TRACE image of solar plasma outbreak

Plasma Physics & MHD

Course Calendar

Left: A magnetic eruption observed by TRACE hurls plasmas outward from the Sun. Clear magnetic field  structures appear in light blue.

Right: Laser-plasma interaction during inertial confinement fusion test at the University of Rochester.

Laser plasma confinement

Introduction to Plasmas

5 September

7 September


Particle Orbits in Magnetized Plasmas

12 September

14 September

19 September


Collisions and Transport Coefficients

21 September

26 September

28 September

3 October

5 October

10 October


Derivation and Limitations of the MHD Equations

12 October

17 October

19 October

24 October


Magnetohydrostatics

26 October

31 October


Reconnection and Current Sheets

2 November

7 November


Laboratory Plasma Physics and the Earth's Magnetosphere

9 November


Waves and Stability

14 November

16 November

21 November

23 November

28 November

29 November


Heating of the Solar Corona

5 December


Collisionless Current Sheets

7 December


Two Stream Instability

12 December


Helicity

14 December


End of Semester


Oral Exam


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