| Date | Time | Topic | Background Reading | Main Speaker(s) | Visitors Expected |
| Tue 3 June | 1pm | Dynamics of the nonlinear firehose instability (his UKMHD talk). | PRL 100, 081301 (2008) | Mark Rosin | |
| GK turbulence: through phase space to dissipation (my EPS talk, sort of). | A new preprint, arXiv:0806.1069; I'll appreciate comments and criticisms! | Alex Schekochihin | |||
| 9-13 June | EPS Plasma Physics Conference. | ||||
| Tue 17 June | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 24 June | 1pm | Fast particle interaction with Alfven modes in tokamaks. | AIP Conf. Proc. 871, 15 (2006) | Boris Breizman | Boris Breizman (IFS, Texas) |
| Tue 1 July | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 8 July | No group meeting. | Michael Barnes (Maryland) is visiting 10-12 July; he is giving a seminar in Culham on July 11 @2pm | |||
| Tue 15 July | 1pm | Entropy cascade in gyrokinetic phase space (continued from June 3). | arXiv:0806.1069 | Tomo Tatsuno | Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) |
| Thu 17 July | 1pm, Culham | The 1st Culham Theory Fest, featuring Arthur Peeters (Warwick), Howard Wilson (York) and Steve Cowley (the new Culham Director). | |||
| Tue 22 July | 1pm | Nonlinear processes associated with kinetic Alfven waves in a laboratory plasma. This meeting is open to the public. |
PRL 96, 155001 (2006) | Troy Carter | Troy Carter
(UCLA), Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) Troy is also giving a seminar at the Culham MAST science meeting on July 21, on his DIII-D work. |
| Tue 29 July | 1pm | Onset of turbulence in resistive drift wave turbulence. | PoP 14, 102312 (2007) | Ryusuke Numata | Ryusuke
Numata (Maryland), Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) |
| Update on GK reconection studies at Maryland and Dartmouth. | PoP 11, 5387 (2004) PoP 14, 092110 (2007) | ||||
| Tue 5 Aug | 1pm | Generation of current corrugations and their effect on the tearing mode. | Generation of zonal magnetic fields: PRL 87, 015001 (2001) (theory) PRL 98, 165001 (2007) (exp.) Effect on tearing mode: Nucl. Fusion 30, 1143 (1990) - scanned reprint |
Fulvio Militello | Steve Cowley (Culham), Fulvio Militello (Culham), Ryusuke Numata (Maryland), Gabe Plunk (UCLA), Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) |
| During the week of 11-16 August, we will have an informal workshop with short (<2 hours) meetings every day in the morning | |||||
| Mon 11 Aug | 11am | Solar wind turbulence measurements (continued from Feb 19). | Chris's transfer report - ask him for a copy | Chris Chen | Michael Barnes
(Maryland), Steve Cowley (Culham), Bill Dorland (Maryland), Greg Hammett (Princeton), Ryusuke Numata (Maryland), Felix Parra (MIT), Gabe Plunk (UCLA), Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) |
| Tue 12 Aug | 11am | 2D gyrokinetic turbulence; phase-space cascades (continued from July 15). | arXiv:0806.1069 arXiv:0704.0044 (sec 7 and Appendix F) |
Gabe Plunk | |
| Wed 13 Aug | 11am | Extension of gyrokinetics to transport time scales. | PPCF 50, 065014 (2008) | Felix Parra | |
| 2pm | GS2 development meeting: Abel, Barnes, Colyer, Dorland, Hammett, Loureiro, Numata, Reshko, Roach, Tatsuno (everyone else welcome too). | ||||
| Thu 14 Aug | 2pm, Culham | The 2nd Culham Theory Fest featuring Bill Dorland and Greg Hammett double bill. | |||
| Fri 15 Aug | 11am | Large-aspect-ratio reconnection; reconnection in the presence of turbulence (continued from Feb 5). | Plasmoids: PoP 14, 100703 (2007) Reconnection + turbulence: ApJ 517, 700 (1999) |
Nuno Loureiro | |
| Sat 16 Aug | 11am | ITG instability in a sheared slab: theory and simulations (continued from Feb 26). | on ways to deal with a (different) instability in a sheared slab, see ApJ 560, 617 (2001). | Edmund Highcock | |
| Tue 19 Aug | 1pm | Alfven eigenmodes in tokamaks (continued from May 6). | AIP Conf. Proc. 871, 15 (2006) | Ian Abel | Michael Barnes (Maryland), Bill Dorland (Maryland), Greg Hammett (Princeton), Ryusuke Numata (Maryland), Gabe Plunk (UCLA), Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) |
| 25-29 Aug | Varenna Fusion Theory Meeting. | ||||
| Tue 2 Sept | 1pm | Numerical experiments on shear dynamo (continued from April 8). | Astron. Nachr. 329, 737 (2008) | Alfred Mallet and Tarek Yousef | François Rincon (Toulouse) |
| Tue 9 Sept | 1pm | Weak turbulence of Alfven waves revisited. | the usual reprint (also astro-ph/0507686) and follow the weak-turbulence references from there: e.g., ApJ 564, L49 (2002) | Alex Schekochihin | François Rincon (Toulouse) |
| Numerical experiments on Alfven-wave turbulence (continued from Dec 11). | Peter Watson and Tarek Yousef | ||||
| 15-19 Sept | Minicourse and workshop in Vienna. | ||||
| 23-26 Sept | EuroMHD, Nice. | ||||
| Thu 25 Sept | 1:30pm, Culham | The 3rd Culham Theory Fest, featuring Jack Connor "Theoretical issues concerning rotation in tokamaks: equilibrium, stability and transport" | |||