Postdoctoral Research Associate
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
3359 A.V. Williams Building
Phone: 301-405-4977
Email: akaptano@umd.edu
Advisor: Matt Landreman
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Washington, 2021
- B.S., Physics, Theoretical Concentration, Stanford University, 2016
BACKGROUND
Dr. Alan Kaptanoglu received a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington in 2021. He joined the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) at the University of Maryland in 2022. He is currently working on stellarator optimization with Dr. Matt Landreman in the UMD Stellarator Group.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Plasma physics
- Turbulence and transport
- Stellarator physics and optimization
- Computation physics and high performance computing
- Reduced-order models, machine-learning, control theory and nonlinear optimization
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