{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Season 3, Episode 3 -- Tammy Ma: Fusion Ignition and Beyond","description":"In early December 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) had achieved fusion ignition\u2014a reaction of merging hydrogen isotopes that produced more energy than the lasers put in. High-performance computing is an important part of designing, analyzing and refining these experiments, and this episode examines the connection between computing and fusion energy. You\u2019ll meet: Tammy Ma, a plasma physicist at Livermore, talks about how supercomputing supported fusion ignition. Tammy also leads the lab\u2019s Inertial Fusion Energy Initiative. Tammy\u2019s scientific expertise is doing experiments rather than simulations, but in her current role she considers all parts of the fusion puzzle. She\u2019s at the forefront of one of science and society\u2019s grand challenges: Can we produce clean, sustainable fusion energy on the scale needed to power our planet? Tammy talks about computing\u2019s role in understanding and optimizing fusion reactions and how computing\u2019s crossroads could shape fusion\u2019s future. ","author_name":"Science in Parallel","author_url":"http:\/\/scienceinparallel.org","html":"