For dinner, there is an option of Chicken Cordon Bleu or Linguini with asparagus, peppers, and oven-roasted tomatoes.  Both entrees with come with a salad, sides, and dessert.  Iced tea, water, and coffee will be provided for drinks.  Cost for the dinner will be $15.  Dinner and the evening talk will take place in Heth Ballroom C.

 

 

 

The majority of matter in the universe is in the plasma state in the form of stars, nebula and interstellar plasmas.  A plasma is an ionized gas, consisting of a collection of free ion and electrons.  Because of these free charges, a plasma can interact strongly with electromagnetic fields leading to a multitude plasma structures and wave phenomena. Plasmas can be heated with radio waves and confined with magnetic fields.

 

 On the earth, natural plasmas include the ionosphere, the northern lights and lightening channels. Manmade plasmas are used in a wide range of applications including glow discharges for the deposition of coatings and the processing of semiconductors, atmospheric plasmas for pollution abatement and fusion reactors with the goal of providing an essentially unlimited energy source, e.g.

 

HY-Tech Research scientists have, over a period of twenty-five years, have developed numerous spectroscopic and laser-based diagnostics to measure the properties of a wide range of plasmas, including: insterstellar “dusty” plasmas, magnetron discharge plasmas, high current z-pinches used as x-ray simulators and Tokamak fusion reactors. HY-Tech is a developing vacuum arc technology to provide hard, boron-based coatings for industrial and medical applications.