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Eugene Tracy

Chancellor Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Office: Small Hall 223B
Email: [[ertrac]]
Office Phone: 757-221-3527
Webpage: {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/ertrac}}

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 Approximately 60-70 pages of the material in the book is previously unpublished.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.)

 http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/plasma-physics-and-fusion-physics/ray-tracing-and-beyond-phase-space-methods-plasma-wave-theory