Sentences with phrase «plasma physics»

Over 1,000 European and Japanese researchers will get access to the system, which is optimized for plasma physics and fusion energy calculations.

Later in the 1970s, theorists used new analyses and some of the first computational plasma physics studies to show that the picture was much less bleak than originally thought.

First, we had to develop the science of plasma physics.

«The achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy] program,» says committee co-chair Ronald Davidson of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

Masaaki Yamada of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey, who leads a lab - based effort to understand reconnection, says «We are so happy and also so surprised that they found it so easily.»

At age 17, Fong began her Ph.D in plasma physics at Princeton University, but dropped out in 2007.

The award, for which Squire was nominated by the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics at PPPL, recognizes outstanding performance and professional promise and provides tuition and a stipend to fellowship winners.

Nichols, a research associate in the Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group at the University of Leicester in England, and his colleagues reported their finding August 6 in Geophysical Research Letters.

The two physicists received the American Physical Society's 2008 Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for their discovery.

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Kruskal, now 70, founded and chaired Princeton's applied mathematics program and worked in the Princeton plasma physics lab for years before moving to Rutgers.

Kessel joined PPPL in 1987 after earning bachelor's degrees in physics and nuclear engineering from the University of California - Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in fusion engineering and applied plasma physics from UCLA.

He was cited «for many outstanding contributions to the theoretical plasma physics of low and high energy density plasmas, open and closed magnetic configurations, and laboratory and astrophysical systems.»

After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, Chang Díaz enrolled as a graduate student in applied plasma physics at MIT, where he began research in nuclear fusion.

Together with the University of Greifswald, IPP runs the Max Planck International Research School on «Bounded Plasmas,» an interdisciplinary graduate school that combines plasma physics with fusion research, computational physics, and surface science.

Kolemen's system would also help scientists better understand basic plasma physics by compiling and analyzing a large database of plasma discharges.

Plasma physics uses model equations to explain the collective movement of millions of particles.

The new Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory, or WiPPL, will research fundamental properties of plasma in order to better understand our universe, where the hot gas is abundant.

Some 135 researchers, graduate students, and staff members from PPPL joined 1,500 research scientists from around the world at the 56th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Conference from Oct. 27 to Oct. 31 in New Orleans.

Back in 1971, Schneider was studying plasma physics at Columbia and moonlighting as a research assistant at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

It has also signed an agreement with MIT, through the institute's Energy Intiative, allowing the company to carry out jointly research programmes on plasma physics and advanced fusion and electromagnets technologies.

I am talking specifically about PLASMA PHYSICS, TESLA low frequency electro - magnetic waves which can PENETRATE THE ENTIRE EARTH INSTANTANEOUSLY!!

He spent two years as assistant director for Applied Plasma Physics in the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., before going to M.I.T.

«That was one of the benefits to doing this study, being able to combine plasma physics with the optical capabilities that are just in the basement of our building.»

The Science Education Department started the summer with a workshop geared towards college physics instructors interested in incorporating plasma physics experiments in their classrooms.

And for his work in plasma physics during his 22 - year stint at LLNL and previous research at...

The Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics group at Queen Mary University of London is currently accepting applications for PhD studentships to begin in September 2018.

The revision, reported in July in the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, employs a subprogram called a «kick model» to simulate the movement of fast ions caused by instabilities in the plasma.

I knew that I wanted it to involve plasma physics, but I also liked the idea of going outside the confinement of our own department and get a taste of what it is like to do research in a different working environment.

The first elected Chair was Melvin B. Gottlieb, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory.

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General Fusion's team of more than 50 scientists and engineers are world leaders in fusion technology, with expertise across plasma physics, computer simulation and engineering.

«We had no understanding of space plasma physics back then, no clue, such as when we were designing Telstar [and other early satellites].

At ASML, for example, while most people have a technical background, they are usually not experts in plasma physics per se.

After earning a Ph.D. in atomic physics and spending nearly 20 years managing a U.S. Department of Energy plasma physics program, Ronald McKnight has returned to the seventh grade.

The four NASA missions used in this study are a part of NASA's Heliophysics fleet of missions under NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes, Living with a Star and Explorers programs, which aim to understand fundamental plasma physics questions and the dynamic Earth - Sun environment we live in.

«This new way of looking at burning plasma physics allowed us to understand this previously impenetrable problem,» said Mr Qu, a theoretical physicist in ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.

A focus fusion reactor could be built for just $ 300,000, says Lerner, president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in New Jersey.

Photo: courtesy of Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Science.

Dr Masayuki Ono, Project Leader of the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade at Prince Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), USA, told Materials World, «Even high temperature materials like tungsten could not withstand such intense power.

For Grierson, a member of the PPPL collaboration on the DIII - D tokamak, or fusion device, that General Atomics runs in San Diego, plasma physics holds intriguing mysteries that he seeks to unravel.

If you've always wanted to learn about the science behind plasma physics and fusion energy, you can listen to the very same lectures being offered to college students at PPPL in a weeklong introductory course this week without having to leave your home or office.

Two York Plasma Institute PhD students won poster prizes at the recent European Physical Society Plasma Physics Conference, which was held in Leuven, Belgium from 4 to 8 July 2016.

Myers is the seventh Program in Plasma Physics graduate to win a top dissertation award and the first to receive the AAS - LAD prize.

A University of York Physicist has been awarded the 2016 Rutherford Plasma Physics Communications Prize - for a presentation which has now been viewed nearly 70,000 times online.

Her other experiments have broadened the reach of the field of plasma physics into regions deep in planetary interiors and aspects of extreme states of solid - state material dynamics.

Projects are available across the range of research areas covered by the group, including the solar wind, heliospheric physics, plasma turbulence, shocks, magnetic reconnection, solar physics, particle acceleration, kinetic plasma physics, and plasma radio emission.

«With a steady hand on the tiller, he has also contributed outstanding leadership and vision to U.S. and international plasma physics.»