Satoshi Hinata - Faculty - Physics - Departments - Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics

Satoshi Hinata
Professor
Astrophysics

Office: Allison Labs # 208-A

Address:
206 Allison Laboratory
Auburn, AL 36849-5319

Phone: (334) 844-2990
Email: hinata@physics.auburn.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana	1973
M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana	1969
B.E., University of Tokyo	1967

Professional Employment
Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University	1988- present
Visiting Scientist, Energy Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi-shi, Japan	June-Sep. 1994
Visiting Professor, Japanese National Astronomical Observatory	March-Sep. 1994
Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab	Summer, 1985
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University	1980-1988
Staff Scientist, Solar National Observatory, Sacramento Peak, New Mexico	1978-1980
J.W. Gibbs Instructor, Yale University	1976-1977
Center for Astrophysics Fellow, Yale University	1976-1978
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana	1973-1974
Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana	1969-1973
Research Assistant, Nuclear Engineering, University of Chicago, Urbana	1967-1969

Honors and Awards
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Fellow Gibbs Instructor, Yale University	1976

Professional Activities

American Astronomical Society

Referee:

National Science Foundation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Astrophysical Journal

Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Solar Physics

Consulting:

Solar National Observatory

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Japanese Technical Information Service

SCAN C2C

American Metals Association

Cambridge Research and Instrument, Inc.

Energy Research Lab, Hitachi, Ltd.

Selected Publications

P. Fonkal and S. Hinata, "Electric Field on the Solar Atmosphere: A Review", Solar Phys., 132, 307, 1991.
S. Hinata, "Dynamics of Eelctron Accelerate by Strong Uniform or Weakly Inhomogeneous Electric Field in the Presence of Phonons," J. Appl. Phys. 68, 5205 (1990).
S. Hinata and H. Kishi, "Collisional Relaxation of Relativistic and Degenerate Electrons", J. Plasma Phys. 43, 311 (1990).
S. Hinata, "An Approximate Analytical Solution of a Set of Nonlinear Model-dynamo Equations for Marginally Unstable System," Astrophysics and Space Science, 153, 1 (1989).
S. Hinata, "Microscopic Filamentation Due to Electrothermal Instability and Plasma Heating In Time-Dependent Solar Transition Layer," Solar Physics, 116, 239 (1988).

Last updated: 05/07/2015