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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 273 996 subdept administrator (Ms Michelle Bosher) Fax +44 (0)1865 273 947 E-mail a.schekochihin1at physics.ox.ac.uk College office: St Albans 4.2b, Merton College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD I am also an "Honorary Lecturer" in Plasma Physics, Imperial College London and an academic visitor at the Culham Laboratory (CCFE)

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PUBLICATIONS (see also Google Scholar, ADS Labs, straight NASA ADS) PLASMA PHYSICS @ OXFORD Plasma Seminars Plasma Theory Group Leverhulme Network for Magnetised Plasma Turbulence MERTON PHYSICS The Occam Lecture My classes and tutes for the current term (TT-12) UNIQ Physics Summer School TEACHING Designs for the new MMathPhys course (all preliminary!) Statistical Physics, 2nd year Physics, Oxford, starting 2011-12 (with Andrew Boothroyd) Dimensional Analysis, UNIQ Summer School, Oxford, starting 2011: webpage Plasma Physics, PG lectures, Imperial College 2006-present: 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) MHD and Turbulence, Maths Part III, Cambridge, 2005L, 2005M, 2006M; the notes are here

These selected papers reflect my current interests: (complete list) ITG turbulence, sheared turbulence, rotation, and transport in tokamaks MHD turbulence in the solar wind and in a numerical box (weak or strong/critically balanced) Magnetic reconnection and plasmoid turbulence (also in the kinetic regime) Plasma microinstabilities (old and new) in dilute astrophysical plasmas; their nonlinear evolution Galaxy clusters: global (thermo)dynamics, magnetogenesis, heat conduction, fluctuation measurements Astrophysical gyrokinetics: analytical, numerical Kinetic plasma turbulence in phase space Dynamo theory: high Pm, low Pm, shear dynamo Review (2005) of MHD turbulence and dynamo in astrophysics (pdf, 1.6 Mb) RESEARCH GROUP: JRFs: Ian Abel (Merton) Edmund Highcock (Magdalen) DPhil students: Greg Colyer (also at CCFE) Young-chul Ghim (co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, CCFE) Alfred Mallet Joseph Parker (co-supervisor with Dr Paul Dellar, Math. Institute) Michael Fox (to start Oct 2012; co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, CCFE) We are also privileged to offer an Oxford home to several distinguished visitors: Prof Bill Dorland (Maryland), Visiting Professor Prof Jack Connor FRS, Prof Steve Cowley, Dr Jim Hastie, Prof Bryan Taylor FRS, Dr Alessandro Zocco (CCFE) Prof Tim Horbury (Imperial) Sabbatical MT-2012 Prof Ben Chandran (UNH) Sabbatical HT-2013 Prof Greg Hammett (Princeton) Sabbatical TT-2013

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• Minicourse "Turbulence: Concepts and Methods," WPI, Vienna, 8-10 Oct 2007
• Workshop "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Weak vs. Strong," WPI, Vienna, 10-12 Oct 2007
• Workshop/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 2010
• Programme on Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 19 July - 13 Aug 2010
  
• 4th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, 3-17 April 2011
• 5th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, 19-31 March 2012
• Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid, 18-29 June 2012 (organised by F. Parra and I. Calvo)
• 6th Plasma Kinetics and Turbulence Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, Spring 2013
  

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• 6th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, 19-31 March 2012
• 34th UK Fusion Theory Seminar, CCFE, 12 April 2012
• IPP Colloquium, IPP, Greifswald, 20 April 2012
  
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, University of Glasgow, 3 May 2012
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Newcastle, 4 May 2012
  
• First European School on Fundamental Processes in Space Weather, Spineto, Tuscany, 4-9 June 2012
  
• Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid, 18-29 June 2012
• Tangled Magnetic Fields in Astro- and Plasma Physics, ICMS, Edinburgh, 15-19 October 2012
• 6th Plasma Kinetics and Turbulence Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, Spring 2013
  

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• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• SOHO: The Sun Today
• Map of the Universe
  
• Numerical Recipes in C 
• NRL Plasma Formulary
• The Poetry of J. C. Maxwell
• The Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld 
• The Prose of G. W. Bush (this is more interactive)
• ...who must have learned from the master: The Prose of Prince Philip
  
• More poetry: Grantchester, ah Grantchester! (here is the complete version)
  
• 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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