Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2016 Spring Semester
January 2016
February 2016
- Monday, February 15th
- Dr. Richard Magee, Tri-Alpha
- Sustainment of a field reversed configuration with high power neutral beam injection
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
- Monday, February 22nd
- Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton University
- Hall thrusters for space applications: Advanced concepts and research challenges
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by Cary Forest
- Monday, February 29th
- Dr. Edward Thomas, Auburn
- Initial measurements of particle transport and self-ordering in the Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment (MDPX)
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
March 2016
- Monday, March 7th
- Dr. Richard Sydora, University of Alberta, University of Alberta
- "Nonlinear Convective Transport in Magnetized Temperature Filaments: Theory, Simulation and Experiments
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
- Monday, March 14th
- Jan Egedal, UW Madison
- Magnetic pumping of the solar wind, and new results from the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX)
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
- Monday, March 28th
- Prof. Nuno Loureiro, MIT
- Magnetic Reconnection Onset
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
April 2016
- Monday, April 11th
- Dr. Gennady Fiksel, University of Michigan
- Generation and Reconnection of Magnetic Field in Colliding Laser High Energy-Density Plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
- Monday, April 18th
- Dr. Amitava Bhattacharjee,, PPPL
- Fast Reconnection and Self-Generated Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, hosted by UW Madison
- Monday, April 25th
- Dr. Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Simulation of energetic particle driven instabilities in 3D configurations
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison
May 2016
- Monday, May 2nd
- Dr. Jeremy Lore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pedestal-to-wall 3D plasma edge modeling using EMC3-EIRENE
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering, hosted by UW Madison