Hong Qin Phone: (609) 243-3310 Fax: (609) 243-2662 E-mail: HongQin@Princeton.edu Homepage: www.princeton.edu/~hongqin

Education:

• Ph.D., Astrophysical Science, 1998, Princeton University
• M.S., Astrophysical Science, 1997, Princeton University
• M.S., Space Physics, 1993, Peking University
• B.S., Space Physics, 1990, Peking University

Research Interests:

• High intensity beam physics, heavy ion fusion, and accelerator physics
• Gyrokinetic theory for magnetized fusion plasmas
• Large scale parallel particle simulation
• Geometric dynamics and geometric algorithm

Selected recent publications:

• An exact magnetic moment invariant of charged particle gyromotion, H. Qin and R. C. Davidson, Physical Review Letters, in press (2005).
• A short introduction to general gyrokinetic theory, H. Qin,  in Fields Institute Communications 46, Topics in Kinetic Theory, Editor D. Levermore, T. Passot, C. Sulem and P.L. Sulem, American Mathematical Society, 171 (2005).
• Symmetries and Invariants of the Time-Dependent Oscillator Equation and the Envelope Equation, H. Qin, R. C. Davidson, E. Startsev, Proceedings of the 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference, in press (2005).
• Drift compression and final focus of intense heavy ion beams with nonperiodic, time-dependent lattice, H. Qin, R. C. Davidson, J. J. Barnard and E. P. Lee, Physical Review Special Topics on Accelerators and Beams 7, 104201 (2004).
• Pull-back transformation in gyrokinetic theory, H. Qin and W. M. Tang, Physics of Plasmas 11, 1052 (2004).
• Nonlinear delta-f Simulations of collective effects in intense charged particle beams, H. Qin, Physics of Plasmas 10, 2078 (2003).
• Nonlinear perturbative particle simulation studies of the electron-proton two-stream instability in high intensity proton beams, H. Qin, E. A. Startsev, and R. C. Davidson, Physical Review Special Topics on Accelerators and Beams 6, 014401 (2003).
• Gyro-center gauge kinetic theory, H. Qin, W. M. Tang, and W. W. Lee, Physics of Plasmas 7, 4333 (2000)
• An introduction to the physics of intense charged particle beams in high energy accelerators, R. C. Davidson and H. Qin, 583 pp., World Scientific (2001).