| Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week |
| 14-15 Sept | Culham, Adams LT |
MAST Results Review and 6th Research Forum (contact Kathy Patton for further info). | Frank Jenko (IPP, Garching) Raul Sanchez (ORNL) Sandor Zoletnik (KFKI, Budapest) Felix Parra joins the group this week |
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| Thu 17 Sept | 2:00pm Culham Robinson Rm |
Joint seminar with TURBSIM: Raul Sanchez (ORNL) --- Transport across sheared zonal flows in ITG turbulence. |
PRL 101, 205002 (2008) PoP 16, 055905 (2009) |
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| Fri 18 Sept |
1:00pm Culham K1/0/85 |
The 12th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Frank Jenko (IPP, Garching) --- New insights from plasma turbulence simulations and theory: the role of sub-ion scales, magnetic fluctuations, and energetic particle transport Matt Kunz (Oxford) --- 10 Megayears before fusion: dust, magnetic fields, and star formation |
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| Thu 24 Sept |
11:30am Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
Felix Parra (Oxford) --- Angular momentum transport in tokamaks. |
preprint on request |
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| Filomena Nave (IST, Lisbon/presently @JET) --- Intrinsic plasma rotation measurements in JET. | PPCF 51, 044008 (2009) |
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| Thu 1 Oct |
11:30am Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
Matt Kunz (Oxford) --- Cooling flows in galaxy clusters: review. | ARA&A 40, 319 (2002) ApJ 703, 96 (2009) arXiv:0905.4508 |
Alfred Mallet joins the group this week |
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Tue 6 Oct |
12:30pm BIPAC Conf. Rm |
Brown Bag Astronomy Seminar by
Matt Kunz (Oxford) --- The role of magnetic fields, dust, and radiation in star formation. |
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| Thu 8 Oct |
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Mon 12 Oct |
1:00pm Warwick Maths Inst. |
MIR@W: One-day meeting on "Mathematics of Nuclear Fusion" at Warwick (speakers Cowley, Dendy, Hnat, Nazarenko, Schekochihin, Peeters, Dewhurst, Szepesi) |
Chris Chen (Imperial) Tarek Yousef (Norwegian Oil) [15-18 Oct] |
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| Thu 15 Oct |
No group meeting, rescheduled to Monday 19 Oct. |
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| II |
Mon 19 Oct |
10:45am Conf. Rm DWB |
Working meeting to discuss Edmund Highcock's ITG with shear GS2 results (those implicated in the ITG project welcome). |
Phys. Fluids B 3, 2767 (1991); handwritten notes from Steve on request; similar calculation: ApJ 560, 617 (2001) |
Kyle Gustafson (Maryland) |
| 11:30am Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
Steve Cowley & Sarah Newton (Culham) --- ITG instability with magnetic and velocity shear in the collisional limit. | ||||
| Thu 22 Oct |
2:00pm Culham |
The 13th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Kyle Gustafson (Maryland) --- Subdiffusive radial transport in a gyrokinetic Z-pinch with zonal flows. |
PoP 15, 102309 (2008) PRL 97, 245001 (2006) |
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| Andy Young (Bristol) --- X-raying discs around black holes. |
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| III |
Tue 27 Oct |
2:15pm Dobson Rm AOPP |
GFD seminar by Peter Davidson (Cambridge) on rotating turbulence. |
Peter Davidson (Cambridge) |
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| Thu 29 Oct |
2:30pm Sciama LT DWB (map) |
John Miller (Oxford & SISSA) --- Non-stationary accretion onto black holes. |
MNRAS 328, 36 (2001) |
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| IV |
Mon 2 Nov |
12:00noon A. Wood Seminar Rm |
ALP Seminar by Tony Bell (Oxford & RAL) on high-energy plasmas in astrophysics and laboratory. |
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| Thu 5 Nov |
12:30pm Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
Ken McClements (Culham) --- The orbital dynamics and collisional transport of trace massive impurity ions in rotating plasmas. |
PPCF 51, 115009 (2009) |
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| V |
Thu 12 Nov |
12:30pm Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
David Burgess (Queen Mary) --- Simulating kinetic instabilities in the solar wind. |
JGR 113, A07107 (2008) |
David Burgess (Queen Mary) |
| VI |
Tue 17 Nov |
4:00pm Sciama LT DWB |
Oxford Astrophysics Colloquium
by Alex Schekochihin --- Microscale instabilities in magnetised cosmic
plasmas and implications for transport in accretion flows and
intracluster medium. | preprint on request; see also PRL 100, 081301 (2008) |
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| Thu 19 Nov |
2:00pm Culham |
The 14th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Eun-jin Kim (Sheffield) --- Theory of intermittency and self-organisation Emilia Solano (Culham) --- Observation of confined current structures in JET plasmas: smoke rings? |
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| VII |
Thu 26 Nov |
12:30pm Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
David Dickinson (York) --- Electrostatic drift microinstabilities. |
PRL 70, 1803 (1993) |
David Dickinson (York) Howard Wilson (York) |
| VIII |
Thu 3 Dec |
12:30pm Conf. Rm DWB (map) |
Michael Barnes (Oxford) --- Parallel and perpendicular phase mixing in plasma turbulence. |
PoP 11, 1476 (2004) PPCF 50, 124024 (2008) PRL 103, 015003 (2009) |
Filomena Nave (IST, Lisbon) |
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Thu 10 Dec |
12:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Jim Stone (Princeton) --- New results on the turbulence and dynamo driven by magnetorotational and magnetoviscous instabilities. |
arXiv:0909.1570 ApJ 633, 328 (2005) |
Filomena Nave (IST, Lisbon) Mark Rosin (Cambridge) Jim Stone (Princeton) |
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Thu 17 Dec |
12:30pm Conf. Rm DWB (map) | Filomena
Nave (IST, Lisbon & JET) & Felix Parra (Oxford) --- Update on
intrinsic rotation in tokamaks (new data from JET and DIIID) and
theoretical ideas. |
Filomena Nave (IST, Lisbon) Mark Rosin (Cambridge) |
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| Thu 24 Dec |
Merry Xmas! |
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| Thu 31 Dec |
Happy NY! |
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