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R Paul Drake Curriculum Vitae
Name: R Paul Drake
Business Address: 2455 Hayward St., Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor MI 48109-2143
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Positions: Henry Smith Carhart Professor of Space Science,
Professor, Applied Physics; Professor, Physics, University of Michigan
Director, Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics
Director, Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysics
Visiting Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics,
University of Rochester
Family: Married to Joyce Penner (Professor, Univ. of Michigan), 2 children
Education: B.A. magna cum laude 1975, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, Tennessee
Majors: Philosophy (with Honors) and Physics
Thesis title: "An Aristotelian Account of Causality"
Ph.D. 1979 (M.S. 1977), both in Physics
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Specialty: Plasma Spectroscopy, Thesis title: "Extreme Ultraviolet
Diagnosis of a Neutral-Beam-Heated Mirror Machine"
Advisor: H. Warren Moos
Professional Ski Instructors of America
Associate Certification for Alpine Ski Instruction, 1983
Honors & Awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, Vanderbilt University, 1975
Distinguished Lecturer in Plasma Physics, APS/DPP 2003
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentorship UROP 2003
Departmental Research Excellence Award, 2009
Publications: > 170 refereed, > 210 citable,
Published first textbook in High-Energy-Density Physics
General Interests: Skiing, water sports, rowing, music, philosophy, economics, history
Professional Associations: American Physical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Astronomical Society
Listed: American Men and Women of Science,
Men of Achievement,
Dictionary of International Biography,
Who's Who in the World and other Who s Who volumes
Research and Biography:
Professor R. Paul Drake has played a leading role in the development of two new, related
fields of inquiry High-Energy-Density Physics (HEDP) and High-Energy-Density
Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA).
Dr. Drake s doctoral thesis was based on plasma spectroscopy measurements that
overturned the common belief that a magnetic confinement device known as a mirror
machine cannot confine impurity ions. Following this, Drake moved in 1979 into
magnetic fusion confinement research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL), where he unified confinement theory and stability theory to explain the
observed plasma confinement in a device called the Tandem Mirror Experiment. He
moved into laser fusion research in 1982 and led early experiments on a laser known as
Novette. During the next few years he conducted groundbreaking studies of the
Stimulated Raman Scattering instability and related mechanisms in laser-produced
plasmas, producing results that are still being cited, shown in textbooks, and taught in
classes. This led in 1989 to his selection as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He was also responsible during the mid-1980 s for leading the activation for experiments
of the highest-energy laser in the world at the time, known as Nova.
In 1989 Drake was chosen to lead the newly formed Plasma Physics Research Institute,
whose purpose was to promote and accomplish joint scientific work involving LLNL and
the University of California. He became an Associate Professor at U.C. Davis (and was
promoted to Full Professor in 1991). During the next few years he turned his attention to
the use of laser-fusion facilities for experiments to accomplish fundamental, discovery-
driven research. As of 1989, this was occurring nationally only at one facility through one
small grant program. Among other accomplishments, he was the first to identify the
importance of a mechanism known as Langmuir Decay in the saturation of Stimulated
Raman Scattering, a result that was at first very widely disbelieved but was eventually
shown to be correct.
During the early 1990s Drake turned his attention specifically to the use of laser fusion
tools and facilities to address issues in astrophysics, which is part of what is now known
as High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA). This was at the time a
completely new area. He is recognized as a founder of this field, along with the other
three authors of the 1999 paper in Science describing it. In early work in this area, he
invented an experimental system for the laboratory study of astrophysically relevant
plasma effects driven by high-Mach-number flows. This design has been used since by
groups in Japan and Europe to study such systems. He devised what is now the standard
method of producing hydrodynamic jets using lasers, worked with a Michigan
undergraduate student to develop an experimental design, and helped foster the
development of an independent research team that is still pursuing this topic. He
published a paper in 2000 providing the first scaling analysis of the requirements of laser
experiments to study astrophysically relevant diffusive particle acceleration in
collisionless shocks.
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His primary focus since 1996, when he came to Michigan, has been in the areas of
hydrodynamics and radiation hydrodynamics with applications to astrophysics. He has
led since 2000 a long-term, multi-institution effort to explore the phenomena responsible
for the mixing of stellar layers during supernovae, publishing in 2004 a paper
demonstrating enhanced mixing under certain conditions. His group at Michigan and
national and international collaborators continue to pursue this area. At Michigan he
directed the 13 M$/yr Space Physics Research Laboratory from 1998 2002
Drake devised and led, beginning in 1999, the first astrophysically relevant experiments
to produce radiative shocks, and has published papers on the theory of these shocks.
These experiments have continued and evolved, which has led to a number of papers by
his group members, and soon will have been the subject of three Ph.D. theses at
Michigan. He also collaborates extensively with a group in France that is pursuing similar
experiments. This set the stage for the successful establishment, in 2008, of the 5-year, 17
M$ Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics at Michigan.
Professor Drake has graduated Ph.D. students working in laser-plasma interactions,
radiation hydrodynamics, waves in the solar wind, and astrophysical flows. He has
published papers in experiments, theory, and simulation. Having worked in several areas
of HEDP, he was motivated to teach and write in this area. He began offering a graduate
course at Michigan in this area and in alternate years he single-handedly teaches an
intense, two-week summer school in this subject, which has been attended by graduate
students and young scientists from the US, Europe, and Asia. He authored the first
graduate textbook in HEDP, entitled High-Energy-Density Physics, and published by
Springer in 2006. In addition to his book, he has produced more than 170 refereed journal
publications and more than 210 total citable publications. He was invited to review
HEDP in a plenary lecture as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Division of
Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, in November 2008 and to write an
article on HEDP that was published in Physics Today in June, 2010.
During the early 1990s Prof. Drake became a national advocate for university research in
HEDP, which at the time was nearly nonexistent. Both his advocacy and his
demonstration that such research was possible, at a number of laser facilities, contributed
to the national context that led to the establishment of the Science Use of Nova
program at LLNL and to the initiation of broader national support for university research
in HEDP in the mid 1990s. His national role in this area continued. He was invited to
speak before the Committee that published the National Academies Press report,
Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New in 2003,
which advocated increased research in HEDP because of its connections to astrophysics.
He was invited to speak before the Committee that published the National Academies
Press Report High Energy Density Physics: The X-Games of Contemporary Science in
2002. These two NRC reports led to the formation by OSTP of a National Task Force on
High Energy Density Physics, which invited him to speak and produced a report entitled
Frontiers for Discovery in High Energy Density Physics in 2004. This in turn led to the
formation of an Interagency Working Group to determine how the U.S. government
should proceed in stewarding the field of HEDP. Drake was one of three scientists invited
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in Nov. 2006 to meet with members of this task force regarding the connection of HEDP
and Laboratory Astrophysics. The outcome of the Interagency Working Group was the
formation of a joint program between the DOE Office of Science and the DOE National
Nuclear Security Agency to steward the growth of HEDP as a fundamental discipline.
