PPST Distinguished Speaker Series
The PPST Distinguished Speaker Seminar series was started in 2000 to inform the university community of the great strides being made in plasma science and technology research, provide directions for future growth, and highlight contributions made in the nation’s service.
Distinguished Speakers
- 2015: Professor Paul Corkum
Department of Physics, University of Ottawa
Canadian National Research Council
Plasma Physics at the Atomic Level
- 2013: Professor C. Pellegrini
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The X-ray Free-electron Laser: Exploring Matter at the Angstrom-femtosecond Space and Time Scales
- 2011: Professor Jonathan Wurtele
University of California, Berkeley
Alpha Collaboration, CERN
Trapping Antihydrogen: An Adventure in Modern Physics
- 2007: Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi
Director, Center for High Frequency Electronics, UCLA
Surfing Plasma Waves: A New Paradigm for Particle Accelerators
- 2005: Professor Sigurd Wagner
Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Princeton University
Large-area Electronics
- 2004: Professor Gerard Mourou
Director NSF Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan
Extreme Light: Relativistic Optics and Optics Horizon
- 2003: Professor Robert Rosner
Chief Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
Burning Stars in One’s Office: The Physics of Astrophysical Nuclear Flames
- 2002: Professor Robert J. Goldston
Director, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
The Cross-disciplinary Science of Fusion Energy Research
- 2001: Dr. Richard Siemon
Program Manager, Fusion Energy Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fusion in a Beer Can
- 2000: Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz
U.S. Astronaut, Johnson Space Center, NASA
Plasma Rockets for the Next Generation
