William Dorland
Associate Professor of Physics
Mailing Address:
Institute for Research in
Electronics and Applied Physics
A.V. Williams Bldg., Rm. 3325
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
20742-3511Phone: (301) 405-1608
Email: bdorland at umd.edu
FAX: (301) 405-1678
William Dorland received his B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1988, a Master's of Public Affairs from Princeton in 1993, and a Ph.D. in astyrophysical sciences from Princeton in 1993. After working at the Institute for Fusion Studies in Austin for four years, he moved to Maryland in 1998. Dr. Dorland's research is generally in the area of turbulence in magnetized plasmas, with a recent emphasis on developing and understanding realistic nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic plasma turbulence.
Dr. Dorland was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005.
Related websites:
Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling
Computational Physics
Plasma Theory Group
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