Date: 7/7/94
From: psubrama@mason1.gmu.edu (Prasad Subramanian)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Plasma/Accretion Astrophysics

Hello, everyone
I am delighted to see the formation of this newsgroup.
I am a graduate student of Computational Sciences at George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA. I am interested, among other things, in plasma
processes in accretion flows around compact objects like AGN/black
holes. I am specifically interested in applying the theory of nonlinear
Alfven vortices in turbulent plasma towards proposing a new mechanism
for angular momentum transport in accretion flows.
I am by no means an expert in Plasma Phys., although I have a
healthy interest in it. My mentors are interested in this, but are not
Plasma Physicists themselves..they are more of the traditional
Theoretical Astrophysics kind. I wonder if there is someone out there I
could talk to about nonlinear Alfven vortices and the like, with the
possibility of a collaboration. I have done a fair amount of literature
survey and am tolerably conversant with the topic. Looking forward to
receiving some replies,
Thank you.
(psubrama@gmu.edu) Prasad Subramanian.