Prof. Allen Boozer, one of the most recognised physicists in the field of magnetically confined plasmas, visited IPP

 

Prof. Allen Boozer is an American physicist, full professor (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University) and co-recipient of the 2010 Hannes Alfvén Prize. 

 

In his talk at IPP, prof. Boozer focused on the magnetic reconnection, mostly on the problems that arise when we try to describe 3D reconnection in plasmas by 2D models. 3D reconnection may have large consequences on the physics of tokamak instabilities and disruptions.