Amitava Bhattacharjee 

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University
P. O. Box 451, MS-29
Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone: (609) 243 3100

e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University (Astrophysical Sciences), 1981
M.A., Princeton University (Astrophysical Sciences), 1979
M.S.E., University of Michigan (Nuclear Engineering), 1978
M.S., University of Michigan (Physics), 1976
B.Sc. (First Class Honors in Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1975

Professional History

• Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 2012-present
• Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics, The Flatiron Institute, 2018-19
• Head, Theory Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 2012-2021
• Director, Princeton Center for Heliophysics, Princeton University, 2013-present
• Peter T. Paul Professor, Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) and the Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, 2003-12
• Director, Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence (CICART), University of New Hampshire (a DOE EPSCoR Cluster in collaboration with Dartmouth College), 2007-present
• Professeur Invite, Ecole Polytechnique de Palaiseau and Universite de Paris-Sud 11, France, 2010
• Dean, Heliophysics Summer School, NASA Living With a Star Targeted Research and Technology, 2010-2012, 2015-present
• Senior Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 2006-2009
• Member, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Summer 2004
• Director, Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies (CMRS), University of New Hampshire (a DOE SciDAC Consortium with the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin), 2001-05
• Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, 1995-2003
• Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, 1993-1995
• Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan, Fall 1993
• Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1987-1993
• Visiting Professor, Center de Recherches en Phyisque des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1987
• Member, Applied Mathematics Group, Columbia University, 1991-1993
• Visiting Member, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 1991
• Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1984-1987
• Consultant, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1986-1989
• Fellow, Faculty of the Plasma Physics Programme, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 1983-1984
• Research Fellow, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1980-1983

Honors

• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1993
• James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1996
• University of Iowa Faculty Scholar, 1997-2000
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000
• Collegiate Fellow, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2003
• Michael J. Brody Award, University of Iowa, 2003
• Basic Science Book Award 2007, International Academy of Astronautics, Paris, France for Introduction to Plasma Physics with Space and Laboratory Applications (with D. Gurnett)
• Fulbright Research Scholar, Paris, France, 2010
• Outstanding Academic Title in Physics, 2010, Choice (The American Library Association) for The Plasma Universe
• Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2015
• Distinguished Lecturer in Plasma Physics, Division of Plasma Physics, The American Physical Society, 2017-18

Professional Memberships

• American Astronomical Society
• American Geophysical Union
• American Physical Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• University Fusion Association

Professional Service 

• Plasma 2020 Committee, Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science, National Academy of Sciences, 2018-19
• Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP), The National Academies, 2013-2016
• Chair, Organizing Committee, Workshop on “Living with a Star: Past Accomplishments and Future Promise,” Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, September 18-20, 2013
• International Advisory Committee, Space Plasma Research Facility, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2013-present
• NASA Living With a Star Targeted Research and Technology Steering Committee, 2011-2015
• Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), 2013-16
• Chair, Organizing Committee, “Theory and Simulation of Disruptions Workshop,” Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, 2013-present
• Scientific Committee, IUTAM Symposium, “Understanding Common Aspects of Extreme Events in Fluids,” University College Dublin, Ireland, July 2-6, 2012
• Chair, Selection Committee for the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, The American Physical Society, 2010
• Chair, NASA Living With a Star Targeted Research and Technology Steering Committee, 2009-11
• Chair, Workshop on Advanced Computational Capabilities for Exploration in Heliophysical Science (ACCEHS), Boulder, Colorado, August 16-18, 2010
• Chair, Working Group on Turbulence, Workshop on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics 2010, Princeton, January 18-21, 2010
• Task Leader on Magnetic Reconnection, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, NSF Physics Frontier Center, 2008-14
• Chair, Chair-Elect, and Vice-Chair, Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, 2006-09
• Executive Committee, Space Physics and Aeronomy, American Geophysical Union, 2006-2009
• Advisory Council of the Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, 2001-12
• Chair-Elect and Chair, Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics, American Physical Society, 2002-04
• Executive Committee, Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, 2002-05
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 2002-2005
• Associate Editor, Physics of Plasmas, 2001-2005
• Chair, Program Committee, IPELS (Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space) 2003, Whitefish, Montana, June 29-July 3, 2003
• Convenor, Mini-Conference on “Singularities in Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics", 44^th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Orlando, Florida, November 11-15, 2002
• Convenor, Mini-Workshop on “Basic Studies in Fusion Science”, 43rd Annual Meeting, American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, Long Beach, October 28, 2001
• Organizing Committee, Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, Austin, Texas, December 11-13, 2000
• Executive Committee, University Fusion Association, 1994-1997, 2000-03
• Scientific Organizer, 9^th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, May 21-23, 2001, Iowa City
• Founding Chair (1998-99) and Executive Committee (1998-2000), Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics, American Physical Society
• Convenor, Mini-Conference on "Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium and Solar Wind", 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Seattle, Washington, November 15-19, 1999
• Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, 1998-2001
• F. L. Scarf Award Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1998-2000
• Chair (1998-99) and Vice-Chair (1997-98), Selection Committee for the Simon Ramo Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Plasma Physics, American Physical Society
• Co-Chairman, US-Japan-Australia Workshop on New Concepts in MHD , Greenpia Ena, Japan, November 25-27, 1993
• Chairman (1993-94) and Vice-Chairman (1992-93), Executive Committee of the Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
• Chairman, Program Subcommittee, 1989 Sherwood Theory Conference
• Panelist, Small Business Innovation Research Program, National Science Foundation, 1988

Books

Introduction to Plasma Physics with Space, Laboratory, and Astrophysical Applications, D. A. Gurnett and A. Bhattacharjee (Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, First Edition, 2005; Second Edition, 2017)
The Plasma Universe, written by Curt Suplee, edited by A. Bhattacharjee and designed by Kristi Donahue (Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2009)

