2002-Present	Associate Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
1996-2002	Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
1995-1996	Post Doctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1992-1995	Post Doctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Invited Talk, 2003 EUV Source Modeling Workshop

Oscar Buneman Award for Best Still Image, 2003, 18th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasma, with V.I. Sotnikov, J.N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, V. Fiala

Invited Talk, 2003 Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop

Mousel-Feltner Award for Outstanding Research, UNR College of Arts and Science, 1998

U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1997

DOE-DP Young Scientist and Engineer Award, 1997

LANL Distinguished Achievement Award, 1996

LANL Director's Fellowship, 1995

LLNL Physics Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievements, 1994

Invited Talk, 1994 APS-DPP conference

American Vacuum Society Award, 1985

UCLA Physics Dept. Excellence in Teaching Award, 1982-83

UCLA Graduate Student Research and Teaching Fellowship, 1982

Plasma physics and applications. Investigation of current- and laser-driven plasmas for fusion energy, radiation production, and atmospheric science research

R.E. Siemon, W.L. Atchison, T. Awe, B.S. Bauer, A.M. Buyko, V. Chernyshev, T.E. Cowan, J.H. Degnan, R.J. Faehl, S. Fuelling, S.F. Garanin, T. Goodrich, A.V. Ivanovsky, I.R. Lindemuth, V. Makhin, V.N. Mokhov, R.E. Reinovsky, D.D. Ryutov, D.W. Scudder, T. Taylor, and V.B. Yakubov, ‘Stability analysis and numerical simulation of a hard-core diffuse z pinch during compression with Atlas facility liner parameters,’ Nucl. Fusion 45, 1148-1155 (2005).

V. Makhin, R.E. Siemon, B.S. Bauer, A. Esaulov, I.R. Lindemuth, D.D. Ryutov, P.T. Sheehey, and V.I. Sotnikov, ‘Self-organization observed in numerical simulations of a hard-core diffuse z-pinch,’ Phys. Plasmas 12, 042312-1-9 (2005).

V. Makhin, B.S. Bauer, I.R. Lindemuth, and B.J. Rice, ‘Development of laser deposition package for modeling of EUV sources for microlithography,’ Emerging Lithographic Technologies IX, Proc. SPIE 5751, 840-851 (2005).

V.I. Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, J.-N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, and V. Fiala, ‘Hybrid simulations of z-pinches,’ Computer Phys. Comm. 164, 150-155 (2004).

V.B. Krasovitskii, V. G. Dorofeenko, V.I. Sotnikov, and B.S. Bauer, ‘Nonlinear processes during the interaction of a petawatt laser pulse with a plasma in the presence of an external magnetic field,’ Computer Phys. Comm. 164, 103-107 (2004).

V.V. Ivanov, P.J. Laca, B.S. Bauer, R. Presura, V.I. Sotnikov, A.L. Astanovitskiy, B. Le Galloudec, J. Glassman, and R.A. Wirtz, ‘Investigation of Plasma Evolution in a Coaxial Small-Gap Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line,’ IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 32, 1843-1848 (2004).

V.I. Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, J.-N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, and V. Fiala, ‘Development of global magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in z-pinch plasmas in the presence of nonideal effects,’ Phys. Plasmas 11, 1897-1907 (2004).

A. Esaulov, B.S. Bauer, I.R. Lindemuth, V. Makhin, R. Presura, D.D. Ryutov, P.T. Sheehey, R.E. Siemon, and V.I. Sotnikov, ‘Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the inverse pinch plasma discharge,’ Phys. Plasmas 11, 1589-1599 (2004).

L.F. Wanex, V.I. Sotnikov, B.S. Bauer, and J.N. Leboeuf, ‘Linear analysis of stabilizing mechanisms for the kink instability,’ Phys. Plasmas 11, 1372-1378 (2004).

V.B. Krasovitskii, V.G. Dorofeenko, V.I. Sotnikov, and B.S. Bauer, ‘Interaction of powerful laser pulse with magnetized plasma,’ Phys. Plasmas, 11, 724-742 (2004). Also selected by the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science (http://www.vjultrafast.org) for the February 2004 issue.

B.S. Bauer, R.C. Mancini, V. Makhin, I. Paraschiv, A. Esaulov, R. Presura, I.R. Lindemuth, P.T. Sheehey, and B.J. Rice, ‘Development of magnetohydrodynamic computer modeling of gas-discharge EUV sources for microlithography,’ Emerging Lithographic Technologies VIII, Proc. SPIE 5374, 394-404 (2004).

D.D. Ryutov, D.C. Barnes, B.S. Bauer, J.H. Hammer, C.W. Hartman, R.C. Kirkpatrick, I.R. Lindemuth, V. Makhin, P.B. Parks, D.B. Reisman, P.T. Sheehey, and R.E. Siemon, ‘Particle and heat transport in a dense wall-confined MTF plasma (theory and simulations),’ Nucl. Fusion 43, 955-960 (2003).

A.C. Erlandson, A. Astanovitskiy, S. Batie, B.S. Bauer, A. Bayramian, J.A. Caird, T.E. Cowan, C. Ebbers, J. Fuchs, H. Faretto, J. Glassman, V. lvanov, B. LeGalloudec, N. LeGalloudec, S. Letzring, S. Payne, and B. Stuart, ‘Design of a 50 TW / 20 J chirped-pulse amplification laser for high-energy-density plasma physics experiments at the Nevada Terawatt Facility of the University of Nevada,’ Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, Monterey, California, September 7-12, 2003, LLNL Report UCRL-JC-155356. Available from the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Citations Database, at http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=15005146.

R. Presura, B.S. Bauer, A. Esaulov, S. Fuelling, V. Ivanov, N. Le Galloudec, V. Makhin, R.E. Siemon, V.I. Sotnikov, R. Wirtz, A. Astanovitskiy, S. Batie, H. Faretto, B. Le Galloudec, A. Oxner, M.A. Angelova, P. Laca, S. Guzzetta, S. Keely, S. Rogowski, B.V. Oliver, and K.W. Struve, ‘Operation regimes of Magnetically Insulated Transmission lines,’ Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 15-18, 2003, IEEE 03CH37472, Vol. II, 859-862 (2003).

V.I. Sotnikov, I. Paraschiv, V. Makhin, B.S. Bauer, J.N. Leboeuf, and J.M. Dawson, ‘Linear analysis of sheared flow stabilization of global magnetohydrodynamic instabilities based on the Hall fluid model,’ Phys. Plasmas 9, 913-922 (2002).


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