Presentations

Selected presentations grouped according to topics

My main fields of research are accelerator physics, physics and chemistry of plasmas and fluids, nonlinear transport phenomena and stochastic processes, atomic physics. I have broad experience in various areas of accelerator and plasma physics, which includes but not limited to:

·          high-energy density physics (HEDP)

·          low-temperature plasmas and gas-discharge physics


High-energy density plasma physics

Ion beam-plasma interaction

  • "Analytical and Numerical Studies of Ion Beam Plasma Interaction for Heavy Ion Driven Inertial Fusion"  
  • "Physics of neutralization of intense charged particle beam pulses by a background plasma", 2009 APS DPP, Atlanta, November 2-6, 2009.  
  • "Designing neutralized drift compression" 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference Vancouver, Canada, May 4-8.  
  • 2005 PPPL talk "Intense Ion Beams with Background Plasma: Applications to Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion"  
  • Movies are available at PoP depository
  • 2003 talk on neutralization of ion beam for heavy ion fusion application.

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Atomic physics for HEDP applications

  • 2004 VNL talk "Ionization Cross Sections for Ion-Atom Collisions in Beams"  
  • 2005 talk at HIF symposium, PPPL and Austin "Fast Evaluation of Ionization Cross Sections for Ion-Atom Collisions in Beams"  

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Collective effects, instabilities, pattern formation and turbulence

  • Collective effects of intense ion and electron flows propagating through background plasma, PPPL seminar 2009 

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Low-temperature plasmas and gas-discharge physics

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Kinetic effects and studies of non-Maxwellian electron energy distribution functions

  • Application of Nonlocal Electron Kinetics to Plasma Technologies GEC 2011  
  • Volumetric Control of Anisotropic Electron Distribution Function in Plasmas with Langmuir Oscillations 2011  
  • Nonlocal collisionless and collisional electron transport in low-temperature plasmas 2011  
  • Absence of a steady-state space charge limited regime for a sheath in a weakly collisional plasma bounded by walls with high secondary electron emission IEPC 2009  
  • "Kinetic Effects in Hall Thruster Discharge", invited paper at APS DPP 2006.  
  • 2005  IEPC talk on effects of non-Maxwellian EEDF on thruster parameters  
  • 2005 talk at Tel-Aviv University and 2000 ICOPS talk on formation of cold electrons and non-Maxwellian EEDF in gas discharges  

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Collisionless heating and anomalous phenomena in plasmas

  • "Nonlocal collisionless and collisional electron transport in low temperature plasmas", 2009 EPS Sofia, Bulgaria, June 29 to July 3, 2009.  
  • "The Weibel Instability and Collisionless Shocks, WOPA 2010 Princeton, Workshop on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics,   
  • "Fundamentals of negative ions in warm dense matter" 2008 Warm Dense Matter Winter School, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, USA January 10 -16, 2008.  
  • 2005  talk at PPPL workshop "Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas"  "Revisiting anomalous skin effect and penetration of rf electric field into inductively and capacitively coupled plasmas"  
  • 2005 talk of Oleg Polomarov at the same workshop on resonance effects in rf discharges   

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Transport in multi-component plasmas

  • Concept of ambipolar diffusion and non-ambipolar flows, student seminar PPPL 2010  
  • 2005 talk at Tel-Aviv University and 2000 APS talk on self-separation effect of multi component plasma into regions of different composition   

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Transport in magnetized plasmas

  • Concept of ambipolar diffusion and non-ambipolar flows, student seminar PPPL 2010  
  • 2005  IEPC talk on effects of short-circuiting currents on plasma expansion across a magnetic field  

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