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Prof. Beg elected APS Fellow
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Prof. Beg elected Senior Member of IEEE
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Prof. Beg elected Chair of High Energy Density Science Association
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HEDP Group actively involved with Fast Ignition research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Fast Ignition Fusion experiments carried out in collaboration US/UK/Japan partners at RAL reported on the BBC website
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Professor Farhat Beg


      

Farhat Beg is a Professor of Engineering Science at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, conducting research in the field of high intensity short pulse laser matter interactions, wire array z-pinches and x-pinches. He is also a visiting Professor at Imperial College, London.

In 1991, Prof. Beg won the prestigious Commonwealth Universities Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at Imperial College London, which he completed in 1995. He worked as a Research Associate and then as a Research Fellow at Imperial College, before joining the faculty at UC San Diego in 2003. More details about his current research and teaching interests can by found through the menu.

Professor Beg is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).


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CONTACT DETAILS:
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0411
La Jolla CA 92038-0411

Email : fbeg@ucsd.edu
Phone : 858 822 1266