Abhay Ram

	Email: abhay@psfc.mit.edu Phone: (617) 253-8501 Address: Room NW16-260 Related links: Physics Research, Fusion Theory & Computation

Research Interests

Magnetic Fusion:

Heating, current drive, and transport, in toroidal devices, induced by radio frequency waves (ion cyclotron, lower hybrid, and electron cyclotron).

Parametric wave processes in the plasma edge.

Inertial Confinement Fusion:

Laser-plasma interactions, nonlinear evolution of plasma waves, wave-particle interactions.

Space Plasmas:

Nonlinear acceleration of ionospheric ions by waves, propagation of waves in density cavities, conversion of wave modes at resonances.

Nonlinear Plasma Physics:

Coherent and chaotic dynamics of charged particles induced by electromagnetic waves, characterization of particle diffusion and the evolution of particle distribution function.

Education

University of Nairobi, Kenya, B.S. (Mathematics), (1971).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (Physics), (1977)

Selected Publications