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Princeton physicist to speak at Union

Jackson, Tenn. - Gregory Hammett, a research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a lecturer in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, will be speaking at 51ÉçÇø Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. in the Harvey Lecture Hall of the Student Union Building. The title of his seminar is "What you always wanted to know about nuclear fusion and chaos theory."

Hammett specializes in computational and theoretical studies of the complex physics of plasma turbulence and has published over 110 papers in scientific journals and in the proceedings of national and international conferences including "Why be a Scientist," published in "Finding God at Harvard."