06/02/2026
Last week, graduate student Jacob Lord traveled to a workshop in Stockholm, Sweden: "Synergies Between Astrophysical, Space, Laboratory, and Fusion Plasma Physics," part of the interdisciplinary Nordita Scientific Program.
The program "bring[s] together world-leading experts in astrophysical and laboratory plasma physics to explore and discuss the synergies among the different research strands and scientific communities." Jacob works in space-relevant laboratory plasmas in Prof. Earl Scime's research group and performs 3D Thomson scattering diagnostics. He hopes to work in fusion in the future.
"This workshop seemed like a great opportunity to build connections and learn about other subfields since I'm early in my career," Jacob explained. At the workshop, he gave a short presentation on plasma diagnostics and the physics studied in the Scime group. "It was a great opportunity to showcase my work to advanced career physicists and build relevant skills."
Despite being busy with the workshop, Jacob made time to sightsee around Stockholm and nearby Copenhagen, Denmark.
1: With a statue of Roman emperor Trajan at the Danish Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen.
2: View of Nationalmuseum, the Swedish national gallery of fine art in Stockholm.
3: At the Skansen museum in Stockholm, an open air museum showing off pieces of Swedish history from all regions of Sweden.
4: View of a botanical garden near Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen.
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