CMSO student wins Churchill Scholarship
Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
Lecoanet, who worked on the internal dynamics of stars at UW-Madison, says he intends to pursue theoretical physics in grad school. "In theoretical physics, you have the opportunity to understand the essence of what's going on. There is this process of distilling a lot of experimental information into one clean idea," he says.
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DYNAMICS AND TURBULENT TRANSPORT IN PLASMAS AND CONDUCTING FLUIDS
Ecole de Physique des Houches (France) February 28-March 11, 2011. Details can be found at
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nicolas.plihon/HOUCHES

IPELS 2011
July 10 evening to July 15 mid afternoon, 2011, at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Details available at http://mri.pppl.gov/IPELS2011.html