Education

B.A. (Physics), Cambridge University (1972)
Ph.D. (Engineering Physics), Australian National University (1976)

Research Interests

Controlled fusion and plasma physics.  Tokamak experiments, especially plasma momentum transport, MHD instability suppression and measurement, real-time plasma control, plasma radiation, interactions of flowing plasmas with solid objects, and tokamak boundary phenomena.   Computational plasma physics.

Teaching

Introduction to Plasma Physics (22.611J )
Fusion Energy (22.62)
Principles of Plasma Diagnostics (22.67)
Electronics, Signals and Measurement (22.071J)

Honors and Activities

• Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
• Advisory Board Chairman, MST research facility, 2003.
• APS Fellowship selection committee, 2002.
• Advisor to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario on ITER, 2003.
• Editor in chief of the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2000-2004).
• National Research Council: member Plasma Science Committee, 2004-2007.
• Fusion Power Associates: board member, 2004, 2007.
• Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion International Advisory Board, 2005-2007.
• EPSRC Review Board for UK Fusion Programme, 2005, 2006.
• Vice Chairman, American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, 2006.
• Chairman of Program Committee, Annual Meeting of APS DPP, 2007.
• Chairman of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society (2008).
• Department Head, Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT, 2003-2009.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Hutchinson, I.H., Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, second edition, Cambridge University Press (2002).
2. Ferra, M., Hutchinson, I.H., Wolfe, S.M., “Plasma inductance and stability metrics on Alcator C-Mod,” Nucl. Fusion 48 065002 (2008).
3. Reinke, M.L., Whyte, D.G., Granetz, R., Hutchinson, I.H., “Toroidally resolved radiation dynamics during a gas jet mitigated disruption on Alcator C-Mod,”  Nuclear Fusion 48 No 12 125004 (7 pp) (2008).
4. Patacchini, L., Hutchinson, I.H., “On negative ion-drag force for dust in collisional plasmas,” AIP Conference Proceedings 1041  297-8 (2008)
5. Hutchinson, I.H., “Ion Collection by Oblique Surfaces of an Object in a Transversely Flowing Strongly Magnetized Plasma,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 035004 (2008).
6. Patacchini, L., Hutchinson, I.H., “Fully Self-Consistent Ion-Drag-Force Calculations for Dust in Collisional  Plasmas with an External Electric Field,”  Phys. Rev. Lett.  101  025001 (2008).
7. McDermott, R.M., Lipschultz, B., Hughes, J.W., …, Hutchinson, et al., Edge radial electric field structure and its connections to H-mode confinement in Alcator C-Mod plasmas,”  Physics of Plasmas 16 No. 5 056103 (12 pp) (2009)
8. Patacchini, L., Hutchinson, I.H., “Explicit time-reversible orbit integration in particle in cell codes with static homogeneous magnetic field,” Journal Computational Physics 228 No. 7 2604-15 (2009).
9. Sips, A.C.C., Casper, T.A., Doyle, E.J., …, Hutchinson, I., et al.,  “Experimental studies of ITER demonstration discharges,” Nuclear Fusion 49 No. 8 085015 (11 pp) (2009).
10. Hawryluk, R.J., Campbell, D.J., Janeschitz, G., …, Hutchinson, I.H., et al., Principal physics developments evaluated in the ITER design review,” Nuclear Fusion 49 No. 6 065012 (15 pp) (2009).
11. Patacchini, L., Hutchinson, I.H., “Fully self-consistent 3D modeling of spherical Mach-probes in ExB fields,” 2009 IEEE 36th International Conf. on Plasma Science (ICOPS), (2009).
12. Hutchinson, I.H., “Oblique ion collection in the drift approximation: How magnetized Mach probes really work,” Phys Plasma 15 123503 (2008).
13. Marmar, E., Bader, A., Bakhtiari, …, Hutchinson, et al., “Overview of the Alcator C-Mod research program,” Nuclear Fusion 49 No. 10 104014 (10 pp) (2009).
14. Ince-Cushman, A., Rice, J.E., Reinke, M., …, Hutchinson, I.H., et al., “Observation of self-generated flows in tokamak plasmas with lower-hybrid-driven current,” Physical Review Letters 102 No. 3 035002 (4 pp) (2009).
15. Patacchini, L., Hutchinson, I.H., “Continuum-plasma solution surrounding nonemitting spherical bodies,” Physics of Plasmas 16 No. 6 062101 (16 pp) (2009).