Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminars |
Events During the 2017 Fall Semester
August 2017
September 2017
- Monday, September 11th
- Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Nonthermal particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection and turbulence in collisionless relativistic plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, September 18th
- Dr. Siyao Xu, Hubble Fellow, UW Madison
- Turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized medium
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, September 25th
- Prof. Jean Carlos Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
- Reflection-driven Alfvén turbulence in the inner heliosphere in preparation for Parker Solar Probe observations
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
October 2017
- Monday, October 2nd
- Dr. Scott Feister, Flash Center for Computational Science, University of Chicago
- FLASH simulations of a magnetized turbulence experiment at the National Ignition Facility
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, October 9th
- Prof. Jean Paul Allain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Taming the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Cary Forest
- Monday, October 16th
- Dr. Joshua Wiener, UW Madison
- Cosmic Ray Dynamics in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, October 23rd
- No Seminar - APS DPP Meeting
- Monday, October 30th
- Dr. M. J. Pueschel, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- Turbulence Driven by Compressional Magnetic Fluctuations in Laboratory, Space, and Pair Plasmas
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Paul Terry
November 2017
- Monday, November 6th
- Prof. Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester
- A General Framework to Analyzing Multi-Scale Complex Flows: Applications to Oceanic, Plasma, and Compressible Flows
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, November 13th
- Dr. Matthew Beidler, Department of Engineering Physics, UW Madison
- Schnack Memorial Seminar: Nonlinear Modeling of Mode Locked States Induced by Transient Magnetic Perturbations
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Carl Sovinec
- Monday, November 20th
- Prof. Brian D. Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Multiscale computational modeling and materials research for next-step devices after ITER
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Cary Forest
- Monday, November 27th
- Prof. Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas
- Magnetic monopoles on cosmic scales
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
December 2017
- Monday, December 4th
- Prof. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Northwestern University
- The Origin of Diffuse 6.4 keV line Emission from Galactic Center Molecular Clouds
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Stanislav Boldyrev
- Monday, December 11th
- Dr. Bruce A. Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Exploring the universe through discovery science on NIF
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Ellen Zweibel