Science Case (from our application to the Leverhulme Trust)

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Main Participanting Groups

Partner Research Associations and Programmes

US DOE Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics
Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

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Visiting Scholars (supported fully or in part by the Network)

	Name	Home Institution(s)	Host Institution(s)	Dates of visit(s)
1	Dr Nuno Loureiro	Princeton & Maryland --> Culham (2007) --> IST, Lisbon (2009)	Imperial & Culham Imperial Cambridge Oxford & Culham	July 16-Aug 7, 2007 Aug 10-16, 2009 July 16-Aug 7, 2010 Aug 10-25, 2011 July 30-Aug 6, 2012
2	Dr Alexey Iskakov	UCLA --> Moscow, Russia (2008)	Imperial Oxford	July 16-Aug 19, 2007 Jan 9-26, 2010
3	Mr Eric Wang	UCLA --> Livermore (2008)	Imperial	July 21-Aug 14, 2007
4	Dr Gabriel Plunk	UCLA --> Maryland (2008) --> Princeton & Maryland (2010)	Imperial Oxford, Culham & Imperial Cambridge	July 24-Aug 14, 2007 Aug 1-Oct 28, 2008 July 23-Aug 22, 2009 May 14-20, 2010 July 16-Aug 7, 2010
5	Dr Michael Barnes	Maryland --> Oxford (2009) --> MIT (2011)	Imperial & Culham Oxford & Culham	July 30-Aug 3, 2007 Nov 21-Dec 13, 2007 March 21-28, 2008 Aug 10-24, 2008 July 9-24, 2012
6	Dr Pavel Popovich	UCLA	Imperial	Aug 7-18, 2007
7	Dr François Rincon	OMP, Toulouse	Imperial & Cambridge Oxford, Imperial & Cambridge Cambridge Oxford	Sept 17-29, 2007 Nov 30-Dec 10, 2007 March 3-13, 2008 May 13-21, 2008 Sept 1-12, 2008 Nov 2-14, 2008 Aug 2-23, 2009 July 25-Aug 7, 2010 April 24-30, 2011 Aug 13-26, 2012
8	Prof Dmitri Uzdensky	Princeton --> UC Boulder (2009)	Imperial, Culham & Cambridge Oxford Cambridge	Oct 15-31, 2007 Feb 20-25, 2009 July 18-Aug 7, 2010
9	Prof Norbert Mauser	WPI, Vienna	Imperial	Oct 22-23, 2007
10	Prof Steven Balbus	ENS, Paris --> Oxford (2012)	Imperial Oxford Cambridge	Oct 30-Nov 1, 2007 June 30-July 3, 2009 July 16-Aug 14, 2010
11	Mr André Waelkens	MPA, Garching --> German industry (2009)	Imperial	Nov 11-25, 2007
12	Prof Bill Dorland	Maryland	Imperial & Culham Oxford, Culham & Imperial Cambridge Oxford, Culham & Warwick	Nov 21-26, 2007 Aug 10-22, 2008 July 29-Aug 19, 2009 June 25-30, 2010 July 20-Aug 14, 2010 July 17-Aug 19, 2011 July 18-Aug 19, 2012
13	Dr Thierry Passot	OCA, Nice	Imperial & Cambridge Cambridge	Dec 3-5, 2007 July 16-23, 2010
14	Dr Ravi Samtaney	PPPL, Princeton --> KAUST (2010)	Culham & Imperial Oxford	Feb 3-10, 2008 May 11-18, 2008 July 7-9, 2011 Aug 14-18, 2011
15	Dr Greg Howes	UC Berkeley --> Iowa (2008)	Imperial Cambridge Oxford	Apr 11-15, 2008 July 25-31, 2010 Sept 20-23, 2011
16	Dr Boris Breizman	IFS, U of Texas-Austin	Culham & Imperial	June 22-July 5, 2008
17	Prof Tomo Tatsuno	Maryland --> UEC Tokyo (2011)	Imperial & Culham	July 13-Aug 23, 2008 Aug 10-21, 2009
18	Prof Troy Carter	UCLA	Imperial & Culham Oxford, Culham & York Oxford, Culham & Cambridge Oxford & Culham	July 17-23, 2008 July 23-Aug 4, 2009 June 20-July 24, 2010 May 13-20, 2012
19	Dr Ryusuke Numata	Maryland --> NIFS (2011)	Imperial & Culham Cambridge	July 28-Aug 23, 2008 Aug 10-16, 2009 July 25-Aug 7, 2010
20	Dr Tobias Heinemann	Cambridge --> IAS, Princeton (2009)	Imperial Oxford Cambridge Oxford	Aug 4-12, 2008 July 25-Aug 2, 2009 July 21-31, 2010 Aug 21-29, 2011
21	Prof Felix Parra	MIT --> Oxford (2009) --> MIT (2011)	Imperial & Culham Imperial, Culham & Oxford Oxford & Culham	Aug 10-17, 2008 Feb 21-25, 2008 July 15-27, 2012
22	Prof Greg Hammett	PPPL, Princeton	Imperial & Culham Oxford, Imperial, Culham, Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge Oxford, Culham & Warwick Oxford & Culham	Aug 11-24, 2008 Aug 11-25, 2009 July 16-27, 2010 Aug 4-15, 2010 Aug 16-31, 2011 Sept 10-13, 2012
