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Amitava Bhattacharjee

Space Science Center
245A Morse Hall
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 862-2507
Amitava Bhattacharjee

Peter Paul Professor, Department of Physics and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire. Professor Bhattacharjee received his Ph.D. at Princeton University (1981) in theoretical plasma physics from the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. He and his students and postdoctoral colleagues have authored over 200 publications with broad applications to laboratory (including fusion), space and astrophysical plasmas. He has taught previously at Columbia University (1984-93) in the Department of Applied Physics, and at the University of Iowa (1993-2003) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. At the University of Iowa, he received the James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellowship (1996), the Faculty Scholar Award (1997-2000), and the Michael J. Brody Award (2003). He has served as Associate Editor of the Geophysical Research Letters and the Physics of Plasmas, as Founding Chair of the Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics of the American Physical Society, and on various prize and fellowship committees. He is presently Chair of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society and Senior Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, and a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science in 2000. Professor Bhattacharjee's research interests include: magnetic reconnection, turbulence and singularity formation, kinetic theory, free-electron lasers, and complex (or dusty) plasmas. He is presently the Director of CICART (Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence), a collaborative center with Dartmouth College, supported by the Department of Energy.

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CICART - Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence

http://www.cicart.unh.edu

UNH Physics Department

http://www.physics.unh.edu/aboutus/faculty/bhattacharjee.html

Center for Magnetic Self-Organization

http://www.cmso.info/