2008 Recorded Colloquia

2008 Recorded Colloquia

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• 06/04/2008 - Tullic C. Onstott, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - "The Search for Dark Life in the Universe" [video]
• 05/28/2008 - B. Grant Logan, Program Head, Accelerator Fusion Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA - "Heavy Ion Direct Drive Fusion" [video] [.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" [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" [video] [.pdf]
• 05/07/2008 - Sergei Krasheninnikov, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA - "Dust in Magnetic Fusion" [video]
• 04/30/2008 - Linn F. Mollenauer, (Retired), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lucent Technology - "Solitons in Optical Fibers for Telecommunications" [video] [.pdf]
• 04/23/2008 - Laura Cadonati, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - "LIGO: A Journey Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy" [video]
• 04/16/2008 - Francis F. Chen, Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles - "The Complicated Physics of Helicon Discharges" [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" [video]
• 03/19/2008 - Lev Tsendin, Professor, St. Petersurg State Polytechnical Universtiy, St. Petersburg, Russia - "Electron Kinetics in Glows" [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" [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" [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" [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" [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" [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" [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" [video] [.pdf]
• 01/16/2008 - Taik Soo Hahm, Principal Research Physicist, PPPL - "Recent Progress in Understanding Tokamak Core Turbulence and Transport" [video]

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