This summer, two graduate students joined researchers in the Superconducting Magnet Program within the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
(l) Penelope Quassolo and Giorgio Vallone. (Credit: Maureen Thaete/Berkeley Lab)
(l-r) Giorgio Vallone, Vybhav Upadhyayula, and Nandana Menon. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer)
Name & affiliation: Penelope Quassolo, University of California, Berkeley
Project title: HTS Superconducting Magnets for Axion Detection
Mentor: Paolo Ferracin
Student quote: “What excites me most is that we’re not just applying existing magnet technology, we’re pushing it into new HTS territory, where almost every design choice lets us genuinely innovate, not just iterate”
Name & affiliation: Vybhav Upadhyayula, University of California, San Diego
Project title: Development of Simulation Databases for Training of Superconducting Magnet Surrogate Models
Mentors: Paolo Ferracin and Giorgio Vallone
Student quote: “My experience gave me hands-on exposure to modeling and simulations within ML/AI research, pushing me to grow both technically and as a problem solver. I am grateful to Giorgio and Nandana for their mentorship throughout”
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