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DTSTART:20151002T203000Z
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LOCATION:Chamberlin 2241 (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
SUMMARY:Taming Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas: From Plasmas for Fusi
 on Energy to Black Hole Accretion Disks\, Physics Department Colloquiu
 m\, Troy Carter\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Plasmas in the laboratory and in astrophysical settings va
 ry widely in parameters (e.g. temperature and density) but have one th
 ing in common: they are plagued by instability. Instabilities and asso
 ciated turbulence are detrimental in laboratory plasmas for fusion ene
 rgy research\, causing heat\, particles and momentum to "leak" across 
 the confining magnetic field. In astrophysical plasmas like accretion 
 disks\, turbulence is often essential to explain observed rates of mom
 entum transport and accretion. I will talk about instabilities and tur
 bulence in magnetized plasmas and their relevance to achieving magneti
 c confinement fusion in the laboratory and understanding processes in 
 astrophysical plasmas.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3696
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