23	Dr François Waelbroek	IFS, U of Texas-Austin	Culham & Imperial	Oct 21-25, 2008
24	Prof Luis Silva	IST, Lisbon	Imperial	Dec 3-5, 2008
25	Prof Jim McWilliams	UCLA	Cambridge & Imperial	Dec 6-11, 2008
26	Dr Olga Alexandrova	U of Cologne --> Obs. de Paris, Meudon (2009)	Imperial	Jan 12-14, 2009
27	Dr Alessandro Zocco	Politecnico di Torino --> Culham (2009)	Oxford & Culham	Jan 16-Apr 10, 2009 May 6-8, 2009 May 17-June 21, 2009
28	Dr Franco Rappazzo	JPL, Caltech	Oxford & Culham	Feb 24-Mar 6, 2009
29	Dr Matthew Kunz	U of Illinois-Urbana --> Oxford (2009) --> Princeton (2011)	Oxford & Culham Oxford	Mar 9-18, 2009 Aug 18-31, 2009 July 17-28, 2012
30	Prof Francesco Califano	U di Pisa	Oxford Cambridge Oxford	May 26-29, 2009 July 4-7, 2010 July 18-23, 2010 Aug 20-24, 2012
31	Prof Igor Rogachevskii	Ben Gurion U, Israel	Oxford	July 5-12, 2009
32	Mr Claudio Cremaschini	SISSA, Trieste	Oxford, Cambridge & Culham	July 13-Aug 7, 2009
33	Dr Peter Catto	MIT	Oxford, Culham & Imperial Cambridge Oxford	July 29-Aug 15, 2009 July 21-Aug 11, 2010 July 14-26, 2012
34	Prof Miriam Forman	Stony Brook	Imperial Imperial & Oxford	Aug 8-22, 2009 Aug 10-Sept 3, 2011
35	Prof Stuart Bale	UC Berkeley	Imperial Cambridge Imperial Oxford	Aug 9-15, 2009 July 16-23, 2010 Sept 13-15, 2010 Dec 5-7, 2010 July 6-9, 2011
36	Prof Jim Stone	Princeton	Imperial Oxford Cambridge & Oxford	Aug 14, 2009 Dec 9-11, 2009 Sept 29-Oct 4, 2010
37	Dr Tarek Yousef	Imperial --> Oxford (2009) --> Norwegian industry (2009)	Oxford	Oct 15-18, 2009
38	Dr Mark Rosin	Cambridge --> UCLA (2010)	Oxford	Dec 9-21, 2009 Feb 9-June 29, 2010 May 26, 2011
39	Dr Henrik Latter	ENS, Paris --> Cambridge (2010)	Oxford	June 2-7, 2010 Aug 8, 2011
40	Mr Paolo De Pietro	U di Pisa --> IPP, Garching (2010)	Oxford	July 4-11, 2010
41	Dr George McKee	GA & UW Madison	Oxford & Cambridge Oxford & Culham	July 11-24, 2010 July 3-9, 2011
42	Mr Anjor Kanekar	Maryland	Cambridge Oxford	July 18-Aug 13, 2010 July 24-Aug 19, 2011 July 18-Aug 19, 2012
43	Dr Alexey Mishchenko	IPP Greifswald	Cambridge Oxford & Culham	Aug 1-13, 2010 Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2011
44	Dr Chris Chen	Imperial ---> UC Berkeley (2011)	Imperial & Oxford Culham	June 24-July 10, 2011 Dec 15-Jan 2, 2011 Sept 27, 2012
45	Mr Jungpyo Lee	MIT	Oxford	18-24 July 2011
46	Dr Andrey Beresnyak	LANL	Oxford, Warwick & Imperial Cambridge & Oxford	Aug 8-13, 2011 May 6-12, 2012
47	Mr Antoine Riols-Fonclare	OMP, Toulouse	Oxford	Aug 10-25, 2011
48	Dr Jason TenBarge	Iowa	Oxford	Sept 20-23, 2011
49	Prof Russell Kulsrud	Princeton	Culham, Imperial, Oxford & Newcastle	Sept 19-24, 2011
50	Dr Emmanuel Dormy	ENS, Paris	Oxford	Nov 1-3, 2011
51	Prof Peter Davidson	Cambridge	Oxford	Dec 9, 2011
52	Prof Steve Tobias	Leeds	Oxford	Jan 17, 2011
53	Mr Sergey Komarov	MIPT, Moscow	Oxford	Jan 28-Feb 12, 2012
54	Prof Richard Kerswell	Bristol	Oxford	Feb 2, 2012
55	Prof Mateusz Ruszkowski	Michigan-Ann Arbor	Oxford	Feb 5-9, 2012
56	Dr Eugene Churazov	MPA, Garching	Oxford	Feb 5-9, 2012
57	Prof Hyeon Park	POSTECH, Korea	Oxford & Culham	Feb 28-Mar 3, 2012
58	Prof Cary Forest	Wisconsin-Madison	Oxford & Culham	May 14-20, 2012
59	Mr Koen Kemel	NORDITA	Oxford	May 14-18, 2012
60	Dr Bogdan Teaca	EPFL	Culham & Oxford	May 30-June 2, 2012
61	Prof Frank Jenko	IPP Garching	Oxford	July 4-6, 2012
62	Dr Robert Wicks	Imperial ---> NASA Goddard (2012)	Oxford & Imperial	July 9-13, 2012
63	Mr Justin Ball	MIT	Oxford & Culham	July 15-27, 2012
64	Mr Jonathan Citrin	DIFFER	Oxford & Culham	July 16-19, 2012
65	Mr Noah Mandell	Maryland	Oxford & Culham	July 18-Aug 19, 2012
66	Mr George Wilkie	Maryland	Oxford & Culham	July 18-Aug 19, 2012
67	Prof Richard Fitzpatrick	UT Austin	Culham & Oxford	Aug 11-26, 2012

