Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2012 Spring Semester
January 2012
- Monday, January 16th
- Martin Luther King Day
- Monday, January 23rd
- First Day of Class
- Prof. Frank Jenko, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching
- Understanding and predicting turbulence in laboratory plasmas
- 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Monday, January 30th
- Dr. Kirk Flippo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Fusion Cuisine: Mingling Inertial and Magnetic Fusion Concepts in High Energy Density Plasma Physics
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
February 2012
- Wednesday, February 1st
- Dr. Benjamin Longmier, University of Houston
- Ambipolar ion acceleration from plasma expansion through a magnetic nozzle and near-term spacecraft propulsion applications
- 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 6th
- Dr. Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain, Cornell University
- High energy density plasmas generated by radial foils on COBRA
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, February 8th
- Dr. Ahmed Diallo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboatory
- The evolution of the edge pedestal structure and turbulence during the edge localized mode (ELM) cycle on NSTX
- 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 13th
- Dr. Uwe Kokopka, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
- Complex Plasma - A Potential Field for Interdisciplinary Research Using Laboratory and Space Experiments
- 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 20th
- Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Impulsive Fast Reconnection via Flux Rope Dynamics
- 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin, hosted by Cary Forest
- Thursday, February 23rd
- William Fox, University of New Hampshire
- Studying Fast Magnetic Reconnection with Laboratory Plasmas
- 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Cary Forest
March 2012
- Thursday, March 1st
- Eric Edlund, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Rotation and turbulence in laboratory and astrophysical systems
- 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Monday, March 5th
- Mark Nornberg, UW-Madison
- Using liquid metal experiments to test models of MHD turbulence
- 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
April 2012
- Monday, April 2nd
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, April 3rd
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, April 4th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, April 5th
- Spring Break
- Friday, April 6th
- Spring Break
- Monday, April 16th
- Prof. Greg Howes, University of Iowa
- Kinetic Turbulence in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas: Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Investigations
- 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
May 2012
- Monday, May 7th
- Prof. Jan Egedal, MIT
- Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas; a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory
- 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Friday, May 11th
- Last Day of Class - No Colloquium
- Monday, May 28th
- Memorial Day