Ben Brown
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow
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Office: 6295 Chamberlin Hall
Research Interests:
I am interested in dynamical processes occurring in stellar interiors and in how stars generate large-scale magnetic fields in their convection zones.
Biography:
I recieved my B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA in 2003. Following this, I completed my PhD on "Convection and Dynamo Action in Rapidly Rotating Suns" in 2009 at University of Colorado in Boulder with Juri Toomre. Since October 2009 I have been an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astronomy at University of Wisconsin in Madison. Here I am also supported by the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas.
My Publications
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Convective Babcock-Leighton Dynamo Models
Miesch, M., Brown, B., 2012
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 746, Pages L26
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Weber, M., Brown, B., Fan, Y., 2012
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #220, #201.09" Pages
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Brown, B., Vasil, G., Lecoanet, D., Zweibel, E., 2012
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #220, #328.02" Pages
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Role of large-scale velocity fluctuations in a two-vortex kinematic dynamo
Kaplan, E., Brown, B., Rahbarnia, K., Forest, C., 2012
Physical Review E, Vol. 85, Pages 66315
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The Madison Plasma Dynamo Experiment: a Laboratory for Astrophysics
Brown, B., Nornberg, M., Forest, C., Zweibel, E., Wallace, J., et al., 2012
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #220, #211.02" Pages
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