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October 2024. Prof. Hara is invited to give a talk at APS Division of Plasma Physics. Andrew Denig received the APS DPP student travel grant.
September 2024. Adnan Mansour is selected as one of the 5 finalists for the GEC Student Award of Excellence. Prof. Hara is organizing a workshop "Fundamentals of Gas Breakdown" at APS Gaseous Electronics Conference. Vedanth Sharma received the APS GEC student travel grant.
August 2024. Dr. Luca Vialetto is invited to give a talk at the 2nd Workshop of Swarm Physics and Gaseous Dielectric (SPGD).
June 2024. Dr. Luca Vialetto was invited to give a talk at the 26th Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG 2024).
June 2024. Prof. Hara was awarded the IEPC 2022 Best Paper Award for Paper IEPC-2022-127 "Coexistence of small-scale instabilities in Hall thrusters and hollow cathodes" together with Prof. Sedina Tsikata and Dr. Thibault Dubois.
May 2024. Vedanth Sharma received the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
April 2024. Prof. Hara was invited to give a seminar at Samsung Electronics.
March 2024. Prof. Hara was invited to give a departmental seminar in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.
March 2024. Prof. Hara was invited to give a talk at Physics Informed Artificial Intelligence in Plasma Science Seminar Series.
March 2024. Vedanth Sharma received a student travel grant to present his work at the 11th International Workshop on the Mechanisms of Vacuum Arcs (MeVArc 2024).
February 2024. Prof. Hara was invited to give a talk at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST).
December 2023. Prof. Hara was invited to give a talk for Seminars on MAterials Research & Technology Lecture Series at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.
November 2023. Prof. Hara was invited to give a talk for the Aerospace Engineering departmental seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology.
November 2023. Prof. Hara was invited to give a talk for Interfaces and Mixing in Fluids, Plasmas, and Materials at UC Santa Barbara.
October 2023. Andy Castillo received the APS DPP student travel grant.
October 2023. Adnan Mansour received the APS GES student travel grant.
September 2023. Prof. Hara is elected as an AIAA Associate Fellow.
August 2023. Prof. Hara is invited to give a talk in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics seminar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
July 2023. Adnan Mansour received the Visiting Student Researcher Fellowship from the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
June 2023. Prof. Hara gave a lecture at the 2nd US Low Temperature Plasma Summer School.
April 2023. Dr. Luca Vialetto is awarded the Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is joining PDML in September 2023.
April 2023. Prof. Hara is awarded the Early Achievement Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS).
April 2023. Andy Castillo is awarded the DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (LGRF).
April 2023. Prof. Hara gave a talk (remote) in the Plasma Science Seminar at the University of Washington.
February 2023. Prof. Hara was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Hershkowitz Early Career Award from Plasma Sources Science and Technology.
February 2023. Prof. Hara joined the Editorial Board of Plasma Sources Science and Technology.
February 2023. Prof. Hara gave a departmental seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota.
November 2022. Dr. Yusuke Yamashita is awarded the Overseas Research Fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
November 2022. Prof. Hara gave a Fluid Mechanics Seminar in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas Austin.
October 2022. A video featuring Prof. Hara's research is available in the Michigan Institute of Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) website.
October 2022. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk at the Gaseous Electronics Conference. Derek Kuldinow was awarded a student travel award.
September 2022. Vedanth Sharma was awarded the Nar Bahadur Bhandari Fellowship.
July 2022. Prof. Hara will gave a talk at a workshop in the XXV Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases.
July 2022. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk at the 32nd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics. Derek Kuldinow was awarded a student travel award.
June 2022. Dr. Yusuke Yamashita was the recipient of the 2nd Place Award of the 2021 ERPS/IEPC Summer Student Research Presentation Competition.
May 2022. Prof. Hara gave a talk at a Minicourse on Plasmas for Space Propulsion at the 49th ICOPS.
April 2022. Christine Greve successfully defended her PhD defense from Texas A&M University. Christine was awarded the NRC Research Associateship Program.
March 2022. Derek Kuldinow was awarded the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship.
March 2022. The balsawood aircraft project in AA100 Introduction to Aeronautics and Astronautics was featured in Stanford News and School of Engineering.
January 2022. A NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 2 project (PI: Dr. Sergey Gimelshein) is selected.
December 2021. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk at the Michigan Institute of Plasma Science and Engineering
May 2021. A NASA center Joint Advanced Propulsion Institute (JANUS) (PI: Prof. Mitchell Walker) is awarded.
May 2021. Prof. Hara was selected as a recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
April 2021. Andrew Denig, Derek Kuldinow, and Daniel Troyetsky are awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellowship.
March 2021. Shige Suzuki is awarded a Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Fellowship.
January 2021. The project submitted to Princeton Collaborative Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility (PCRF) is selected
October 2020. Annika Thomas's SURF experience is highlighted by School of Engineering at Stanford University
August 2020. A NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 project (PI: Dr. Sergey Gimelshein) is selected.
August 2020. PDML presented at the AIAA Propulsion and Energy Conference (virtual).
March 2020. Ian DesJardin, who participated in PDML as a REU student, was awarded the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
February 2020. Prof. Hara gave a talk in ET Guest Lecture Series at Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA.
January 2020. A Spotlight article was published in the School of Engineering website.
December 2019. Postdoc position is available (flyer)
November 2019. PDML presented at the Gaseous Electronics Conference at College Station, TX
October 2019. Christine Greve and Adnan Mansour defended their Master of Science thesis.
September 2019. Prof. Hara was awarded the Kuriki Award for Young Professionals by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society.
September 2019. PDML presented at the International Electric Propulsion Conference at Vienna, Austria.
September 2019. PDML moved to Stanford University.
July 2019. A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant (PI: Prof. Hara, Co-PI Prof. Gerakis) was awarded from the Division of Plasma Physics.
May 2019. Cameron Treece defended his Master of Science thesis.
April 2019. Christine Greve was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
April 2019. A NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) project (PI: Prof. Limbach, Co-PI: Prof. Hara, Prof. Gerakis) was selected for Phase II.
February 2019. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19).
November 2018. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk and Cameron Treece will give a poster presentation (student travel award) at the 71st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference.
August 2018. Prof. Hara gave an invited talk at iPlasmaNano-IX.
June 2018. Prof. Hara was selected as a recipient of the 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award.
May 2018. Cameron Treece received his Master of Engineering degree.
March 2018. Prof. Hara was invited to LAPLACE in Universite of Toulouse, Paul Sabatier.
January 2018. Christine Greve received the 20 Twenties Award. She was honored during Aviation Week's 61st Annual Laureates Award banquet in May 2018.
October 2017. Prof. Hara was selected as a recipient of the 2018 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award.
May 2017. Prof. Hara was selected as Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Summer Faculty Research Fellow.
September 2016. PDML was founded.