2008 Archived Colloquia

2008 Archived Colloquia

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• 12/17/2008 — Professor Allen Boozer, Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Columbia University
  "Tokamaks and Axisymmetric Shaping"
  [Colloquium video]    [Presentation PDF 1.1 MB]
• 12/10/2008 — Dr. David Campbell, Fusion, Science and Technology Department, ITER Organization, Cadarache, France
  "ITER: Design Evolution towards Burning Plasma Experiments"
  [Colloquium video]    Presentation: [PowerPoint 18.2 KB]    [PDF 1.8 MB]
• 12/03/2008 — Professor Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
  "Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria"
  [Colloquium video]    Presentation: [PowerPoint 932 KB]    [PDF 304 KB]
• 11/05/2008 — Professor Hassan Aref, Reynolds Metal Professor, Virginia Tech, and Niels Bohr Visiting Professor, Technical University of Denmark
  "The Three-Vortex Problem"
  [Colloquium video]    [Presentation PDF 9.1MB]
• 10/29/2008 — Dr. John Grant, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
  "Mars Exploration Rovers: Still Driving on Mars"
  [Colloquium video] Presentation: [PowerPoint 120 MB]  [PDF 20.2 MB]
• 10/21/2008 — Professor Robert L. Park, Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
  "Superstition — Belief in the Age of Science"
  [Colloquium video] Presentation: [PowerPoint]  [PDF 601Kb]
• 10/06/2008 — Professor Thomas Klinger, Director, Wendelstein 7-X Project, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Griefswald, Germany
  "Steady-State Operation of Fusion Plasmas — The Stellarator Project Wendelstein 7-X"
  [Colloquium video] Presentation: [PowerPoint]  [PDF 3.9MB]
• 10/01/2008 — Professor Adam Maloof, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University
  "Rock Magnetic Evidence for Rapid Motion of the Solid Earth With Respect to its Spin Axis"
  [Colloquium video]  Presentation: [PDF 12.3MB]
• 09/24/2008 — Dr. Jerry Woodall, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana — "Solid Aluminum Alloys: A High Energy Density Material for Safe Energy Storage, Transport and Splitting Water to Make Hydrogen on Demand"
  [Colloquium video]  Presentation: [PowerPoint] [PDF 908KB]
• 09/17/2008 — Dr. Glen Wurden, MFE Team Leader /OFES Program Manager Los Alamos National Laboratory — "Free Floating Atmospheric Pressure Ball Plasmas" [Colloquium video]  Presentation [PDF 3.2MB]   [PowerPoint (PPTX)]
• 06/04/2008 — Tullic C. Onstott, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ — "The Search for Dark Life in the Universe" [Colloquium video]
• 05/28/2008 — B. Grant Logan, Program Head, Accelerator Fusion Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA — "Heavy Ion Direct Drive Fusion" [Colloquium video] Presentation [pdf]
• 05/21/2008 — Victor Malka, Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire d'Optiquie Appliquee (LOA), ENSTA, CNRS, Ecole Polytechniquie, Palaiseau Cedex, France — "Principle and Applications of Electron Beams Produced with Laser Plasma Accelerators" [Colloquium video]
• 05/14/2008 — Earl Marmar, Senior Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — "Overview of the Alcator C —Mod Research Program" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 05/07/2008 — Sergei Krasheninnikov, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA — "Dust in Magnetic Fusion" [Colloquium video]
• 04/30/2008 — Linn F. Mollenauer, (Retired), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lucent Technology — "Solitons in Optical Fibers for Telecommunications" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 04/23/2008 — Laura Cadonati, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA — "LIGO: A Journey Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy" [Colloquium video]
• 04/16/2008 — Francis F. Chen, Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles — "The Complicated Physics of Helicon Discharges" [Colloquium video]
• 04/09/2008 — Barry C. Barish, Emeritus Professor, California Institute of Technology, LIGO Lab, Pasadena, CA — "The Global Design Effort for the International LInear Collider" [Colloquium video]
• 03/19/2008 — Lev Tsendin, Professor, St. Petersurg State Polytechnical Universtiy, St. Petersburg, Russia — "Electron Kinetics in Glows" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 03/12/2008 — Iain Couzin, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University —
  "Collective Motion and Decision —Making in Animal Groups" [Colloquium video]
• 03/05/2008 — Karl M. Krushelnick, Professor, University of Michigan, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, MI —
  "Magnetic Fields in High Intensity —Laser Produced Plasmas" [Colloquium video]
• 02/27/2008 — Dennis Whyte, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering, Massacusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science & Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA — "The Challenges of Plasma —Facing Materials in ITER & Beyond" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 02/20/2008 — Russell M. Kulsrud, Professor Emeritus, Astrophysical Sciences Department, Princeton University, and
  Masaaki Yamada, Principal Research Physicist, PPPL — "Magnetic Reconnection: Recent Progress in Theory and Experiment" [Colloquium video]
• 02/13/2008 — Mark J. Kushner, Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA — "Achieving Selectivity in Plasma Material Processing: Addressing the Physics While Still Making a Profit" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 02/06/2008 — Frank von Hippel, Professor of Public and International Affairs & Co —Chair International Panel on Fissile Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ — "A Global Cleanout of Nuclear —Weapon Material" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 01/30/2008 — Peter Frumhoff, Director of Science and Policy & Chief Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientist, Cambridge, MA — "Confronting Climate Change in New Jersey and the Northeast: Science, Impacts and Solutions" [Colloquium video] [.pdf]
• 01/16/2008 — Taik Soo Hahm, Principal Research Physicist, PPPL — "Recent Progress in Understanding Tokamak Core Turbulence and Transport" [Colloquium video]