Anthony Arthur Chan

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Anthony Chan is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Please feel free to visit my department web page for a description of my research interests and recent research activities, among other things.


Selected Publications and Presentations

Click here for a (PDF) CV that contains a publication list. Some online papers are linked below.

A. J. Brizard and A. A. Chan. Relativistic quasilinear diffusion in axisymmetric magnetic geometry for arbitrary-frequency electromagnetic fluctuations. Physics of Plasmas 11, 4220, 2004.   PDF

S. R. Elkington, M. K. Hudson and A. A. Chan. Resonant acceleration and diffusion of outer zone electrons in an asymmetric geomagnetic field. Journal of Geophysical Research 108, 1116, doi:10.1029/2001JA009202, 2003.   PDF

A. A. Chan and A. J. Brizard. Radiation Belt Transport Theory Using Phase-Space Lagrangian Methods. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 11-15, 2002.   PDF

A. J. Brizard and A. A. Chan. Relativistic Bounce-Averaged Quasilinear Diffusion Equation for Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fluctuations. Physics of Plasmas, 8, 4762, 2001.   PDF   Postscript

A. A. Chan and A. J. Brizard. Radiation Belt Transport Theory Using Phase-Space Lagrangian Methods. Overheads from a presentation at the ISEC 2001 meeting.   PDF   Postscript

H. J. Kim, A. A. Chan, R. A. Wolf and J. Birn. Can Substorms Produce Relativistic Outer-Belt Electrons? J. Geophys. Res., 105, 7721, 2000.   PDF   Postscript

A. J. Brizard and A. A. Chan. Nonlinear Relativistic Gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell Equations. Physics of Plasmas, 6, 4548, 1999.   PDF

S. R. Elkington, M. K. Hudson and A. A. Chan. Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons via Drift-Resonant Interaction with Toroidal-Mode Pc5 ULF Oscillations. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 3273, 1999.   PDF   Postscript

A. A. Chan. Noncanonical Hamiltonian Methods for Particle Motion in Magnetospheric Hydromagnetic Waves. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 20,501, 1998.   PDF   Postscript

H. J. Kim and A. A. Chan. Fully Adiabatic Changes in Stormtime Relativistic Electron Fluxes. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 22,107, 1997.   PDF   Postscript

A. A. Chan, M. Xia and L. Chen. Anisotropic Alfven-Ballooning Modes in Earth's Magnetosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 17,351, 1994.   PDF   Postscript

A. A. Chan. Interaction of Energetic Ring Current Protons with Magnetospheric Hydromagnetic Waves. Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 1991. (Believe it or not, several people have asked for this!)   PDF   Postscript


Selected Course Web Pages

PHYS 532: Classical Electrodynamics

PHYS 480: Introduction to Plasma Physics

PHYS 302: Intermediate Electrodynamics

PHYS 519: Plasma Kinetic Theory

PHYS 516: Mathematical Methods

ASTR 202: Exploration of the Solar System


The International Space Environment Conference 2001

The International Space Environment Conference 2001: Radiation Belt Science and Technology (also known as ISEC 2001) was held in Queenstown, New Zealand, July 23-27, 2001. Further information is available from the ISEC 2001 website, and here are some photographs from the meeting. Also, check this out.


Contact Information

Address:
Anthony Chan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, MS 108
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
USA

Street Address (for express mail deliveries):
Anthony Chan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, MS 108
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005-1892
USA

Phone: 713-348-2531
Fax: 713-348-5143 (Rice Space Institute Office)
Alternate Fax: 713-348-5758 (A. J. Dessler Reading Room / After Hours)
Office: Herman Brown Hall 364
Email: aac@rice.edu
WWW: http://landau.rice.edu/~aac (this page)

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