Stanley Kaye

Title
Director, NSTX-U Research Program
Bio/Description

Director of Research for the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade. He has been involved in confinement and transport analysis at PPPL for over 40 years, and he has also performed research in the area of Macrostability and Pedestal analysis. The transport analysis has involved both global and local studies of the confinement and transport for both energy and momentum, incorporating turbulence measurement and gyrokinetic simulation results to understand the transport trends. MHD studies have involved analysis of Mirnov coils to study wall effects on disruptions, and the study of high frequency magnetic precursors to ELMs. He used triple Langmuir probes on PDX to study the pedestal characteristics during H-modes, and analyzed L-H transitions on NSTX to understand their parametric trends and relation to theory models predicting the transition. Has been on several Program Advisory and Review Committees, and he has served as Chair of the Transport and Confinement ITPA Topical Group and U.S. Transport Task Force. He is the winner of the 2009 Kaul Prize and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Selected Publications