The next Plasma Science Expo will be in 2022 in Spokane, WA!More Info & RegistrationThe Plasma Science Expo is an exhibition during the annual APS-DPP Meeting that focuses on hands-on science education. Students, parents, teachers, and the general public are welcome to attend. Examples of activities are:
- Make lightning with a Van de Graaff generator.
- Observe your fluctuating body temperature on a special monitor.
- Participate in a "flow bubble" demonstration.
- Manipulate plasma with magnets.
- Watch an electromagnetic wave demonstration.
- Play with plasma “toys.”
- Learn how to confine plasmas magnetically in a fusion device by participating in a computer simulation.
- Meet and talk with professional scientists and engineers in the field of plasma physics and learn about cutting-edge research.
Contributing laboratories, industries, academic institutions, and government agencies include: General Atomics; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Science, U.S. Department of Energy Defense programs, and many more.