Drake was a member of the first workshop to identify fundamental scientific elements of
this program, the High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas workshop, convened by the
DOE Under Secretary of Science in 2007, and of the Federal Advisory Committee
Subpanel to provide advice regarding the structure of this program in 2008.
Through the work described above, Prof. Drake is also recognized as a founder of the
area of High-Energy-Density Laboratory Astrophysics. He has been active in advocacy
for and service to this new area. In the mid-1990s he was a founding member of the
executive committee of the Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics of the American
Physical Society. He served as the fifth chair of the Topical Group in 2001. He has been a
long-term organizer and has been chair of the HEDLA Conference, noted for its
promotion of interdisciplinary research combining laboratory scientists with
astrophysicists. He has spoken for the NRC Plasma Science Committee on issues of
laboratory astrophysics. He is a member of the Laboratory Astrophysics Working Group
of the American Astronomical Society, formed in 2007.
Drake has made a sustained national and international impact in other ways as well. He
has collaborated on experiments in France and Canada. He is frequently invited to survey
HEDLA or HEDP for international audiences. He has served on the jury for four
French Ph.D. candidates. The BBC documentary entitled Hyperspace and the Discovery
Channel documentary How the Universe Works each includes a segment shot featuring
him and his team s experiments, filmed at a major laser facility.
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Experience: Director, Space Physics Research Laboratory,
College of Engineering, Univ. of Michigan 1998-2002
Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 1996-1998
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences,
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Director, Plasma Physics Research Institute,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1989-1996
Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and
Space Sciences, University of Michigan 1996
Visiting Scientist, Applied Science Department
College of William & Mary, 1995-1996
Professor,
Department of Applied Science,
University of California Davis, 1991-1993
Associate Professor,
Department of Applied Science,
University of California Davis, 1989-1991
Group Leader for Plasma Physics
Nova Experiments Program,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA, 1985-1989
Physicist, Laser Fusion Program,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA, 1982-1985
Physicist, Magnetic Fusion Program,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA, 1979-1982
Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant
Department of Physics, Johns Hopkins Univ.,
Baltimore, MD, 1975-1979
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Teaching: Plasma Physics (1992, 1993)
Statistical Mechanics (1990, 1991)
Laser-Plasma Interactions (1988, 1996)
Mechanics - Dynamics (1997)
Space Plasma Physics (1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005)
Nuclear Energy (1998)
Space Science (2000, 2001)
High Energy Density Physics (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009)
Graduate Fluid Dynamics (2006 twice, 2007, 2008)
Rocket Science (2007)
Advising/Training: 3 M.S. Students:
Korbie K. Dannenberg
Bradley Seaford
Melanie A. Blackburn
17 Ph.D. Students (actual or estimated graduation)
Keith S. Bradley 1992 (Staff Member, LLNL)
Kevin L. Baker 1995 (Staff Member, LLNL)
Steven H. Bekhor 2002 (unknown)
Timothy B. Smith 2003 (Research Scientist, Michigan)
Paul Kominsky 2007 (Telescope Inst., Hawaii)
Amy B. Reighard 2007 (LLNL)
Carolyn C. Kuranz 2009 (Research Scientist, Michigan)
Eric C. Harding 2009 (Staff scientist, SNL)
Tony Visco 2011
Forrest Doss 2011
Jason Chou 2012
Channing Huntington 2012
Nick Patterson 2013
Carlos DiStefano 2013
Christine Krauland 2013
Eliseo Gamboa 2014
Rachel Young 2014
Wesley Wan 2015
4 Post Doctoral Fellows
Steven H. Batha (Staff member, LANL)
Bruno S. Bauer (Professor, U. Nevada Reno)
James J. Carroll III (Professor, Eastern Michigan)
Paul A. Keiter (Staff Member, LANL)
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Many undergraduate research students
2010-2011 Philip Bonofiglo, Britney Blakenship, Adam Budde, Colin Cornwall, Philip Falgoust,
Kelsey Gasior, Zach Gzicki, Samsul Hoque, Alex Jaeckel, Jimmy Johnson, David
Kaczala, Heath Lefevre, Megan McCarthy, Scott Perry, Nico Rombes, Whitney
Smith, Paul Stewart, Andrew Swain
2009-2010 Dave Bernthal, Philip Bonofiglo, Britney Blakenship, Adam Budde, Nicholas Clift,
Colin Cornwall, Joe Ditmar, Matt Forsythe, Kelsey Gasior, Diana Goulding, Matt
Gudorf, Namitha Jassem, Emily Lichko, Ray Mahaffy, Megan McCarthy, Eduardo
Mucino, Scott Perry, Paul Stewart, Andrew Swain, Joshua Wehrly
2008-09 Dave Bernthal, Britney Blakenship, Adam Budde, Paul Darnell, Joe Ditmar, Dara
Fischer, Matt Forsythe, Nilton Gjeci, Diana Goulding, Namitha Jassem, Justine Lazo,
Wai Lee Chan, Kevin Lin, Mariano Lowenstern, Marissa Mantey, Melina Michelen,
Eduardo Mucino, Scott Perry, Paul Steward, Andrew Swain, Marie Ternes
2007-08 Nilton Gjeci, Smantha Yap, Namitha Jassem, Scott Perry, Marie Ternes, Mariano
Lowenstern, Eduardo Mucino, Matthew Pistone, Joe Ditmar, Adam Budde, Brittany
Worley, Diana Goulding, Donna Marion, Matthew Forsyth, Antonia Hubbard
2006-07 Tiffany Thompton, Jessica Human, James Schultz, Nilton Gjeci, Mariano Lowenstern,
Eduardo Mucino, Donna Marion, Christine Krauland, Duncan Campbell, Joe Ditmar,
Stephen Martin, Clarice Lee, Adrienne Martz, Gurlovleen Rathore, Trisha
Donajkowski, Sebastien Lounis, Jasmine Santana, Edward Wagner, Tyler Brown,
Andrew Olson
2005-06 Christine Krauland, Sebastien, Lounis, Dan Austin, Donna Marion, Mariano
Lowenstern, Eduardo Mucino, Trisha Donajkowski, Gurlovleen Rathore, Taufig
Karim, Jasmine Santana, Kai Ravariere, Kyle Hubbard
2004-05 Devon Lafferty, Mark Taylor, Donna Marion, Christine Krauland, Doug Kremer, Mike
Grosskopf, Gurlovleen Rathore, Joe Garland, Trisha Donjakowski
2003-04 Carlos Fernandez, Neal Meyer, Chris Muscatello, Zenka Sellinger, Trisha
Donjakowski, Rebecca Gabl, Doug Kremer, Mike Grosskopf, Peter Susalla, Saida
Caballero, Erika Roesler, Eric Harding, Zhengfei Zheng, Jonathan Garrett, Koichi
Murai
2002-03 Dave Leibrandt, Mike Grosskopf, Doug Kremer, Tyacie Corle, Peter Susalla, Erika
Roesler, Eric Harding
2001-02 Eric Harding, Dave Leibrandt, Mike Grosskopf, Ayan Gosh, Luke Shaefer, Mike
Grosskkopf, Peter Susalla, Mike Kagan, Michael Thomas, Brandon Eagen
2000-01 Eric Harding, Leah Norstrud, Justin Benoit, Doug Gossiaux, Fred Ford
1999-00 Harry Reisig, Mike Lopez, Korbie Dannenberg, Eric Harding, Luke Gritter
1998-99 Gavin Koo, Harry Reisig, Mike Lopez, Shreya Shah, Joe Mrozinski, Stephen Steffes,
Richard Algra
1997-98 Gavin Koo, Harry Reisig, Kristy Brock
1996-97 Harry Reisig, Kristy Brock
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Professional Service:
Chair, 17th Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference Granlibakken, Tahoe City, CA, in May,
1987
Nominated to the Executive Committee, Division of Plasma Physics American Physical Society,
1989
Member, Fellowship Committee, Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society,
1991
Member, International Steering Committee, International Topical Conference on Research
Trends in Inertial Confinement Fusion, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 1991
Member, Program Committee, Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society,
Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 1994
Co-chair, Advanced Approaches to Economical Fusion Power, Monterey, CA, September, 1995
Member, Centennial Meeting Program Comittee, American Physical Society, 1997-1999
Co-organizer, 2nd Topical Conference on Laboratory Atrophysics with Large Lasers, Tuscon,
Arizona, Feb., 1998
Member, Executive Committee, University Fusion Association, 1998-2000
Member, Fellowship Committee, Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society,
1998
Member, Organizing Committee, Snowmass Fusion Summer Study, 1998-1999
Organizing Group Leader, Frontier Science at the NIF: Episode I workshop 1999
Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd Topical Conference on Laboratory Atrophysics with Large
Lasers, Houston, Mar. 2000
Member, DOE Committee for Review of Laser User Facilities, July-Oct. 1999
Member, DOE Committee to Review the Inertial Fusion Program at NRL, May 2000
Nominated for Vice-Chair Elect, Vice-Chair, then Chair, Division of Plasma Physics, American
Physical Society, 2000
Member, Physics Division Review Committee, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., May 2001
Vice-Chair Elect, Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics of the American Physical Society,
2000
Vice-Chair, Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics of the American Physical Society, 2001
Chair, Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics of the American Physical Society, 2002
Member, Program Committee, Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society,
Orlando, FL, 2002
Chair, 4rd International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Atrophysics, Ann
Arbor, MI, Feb. 2002
Member, Executive Committee, University Fusion Association, 2002-2004
Member, Organizing Committee, Miniconference on Laboratory Astrophysics at APS/DPP
meeting, 2003
Member, Organizing Committee, 5th International Conference on High Energy Density
Laboratory Atrophysics, Tucson, AZ, Mar. 2004.
Member, Fellowship Committee, Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society,
2004
Member, Scientific Organizing Committee, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Conference
on Relativistic Jets, Ann Arbor, Dec. 2005.
Member, Organizing Committee, 6th International Conference on High Energy Density
Laboratory Astrophysics, Houston, TX, Mar 2006
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Member, Program Committee, Div. of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, 2006
Member, Organizing Committee, Advanced Accelerator Conference, Wisconsin, July 2006.
Member Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship Committee, 2007
Member, Technical Program Committee, Inertial Fusion Science and Applications, Japan, Sept.
2007.
Member, Organizing Committee, Joint Conference on High-Energy-Density Physics and 7th
International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, St. Louis, Mo,
Apr. 2008
Member, Physics Adv. Council, Center for Self-Organization in Magnetized Plasmas, 2005-2008
Member, Advisory Council for UCLA s LAPD User Facility, 2000-2008
Member, High Energy Density (Betti) Report Subcommittee, Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory
Committee, 2008
External member, JASONS review of National Ignition Campaign, January 2009
Member, Facilities Funding and Programs Study Group of the NRC Decadal Survey Astronomy
& Astrophysics 2010, 2009
Member, Organizing Committee, Omega Laser Users Group workshop, April 2009
Co-chair, 2nd Int. Conf. on High Energy Density Physics, Austin, TX, May 2009
Chapter Lead, DOE Research Needs Workshop (ReNeW) on High Energy Density Laboratory
Plasmas, 2009-2010
Member, Weapons Science Review Committee, Los Alamos National Lab, 2008-present
Member, Executive Committee, Omega Laser Users Group, 2008-present
Member, Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics, Amer. Astro. Society, 2007- present
Member, Women in Plasma Physics Committee of the American Physical Society, 2008 2011
Treasurer, High Energy Density Science Association, 2006- 2008
Treasurer, High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics Conference, 2002 present
Webmaster, High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics Conference, 2005 present
Member, Editorial Board, High Energy Density Physics, The Journal, 2008 present.
Chair, Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics, Amer. Astro. Society, 2010-2011
Member, Koonin Committee for review of progress in the National Ignition Campaign, Oct.
2010- present
Steering committee member, DOE Office of Science Workshop on Basic Research Directions at
the National Ignition Facility, May 2011
Journal Referee
Physical Review Letters
Nature
Physical Review A/E
Physics of Fluids B/ Physics of Plasmas
Geophysical Research Letters
Astrophysical Journal
Journal of the Optical Society B
Laser and Particle Beams
Physics Letters A
Optics Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research
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Journal of Physics D
Astrophysics and Space Science
AIAA Journal
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Shock Waves
Nature Physics
Review of Scientific Instruments
Americal Journal of Physics
Proposal Referee
National Science Foundation
National Science and Engineering Council, Canada
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
U.S. Dept. of Energy
EPSRC, Britain
Promotion or Thesis Referee or Reviewer
University of California Los Angeles
University of California San Diego
Australian National University
University of Rochester
University of Michigan
University of Toronto
Universite de Paris VI
Universite de Bordeaux
Imperial College, London
State University of New York Stony Brook
University of Nevada Reno
Centre d Energie Atomique, France
Department of Applied Science, UC Davis
Chairman, 1990 Comprehensive Examination Committee
Chairman, 1991 Comprehensive Examination Committee
Chairman, 1991-1992 Peer Review of Teaching Committee
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chair, Foreign National Access Working Group, 1989-1990
U.C. Davis Committees
Decennial Review Committee for Crocker Nuclear Lab
Chair, Conflict-of-Interest Committee, 1991-1992, 1992-1993
Numerous qualifying examination committees
U of M, AOSS Department Service:
Member, 1998, Space Physics Research Review Committee
Member, 1998, Search Committee for Space Physics Research Lab
Member, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,2003,2004 Graduate
Education Committee
Member, 1998-1999, Search Committee for Meteorologist
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Ex-Officio Member, 1998-2000, AOSS Executive Committee
Member, Fall 1999 Qualifying Examination Committee
Co-Organizer, Fall 1999, Fall 2000 Graduate Student Orientation
Member, 2000-2001 Undergraduate Curriculum Redefinition
Committee
Member, Spring 2001 Qualifying Examination Committee
Member, Spring 2002 Qualifying Examination Committee
Member, Fall 2003 SPRL Review Committee
Member, 2004-2005 Bargaining team for GSI contract
Qualifying examination chair, 2006
Chair, Promotion casebook committee, 2007
Chair, Promotion casebook committee, 2008
Chair, Promotion casebook committee, 2010
Graduate Chair, 2006 present
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Major Scientific Accomplishments:
Plasma Spectroscopy:
Showed that energetic oxygen, injected as an impurity by neutral-atom heating beams, can be
confined in a magnetic mirror fusion machine [(Drake and Moos, Nuclear Fusion 19, 407 (1979)],
and that mirror-confined plasmas expel low-energy impurities. [(Drake and Moos, Nuclear Fusion
20, 599 (1980)].
