The materials contained in this group are either posters that I presented at conferences, or publications from physics journals. Bear in mind that the posters are typically written with the intention of presenting them to an audience. As such, the poster by itself does not always provide a self-contained and complete description of its subject matter. This does not mean they are useless, just that they probably don't provide enough information for your inquiry.
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Transport studies using trace helium in the Electric Tokamak
Studies of Edge Turbulence and Barrier Formation During Giant Sawtooth Behavior in the Electric Tokamak
Investigation of Density Accumulation in the Electric Tokamak
Flows and Transport Driven by Electron Temperature Gradients
The discussion page for this file may be found here.
Plasma Flows and Electron Heat Transport Driven by a Filamentary Pressure Structure
The presentation from my candidacy exam.
This is a "web friendly" download featuring no multimedia or interactive elements. This means that it is not exactly the same presentation given at the exam.
The discussion page for this file may be found here.
This is the published version of a research paper discussed on this page. The following statements are required by the publisher.
Copyright (2008) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
The following article appeared in Phys. Plasmas 15, 122304 (2008) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?PHP/15/122304.
This is a paper published by our research group during my time in graduate school. The citation is:
D. C. Pace, M. Shi, J. E. Maggs, G. J. Morales, and T. A. Carter, “Exponential Frequency Spectrum in Magnetized Plasmas,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085001 (2008)
A more detailed page describing this file is here.
Observation of Energetic Ion Transport due to Microturbulence and Comparison with Gyrokinetic Simulations
Determination of the Electric Tokamak Equilibrium Properties using 1D and 2D Measurements
Exponential Frequency Spectrum and Lorentzian Pulses in Magnetized Plasmas
This is my presentation for the 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society held in Dallas, TX November 17 - 21, 2008.
The abstract may be found at http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP08/Event/88562.
More information on this presentation and the conference may be found here
Cryostat Design: Alternative Design of Heat Sinks for Current Leads
This is the complete version of my thesis, as turned in to the UCLA Library. It is also available as a collection of web pages, beginning here.
Application of the Motional Stark Effect to Measure Plasma Parameters in Tokamaks
Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Surface Waves in Liquid Gallium
Initial Observations from Electron Heat Transport Studies in the LAPD
An informal talk describing three months of work on electron heat transport. This was the first presentation I made with Keynote, and I took advantage of the "build in" features. This means that the pdf of the talk has some duplicate slides. These exist because in the talk they fade in from within one slide.
Citation: Citation: D. C. Pace, M. Shi, J. E. Maggs, G. J. Morales, and T. A. Carter, “Spontaneous Thermal Waves in a Magnetized Plasma,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035003 (2008)
This paper presents results on electron temperature oscillations that arise spontaneously in a narrow temperature filament. The experiment is performed in the LAPD Laboratory and serves as part of my thesis work.
A more detailed discussion page for this item may be found here.
Investigation of Density Accumulation in the Electric Tokamak