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Anne White
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
77 Massachusetts Avenue, NW17-111
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

E-mail: whitea@psfc.mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-8667
Fax: 617-253-0627

About

My research interests involve experiments to investigate the underlying physics relevant to magnetic confinement of fusion plasmas, plasma diagnostics, turbulence and transport in plasmas, and the use of detailed fluctuation measurements to test and validate advanced nonlinear turbulence simulation codes. I am a member of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). My research at MIT will focus on the development of new turbulence diagnostics for both the core and edge plasma at the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. Comparing these new measurements with theory and simulations will support the development of predictive-transport models used to study the expected performance of the international fusion device, ITER. I am also a collaborator at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (GA), San Diego, CA. My past research at DIII-D involved the development of a Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission (CECE) radiometer for measuring electron temperature fluctuations in the core plasma. My current research involves using the nonlinear gyrokinetic turbulence simulation code GYRO to predict changes in turbulence and transport in order to make detailed comparisons with experiments. This work is done in collaboration with the Transport Model and Validation (TMV) Taskforce Group at DIII-D and with researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Wisconsin, Madison (UW) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).