Publications and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS (1997-present):

• "A note on dust wave excitation in a plasma with warm dusty: comparison with experiment", Marlene Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Jr., and Robert Merlino, Phys. Plasmas, 15, 073701 (2008).
  
  
• "Observations of vertically propagating dust acoustic waves: Finite temperature effects", Jeremiah Williams, Edward Thomas, Jr. and Lydia Marcus, Phys. Plasmas, 15, 043704 (2008).
  
  
• "Observations of dust acoustic waves driven at high frequencies: Finite dust temperature effects and wave interference", Edward Thomas, Jr., Ross Fisher, and Robert L. Merlino, Phys. Plasmas, 14, 123701 (2007).
  
  
• "Measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly coupled dusty plasma", Jeremiah Williams and Edward Thomas, Jr., Phys. Plasmas, 14, 063702 (2007).
  
  
• "Observation of one-dimensional flows in a DC glow discharge dusty plasma", Zachary Aldewereld and Edward Thomas, Jr., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 35, 309 (2007).
  
  
• "Measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly coupled dusty plasma", Jeremiah Williams and Edward Thomas, Jr., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 35, 303 (2007).
  
  
• "Measurements of a spatially growing dust acoustic wave in a dc glow discharge plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr., Phys. Plasmas, 13, 042105 (2006).
  
  
• "Applications of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry: dust acoustic waves and velocity space distribution functions", E. Thomas, Jr. and J. Williams, Phys. Plasmas, 13 055702 (2006).
  
  
• "Initial measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly-coupled dusty plasma", J. Williams and E. Thomas, Jr., Phys. Plasmas. 13, 063509 (2006).
  
  
• "Experimental measurements of velocity dissipation and neutral drag effects during the formation of a dusty plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Jeremiah Williams, Phys. Rev. Letters, 95, 055001 (2005)
  
  
• "Suppression of low frequency plasma instabilities in a magnetized plasma column", Edward Thomas, Jr., Ashley Eadon, and Edwynn A. Wallace, Phys. Plasmas, 12, 042109 (2005)
  
  
• "Design and initial operation of ALEXIS: a new plasma experiment for studying shear driven flows", Edwynn Wallace, Edward Thomas, Jr., Ashley Eadon, and Jon David Jackson, Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 5160 (2004).
  
  
• "Application of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry to studies of transport in a dusty (complex) plasmas", E. Thomas, Jr., J. Williams, J. Silver, Phys. Plasmas, 11, L37 (2004).
  
  
• "Probe induced voids in a dusty plasma", E. Thomas, Jr., K. Avinash, R. L. Merlino, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 1770 (2004).
  
  
• "Controlled interactions of two micropaticle clouds in a dc glow discharge dusty (complex) plasma", E. Thomas, Jr., New Journal of Physics, 5, 45.1-13, (2003).
  
  
• "Observations of low frequency oscillations due to transverse sheard flows", Edward Thomas, Jr., Jon David Jackson, Edwynn Wallace, and Gurudas Ganguli, Phys. Plasmas, 10, 1191 (2003).
  
  
• "Periodic long-range transport in a large volume dc glow discharge dusty plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr., William E. Amatucci, Christopher Compton, Brian Christy, and Jon David Jackson, Phys. Plasmas, 10, 1159 (2003).
  
  
• "Measurements of forces acting on suspended microparticles in the void region of a complex plasma ", E. Thomas, Jr., B. M. Annaratone, G. E. Morfill, and H. Rothermel, Phys. Rev. E., 66 016405 (2002)
  
  
• "Observations of structured and long-range transport in a large volume dusty (complex) plasma experiment", Edward Thomas, Jr., William E. Amatucci, Christopher Compton, and Brian Christy, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 3154 (2002).
  
  
• "Visualization of Dust Particle Transport in DC Glow Discharge Plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 30, 88 (2002).
  
  
• "Dynamic and Optical Characterization of Dusty Plasmas for Use as Solar Sails", Robert Sheldon, Edward Thomas, Jr., Mian Abbas, Dennis Gallagher, Mark Adrian, and Paul Craven, in Space Technology and Applications International Forum - STAIF 2002 , ed. M. S. El-Genk, p. 425, AIP Conference Proceedings 608, (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY), 2002.
  
