Hello! I am Calvin K. Lau

My name is Calvin K Lau, and I am a computational plasma physicist.

I did my PhD at UCI with the plasma theory/computation group led by Dr. Zhihong Lin where I studied turbulence and transport in field-reversed configuration plasmas and was funded via the Norman Rostoker Fellowship. I also worked on projects on ponderomotive acceleration and betatron radiation in astrophysical plasmas with Dr. Toshiki Tajima during that time. I have since finished my PhD and am now working for TAE Technologies (formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy).

For the main number-crunching portions of my work, I developed in Fortran. However, I have a fondness for Jupyter and, especially, its notebook interface for the data analysis. You'll find scripts for analysis of GTC simulation data, of the plasma-wakefield-1D data, and of the nonlinear 3d gyro-kinetic slab geometry code data. Some of my scripts can also be found on the BitBucket server which contains the repositories of our code.