Refereed Journal Publications

Articles in Books and Conference Proceedings 

1. Variational method for the thee-dimensional inverse equilibrium problem in toroids, A. Bhattacharjee, Proceedings of the U.S. Japan Theory Workshop on 3-D MHD Studies for Toroidal Devices, October 19-21, 1981, Oak Ridge, TN, pp. 82-97.
2. On high- operation of conventionally shaped tokamak discharges in the second region and at low q < 1 in the first region of ballooning stability, A. M. M. Todd, M. W. Phillips, A. Bhattacharjee and L. Chen in Tokamak Concept Innovations, IAEA-TECDOC-373 (IAEA, Vienna, 1986), pp. 141-144.
3. Relaxation phenomena in reversed-field pinches and tokamaks, A. Bhattacharjee, C. K. Chu, Y.-C. Kwok, E. Hameiri, H. Strauss and A. H. Boozer, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1986 (IAEA, Vienna, 1987), Vol. 2, pp. 711-718.
4. Relaxation of magnetotail plasmas, A. Bhattacharjee and C. Paranicas, in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Relation Between Laboratory and Space Plasmas, Tokyo, November 25-26, 1986, H. Kikuchi, editor (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989), pp. 143-160.
5. Experimental and theoretical studies of circular cross-section high beta tokamaks, G. A. Navratil, Y. Baransky, A. Bhattacharjee, C. K. Chu, A. V. Deniz, A. A. Grossman, A. Holland, T. Ivers, X.-L. Li, T. C. Marshall, M. E. Mauel, S. Sabbagh, A. K. Sen, J. W. Van Dam, X.-H. Wang. M. Hughes, M. Phillips and A. M. M. Todd, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1986 (IAEA, Vienna, 1987), Vol. l, pp. 299-308.
6. MHD equilibrium and stability of axisymmetric plasmas in the presence of rotation, A. Bhattacharjee in Theory of Fusion Plasmas, Proceedings of the Varenna Workshop, August 24-28, 1987, A. Bondeson, E. Sindoni and F. Troyon, editors (Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy, 1987), pp. 47-68.
7. Relativistic quantum dynamics and quantum noise in short-wavelength free electron lasers, I. Gjaja and A. Bhattacharjee, in Free Electron Lasers, Proceedings of the Ninth International Free Electron Laser Conference, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 14-18, 1987, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 272, 293 (1988).
8. Generation of squeezed radiation from a free electron laser, I. Gjaja and A. Bhattacharjee, in Free Electron Lasers, Proceedings of the Ninth International Free Electron Laser Conference, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 14-18, 1987, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 272, 297 (1988).
9. Turbulent magnetic diffusion in tokamaks and reversed-field pinches, A. Bhattacharjee and E. Hameiri in Theory of Fusion Plasmas, Proceedings of the Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, October 3-7, 1988, edited by J. Vaclavik, F. Troyon and E. Sindoni (Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy, 1989), pp. 505-518.
10. Coherence and statistics of photon beams with application to the free-electron laser, A. Bhattacharjee and I. Gjaja, in Physics of Particle Accelerators, AIP Conference Proceedings 184, M. Month and M. Dienes, editors (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1989), Vol. 2, pp. 1776-1797.
11. MHD Alfven stability in ignited toroidal plasmas, G. Y. Fu, J. W. Van Dam, M. N. Rosenbluth, D. W. Ross, Y. Z. Zhang, H. L. Berk, S. M. Mahajan, C. Z. Cheng, R. L. Miller, X.-H. Wang, A. Bhattacharjee and M.E. Mauel, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1988 (IAEA, Vienna, 1989), Vol. 2, pp. 291–301.
12. Island formation in magnetostatics and Euler flows, C. C. Hegna and A. Bhattacharjee, in Topological Fluid Mechanics, edited by H. K. Moffatt and A. Tsinober (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990), pp. 206–215.
13. Suppression and control of magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas, C. C. Hegna, A. Bhattacharjee, Y. Nakamura and M. Wakatani, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1990 (IAEA, Vienna, 1991), Vol. 2, pp. 383-391.
14. Theory of current disruption and diversion in magnetotail plasmas: recent developments, X. Wang, A. Bhattacharjee and A. T. Y. Lui, in the Physics of Space Plasmas (1990), SPI Conference Proceedings and Reprint Series, edited by T. Chang, G. B. Crew and J. R. Jasperse (Scientific Publishers, Cambridge, MA 02139, 1991), Vol. 10, pp. 169-182.
15. Suppression of magnetic islands by energetic ions, C. C. Hegna and A. Bhattacharjee, in Avoidance and Control of Tokamak Disruptions (IAEA, Vienna, 1992), pp. 117-121.
16. Is there a finite-time singularity in axisymmetric Euler flows? X. Wang and A. Bhattacharjee, in Topological Aspects of the Dynamics of Fluids and Plasmas, edited by H. K. Moffatt, G. M. Zaslavsky, M. Tabor and P. Comte (Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordecht, Netherlands, 1992), pp. 303-308.
17. Current sheets (Dedicated to Professor E. N. Parker on the occasion of his 1992 Alfvén Lecture), A. Bhattacharjee, in Physics of Space Plasmas (1992), SPI Conference Proceedings and Reprint Series, Vol. 12, edited by T. Chang, G. B. Crew and J. R. Jasperse (Scientific Publishers, Cambridge, MA 02139, 1992), pp. 21-32.
18. Separatrices and singularities, A. Bhattacharjee, in Singularities in Fluids, Plasmas and Optics, edited by R. Caflisch and G. C. Papanicolau (Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordecht, Netherlands, 1993), pp. 189-196.
19. MHD constraints for advanced tokamak operation, S. C. Jardin, A. Bhattacharjee, A. Bondeson, M. S. Chance, S. C. Cowley, G. Eriksson, J. M. Greene, F. Hoffman, M. Hughes, R. Iacono, D. W. Ignat, C. Kessel, H. Lutjens, J. Manickam, D. A. Monticello, F. W. Perkins, M. Phillips, N. Pomphrey, J. Ramos, A. H. Reiman, P. H. Rutherford, E. J. Valeo, L. Villard, C. Wang, and D. J. Ward, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1992 (IAEA, Vienna, 1993), Vol. 2, pp. 285-291.
20. Collisionless tearing instabilities and their possible implications for substorms, A. Bhattacharjee, X. Wang, and M. Tanaka, in Substorms 2, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Substorms, University of Alaska Fairbanks, March 7-11, 1994, edited by J. R. Kan, J. D. Craven, and S.-I. Akasofu, pp. 121-126.
21. Global three-dimensional magnetic reconnection involving nulls and implications for substorm models, X. Wang and A. Bhattacharjee, in Substorms 2, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Substorms, University of Alaska Fairbanks, March 7-11, 1994, edited by J. R. Kan, J. D. Craven, and S.-I. Akasofu, pp. 511-518.
22. Suppression of the sideband instability in tapered FELs and IFELs, A. Bhattacharjee and R. P. Pilla, in Free Electron Lasers, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Free Electron Laser Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 1993, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 341, 209 (1994).
23. Behavior of magnetic islands in 3D MHD equilibria of helical devices, T. Hayashi, T. Sato, N. Nakajima, K. Ichiguchi, P. Merkel, J. Nührenberg, U. Schwenn, H. Gardner, A. Bhattacharjee, and C. C. Hegna, in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1994 (IAEA, Vienna, 1995), Vol. 2, pp. 431-435.
24. Theory and simulation of an inverse free-electron laser experiment, S. K. Guo, A. Bhattacharjee, J.-M. Fang and T. C. Marshall, in Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Seventh Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California, October 12-18, 1996, edited by S. Chattopadhyay, J. McCullough and P. Dahl (American Institute of Physics, 1997), pp. 575-590.
25. Free-electron lasers, A. Bhattacharjee, in the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 1997 (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996), pp. 267-269.
26. Pair correlations in strongly coupled dusty plasmas, X. Wang and A. Bhattacharjee, in Physics of Dusty Plasmas, edited by M. Horanyi, S. Robertson, and B. Walch (American Institute of Physics, 1998), pp. 247-256.
27. Dynamics of thin current sheets and their disruption by ballooning instabilities: a mechanism for substorm onset, A. Bhattacharjee, Z. W. Ma, and X. Wang, in Substorms-4, edited by S. Kokubun and Y. Kamide (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998), pp. 367-372.
28. Sudden enhancement and disruption of current sheets in the magnetotail, Z. W. Ma and A. Bhattacharjee, in Substorms-4, edited by S. Kokubun and Y. Kamide (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998), pp. 397-400.
29. Reduced models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium, A. Bhattacharjee and C. S. Ng, in Nonlinear MHD waves and Turbulence, edited by T. Passot and P.-L. Sulem, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1999), pp. 182-196.
30. A nonlinear theory of void formation in colloidal plasmas, in Dusty Plasmas in the New Millennium, A. Bhattacharjee, C.-S. Ng, K. Avinash, S. Hu, and Z. W. Ma, Third International Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Durban, South Africa, 20-24 May 2002, edited by R. Bharuthram, M. A. Hellberg, P. K. Shukla, and F. Verheest (American Institute of Physics, 2002), pp. 121-125.
31. Recent developments in collisionless reconnection theory: applications to laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, A. Bhattacharjee, Z. W. Ma, and X. Wang, in Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics, edited by E. Falgarone and T. Passot, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003), pp. 351-375.
32. Anisotropic MHD turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium, A. Bhattacharjee and C.-S. Ng, in Solar Wind Ten, Pisa, Italy, June 17-21, 2002, edited by M. Velli, R. Bruno, and F. Malara (American Institute for Physics, 2003), pp. 433-438.
33. Sufficient condition for finite-time singularity and tendency towards self-similarity in a high-symmetry Euler flow, C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee, in Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics, edited by K. Bajer and H. K. Moffatt, IUTAM Symposium Series (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003), Vol. 71, pp. 317-328.
34. Using Krylov-Schwarz methods in an adaptive mesh refinement environment, K. Germaschewski, A. Bhattacharjee, R. Grauer, D. Keyes and B. Smith, in Adaptive Mesh Refinement --- Theory and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computational Sciences and Engineering (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005), edited by T. Plewa, T. Linde and V. G. Weirs, pp. 115-124.
35. Nonlinear theory and simulation of void formation in dusty plasmas, A. Bhattacharjee, C. S. Ng, K. Avinash, S. Hu, and Z. W. Ma, in New Vistas in Dusty Plasmas, Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, 13-17 June 2005, AIP Conference Proceedings 799 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2005), edited by L. Boufendi, M. Mikikian, and P. K. Shukla, pp. 145-148.
36. Tracking magnetic nulls in a simulated magnetosphere, J. Dorelli, A. Bhattacharjee, and J. Raeder, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum 2006, edited by N. Pogorelov and G. Zank, ASP Conference Series (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, California 2007), Volume 359, pp. 131-136.
37. The Magnetic Reconnection Code: an AMR-based fully implicit simulation suite, K. Germaschewski, A. Bhattacharjee, and C.-S. Ng, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum 2006, edited by N. Pogorelov and G. Zank, ASP Conference Series (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, California, 2007), Volume 359, pp. 151-157.
38. Anisotropic MHD turbulence, C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee, in Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas, edited by D. Shaikh and G. Zank, AIP Conference Proceedings 932 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2007), pp. 137-143.
39. Hall MHD reconnection, A. Bhattacharjee and J. Dorelli, in Reconnection of magnetic fields: Magnetohydrodynamics and collisionless theory and observations, edited by J. Birn and E. Priest (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 132-143.
40. Simulations of reconnection at the magnetopause, J. Dorelli and A. Bhattacharjee, in Reconnection of magnetic fields: Magnetohydrodynamics and collisionless theory and observations, edited by J. Birn and E. Priest (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 168-179.
41. Scale-dependent alignment between velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind and comparison to Boldyrev’s phenomenological theory, J. Podesta, A. Bhattacharjee, B. D. G. Chandran, M. L. Goldstein, and D. A. Roberts, in Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Heliosphere and Beyond, edited by G. Li, Q. Hu, O. Verkhoglyadova, G. Zank, R. P. Lin, and J. Luhmann, AIP Conference Proceedings 1039 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2008), pp. 81-86.
42. New Developments in Modeling MHD Systems on High Performance Computing Architectures, K. Germaschewski, J. Raeder, D. Larson, and A. Bhattacharjee, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows,Astronum 2008, edited by N. Pogorelov, E. Audit, P. Colella and G. P. Zank, ASP Conference Series (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, California 2009), Volume 406, pp. 223-230.
43. A numerical study of magnetic reconnection: a central scheme for Hall MHD, X. Qian, J. Balbas, A. Bhattacharjee, and H. Yang, in Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, and Applications, edited by E. Tadmor, J.-G. Liu, and A. Tzavarus, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 67 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2009), pp. 879-888.
44. Fast reconnection in low-density hydrogen and pair plasmas, N. Bessho and A. Bhattacharjee, in Proceedings of the 19^th International Toki Conference on Advanced Physics in Plasma and Fusion Research, Plasma and Fusion Research 5, S2017 (2010).
45. The effect of magnetic turbulence energy spectra and pickup ions on the heating of the solar wind, C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, P. A. Isenberg, D. Munsi, and C. W. Smith, in Proceedings of the 9^th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings 1302 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2010), edited by L. le Roux, G. Zank, A. Coates, and V. Florinski, pp. 174-179.
46. The Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics Coronal Tectonics Code: Implementation in GPU Accelerated Machines, L. Lin, C.-S. Ng, and A. Bhattacharjee, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum 2011, edited by N. Pogorelov, E. Audit, and G. Zank, ASP Conference Series (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, California 2012), Volume 459, pp. 222-228.
47. Current sheet statistics in three-dimensional simulations of coronal heating, L. Lin, C.-S. Ng, and A. Bhattacharjee, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum 2012, edited by N. Pogorelov, E. Audit, and G. Zank, ASP Conference Series (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, California 2013), Volume 474, pp. 159-164.