Plasma Confinement:
Unified confinement theory and stability theory to explain the observed plasma confinement in the
Tandem Mirror Experiment [(Drake et al., Nuclear Fusion 21, 359 (1981)].
Published the first experimental study of radial transport in magnetic-mirror plasmas [(Drake et
al., Nuclear Fusion 25, 2110 (1982)].
Laser-Plasma Interactions:
Discovered evidence of the production of hot electrons by the stimulated Raman scattering
instability [(Drake et al., Physical Review Letters 53, 1739 (1984)].
Discovered evidence that stimulated Raman scattering is an absolute instability under specific
conditions; evaluated implications for laser fusion [(Drake et al., Physical Review Letters 60, 1018
(1988) and other publications].
Quantified the effects of collisional damping and density-gradient scale length on the amplitude
and spectrum of stimulated Raman scattering [several publications during 1988 and 1989].
Discovered the first evidence of stimulated Compton scattering in a laser-produced plasma [Drake
et al., Physical Review Letters 64, 423 (1990)].
Discovered the importance of effects of time-dependence for stimulated Brillouin scattering in
laser-produced plasmas [Drake and Williams, Physical Review Letters 67, 2477 (1991)]
Was first to identify the important of the Langmuir Decay threshold in controlling the onset of
Langmuir turbulence in collisional plasmas [Drake and Batha, Phys. Fluids B 3, 2936 (1991)].
Led a research team applying laser-plasma techniques to basic plasma physics, permitting
numerous first observations of physical mechanisms [Numerous Physical Review Letters, 1990-
present].
Provided the first confirmation of the theoretical calculation of convective gain for stimulated
Brillouin scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas [Drake, et al., Physical Review Letters 77, (1996)]
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Laboratory Astrophysics:
Invented experimental system for the laboratory study of astrophysically relevant plasma effects
driven by high-Mach-number flows [Drake, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2068 (1998), Ap.J. Lett.
500, L157 (1998).]
Provided first scaling analysis of the requirements of experiments to study astrophysically relevant
diffusive particle acceleration. [Drake, Phys. Plasmas Nov. 2000]
Devised and led (as PI) first astrophysically relevant experiment to produce radiative precursor
shocks. [Keiter (post doc) et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. Oct. 2002].
Identified enhanced transport of material by instabilities in supernova simulation experiment.
[Drake, et al. Phys. Plasmas May 2004.]
Authored first textbook on High Energy Density Physics, including significant new theory of
radiative shocks
Major Leadership Accomplishments
Magnetic Mirror Program
Led several experiments and scoping studies, including the first experimental study of radial
transport in magnetic-mirror plasmas.
Laser Fusion Program:
Led the activation of the Novette Facility for target experiments and directed the
experiments from May, 1983 through January, 1984.
Led the activation of the Nova target chamber and the first experiments using the Nova
laser. This included managing a group of approximately 20 people for two years.
Managed the Plasma Physics Project then the Plasma Group from 1984-1989
Led the first target experiments to employ advanced pulse shaping on Nova.
Led and managed an effort to use optical streak cameras to obtain 10% laser-pulse-shape
measurements (1986 to 1988).
Plasma Physics Research Institute:
Served as acting director beginning Sept. 1989.
Served as permanent director, Jan. 1990 to July 1996
Space Physics Research Laboratory:
Served as director, July 1998-July 2002. (13 M$ per year)
Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics (CRASH):
Led the proposal effort 2006 2008 and served as director, 2008 present (17 M$/5 yrs)
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Collaborations:
1. 1985 -1996, with T.W.Johnston, INRS-Energie, Varennes, Quebec, CANADA JOL
2PO, to plan and analyze parametric instability experiments using laser-produced
plasmas.
2. 1986-1989, with H.A.Baldis, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario, CANADA K1A OR6, to design, build, and use scattered light instrumentation in
experiments on the Nova laser at LLNL, and to analyze data from such experiments.
3. 1987-1995, with John DeGroot and Katsu Mizuno, U.C.Davis, Davis, CA, USA, to
plan and analyze experiments to study the Ion-Acoustic Decay Instability in laser-
produced plasmas.
4. 1988-1989, with Wolf Seka, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, to plan,
carry out, and analyze measurements of the scattered light that is upshifted from the
laser frequency in experiments on Nova.
5. 1989-1996, with H.A.Baldis and D.M.Villeneuve, National Research Council of
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1A OR6, to design, carry out and analyze
experiments at NRC using Thompson scattering to study stimulated Raman scattering in
laser-produced plasmas.
6. 1989-1996, with Martin V. Goldman and others, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado, to study the transition from weak to strong turbulence in Langmuir waves
having variable damping.
7. 1991-1995, with Christine Labaune of Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, to
conduct joint experiments exploring basic physical questions in laser-plasma
interactions
8. 1990-1995, with Jochen Meyer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,
Canada, to analyze three-halves harmonic emission produced in consequence of two-
plasmon decay.
9. 1992-1999, with Wolf Seka and others, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA,
to plan, carry out, and analyze Thomson scattering measurements of waves and
instabilities.
10. 1992-1994, with Guy Bonnaud, CEA Limeil, Limeil-Valenton, France, to analyze
simulations of the saturation of stimulated Raman Scattering.
12. 1992-1995, with Don DuBois, Joe Mack, and others at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, to carry out experiments and do theory related to
ion waves in plasmas.
