Plasma Physics Colloquium
The Plasma Physics Colloquium meets on Friday afternoons, from 3:10-4:00 p.m., in Room 214 Mudd (unless otherwise noted). Please join us for tea beforehand at 2:45 p.m. in 200 Mudd.
Prof. Thomas Pedersen, Spring 2008 Coordinator
1/25/08
Thomas Klinger, IPP-Greifswald, Germany
"Progress and plans for W7-X"
2/1/08
Darren Garnier, Columbia University/M.I.T. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
"First Flight of the Levitated Dipole Experiment"
2/8/08
K.A. Lynch, Dartmouth College
"Measuring thermal plasmas in the laboratory and in space"
2/22/08
Nikolai Gorelenkov, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Energetic Particles and Alfven Instabilities in Magnetic Fusion"
2/29/08
Eric Fredrickson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
"Fast ion driven instabilities and phase space structures"
3/7/08
Joint Plasma Physics/Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Jan Hesthaven, Brown University
"A first few steps toward a new generation of particle-in-cell (PIC) modeling tools for kinetic plasma physics"
3/14/08
Brian Wirth, University of California, Berkeley
"Multiscale Investigation of Irradiation Effects and
the Promise of Irradiation Resistant Materials"
3/21/08
No Colloquium - Spring Break
3/28/08
Abhay Ram, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT
"Electron Cyclotron Current Drive in Spherical Tokamaks -
a Crystal Ball Peek into ITER"
4/4/08
Gennady Fiksel, University of Wisconsin
"Ions in the Reversed Field Pinch: Momentum Transport, Heating, & Confinement"
4/10/08 (Thursday)
3:10 PM, Room 210 Mudd, APAM Conference Room
Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin
"Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments"
Please note: This is the last Plasma Physics Colloquium for the Spring 2008 semester. The seminar series will resume in September 2008.