Invited/Solicited Talks in Conferences and Workshops

1. Minimum-energy equilibria for toroidal plasmas, Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Physics, Ventura, California, June 16-20, 1980. (Collaborators: R. L. Dewar and D. A. Monticello)
2. Variational method for three-dimensional toroidal equilibria, European Workshop on "Computational problems in the calculation of MHD equilibria," Wildhaus, Switzerland, September 12-14, 1983. (Collaborators: J. C. Wiley and R. L. Dewar)
3. Self-consistent dynamo in reversed field pinches, 1985 Sherwood Theory Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 15-17, 1985. (Collaborator: E. Hameiri)
4. Resistive MHD turbulence, scaling laws and the dynamo effect, U.S. Japan Workshop on "MHD relaxation processes," Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, March 16-19, 1987. (Collaborator: E. Hameiri)
5. Energy confinement in turbulent fluid plasmas, 1987 Sherwood Theory Conference, San Diego, California, April 6-8, 1987. (Collaborator: E. Hameiri)
6. MHD equilibrium and stability of axisymmetric plasmas in the presence of rotation, Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, International School of Plasma Physics <<Piero Caldirola>>, Varenna, Italy, August 24-28, 1987. (Collaborators: A. Bondeson , R. Iacono, and C. Paranicas)
7. Quantum effects in a free-electron laser, 9th International FEL Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 14-18, 1987. (Collaborator: I. Gjaja)
8. Destabilization of ballooning modes by sheared equilibrium flows in axisymmetric plasmas, 1988 Sherwood Theory Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee , April 18-20, 1988. (Collaborators: R. Iacono, J. Milovich, and C. Paranicas)
9. Sideband instabilities and optical guiding in a free-electron laser: experiment and theory, 10th International FEL Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, August 29 - September 2, 1988. (Collaborators: S.Y. Cai, S. P.. Chang, J. W. Dodd, and T.C. Marshall)
10. Ballooning stability of rotating magnetospheres, Third Neil Brice Memorial Symposium on the Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), Max-Planck Institut fur Aeronomie, Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany, October 10 – 13, 1988. (Collaborator: C. Paranicas)
11. Ballooning stability of axisymmetric rotating plasmas, 30th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Hollywood, Florida, October 31 - November 4, 1988. (Collaborators: R. Iacono, J. Milovich, and C. Paranicas)
12. Island formation in magnetostatics and Euler flows, in the IUTAM Symposium on Topological Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 13-18, 1989. (Collaborator : C. C. Hegna)
13. Summary Talk on Status of Theory, 1989 International Conference on Plasma Physics, New Delhi, India, November 22-28, 1989.
14. Theory of current disruption and diversion in magnetotail plasmas, 1990 Cambridge Workshop in Theoretical Geoplasma Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, July 16-20, 1990. (Collaborators: X. Wang and A. T. Y. Lui)
15. Optical spikes in a free-electron laser: experiment and theory, Twelfth International Free-electron Laser Conference, Paris, France, September 17-21, 1990. (Collaborators: S. Y. Cai, J. W. Dodd and T. C. Marshall)
16. Suppression and control of magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas, Second International Toki Conference on Nonlinear Phenomena in Fusion Plasmas, Toki, Japan, November 27-30, 1990. (Collaborators: C. C. Hegna, Y. Nakamura and M. Wakatani)
17. Current sheet formation and rapid reconnection in the solar corona, Second International Toki Conference on Nonlinear Phenomena in Fusion Plasmas, Toki, Japan, November 27-30, 1990. (Collaborator: X. Wang)
18. Current sheet formation in the solar corona, Tutorial Lecture, 1991 Cambridge Workshop in Theoretical Geoplasma Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 24-28, 1991.
19. Current sheets and vortex singularities, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Topological Fluid Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, November 1-5, 1991. (Collaborator : X. Wang)
20. Current sheets (Dedicated to Professor E. N. Parker on the occasion of his 1992 Alfvén Lecture), 1992 Twelfth Annual MIT Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, January 24, 1992.
21. Separatrices and singularities, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Singularities in Plasmas, Fluids and Optics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, July 6-11, 1992.
22. Global asymptotic equilibria and collisionless tearing stability of magnetotail plasmas, Mini-Workshop on Substorms, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, Maryland, March 22, 1993. (Collaborator : X. Wang)
23. Current and vortex singularities, Elizabeth and Frederick White Workshop on Fundamental Problems in the Physics of Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, Australia, 12-15 July, 1993. (Collaborator : X. Wang)
24. Fast sawtooth collapse in tokamaks, Elizabeth and Frederick White Workshop on Fundamental Problems in the Physics of Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, Australia, 12-15 July, 1993. (Collaborator : X. Wang)
25. Separatrices, singularities and turbulence, 1993 Cambridge Workshop on the Physics of Space Plasmas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, July 19-23, 1993.
26. Suppression of the sideband instability in tapered FELs and IFELs, 15th International Free Electron Laser Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 1993. (Collaborator : R. Pilla)
27. Collisionless tearing instabilities and their possible relevance for substorms, The International Conference on Substorms-2, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 7-11, 1994. (Collaborator: X. Wang)
28. Role of current sheets in nonlinear magnetic island dynamics, Theory of Fusion plasmas, Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, International School of Plasma Physics <<Piero Caldirola>>, Varenna, Italy, August 22-26, 1994.
29. Geometry and dynamics of free and forced magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere, 1994 Cambridge Workshop on the Physics of Space Plasmas, Bermuda, February 20-25, 1995. (Collaborators: Z.-W. Ma and X. Wang)
30. Separatrices, singularities and the Kolmogorov spectrum, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, San Jose, California, 20-24 March, 1995. (Collaborators: C. S. Ng and X. Wang)
31. Geometry and dynamics of reconnection: implications for substorms, Tutorial Lecture, Plenary Session of the GEM Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, June 26-30, 1995.
32. Sideband elimination and high efficiencies in a strongly tapered FEL amplifier: Theory and simulation, 17th International Free Electron Laser Conference, New York, New York, August 21-25, 1995. (Collaborator: J. Chen)
33. Lectures on magnetic reconnection, SERC School on Magnetic Reconnection, Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad, India, December 10-30, 1995.
34. Lectures on current sheets and vortex singularities, Nice School on "Vortex Tubes: Observations, Stability, Topology," Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, May 19-25, 1996.
35. Geometry and dynamics of magnetic reconnection: implications for magnetotail plasmas, The Fifth International School/Symposium for Space Simulations, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, March 13-19, 1997.
36. Particle correlations and hydrodynamics of a strongly coupled dusty plasma, Workshop on Dusty Plasmas, Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 15-17, 1997.
37. Ginzburg-Landau model for single-mode operation of a free-electron laser, 19th International Free Electron Laser Conference, Beijing, China, August 18-22, 1997. (Collaborator: C. S. Ng)
38. Dynamics of thin current sheets and their disruption by ballooning instabilities: a mechanism for magnetospheric substorms, 39th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, November 17-21, 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang)
39. Finite-time singularity of Euler flows, International Chandrasekhar Symposium on Mathematical Physics, Calcutta Mathematical Society, India, December 28, 1997-January 1, 1998.
40. Dynamics of thin current sheets and their disruption by ballooning instabilities: a mechanism for substorm onset, International Conference on Substorms-4, Lake Hamana, Japan, March 9-13, 1998. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang)
41. Finite-time singularity of a high-symmetry Euler flow, Modern Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computational Plasma Physics, A Symposium to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of C. K. Chu, Columbia University, New York, May 14-15, 1998.
42. Impulsive collisionless reconnection and particle acceleration, 1998 Spring Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Boston, Massachusetts, May 26-29, 1998. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and J. D. Scudder).
43. Four-field equations: a new model for weakly compressible MHD turbulence in the solar wind, 1998 Cambridge Workshop on the Physics of Space Plasmas, Cascais, Portugal June 23-July 2, 1998. (Collaborators: S. Ghosh, M. L. Goldstein, C. S. Ng, and S. Spangler)
44. Dynamics of thin current sheets and their disruption by ballooning instabilities: a mechanism for substorm onset, 1998 Cambridge Workshop on the Physics of Space Plasmas, Cascais, Portugal, June 23-July 2, 1998. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang)
