The Graduate Seminar, AST 558 "Seminar in Plasma Physics," meets on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in the Theory Conference Room (T168). PPPL is on the James Forrestal campus.
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
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Fall 2007 |
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| 9/17/07 | Professor Robert J. Goldston | Overview of Fusion Research at the Goldston Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| 9/24/07 | Seth Dorfman | Fully Kinetic Simulations of Driven Magnetic
Reconnection with Boundary Conditions Relevant to the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) |
| 10/01/07 | Abe Fetterman | Radio Frequency Heated Plasma Thrusters |
| 10/08/07 | Josh Kallman | A Reduced Energy Principle for Ideal/Tearing Modes in Separatrix-Limited Plasmas |
| 10/15/07 | Daniel Lundberg | DEGAS 2 Monte Carlo Simulations of a
Supersonic Gas Injector on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) |
| 10/22/07 | Austin Roach | Numerical Studies of Boundary Layers in
the Princeton Magneto-Rotational Instability (MRI) Experiment |
| Week of October 30 - 2007 | Fall Recess | |
| 11/05/07 | Jessica Baumgaertel | Active Perturbations in the Outflow Region of
the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) Current Shee |
| Week of November 12 - 2007 Division of Plasma Physics Meeting | ||
| 11/19/07 | Craig Jacobson | Study of the Effects of Guide Field on
Reconnection in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) |
| 11/26/07 | Erik Granstedt | Characterization of the Plasma Plume in the
Current Overrun Regime of Cylindrical Hall Thrusters |
| 12/03/07 | Luc Peterson | An Experimental Study of Turbulent Boundary Layers in Free-Surface MHD Flows |
| 12/10/07 | Jongsoo Yoo | Building a Lyman-Alpha Detector for
Measurement of Recycling Rates in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX) |
| 12/17/07 | Eisung Yoon | Particle-Continuum Method with Fokker-Planck Collision Operator |
| December 18 - 2007 | Winter Recess Begins | |
| 01/07/08 | TBD | |
Spring 2008 |
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| 02/04/08 | Greg Hammett | Overview of gyrokinetic theory and simulations of experiments, Part I |
| 02/11/08 | Greg Hammett | Overview of gyrokinetic theory and simulations of experiments, Part II |
| 2/18/08 | Bob Budny | "Testing gyrokinetic simulations" |
| 2/25/08 | Kin-Lap Wong | Electron energy transport in NSTX due to microtearing instabilities |
| 03/03/08 | Szymon Suckewer | A n ew method for generating ultrashort pulses of unprecedented intensities using plasma as amplifier and compressor |
| 03/10/08 | Wolf Malkin | New applications of Langmuir waves in plasmas: Generation of ultrapowerful laser pulses potentially Capable of vacuum breakdown |
| Week of March 15-23- 2008 | Spring Recess | |
| 03/24/08 | David Mickkelsen | Microturbulence in stellarator configurations |
| 03/31/08 | Erik Gilson | |
| 04/070/8 | Hong Qin | Nonlinear delta-f simulations of collectiveprocesses in intense charged particle beams |
| 04/14/08 | Igor Kaganovich | Collective excitations in intense beam neutralization by background plasma |
| 04/21/08 | TBA | |
| 04/28/08 | Stan Kaye | |