Nicholas Murphy
Graduate Student in Astronomy
6511 Sterling Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am a sixth year graduate student in
Astronomy at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison under
the supervision
of
Carl
Sovinec (
Engineering Physics)
and
Ellen Zweibel
(
Astronomy) and supported by
the
Center for Magnetic
Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas. My
thesis research involves simulating
astrophysically relevant laboratory plasmas (e.g., the
Magnetic Reconnection Experiment)
using the
NIMROD extended MHD
code to gauge the impact of global effects
on the process of magnetic reconnection.
My
general research interests include astrophysical
plasmas, magnetic reconnection, numerical methods, and bridging the
divide between laboratory and astrophysical plasma physics.
Nicholas Murphy
murphy@astro.wisc.edu