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Seminars 2009-2010

Summer 2009

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
28 April 2009 Dr. Robert Kaita Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Up Against the Wall: Liquid Lithium for the Chamber Technology Challenge in Fusion Energy Download slides: (PDF) Watch movie: (MOV)

Fall 2009

Date, Time, Location Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
9 September 2009 Dr. Gregory Hebner Sandia National Laboratories Energy Transport and Frequency Dependent Ion Kinetics in a Capacitively Coupled Plasma Reactor Download slides: (PDF)
16 September 2009 Dr. Jean-Luc Vay Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Novel Particle-In-Cell Simulation Methods in Heavy-Ion Fusion Science and Related Fields Download slides: (PDF) Watch movie: (MP4) Watch movie: (MOV)
18 September 2009 Dr. Mark Sherlock and Dr. Chris Ridgers Imperial College London Universal Scaling of the Electron Distribution Function in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions (Dr. Sherlock) Insights into Long and Short-Pulse Laser-Plasma Experiments from Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Simulations (Dr. Ridgers) Joint Seminar with the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science Download slides: (PDF) Download slides: (PDF)
7 October 2009 Dr. Michael Barnes Intevac, Inc. Plasma Science in Development of Industrial Etching and Deposition Tools: The Presence of Normal Modes Above a Capacitive Plasma Applicator
19 November 2009 Prof. Alex Fridman Drexel University Plasma Medicine: Physical and Bio-Chemical Mechanisms of Non-Thermal Plasma Interaction with Living Tissue Download slides: (PDF)
19 November 2009 Prof. Mark Moldwin University of Michigan Universal Magnetic Structures in Lab to Astrophysical Domains Joint Seminar with Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Download slides: (PDF)
4 December 2009 Prof. Cary Forest University of Wisconsin Dynamo Experiments: From Liquid Metals to Plasmas Joint Seminar with Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Download slides: (PDF)

Winter 2010

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
14 January 2010 Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee University of New Hampshire Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory and Space Plasmas Joint Seminar with Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Download slides: (PDF)
22 January 2010 Prof. Frederick Becchetti University of Michigan Explosive Nucleosynthesis Studied in the Laboratory Joint Seminar with Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
17 February 2010 Prof. Mohan Sankaran Case Western Reserve University Bottom-Up Solutions to Plasma Synthesis of Nanomaterials Download slides: (PDF)
24 February 2010 Prof. Walter Gekelman University of California at Los Angeles Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Involving Flux Ropes and Alfven Waves Download slides: (PDF)
26 March 2010 Dr. Glen Wurden Los Alamos National Laboratory Reactor Engineering Issues for Magnetized Target Fusion Joint Seminar with Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Summer 2010

Date, Time, Location Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
12 May 2010 Prof. Richard Carter University of Lancaster (UK) Engineering Challenges of Particle Accelerators Joint Seminar with Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences