Theory

Professor Howes (left) discussing derivations with graduate student Shanshan Li. Professor Howes' research on turbulence seeks an explanation of the turbulent cascade of energy in a weakly collisional plasma. The results have applications in several areas of plasma physics, including fusion energy, space and astrophysical plasmas.	Professor Scudder (left) listening to graduate student Robert Holdaway (center) interpreting data from the Polar spacecraft in Earth orbit. They are studying the rearrangement of magnetic fields in space, which has applications for galactic and coronal magnetic fields.	Interdisciplinary interaction is a feature of our plasma physics efforts. Here, a plasma theorist and astronomer (Professor Spangler, right) and an experimenter (Professor Goree, left) discuss the power spectrum of waves in a plasma.

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