Theory Department

 

Spotlight on our department~

Leadership, committees and special recognitions

2010

Stephane Ethier-  Served on review panel for the mid-term review of the SciDAC COMPASS Project,hair of the NERSC Users’ Group Executive Committee  (NERSC = National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center),
served on the NERSC Operational Assessment Review Committee, served on the SciDAC 2010 conference organizing committee  (SciDAC = Scientific Discovery trhough Advanced Computing), currently serving on the ICPADS 2010 conference program committee (16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems) and serving on the IPDPS 2011 conference program committee  (International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium).

Guoyong Fu- Lead the Plasma Energetic Particle Simulation Center

Nikolai Gorelenkov- TTF Executive Committee member,Deputy leader, Energetic Particle National group Executive Committee,PPPL energetic particle SFG Leader and 2010 Sherwood meeting program committee.

T.S. Hahm - Guest Editor, Nuclear FusionSpecial Issue on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers (June, 2010),Co-Chair, Pure and Applied Science Symposium, US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Green Technology for a New World, Seattle, WA (August, 2010), Selection Committee for 2010 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Association of Korean Physicists in America (January, 2010), Chair, International Advisory Committee and Program Committee, International Meeting on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers (October, 2009)and US Transport Task Force Executive Committee

Greg Hammett- Serving on the PPPL Research Council, Program Advisory Committee for Fusion Simulation Project, Cco-leading Princeton University graduate course, "Seminar in Theoretical Astrophysics" w/ Prof. Jim Stone, Advising 3 Ph.D. thesis projects, on gyrokinetic simulations of ETG in NSTX, gyrokinetic simulations of the Lithium Torus eXperiment (LTX), and gyrokinetic simulations of stellarators.

G. Hammett and S.C.  Jardin- Co-chaired the selection committee for the Princeton University Ray Grimm Prize in Computational Physics.

Stuart Hudson- Secretary/ Treasurer, Executive Committee of the Annual Sherwood Theory Conference

K, Indireshkumar- Acted as one of the Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship coordinators.

S.C. Jardin- Appointed to a 6-year term on the Max Plank Institute for Plasma Physics International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat), Served at PI of the CEMM SciDAC project, and co-PI of the SWIM SciDAC project,

Jay J ohnson- American Geophysical Union Program Committee Chair in Nonlinear Geophysics, Geospace Environment Modeling Focus Group Leader in Plasma Entry and Transport

Igor Kaganovich- Associate director of Low temperature plasma Center and Associate Editor for IEEE transaction on plasma science

W. W. Lee -Co-PI, "Center for Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation," a proposal submitted to DoE for Funding Opportunity Announcement Number DE-FOA-0000316, "Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing: Advanced Simulation of Fusion Plasmas,"  May, 2010, PI, "Co-Design Center for Exascale Simulations of Fusion Plasmas," a proposal submitted to DoE for Funding Opportunity Announcement Number LAB 10-07, "Exascale Co-Design Center," July, 2010.

Janardham Manickam- Chair of the National Theory Coordinating Committee, Dawson Prize Committee

Douglas McCune- Chair the Scientific Computing Resourses Committee

Hong Qin- Served on program committee for 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference

Allan Reiman- Chairman of subcommittee of national Theory Coordinating Committee charged with formulating a national Joint Theory Milestone for FY 2012.  Have also been asked to chair the committee that will be responsible for coordinating this work.

Ravi Samtaney- NERC User Group Executive Committee, PPPL Practicum Coordinator for the DOE CSGF program, Served on a NSF Panel

Daren Stotler- Edge Coordinating Committee (2004  – present) & Chair (2008 – present), BPO Task Group on Verification and Validation, 2006 – present, Fusion Simulation Program Planning - participant in development of Integrated Boundary Layer (SOL), Divertor, Plasma Wall Interactions Science Driver

William Tang - Chair, DOE-SC workshop on "Scientific Grand Challenges in Fusion Energy Sciences ant the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale," -- major 3-day "invitation only" DOE-SC meeting with over 100 national and international participants [http://extremecomputing.labworks.org/fusion/index.stm], Member, DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), Program Committee, SciDAC 2009 Conference, Member, International Advisory Panel of the journal, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), Member, Scientific Editorial Board for international journal, Computational Science and Discovery (CSD) and member, International Advisory Committee for the Plasma and Space Science Center (PSSC) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

2009

Elena Belova- APS DPP Program Committee, Sherwood Theory Conference 2008 Program Committee, Panel member of Theme 5 of Renew Workshop

Stephane Ethier- Served on review panel for the mid-term review of the SciDAC COMPASS Project, Chair of NERSC Users Group Executive Committee,Review Panel for the Operational Assessment of DOE Office of Science High Performance Computing Facilities: OLCF, NERSC, ORNL, and MSCF/PNNL.

