| Date | Time | Topic | Background Reading | Main Speaker(s) | Visitors Expected |
| Tue 16 Oct | 2pm | Tearing instability of long current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains. | astro-ph/0703631 | Nuno Loureiro | Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) NB: Dr Uzdensky is giving a plasma seminar on Oct 17 |
| Mon 22 Oct | 4pm | Hierarchies of time dependent PDEs in physics: from Dirac-Maxwell to Euler by asymptotic analysis. This meeting is open to the public. |
reprint distributed by E-mail | Norbert Mauser | Norbert Mauser (WPI) Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) |
| Tue 23 Oct | No group meeting @IC. Mark Rosin is giving a first-year transfer report seminar at Cambridge, 1pm, CMS, MR14. |
arXiv:0709.3828 | |||
| Tue 30 Oct | 4pm (note the late starting time!) |
Magnetorotational, magnetoviscous, magnetothermal
instabilities: what they are, how they are related and how kinetic
effects might enter. This meeting is open to the public. |
ApJ 633, 328 (2005) | Steve Balbus | Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris) NB: Prof Balbus is giving a plasma seminar on Oct 31 |
| Tue 6 Nov | 2pm | Alpha particles and Alfven waves in tokamaks. | on derivation of GK in a slab, read ApJ 651, 590 (2006) or Ian's Cambridge Part III essay; on alpha particles, see review PPCF 46, B187 (2004) | Ian Abel | |
| Tue 13 Nov | 2pm | Dynamo meeting in Paris. Group meeting moved to Wed 14 Nov (see below). |
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| Wed 14 Nov | 3pm | Measuring magnetic fields from polarised emission in galaxies and galaxy clusters. | Astron. Nachr. 327, 626 (2006); for a popular intro to turbulence in galaxy clusters, see PoP 13, 056501 (2006) | André Waelkens | André Waelkens (MPA, Garching) |
| Tue 20 Nov | 2pm | Rotating tokamak plasmas; ITG instability. | on ITG, read Phys Fluids B 3, 2767 (1991) (see also GK derivation of the dispersion relation w/o rotation in Ian's Cambridge Part III essay) | Edmund Highcock & Nuno Loureiro | André Waelkens (MPA, Garching) |
| Tue 27 Nov | 2pm | Numerical gyrokinetics, GS2, velocity-space resolution issues. | preprint distributed by E-mail | Michael Barnes | Michael Barnes (Maryland) |
| Tue 4 Dec | 2pm | Gyrofluid models. This meeting is open to the public. |
PoP 12, 102109 (2005) PoP 14, 082502 (2007) |
Thierry Passot | Michael Barnes (Maryland) François Rincon (Toulouse) Thierry Passot (OCA, Nice) NB: Dr Passot is giving a plasma seminar on Dec 5 |
| Tue 11 Dec | 2pm | Numerical experiments on Alfven-wave turbulence. | review of MHD turbulence (also astro-ph/0507686) | Tarek Yousef | Michael Barnes (Maryland) NB: Michael is giving a plasma seminar on Dec 12 (swapped with Tarek) |
| Tue 18 Dec | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 25 Dec | No group meeting. Russian National High-Energy Astrophysics Meeting. (Oh, yes, and Merry Xmas to the "Latin heretics"!) |
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| Tue 1 Jan | No group meeting. Happy New Year! |