Participants

Visitors

Meetings

Publications

Meetings (both funded by the Network and externally funded but related)

• First Summer Workshop of the Network, Imperial College and Culham, July 15-Aug 19, 2007 (co-funded by CMPD) 
• Participants (external to Imperial & Culham): M. Barnes, Maryland (30.07-3.08), S. Cowley, UCLA (18.07-19.08), T. Heinemann, Cambridge (4-12.08), A. Iskakov, UCLA (16.07-19.08), N. Loureiro, Princeton (16.07-7.08), G. Plunk, UCLA (24.07-14.08), P. Popovich, UCLA (7-18.08), E. Wang, UCLA (21.07-14.08), T. Yousef, Cambridge (8-18.08)
• Minicourse "Turbulence: Concepts and Methods", WPI, Vienna, Oct 8-10, 2007 (funded by WPI)
• Workshop "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Weak vs. Strong", WPI, Vienna, Oct 10-12, 2007 (funded by WPI)
  
• 4th Winter School on Plasma Physics "Instabilities in Plasmas", UCLA, Los Angeles, Jan 7-12, 2008 (funded by CMPD & CMSO)
• Minicourse and Workshop "Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Mean Fields vs. Fluctuations", WPI, Vienna, Feb 11-15, 2008 (funded by WPI)
• Second Summer Workshop of the Network, Imperial College and Culham, June 23-Sept 14, 2008
• Participants (external to Imperial and Culham): M. Barnes, Maryland (10-24.08), B. Breizman, IFS-Texas (22.06-5.07), T. Carter, UCLA (17-23.07), W. Dorland, Maryland (10-22.08), G. Hammett, Princeton (11-25.08), T. Heinemann, Cambridge, A. Mallet, Cambridge (30.06-7.09), R. Numata, Maryland (28.07-23.08), F. Parra, MIT (10-17.08), G. Plunk, UCLA (1.08-28.10), F. Rincon, Toulouse (1-12.09), M. Rosin, Cambridge, T. Tatsuno, Maryland (13.07-23.08), P. Watson, Oxford (30.06-5.08, 14.08-14.09)
• Minicourse and Workshop "Kinetic Equations, Numerical Approaches and Fluid Models for Plasma Turbulence", WPI, Vienna, Sept  15-19, 2008 (funded by WPI)
• Workshop "Structures and Waves in Anisotropic Turbulence", Warwick, Nov 3-7, 2008 (satellite meeting of the INI programme on turbulence)
• 5th Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA, Jan 5-10, 2009 (funded by CMPD & CMSO)
  
• Working Group Meeting "Kinetic Instabilities, Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection", WPI, Vienna, Feb 16-20, 2009 (funded by WPI)
• Workshop "Instabilities and Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas", Warwick, Apr 2-3, 2009 (part of the IOP 2009 plasma physics meeting)
  
