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Seminars 2019-2020

Fall 2019

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 18 September 2019 3:30 - 4:30 pm 1005 EECS Dr. Andrea Schmidt Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Simulation-Guided Design of a MegaJoule Dense Plasma Focus Download slides: PDF (3 MB) Brief video interview
Wednesday 2 October 2019 Dr. Wensheng Huang NASA Glenn Research Center Plasma Diagnostics Package for Studying High-Power Hall Thrusters in Flight Watch the lecture Download slides: PDF (3 MB), PPTX (4 MB) Brief video interview
Wednesday 16 October 2019 Prof. Bruce Locke Florida State University Hydroxyl Radicals in Gas-Liquid Water Plasma Reactors Watch the lecture Download slides: PDF (5 MB), PPTX (39 MB) Brief video interview
Wednesday 13 November 2019 Dr. Joachim Birn Space Science Institute Joint MIPSE-Space Institute seminar Substorms, Dipolarization, and Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere Watch the lecture Download slides: PDF (19 MB), PPTX (594 MB) Brief video interview
Friday 22 November 2019 Dr. Evdokiya (Eva) Kostadinova Baylor University Joint NERS-MIPSE seminar Alice In-Between Worlds: The Wonderland of Dusty Plasma Brief video interview
Wednesday 4 December 2019 Prof. Philip Bucksbaum Stanford University The Schwinger Plasma: An Experimental Program to Study the Plasmas That Exist Inside the Vacuum Watch the lecture Download slides: PDF (4 MB), PPTX (46 MB) Brief video interview

Winter 2020

Date, Time, Location Speaker (Affiliation) Title, Abstract, Presentation
Wednesday 15 January 2020 Dr. James Polk NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty Brief video interview
Rescheduled Wednesday 24 March 2021 Dr. Richard Gottscho Lam Research Rescheduled Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch
Rescheduled Wednesday 4 November 2020 Dr. Frank Graziani Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Rescheduled Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter
Rescheduled Wednesday 21 October 2020 Dr. Derek Schaeffer Princeton University Rescheduled Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth
Rescheduled Wednesday 27 January 2021 Dr. Nicola Fox NASA Heliophysics Division Rescheduled Journey to the Sun