Jack Scudder, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Biography
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 numerical methods
- Employment opportunities are postdoc positions at universities and national labs
Research areas
- Plasma physics
- Space physics
