Jack D. Scudder
Professor
Education:
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1975
Office:
506 VAN
Office Phone:
(319) 335-0804
Lab:
507 VAN
Lab Phone:
(319) 335-2641
Research Interests:
Space plasma physics.
Research:
- Signatures of Heat conduction in semi-collisional Astrophysicsal Plasmas
- Developing Transport Theory in the presence of Kurtotic Suprathermal Tails in Finite Knudsen number plasmas
- Kurtosis Formation in semi-collisional Astrophysical Plasmas
- New Models of Solar Corona and Stellar Wind Expansions
- Diagnostics of Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasmas
- Students develop skills in: writing codes in C, Fortran and IDL, and numberical methods
- Employment opportunities are postdoc positions at universities and national labs