2010 Archived Colloquia

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• Jan-13-2010
  "Plasma Response to Lithium-Coated Plasma Facing Components"
  Dr. Michael Bell,
  Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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• Jan-27-2010
  "Prospects and Challenges of the Use of HTS Materials for Fusion"
  Dr. Leslie Bromberg,
  Principal Research Scientist,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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• Feb-03-2010
  "A Magnetic Reconnection Mechanism for the Generation of Anomalous Cosmic Rays"
  Dr. James Drake,
  Professor of Physics,
  University of Maryland
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• Feb-24-2010
  "Magnetic Records of Meteorites and Early Planetesimal Dynamos"
  Dr. Benjamin Weiss,
  Associate Professor of Plenary Sciences,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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• Mar-03-2010
  "The Current Economic Crisis and Its Implications for the Global Community"
  Professor Paul Krugman,
  Professor of Economics and International Affairs - Woodrow Wilson School,
  Recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics,
  Princeton University
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• Mar-10-2010
  "Right-Left Symmetry Violation at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Implications for the Early Universe"
  Dr. Dmitri Kharzeev,
  Head, Nuclear Theory Group,
  Brookhaven National Laboratory
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• Mar-17-2010
  "Inward Turbulent Pinch of Plasma Confined by a Levitated Dipole Magnet"
  Professor Michael Mauel,
  Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
  Columbia University
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• Mar-24-2010
  "The Promise and Challenge of Physics-Based Computational Engineering"
  Dr. Douglass Post,
  Department of Defense
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• Mar-31-2010
  "Quasisymmetry in Plasma Confinement: What We Have Learned from HSX"
  Professor David T. Anderson,
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
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• Apr-07-2010
  "CO2: Friend or Foe"
  Professor William Happer,
  Princeton University
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• Apr-13-2010
  "The Inner Workings of Magnetic Reconnection: Diffusion Region in the Balance"
  Dr. Michael Hesse,
  NASA GSFC
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• Apr-14-2010
  "History Lessons — Foreign Perspectives on U.S. History"
  Dr. Dana K. Lindaman,
  Harvard University
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• Apr-27-2010
  "Reconnecting Magnetic Fields — A Definitive Space Experiment"
  Dr. James L. Burch,
  Southwest Research Institute
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• Apr-28-2010
  "Low Temperature Plasmas for Biomedical Applications"
  Professor David Graves,
  University of California at Berkeley
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• May-05-2010
  "Lagrange-Point Objects and the Origin of the Moon"
  Dr. Richard Gott,
  Princeton University
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• May-12-2010
  "Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography — Challenges and Similarities to Fusion Devices"
  Ahmed Hassanein,
  Purdue University
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• May-26-2010
  "Physics and Applications of Nanoparticles in Plasmas"
  Dr. Uwe Kortshagen,
  University of Minnesota
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• Jun-02-2010
  "Science Responds?"
  Dr. Donald Prosnitz,
  University of California at Berkeley
  

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• Jun-16-2010
  "A Novel Technique to Expand Mental Capacity and Memory"
  Michael S. Byster,
  Founder of Brainetics
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• Jun-30-2010
  "First-Principles of Theory of Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials"
  Professor David Vanderbilt,
  Department of Physics and Astronomy,
  Rutgers University
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• Aug-20-2010
  "Development of Early Nuclear Power Propulsion Plants for Nuclear Submarines and Surface Ships"
  Henry Stone,
  Consultant
  

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• Sep-20-2010
  "James Webb Space Telescope Mission Overview and Status"
  Dr. John Mather,
  Senior Project Scientist (JWST),
  Observational Cosmology Laboratory,
  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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• Oct-20-2010
  "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments"
  George Johnson,
  The New York Times
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• Oct-27-2010
  "Bottom-Up Science at the Plasma-Material Interface"
  Dr. Predrag Krstic,
  Physics Division,
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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• Oct-28-2010
  "Lessons Learned: What the DIII-D Centerpost Coil Job Taught Us"
  Dr. Adam Cohen,
  Deputy Director for Operations,
  Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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• Nov-03-2010
  "Neandertal: The Life, Times, and Mysterious Downfall of Our Closest Relative"
  Kate Wong,
  Editor,
  Scientific American
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• Nov-17-2010
  "What Happens When A Researcher Does Something Practical?"
  Dr. Martha J. Connolly,
  University of Maryland
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• Dec-06-2010
  "The Risk of Sudden Death With Running a Marathon"
  Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, M.D.,
  Professor of Medicine,
  University of Toronto - Sunnybrook Hospital
  

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