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13. 1993-present, with Bob Watt and others at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, New Mexico, John DeGroot, U.C. Davis, Wojtek Rozmus, U. of Alberta, and
with Jim Carroll (now of Eastern Michigan University) to carry out and publish
experiments related to stimulated Brillouin scattering. A second, related project
involves Watt, Carroll, and Prof. Oswald Willi of Imperial College.
14. 1995-present, with Bruce Remington and others at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, to accomplish experiments related to the behavior of supernova
remnants using the Nova laser.
15. 1996-2002, with Don Umstadter at the University of Michigan and Robin
Marjoribanks, University of Toronto, to find funding for, carry out experiments on, and
analyze data from relativistic laser-solid interactions.
16. 1997-present, with Jim Asay and others at the Sandia National Laboratories to
accomplish laboratory hydrodynamics experiments related to supernova remnants and
to equation of state. This project also involves Prof. Dave Arnett, Univ. of Arizona, and
Prof. Adam Frank, Univ. of Rochester.
17. 1997-present, with Alec Gallimore and Brian Gilchrist at the University of Michigan
to apply my expertise in laser scattering to diagnosis of plasma thrusters.
18. 1997-present, with Ken Powell, Tamas Gombosi and others at the University of
Michigan to extend and apply techniques developed at Michigan to the modeling of
supernova remnants and of high-energy-density laboratory systems
19. 1998-2001, with Oswald Willi and others at Imperial College, London to conduct
and analyze plasma hydrodynamics experiments using lasers.
20. 1998-2003, with Nathan Schwadron at the University of Michigan, to develop
advances in the theory of solar and heliospheric plasmas.
21. 1998-2003, with Alec Gallimore and others at the University of Michigan, and with
Kent Moncur, to develop and find funds for a laser system for the laboratory study of
collisionless shocks in plasmas.
22. 1999-present, leader a team of Co-Investigators from 10 institutions to conduct
laboratory simulation of astrophysics research using the Omega Laser Facility .
23. 2001-present, with Jim Knauer and Adam Frank of the University of Rochester and
numerous other researchers from several institutions, to develop experiments relevant to
astrophysical jets.
24. 2002-2004, with Tom Melhorn, Jim Bailey, Steve Slutz, Gordon Chandler at Sandia
National Laboratories and with Jerry Chittenden at Imperial College, to develop
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understanding and astrophysical connections of the radiative shocks in dynamic
hohlraum experiments at Z.
25. 2005 2008, member of FOCUS, a multi-institution collaboration emphasizing
coherent control and high-field science at the University of Michigan, funded by NSF.
26. 2005-present, leader of a team from six institutions to develop proposal for
hydrodynamic experiments relevant to astrophysics on the National Ignition Facility.
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Invited Presentations at Conferences:
1. "Current Results of the Tandem Mirror Experiment" Int. Symp. on Physics and
Open-ended Fusion Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, April 1980
2. "TMX Experimental Results", Division of Plasma Physics of the American
Physical Society, San Diego, CA, Nov. 1980
3. "TMX Results and Future Tandem Mirrors", 17th Annual Symposium of the New
Mexico Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, Albuquerque, NM, April 1981
4. "Radial Transport Experiments in TMX", Gordon Research Conf.
on Plasma Physics, Ventura, CA, June 1981
5. "Laser-Plasma Interaction Experiments Using Several Kilojoules of Green Light",
IEEE Int. Conf. on Plasma Science, St. Louis, Mo., May 1984
6. "Results of Large-Plasma Experiments Using Multikilojoule, Submicron Lasers", Division of
Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Boston, MA, Oct. 1984
7. "Nova Target Experiments", 7th International Workshop on
Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena, Monterey, CA, Oct. 1985
8. "Preliminary Performance and ICF Target Experiments With
Nova", 11th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Austin, TX, Nov. 1985
9. "Laser-Plasma-Interaction Experiments Using Multikilojoule
Lasers", 18th European Conference on Laser Interactions with Matter, May, 1987
10. "Overview of Raman Scattering Experiments Using Nova", 18th
Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, L'Esterel, Quebec, June, 1988
11. "A Survey of Raman Spectra", 9th International Workshop on Laser Interaction and Related
Plasma Phenomena, Monterey, CA, November 1989
12. "Recent Studies of Simulated Raman Backscattering", 20th European Conference on Laser
Interactions with Matter, January, 1990
13. "Stimulated Raman Backscattering from Laser-Produced Plasmas", National Academy of
Sciences Workshop on Optical and Plasma Physics, UCLA, March 1990.
14. "Speculations on Stimulated Raman scattering from Laser-Produced Plasmas: 'Merely'
Nonlinear or also Chaotic", 1990 CAP/NSERC Summer Workshop on "Nonlinear and Chaotic
Phenomena in Plasmas, Solids, and Fluids", Edmonton, Alberta, July 1990.
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15. "Trends in Laser-Plasma-Instability Experiments for Laser Fusion", International Workshop
on Research Trends in ICF, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 4-6, 1991.
16. "Three-Wave Parametric Instabilities in Long-Scale-Length, Somewhat-Planar, Laser-
Produced Plasmas", 21st European Conference on Laser Interactions with Matter, October, 1991,
Warsaw, Poland.
17. "Applications of Nanosecond, Kilojoule Lasers to the Basic Physics of Waves in Plasmas",
SPIE Laser and Sensor Engineering Symposium, Los Angeles, Jan. 1992
18. The Ion Acoustic Decay Instability in Laser Plasmas: Fluid Theory and Second Harmonic
Emission, 11th International Workshop on Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena,
Monterey, CA, Oct. 1993
19. "The study of waves and instabilities using Thomson scattering in laser plasmas", US-China-
Japan Workshop on Laser Plasma and Drivers, Beijing, Oct. 1994
20. "Is stimulated Brillouin scattering irrelevant to laser fusion", Laser-plasma interactions
workshop, Banff, Canada, February 1995
21. "Experiments for Fusion and Physics Using Trident ", 25th Anomalous Absorption
Conference, Aspen, Colorado, May 1995.
22. "The study of waves and instabilities using Thomson scattering in laser plasmas", IEEE
International Conference on Plasma Science '95, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1995.
23. "Greatly enhanced noise and the onset of stimulated Brillouin scattering", Annual Meeting of
the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO, November 1996.
24. "Nonlinear Evolution of Parametric Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas: Review of
experimental evidence", 2nd International Workshop on Laser Plasma Interaction Physics, Banff,
Canada, February 1997.
25. "Thomson scattering studies of waves in laser-produced plasmas and their connection with
ionospheric interactions", National Radio Science and URSI Meeting, Boulder, CO, January 1998.
26. Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments Using Large Lasers, New Frontiers in Laboratory
Astroplasma Physics, Opening Lecture, Workshop by the Royal Astronomical Society and the
Institute of Physics, London, October 1999.
