November 17, 2025
The University of California Initiative for Fusion Energy has awarded $8 million in multicampus research grants, in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, to accelerate progress toward fusion energy. Two winning research teams will each receive $4 million over three years. Dr. Farhat Beg is co-leader of one of the teams, composed of UC faculty across multiple disciplines from five UC campuses and the UC-managed Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.
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June 16, 2025
Graduate student Perry Samimy won two poster awards during summer 2025. He earned second place in the people's choice category at the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science summer poster session for "Implosion Trajectory Measurements from Ion Fast Ignition Experiments on OMEGA," completed during his internship with LLNL mentor Dr. Raspberry Simpson. Additionally, Perry was awarded second place amongst graduate students at the High Energy Density Science Summer School held at UC San Diego for his presentation on "Study of Proton Heating in Proximally Structured Cu Foam Targets."
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The 2025 OLUG Meeting at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) in Rochester, NY brought together more than 140 students, researchers, and academics from 38 domestic and international High-Energy-Density Science institutions. Our postdoc, Edoardo, presented a poster titled "Simulations of LPI-generated hot electrons with an applied external magnetic field" which impressed the judges and earned him the Best Poster Award among attending postdoctoral researchers.
Jun. 16, 2025
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Dr. Ma, our esteemed group alumnus and former PhD student of Prof. Beg, contributes to groundbreaking fusion energy research—harnessing the power of the Sun to build self-sustaining energy plants. Correspondent Ben Tracy (CBS News Sunday Morning) reports from the National Ignition Facility in California and Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Massachusetts, where scientists push the boundaries with the world's largest laser and ultra-hot plasma.
March 17, 2025
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The University of California San Diego is part of a new research partnership led by San Diego-based General Atomics that was recently awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project, called the Target Injector Nexus for Experimental Development (TINEX), aims to overcome critical obstacles in developing and scaling up inertial fusion power plants. It is one of six awards, collectively totalling $107 million, made by the DOE as part of the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives.
February 13, 2025
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CER Professor, Dr. Beg, is Co-Director of the Fusion Engineering Institute, a new engineering institute led by the Jacobs School of Engineering focused on making sure humanity's recent advances in fusion science translate into safe, abundant and affordable clean energy for California, the nation and the world.
October 8, 2024
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