GY, Fu- Lead the Plasma Energetic Particle Simulation Center, Secretary/ Treasurer, Executive Committee of the Annual Sherwood Theory Conference

Nikolai Gorelenkov- TTF Executive Committee member, Deputy leader, Energetic Particle National group Executive Committee, PPPL energetic particle SFG Leader

TS Hahm- Chair, International Advisory Committee, International Meeting on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, Princeton, New Jersey (September 30-Oct 2, 2009), International Advisory Committee, IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Instabilities, Transport, Stability and Their Interaction Kyoto, Japan (May, 2009),US DOE Transport Task Force Executive Committee, San Diego, CA (April, 2009)

Greg Hammett- Served on the PPPL Research Council, Program Advisory Committee for Fusion Simulation Project

K. Indireshkumar- Acted as one of the Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship coordinators.

S.C. Jardin- Appointed to a 6-year term on the Max Plank Institute for Plasma Physics International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat), Principal Investigator for the SciDAC Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamics.

Jay Johnson- American Geophysical Union Program Committee Chair in Nonlinear Geophysics, Geospace Environment Modeling Focus Group Leader in Plasma Entry and Transport

Igor Kaganovich- Served on the Program Committee for 50th DPP- APS Meeting

Janardhan Manickam- Chair of the National Theory Coordinating Committee, Dawson Prize Committee

Doug McCune- Chair the Scientific Computing Resourses Committee

Hong Qin- Served on Scientific Program Committee for the 2008 International Heavy ion Fusion Symposium, Served on program committee for 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference

Ravi Samtaney- NERC User Group Executive Committee, PPPL Practicum Coordinator for the DOE CSGF program, Served on a NSF Panel

Daren Stotler- Edge Coordinating Committee (2004  – present) & Chair (2008 – present), BPO Task Group on Verification and Validation, 2006 – present

William Tang- Chair, DOE-SC workshop on "Scientific Grand Challenges in Fusion Energy Sciences ant the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale," -- major 3-day "invitation only" DOE-SC meeting with over 100 national and international participants [http://extremecomputing.labworks.org/fusion/index.stm], member, DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), Program Committee, SciDAC 2009 Conference, member, International Advisory Panel of the journal, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), member, Scientific Editorial Board for international journal, Computational Science and Discovery (CSD), member, International Advisory Committee for the Plasma and Space Science Center (PSSC) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Wang, Weixing- PI, Petascale Early Science Project: "Global Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations of Toroidal Momentum and Electron Thermal Transport and Comparison with the National Spherical Torus (NSTX) Experiments" on the Cray XT5 of the Jaguar leadership system at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), ORNL.

2008

E.Belova- APS DPP Program Committee & Sherwood Theory Conference 2008 Program Committee

S. Ethier- NERSC-6 Lehman Review Committee High-Performance Computing Operational Assessment (HPCOA) review of all major open science DOE computing centers, ORNL NCCS Users Group Executive Committee and Ethier, S., Review Panel Operational Assessment of DOE Office of Science High Performance Computing Facilities: OLCF, NERSC, and MSCF.

E. Feibush- Outstanding Volunteer Award PPPL Science Bowl

G.Fu- Secretary/ Treasurer, Executive Committee of the Annual Sherwood Theory Conference

N.N. Gorelenkov- TTF Executive Committee member, Deputy leader, Energetic Particle National group Executive Committee & PPPL energetic particle SFG Leader

TS. Hahm- International Advisory Committee of KSTAR Program, International Program of IAEA Technical Meeting on H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers & International Program of IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Instabilities & International Programme Committee of Festival de Theories

G. Hammett- Selection Committee for Ray Grimm Prize in Computational Physics

S.C. Jardin- Appointed to a 6-year term on the Max Plank Institute for Plasma Physics International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat)

R. Samtaney- NERC User Group Committee

D. Stotler- BPO Verification & Validation Task Group & Edge Coordinating Committee, Vice Chair

2007

N.N. Gorelenkov- Kaul Foundation Prize

G.Fu- Member of the Fusion Simulation Project Report Committee, 2007

2006

Stephane Ethier- Has been awarded 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, “Best Paper Award.”

Taik Soo Hahm- PPPL Distinguished Research Fellow

2005

John Krommes- Graduate Mentoring Award, Princeton University (2005).

Taik-Soo Hahm - Taik-Soo has been awarded the Kaul Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development.

Elena Belova - Elena has been awarded the Katherine E. Weimer Award for her outstanding achievement in plasma science research.  

Nat Fisch - Nat received the the American Physical Society's James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics at this year's American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics meeting.

Bill Tang - Bill has been honored by the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

Hong Qin - Hong has won the 2004 award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers. Click here to view the PPPL press release.

Ron Davidson - Ron has won the PAST award. Click here to view information about past recipients

2004

Janardhan Manickam - Manny has been named our new department head  

Frank Cheng - Frank is a recipient of an APS award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Mark Adams - Mark received a Gordon Bell Award at the SC2004 conference

Nat Fisch - Nat has won the prestigious E.O. Lawrence Award

2003

Neil Pomphrey - Neil was elected as an APS fellow in 2003

Nat Fisch - Nat was honored for mentoring in 2003

2002

John Krommes - John was named a PPPL Distinguished Fellow in 2002

2001

Doug McCune and Allan Reiman - Doug and Allan were named PPPL Distinguished Fellows in 2001