MIPSE | Seminars 2010-2011

Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 15 September 2010	Prof. William Dorland The University of Maryland	Turbulent Plasmas in Astrophysics and Fusion Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 29 September 2010	Dr. Bruce Remington Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	From High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics to Extreme Materials Science: Pushing the Frontiers of Experimental Science (Opening the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium) Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 27 October 2010	Prof. Earl Scime West Virginia University	Neutral Atom Imaging of the Terrestrial Magnetosphere (Joint with Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences) Download slides: (PPT)
Wednesday 17 November 2010	Prof. Edgar Choueiri Princeton University	Ion Acceleration by Beating Electrostatic Waves: Theory, Experiments and Relevance to Spacecraft Propulsion Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 1 December 2010	Prof. Valery Godyak RF Plasma Consulting/University of Michigan	Physics of Low Pressure Inductive Discharges Video with slides Download slides: (PPT)
Wednesday 8 December 2010	Prof. Heather Canavan The University of New Mexico	Plasma Polymerization of Biocompatible Thin Films: Applications of rf Plasmas in Biomedical Engineering Video with slides Download slides (PPT) Movie: Rat heart cell sheets beating in vitro (MPEG) Movie: Rat heart cell sheets beating in vivo (MPEG)

Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 12 January 2011	Prof. David Graves University of California, Berkeley	When Low Temperature Plasmas Meet Surfaces Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 19 January 2011	Prof. Nathaniel Fisch Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Compressing Waves in Plasma Video with slides
Tuesday 8 February 2011	Dr. Phillip Colella Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	High-Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Plasma Physics Joint seminar with AOSS and NERS
Wednesday 16 March 2011	Prof. Edl Schamiloglu The University of New Mexico	Mode Switching in Relativistic Magnetrons and Hysteresis Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 30 March 2011	Prof. John Verboncoeur Michigan State University	Microwave-Driven Breakdown: From Dielectric Surface Multipactor to Ionization Discharge Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)
Wednesday 6 April 2011	Prof. Javad Mostaghimi University of Toronto	Dynamics of Droplet Impact and Solidification in Plasma Spray Process Video with slides Download slides: (ZIP)
Wednesday 13 April 2011	Prof. Warren Mori University of California, Los Angeles	Plasma Based Acceleration: A Path Towards Compact Particle Accelerators Video with slides Download slides: (PDF)

Date, Time, Location	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 27 July 2011	Prof. Gerrit Kroesen Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands	Unraveling Electrical Fields, Ion Densities and Dust Particle Charge in an RF Plasma Sheath by Single Particle Experiments under Hypergravity and Microgravity Conditions Download slides: (PPTX) Centrifuge Movie: Centrifuge Movie (WMV) Zero-G Movie: (AVI)
Monday 1 August 2011	Prof. R. Paul Drake University of Michigan	Status of the National Ignition Campaign Joint Seminar with AOSS