27. Laser Experiments to Simulate Supernova Remnants, Annual Meeting of the Division of
Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, November 1999.
28. Overview of Laser Astrophysics Experiments, American Astronomical Society, Rochester,
NY, June 2000
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29. Basic Science: Implications for NIF Shock Diagnostics, National Ignition Facility
Diagnostic Workshop, Tuscon, Ariz., June 2000
30. What s a Burning Plasma Good For?, Workshop on Burning Plasma Science, Austin, TX,
Dec. 2000
31. Plasma Laboratory Astrophysics: Mildly Relativistic Plasmas, National Research Council
Committee on the Physics of the Universe, Pasadena, CA June 2001
32. Supernova Hydrodynamics on the Omega Laser, International Conference on Fusion
Sciences and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 2001
33. Breakthrough Science and the Role of Universities in High Energy Density Physics,
National Research Council Committee on High Energy Density Physics, Irvine, CA Nov. 2001
34. Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense Lasers: Introduction and Overview, Annual Seminar
of the Laboratoire d Utilisation des Laseres Intenses, Saint-Lary, Pyrenees, France, March 2002.
35. Understanding Hydrodynamics of High Energy Density Matter: Laboratory Experiments and
Astrophysical Connections, April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Albuquerque, NM,
April, 2002
36. Connecting Laboratory Experiments and Astrophysical Phenomena, Meeting on
Intercomparison of Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), Whitefish, Montana
June, 2003.
37. Progress in Experimental Astrophysics at High Energy Density, Annual Meeting of the
Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Albuquerque, NM, October, 2003
38. Radiative Shocks in the Laboratory and Astrophysics, 5th International Conference on High
Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, AZ, March 2004
39. Hydrodynamics and Radiation Hydrodynamics with Astrophysical Applications, APS April
meeting, Tampa, FL April 2005
40. High Energy Density Physics: Recent Results and New Directions, Target Fabrication
Specialist s Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2005.
41. Hydrodynamic instabilities in the laboratory and astrophysics, Plenary lecture, European
Conference on Plasma Science, Tarragona, Spain, June 2005
42. Introduction to High Energy Density Physics, Opening Lecture, HEDP Summer School,
Berkeley CA August 2005.
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43. Looking Toward Astrophysical Applications of Relativistic Lasers, Ultrafast Laser
APPlications conference, San Jose, Feb. 2006.
44. HED Facilities and Their Connection to Issues in Astrophysics, Opening lecture, High
Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics Conference, Houston, TX, Mar. 2006.
45. Theory of Radiative Shocks, IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Traverse
City, MI, June 2006.
46. Using Radiative Shock Experiments and Physical Thinking in Code Validation,
Computational Methods in Transport Workshop, Granlibakken, CA, Sept. 2006.
47. Overview of Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics, Workshop on Collisionless and Relativistic
Plasma Astrophysics, Houston, TX, May 2007
48. Compressible hydrodynamics, radiation transport, and radiation hydrodynamics,
NNSA/Office of Science workshop on High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP),
Chicago, IL, May 2007
49. Approaches to turbulence in high-energy-density experiments, Turbulent Mixing and
Beyond, Trieste, Italy, Aug. 2007
50. Experiments to explore structure in radiative shocks, Inertial Fusion Science and
Applications, Kobe, Japan, Sept. 2007
51. Toward astrophysical applications of relativistic lasers, International Symposium on Laser-
Driven Relativistic Plasmas Applied for Science, Industry and Medicine, Kansai Photon Science
Institute, Japan, Sept. 2007
52. Introduction to High Energy Density Physics and its connections to Astrophysics, Annual
science meeting of the Centre d Energie Atomique, Bruyeres, France, Dec. 2007
53. High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics and its connections to supernovae, Joint
LLNL/LANL Astrophysics Initiative Workshop, March 2008
54. Astrophysical problems for which high-energy-density physics can matter, April Meeting of
the American Physical Society, St. Louis, April 2008
55. Supernova-relevant experiments for the National Ignition Facility, European Conference on
Laser Interaction with Matter, Darmstadt, Sept. 2008
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56. Perspectives on High-Energy-Density Physics, (Plenary lecture) Annual Meeting of the
Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Dallas, TX, Nov. 2008.
57. Laboratory Astrophysics on the Linac Coherent Light Source, LCLS Workshop, Oxford,
UK, Jan. 2009.
58. Challenges to Understanding Radiative Shocks, 2009 IEEE Inter. Conf. on Plasma Science,
San Diego CA, June 2009.
59. Using High Power Lasers to Create Radiative Shock Waves, Conference on Lasers and
Electro-Optics, Pacific Rim, Shanghai, Sept. 2009.
60. High Energy Density Hydrodynamics and Radiation Hydrodynamics, Canadian Assoc. of
Physics, Toronto, June 2010
61. Producing Radiative Shocks for Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments, Workshop on Laser-
Matter Interactions, Proquerolles, France, Sept. 2010
62. Radiative Shocks in Laboratory Astrophysics, International Workshop on Radiation from
High Energy Density Plasmas, Reno, Nevada, March 2011
Invited Presentations by directly-guided post docs and students:
1. S.H. Batha, "Forward Scattering of Laser Light", Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma
Physics of the American Physical Society, 1992
2. B.S. Bauer, "First Experimental Detection of Ion Plasma Waves", Annual Meeting of the
Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, 1994
3. A.B. Reighard, Astrophysical Connections to a Driven Radiative Shock Experiment, High
Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 2006.
4. Carolyn Kuranz, Supernova Hydrodynamics Experiments with Attention to the Transition to
Turbulence, High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, 2006.
5. A.B. Reghard, Experiments on Collapsing Radiative Shocks, Annual Meeting of the Division
of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, 2006
6. Carolyn Kuranz, Supernova Hydrodynamics Experiments on the Omega Laser, Nuclear
Astrophysics Workshop, Livermore, CA, August 2007
7. Carolyn Kuranz, Laboratory blast-wave driven instabilities, International Conference on High
Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics/International Conference on High Energy Density
Physics at the April meeting of the American Physics Society, St. Louis, Mo, April, 2008
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8. Carolyn Kuranz, Laboratory blast wave driven instabilities on the Omega Laser, High Energy
Density Science User s Project mini-symposium of Stewardship Science Academic Alliance
Symposium, Washington, D.C., February 2008
9. Carolyn Kuranz, Laboratory blast-wave driven instabilities, Annual Meeting of the Division
of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Dallas, TX, Nov. 2008.
