{"id":137,"date":"2015-03-18T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T06:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math.berkeley.edu\/wp\/apde\/?p=137"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T06:12:52","slug":"walter-strauss-march-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/2015\/03\/18\/walter-strauss-march-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Strauss ( March 30st)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSpeaker: Walter Strauss (Brown University)<\/p>\n<p>Title: Stability of a Hot Plasma in a Torus<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: In a tokamak huge numbers of charged particles whiz around a torus<br \/>\nat relativistic speeds. Finding stable particle configurations is<br \/>\nthe holy grail of fusion energy research. We model a collisionless<br \/>\nplasma by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. There are many<br \/>\nequilibria, of which some are stable and some unstable. In this talk I<br \/>\nwill present recent work with Toan Nguyen where the particles reflect<br \/>\nspecularly and the field is a perfect conductor.&nbsp; These are however not<br \/>\nthe physical boundary conditions. Given an equilibrium of a certain type,<br \/>\nwe reduce linear stability to the positivity of a certain non-local linear<br \/>\noperator which is much less complicated than the generator of the full<br \/>\nlinearized system.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Walter Strauss (Brown University) Title: Stability of a Hot Plasma in a Torus Abstract: In a tokamak huge numbers of charged particles whiz around a torus at relativistic speeds. Finding stable particle configurations is the holy grail of fusion energy research. We model a collisionless plasma by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. There are many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.math.berkeley.edu\/apde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}