Academics

Documents

1. Poster and abstract, Sherwood conference. May 2011.
2. A drift wave derivation. Warning... not very thorough. January 2011.
3. Notes for the NEEP qualifying exams in math, classical physics and modern physics. September 2010.
4. Note on solving a linear PDE using fourier series expansions. July 2010.
5. Notes for the Introductory Nuclear Physics by Kenneth Krane, the course textbook for NE 305. December 2009.
6. Selected coursework from my time as an undergraduate at UT-Austin. December 2008.

Seminars attended in Fall 2009

1. 8/31/09. Electron temperature fluctuations in MST through a sawtooth. Hilary Stephens. CPTC seminar.
2. 9/11/09. Anderson localization. Boris Altshuler. Physics colloqium.
3. 9/14/09. Background and recent progress on simulation of giant sawteeth in tokamaks with NIMROD. Dalton Scnack. CPTC seminar.
4. 9/21/09. Recent progress in validating simulations of plasma turbulence. Chris Holland. Plasma seminar.
5. 9/28/09. Helical equilibria and magnetic structures in reversed field pinch. M.E. Puiatti, M. Valisa. Plasma seminar.
6. 9/28/09. Minimum energy states of the plasma pinch in standard and Hall MHD. Ivan Khalzov. CPTC seminar.
7. 10/5/09. Magnetized pinches, magnetized target fusion to astrophysics. Tom Intrator. Plasma seminar.
8. 10/5/09. Toroidal viscosity. Andrew Cole. CPTC seminar.
9. 10/9/09. Kinetic theory of instability enhanced collisional effects. Scott Baalruud. CPTC seminar.
10. 10/12/09. Laboratory simulation of astrophysical jets and solar coronal loops. Paul Bellan. Plasma seminar.
11. 10/12/09. Numerical simulations of curent channel relaxation for non-inductive startup. Tom Bird. CPTC seminar.
12. 10/19/09. Turbulence, structures, thermal and non-thermal particle transport in a simple toroidal plasma. Ambrogio Fasoli. Plasma seminar.
13. 10/26/09. Electron thermal transport within magnetic islands in the RFP. Hilary Stephens. Physics seminar.
14. 10/26/09. Internal electron transport barriers due to neoclassical ambipolarity in HSX. Jeremy Lore. Plasma seminar.
15. 10/30/09. Fifty years of fusion research. Dale Meade. Physics colloqium.
16. 11/3/09. Can quasars quench star formation? Christy Tremonti. Astronomy colloqium.
17. 11/9/09. Lithium experiments at the tokamak T-11M towards concept of steady state tokamak reactor. S. V. Mirnov. Plasma seminar.
18. 11/16/09. New directions in stellarator optimization/design. Don Spong. Plasma seminar.
19. 11/16/09. Energetic particle-driven instabilities in general toroidal configurations. Don Spong. CPTC seminar.
20. 11/23/09. Analysis of pedestal plasma transport. Jim Callen. CPTC seminar.
21. 11/30/09. Gyrokinetic theory and simulation: Towards a better understanding of plasma turbulence. Frank Jenko. Plasma seminar.
22. 11/30/09. Progress on resistive wall mode verification in NIMROD. Andrea Montogomery. CPTC seminar.
23. 12/7/09. High power laser experiments at the large plasma device. Chris Niemann. Plasma seminar.
24. 12/14/09. Multi-collisionality closures for extended MHD. Jim Callen. CPTC seminar.