Science
General info
Current research at VLF Group
Postdoc (#2) at the University of Hawaii
In 2002-2004, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the
Physics
and Astronomy Department of the
University of Hawaii
at Manoa.
Postdoc (#1) at Stanford HEP group
In 2000-2001, I was a postdoctoral student at the
Neutrino Physics Group
at the
Physics Department of
Stanford University.
Ph. D. research at VLF group
Until March 2000 I was a graduate student at the
Physics Department of
Stanford University. I worked in the
VLF Group at the
Electrical Engineering
Department, where I studied energetic electrodynamic phenomena associated with thunderstorms.
My advisor was
Umran S. Inan,
the director of
STAR Laboratory of the
Electrical Engineering Department.
Here are
LaTeX sources of some of them.
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Maximum entropy method. Slides of a
talk that I gave for an Astrophysics Seminar class.
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Introduction to molecular
spectra. Tutorial talk at VLF group colloquium.
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Conversion between systems of units
- a self-cooked reference.
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Plasma kinetics tutorial. This is a
set of two lectures given by me for Prof. Umran S. Inan's Plasma
Physics course, containing Fokker-Planck equation and spherical
expansion of kinetic equation.
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Full-wave method of calculation of e/m field in stratified media. A lecture on the algorithm and applications of the Stanford Full-Wave Method (SFWM) code, given by me for Computational Electromagnetics and Plasma Physics courses.
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Magnetohydrodynamics - a short
summary.
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Error and other related functions - useful in
plasma science.
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Fourier transform
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Fluctuation-dissipation theorem
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Bessel functions Jn(x) of integer order
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Inheritance pattern in C (with example C code). I am not a computer science specialist so this is a bit outside my comfort zone. However, I have written some code in C for computational scientific models. I found that some object-oriented programming paradigm (OOPP) concepts do not need complicated languages like C++, but may be implemented in a simpler language like C, with the code still remaining to be readable and extensible.
- plotcma.m - MATLAB function to plot a CMA diagram for cold 2-component plasma, with E field polarization.
- More programs and utilities in MATLAB for general use.
- My GitLab repository
- FIDELIOR (FInite-Difference-Equation LInear OperatoR package) -- a Python3 package which helps in setup and solution of partial differential equations (PDE).
Various Physics Links
Physics of upper atmosphere
Astrophysics links
Atomic physics links
Physics is Fun
- W. Siegel - theoretical physics
parodies as well as serious useful stuff.