• Third Summer Workshop of the Network, Oxford, Culham & Imperial College, July 23-Aug 22, 2009 (co-funded by Oxford Physics and Merton College) 
• Participants (external to Imperial, Oxford and Culham): S. Balbus, ENS-Paris (14.08), S. Bale, Berkeley (9-15.08), T. Carter, UCLA (23.07-4.08), P. Catto, MIT (29.07-15.08), C. Cremaschini, SISSA (13.07-7.08), W. Dorland, Maryland (29.07-19.08), M. Forman, Stony Brook (9-21208), G. Hammett, Princeton (11-25.08), J. Hein, Edinburgh (4-6.08), T. Heinemann, Cambridge (25.07-2.08), K. Kiyani, Warwick (11-14.08), N. Loureiro, IST-Lisbon (10-16.08), R. Numata, Maryland (10-16.08), G. Plunk, Maryland (23.07-22.08), F. Rincon, Toulouse (2-17.08), J. Stone, Princeton (14.08), T. Tatsuno, Maryland (10-21.08)
• 6th Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA, Jan 4-8, 2010 (funded by NSF, CMPD & CMSO)
  
• Working Group Meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER", WPI, Vienna, March 15-26, 2010 (funded by WPI)
• Programme "Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas", I. Newton Institute, Cambridge, July 19-Aug 13, 2010 (this programme was held en lieu of the Summer Workshop of the Network)
• 3rd Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, April 3-17, 2011 (funded by WPI)
• Fourth Summer Workshop of the Network, Oxford and Culham, June 24-Sept 23, 2011 (co-funded by EPSRC CCPP and Merton College)
  
• Participants (external to Imperial, Oxford and Culham): S. Bale, Berkeley (6-9.07), A. Bersnyak, LANL (8-13.08), C. Chen, Berkeley (24.06-10.07), W. Dorland, Maryland (17.07-19.08), M. Forman, Stony Brook (10.08-3.09), G. Gogoberidze, Warwick (4.08), G. Hammett, Princeton (16-31.08), T. Heinemann, IAS (21-28.08), G. Howes, Iowa (20-23.09), A. Kanekar, Maryland (24.07-19.08), R. Kulsrud, Princeton (19-24.09), H. Latter, Cambridge (8.08), J. Lee, MIT (18-24.07), N. Loureiro, IST-Lisbon (10-25.08), G. McKee, UW-Madison (4-9.06), A. Riols-Fonclare, Toulouse (10-25.08), R. Samtaney, KAUST (7-9.07,14-18.08), J. TenBarge, Iowa (20-23.09)
• 4th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, March 19-31, 2012 (funded by WPI)
• Gyrokinetics Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid, June 18-29, 2012 (funded by CIEMAT and EURATOM)
• Fifth Summer Workshop of the Network, Oxford and Culham, July 2-August 26, 2012
• Participants (external to Imperial, Oxford and Culham): J. Ball, MIT (15-27.07), M. Barnes, MIT (9-24.07), F. Califano, Pisa (20-24.08), P. Catto, MIT (14-26.07), J. Citrin, DIFFER (16-19.07), W. Dorland, Maryland (18.07-19.08), R. Fitzpatrick, UT Austin (11-26.08), A. Kanekar, Maryland (18.07-19.08), M. Kunz, Princeton (17-28.07), N. Loureiro, IST-Lisbon (30.07-6.08), N. Mandell, Maryland (18.07-19.08), F. Parra, MIT (15-27.07), F. Rincon, Toulouse (13-26.08), R. Wicks, NASA Goddard (9-13.07), G. Wilkie, Maryland (18.07-19.08)

Regular seminars/discussion group meetings in Oxford

Participants

Visitors

Meetings

Publications

Publications

98. J. Meinecke, H. Doyle, B. Reville, A. R. Bell, R. Bingham, R. Crowston, R. P. Drake, M. Fatenejad, M. Koenig, Y. Kuramitsu, C. Kuranz, D. Q. Lamb, D. Lee, M. J. MacDonald, C. D. Murphy, H.-S. Park, A. Pelka, A. Ravasio, Y. Sakawa, A. A. Schekochihin, A. Scopatz, P. Tzeferacos, W. C. Wan, N. C. Woolsey, F. Miniati, and G. Gregori,
``Turbulent amplification of seed magnetic fields in laser-produced shock waves,''
submitted (2013)

97. E. Churazov, M. Ruszkowski, and A. Schekochihin,
``Powering of cool filaments in cluster cores by buoyant bubbles. I. Qualitative model,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., submitted (2013) [e-print arXiv:1304.3168]

96. S. V. Komarov, E. M. Churazov, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Suppression of local heat flux in a turbulent magnetized intracluster medium,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., submitted (2013) [e-print arXiv:1304.1857]

95. Y.-c. Ghim,
``Characteristics of plasma turbulence in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak,''
D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford (2013) [e-print arXiv:1302.6171]

94. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, and A. Zocco,
``Fast collisionless reconnection and electron heating in strongly magnetized plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett, submitted (2013) [e-print arXiv:1301.0338]

