OXFORD-CULHAM-IMPERIAL PLASMA TURBULENCE COLLABORATION

DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS IN OXFORD

The style of these meetings will be informal/chaotic/interactive, following the established tradition.
The format will include normally a short literature review as a starter, followed by the main event, which can be a tutorial on a topic of interest, a report on just completed/ongoing/just starting/potentially interesting research projects, a lecture by a passing visitor or anything else worthwhile that anyone cares to suggest. The use of blackboard is preferable to electronic means of projection, unless the latter is genuinely needed. The speakers will be interrupted freely and asked to defend themselves.
For background reading, only the most relevant or the most recent reference is posted; please follow the paper trail from there. 
For the literature reviews, anyone wishing to volunteer a 15-min review of a paper (old and classic or recent and curious) is encouraged to do so.

The schedule is subject to change on short notice, but what you see posted here is always up to date.

Since unpublished/unfinished work will be discussed, the meetings will not normally be open to the general public, although there will be occasional exceptions to this rule when a more seminar-style event is held.
Please email Alex Schekochihin if you would like to participate in these meetings.

Financial support for those coming from outside Oxford is available: travel will be paid by the Leverhulme Network grant.
If a guest room is required in Oxford, this can be arranged, although might prove difficult if requested on very short notice.
The grant can also support overseas visitors --- suggestions about whom to invite are welcome.

Autumn 2007
Winter-Spring 2008
Summer 2008
Autumn 2008

Hilary Term 2009

Thursdays, 2:30pm, in a room announced below, except when indicated otherwise or on the days when the Culham Theory Seminar is held
(contact Nuno Loureiro for further info on the Culham Theory Seminar).

Note that there is a train from Culham at 14:01, arriving to Oxford at 14:14, so the interested Culhamites can be in Oxford in time for the meeting.

Date	Time & Place	Topic(s)	Background Reading	Speaker(s)	Visitors During the Week
5-9 Jan	UCLA Winter School.
Tue 13 Jan	4:00pm, Imperial	Olga Alexandrova (U of Cologne) is giving a seminar at SPAT on dissipation-range turbulence in the terrestrial magnetosheath.			Olga Alexandrova (U of Cologne) [staying in London 12-13 Jan]
Wed 14 Jan	10am, Culham	Group meeting this week is superceded by J. B. Taylor's 80th-birthday conference at Culham (email Jack Connor for info on that).
Thu 22 Jan	2:30pm	Coffee in Breakfast Room (upstairs from the Roberts Room). Coffee cannot be taken to the Roberts Room!			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
	3:00pm, Fitzjames 1 (Roberts Room), Merton College (map)	Tutorial on the ballooning theory for axisymmetric plasmas (continued from Oct 30). Slides: pdf, 1.1 Mb	classic paper: Proc. Roy. Soc. A 365, 1 (1979) recent review: Plasma Phys. Rep. 32, 539 (2006)	Jack Connor (Culham)
Thu 29 Jan	2pm, Culham	The 6th Culham Theory Seminar: speakers Matt Lilley (Imperial) on fast-particle-driven modes and Geoff Fishpool (Imperial) on LES. (contact Nuno Loureiro for further info).			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Thu 5 Feb	2:30pm	Coffee in Breakfast Room (upstairs from the Roberts Room).			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
	3:00pm, Fitzjames 1 (Roberts Room), Merton College (map)	Electron MHD Reconnection (30 min overview of the problem).	PRL 99, 235001 (2007) JGRA 106, 3715 (2001) (the GEM challenge paper) PoP 2, 4104 (1995)	Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
		Alfven modes in tokamaks: overview of the problem and report on the joint work in Texas with B. Breizman.	Preprint can be obtained from Ian upon request	Ian Abel (Oxford & Culham)
Thu 12 Feb	2:30pm	Coffee in Breakfast Room (upstairs from the Roberts Room).			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
	3:00pm, Fitzjames 1 (Roberts Room), Merton College (map)	Transport in a tokamak: formulation of the problem, modeling approaches, plan of action for the coming months.	arXiv:0901.2868 (Michael's PhD thesis)	Michael Barnes (Oxford & Culham)
16-20 Feb	Working group meeting in Vienna.
Fri 20 Feb	11:45am, Dartington House	Jack Connor (Culham) will speak about transport barriers in the Mathematical Institute's workshop series (email Dr Rebecca Gower with any further inquiries).			Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) [in Oxford 20-24 Feb], Franco Rappazzo (JPL), Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Tue 24 Feb	4:00pm, D. Sciama Lecture Theatre, DWB	Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) is giving the Oxford astrophysics colloquium on magnetic reconnection.
Thu 26 Feb	2:00pm, Culham	The 7th Culham Theory Seminar: speakers Franco Rappazzo (JPL) on coronal heating, Greg Colyer (Culham) on TGLF transport model and Michael Barnes (Oxford & Culham) on multi-flux-tube transport modeling (contact Nuno Loureiro for further info).
Thu 5 Mar	3:00pm, Fitzjames 1 (Roberts Room), Merton College (map)	Literature review (15 min): Michael 1954	Mathematika 1, 45 (1954) (reprint, pdf, 1.5 Mb)	Mark Rosin (Cambridge)	Franco Rappazzo (JPL), Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
		Tutorial on galaxy clusters, cooling flows, related plasma physics and all that.	ApJ 665, 1057 (2007) (observational evidence)	James Binney (Oxford)
Thu 12 Mar	2:30pm	Coffee in Breakfast Room (upstairs from the Roberts Room).			Matt Kunz (Illinois), Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
	3:00pm, Fitzjames 1 (Roberts Room), Merton College (map)	Cosmic magnetism and multifluid MHD from interstellar clouds to protoplanetary disks.	MNRAS 385, 1494 (2008) arXiv:0910.0914	Matt Kunz (Illinois)
16 Mar - 10 Apr	No group meetings. Dynamo/weak turbulence programme in Paris.
2-3 Apr	IOP Meeting on Instabilities and Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas at Warwick. (including an invited talk by Oxford's Michael Barnes on the linked-flux-tube transport modelling)

Trinity Term 2009