45. Ginzburg-Landau equation: a unified nonlinear model for high-gain amplifiers and low-gain oscillators, 20th International Free Electron Laser Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia August 16-21, 1998. (Collaborator: C. S. Ng)
46. Impulsive reconnection dynamics in collisionless laboratory and space plasmas, Mini-Conference on Space Physics, 40th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 16-20, 1998. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang)
47. Four-field equations: a new model for weakly compressible MHD turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium, Workshop on "Nonlinear MHD Waves and Turbulence," Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, December 1-4, 1998. (Collaborators: S. Ghosh, M. L. Goldstein, C. S. Ng, and S. R. Spangler)
48. Geometric phase, adiabatic invariants, and reflectionless potentials, "Fusion, Turbulence, and Topology: A Symposium in Honor of J. B. Taylor's 70th Birthday," University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, January 11-12, 1999.
49. Hall magnetohydrodynamic reconnection in collisionless space plasmas, 24th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, The Hague, The Netherlands 19-23 April, 1999. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma, X. Wang, and J. D. Scudder)
50. Magnetic reconnection and dynamos, Fusion Science Assessment Committee Meeting, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, La Jolla, California, May 16-19, 1999.
51. Reduced models for MHD turbulence: implications for density fluctuations and anisotropic spectra, Workshop on "Plasma Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Astrophysics," Cracow, Poland, September 6-10, 1999. (Collaborators: S. Ghosh, M. L. Goldstein, C. S. Ng, and S. R. Spangler)
52. Pair correlations and waves in strongly coupled dusty plasmas, Mini-Conference on Dusty Plasmas, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Seattle, November 15-19, 1999. (Collaborators: N. F. Otani and X. Wang)
53. Reduced models for MHD turbulence: implications for density fluctuations and anisotropic spectra, Mini-Conference on Turbulence in the Solar Wind and the Interstellar Medium, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Seattle, November 15-19, 1999. (Collaborators: S. Ghosh, M. L. Goldstein, C. S. Ng, and S. R. Spangler)
54. Theory of growth, pre-onset enhancement, and disruption of thin current sheets in the collisionless magnetotail, 1999 Fall Meeting, The American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 13-17, 1999. (Collaborator: Z. W. Ma)
55. Collisionless magnetic reconnection: geometry and dynamics, ISTP Science Workshop, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, March 27-29, 2000. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma, J. D. Scudder, and X. Wang)
56. Magnetic reconnection and the dynamo effect, 2000 April Meeting, The American Physical Society, Long Beach, California, April 29-May 2, 2000.
57. Gradient-drift instabilities and turbulence in the daytime and nighttime equatorial electrojet, The Tenth International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy, Antalya, Turkey, May 17-23, 2000. (Collaborator: S. Hu)
58. Landau damping in weakly collisional plasmas and galaxies, Sherwood 2000, Los Angeles, March 27-29, 2000. (Collaborators: C. S. Ng and F. Skiff)
59. Longitudinal and transverse waves in Yukawa crystals, International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: Colloidal Science, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, July 3-7, 2000. (Collaborators: X. Wang and S. Hu)
60. Vortex and current singularities in fluids and plasmas, Workshop on Singularities in Classical, Quantum and Magnetic Fluids, Jointly organized by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University and Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom, October 20-23, 2000. (Collaborator: C. S. Ng.)
61. Recent developments in collisionless reconnection theory: applications to laboratory and space plasmas, Tutorial at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Quebec City, Canada, October 23-27, 2000. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang)
62. Ballooning instabilities: a mechanism for substorm onset, NSF Geospace Environment Modeling Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, June 17-22, 2001.
63. Recent developments in collisionless reconnection theory: applications to laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Simulations of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Astrophysics: Recent Achievements and Perspectives, Paris, France, July 2-6, 2001
64. Collisionless reconnection: scaling and dynamics, IAGA-IASPEI 2001 Joint Scientific Assembly, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-31 August, 2001.
65. Role of ballooning instabilities and reconnection in substorm dynamics, IAGA-IASPEI 2001 Joint Scientific Assembly, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-31 August, 2001.
66. Scaling of collisionless reconnection, Mini-Conference on Reconnection in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Long Beach, California, October 29-November 2, 2001. (Collaborators: Z. W. Ma and X. Wang).
67. Role of reconnection and ballooning instabilities in substorm dynamics, International Conference on Substorms-6, Seattle, Washington, March 25-29, 2002. (Collaborators: L.-J. Chen, Z. W. Ma and P. Zhu).
68. Ionization instabilities and void formation in dusty plasmas, 3^rd International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Durban, 20-24 May, 2002 (Collaborators: K. Avinash and S. Hu).
69. Anisotropic MHD turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium, Solar Wind 10, Pisa, June 17-21, 2002 (Collaborator: C.-S. Ng).
70. Summary of Mini-Conference on Singularities in Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics, 44^th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Orlando, Florida, November 11-15, 2002.
71. Anisotropic fluid turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium, UCR-IGPP Second Annual Astrophysics Conference, Palm Springs, California, February 8-12, 2003 (Collaborator: C. S. Ng).
72. Magnetic Reconnection: From Fusion to Astrophysics, Conference on Turbulence, Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 20-22, 2003.
73. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids, Workshop on Subgrid Scale Turbulence Methods for Geodynamo Simulations, UCLA-Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, California, July 28-August 1, 2003 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski and C. S. Ng).
74. Vortex and Current Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection, Computations in Science Seminar, University of Chicago, September 10, 2003.
75. Relationship between astrophysical and laboratory dynamos, Dynamo Workshop, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, University of Chicago, October 13-14, 2003.
76. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection Dynamics, 45th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 27-31, 2003. (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, R. Grauer, D. Keyes, C. S. Ng, and B. Smith ).
77. Fast reconnection and self-organization in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Mini-Conference on Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics, 45th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 27-31, 2003 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, Z. W. Ma, and C. S. Ng).
78. Magnetic Reconnection: Applications to Fusion, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas, 2004 SciDAC PI Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 22-24, 2004.
79. Role of collisionless reconnection and ballooning instabilities at substorm onset: theory, simulation, and observations, Alfven 2004 Workshop on Space Environment Turbulence, Beaulieu, France, 19-23 April 2004 (Collaborators: N. Bessho, K. Germaschewski, Z. W. Ma, C. S. Ng, and P. Zhu).
80. The spherical tearing mode, GEM 2004 Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, June 20-25, 2004 (Collaborators: J. Dorelli, J. M. Greene, and S. Hu).
81. Recent Developments in Reconnection Theory: Connections with CMSO Research, General Meeting of the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization (CMSO) in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 5-6, 2004.
82. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection Dynamics, Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection in the Sun and Magnetosphere, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Spitalfields Day, August 9, 2004. (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, and C. S. Ng).
83. Collisionless Dynamics and Geometry of Reconnection: Implications for Observations, The 8^th Cluster Workshop, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, September 27-October 1, 2004 (Collaborators: N. Bessho, J. Dorelli, K. Germaschewski, J. Greene, S. Hu, Z. W. Ma, and C. S. Ng).
84. Collisionless Reconnection: Dynamics and Geometry, UCR-IGPP Fourth International Astrophysics Conference, Palm Springs, California, February 26-March 3, 2005 (Collaborators: J. Dorelli, T. Forbes, K. Germaschewski, J. Greene, S. Hu, Z. W. Ma, and C. S. Ng).
85. Collisionless Reconnection: Dynamics and Geometry, Magnetic Reconnection 2005, Astrophysical Reconnection and Particle Acceleration, Awaji-shima Island, Japan, March 8-10, 2005 (Collaborators: J. Dorelli, T. Forbes, K. Germaschewski, J. Greene, S. Hu, Z. W. Ma, and C. S. Ng).