93. I. G. Abel,
``Multiscale gyrokinetics for rotating tokamak plasmas,''
D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford (2012)

92. Y.-c. Ghim, A. R. Field, A. A. Schekochihin, E. G. Highcock, C. Michael, and the MAST Team,
``Local dependence of ion temperature gradient on magnetic configuration, rotational shear and turbulent heat flux in MAST,''
Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1211.2883]

91. A. R. Field, G. Colyer, D. Dunai, Y.-c. Ghim, P. Hill, B. McMillan, C. Michael, C. M. Roach, S. Saarelma, A. A. Schekochihin, S. Zoletnik and the MAST team,
``Characterisation of ion-scale turbulence in MAST,''
in Proc. 24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, San Diego, 2012, EXC/P-129

90. I. G. Abel and S. C. Cowley,
``Multiscale gyrokinetics for rotating tokamak plasmas II: Reduced models for electron dynamics,''
 New J. Phys. 15, 023041 (2013) [e-print arXiv:1210.1417]

89. J. W. Connor, C. G. Gimblett, R. J. Hastie, and A. Zocco,
``Sawtooth period scaling,''
Phys. Plasmas, submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1209.6321]

88. A. Mishchenko and A. Zocco,
``Global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of internal kink instabilities,''
Phys. Plasmas, submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1209.5910]

87. J. W. Connor, R. J. Hastie, and A. Zocco,
``Ion Landau damping on drift tearing modes,''
Phys. Plasmas, submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1209.5054]

86. I. G. Abel, G. G. Plunk, E. Wang, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Multiscale gyrokinetics for rotating tokamak plasmas: Fluctuations, transport and energy flows,''
Rep. Prog. Phys., submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1209.4782]

85. Y.-c. Ghim, A. A. Schekochihin, A. R. Field, I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, G. Colyer, S. C. Cowley, F. I. Parra, D. Dunai, S. Zoletnik, and the MAST Team,
``Experimental signatures of critically balanced turbulence in MAST,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 145002 (2013) [e-print arXiv:1208.5970]

84. T. Tatsuno, G. G. Plunk, M. Barnes, W. Dorland, G. G. Howes, and R. Numata,
``Freely decaying turbulence in two-dimensional electrostatic gyrokinetics,''
Phys. Plasmas 19, 122305 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1208.1369]

83. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, and D. A. Uzdensky,
``Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in Sweet-Parker current sheets,''
Phys. Rev. E 87, 013102 (2013) [e-print arXiv:1208.0966]

82. R. T. Wicks, A. Mallet, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, A. A. Schekochihin, and J. J. Mitchell,
``Alignment and scaling of large-scale fluctuations in the solar wind,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025003 (2013) [e-print arXiv:1209.5362]

81. M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, and W. Dorland,
``Turbulent transport and heating of trace heavy ions in hot, magnetized plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 185003 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1207.5175]

80. E. G. Highcock,
``The zero turbulence manifold in fusion plasmas,''
D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford (2012) [e-print arXiv:1207.4419]

79. G. G. Plunk,
``Landau damping in a turbulent setting,''
Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted (2012) [e-print arXiv:1206.3415]

78. G. G. Plunk, T. Tatsuno, and W. Dorland,
``Considering fluctuation energy as a measure of gyrokinetic turbulence,''
New J. Phys. 14, 103030 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1206.0584]

77. M. S. Rosin and A. J. Mestel,
``Quasi-global galactic magnetorotational instability with Braginskii viscosity,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 425, 74 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1204.1948]

76. E. G. Highcock, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, C. M. Roach, and W. Dorland,
``Zero-turbulence manifold in a toroidal plasma,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 265001 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1203.6455]

75. Y.-c. Ghim, A. R. Field, D. Dunai, S. Zoletnik, L. Bardóczi, A. A. Schekochihin, and the MAST Team,
``Measurement and physical interpretation of the mean motion of turbulent density patterns detected by the Beam Emission Spectroscopy system on the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54, 095012 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1203.4373]

74. M. W. Kunz, T. Bogdanovic, C. S. Reynolds, and J. M. Stone,
``Buoyancy instabilities in a weakly collisional intracluster medium,''
Astrophys. J. 754, 122 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1202.3442]

73. H. N. Latter and M. W. Kunz,
``The HBI in a quasi-global model of the intracluster medium,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 423, 1964 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1202.3440]

72. A. A. Schekochihin, E. G. Highcock, and S. C. Cowley,
``Subcritical fluctuations and suppression of turbulence in differentially rotating gyrokinetic plasmas,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54, 055011 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1111.4929]

71. A. A. Schekochihin, S. V. Nazarenko, and T. A. Yousef,
``Weak Alfvén-wave turbulence revisited,''
Phys. Rev. E 85, 036406 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1110.6682]

