Course Calendar for 029:225 Fundamental Contributions in Plasma Physics, Space Physics, and Astrophysics

Week 1

Tuesday, August 21, 2012.

• Welcome and Remarks on the Course
• Syllabus
• How to read the literature

Thursday, August 23, 2012,

• Landau, L., "On the Vibrations of the Electronic Plasma," Journal of Physics 10, 25 (1946).

Week 2

No class this week (Tuesday, August 28, 2012 or Thursday, August 30, 2012).

Week 3

Tuesday, September 4, 2012.

• Van Allen, J.A. and Frank, L.A., "Radiation Around the Earth to a Radial Distance of 107,400 km," Nature 183, 430 (1959).

Thurday, September 6, 2012.

• No reading. Presentation by Science Library Staff.

Week 4

Tuesday, September 11, 2012.

• Parker, E.N., "Dynamics of the Interplanetary Gas and Magnetic Fields," Astrophysical Journal 128, 664 (1958).

Thurday, September 13, 2012.

• No reading. Discussion of Literature Search Resources.
• Suggestions for Thorough and Efficient Literature Searches
• Assigned Homework: Literature Search Homework Assignment
  Due: Thursday, September 27, 2012.

Week 5

Tuesday, September 18, 2012.

• Armstrong, J.W., Cordes, J.M., and Rickett, B.J., "Density power spectrum in the local interstellar medium," Nature 291, 561 (1981).

Thursday, September 20, 2012.

• Goldreich, P. and Sridhar, S., "Toward a Theory of Interstellar Turbulence II. Strong Alfvenic Turbulence," Astrophysical Journal 438, 763 (1995).

Week 6

Tuesday, September 25, 2012.

• Taylor, G. "The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion I. Theoretical discussion," Royal Society of London Proceeedings Series A 201, 159 (1950).

Thursday, September 27, 2012.

• Taylor, G. "The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion II. The Atomic Explosion of 1945," Royal Society of London Proceeedings Series A 201, 175 (1950).
• REMINDER: Literature Search Homework Assignment is due.
  

Week 7

Tuesday, October 2, 2012.

• Takeuchi, S. "Field-aligned accelerations by plasma shocks propagating through interstellar magnetic fields," Physics of Plasmas 19, 070703 (2012).

Thursday, October 4, 2012.

• Daughton, W., Roytershteyn, V., Karimabadi, H., Yin, L., Albright, B. J., Bergen, B., and Bowers, K. J. "Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas," Nature Physics 7, 539 (2011).
• Assigned Homework: Team-Lead Class Discussion Assignment
  Partner, Paper, and Date choices due: Thursday, October 11, 2012.
  Team-lead class discussions will run from Tuesday, October 16, 2012 through Thursday, November 15, 2012.
• Example of Professor Howes' notes for leading class discussion for Landau (1946) and Parker (1958),
  Example of Notes for Class Discussion

Week 8

Tuesday, October 9, 2012.

• Schmidt-Bleker, A., Gassen, W., and Kull, H.-J. "Nonlinear plasma waves and wavebreaking in quantum plasmas," Europhysics Letters 95, 55003 (2011).

Thursday, October 11, 2012.

• Schwabe, M. et al. "Direct measurement of the speed of sound in a complex plasma under mircogravity conditions," Europhysics Letters 96, 55001 (2011).
• For Team-Lead Class Discussion Assignment, Partner, Paper, and Date choices are due.

Week 9

Tuesday, October 16, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Jason Kooi and Jershon Lopez
• Fermi, E. " On the Origin of the Cosmic Radiation," Physical Review 75, 1169 (1949).

Thursday, October 18, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Steve Kaeppler and Kris Klein
• Taylor, G. I. "The Spectrum of Turbulence," Royal Society of London Proceedings Series A 164, 476 (1938).

Week 10

Tuesday, October 23, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Matt Brorby and Allison Savage
• Weaver, R., McCray, R., Castor, J., Shapiro, P., and Moore, R. "Interstellar bubbles. II - Structure and evolution," Astrophysical Journal 218, 377 (1977).
• Read Sections I-III(b), first column of Sec IV, Sec V(a), Sec VII

Thursday, October 25, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Jorge Berumen and Fend Chu
• D'Angelo, N. and Motley, R. W. "Low-Frequency Oscillations in a Potassium Plasma," Physics of Fluids 6, 422 (1963).

Week 11

No class this week (Tuesday, October 30, 2012 or Thursday, November 1, 2012).
APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island.

Final Homework Assignment and Final Project

• Annotated Bibliography Assignment, due Tuesday November 27, 2012
• Literature Review Final Project, due Thursday December 6, 2012

Examples and Templates for Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review

• Tar archive containing all files below: 225templates.tar
• Instructions for Typesetting Templates
• Example Annotated Bibliography
• Example Annotated Bibliography LaTeX source 225example_annbib.tex
• Example Annotated Bibliography BibTeX source example_annbib.bib
• Example Annotated Bibliography BibTeX abbreviations abbrev2.bib
• Template Annotated Bibliography LaTeX source 225template_annbib.tex
• Template Annotated Bibliography BibTeX source template_annbib.bib
• Example Literature Review
• Example Literature Review LaTeX source 225example_litrev.tex
• Example Literature Review BibTeX source example_litrev.bib
• Example Literature Review BibTeX abbreviations abbrev.bib
• Template Literature Review LaTeX source 225template_litrev.tex
• Template Literature Review BibTeX source template_litrev.bib

Week 12

Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Natalie Butterfield and Dominic Ludovici
• Deguchi, S., Tafoya, D., and Nagisa, S. "Maser Emission toward the Infrared Dark Cloud G359.94+0.17 Seen in Silhouette against the Galactic Center", Publications of the Astronomical Socety of Japan 64, 28 (2012).

Thursday, November 8, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Wenhao Hu and John Meyer
• D'Angelo, N. "Low-frequency electrostatic waves in dusty plasmas," Planetary and Space Science 38, 1143 (1990).

Week 13

Tuesday, November 13, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Zach Harlason and Jim Schroeder
• Bacharis, M., Coppins, M., Fundamenski, W. and Allen, J. E. "Modelling of tungsten and beryllium dust in ITER," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 54, 085010 (2012).

Thursday, November 15, 2012.

• Discussion Leaders: Mark Kane and Tim Kennelly
• Hill, T. W. et al. "Evidence for rotationally driven plasma transport in Saturn's magnetosphere," Geophysical Research Letters 32, L14S10 (2005).

Thanksgiving Holiday (November 19-23, 2012)

Week 14

Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

• Parker, E. N. "The Marital Art of Scientific Publishing," Eos 78, 391 (1997).
• Reminder: Annotated Bibliography is due today at the beginning of class.

Thursday, November 29, 2012.

• IOP Publishing, "Introduction to refereeing"

Week 15

Tuesday, December 4, 2012.

• Reeves, G. D., McAdams, K. L., Friedel, R. H. W., and O'Brien, T. P. "Acceleration and loss of relativistic electrons during geomagnetic storms," Geophysical Research Letters 30, 1529 (2003).

Thursday, December 6, 2012.

• LAST DAY OF CLASS!
• Baade, W. and Zwicky, F. "Cosmic Rays from Super-Novae," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 20, 259 (1934).
• Reminder: Literature Review is due today at the beginning of class.