Research interest: Theoretical and experimental
investigations of space and laboratory dusty
plasmas. Electrodynamic processes
and their role in the origin and evolution of the solar system, comets,
planetary
rings, plasma surface interactions. Dust charging, in situ and remote
observations
of dust. Dusty plasma laboratory experiments and space hardware
development.
CU Dusty Plasma Research Group
Involvement in Space
Missions:
AIM (PI: Cosmic Dust Experiment)
Student Dust Counter (PI: SDC)
for New Horizons
Galileo (CoI: Dust
Detector System, DDS)
Cassini (CoI:
Cosmic Dust Analyzer, CDA)
Ulysses
DUNE
Other Dusty Plasma
Research Groups:
Heidelberg
Auburn
UCSD
Baylor
U. Iowa
Oxford
NASA/MSFC
U.
Sydney
Meetings:
7th
Workshop on the Physics of Dusty
Plasmas
(4/1998)
8th
Workshop on the Physics of Dusty
Plasmas
(4/2000)
9th
Workshop on the Physics of Dusty
Plasmas
(5/2001)
3rd International
Conference on
the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (5/2002)
10th Workshop on the
Physics of Dusty
Plasmas
(6/2003)
4th
International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas
(6/2005)
11th
Workshop on the
Physics of Dusty
Plasmas
(6/2006)
5th
International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas
(5/2008)
New Journal of Physics:
Focus on
Complex (Dusty) Plasmas
In the News:
Captured ring
around Jupiter (4/98)
Halo
orbits (4/2000)
Jovian
dust streams (5/2000)
Photoelectric charging
(6/2000)
Non-Keplerian
dust dynamics (5/2001)
Dust
experiments
(8/2002)
Student
Dust Counter to Pluto (9/2002)