70. E. Churazov, A. Vikhlinin, I. Zhuravleva, A. Schekochihin, I. Parrish, R. Sunyaev, W. Forman, H. Böhringer, and S. Randall,
``X-ray surface brightness and gas density fluctuations in the Coma cluster,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 421, 1123 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1110.5875]

69. J. W. Connor, R. J. Hastie, and A. Zocco,
``Unified theory of the semi-collisional tearing mode and internal kink mode in a hot tokamak: implications for sawtooth modelling,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54, 035003 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1110.2398]

68. R. T. Wicks, M. A. Forman, T. S. Horbury, and S. Oughton,
``Power anisotropy in the magnetic field power spectral tensor of solar wind turbulence,''
Astrophys. J. 746, 103 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1109.6877]

67. G. G. Howes, J. M. TenBarge, and W. Dorland,
``A weakened cascade model for turbulence in astrophysical plasmas ,''
Phys. Plasmas 18, 102305 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1109.4158]

66. C. H. K. Chen, A. Mallet, A. A. Schekochihin, T. S. Horbury, R. T. Wicks, and S. D. Bale,
``Three-dimensional structure of solar-wind turbulence,''
Astrophys. J. 758, 120 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1109.2558]

65. J. Herault, F. Rincon, C. Cossu, G. Lesur, G. I. Ogilvie, and P.-Y. Longaretti,
``Periodic magnetorotational dynamo action as a prototype of nonlinear magnetic field generation in shear flows,''
Phys. Rev. E. 84, 036321 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1109.1811]

64. J. C. McWilliams,
``Elemendal shear dynamo,''
J. Fluid Mech. 699, 414 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1109.0289]

63. F. I. Parra, M. F. F. Nave, A. A. Schekochihin, C. Giroud, J. S. de Grassie, J. H. F. Severo, P. de Vries, and K.-D. Zastrow,
``Scaling of spontaneous rotation with temperature and plasma current in tokamaks,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095001 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1108.6106]

62. N. F. Loureiro, R. Samtaney, A. A. Schekochihin, and D. A. Uzdensky,
``Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas,''
Phys. Plasmas 19, 042303 (2012) [e-print arXiv:1108.4040]

61. R. Numata, W. Dorland, G. G. Howes, N. F. Loureiro, B. N. Rogers, and T. Tatsuno,
``Gyrokinetic simulations of the tearing instability,''
Phys. Plasmas 18, 112106 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1107.5842]

60. E. G. Highcock, M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, A. A. Schekochihin, C. M. Roach, and S. C. Cowley,
``Transport bifurcation induced by sheared toroidal flow in tokamak plasmas,''
Phys. Plasmas 18, 102304 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1105.5750]

59. A. Zocco and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Reduced fluid-kinetic equations for low-frequency dynamics, magnetic reconnection and electron heating in low-beta plasmas,''
Phys. Plasmas 18, 102309 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1104.4622]

58. M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Critically balanced ion temperature gradient turbulence in fusion plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 115003 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1104.4514]

57. M. W. Kunz,
``Dynamical stability of a thermally stratified intracluster medium with anisotropic momentum and heat transport,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 417, 602 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1104.3595]

56. G. G. Howes, J. M. TenBarge, W. Dorland, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, R. Numata, and T. Tatsuno,
``Gyrokinetic simulations of solar wind turbulence from ion to electron scales,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035004 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1104.0877]

55. F. I. Parra, M. Barnes, and P. J. Catto,
``Sources of intrinsic rotation in the low flow ordering,''
Nucl. Fusion 51, 113001 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1102.4613]

54. F. I. Parra, M. Barnes, and A. G. Peeters,
``Up-down symmetry of the turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum in tokamaks,''
Phys. Plasmas 18, 062501 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1102.3717]

53. C. H. K. Chen,
``Anisotropy of the solar wind turbulence,''
Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College London (2010)

52. M. S. Rosin,
``Instabilities and transport in magnetised plasmas,''
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge (2010)

51. M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, E. G. Highcock, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and C. M. Roach,
``Shear flow suppression of turbulent transport and self-consistent profile evolution within a multi-scale gyrokinetic framework,''
in Proc. 23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Daejon, 11-16 Oct. 2010, THC/P4-01 (pdf)

50. R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Anisotropy of imbalanced Alfvénic turbulence in fast solar wind,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045001 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1009.2427]

49. F. I. Parra, M. Barnes, E. G. Highcock, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley,
``Momentum injection in tokamak plasmas and transitions to reduced transport,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115004 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1009.0733]

48. C. H. K. Chen, A. Mallet, T. A. Yousef, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. S. Horbury,
``Anisotropy of Alfvénic turbulence in the solar wind and numerical simulations,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 415, 3219 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1009.0662]

