Fall 2004 Coordinator, Prof. Thomas Pedersen
Spring 2005 Coordinator, Prof. Amiya Sen
9/24/04
Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire
"Magnetic Reconnection: From Fusion to Astrophysics"
10/1/04
Nils Basse, M.I.T. Plasma Science & Fusion Center
"Turbulence in Tokamaks & Stellarators"
10/8/04
Darren Garnier, M.I.T. Plasma Science & Fusion Center
"First Plasma in the Levitated Dipole Experiment"
10/15/04
Parvez Guzdar, Univ. of Maryland
"Generation of Zonal Flows & L-H Transitions in Tokamak: Application to DIII-D"
10/22/04
John Bollinger, NIST Boulder
"Liquid & Crystalline Plasmas in Ion Traps"
10/29/04
Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"Study of Magnetorotational Instability in a Short Couette Flow of Liquid Gallium"
11/5/04
No Colloquium
11/12/04
No Colloquium
11/19/04
No Colloquium
11/26/04
No Colloquium
12/3/04
Dick Majeski, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
"Liquid lithium experiments in CDX-U & the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX)"
12/10/04
Cary Forest, Univ. of Wisconsin
"Stabilizing the External Kink in a Line-tied Screw Pinch Using Moving Metal Walls"
1/28/05
Roscoe B. White, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Zonal Flow Dynamics and Anomalous Transport"
2/4/05
Bruno Coppi, Physics, MIT
"Open Questions in the Theory and Understanding of Transport of Energy, Particles and Angular Momentum Due to Plasma Collective Modes"
2/11/05
Stewart Zweben, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Edge Turbulence Imaging in NSTX"
2/18/05
Ady Hershcovitch, Brookhaven N'tl Lab
"Electron Beam Self-pinched Propagation and Welding with Plasma Window"
2/25/05
No Colloquium
3/4/05
Martin Greenwald, MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
"Core and Edge Transport in Alcator C-Mod - Connections Across the Separatrix"
3/11/05
Wei-li Lee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Steady State Global Simulations of Microturbulence"
3/18/05
No Colloquium
3/25/05
No Colloquium
4/1/05
Harry Mynick, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"The Effect of Fluctuations on Neoclassical Transport in Stellarators and Tokamaks"
4/8/05
Michael Zarnstorff, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Equilibrium and Stability of High-beta Plasmas in W7AS"
4/15/05
Philip Efthimion, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Recent Results from the Paul Trap Simulator Experiment"
4/22/05
Fausto Cattaneo, Univ. of Chicago
“Challenges to the Theory of Astrophysical Dynamos”
4/29/05
A.B. Hassam, Univ. of Maryland
"Centrifugally Confined Plasmas For Fusion:Results From the Maryland Centrifugal
Experiment (MCX)"
5/6/05
Patrick Diamond, Univ. of California, San Diego
"Dynamics of Zonal Flows and Fields in Plasmas"
5/11/05
Mitsuru Kikuchi, Naka Fusion Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
"Introduction of JAERI Fusion Research and Strategic Plan for Fusion Energy Development"
