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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Plasma Physics,Theoretical Physics |
| Keywords | plasma physics, computation, fluid mechanics, Hamiltonian dynamics, mathematical physics |
| Honours and awards | 2023: John Dawson Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics, American Physical Society 2021: Holder of the Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation Professorship 2017: Fellow of the Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation Professorship 2017: Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA 2016: Carl Freidrich von Siemens/Humboldt Forschungspreis, Germany 2013: Cataldo e Angiola Gili Agostinelli Prize (math physics), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy 2013: College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award 2013: Fellow of the Elizabeth B. Gleeson Professorship in Physics 1992: Fellow of the American Physical Society 1988: Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship 1984: Max-Planck-Institut Scholarship, Garching, Germany 1982: Natural Sciences Council Teaching Excellence Award |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Austin |
| Institution | University of Texas at Austin |
| Institute | Department of Physics |
| Homepage | https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~morrison/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Eric Sonnendrücker | Numerische Methoden der Plasmaphysik, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP), Garching |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2016 |
Programme(s)
| 2015 | Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Morrison is well known internationally for his outstanding contributions towards Hamiltonian action principles in plasma physics. He has discovered non canonical Hamiltonian formulations for many fluid and kinetic models of major importance in this field. During his stay in Germany, Professor Morrison will work on a discretization of Hamiltonian models that preserves exactly some underlying structure and thus can provide much better long time simulations of plasmas. |