CENTER FOR PLASMA THEORY AND COMPUTATION

James D. Callen (Director)   E-mail: callen@engr.wisc.edu John E. Scharer (Co-Director)   E-mail: scharer@engr.wisc.edu 503 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1687 Tel: 608/263-8142 Fax: 608/265-2438 www.cptc.wisc.edu

• Develops analytical and computational models of plasma equilibrium, waves, instabilities, radio-frequency wave heating, turbulence and transport for applications to toroidal magnetically confined plasmas and controlled fusion.

• Analyzes antenna coupling, plasma wave propagation and heating; models experiments on broadband microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers; and radio-frequency plasma sources for materials processing.

• Administers cluster of workstations and local network interface to NERSC supercomputers for plasma/fusion research.

• Involves faculty, staff and graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Engineering Physics and Department of Physics.