James D. Callen Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Awards & Honors Additional Experience Summary Files and Links

Contact Information

521 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-1370 Fax: 608/265-2438 E-mail: callen@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Engineering Physics
• Physics

• Center for Plasma Theory and Computation
• HSX Plasma Laboratory
• Madison Symmetric Torus
• Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
• Pegasus Plasma Experiment

Education

• BS 1962, Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University
• MS 1964, Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University
• PhD 1968, Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Postdoc 1968-69, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Fields of Interest

• controlled thermonuclear fusion
• theoretical and computational plasma physics
• magnetic confinement of plasmas
• nuclear fission

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• AEC, Fulbright, NSF Graduate and NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Fellow of the American Physics Society (1978)
• Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (1984)
• DoE Distinguished Associate Award (TPA/1988)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1986)
• Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award (2002)
• CoE Byron Bird Award for Excellence in a Research Publishing (2003)

Additional Experience

• Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• JET Joint Undertaking (Abingdon, England)
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Institute for Theoretical Physics (UC-Santa Barbara)

Summary

Professor Callen is a fusion plasma theoretician with research interests in developing and applying plasma theory and computation to present plasma confinement experiments, and fusion reactor design studies.

His current plasma research includes developing fluid/kinetic hybrid descriptions of magnetically confined plasmas; studying the macroscopic phenomenology caused by MHD tearing-type modes and their effects on plasma confinement in tokamaks; models for turbulence and plasma transport in tokamak, stellarator and reversed-field pinch plasmas; attempts to correlate the theory of collective macroscopic instabilities, which may give the ultimate limit on the plasma pressure and current that can be magnetically contained, with experimental results from tokamaks, stellarators, and reversed-field pinches.

Callen directs the university's Center for Plasma Theory and Computation. He is heavily involved in the U.S. fusion program, and has served on a number of Department of Energy review panels and fusion plasma physics journal editorial boards.

Files and Links of Interest

• Callen Public Webpage

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