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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