Theory

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. Graduate students also work with staff members, like programmer Jim Sartain (right).	Professor Chandran (right) discussing the theory of magnetic fields in galactic plasmas, with graduate student Tim Dennis.	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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