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.
Stewart C. Prager Ph.D.

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

Ilya Dodin Ph.D., Princeton, 2005. Plasma Physics, nonlinear dynamics, wave-particle interactions
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

 

Program in Plasma Physics Graduate Students - September 2008

Entering Classes 2003 to Present:

Name
Advisor
Undergrad Institution
Citizenship
wedge2003 Entering Class
Taylor/Phillips
U of WI, Madison
USA
Nathaniel Ferraro
Jardin/ Cohen
Dartmouth College
USA
Daniel Raburn
Allan Reiman
UC Berkeley
USA
White/ Gates
Brigham Young U
USA
Yansong Wang
Ji /Kulsrud
U of Science & Technology
China
wedge2004 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
Jardin/ Menard
Utah State U
USA
Andrey Zhmoginov
Nathaniel Fisch
Nizhny Novgorod State U
Russia
wedge2005 Entering Class
Seth Dorfman
Hantao Ji
MIT
USA
Abe Fetterman
Nathaniel Fisch
Caltech
USA
Josh Kallman
Robert Kaita
Stanford/Rutgers U
USA
Robert Kaita
Cornell U
USA
Austin Roach
Hanto Ji
MIT
USA
wedge2006 Entering Class
Stephen Jardin
U of Washington
USA
Leonid Zakharov
Caltech
USA
Breslau/ Jardin
U of Wisconsin-Madison
USA
Greg Hammett
Vassar College
USA
Jongsoo Yoo
Leonid Zakharvo
Pohang U of S&T
Korea
Taik Soo Hahm Seoul National University Korea
wedge2007 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
wedge2008 Entering Class      
Dennis Boyle
Robert Kaita Columbia University USA
Michael Campanell
Stewart Zweben Temple University USA
Xiaoyin Guan
Hong Qin Peking University China
Jeffrey Parker
Yevgeny Raitses
Cornell University
USA
wedge2009 Entering Class      
Tyler Abrams
Bob Kaita
MIT
USA
C. Lee Ellison
Yevgeny Raitses
U. Colorado at Boulder
USA
Vasily Geyko
Nathaniel Fisch
Nizhny Novgorod
Russia
Nikolas Logan
Kaita/Majeski
Brown University
USA
Mathew Lucia
Kaita/Majeski
Univ. of Notre Dame
USA
Brendan Lyons
Stewart Zweben
Princeton University
USA
David Michta
Hong Qin
Univ. of CA, Berkeley
USA

2008 Entering Class

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