86. Multi-Scale Modeling of Collisionless Plasmas: From Fusion to Astrophysics, Symposium on the Future of Integrated Modeling (in Honor of Professor Arnold Kritz’s 70^th Birthday), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, July 19-20, 2005 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, Z. W. Ma, C. S. Ng, and P. Zhu).
87. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids, Mini-Conference on Reconnection and Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas, 47th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, October 24-28, 2005 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski and C. S. Ng).
88. Lectures on Magnetic Reconnection, Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics/Center for Magnetic Self-Organization Winter School 2006 on the Physics of Magnetic Reconnection, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, January 9-14, 2006.
89. Current Sheets in Line-Tied Systems: Structure and Stability, Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection in Line-Tied Systems, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 2-3, 2006 (Collaborators: J. Dorelli, K. Germaschewski, J. Greene, S. Hu, C. S. Ng, and P. Zhu).
90. Role of Nonlinear Ballooning Modes and Magnetic Reconnection at Substorm Onset, Eighth International Conference on Substorms, Banff, Canada, March 27-31, 2006 (Collaborators: L.-J. Chen, M. Fillingim, K. Germaschewski, R. Lin, Z. W. Ma, C. Mouikis, K. Sigsbee, G. Parks, and P. Zhu).
91. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids, Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Calspace-IGPP/UCR Conference, March 27-31, 2006 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski and C.-S. Ng).
92. Magnetic Reconnection: Collisionless Dynamics and Three-Dimensional Geometry, Review Presentation, 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30 – November 3, 2006.
93. Vortex and Current Singularities, Minisymposium on Fluid Dynamics and Plasma Physics, 59th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, Tampa Bay, Florida, November 19-21, 2006 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, R. Grauer, and C.-S. Ng).
94. Weakly Compressible MHD Turbulence in the Solar Wind: Scaling of Density and Anisotropic Magnetic Fluctuation Spectra, 6^th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, IGPP-UCR, Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas, March 16-22, 2007 (Collaborators: C.-S. Ng, C. Smith, and B. Vasquez).
95. Role of Collisionless Reconnection in Magnetospheric Substorms and Solar Flares: a Comparative Study, The CAWSES Workshop on Comparative Study of Solar Flares and Magnetospheric Substorms as a Basis for Space Weather Research, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 18-20, 2007.
96. Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, MR2007, US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, St. Michaels, Maryland, March 26-29, 2007.
97. Separator Reconnection at the Earth’s Magnetopause, 2007 Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico, May 22-25, 2007 (Collaborators: J. Dorelli and J. Raeder)
98. Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Magnetospheric Plasmas, 2007 Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico, May 22-25, 2007 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski and P. Zhu)
99. Landau Damping in Weakly Collisional Plasmas and BGK Waves, Symposium on Recent Advances in Plasma Physics---In Celebration of Ronald C. Davidson’s 40 Years of Plasma Physics Research and Graduate Education, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, June 10-12, 2007 (Collaborators: C.-S. Ng and F. Skiff).
100. Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids, Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, July 3-9, 2007.
101. Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, IPELS (Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space) 2007, Cairns, Australia, August 6-10, 2007.
102. Relaxation of Line-Tied Coronal Plasmas to MHD Equilibria with Current Singularities, 2007 Fall Meeting, The American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 10-14, 2007 (Collaborator: C.-S. Ng).
103. Onset of Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, MR2008, US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Okinawa, Japan, March 3-6, 2008 (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, Q. Xin, and H. Yang).
104. Scaling of Reconnection and Stability of Current Sheets in Large Systems, EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria, April 14-18, 2008 (Collaborators: Q. Xin and H. Yang).
105. Role of Reconnection and Secondary Instabilities in Triggering Substorms and Flares/CMEs, ICS 9, Ninth International Conference on Substorms, Schloss Seggau, Austria, May 5-9, 2008.
106. Scaling of Energy Spectra and Implications for Ion Heating in the Solar Wind, GEM-SHINE Workshop, Zermatt, Utah, June 23-27, 2008 (Collaborators: C. S. Ng, P. Isenberg, and D. Munsi)
107. Role of Reconnection and Secondary Instabilities in the Onset of Substorms and Flares/CMEs, GEM-SHINE Workshop, Zermatt, Utah, June 23-27, 2008 (Collaborators: C. S. Ng, P. Isenberg, and D. Munsi)
108. Onset of Fast Reconnection in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, 37^th COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Scientific Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 13-20, 2008.
109. Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliosphere: Impulsive Dynamics and Particle Acceleration, Cracow 2008 Conference on Kinetic Modeling of Astrophysical Plasmas, Krakow, Poland, October 5-9, 2008.
110. Magnetic Reconnection, Grand Challenges in Fusion Energy Sciences and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Washington D. C., March 18-20, 2009.
111. Plasmas in Space and Astrophysics, National Undergraduate Fellowship Program in Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, June 8-12, 2009.
112. Onset of Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, Keynote Address, Fourth International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum 2009, Chamonix, France, June 29-July 3, 2009.
113. The Tectonics Model of Coronal Heating: Unsteady Dynamics In Statistical Steady State, SHINE Workshop, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 3-7, 2009. (Collaborators: C.-S. Ng and L. Lin)
114. Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas due to the Plasmoid Instability, US-Japan Workshop on Reconnection, October 5-7, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin, October 5-7, 2009. (Collaborators: Y.-M. Huang, B. Rogers, and H. Yang).
115. Initiation and Cessation of Magnetic Reconnection: a Tutorial, Yosemite 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, February 8-12, 2010, Yosemite National Park. (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, Y.-M. Huang, B. Rogers, and H. Yang).
116. Plasmas in Space and Astrophysics, National Undergraduate Fellowship Program in Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, June 7-11, 2010.
117. Initiation and Cessation of Magnetic Reconnection, Plenary Address, International Congress on Plasma Physics, Santiago, Chile, August 8-11, 2010. (Collaborators: K. Germaschewski, Y.-M. Huang, and B. Sullivan)
118. Magnetic Reconnection: Recent Developments and Future Challenges, L’atelier: Processus Physiques dans l’Environnement Terrestre aura lieu, Institut d’Astrophyisque Spatiale, Paris, October 13-14, 2010.
119. Onset of Fast Reconnection Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Nara, Japan, December 6-9, 2010 (Collaborators: Y.-M. Huang and B. Sullivan).
120. Fast and Impulsive Magnetic Reconnection: Mediator of Geomagnetic Activity, Space Climate Symposium 4, Goa, January 16-21, 2011.
121. Onset of Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, 2011 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Austin, Texas, May 2-4, 2011 (Collaborators: W. Fox, K. Germaschewski, Y.-M. Huang, and B. Sullivan).
122. Onset of Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, Workshop on MHD and Kinetic Processes in Laboratory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Fusion Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 6-9, 2011 (Collaborators: W. Fox, K. Germaschewski, Y.-M. Huang, and B. Sullivan).
123. Magnetic Reconnection and Instability of Thin Current Sheets: Bridging Laboratory and Space Plasma Physics, 11^th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space (IPELS), Whistler, Canada, July 10-15, 2011 (Collaborators: W. Fox, K. Germaschewski, Y.-M. Huang, B. Sullivan, and P. Zhu).
124. Onset of Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, 8^thInternational Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, August 14-19, 2011 (Collaborators: Y-M. Huang and B. Sullivan).
125. Role of Reconnection and Secondary Instabilities in Triggering Substorms and Flares/CMEs, 2011 International Conference on Storms, Substorms, and Space Weather, Hangzhou, China, September 18-23, 2011.
126. Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas, Workshop on Mathematical and Computer Science Approaches to High Energy Density Physics, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, May 7-11, 2012 (Collaborators: W. Fox and K. Germaschewski).
