Daren Stotler's Home Page

Welcome to my humble home page. I say humble, because the stuff you're really interested in is probably on one of several other Web pages. The links below will help you find your way to the right one.

Most of my work is centered around the development of DEGAS 2, a state-of-the-art Monte Carlo neutral transport code. The code is written in a high-level quasi-object oriented programming environment assembled by Charles Karney with some ingenious ("heroic" usage in the opinion of John Krommes) usage of FWEB macros. Although usage of the code is growing, I still find myself spending much of my time adding new features. The DEGAS 2 Web page also contains links to my most recent research publications and presentations.

You may also be looking for my Virtual Tokamak Java applets. If so, you might really want to start at the IPPEX home page and go from there, following the Virtual Tokamak links. I still have my original Java applet page here with a couple of simpler items.

If you want even more Java, I've been working with Russell Hulse and a couple of undergraduate students on a Java application which should prove very useful to other researchers who would like to build graphical interfaces for their old FORTRAN codes. It's called UniVista. Check it out!

As leader of the PPPL Boundary Physics Science Focus Group, I have been participating in PPPL's Speakers Program. One of the nice features of Microsoft's PowerPoint is that it allows presentations to be saved in an HTML format. One limitation is that you need Internet Explorer

1. "Controlled Fusion Energy: Promise and Problems", presented at Youngstown State University, April 26, 2001.
2. "How Do You Hold onto a Star?", presented at Youngstown State University, April 26, 2001.
3. "How Do You Hold onto a Star?", presented at the State University of New York at Albany, May 4, 2001.

If you would like to know more about the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and what we do here, check out the Lab's main Web site. I work in the PPPL Theory Department. We have a semi-snazzy page targeted at the general public. However, if you are looking for help with some technical problem, particularly something computer-related, you might want to check the generic Theory home page

I have here my bibliography. My resume is available upon request.

If you came here looking for lots of pretty pictures, you're in the wrong place (although you might check the talk links above). Try my home home page at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dstotler/ instead.