MIKLOS PORKOLAB, Professor
of Physics; Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Interests
Controlled fusion research, radio frequency
heating of plasma, experimental studies of plasma turbulence, and
basic plasma physics, including magnetic reconnection.
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Biographical Sketch
Professor Miklos Porkolab received his Ph.D.
at Stanford University in 1967, and thereafter joined the Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory where he rose to the position of Senior
Research Physicist and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the
Astrophysical Sciences Department in 1975. While at Princeton University,
Professor Porkolab carried out pioneering experimental research
in the area of nonlinear wave-wave and wave-particle interactions,
parametric instabilities and high power wave plasma interactions
in high temperature plasmas.
Professor Porkolab spent 1976 at the Max
Planck Institute in Garching, Germany, under the auspices of the
Humboldt Foundation as a winner of the "US Senior Scientist
Award." In 1977, he joined MIT as a professor in the Physics
Department and since then he has led several pioneering experiments
in radio frequency heating and noninductive current drive on the
Versator II, and the Alcator C and C-Mod tokamaks. For this work,
Professor Porkolab shared the 1984 American Physical Society Excellence
in Plasma Research Award.
From 1991–2001 he served as Editor of
Physics Letters A, Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics subsection.
He also represented the U. S. Plasma Physics community for six years
on the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission–16
(Plasma Physics) (1991-1997). From 1992–95, he served as a
member of the National Research Council Subpanel on Plasma Science.
Professor Porkolab is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, has served on various DOE committees, and has
been past chairman of the Gordon Research Conferences (1978) and
the RF Power in Plasmas Conference in Boston (1993). In 1999, he
served as Chair, Plasma Physics Division, American Physical Society.
Since 1995 he has been the Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion
Center at MIT.
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Selected Publications
"Plasma Instabilities Due to Ion Temperature
Gradients", Miklos Porkolab, Nucl. Fusion 8, 29-36 (1968).
"Instabilities and Induced Scattering
due to Nonlinear Landau Damping of Longitudinal Plasma Waves in
a Magnetic Field'', M. Porkolab and R.P.H. Chang, Phys. Fluids
15, 283-296 (1972).
"Nonlinear Wave Effects in Laboratory
Plasmas: A Comparison Between Theory and Experiment", M. Porkolab
and R.P.H. Chang, Reviews of Modern Phys. 50, 745 (1978).
"Observations of Lower-Hybrid Current
Drive at High Densities in the Alcator C Tokamak", M. Porkolab,
J.J. Schuss, B. Lloyd et al., Physical Review Letters 53,
450 (1984).
"Ion Bernstein Wave Heating and Improved
Confinement on the Alcator-C Tokamak,'' J.D. Moody, M. Porkolab,
C.L. Fiore, F.S. McDermott, Y. Takase, J. Terry and S.M. Wolfe,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 298 (1988).
"Signature of Turbulent Zonal Flows
Observed in the DIII D Tokamak," S. Coda, M. Porkolab, K.H.
Burrell, Physical Review Letters 86, 4835 (2001).
"Edge Ion Heating and Parametric Decay
during Injection of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency Power on the
Alcator C-Mod Tokamak," J.C. Rost, M. Porkolab, R.L. Boivin,
Phys. of Plasmas 9, 1262 (2002).
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