Quick Shot
Student Highlight, Alison Christopherson
October 19, 2015
Alison Christopherson is a Ph.D. candidate in the University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering studying under Prof. Riccardo Betti. Last month, Alison’s presentation at the Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications conference was selected as the outstanding talk by a student. This was wonderful news for Alison, the Laboratory, and the University, and is a credit to both her and her advisor. In addition, Alison will be giving an invited talk on her research at the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics conference next month in Savannah, GA. Her research is aimed at measuring the heating by alpha particles in inertial fusion implosions. Alison’s work on alpha heating has recently appeared in a paper published in Physical Review Letters.