People in the Plasma Physics Program

Faculty
Graduate Program Administrator
Students

FACULTY

Professors

Ronald C. Davidson Ph.D., Princeton, 1966. Nonlinear dynamics, plasma waves and collective interactions, nonneutral plasmas, intense charged particle beams. Associate Chair for Plasma Physics, Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

Nathaniel J. Fisch Ph.D., MIT, 1978. Director of Program in Plasma Physics. Plasma waves, current drive, laser/plasma interaction, plasma propulsion.

Robert J. Goldston Ph.D., Princeton, 1977. Experimental plasma physics, plasma heating, transport. PPPL Director.

Lecturers with Rank of Professor

Samuel A. Cohen Ph.D., MIT, 1973. Director, Program in Plasma Science and Technology. Experimental plasma physics.

Gregory W. Hammett Ph.D., Princeton, 1986. Computational and theoretical plasma turbulence and transport, modeling and analysis of fusion experiments.

Stephen C. Jardin Ph.D., Princeton, 1976. Computational magnetohydrodynamics; equilibrium and stability; transport.

John A. Krommes Ph.D., Princeton, 1975. Plasma turbulence and transport.

Cynthia K. Phillips PhD 1982, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wave-plasma inteactions, including plasma heating, noninductive current drive, and driven energetic particle modes.

Allan H. Reiman Ph.D., Princeton, 1977. Three-dimensional MHD; nonlinear plasma physics.

William M. Tang Ph.D., California, Davis, 1972. Kinetic stability theory.

Roscoe B. White Ph.D., Princeton, 1963. Resistive magnetohydrodynamics instabilities; parametric instabilities; transport.

Lecturers

Philip C. Efthimion Ph.D., Columbia U., 1977. Plasma Physics, E&M theory and applications, instrumentation.

Hantao Ji D.S., University of Tokyo, 1990. Laboratory study of plasma physics problems in astrophysics: magnetic reconnection, angular momentum transport, MHD turbulence, and dynamo.

Richard P. Majeski Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 1979. Experimental Plasma Physics.

Jonathan Menard Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998. MHD, high-harmonic fast wave physics.

Hong Qin Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998. Beam physics, gyrokinetic theory, particle simulation.

Michael C. Zarnstorff Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1984. Plasma Physics.

Associated Faculty

Edgar Y. Choueiri (MAE/EPPDYL) Ph.D., Princeton, 1991. Plasma Propulsion.

Szymon Suckewer (MAE) D.Sc. (Physics), Warsaw University, 1971. X-ray Lasers.

GRADUATE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR

Barbara Sarfaty is the Graduate Program Administrator. She can be reached at (609) 243-2489 or via email at bsarfaty@pppl.gov.

STUDENTS

Students in Graduate Program September 2007

Entering Classes 1998 to Present:

Name	Advisor	Undergrad Institution	Citizenship
			USA
2000 Entering Class
Tom Jenkins	Lee/Lewandowski	Brigham Young U	USA
Yang Ren	Yamada/Ji	U of Science & Technology	China
Ethan Schartman	Hantao Ji	Carnegie Mellon U	USA
Artem Smirnov	Raitses/Fisch	Nizhny Novgorod State U	Russia
2001 Entering Class
Moses Chung	Davidson/Efthimion	Seoul National U	Korea
Timothy Gray	Majeski/Kaita	Swarthmore College	USA
Vyacheslav Lukin	Glasser/Jardin	Swarthmore College	USA
Prateek Sharma	Gregory Hammett	India Inst. of Tech.	India
David R. Smith	Mazzucato/Park	Northwestern U	USA
Nikolai Yampolsky	Nathaniel Fisch	Nizhny Novgorod State U	Russia
Weihua Zhou	Ronald Davidson	Peking University	China
2002 Entering Class
Wei Liu	Ji/Goodman	U of Science & Technology	China
Mahmood Miah	Samuel Cohen	UC, Irvine	USA
Ian Parrish	James Stone	MIT	USA
Adam Sefkow	Ronald Davidson	Northwestern U	USA
Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck	Harry Mynick	Goshen College	USA
2003 Entering Class
Stephanie Diem	Taylor/Phillips	U of WI, Madison	USA
Nathaniel Ferraro	Jardin/ Cohen	Dartmouth College	USA
Daniel Raburn	Allan Reiman	UC Berkeley	USA
Patrick Ross	White/ Gates	Brigham Young U	USA
Yansong Wang	Ji /Kulsrud	U of Science & Technology	China
2004 Entering Class
Laura Berzak	Kaita/ Majeski	Dartmouth College	USA
Mikhail Dorf	Ronald Davidson	Nizhny Novgorod State U	Russia
Xiaoyan Ma	Hantao Ji	U of Science & Technology	China
Brendan McGeehan	Hantao Ji	W. Virginia U	USA
Jong-Kyu Park	Jonathan Menard	Seoul National U	Korea
Sterling Smith	Jardin/ Menard	Utah State U	USA
Andrey Zhmoginov	Nathaniel Fisch	Nizhny Novgorod State U	Russia
2005 Entering Class
Seth Dorfman	Hantao Ji	MIT	USA
Abe Fetterman	Nathaniel Fisch	Caltech	USA
Josh Kallman	Robert Kaita	Stanford/Rutgers U	USA
Daniel Lundberg	Robert Kaita	Cornell U	USA
Austin Roach	Hanto Ji	MIT	USA
2006 Entering Class
Jessica Baumgaertel	Stephen Jardin	U of Washington	USA
Erik Granstedt	Leonid Zakharov	Caltech	USA
Craig Jacobson	Breslau/ Jardin	U of Wisconsin-Madison	USA
Jayson Peterson	Greg Hammett	Vassar College	USA
Jongsoo Yoo	Leonid Zakharvo	Pohang U of S&T	Korea
Eisung Yoon	Taik Soo Hahm	Seoul National University	Korea
2007 Entering Class
Katy Ghantous	Samuel Cohen	American U of Lebanan	Lebanese
Martin Griswold	Yevgeny Raitses	UCLA	USA
Clayton Myers	Samuel Cohen	Cornell U	USA
John Rhoads	Hantao Ji	Texas Christian U	USA
Paul Schmit	Nathaniel Fisch	Arizona State U	USA
Filippo Scotti	Ronald Bell	Politecnico di Milano	Italian
Anton Stepanov	Samuel Cohen	UCLA	Russian
Hua Wang	Erik Gilson	USTC	Chinese

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