Warren Bicknell Mori (born August 8, 1959) is an American computational plasma physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He was awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics[2] for his contributions to the theory and computer simulations of non-linear processes in plasma-based acceleration using kinetic theory,[3][4] as well as for his research in relativistically intense lasers and beam-plasma interactions.[5][6]
Warren B. Mori | |
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| Born | Warren Bicknell Mori August 8, 1959 |
| Education | UC Berkeley (B.S.), UCLA (M.S., Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Thesis | Theory and Simulations on Beat Wave Excitation of Relativisitic Plasma Waves (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis F. Chen, John M. Dawson, Chandrashekhar J. Joshi |
Early life and career
editMori received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and obtained a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1984 and 1987 respectively.[1][2] For his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Mori was supervised by plasma physicists Francis F. Chen, John M. Dawson and Chandrashekhar J. Joshi,[7] all of whom were noted for winning the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics. Mori then remained at UCLA, and has been there ever since.
Mori was a director of UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education.[8] He is currently a director of UCLA's Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center[9] and Plasma Simulation Group.[10]
Honors and awards
editMori is a fellow of the American Physical Society[11] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]
In 1995, Mori received the International Center for Theoretical Physics Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher. He also won the 2016 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for "his leadership and pioneering contributions in theory and particle-in-cell code simulations of plasma based particle acceleration".[12][2]
Mori was awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "leadership in and pioneering contributions to the theory and kinetic simulations of nonlinear processes in plasma-based acceleration, and relativistically intense laser and beam plasma interactions".[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Warren Mori". www.pa.ucla.edu. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ Fonseca, R. A.; Silva, L. O.; Tsung, F. S.; Decyk, V. K.; Lu, W.; Ren, C.; Mori, W. B.; Deng, S.; Lee, S.; Katsouleas, T.; Adam, J. C. (2002). "OSIRIS: A Three-Dimensional, Fully Relativistic Particle in Cell Code for Modeling Plasma Based Accelerators". In Sloot, Peter M. A.; Hoekstra, Alfons G.; Tan, C. J. Kenneth; Dongarra, Jack J. (eds.). Computational Science — ICCS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2331. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 342–351. doi:10.1007/3-540-47789-6_36. ISBN 978-3-540-47789-1.
- ^ Huang, C.; Decyk, V. K.; Ren, C.; Zhou, M.; Lu, W.; Mori, W. B.; Cooley, J. H.; Antonsen, T. M.; Katsouleas, T. (2006). "QUICKPIC: A highly efficient particle-in-cell code for modeling wakefield acceleration in plasmas". Journal of Computational Physics. 217 (2): 658–679. Bibcode:2006JCoPh.217..658H. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.039. ISSN 0021-9991.
- ^ Mangles, S. P. D.; Murphy, C. D.; Najmudin, Z.; Thomas, A. G. R.; Collier, J. L.; Dangor, A. E.; Divall, E. J.; Foster, P. S.; Gallacher, J. G.; Hooker, C. J.; Jaroszynski, D. A. (2004). "Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions". Nature. 431 (7008): 535–538. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..535M. doi:10.1038/nature02939. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 15457251. S2CID 4352422.
- ^ Blumenfeld, Ian; Clayton, Christopher E.; Decker, Franz-Josef; Hogan, Mark J.; Huang, Chengkun; Ischebeck, Rasmus; Iverson, Richard; Joshi, Chandrashekhar; Katsouleas, Thomas; Kirby, Neil; Lu, Wei (2007). "Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator". Nature. 445 (7129): 741–744. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..741B. doi:10.1038/nature05538. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 17301787. S2CID 4334568.
- ^ Mori, W. B. (1987) Theory and Simulations on Beat Wave Excitation of Relativisitic Plasma Waves, Ph.D. Thesis.
- ^ "Warren Mori – Institute for Digital Research and Education". Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ "Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center – Opportunities". PICKSC. Archived from the original on October 29, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ "UCLA Plasma Simulation". plasmasim.physics.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on April 20, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ "AAC Prize". sites.google.com. Retrieved July 24, 2020.