47. F. I. Parra and I. Calvo,
``Phase-space Lagrangian derivation of electrostatic gyrokinetics in general geometry,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 53, 045001 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1009.0378]

46. M. A. Forman, R. T. Wicks, and T. S. Horbury,
``Detailed fit of "critical balance" theory to solar wind turbulence measurements,''
Astrophys. J. 733, 76 (2011)

45. D. A. Uzdensky, N. F. Loureiro, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Fast magnetic reconnection in the plasmoid-dominated regime,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 235002 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1008.3330]

44. E. G. Highcock, M. Barnes, A. A. Schekochihin, F. I. Parra, C. M. Roach, and S. C. Cowley,
``Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 215003 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1008.2305]

43. G. G. Plunk and T. Tatsuno,
``Energy transfer and dual cascade in kinetic magnetized plasma turbulence,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 165003 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1007.4787]

42. M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, E. G. Highcock, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and C. M. Roach,
``Turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas with rotational shear,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175004 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1007.3390]

41. S. L. Newton, S. C. Cowley, and N. F. Loureiro,
``Understanding critical levels of sheared flow on microinstabilities,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52, 125001 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1007.0040]

40. Y. Ghim(Kim), A. R. Field, S. Zoletnik, and D. Dunai,
``Calculation of spatial response of 2D beam emission spectroscopy diagnostic on MAST,''
Rev. Sci. Intrum. 81, 10D713 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1203.5282]

39. R. Numata, G. G. Howes, T. Tatsuno, M. Barnes, and W. Dorland,
``AstroGK: Astrophysical gyrokinetics code,''
J. Comput. Phys. 229, 9347 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1004.0279]

38. T. Tatsuno, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. G. Howes, R. Numata, G. G. Plunk, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Gyrokinetic simulation of entropy cascade in two-dimensional electrostatic turbulence,''
J. Plasma Fusion Res. SERIES 9, 509 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1003.3933]

37. M. W. Kunz, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. J. Binney, and J. S. Sanders,
``A thermally stable heating mechanism for the intracluster medium: turbulence, magnetic fields and plasma instabilities,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 410, 2446 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1003.2719]

36. M. S. Rosin, A. A. Schekochihin, F. Rincon, and S. C. Cowley,
``A nonlinear theory of the parallel firehose and gyrothermal instabilities in a weakly collisional plasma,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 413, 7 (2011) [e-print arXiv:1002.4017]

35. C. H. K. Chen, T. S. Horbury, A. A. Schekochihin, R. T. Wicks, O. Alexandrova, and J. Mitchell,
``Anisotropy of solar wind turbulence in the dissipation range,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255002 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1002.2539]

34. R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Power and spectral index anisotropy of the entire inertial range of turbulence in the fast solar wind,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 407, L31 (2010) [e-print arXiv:1002.2096]

33. M. Romanelli, A. Zocco, and F. Crisanti,
``Fast ion stabilization of the ion temperature gradient driven modes in the Joint European Torus hybri-scenario plasmas: a trigger mechanisim for internal transport barrier formation,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52, 045007 (2010)

32. M. Barnes, I. G. Abel, W. Dorland, T. Görler, G. W. Hammett, and F. Jenko,
``Direct multiscale coupling of a transport code to gyrokinetic turbulence codes,''
Phys. Plasmas 17, 056109 (2010) [e-print arXiv:0912.1974]

31. F. I. Parra and P. J. Catto,
``Transport of momentum in full f gyrokinetics,''
Phys. Plasmas 17, 056106 (2010)

30. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, F. Rincon, and M. S. Rosin,
``Magnetofluid dynamics of magnetized cosmic plasma: firehose and gyrothermal instabilities,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 405, 291 (2010) [e-print arXiv:0912.1359]

29. I. G. Abel, B. N. Breizman, S. E. Sharapov, and JET-EFDA contributors,
``Resonant excitation of shear Alfvén perturbations by trapped energetic ions in a tokamak,''
Phys. Plasmas 16, 102506 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0911.0856]

28. C. H. K. Chen, R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Interpreting power anisotropy measurements in plasma turbulence,''
Astrophys. J. 711, L79 (2010) [e-print arXiv:0909.2683]

27. T. A. Enßlin, T. Clarke, C. Vogt, A. Waelkens, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Magnetic turbulence in clusters of galaxies,''
Highlights Astron. 15, 456 (2010)

26. M. Barnes, W. Dorland, and T. Tatsuno,
``Resolving velocity-space dynamics in continuum gyrokinetics,''
Phys. Plasmas 17, 032106 (2010) [e-print arXiv:0907.4413]

