James' Brain at UCSD
In case you don't know me, I am a first year graduate student
at UCSD studying experimental plasma physics. I don't have much to say right now,
but below is a small assortment of places you could visit. Please be
sure to check my page out a later time, just in case I actually add something cool.
Later!
Or visit the homepage for the
Nonneutral Plasma Group.
Since March, I have been working on the CV experiment; first under the direction of Brian
Cluggish (now at Los Alamos), and now Fred Driscoll.
CV is a device for containing and studying a cryogenic pure electron plasma.
The purpose is to study transport properties and other interesting effects in a
temperature regime that is typically difficult to attain. Most recently, Brian
and I have conducted experiments on resonant particle heating and collisionless
thermal conduction in a pure electron plasma.
Or check out the MEDUSA Team at U.W. Madison. (only viewable with Netscape)
MEDUSA is a table-top small aspect-ratio tokamak built almost entirely by students
(primarily undergrads). In the summer of 1994, I received a fellowship to go to Madison
and try to help these guys get MEDUSA to work. Although we didn't have much success
that summer, they have since made MEDUSA fully operational and have been able to do
a lot of really neat experiments.
This is where I received my BS degree, June 1995. During my junior year at UCI, I worked
as a research assistant for Bill Heidbrink studying the
non-linearity of the fishbone instability in the DIII-D tokamak. During my senior year,
I did my Thesis research with Roger McWilliams, studying the
propagation of lower hybrid waves in the Irvine Torus.
Or you can find out more about me once I get some time to make
another page.
Send email to me!
jdan@sdphu1.ucsd.edu