UC Berkeley Physics Department

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Research Interests

• Nonneutral Plasma Physics
• Two-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics
• Nonlinear Dynamics

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Current Research

• Two-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics
• Double Well Neutral Plasma Traps
• Gradient (Mirror) Equilibria
• Equilibrium and Stability of Asymmetric Plasmas
• Autoresonance (nonstationary excitation)
• Quadrupole Magnetic Field Effects
• Bicycling Physics

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Publications

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Teaching

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Lectures

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Current and former collaborators and students

• Joel Fajans
  
  
• Steve Chapman (UCB)
• Korana Burke (UCB)
• Will Bertsche (UCB)
• Katya Backhaus (UCB)
• Dan Durkin (SLAC)
• Lazar Friedland (Hebrew University)
• Erik Gilson (PPPL)
• Ramesh Gopalan (Lam Research)
• Charlie Hansen (LLNL)
• Michael H. Holzscheiter (LANL)
• John M^cCarthy (Washington U)
• John Notte (KLA-Tencor) 
• Tom Pasquini
• Tony Peurrung (PNL)
• Anita Reimann (UCB)
• Eli Sarid
• Jonathan Wurtele (UCB)

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• The University of California at Berkeley
• The UCB Department of Physics

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Major Sponsors: The Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation.