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A focus of my research group is to extend plasma kinetic theories to treat conditions of strong Coulomb coupling, strong magnetization, or both. The work is largely motivated by topics in dense plasmas, like inertial confinement fusion or dense astrophysical objects like white dwarfs or stellar interiors. However, conditions of strong coupling and\/or strong magnetization can also be created using table-top scale experiments developed in the AMO field. These have the advantage of a controlled and well-diagnosed platform to test the models. In this talk I will describe two categories of experiments (conducted by others) that we have used to validate our theories. The first is ultracold neutral plasmas. These are plasmas created in cold-atom traps (MOTs), where a plasma is produced by laser ionization and diagnosed using laser-induced fluorescence. These experiments produce strongly coupled plasmas in a charge-neutral state. The second is non-neutral plasmas confined in Penning traps. 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