  
• "Potential profiles obtained from applied dust cloud perturbations", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physics of Plasmas, 9, 17 (2002).
  
  
• "Dust particle motion in the vicinity of dust acoustic waves", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Robert L. Merlino, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 29, 152 (2001).
  
  
• "Observations of high speed particle streams in dc glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physics of Plasmas, 8, 329 (2001).
  
  
• "Direct measurements of particle transport in dc glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physica Scripta, T89, 20 (2001).
  
  
• "Omegatron ion mass spectrometer for the Alcator C-mod tokamak", R. Nachtrieb, B. LaBombard, E. Thomas, Jr., Rev. Sci. Instrum., 71, 4107 (2000).
  
  
• "Charging of silica particles in an argon dusty plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Michael Watson, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 3194 (2000).
  
  
• "First experiments in the Dusty Plasma Experiment (DPX) device", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Michael Watson, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 4111 (1999).
  
  
• "Direct measurements of two-dimensional velocity profiles in direct current glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physics of Plasmas, 6, 2672 (1999).
  
  
• "The vertical confinement of a dusty plasma in the Fisk Plasma Source", E. Thomas, Jr. and M. Watson, in Physics of Dusty Plasmas, 7th Workshop, eds. M. Morayni, S. Robertson, and B. Walch, p. 60, AIP Conference Proceedings 446, (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY), 1998.
  
  
• "Driven plasma rotation in the Compact Auburn Torsatron", E. Thomas, Jr., S. Knowlton, R. Gandy, J. Cooney, and T. Pruitt, Physics of Plasmas, 5, 3991 (1998).
  
  
• "A new technique for calculating toroidal harmonic coefficients for curl-free magnetic fields in helical toroidal devices", E. Thomas, Jr., G. E. Sasser, S. F. Knowlton, J. D. Hanson, R. F. Gandy, Computer Physics Communications, 100, No. 1-2, 31 (1997).
  
  
• "Effects of applied rotating magnetic perturbations on ion drift orbits in the Compact Auburn Torsatron", D. C. Pritchard, R. F. Gandy, J. D. Hanson, S. F. Knowlton, H. Lin, G. E. Sasser, E. Thomas, Jr., and J. Cooney, Physics of Plasmas, 4, 162 (1997).

INVITED TALKS:

• Jan. 21, 1999 - Naval Research Laboratory
• Jan. 28, 1999 - Auburn University
• Feb. 3, 1999 - University of the Virgin Islands
• Apr. 28, 1999 - Univerity of Maryland - College Park
• Jun. 11, 1999 - NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center - Space Science Laboratory
• Nov. 18, 1999 - APS-Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting - Dusty Plasma Miniconference
• July 2, 2000 - Int'l Topical Conference on Plasma Physics, Trieste, Italy
• July 6, 2001 - Center of Interdisciplinary Plasma Sciences (CIPS) - Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
• July 9, 2001 - Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
• January 10, 2002 - URSI (Int'l Union of Radio Science) - US Assembly, Boulder, CO
• June 12, 2002 - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
• August 22, 2002 - URSI - General Assembly, Maastricht, Netherlands
• September 18, 2002 - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
• November 13, 2002 - Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
• March 26, 2003 - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
• April 30, 2004 - University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
• June 6, 2004 - "...Life is but a dream", Commencement Speaker, Charlotte Amalie High School, St. Thomas, VI*
• October 7, 2005 - "World Year of Physics: Plasmas", University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
• October 24, 2005 - APS-Div. of Plasma Physics, Basic Plasma Science Invited Talk, Denver, CO
• September 25, 2006 - Plasma Seminar, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• October 9, 2006 - Department Colloquium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• November 30, 2006 - University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
• September 20, 2007 - Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
• November 9, 2007 - Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
• December 6, 2007 - Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
• December 10, 2007 - FOM-Institute for Plasmaphysics 'Rijnhuizen', Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Last Update: February 23, 2009