10. Eric Harding, Kelvin Helmholtz Experiments, 2nd Inter. Conf. on High Energy Density
Physics, Austin TX, May 2009
11. Eric Harding, Observations Of Subsonic And Supersonic Shear Flows In Laser Driven High-
Energy-Density Plasmas, Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American
Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2009
12. Forrest Doss, CRASH: Theory and Experiments on Radiative Shocks, International
Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Pasadena, CA, March 2010
13. Forrest Doss, Structure in Radiative Shocks, Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma
Physics of the American Physical Society, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2010
14. Anthony Visco, Temperature Measurements in a Radiative Shock System, Radiation from
High Energy Density Plasmas (RHEDP) International Workshop, Reno, NV March 2011
15. Forrest Doss, Structure in Radiative Shocks, 3rd International Conference on High Energy
Density Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2011
16. Channing Huntington, Same-Shot X-Ray Thomson Scattering And Streaked Imaging Of
Radiative Shock Experiments At Omega, International Conference on Plasma Science, Chicago,
IL, June 2011
Lectures:
"Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
Subject 6.965 (G): gave 9 of 18 lectures
Summer School:
Summer School on High-Energy-Density Physics
Lectures (42 hours) based on draft book; 28 attendees.
Traverse City, MI, August 2004
Summer School: Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics
Lectures (40 hours) based on book; 22 attendees.
Traverse City, MI, August 2006
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Summer School: Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics
Lectures (40 hours) based on book; 18 attendees.
Traverse City, MI, July 2008
Seminars and Colloquia:
On Magnetic Mirror Topics:
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, fall 1979
Max Planck Institute, Garching, April 1980
Fontenay-aux-Rose, April 1980
Culham laboratory, April 1980
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, August 1980
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981
University of Maryland, 1981
Dartmouth University, spring 1981
"The Significance of Observed Trends in Raman Scattering Data":
Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 1987
Naval Research Laboratory, November 1988
University of Rochester, November 1988
"Progress Toward Laser Fusion Using Nova":
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, November 1988
University of Rochester, November 1988
University of Maryland, May 1989
Cornell University, May 1989
"Stimulated Raman Backscattering from Laser-Produced Plasmas":
U.C.Davis, March, 1989
U.C.Irvine, November 21, 1989
"Waves in Laser-Produced Plasmas"
U.C. Davis, May 1991
"Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: Tests of the Convective Theory"
Ecole Polytechnique, July 1992
"Parametric Interactions in Laser Plasmas"
Univ. of Colorado, Feb. 1993
M.I.T., March 1993
"The Laser as a Tool for the study of waves and turbulence in plasmas"
Univ. of Alberta, Sept. 1994
"Laser Scattering from Tailored Plasmas"
Univ. of Michican, Sept. 1995
Univ. of Miami, Oct. 1995
Laboratory Supernovae: Using big lasers to model exploding stars
Sandia National Laboratory, Feb. 1999
Univ. of Toronto, Feb. 1999
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aug. 1999
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Laboratory Experiments to Simulate Supernova Remnants
Univ. of Chicago, Sept. 1999
Naval Research Laboratory, Nov. 1999
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jan. 2000
Plasma hydrodynamics, and Laboratory simulation of astrophysical phenomena
DOE National Undergraduate Fellowship Program, June 2000
The quest for fusion: when and how will humans make power like the stars do?
Michigan Alumni Association, July 2000
Laboratory Supernovae: Using big lasers to simulate exploding stars
Michigan Alumni Association, July 2000
Astrophysics Experiments with Lasers and Z Pinches
Univ. of Toledo, November 2000
Univ. of Rochester, April 2000
Connecting Laboratory Experiments with Astrophysical Phenomena
Brigham Young University, Feb. 2003
Rochester Inst. Of Technology, Feb. 2003
West Virginia Wesleyan, Feb . 2003
Swarthmore, Feb. 2003
UC Irvine, March 2003
Optical Society of America, March 2003
Rutgers, April 2003
Imperial College, November 2003
West Virginia University, February 2004
Ohio State University, January 2005
Massachussetts Institute of Technology, January 2006
University of Michigan Physics Dept., Feb. 2006
Hydrodynamics and radiation hydrodynamics with astrophysical applications
SUNY Stony Brook, Applied Mathematics, March 2008
High energy density physics with astrophysical applications: hydrodynamics and radiation
hydrodynamics
Observatoire de Meudon, May 2010
CEA Bruyeres, May 2010
High-energy-density physics of relevance to astrophysics
SUNY Stony Brook, Physics, November 2010
Books Published:
R.P. Drake, High Energy Density Physics: Foundations, Inertial Fusion, and
Experimental Astrophysics, 534 pages, Springer, Berlin (2006) ISBN-10 3-540-29314-0
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Refereed Publications (graduate students underlined, post-docs in italics):
1. R.P.Drake and H.W.Moos, "Evidence for neutral-beam-injected oxygen impurities in 2XIIB",
Nucl. Fusion 19,407-410 (1979).
2. R.P.Drake and H.W.Moos, "An extreme-ultraviolet study of the 2XIIB neutral-beam-heated
mirror machine, Nucl. Fusion 20, 599-610 (1980).
3. D.L.Correll, J.F.Clauser, F.H.Coensgen, W.F.Cummins, R.P.Drake, J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch,
R.K.Goodman, D.P.Grubb, G.M.Melin, W.E.Nexsen, T.C.Simonen, B.W.Stallard, W.C.Turner,
"Production of large-radius, high-beta, confined mirror plasmas", Nucl. Fusion 20, 655-664
(1980).
4. F.H.Coensgen, T.A.Casper, C.A.Anderson, J.F.Clauser, W.C.Condit, D.L.Correll,
W.F.Cummins, J.C.Davis, R.P.Drake, J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman, D.P.Grubb,
G.A.Hallock, R.S.Hornady, A.L.Hunt, B.G.Logan, R.H.Munger, W.E.Nexsen, T.C.Simonen,
D.R.Slaughter, B.W.Stallard, O.T.Strand, "Electrostatic plasma confinement experiments in a
Tandem Mirror system ", Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, 1132-1135 (1980).
5. R.P.Drake, G.Deis, M.Richardson, T.C.Simonen, "Gas control and wall conditioning in TMX",
J. Nucl. Materials 93/94, 291-296 (1980).
6. R.P.Drake, T.A.Casper, J.F.Clauser, F.H.Coensgen, D.L.Correll, W.F.Cummins, J.C.Davis,
J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman, D.P.Grubb, R.S.Hornady, W.E.Nexsen, T.C.Simonen,
B.W.Stallard, "Effect of end-cell stability on the confinement of the central-cell plasma in TMX",
Nucl. Fusion 21, 359-364 (1981).
7. R.P.Drake, D.D.Lang, A.L.Hunt, W.L.Pickles, T.C.Simonen, T.P.Stack, K.L.Wilson,
M.I.Baskes, L.G.Haggmark, M.E.Malinowski, "Design of first walls and beam dumps for the
Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade", J. Vac. Sci. Tech. 20, 1288-1291 (1982).
