Plasma Seminars
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SPRING 2012
Friday, April 27
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
Jon Hillesheim (UCLA)
Observation of a critical gradient threshold for electron temperature fluctuations in the DIII-D tokamak
Friday, May 4
1:00PM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Chris Cooper (UCLA)
Transport in a magnetized plasma/neutral gas boundary layer: the end of the plasma…
Previous Plasma Seminars
WINTER 2012
Thursday, January 12
1:00PM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Maxim Umansky (LLNL)
Modeling of the "death-ray" phenomenon in tokamak edge
Friday, January 13
1:00PM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Paul Terry (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Damped Modes in Plasma Turbulence
Tuesday, January 24
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
Padma Shukla (University of Bochum, Germany)
Quantum Free Electron Lasers
Thursday, February 9
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
David Schaffner (UCLA)
Observation of improved and degraded confinement and reduction of particle flux through driven flow on the LAPD
Thursday, February 16
12:30PM in PAB 4-330
Juan C. Fernández (LANL)
A view of current High Energy Density and Plasma Physics research at Los Alamos
Thursday, March 1
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
R.D. Sydora (University of Alberta)
Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Plasma Turbulence and Transport in LAPD
Thursday, March 22
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
Brett Friedman (UCLA)
Energy dynamics in a simulation of LAPD turbulence
FALL 2011
Monday, September 19
1:00PM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
David Brower (UCLA)
Intrinsic Plasma Flow Driven by Kinetic Stress
Thursday, September 22
1:00PM in PAB 4-330
Alexander Kosovichev (Standford University)
Investigations of the solar interior and magnetism with SDO
Friday, October 14
11:30AM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Francis F. Chen (UCLA) and Davide Curreli (University of Padua, Italy)
What My Mother Never Told Me About Gas Discharges
Tuesday, October 18
12:00PM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Ian Hutchinson (MIT)
Plasma flow round dust, probes, and the moon
Friday, October 21
11:00AM in 67-124 Engineering IV Building
Louise Willingale (University of Michigan)
Ion acceleration from high-intensity laser interactions with underdense and near critical density plasma
Wednesday, November 9
11:00AM in PAB 4-330
Bjorn Manuel Hegelich (LANL)
Relativistic Laser-Matter Interaction in the Transparent-Overdense Regime: Particle Acceleration, Relativistic Optics and Coherent X-ray Sources
Tuesday, November 22
11:30AM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Raanan Gad (Technion)
Magnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Magnetized Plasma by Spatially Periodic Magneto-Static Field
SPRING 2011
12:00PM on Fridays in PAB 4-330, unless noted otherwise.
Friday, April 1
Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Madison-Wisconsin)
Turbulence of Alfvén Waves
Monday, April 4
11:30AM
Walter Guttenfelder (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Electromagnetic transport from microtearing mode turbulence in spherical tokamaks
Monday, April 18
11:30AM
Peter Norreys (RAL, UK)
Control of fast electron beam divergence in intense laser-plasma interactions
Friday, April 22
Ricardo Fonseca (IST Lisbon, Portugal)
Towards OSIRIS 3.0 : present and future developments in the OSIRIS framework
Friday, April 29
Yuri Shprits (UCLA/IGPP)
Resonant Wave-particle Interactions in the Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts
Friday, May 6
in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Adolfo Ribeiro (UCLA/ESS)
Linear and nonlinear numerical simulations of poloidal Alfvén waves
Friday, May 13
Michael Schulz (Lockheed Martin, retiree)
Wave-Particle Interactions in Space Plasmas
Friday, June 10
2:30 in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Lothar Schmitz (UCLA)
Zonal Flow-Induced Predator-Prey Oscillations Preceding the L-H Transition
Monday, June 13
3:00 in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Seth Dorfman (Princeton)
Dynamics of Current Layer Disruptions and Associated Turbulence in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX)
WINTER 2011
12:00PM on Fridays in PAB 4-330, unless noted otherwise.
Friday, Jan 21
Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.)
Optimal Control of Nonlinear Optical Instabilities in Plasmas using STUD Pulses
Friday, Feb 11
2:30 PM
Andrey Zhmoginov (Princeton University)
Alpha-Channeling in Mirror Machines
Friday, Feb 25
Bill Heidbrink (UC Irvine)
The intriguing nonlinear dynamics of off-axis fishbones
FALL 2010
12:00PM on Fridays in PAB 4-330, unless noted otherwise.
Friday, Oct 15
Eric Wang (LLNL)
Magnetic stochasticity in gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microturbulence
Friday, Oct 22
Art Pak (UCLA)
Injection of electrons via tunnel ionization into laser driven wakefields
Friday, Oct 29
*REMOTE SEMINAR*
10AM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Maxim Umansky (LLNL)
Toward validation of a 3-D plasma turbulance model using LAPD data
Friday, Nov 5
Michail Tzoufras (University of Oxford)
A Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Code for high energy density physics
Thursday, Nov 18
11AM in the BAPSF Auditorium (15-70 UCLA Rehab Building)
Rod Boswell (Australian National University)
Broad band electron cyclotron damping in a low magnetic field helicon source
Friday, Dec 3
David Montgomery (LANL)
X-ray imaging measurements of radiative shocks