127. Whistler-mode chorus: a free-electron laser in the Earth’s magnetosphere, Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) Science Working Group, Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, Maryland, May 16-17, 2012 (Collaborator: A. R. Soto-Chavez).
128. The Plasmoid Instability in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas: Dynamics and Statistics, US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Princeton, New Jersey, May 23-25, 2012 (Collaborators: Y.-M. Huang and B. Sullivan).
129. Plasmas in Space and Astrophysics, National Undergraduate Fellowship Program in Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, June 11-15, 2012.
130. Fast reconnection due to the plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number plasmas: dynamics and statistics, IUTAM Symposium on “Understanding Common Aspects of Extreme Events in Fluids,” Dublin, Ireland, July 2-6, 2012 (Collaborators: Y.-M. Huang and B. Sullivan).
131. Fast reconnection: bridging space and laboratory plasma physics, 39^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, July 14-22, 2012, Mysore, India.
132. Role of reconnection and secondary instabilities in triggering substorm onset, 11^th International Conference on Substorms, September 2-7, 2012, Luneberg, Germany
133. Chorus waves: a free-electron laser in the Earth’s magnetosphere, Minisymposium on Nonlinear Effects in Geospace Plasmas, 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, October 29-November 2, 2012 (Collaborator: R. Soto Chavez).
134. Physics of explosive events in the heliosphere, 10^th Conference on Space Weather, 93^rd American Meteorological Society Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 7-9, 2013.
135. Magnetic helicity transport and dynamo effect in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Stability, Energetics, and Turbulent Transport in Astrophysical, Fusion, and Solar Plasmas, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, 8-12 April, 2013 (Collaborator: F. Ebrahimi).
136. Magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density plasmas, HEDSA Symposium on High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas, Denver, November 10, 2013 (Collaborators: W. Fox, K. Germaschewski, A. Joglekar, C. Liu, and A. Thomas).
137. Fast reconnection mediated by the plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number plasmas: dynamics and statistics, 23^rd International Toki Conference (ITC-23) on Large-Scale Simulation and Fusion Science, Toki City, Gifu, Japan, November 18-21, 2013.
138. Flux rope dynamics and self-generated turbulence in high-Lundquist-number three-dimensional reconnection, A. Bhattacharjee, 13^th International Astrophysics Conference: Voyager, IBEX, and the Interstellar Medium, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 10-14, 2014 (Collaborator: Y.-M. Huang).
139. Fast reconnection mediated by the plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number plasmas: dynamics and statistics, Parker Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 18-21, 2014.
140. Integration of extended MHD and kinetic effects in global magnetosphere models, Living with a Star Heliophysics Technical Interchange Meeting, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, May 20-22, 2014.
141. Nonmodal growth of the magnetorotational instability and the dynamo effect, From the MRI to the Sun: a Conference to celebrate the 60^th birthday of Steven Balbus, Chamonix, France, July 14-18, 2014 (Collaborator: J. Squire).
142. The dynamo effect in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Plasma 2014, Niigata, Japan, November 18-21, 2014, Plenary Talk (Collaborators: F. Ebrahimi and J. Squire).
143. Integration of extended MHD and kinetic effects in global magnetosphere models, Living with a Star Heliophysics Technical Interchange Meeting, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, May 18-21, 2015.
144. Integration of kinetic effects in multi-fluid models of magnetic reconnection: Towards next-generation global simulations, 12^th International School and Symposium for Space Simulations, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-10, 2015.
145. Secondary instabilities of thin current sheets: implications for magnetotail current sheets and coronal tadpoles, Workshop on Magnetotail Reconnection Onset and Dipolarization Fronts, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, September 16-18, 2015.
146. Integration of kinetic effects in multi-fluid models of magnetic reconnection: Towards next-generation global simulations, AGU Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Dynamics, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 27-October 2, 2015.
147. Fast reconnection in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Magnetic fields in the universe: From laboratory and stars to primordial structures, Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France, October 5-9, 2015.
148. Recent developments in reconnection theory: the plasmoid instability, self-generated turbulence, and implications for laboratory and space plasmas, Tutorial, 57^th Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics. American Physical Society, Savannah, Georgia, November 16-20, 2015.
149. Integration of extended MHD and kinetic effects in global magnetosphere models: Overview, Living with a Star Heliophysics Technical Interchange Meeting, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, May 24-25, 2016.
150. The magnetic shear current dynamo: applications to astrophysical and space plasmas, Workshop on Turbulence and Waves in Flows Dominated by Rotation, National Center for Atmospheric Research, August 15-19, 2016 (Collaborator: J. Squire).
151. Generation of large-scale magnetic fields by small-scale dynamo, Plasma Processes in Astrophysics and Fusion Energy, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, December 5-8, 2016 (Collaborator: J. Squire).
152. Towards a High-Fidelity Whole Device Model of a Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, in PICSciE Symposium: Gearing Up For Exscale: Challenges and Opportunities, May 12, 2017.
153. Integration of extended MHD and kinetic effects in global magnetosphere models: Overview, Living with a Star Heliophysics Technical Interchange Meeting, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, May 30-June 2, 2017.
154. Multi-fluid simulations including kinetic effects of MMS reconnection events, 13^th International Conference on Substorms, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 25-29, 2017
155. Plasmoid-Mediated Reconnection and Turbulence in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, in Mini-Conference on Bridging the Divide Between Space and Laboratory Plasma, 59^th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, The American Physical Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 23-27, 2017.
156. Fast reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas mediated by the plasmoid instability, 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Mid-Atlantic Section, Newark, New Jersey, November 3-5, 2017.
157. Onset of Fast Reconnection and Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability in the Solar Atmosphere, 17^thAnnual International Astrophysics Conference, Santa Fe, March 5-9, 2018.
158. Fast Reconnection in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Department of Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 12, 2018.
159. ITER Physics @ PPPL, ITER, Cadarache, June 26, 2018.
160. Beyond MHD, 13^th International School for Space Simulations, University of California, Los Angeles, September 5-9, 2018.
161. The magnetic shear current effect: implications for the accretion disk and the solar dynamo, Workshop on Waves, Turbulence and Large-Scale Structures in Rotating Magnetic Fluids, High Altitude Observatory, September 10-14, 2018 (Collaborator: J. Squire)
162. The dynamo effect in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Conference in honor of Professor Eliezer Hameiri, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, September 21, 2018.
163. Magnetic reconnection mediated by the plasmoid instability in turbulent astrophysical plasmas, Big Apple Magnetic Fields Conference, The Flatiron Institute, New York, January 24-25, 2019.
164. Magnetic reconnection, Center for Computational Astrophysics Summer School on Multiscale Modeling of Astrophysical and Space Plasmas, The Flatiron Institute, New York, June 24-August 2, 2019.
165. The dynamo effect, Center for Computational Astrophysics Summer School on Multiscale Modeling of Astrophysical and Space Plasmas, The Flatiron Institute, New York, June 24-August 2, 2019.
166. A Ten-Moment Multi-Fluid Model for Collisionless Plasmas, Conference on Connecting Micro and Macro Scales: Acceleration, Reconnection and Dissipation in Astrophysical Plasmas, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 9-12, 2019
167. High-Fidelity Whole Device Model of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, A. Bhattacharjee, Mini-Conference: Building the Bridge to Exascale, 61^st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, The American Physical Society, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 21-25, 2019.
168. Ten-Moment Multi-Fluid Model for Driven Terrestrial Magnetosphere: Application to Mercury, The American Geophysical Union 2019 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019.
169. WDMApp: High-Fidelity Whole Device Model of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas, 2020 Exascale Computing Project Annual Meeting, Houston, February 3-7, 2020.

