Amelia Chambliss

Program Year:

University:

Columbia University

Field of Study:

Plasma Physics

Advisor:

Elizabeth Paul

Degree(s):

B.A. Physics, Reed College, 2020

Practicum Experience(s)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Slaven

Peles

Practicum Title:

Transient stability of fusion power plants on the electric grid

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Quadratic Flux-Minimizing Maps for Characterization of Energetic Particle Transport Mechanisms in Quasihelical and Quasiaxisymmetric Stellarators (2024)

Publications

A. Chambliss and E. Paul. "Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators." Journal of Plasma Physics. Accepted Apr 3, 2025.

A. Chambliss, C. Zhu, et. al., "Sensitivity of Resonant Perturbations in Permanent Magnet Stellarators Using the Gradient and Hessian Matrix Methods," Nuclear Fusion. Accepted Apr 11, 2025.

A. Chambliss and J. Franklin, "A Magnetic Velocity Verlet-Method," The American Journal of Physics 88, 1075 (2020).

Hammond, Kenneth C., Gates, David A., Mercurio, Robert, Maurer, David, Bishop, Douglas, Brooks, Arthur, Chambliss, Amelia, Corrigan, Keith, Dugan, Peter, Ellis, Robert, Lown, Robert, Miller, Craig, Patch, Djin, Perkins, Luke, Rutkowski, Adam, Schmitt, John, Stamper, Eric, Steward, Dennis, Zhai, Yuhu, and Zhu, Caoxiang. "Stellarator Simplification using Permanent Magnets (PM4Stell)." United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.2172/1963786.

Caoxiang Zhu, Kenneth Hammond, Adam Rutkowski, Keith Corrigan, Douglas Bishop, Arthur Brooks, Peter Dugan, Robert Ellis, Luke Perkins, Yuhu Zhai, Amelia Chambliss, David Gates, Dennis Steward, Craig Miller, Bob Lown, Robert Mercurio; "PM4Stell: A prototype permanent magnet stellarator structure." Phys. Plasmas 1 November 2022; 29 (11): 112501.

A. Qian, M. Zarnstorff, D. Bishop, A. Chambliss, et. al. "Simpler optimized stellarators using permanent magnets," Nuclear Fusion 62 084001 (2022).

A. Rutkowski, K. Hammond, C. Zhu, D. Gates, and A. Chambliss. "A novel scheme for error field correction in permanent magnet stellarators," Nuclear Fusion 63 026027 (2023).

Awards

I received the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Outstanding Poster Award for my poster entitled "Position Tolerance of Permanent Magnets in the MUSE Stellarator," presented virtually at the 2020 APS-DPP conference.

I was awarded a commendation of excellence from the President of Reed College for my academic achievements my senior year.

I received Honorable Mention in American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Visual Science Communication Contest for my submission of my ParaView plot of gradient results illustrating the sensitivities of field error on the last closed flux surface to permanent magnet positions in the MUSE
stellarator.

I was awarded the Student Poster Award at the Sherwood Fusion Theory conference in April 2025.