| Date | Time | Topic(s) | Reading | Speaker(s) | Visitors During the Week |
| 29 Sept-3 Oct | Turbulence Workshop in Cambridge (Newton Institute). | Gabe Plunk (UCLA) | |||
| 5-11 Oct | Cracow conference on kinetic astrophysics. | Gabe Plunk (UCLA) | |||
| Thu 16 Oct | 1pm | Dynamo action by randomly forced shearing waves: a minimal analytical calculation (continued from Sept 2). | arXiv:0810.2225 | Alex Schekochihin | Geoffroy Lesur (Cambridge), Gabe Plunk (UCLA) |
| Thu 23 Oct | 2pm, Culham | The 4th Culham Theory Fest featuring François Waelbroek (IFS, Texas). [Dr Waelbroek is also giving a Plasma Seminar at Imperial on Wed 22 Oct, 3:30pm in 741 Blackett] | François Waelbroek (IFS, Texas), Gabe Plunk (UCLA) | ||
| Thu 30 Oct | 1pm | Literature review (15 min): Rechester & Rosenbluth 1978 (diffusion in tangled magnetic field) | PRL 40, 38 (1978) | Ian Abel | CJ Donnelly (Cambridge) |
| Tutorial on the ballooning formalism for axisymmetric plasmas. | classic paper: Proc. Roy. Soc. A 365, 1 (1979) recent review: Plasma Phys. Rep. 32, 539 (2006) | Jack Connor | |||
| 3-7 Nov | Turbulence Workshop at Warwick. | François Rincon (Toulouse) | |||
| Thu 13 Nov | 2pm, Culham | The 5th Culham Theory Fest featuring Volker Naulin (Tech U of Denmark) and Paul Dellar (Oxford Maths). | François Rincon (Toulouse) | ||
| Thu 20 Nov | 1pm | Literature review (15 min): Boldyrev 2006 (spectrum of MHD turbulence) | PRL 96, 115002 (2006) | Chris Chen | |
| Long current sheets and plasmoids (continued from Aug 15). | Earlier paper on plasmoids: PoP 14, 100703 (2007) | Nuno Loureiro | |||
| Thu 27 Nov | 1pm | ITG instability in a sheared slab: theory and simulations (continued from Aug 16). | Edmund's transfer report available from him on request | Edmund Highcock | Colin Roach (Culham) |
| Thu 4 Dec | 1pm | Literature review (15 min): Vishniac & Lazarian 1999 (turbulent reconnection) | ApJ 517, 700 (1999) | Nuno Loureiro | Luis Silva (IST, Lisbon) |
| Relativistic shocks: from astrophysics to fast ignition. This group meeting is open to the public. [Prof Silva is also giving a Plasma Seminar at Imperial on Wed 3 Dec, 3:30pm in 741 Blackett] | ApJ 596, L121 (2003) ApJ 682, L5 (2008) | Luis Silva | |||
| Thu 11 Dec | 1pm | Simulations of equilibrium ExB flow shear with GS2. | Presentation slides on the numerical implementation of shear in GS2 (by G. Hammett) can be obtained by email request from Mike or Alex | Mike Reshko | |
| Instabilities of axisymmetric flows in Braginskii MHD. | ApJ 616, 857 (2004) | Mark Rosin | |||
| Thu 18 Dec | No group meeting. | ||||
| Thu 25 Dec | Merry Xmas! (...but you can also go to an astrophysics conference in Russia) | ||||
| Thu 1 Jan | Happy New Year! | ||||