Public Lectures

Courses Taught

Courses Taught at Columbia University 

Courses Taught at the University of Iowa

Courses Taught at the University of New Hampshire 

COURSES TAUGHT AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Supervised

Ph.D. Students Supervised

S. Y. Cai, Optical guiding and its effects on the sideband instability in a free-electron laser, 1989 (T. C. Marshall, Advisor; A. Bhattacharjee, Co-Advisor)
C. C. Hegna, Formation and dynamics of magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas, 1989, presently Professor of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
C. Paranicas, Equilibrium and stability analysis of magnetospheric plasmas, 1989, presently Senior Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
X.-H. Wang, Effects of energetic particles and plasma rotation on ballooning modes, 1989, deceased
I. Gjaja, Quadrature squeezing and Berry’s phase in some Hamiltonian systems, 1990, presently Managing Director and Head of ABS and Mortgage Credit Strategy, Bank of America Securities, LLC
X. Wang, Magnetic reconnection in magnetotail and solar plasmas, 1991, presently Professor of Physics, Peking University, China
C.-Y. Wang, Optimum theory of a turbulent plasma, 1992, presently Director, Acertus Technologies, Inc., Austin, Texas
Y.-P. Chou, A theoretical study of the solar corona as a magnetohydrodynamic system, 1994 (B. C. Low : Advisor; A. Bhattacharjee : Co-Advisor), presently Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Design, National United University, Taiwan
Y. Yuan, The dynamo effect in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, 1995, presently System Analyst, Government of Alberta, Canada
S. Hu, Gradient-drift instabilities and turbulence in the equatorial electrojet, 1998, presently Professor of Physics, Guizhou University, China
S. Gou, Linear and nonlinear waves in dusty plasmas, 2003
Q. Xin, Computational studies of nonlinear dispersive plasma systems, 2010, presently Software Engineer, Google
L. Nei, Linear plasmoid instabilities of thin current sheets with shear flow, 2010 (Co-Advisors: A. Bhattacharjee and K. Germaschewski), presently Assistant Professor, Yunan Observatory of China, Kunming, Yunan, China
C. Black, Effects of weak collisions on nonlinear plasma kinetics, 2011, presently …
L. Lin, High-Lundquist-number simulations of Parker’s model of coronal heating: scaling and current sheet statistics using heterogeneous computing architectures, 2014. (Co-Advisor: C.-S. Ng)
L. Guo, Plasma instabilities in large-scale magnetic reconnection associated with eruptive solar events, 2014, presently Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen (Co-Advisor: Y.-M. Huang)
L. Wang, Integrating kinetic effects in fluid models of magnetic reconnection, 2014, presently Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
J. Squire, Shear dynamo, turbulence, and the magnetorotational instability, 2015, presently Rutherford Discovery Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand
C. Liu, Runaway electron in tokamaks, 2017, presently Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory(D. Brennan: Advisor, A. Bhattacharjee, Co-Advisor)
J. Ng, Fluid closures for the modeling of reconnection and instabilities in magnetotail current sheets, 2018, presently Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
G. Dong, Nonlinear dynamics of the kinetic ballooning mode, 2019, presently Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
J. Matteucci, Magnetic field generation and reconnection in high energy density plasmas, 2020

