| PHYS 106: Light, Perception and Visual Phenomena, MWF, 2-3 PM. |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) | Cowley, Quataert, Howes, Schekochihin, Tatsuno, and Hammett. | Alfvenic turbulence | Papers: (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6) Work continues. | 8 |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) |
| Rogers and Ricci | Z-pinch turbulence | Papers published (1, 2) | 1 |
| Rogers and Ricci | Collisionless reconnection | Paper published. Numata taking over. | 4 |
| Rogers | Instabilities and transport in transport barriers | Paper published | 0 |
| Tatsuno | Flow-driven MHD instabilities | Paper published | 0 |
| Belli, Guttenfelder and Barnes | Detailed gk analysis of stellarator microstability, incl finite beta and Lorentz collisions | Paper finished, awaiting D's minor edits | 1 |
| Barnes | Velocity-space resolution diagnostics | Sherwood invited talk, 2007 | 1 |
| Barnes | Transport time-scale gyrokinetics | Presented at APS, 2007 | 6 |
| Broemstrup | High-fidelity gyrokinetic PIC algorithms | ICNSP invited talk, 2007 | 6 |
| Gustafson | Fractional diffusion in gyrokinetic turbulence | Paper finished | 6 |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) |
| Despain | Alfven/KAW turbulence | Orzsag-Tang benchmark perfect | 6 | Tatsuno, Cowley, Schekochihin | Entropy cascade in gyrokinetics | Drafting paper | 7 |
| Loureiro | Linear tearing mode physics | Paper published (also posted at LANL ArXiv) | 0 |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) |
| Gumerov, Duraiswami, Varshney, Stantchev, et al. | Physics on GPU's | Testing algorithms on clustered GPU's | 8 |
| Howes and Tatsuno | AstroGK | Maintenance, optimization and other support | 8 |
| Kotschenreuther and Tatsuno | GS2 | Maintenance, optimization and other support | 8 |
| Macnab and Osborn | Adaptive LBM algorithm development | Adaptive grid LB-MHD code working. | 1 |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) | Ernst | TEM turbulence in C-Mod | Presented at IAEA | 3 |
| Mikkelsen | Detailed gk simulations of C-Mod H-mode core plasmas | Starting new project | 0 |
| Roach | GK support for MAST | 2005 EPS invited talk and paper. | 1 |
| Applegate | GK analysis of MAST | Found very challenging tearing modes, transfer report completed. Paper published. Thesis finished. | 1 |
| Principal Collaborator(s) | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) | Nevins, Candy and Waltz | Nonlinear ETG benchmarks | Papers (1, 2) published. | 0 | Nevins, Hammett | Noise in GK PIC sims | Paper published. | 0 |
| Journal | Publisher | Position | Recent D activity (1-10) |
| Multiscale Modelling and Simulation | SIAM | Associate Editor | 2 |
| Research Letters in Physics | Hindawi | Editorial board | 2 |
| Committee/Capacity | Project | Status | Recent D activity (1-10) | Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics | National center, joint with UCLA | Just finished 2008 winter school | 0 |
| APS Panel on Public Affairs | Nuclear forensics, as outgoing chair of national security subcommittee | Report published | 0 |
| US Spherical Torus Coordinating Committee | Supporting ST research | Various | 5 |
| Sherwood Executive Committee | Annual Sherwood International Plasma Theory meeting | Next meeting in Boulder, Spring 2008 | 1 |
| University of New Hampshire | CICART Advisory Committee | Oversight | 1 |
| Dept of Physics | Graduate TA assignments, Qualifier Committee, Priorities Committee, APT Committee | Ongoing | 10+ |
| CSCAMM | Education Committee, Strategic Plan Committee | Ongoing | 4 |