| 2026
                          DPhil projects in plasma physics and
                          astrophysics (including "laboratory
                          astrophysics" a.k.a. laser plasmas)Oxford Plasma Theory
                      Seminars MT-2025
 PUBLICATIONS (see also Google
                      Scholar, NASA
                      ADS)
 
 JOURNAL OF PLASMA
                          PHYSICS
 
 The
                          Occam Lecture @Merton
 
 TEACHING/LECTURE
                          NOTES
 
 
                  My classes and
                              tutes @Merton MT-2025
Ordinary
                          Differential Equations, 1st year (Paper CP3),
                          2018-22The Oxford MMathPhys
                          course:Oxford
                        Plasma Physics Study Group (en lieu of PG
                        course) 2012-13 Statistical
                            Physics, 2nd year (Paper A1), Oxford
                            2011-18, 22-presentDimensional
                      Analysis, UNIQ
                      Summer School, Oxford, 2011-present: webpage,
                      notes (pdf,
                        480 kb; R.
                        Fern's typed version)Advanced Plasma
                        Theory, PG course, Imperial College, Spring 2008Plasma
                      Physics,
                      PG lectures, Imperial College 2006-11: improved
                        version of the original notes (see sec 3)3 Lectures
                      on KMHD and Pressure-Anisotropy-Driven
                      Instabilities, SWIFF
                      School, Abbazia di Spineto, 6-7.06.12: notesLes Houches
                      Schools on Plasma (Astro)Physics:5 Lectures
                      on Turbulence, 2nd
                      International Conference (School) on Advanced
                      Computing and Simulation, Cambridge,
                      25-29.06.07: notesCMPD/CMSO
                      Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA: 
                    2005
                        (Alfven-wave turbulence: see this
                          paper, pdf, 1.6 Mb),2006
                        (magnetic stochasticity: notes, pdf, 2
                          Mb),2007
                        (GK turbulence: see this
                          paper),2008
                        (firehose and mirror instabilities: see these notes or these
                          notes for a much improved version of the
                        2008 lecture),2009
                        (dynamo: notes, pdf, 728 kb) MHD and Turbulence, Maths Part III, Cambridge,
                        2005L, 2005M, 2006M; the lecture notes are here;
                      improved version of the original MHD lectures is hereSome classic but
                        hard to get plasma papersNRL Plasma Formulary   "ANY
                      PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY"   | RESEARCH
                      GROUP & COLLABORATORS: 
                  DPhil
                        students:
                    Aikya Banerjee
                        (starting in 2025, Merton; co-supervisor Dr
                        Archie Bott) 
Will
                        Clarke (Univ; co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes
                        & Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)Riju Dutta
                        (Worcester; co-supervisor Dr Daniel Kennedy, UKAEA)
James
                        Edmiston (Magdalen; co-supervisors Prof Dmitri
                        Uzdensky & Dr Michael Fitzgerald, UKAEA)
Michael
                        Nastac (St John's; co-supervisor Prof Michael
                        Barnes)Leonard-Petru
                        Turica (Univ; co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, UKAEA)Agi Wierzchucka (Merton;
                          co-supervisor Prof Dmitri Uzdensky)Yujia
                          Zhang (St Edmund's Hall; co-supervisor Prof
                          Michael Barnes) Master-level,
                        MMathPhys and undergraduate students:
                    Daniele Fedeli
                        (starting in 2025; SNS, Pisa; co-supervisor Dr
                        Plamen Ivanov)
Surui Li
                        (Cambridge NatSci; co-supervisor Dr Archie Bott)
Shuzhe Ren (St
                        Edmund Hall; co-supervisor Dr Patrick
                        Reichherzer) 
 Postdocs:Other
                        Oxford collaborators:Current/recent
                        external collaborators: | 
            
              | SEMINARS
                      & CONFERENCES
 Recent (past year)
 