Post-doctoral Fellows/Research Scientists Supervised

Dr. J. L. Milovich (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987), 1987–89, presently at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. S. Y. Cai (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989), 1989-90
Dr. C. C. Hegna (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989), 1989–90, see above
Dr. C. Ronchi (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990), 1990-92, presently Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Security Systems and Technologies, United Kingdom
Dr. R. Iacono (Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1990), 1990-92, presently at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), Italy
Dr. N. Otani (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986), 1995-2001, presently Senior Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Dr. S. Hu (Ph. D., University of Iowa, 1998), 1999-2002, see above
Dr. X. Wang (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1991), 1991-2003, see above
Dr. Z. W. Ma (Ph.D., University of Alaska, 1994), 1994-2003, presently Professor of Physics, Zhejiang University, China
Dr. C. S. Ng (Ph.D., Auburn University, 1994), 1994-2003, presently Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Geophysical Research Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. P. Zhu (Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin, 2001), 2001-2005, presently Professor of Physics, USTC, China
Dr. L.-J. Chen (Ph. D., University of Washington, 2002), 2002-2003, 2005-2007, presently Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire
Dr. K. Germaschewski (Ph. D., University of Dusseldorf, 2001), 2002-2007, presently Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Program in Integrated Applied Mathematics, University of New Hampshire
Dr. N. Bessho (Ph. D., Nagoya University, 2001), 2003-2013, presently Research Scientist, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. D. Pontin (Ph. D., University of St. Andrews, 2004), 2005-2007, presently Lecturer, Division of Mathematics, University of Dundee, Scotland
Dr. Hongang Yang (Ph. D., Beijing University, 2006), 2007-2009, presently Research Associate, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The University of New Castle, Australia
Dr. John Podesta (Ph. D., New York University, 2003), 2007-2009, presently at Space Sciences Institute
Dr. Barbara Bigot (Ph.D., Universite dé Paris-Sud 11, 2009), 2009-2010
Dr. Yi-Min Huang (Ph. D., University of Maryland, 2005), 2008-present, presently Research Scholar, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Dr. Brian Sullivan (Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 2008), 2008-2011, presently Upper School Physics Teacher, Wooster School, Danbury
Dr. William Fox (Ph. D., MIT, 2009), 2009-2013, presently Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Dr. A. Rualdo Soto-Chavez (Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin, 2010), 2010-2014, presently at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
Dr. Bertrand Lefebvre (Ph. D., Université d’Orléans, France, 2000), 2010-2012
Dr. Scott Baalrud (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010), 2010-2012, presently Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Dr. Liwei Lin (Ph. D., University of New Hampshire, 2010), 2011-2014, see above
Dr. Luca Comisso (Ph. D., Politechnico di Torino, 2014), 2015-2017, presently Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
Dr. Chuanfei Dong (Ph. D., University of Michigan, 2015), Jack Eddy Fellow, 2015-2017, presently Associate Research Scholar, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Dr. Manasvi Lingam (Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin, 2015), 2015-2016, presently Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Dr. Derek Schaeffer (Ph. D., University of California-Los Angeles, 2014), 2016-2018, presently Associate Research Scholar, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Dr. David Pfefferlé (Ph. D., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 2014), 2014-2017, presently Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, Perth
Dr. Eero Hirvijoki (Ph. D., Aalto University, Finland, 2014), 2016-2018, presently Academy Research Fellow, Aalto University
Dr. Samuel Totorica (Ph. D. Stanford University, 2018), Jack Eddy Fellow, Princeton University, 2018-present

Senior Theses Supervised

Peter Carruth, Magnetic field generation and stability in high-energy density plasmas, Class of 2014, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Catherine Blume, Extreme localized geoelectric fluctuations in global magnetospheric simulations, Class of 2018, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Phuc Dang, Fast magnetic reconnection mediated by plasmoid instability, Class of 2018, Department of Physics, Princeton University

Present Research Group

Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Scholars/Research Physicists: Drs. D. Brennan, C. Dong, F. Ebrahimi, W. Fox, Y.-M. Huang, D. Schaeffer, S. Totorica, and J. TenBarge
Graduate Students: L. Gunderson, K. Lezhnin, J. Matteucci, and V. Skoutnev

University, Collegiate, and Departmental Service

Columbia University 

Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Department of Applied Physics, Chair, 1988-89; Member, 1987-88
Plasma Physics Curriculum Review, Department of Applied Physics, 1987-88
Committee on Instruction, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 1990-92

University of Iowa 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Colloquium Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1994-96
Search Committee for Space Physics, 1995-96
Executive Committee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1996-97
Search Committee for Astronomy, 1996-97
Search Committee for Experimental Plasma Physics, 1997-98

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND THE UNIVERSITY
Committee to Review the Optical Science and Technology Center, Office of the Vice- President for Research, 1996-97
Ad Hoc Search Committee for Dean, College of Liberal Arts, 1996-97
Faculty Senate, 1997-2000, Faculty Council, 1998-2000
Chair, Ad Hoc Subcommittee for Compensation, Faculty Council, 1998-99
Selection Committee, Faculty and Global Scholars, College of Liberal Arts, 1998-99
Selection Committee, Dean Scholars, College of Liberal Arts, 1998-99
Executive Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1999-2002
Budget Planning Advisory Committee, 2000-2001
Faculty Senate: Vice-President, 2000-01; President, 2001-02; Past President, 2002-03

University of New Hampshire

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE CENTER
Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Physics, 2003-05.
Faculty Search Committee, High-Energy Astrophysics, Department of Physics, 2003-04
Faculty Search Committee, Solar-Terrestrial Theory, Department of Physics, 2004-05
Coordinator, Space Science Center Seminar Series, 2004-06
Promotion and Tenure Committees (Prof. J. Raeder, 2005, 2008; Prof. K. Pohl, 2011)
Post-Tenure Review Committees (Prof. W. Hersman, 2008; Prof. E. Moebius, 2009, Prof. D. Meredith, 2010)
Midway Review Committee (Prof. J.-M. Tang, 2010)
Chair, Comprehensive Exam Committee (2011-12)

THE UNIVERSITY
Diversity Task Force, Office of the Provost, 2004-05
American Sign Language Task Force, Office of the Provost, 2005-06
Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Integrated Applied Mathematics Program and the Department of Physics, 2007-08
Co-Chair, Presidential Blue Ribbon Panel on Research, 2007-08
Search Committee for Dean, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, 2009-10
Reorganization of the Colleges (CEPS/EOS/COLSA), Office of the Provost, 2011.

Princeton University/PPPL

Member, Council of the Princeton University Community, 2013-2016
Steering Committee, Max Planck-Princeton Center for Plasma Physics, 2012-present
Diversity and Inclusion Committee, PPPL, 2014-15

Recent Research Grant History

(All as Principal Investigator unless indicated otherwise) 

1. “Magnetic Reconnection Code: Applications to Sawtooth Oscillations, Error-Field Induced Islands, and the Dynamo Effect,” DOE Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FG02-03ER54723 (partnership bewteen the University of New Hampshire, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the University of Texas at Austin) under the Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) initiative for the establishment of the Center for Magnetic Reconnection Studies (CMRS), 2001-2005 ($2,175,175).
2. “CICART: Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence,” DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER46372, 2007-2010 ($1,762,004 plus 50% in matching funds)
3. “Stability of Thin Current Sheets in the Magnetotail: Theory, Simulations, and Observations,” NSF Grant No. ATM-090315, 2009-2013 ($380,471)
4. “Hall Magnetic Reconnection in Large Systems,” NSF Grant No. ATM-0802727, 2009-2011 ($200,000)
5. “Multiscale Model of the Magnetosphere,” NASA Grant No. NNX09AJ86G, 2009-2014 ($537,635)
6. “Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas,” National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center/University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2013 ($1,001,000)
7. “Role of Collisionless Reconnection and Three-Dimensional Geometry in Coronal Eruptions,” NASA Grant No. NNX10AC04G, 2009-2014 ($397,493)
8. “SHINE: Instability of Large-Scale Current Sheets, Plasmoid Formation, and Particle Acceleration in Coronal Plasmas,” NSF Grant No. AGS-0962698, 2010-2014 ($379,120)
9. “CICART: Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence,” DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER46372, a University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College Consortium, 2010-2014 ($2,250,000 plus 50% in matching funds)
10. “Fast Reconnection in High-Energy Laser-Produced Plasmas,” DOE Grant No. DE-SC0007168, 2011-14 ($389, 539) (PI: W. Fox, Co-PI: A. Bhattacharjee)
11. “Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas,” 2012-13, DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Contract No. De-AC05-00OR22725 (50 million processing hours).
12. “Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy Density Plasmas,” 2012-15, DOE Grant No. DE-SC0008655 ($810,000).
13. “Collaborative Research: Integration of Extended Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Kinetic Effects in Global Magnetosphere Models,” 2013-2018, NSF Grant No. AGS-1338944 ($1,280,000).