High Gain Fusion Target Design using Generative Artificial Intelligence

Michael E. Glinsky

Chief Executive Officer
BNZ (Beyond Net Zero) Energy Inc.

Seminar Information

Seminar Series
Energy: Joint Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept & Center for Energy Research

Seminar Date - Time
January 21, 2026, 11:00 am
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12:00

Seminar Location
Hybrid: In Person & Zoom (connection in link below)

Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479

Seminar Recording Available: Please contact seminar coordinator, Jake Blair at (j1blair@ucsd.edu)

Michael E. Glinsky

Abstract

By returning to the topological basics of fusion target design, Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) is used to specify how to initially configure and drive the optimally entangled topological state, and stabilize that topological state from disruption.  This can be applied to all methods; including tokamaks, laser-driven schemes, and pulsed-power driven schemes.  The result is practical, room temperature targets that can yield up to 10 GJ of energy, driven by as little as 3 MJ of absorbed energy.  The genAI is based on the concept of Ubuntu that replaces the Deep Convolutional Neural Network approximation of a functional, with the formula for the generating functional of a canonical transformation from the domain of the canonical field momentums and fields, to the domain of the canonical momentums and coordinates, that is the Reduced Order Model.  This formula is a logical process of renormalization, enabling Heisenberg's canonical approach to field theory, via calculation of the S-matrix, given observation of the fields.  This can be viewed as topological characterization and control of collective, that is complex, systems.

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20105  (arXiv preprint)

    https://youtu.be/5vo-Ix_18bw  (YouTube video)

Speaker Bio

Michael Glinsky received a PhD in theoretical plasma physics from UCSD.  He worked for LLNL, Shell Research, BHP, CSIRO, and Sandia National Laboratories;  before founding BNZ Energy Inc., a sustainable energy company.  His work has been recognized by receiving the 1993 Marshall Rosenbluth Memorial APS Prize (then the Simon Ramo Award, for his graduate research in plasma physics, advised by Tom O’Neil and Marshall Rosenbluth), the 1994 LLNL Award for Outstanding Scientific Publication (for his seminal work on the fast igniter advanced ICF target design), and the 2004 CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (for his work using physics-based AI to characterize petroleum reservoirs).