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JAMES
MAGGS
 Vita
- Co-principal Investigator:
James
E. Maggs; born in Oakland, CA; November 16, 1943; US Citizen.
Education:
Bachelor
of Science - Physics , Stanford, University, Palo Alto, CA,
1965.
Master
of Science - Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK,
1967.
Doctor of Philosophy - Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
AK, 1971.
Positions
Held:
1986-
present Research Physicist, Physics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA.
1989-95
Assistant Director for Policy and Personnel, Institute of Plasma
and Fusion Research, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1987-89
Acting Assistant Director, Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1978-86
Associate Research Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1973-78
Assistant Research Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1971-73
NAS/NRC Postdoctoral Resident Research Associate, Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
1967-71
Senior Research Assistant, Geophysical Institute, University
of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.
1965-66
Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, AK.
1966-67
Research Assistant, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, AK.
Areas of Specialization:
Space
plasma physics, auroral beam, wave generation and propagation
in nonuniform plasmas, ionospheric heating, analytic and numerical
solutions of differential equations, experimental investigation
of basic plasma processes with emphasis on those relevant to
space plasmas.
Professional
Societies:
American
Physical Society
Publications:
(i)
Five most closely related to project:
1).
A.T. Burke, J. E. Maggs, and G.J. Morales, "Experimental Study
of Classical Heat Transport in a Magnetized Plasma", Phys. Plasmas,
7, 544 (2000).
2).
A. T. Burke, J. E. Maggs, and G. J. Morales, "Experimental Study
of Fluctuations Excited by a Narrow Temperature Filament in
a Magnetized Plasma", Phys. Plasmas,7, 1397 (2000).
3).
J. R. Penano, G. J. Morales, and J. E. Maggs, "Drift-Alfven
Fluctuations Associated with Narrow Pressure Striations", Phys.
Plasmas, 7, 144 (2000).
4).
Maggs, J. E. and G.J. Morales, "Fluctuations Associated with
a Filamentary Density Depletion", Phys. Plasmas, 4, 290 (1997).
5).
Maggs, J. E. and G. J. Morales, "Magnetic Fluctuations Associated
with Field-Aligned Striations", Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, 633-636,
1996.
(ii)
Five other significant publications:
1).
Gekelman, W., D. Leneman, J. E. Maggs and S. Vincena, "Experimental
Observations of Alfven Wave Cones", Physics of Plasmas 1, 3775-3783,
1994.
2).
Bamber, J. F., J. E. Maggs and W. Gekelman, "Whistler Wave Interaction
with a Density Striation: A Laboratory Investigation of an Auroral
Process", J. Geophys. Res. 100, 23,795-23,810, 1995.
3).
Maggs, J. E. and G. J. Morales, "Nonlinear Dynamics of Electrons
Accelerated by Resonant Fields in Nonuniform Plasmas", Phy.
of Fluids B 2, 3134-3149,1990.
4).
Maggs, J. E., "Nonlinear Evolution of the Auroral Electron Beam",
J. Geophys. Res. 94, 3631-3652,1989.
5).
Maggs, J. E., A. Banos Jr. and G. J. Morales, "Solutions of
a Fourth-Order Differential Equation Describing Mode Conversion
in a Magnetized Plasma", J. Math. Phys. 25, 1605-1619, 1984.
Collaborators:
G.
J. Morales, Physics Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095. W.
N. Gekelman, Physics Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095. A.
T. Burke, Physics Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095. J. R.
Penano, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.,20375.
Associated
graduate students and postdoctoral scholars (past 5 years):
J.
F. Bamber, J. R. Penano, A. T. Burke, S. Vincena, D. Leneman
Graduate thesis and postdoctoral advisors:
Graduate
thesis: D. W. Swift, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical
Institute, Fairbanks Alaska.
Postdoctoral:
T. Birmingham, Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD.
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