DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE | HOST |
Sep 8 | Stefan Gerhardt | UW Dept of ECE | Measurement of biased electrode induced plasma flows in HSX | David Anderson |
Sep 15 | Scott Kruger | SAIC - San Diego | Free-boundary magnetohydrodynamic simulations of DIII-D tokamak plasmas with NIMROD | Chris Hegna |
Sep 22 | Alain Becoulet | CEA/DSM/DRFC | Overview of long pulse experiments on Tore Surpa and JET | Cary Forest |
Sep 29 | Stewart Prager | UW Dept of Physics | Magnetic self-organization in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas | Stewart Prager |
Oct 6 | Paul Terry | UW Dept of Physics | Zonal flow dynamics in trapped electron mode turbulence | Paul Terry |
Oct 13 | Phil Snyder | General Atomics | MHD stability and dynamics of the tokamak edge, and implications
for ELMs and pedestal constraints |
Chris Hegna |
Oct 20 | Ian Dobson | UW Dept of ECE | Cascading failure, the risk of large blackouts, criticality and self-organization | Clint Sprott |
Oct 27 | No seminar | (APS meeting) | - | - |
Nov 3 | Weixing Ding | UW Dept of Physics | Measurement of magnetic fluctuation-induced electromotive force by Faraday rotation in the MST | Stewart Prager |
Nov 10 | Diego del-Castillo-Negrete | Oak Ridge National Lab | Fractional diffusion in reaction-diffusion systems and plasmas | Carl Sovinec |
Nov 17 | Alex Lazarian | UW Dept of Astronomy | Statistics and astrophysical implications of MHD turbulence | Stewart Prager |
Nov 24 | Rick Nebel | Las Alamos National Lab | Theoretical and experimental studies of electrostatic confinement | Clint Sprott |
Dec 1 | Jonathan Menard | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab | MHD physics research on NSTX | Chris Hegna |
Dec 8 | Jim Callen | UW Dept of Enigneering Physics | Electron heat transport is not anomalous;
It's a paleoclassical process in toroidal plasmas |
Jim Callen |
For further information contact Clint Sprott at sprott@physics.wisc.edu.