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Physics and Astronomy Space Plasma Seminar

Professor Meers Oppenheim, Boston University

Tuesday, September 30, 2014
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Wilder 111
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Title: "The Giving Thesis: Collisional Plasma Turbulence in Space and Its Offshoots."
 
Abstract:  Over 20 years ago, my Ph.D. advisor “suggested” I study an obscure thesis topic: the non-linear dynamics of the Farley-Buneman Instability in the lower ionosphere.   He did not realize that he was planting a seed that would grow into a career simulating plasma turbulence, tracking meteors, modeling global Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling and trying to understand the solar atmosphere.  This talk will trace how one researcher’s thesis developed many branches but never broke off from the original trunk.
 

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Tressena Manning
tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2854
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