8. R.P.Drake, E.B.Hooper, C.V.Karmendy, S.L.Allen, T.A.Casper, J.F.Clauser, F.H.Coensgen,
R.H.Cohen, D.L.Correll, J.C.Davis, J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman, D.P.Grubb,
G.E.Gryczkowski, G.A.Hallock, A.L.Hunt, W.E.Nexsen, W.L.Pickles, A.E.Pontau, P.Poulsen,
T.C.Simonen, O.T.Strand, W.R.Wampler, "Radial Transport in the central cell of the tandem
mirror experiment", Phys. Fluids 25, 2110-2120 (1982).
9. D.L.Correll, S.L.Allen, T.A.Casper, J.F.Clauser, P.Coakely, F.H.Coensgen, W.C.Condit,
W.F.Cummins, J.C.Davis, R.P.Drake, J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman, D.P.Grubb,
G.A.Hallock, E.B.Hooper, R.S.Hornady, "Ambipolar potential formation and axial confinement in
TMX", Nucl. Fusion 22, 223-234 (1982).
10. E.B.Hooper, G.E.Gryczkowski, R.P.Drake, "Plasma generation in gas box fueling for tandem
mirrors", J. Vac. Sci. Tech. 20, 1259-1262 (1982).
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11. W.L.Pickles, A.K.Chargin, R.P.Drake, A.L.Hunt, D.D.Lang, J.J.Murphy, P.Poulsen,
T.C.Simonen, T.H.Batzer, T.P.Stack, R.L.Wong, "The LLNL Tandem Mirror Experiment
Upgrade vacuum system", J. Vac. Sci. Tech. 20, 1177-1181 (1982).
12. R.P.Drake, "Control of plasma-wall interactions in tandem mirrors", Nucl. Tech./Fusion 3,
405-415 (1983).
13. D.P.Grubb, S.L.Allen, T.A.Casper, J.F.Clauser, F.H.Coensgen, R.H.Cohen, D.L.Correll,
W.F.Cummins, J.C.Davis, R.P.Drake, J.H.Foote, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman, G.E.Gryczkowski,
E.B.Hooper, R.S.Hornady, A.L.Hunt, C.V.Karmendy, W.E.Nexsen, W.L.Pickles, G.D.Porter,
P.Poulsen, T.D.Rognlien, T.C.Simonen, D.R.Slaughter, P.Coakley, G.A.Hallock, O.T.Strand,
"Energy confinement studies in the Tandem Mirror Experiment: power flow", Phys. Fluids 26,
1987-2002 (1983).
14. D.P.Grubb, S.L.Allen, T.A.Casper, J.F.Clauser, F.H.Coensgen, D.L.Correll, W.F.Cummins,
J.C.Davis, D.Dietrich, R.P.Drake, J.H.Foote, R.J.Fortner, A.H.Futch, R.K.Goodman,
G.E.Gryczkowski, E.B.Hooper, R.S.Hornady, A.L.Hunt, C.V.Karmendy, T.Nash, W.E.Nexsen,
W.L.Pickles, G.D.Porter, P.Poulsen, T.C.Simonen, D.R.Slaughter, G.A.Hallock, O.T.Strand,
"Energy confinement studies in the Tandem Mirror Experiment: power balance", Phys. Fluids 26,
2003-2010 (1983).
15. W.L.Pickles, M.O.Calderon, M.R.Carter, C.A.Clower, R.P.Drake, A.L.Hunt, D.D.Lang,
T.C.Simonen, and W.C.Turner, "Dynamic gas flow during plasma operation in TMX-U", J. Vac.
Sci. Tech. A1, 1288-1292 (1983).
16. S.L.Allen, C.A.Clower, R.P.Drake, E.B.Hooper, A.L.Hunt, and R.Munger, "Initial wall
conditioning for the TMX-U fusion experiment", J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A1, 916-919 (1983).
17. R.P.Drake, R.E.Turner, B.F.Lasinski, K.G.Estabrook, E.M.Campbell, C.L.Wang,
D.W.Phillion, E.A.Williams, and W.L.Kruer, "Efficient Raman sidescatter and hot-electron
production in laser-plasma interaction experiments", Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1739-1742 (1984).
18. R.E.Turner, K.G.Estabrook, R.L.Kauffman, D.R.Bach, R.P.Drake, D.W.Phillion,
B.F.Lasinski, W.L.Kruer, E.A.Williams, and E.M.Campbell, "Evidence for collisional damping in
high-energy Raman scattering experiments at 0.26 microns", Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 189-192 (1985).
19. K.R.Manes, O.C.Barr, E.S.Bliss, R.P.Drake, R.O.Godwin, D.G.Gritton, J.S.Hildum,
W.F.Holloway, C.A.Hurley, B.C.Johnson, D.J.Kuizenga, B.Merritt, R.G.Ozarski, F.Reinecker Jr.,
J.R.Severyn, D.R.Speck, M.A.Summers, G.J.Suski, E.P.Wallerstein, "Novette facility: activation
and experimental results", Laser and Particle Beams 3, 173-188 (1985).
20. F.Ze, L.J.Suter, S.M.Lane, E.M.Campbell, W.C.Mead, J.D.Lindl, M.D.Rosen, D.W.Phillion,
C.W.Hatcher, R.P.Drake, J.S.Hildum, K.R.Manes, "Compression measurements in ablatively
driven inertial confinement fusion", Comm. Plas. Phys. Cont. Fus. 10, 33-41 (1986).
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21. E.M.Campbell, J.T.Hunt, E.S.Bliss, D.R.Speck, R.P.Drake, "Nova experimental facility", Rev.
Sci. Instrum. 57, 2101-2106 (1986).
22. R.E.Turner, Kent Estabrook, R.P.Drake, E.A.Williams, H.N.Kornblum, W.L.Kruer,
E.M.Campbell, "Observation of forward Raman scattering in laser-produced plasmas", Phys. Rev.
Lett. 57, 1725-1728 (1986).
23. R.P.Drake, "Laser-plasma-interaction experiments using multikilojoule lasers", Laser and
Particle Beams 6, 235-244 (1988).
24. R.P.Drake, P.E.Young, E.A.Williams, Kent Estabrook, W.L.Kruer, B.F.Lasinski, C.B.Darrow,
H.A.Baldis, T.W.Johnston, "Laser-intensity-scaling experiments in long-scale-length, laser-
produced plasmas", Phys. Fluids. 31, 1795-1802 (1988).
25. R.P.Drake, E.A.Williams, P.E.Young, Kent Estabrook, W.L.Kruer, H.A.Baldis, T.W.Johnston,
"Evidence that stimulated Raman scattering in laser-produced plasmas is an absolute instability",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1018-1021 (1988).
26. R.P.Drake, R.E.Turner, B.F.Lasinski, E.A.Williams, D.W.Phillion, K.G.Estabrook,
W.
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