                  Joint
                                              Varenna-Lausanne
                                              International Workshop on
                                              Theory of Fusion Plasmas,
                                              Villa Monastero, Varenna,
                                              2-6 Sept 202466th
                                  Annual APS DPP Meeting, Atlanta, 7-11
                                  Oct 2024PPPL
                                Theory seminar, 15 Oct 20242024
                                  MPS Annual Meeting, Simons Foundation,
                                  New York, 17-18 Oct 2024SCEECS
                                            Annual Meeting, Simons
                                            Foundation, New York, 27-28
                                            Feb 2025The
                                                          2025 Sherwood
                                                          Fusion Theory
                                                          Conference,
                                                          New York, 7-9
                                                          Apr 2025JPP Board Meeting, EPFL, Lausanne,
                      3-4 May 20252nd
                                    Simons Symposium on Multi-Scale
                                    Physics, Schloss Elmau, Kruen,
                                    Germany, 9-15 June 202516th
                                                          Plasma
                                                          Kinetics
                                                          Working Group
                                                          Meeting, WPI,
                                                          Vienna, 21
                                                          July-1 Aug
                                                          2025Center for Space Physics Seminar,
                      Boston University, 4 Sept 2025PSFC
                        Seminar, MIT, 5 Sept 2025Magnetic
                                              Fields and Cosmic Rays
                                              across Diverse Scales:
                                              What's Next? CfA, Harvard
                                              & Smithsonian,
                                              Camridge, MA 8-12 Sept
                                              2025 
 Upcoming | Some
                      memorable workshops at Wolfgang Pauli
                        Institute in Vienna and other places (including downloads of
                    talks): 
                  Minicourse
                        "Turbulence: Concepts and Methods," WPI, Vienna,
                        8-10 Oct 2007 and Workshop "Conceptual
                        Aspects of Turbulence: Weak vs. Strong," WPI,
                        Vienna, 10-12 Oct 2007Workshop/minicourse
                        "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Mean Fields
                        vs. Fluctuations," WPI, Vienna, 11-15 Feb 2008(1st)
                          Workshop/minicourse "Kinetic Equations,
                          Numerical Approaches and Fluid Models for
                          Plasma Turbulence," WPI, Vienna, 15-19 Sept
                          2008(2nd) Working group
                          meeting "Kinetic Instabilities, Plasma
                          Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection," WPI,
                          Vienna, 16-20 Feb 2009(3rd)
                          Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER,"
                          WPI, Vienna, 15-26 March 2010Programme
                        on Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical
                        Plasmas, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 19
                        July - 13 Aug 20104th
                          Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 3-17 April 20115th
                          Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 19-31 March 20126th
                          Gyrokinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 18-29 March 20137th
                          (Astro)Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
                          WPI, Vienna, 24 March - 6 April 20148th
                          Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 20 July-2 Aug 20159th
                          Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 24 July-5 Aug 20161st
                        JPP Frontiers in Plasma Physics Conference,
                        Spineto, Tuscany, 24-26 May 201710th
                          Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 17-28 July 201711th
                          Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                          Vienna, 23 July-3 Aug 2018Simons
                        Program on Plasma Physics and Astrophysics,
                        NBIA, Copenhagen, 20 Aug-15 Sept 201812th Plasma Kinetics
                          Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, 29 July-9
                          Aug 201913th
                            Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                            Vienna, 25 July-5 Aug 202214th
                            Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
                            Vienna, 24 July-4 Aug 20231st
                          Simons Symposium on Multi-Scale Physics,
                          Schloss Elmau, 27 Aug-1 Sept 2023
15th
                                  Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
                                  WPI, Vienna, 5-9 Aug 20242nd
                              Simons Symposium on Multi-Scale Physics,
                              Schloss Elmau, 9-15 June 2025
16th
                                  Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
                                  WPI, Vienna, 21 July-1 Aug 202517th
                                              Plasma Kinetics Working
                                              Group Meeting, WPI,
                                              Vienna, 27 July-7 Aug 2026 |