Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
August 2012
September 2012
- Monday, September 3rd
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 4th
- First Day of Class
- Monday, September 10th
- Austin Roach, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Instabilities of a magnetized free shear layer in rotating liquid metal
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, September 17th
- Jaeho Kim, AIST, Japan
- Innovative plasma CVD technology for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials (nanocrystalline diamond film and graphene film)
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, September 24th
- Ivan Khalzov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Dynamos in spherical boundary-driven flows
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
October 2012
- Monday, October 1st
- Laila El-Guebaly, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Neutronics of ARIES and ITER: Progress and Challenges
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, October 8th
- No seminar
- Monday, October 15th
- Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, UC-Boulder
- Strong beaming of high-energy particle acceleration and radiation in magnetic reconnection in relativistic pair plasmas
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, October 22nd
- Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Local and global plasma response and plasma-facing component performance of the liquid lithium divertor in NSTX
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, October 29th
- No seminar
November 2012
- Monday, November 5th
- No seminar
- Friday, November 9th
- James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [NOTE room change]
- Overview of System Identification applications to MHD control: How to control MHD activity without using the MHD equations in the feedback model [Note room change]
- 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, November 12th
- James Callen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- RMP-Flutter-Induced Plasma Transport in DIII-D
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, November 19th
- Jay Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Fast Ion Confinement and Stability of an NBI-heated RFP
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Thursday, November 22nd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 23rd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Monday, November 26th
- Fred Skiff, University of Iowa
- Observing the acceleration of suprathermal electrons by Alfven waves using the diagnostic of whistler-mode wave absorption
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
December 2012
- Monday, December 3rd
- Jason TenBarge, University of Iowa
- Gyrokinetic Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence and Dissipation
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Monday, December 10th
- David Maurer, Auburn University
- The Application and Use of 3D Stellarator Fields on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid to Avoid Tokamak Disruptions
- 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Friday, December 14th
- Last Day of Class