Gene Tracy
Founding Director, Center for the Liberal Arts; Physics
Office:
Small Hall 223B
Email:
[[ertrac]]
Office Phone:
757-221-3527
Webpage:
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Research Interests
Plasma theory and non-linear dynamics
Background
BS Johns Hopkins University 1980; PhD University of Maryland 1984
Book
- Ray tracing and beyond: phase space methods in plasma wave theory, with A. N. Kaufman, A. J. Brizard and A. S. Richardson, Cambridge University Press, appeared in March 2014. (520 pages. Approximately 60-70 pages of the material in the book is previously unpublished. The book was a recommended text for the graduate course AST 553 Plasma waves and instabilities at Princeton in Fall 2014.)