Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During September, 2014
- Monday, September 8th
- John Edwards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- In pursuit of Ignition - recent progress and directions at the National Ignition Facility
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building, hosted by Carl Sovinec
- Eric Howell, University of Wisconsin Madison
- A parametric study of extended MHD effects on interchange modes in spheromak equilibria
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Monday, September 15th
- Brian Victor, University of Washington
- Part I: Sustained spheromaks with ideal n = 1 kink stability and pressure confinement and Part II: The development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Monday, September 22nd
- Guo-Yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Kinetic-fluid hybrid simulation of energetic particle interaction with MHD instabilities in toroidal plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Monday, September 29th
- Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute
- Coherent structures and magnetic reconnection in collisionless turbulence from the perspective of kinetic particle simulations
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall, hosted by Dr Stanislav Boldyrev