Special Time: 2-3 PM in 233 Mudd
Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin
"Nonlinear regime of ideal ballooning instabilities"
Host: David Maurer
10/31/08
Stanley M. Kaye, Deputy Program Director, NSTX
"Transport and Turbulence Physics in NSTX"
Host: Thomas Pedersen
11/7/08
Earl Scime, West Virginia
University
"Ion Acceleration for Free? Double Layer Formation in Expanding
Helicon Plasmas"
Host: David Maurer
12/5/08
Special Time: 2:10-3:10 PM
Stewart Zweben, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"Experiments to Modify the Scrape-off layer in NSTX"
Host: Thomas Pedersen
1/23/09
Matt Stoneking, Lawrence University
"Nearly Steady-State Confinement of Electron Plasmas in a Purely Toroidal Magnetic Field"
Host: Thomas Pedersen
1/30/09
No colloquium
2/6/09
Steve Sabbagh, Columbia University/Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"Macroscopic Stability Research on NSTX and a ReNeWed Future"
Host: Michael Mauel
2/13/09
Angel Ibarra, Head of the Fusion Technology Division,
Fusion National Lab, CIEMAT
"Fusion Technology Projects at Spain: IFMIF/EVEDA and TechnoFusion"
Host:
2/20/9
Greg Hammett, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"5-D Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations:
Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges"
Host: Amiya Sen
2/27/09
John Rice, MIT
"Intrinsic and RF Driven Toroidal Rotation in Alcator C-Mod Plasmas"
Host: Michael Mauel
3/6/09
Troy Carter, UCLA
"Modifying turbulence and turbulent transport in LAPD using sheared flows and Alfven waves"
Host: Michael Mauel
3/13/09
Earl Marmar, PSFC, MIT
"Overview of Recent Results from the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak"
Host: Amiya Sen
3/20/09
No colloquium (Spring Break)
3/27/09
No colloquium
4/3/09
Ron Davidson, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"Collective Interaction Processes and Nonlinear Dynamics of Nonneutral Plasmas and Intense Charged Particle Beams"
Host: Amiya Sen
4/10/09
Jeremy Lore, University of Wisconsin
"Neoclassical Electron Transport Barrier in the HSX Stellarator"
Host: David Maurer
4/17/09
Thomas Killian, Rice University
"Studying the Equilibration of Strongly Coupled Systems with Ultracold Plasmas"
Host: Thomas Pedersen