :biggrin:
APP - Applied and Plasma Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
[url]www.physics.usyd.edu.au/app/[/url]



[url]http://www.plasmas.org/plasma-physics.htm[/url]

 

[DR13]

Here are some links from US News and World Report that may help

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankings...e-schools/top-physics-schools/plasma-science"
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankings...-schools/top-physics-schools/nuclear-science"
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankings.../top-engineering-schools/nuclear-engineering"