Nick Murphy's Research Presentations

My footprint on NASA ADS is available here. My ORCID unique identifier is 0000-0001-6628-8033. I post many of my presentations on Zenodo.

Selected Talks and Research Posters

"Building an open source Python software ecosystem for plasma physics," MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar, September 21, 2018

"Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas," U.S.-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Princeton, New Jersey, September 4-8, 2018

PlasmaPy: an open source Python package for plasma physics, SHINE conference, Cocoa Beach, Florida, July 30-August 3, 2018

"PlasmaPy: Beginning a Community Python Package for Plasma Physics," SciPy 2018, Austin, Texas, July 9-15, 2018

"PlasmaPy: initial development of an open source core Python package for plasma physics," 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 23-27, 2017 (poster)

"Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics," for SAO REU program in solar physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 21, 2017 (talk; given annually each summer)

"Plasma Heating During Coronal Mass Ejections," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12-16, 2016

"PlasmaPy: beginning a community developed Python package for plasma physics," 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, San Jose, California, October 31-November 4, 2016 (Zenodo link)

"Plasma heating during coronal mass ejections," SHINE conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 11-15, 2016 (poster)

"The appearance, motion, and disappearance of 3D magnetic null points," US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Napa, California, March 7-11, 2016 (talk, Zenodo link)

"The plasmoid instability and Hall effect during chromospheric magnetic reconnection," 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, Florida, January 4-8, 2016 (poster)

"Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics," for SAO REU program in solar physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 17, 2015 (talk; given most summers)

"The Emergence, Motion, and Disappearance of Magnetic Null Points," SHINE conference, Stowe, Vermont, July 6-10, 2015 (poster)

"Asymmetry and the plasmoid instability during magnetic reconnection in partially ionized chromospheric plasmas," Triennial Earth-Sun Summit, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 26-30, 2015 (poster, Zenodo link)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," Space Science Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 13, 2015 (talk)

"Magnetic Reconnection in Heliospheric, Laboratory, and Astrophysical Plasmas," ITC Lunch Talk, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 3, 2015 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2014 (talk, Zenodo link)

"Magnetic Reconnection in Heliospheric, Laboratory, and Astrophysical Plasmas," Lunch Talk, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2, 2014 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas," Living With a Star Science Meeting, Portland, Oregon, November 2-6, 2014 (talk with movies: Bz, ni, Jz)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas," 224th AAS Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2-5, 2014 (poster/talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 9-13, 2013 (Zenodo link)

"The Emergence, Motion, and Disappearance of Magnetic Null Points," 55th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, Colorado, November 11-15, 2013 (poster, Zenodo link )

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, November 1, 2013 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 23, 2013 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection and the Motion of Magnetic Null Points," 10th Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 9-13, 2013 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," Plasma Theory Seminar, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, August 29, 2013 (talk)

"The Emergence, Motion, and Disappearance of Magnetic Null Points," SPD Meeting, Bozeman, Montana, July 8-11, 2013 (poster)

"The plasmoid instability during asymmetric inflow magnetic reconnection," 54th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Providence, Rhode Island, October 29-November 2, 2012 (poster, Zenodo link)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," NIMROD Team Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, October 27, 2012 (talk)

"Plasma Heating During Coronal Mass Ejections," Hinode 6, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 14-17, 2012 (talk)

"The onset and dynamics of the plasmoid instability during asymmetric inflow reconnection," 2012 SHINE Meeting, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, June 11-15, 2012 (talk)

"Magnetic Reconnection in Solar, Space, and Laboratory Plasmas," 220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Anchorage, Alaska, June 10-14, 2012 (talk, Zenodo link).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere," 2012 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Princeton, New Jersey, May 23-25, 2012 (talk).

"Plasma Heating and Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection During Solar Eruptions," Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., April 6, 2012 (talk).

"Observational Signatures of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection During Solar Eruptions," NESSC Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 7, 2012 (talk).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Mass Ejection Current Sheets," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2011 (poster).

"Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory, Astrophysical, and Space Plasmas," Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Kunming, Yunnan, China, November 18, 2011 (talk).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Mass Ejection Current Sheets," Hinode 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 11-14, 2011 (poster).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Mass Ejection Current Sheets," 8th Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Durham, New Hampshire, August 15-19, 2011 (talk).

"Plasma Heating During a Coronal Mass Ejection Observed by SOHO," SPD Meeting, Las Cruces, New Mexico, June 12-16, 2011 (talk, Zenodo link).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection During Coronal Mass Ejections," SPD Meeting, Las Cruces, New Mexico, June 12-16, 2011 (poster).

"Candidate coronal mass ejection heating mechanisms," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12-17, 2010 (poster).

"Resistive MHD Simulations of X-Line Retreat and Competing Reconnection Sites," 52nd Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Chicago, Illinois, November 8-12, 2010 (poster, Zenodo link).

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection and Plasma Heating During Coronal Mass Ejections," SSC Seminar, University of New Hampshire, November 3, 2010 (talk).

"Plasma Heating and Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Mass Ejections," NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, September 28, 2010 (talk)

"Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Mass Ejections," Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Kunming, Yunnan, China, April 22, 2010 (talk)

"Plasma Heating Rates for a Coronal Mass Ejection on 28 June 2000," AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 14-18, 2009 (poster)

"Magnetic Reconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction," 2009 U.S.-Japan Workshop on Reconnection, Madison, Wisconsin, October 5-7, 2009 (talk)

"Simulation and Analysis of Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics Experiment," Thesis Defense, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, June 30, 2009 (talk)

"Simulation and Analysis of Magnetic Reconnection in an Experimental Geometry," Durham, New Hampshire, February 16, 2009 (talk)

"Simulation and Analysis of Magnetic Reconnection in an Experimental Geometry," 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, California, January 4-8, 2009 (talk, Zenodo link)

"Magnetic Reconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction," 50th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Dallas, Texas, November 17-21, 2008 (poster, Zenodo link)

"Global Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in an Experimental Geometry," General Meeting, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, Princeton, New Jersey, July 8-10, 2008 (talk)

"Global Two-Fluid Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection," 49th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando, Florida, November 12-16, 2007 (poster, Zenodo link)

"NIMROD Simulations of Reconnection in MRX and SSX," 48th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006 (poster)

"NIMROD Simulations of Reconnection in MRX and SSX," 47th Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, Colorado, October 24-November 28, 2005 (poster)