Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2011 Spring Semester
January 2011
- Monday, January 24th
- Rich Magee, University of Wisconsin/Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- Ion Energization During Magnetic Reconnection in MST
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, January 31st
- John Schmitt, UW-Madison Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Equilibrium Reconstruction and Measurement of Currents in the HSX Stellarator
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
February 2011
- Monday, February 7th
- Joachim Birn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection with Application to Solar Flares and Magnetospheric Substorms
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 14th
- Snezhana Abarzhi, University of Chicago
- Turbulent Mixing: Problems, Concepts, Solutions
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 21st
- Seth Dorfman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Current Layer Disruptions and Associated Turbulence in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX)
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 28th
- Max Umansky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Plasma Turbulence in LAPD
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
March 2011
- Monday, March 7th
- Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
- High-Energy-Density Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments at the Omega Laser Facility and the National Ignition Facility
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, March 14th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 15th
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, March 16th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 17th
- Spring Break
- Friday, March 18th
- Spring Break
- Furlough Day
- Monday, March 21st
- Amanda Hubbard, MIT
- Separation of energy and particle transport barriers in the I-Mode regime on Alcator C-Mod
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, March 28th
- Greg Moses, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Inertial Fusion Energy Prospects - The LIFE Reactor Concept
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
April 2011
- Monday, April 4th
- Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
- Have Process will Travel: Adventures in Plasma Astrophysics
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 11th
- Tony Taylor, General Atomics
- Quasi-axisymmetric Tokamak: Breaking Tokamak Symmetry -- The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 18th
- Phil Snyder, General Atomics
- How the Tail Wags the Dog: Understanding the Physics of the H-Mode Pedestal and ELMs in Tokamaks
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, April 25th
- Harry Mynick, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Reducing turbulent transport in toroidal configurations through shaping
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
May 2011
- Monday, May 2nd
- Amy Wendt, UW-Madison Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- What can we learn from the glow? Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) diagnostics of non-equilibrium electron energy distributions in low-temperature plasmas
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, May 6th
- Last Day of Class
- Monday, May 16th
- Furlough Day
- Monday, May 30th
- Memorial Day