Current Project: machine learning for transport analysis and predictions
Joe is a lifelong NJ resident, growing up near Atlantic City and going to Princeton University for undergrad. His research centers around tokamaks, looking to bring together a variety of codes (both physics-based like TRANSP/ASTRA and a new machine-learning based…
Kendra grew up in Roseville, Minnesota and got their undergraduate degrees in Physics and Math at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. While there, they became interested in computational physics and space plasma physics. Their time as a student of space physicists Prof. Cindy Cattell and Prof. Lindsay Glesener taught them how impactful…
Nirbhav Singh Chopra entered the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2018 after receiving undergraduate degrees in Engineering Physics and Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Nirbhav works with Dr. Yevgeny Raitses in the Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis and on the …
Current Project: electron beam mapping of magnetic fields on MUSE
Current Project: Stabilizing rotational modes in a field-reversed configuration
Current Project: Fundamental physics of strongly emitting sheaths in low temperature plasmas
Current Project: Strong Coupling in Photoionized Plasma
Harry graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2020 with a degree in physics, a humanities concentration in government, and the proud self-identification of "pretengineer." He volunteered in, and later helped to organize, STEM outreach programs for local students, and as a junior…
Current Project: magnetic braking of protostellar disks including the Hall effect
Current Project: near axis expansion of quasisymmetric configurations
Current Project: Parity-time symmetry in fluids and plasmas; Numerical algorithm for stochastic systems; Topological properties of plasma waves.
Current Project: Interaction of gravitational waves with plasma
Deepen Garg joined the program as a part of the 2016 cohort. After a short and very much unsuccessful stint in experimental physics, he learned the invaluable lesson to stick to theoretical physics, and has been working with Prof. Dodin to formulate a theory for the…
Current Project: Laser Produced Plasma Diffraction Gratings
Current Project: Collective Behavior in Relativistic Underdense and Pair Plasmas
Current Project: resonant instabilities in dusty plasmas
Suying Jin (김소영) joined the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2018, after graduating from UCLA.
Current Project: imaging runaway electrons at low density during startup and/or disruption at MST
Current Project: Particle-Push Feedback and Integration in a Discontinuous Galerkin Vlasov-Maxwell Code
Sierra Jubin grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, and received her undergraduate degree in physics from Williams College in 2017. She joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Program in the fall of that year, and wandered into the field of low temperature plasma physics.
Sierra spent her first year doing experimental…
Current Project: Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Plasmas
Current Project: Measurement of fast ion losses in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
Alex LeViness (pronounced luh-VINE-ess) matriculated into the program with the class of 2018. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Columbus, Ohio. She attended The University of Alabama, where she majored in…
Current Project: turbulence in negative triangularity plasmas
Jessica Li grew up in Frederick, MD and completed her undergraduate degree in Applied Physics with a minor in Computer Science at Columbia University in 2018. While there, she worked on numerical modeling of torsatron devices as part of the Columbia CIRCUS stellarator…
Dingyun Liu grew up in Wuhan, China, and she had her undergraduate education at University of Science and Technology of China. In the same year she received a bachelor's degree in applied and engineering physics, she joined the 2019 cohort of the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics. A summer program at UCLA in 2018 stimulated her…
Current Project: propagation of slow modes in collisionless high beta plasmas
Current Project: Understanding the Mechanisms of Substorm Onset in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Current: Project: quantum analogies of classical instabilities
Michael Quackenbush May entered the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2019 after graduating from Williams College with degrees in physics and religion in 2017. Between college and graduate school, he completed a masters degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2018,…
Current Project: Machine Learned Reconstruction for Finite Volume and Discontinuous Galerkin
Current Project: modeling project related to LTX
Current Project: gyrokinetics in quasisymmetric stellarators
Current Project: symplectic integrators for guiding center dynamics
Current Project: wave particle resonance in a kinetic setting
Current Project: experimental development of the Lithium Vapor Box divertor
Current Project: particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection
Current Project: Gyrokinetics of high-field magnetic mirrors
Current Project: Error field correction in the permanent magnet stellarator prototype
Current Project: neoclassical theory in strong gradient regions
Current Project: Field penetration and tearing instabilities
Current Project: Tearing and Mirror instabilities related effect in current sheet formation
Himawan Wicaksono Winarto, also commonly known as Hima, joined the program in 2018 after graduating from the Physics program of the very same university. Before coming to Princeton, Hima grew up and live in Malang, Indonesia. He is…
I am working to elucidate the role plasma waves play in magnetic reconnection that occurs when the solar wind collides with the Earth’s magnetosphere. The analysis is primarily conducted using data from NASA’s MMS satellites, but is also aided by simulation. It is my hope that this work furthers our understanding of collisionless magnetic…
Current Project: minor ion heating in the solar wind in the presence of a helicity barrier