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Professional and Personal Interests
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Dr. Craig is an experimental plasma physicist. Dr. Craig is married and has two children. He enjoys playing drums, working on home improvement projects, and fishing when he gets the chance.
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- PHYS 231 - Introductory Physics I
- PHYS 342 - Electromagnetic Theory
- PHYS 343 - Experimental Physics
- PHYS 344 - Quantum Mechanics
- PHYS 353 - Introductory Optics
- PHYS 354 - Advanced Optics
- PHYS 495 - Problems in Physics
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- American Physical Society
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- American Scientific Affiliation
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Dr. Craig is an experimental plasma physicist. His research is on problems important for the confinement of hot plasmas for magnetic fusion energy and related problems in naturally occuring plasmas in space and astrophysics.
More information on Dr. Craig's research
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- S.H.
Choi, D. Craig, F. Ebrahimi, and S.C. Prager, "Cause of Sudden Magnetic Reconnection
in a Laboratory Plasma," Physical
Review Letters, 96, 145004 (2006).
- P.
Piovesan, D. Craig, L. Marrelli, S. Cappello, and P. Martin, "Measurements of the MHD Dynamo in the Quasi-Single Helicity
Reversed-Field Pinch," Physical
Review Letters, 93, 235001 (2004).
- W.X.
Ding, D.L. Brower, B.H. Deng, D. Craig, S.C. Prager, and V. Svidzinski, "Laser
Faraday Rotation Measurement of Current Density Fluctuations and Electromagnetic
Torque," Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 3387 (2004).
- J.S. Sarff, J.K. Anderson, T.M. Biewer, D.L. Brower,
B.E. Chapman, P.K. Chattopadhyay, D. Craig, B. Deng, W.X. Ding,
G. Fiksel, C.B. Forest, J.A. Goetz, R. O'Connell, S.C. Prager,
and M.A. Thomas, "Tokamak-like confinement at a high beta and low
field in the reversed field pinch," Plasma Physics and Contolled
Fusion, 45, A457 (2003).
- D. Craig, G. Fiksel, S.C. Prager, J.S. Sarff, "Control of Magnetic
Fluctuations in the Reversed Field Pinch with Edge Current Drive," Physics
of Plasmas, 8, 1463 (2001).
- D. Craig, D.J. Den Hartog, G. Fiksel, V.I. Davydenko,
A.A. Ivanov, "First
Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy and Motional Stark Effect Results
from the Madison Symmetric Torus Reversed Field Pinch," Review
of Scientific Instruments, 72, 1008 (2001).
- D.J. Den Hartog, and D. Craig, "Isotropy of Ion Heating During a
Sawtooth Crash in a Reversed Field Pinch," Plasma Physics
and Controlled Fusion, 42, L47 (2000).
- A.K. Hansen, A.F. Almagri, D. Craig, D.J. Den Hartog,
C. Hegna, S.C. Prager, J.S. Sarff, "Momentum Transport from Nonlinear Mode Coupling
of Magnetic Fluctuations," Physical Review Letters, 85, 3408
(2000).
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