25. C. M. Roach, I. G. Abel, R. J. Akers, W. Arter, M. Barnes, Y. Camenen, F. J. Casson, G. Colyer, J. W. Connor, S. C. Cowley, D. Dickinson, W. Dorland, A. R. Field, W. Guttenfelder, G. W. Hammett, R. J. Hastie, E. Highcock, N. F. Loureiro, A. G. Peeters, M. Reshko, S. Saarelma, A. A. Schekochihin, M. Valovic and H. R. Wilson,
``Gyrokinetic simulations of spherical tokamaks,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51, 124020 (2009)

24. S. V. Nazarenko and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Critical balance in magnetohydrodynamic, rotating and stratified turbulence: towards a universal scaling conjecture,''
J. Fluid Mech. 677, 134 (2011) [e-print arXiv:0904.3488]

23. A. Zocco, L. Chacon, and A. N. Simakov,
``Current sheet bifurcation and collapse in electron magnetohydrodynamics,''
Phys. Plasmas 16, 110703 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0904.3033]

22. N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and T. A. Yousef,
``Turbulent magnetic reconnection in two dimensions,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 399, L146 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0904.0823]

21. G. G. Plunk, S. C. Cowley, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Two-dimensional gyrokinetic turbulence,''
J. Fluid Mech. 664, 407 (2010) [e-print arXiv:0904.0243]

20. A. Waelkens, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. A. Enßlin,
``Probing magnetic turbulence by synchrotron polarimetry: statistics and structure of magnetic fields from Stokes correlators,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 398, 1970 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0903.3056]

19. A. H. Waelkens,
``Studying magnetic turbulence with radio polarimetry,''
Ph.D. Thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2009)

18. G. G. Plunk,
``The theory of gyrokinetic turbulence: a multiple-scales approach,''
Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA (2009) [e-print arXiv:0903.1091]

17. R. Samtaney, N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley,
``Formation of plasmoid chains in magnetic reconnection,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 105004 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0903.0542]

16. M. A. Barnes,
``Trinity: a unified treatment of turbulence, transport, and heating in magnetised plasmas,''
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland (2008) [e-print arXiv:0901.2868]

15. T. Tatsuno, W. Dorland, A. A. Schekochihin, G. G. Plunk, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, and G. G. Howes,
``Nonlinear phase mixing and phase-space cascade of entropy in gyrokinetic plasma turbulence,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 015003 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0811.2538]

14. T. Heinemann, J. C. McWilliams, and A. A. Schekochihin, 
``Large-scale magnetic field generation by randomly forced shearing waves,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255004 (2011) [e-print arXiv:0810.2225]

13. M. Barnes, I. G. Abel, W. Dorland, D. R. Ernst, G. W. Hammett, P. Ricci, B. N. Rogers, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. II. Numerical implementation and tests,''
Phys. Plasmas 16, 072107 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0809.3945]

12. I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. I. Theory,''
Phys. Plasmas 15, 122509 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0808.1300]

11. I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Model collision operators for numerical gyrokinetics,''
AIP Conf. Proc. 1069, 233 (2008)

10. T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, F. Rincon, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Numerical experiments on dynamo action in sheared and rotating turbulence,''
Astron. Nachr. 329, 737 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0807.1122]

9. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, G. G. Howes, G. G. Plunk, E. Quataert, and T. Tatsuno,
``Gyrokinetic turbulence: a nonlinear route to dissipation through phase space,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50, 124024 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0806.1069]

8. T. A. Enßlin, T. Clarke, C. Vogt, A. Waelkens, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Magnetic turbulence in clusters of galaxies,''
RevMexAA(SC) 36, 209 (2009)

7. G. G. Howes,
``Inertial range turbulence in kinetic plasmas,''
Phys. Plasmas 15, 055904 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0711.4358]

6. G. G. Howes, W. Dorland,  S. C. Cowley, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Kinetic simulations of magnetized turbulence in astrophysical plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 065004 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0711.4355]
Reply to a Comment on this paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 149502 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0812.2493]

5. T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, A. B. Iskakov, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Generation of magnetic field by combined action of turbulence and shear,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184501 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0710.3359]

4. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, R. M. Kulsrud, M. S. Rosin, and T. Heinemann,
``Nonlinear growth of firehose and mirror fluctuations in astrophysical plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 081301 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0709.3828]

3. G. G. Howes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``A model of turbulence in magnetized plasmas: implications for the dissipation range in the solar wind,''
J. Geophys. Res. 113, A05103 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0707.3147 --- the e-print does not have the random idiotic typos introduced by the publisher]

2. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, G. G. Howes, E. Quataert, and T. Tatsuno,
``Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas,''
Astrophys. J. Suppl. 182, 310 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0704.0044]

1. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley,
``Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains,''
Phys. Plasmas 14, 100703 (2007) [e-print astro-ph/0703631]

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