Cycle of talks by prestigious researchers from Spain or working in Spain. These events are sponsored by the Areces Foundation and the Spanish Embassy in Estonia.
The first of the talks was given by Dr. Isabel García Cortés, researcher at the National Fusion Laboratory of CIEMAT (Madrid) and took place on 6 October 2023 at the University of Tallinn (Estonia).
Below is the title and summary of her talk.
Title: Fusion Energy and its challenges
Abstract: It is widely recognized that achieving sustainable clean energy supplies is one of the largest challenges that mankind will face during this century, and that the creation of new energy sources that can overcome the problems associated with fossil fuel-based sources is of the great interest. In this regard, nuclear fusion promises to be a source of limitless clean energy. In this presentation, after explaining the basics of nuclear fusion, some of the current efforts to make this dream a reality will be presented. The talk will consider current most-advanced approaches to nuclear fusion as an energy source, such as inertial confinement and magnetic confinement, and will provide examples of the most advanced experiments. The talk will focus also on current technological and physics challenges as well as on progress, and on current developments, at the Spanish National Fusion Laboratory where the experimental fusion device, the stellarator TJ-II, is the central focus of current Spanish research efforts.
Dr. Anna Tudela-Isanta (from the Open University and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) gave the second talk of this cycle on 11 October 2023 at the University of Tartu (Estonia).
Dr. Tudela-Isanta, a sociolinguistic specialist, explained how Catalan, as a minor