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Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics 2.5 Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP Tel. +44 (0)7766 138 996 mobile Tel. +44 (0)1865 273 980 office Tel. +44 (0)1865 273 995 group administrator (Miss Margaret Barnes) Fax +44 (0)1865 273 947 E-mail a.schekochihin1at physics.ox.ac.uk College office: OWL-3 Merton College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD I am also an "Honorary Lecturer" in Plasma Physics, Imperial College London and an academic visitor at AFD Group, DAMTP, Cambridge and at the Culham Laboratory (CCFE)

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PUBLICATIONS OXFORD PLASMA THEORY GROUP PLASMA SEMINARS LEVERHULME NETWORK THE OCKHAM LECTURE (the Merton College Physics Lecture) TEACHING MERTON COLLEGE CLASSES AND TUTORIALS: current term HT-10 Plasma Physics, PG lectures, Imperial College 2006-10: notes on linear kinetics (pdf, 649 kb) Advanced Plasma Theory, PG course, Imperial College, Spring 2008 3 Lectures on Dynamos, Les Houches, 21-23.08.07: webpage, notes (pdf, 728 kb) 5 Lectures on Turbulence, 2nd International Conference (School) on Advanced Computing and Simulation, Cambridge, 25-29.06.07: webpage, notes CMPD/CMSO Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA, January 2005, 2006 (notes, pdf, 2 Mb), 2007, 2008 (notes, pdf, 3.8 Mb), 2009 (notes, pdf, 728 kb), 2010 (coming soon) MHD and Turbulence, Maths Part III, Cambridge, 2005L, 2005M, 2006M

Here are five review-style papers that reflect some of my interests: MHD turbulence and dynamo in astrophysics (pdf, 1.6 Mb) Gyrokinetic turbulence in space and astrophysical plasmas (pdf, 2.5 Mb) Kinetic plasma turbulence in phase space (pdf, 196 kb) Galaxy clusters (pdf, 202 kb) Fluctuation dynamo at low Pm (pdf, 709 kb)

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• Minicourse "Turbulence: Concepts and Methods," 8-10 Oct 2007
• Workshop "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Weak vs. Strong," 10-12 Oct 2007
• Workshop/minicourse "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Mean Fields vs. Fluctuations," 11-15 Feb 2008
• Workshop/minicourse "Kinetic Equations, Numerical Approaches and Fluid Models for Plasma Turbulence," 15-19 Sept 2008
• Working group meeting "Kinetic Instabilities, Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection," 16-20 Feb 2009
• Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER," 15-26 March 2010
• Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER-2," 2011 (TBA)
  

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• Large-Scale Magnetic Fields in the Universe, ISSI, Bern, 1-5 March 2010
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, Imperial College London, 9 March 2010
  
• Workshop "Gyrokinetics for ITER", WPI, Vienna, 15-26 March 2010
• Workshop "Self-Organization in Turbulent Plasmas and Fluids", Dresden, 10-14 May 2010
  
• Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 19 July - 13 Aug 2010
• Convection, Magnetoconvection and Dynamo Theory, Cargese, 20-25 Sept 2010

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• Oxford Physics Seminars
• Imperial College Seminars: Plasma, Maths, Astro, Space Physics, Turbulence
• DAMTP and Other Cambridge Seminars
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• SOHO: The Sun Today
• Map of the Universe
  
• Workshop/School Sites: Newton Institute, WPI, KITP, IPAM, ICTP, Les Houches, Aspen
  
• Electronic Journals/Archives: ADS, Phys. Rev., AIP, arXiv, JSTOR, JFM, UFN, Phys. Reps., Nauka, AGU
• Supercomputers: UKAFF, NCSA, TACC, Top 500 Supercomputers 
• Numerical Recipes in C 
• NRL Plasma Formulary
• The Poetry of James Clerk Maxwell
• The Poetry of D.H.Rumsfeld 
• The Prose of G.W.Bush (this is more interactive)
• More poetry: Grantchester, ah Grantchester! (here is the complete version)
  
• World/UK/US News: BBC, Guardian, CNN, New York Times, The Onion 
  
• Paul Krugman on inequality
  
• Russian News: polit.ru, BBC, Vladimir Vladimirovich
• A very strange course of Russian language
• Письмо российской научной диаспоры царю
• Zakharov's excellent article about science and reasons/principles of its support by society
  

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