poligies for my sluggish response, first week of classes here,
grading the PhD qual exam, etc. 
I would be happy to stay in the loop re your thoughts on sharing courses
with our respective institutions. I don't forsee a joint degree program
at this point, but i can certainly see the potentioal benefit of sending
a student off to BU for a term to interact with Slava Merkin for example
on the code he's developing from LFM for heliospheric application,
or sending a student this way for a term to work with Hans Mueller
who uses a modified Zeus code. And providing our students with the
opportunity to take a course or two at our respective institutions not
offered at our home insitutions. Here's a list of the courses we currently
offer in space/plasma physics, basicly five. I was surprised when
Chia-Lin Huang was here (also apparent when I served on her
thesis committee) that there was a an absence of upper level plasma
physics courses like our P111 and P115 (kinetic theory and MHD)
that I teach and Bill and Barrett alternate. And certainly
no computational plasma course like P118 taught by Richard
Denton, these are alt year courses. My impression is that
your department has the Chen level plasma physics (P68)
and Intro Space Physics (P74) covered, for which I've been
using Kievelson and Russell, but will look at the new LWS TR&T
textbooks that Beorge Siscoe has been involved with putting together.

Please let me know if I can provide additional info. I don't think I'll
be able to make an Oct meeting (already going down to NASA next week
for the HPS), but remain interested. We have a bumper crop of first
year grad students this year, 16 from some very good school.

Best regards,
Mary

p.s. We offer P68 every fall, P74 and P111 this year, P115 and P118 next year
is our usual sequence, so every year our students can take a full suite of
courses in space plasma physics. Each is a 10 week course since we're
on quarters. In that sense it's rather ideal for a visiting student, not as big
a time commitment as a semester.

68. Introductory Plasma Physics 

The physics of ionized gases with emphasis on the theory of waves and instabilities. Includes introduction to magnetohydrodynamics and kinetic theory of plasmas. 

74. Space Plasma Physics 
Offered in alternate years 

Plasma processes in the solar system. The solar cycle, solar flares, solar wind outflow and interaction with distinct types of planetary magnetospheres. Plasma waves, particle acceleration and generation of escaping electromagnetic radiation. Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and ionospheric interaction with the neutral atmosphere. 

111. Plasma Kinetic Theory 
Offered in alternate years

Statistical mechanics and kinetic theory of plasmas. Transport and thermal relaxation phenomena. Microscopic foundations of a fluid description. Waves and instabilities, linear and nonlinear. Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation. 

115. Magnetohydrodynamics (Identical to Engineering Sciences 152)
Offered in alternate years 

The fluid description of plasmas and electrically conducting fluids including magnetohydrodynamics and two-fluid fluid theory. Applications to laboratory and space plasmas including magnetostatics, stationary flows, waves, instabilities, and shocks.

118. Computational Plasma Dynamics (Identical to Engineering Sciences 153)
Offered in alternate years

Theory and computational techniques used in contemporary plasma physics, especially nonlinear plasma dynamics, including fluid, particle and hybrid simulation approaches, also linear dispersion codes and data analysis. This is a "hands-on" numerical course; students will run plasma simulation codes and do a significant amount of new programming (using Matlab).