Alain Brizard, PhD

Alain Brizard, professor of physics, had two papers accepted for publication this summer: “Action-angle coordinates for the pendulum,” to be published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, and comment on ``Geometric phase of the gyromotion for charged particles in a time-dependent magnetic field'' (with Loic de Guillebon), to be published in Physics of Plasmas. Alain also presented the seminar “Beyond linear polarization in gyrokinetic theory” at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Princeton University) on July 31, 2012, and the Center for Theoretical Physics Luminy (Marseille, France) on July 18, 2012. Lastly, he submitted the following manuscripts for publication in Physics of Plasmas: “Gyrokinetic momentum conservation in truncated gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell theory” (with Natalia Tronko, CFSA, Warwick University, UK), “Equivalent representations of higher-order Hamiltonian guiding-center theory” (with Natalia Tronko, CFSA, Warwick University, UK), and “Hamiltonian formulation of reduced Vlasov-Maxwell equations” (with Cristel Chandre and Emanuele Tassi, CPT Luminy, France).