OXFORD PLASMA THEORY GROUP
OXFORD-CULHAM-IMPERIAL PLASMA TURBULENCE COLLABORATION
THE LEVERHULME TRUST INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON MAGNETISED PLASMA TURBULENCE IN ASTROPHYSICAL AND FUSION PLASMAS

PLASMA SEMINARS/DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS

The style of these meetings will be informal/chaotic/interactive, following the established tradition.
The format of the presentations can be a tutorial on a topic of interest, a report on just completed/ongoing/just starting/potentially interesting research projects, a literature review, a lecture by a passing visitor or anything else worthwhile that anyone cares to suggest. The speakers will be interrupted freely and asked to defend themselves.
For background reading, only the most relevant or the most recent references are posted; please follow the paper trail from there. 

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

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 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; HT 2009; TT 2009

Thursdays, 3:00pm (coffee at 2:45pm), in the Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building, 1 Keble Road (map), except when indicated otherwise or on the days when the Culham Theory Seminar is held
(contact Chris Ham for further info on the Culham Theory Seminar).

Summer 2009

As usual, there will be a large influx of visitors in summer: mostly between July 23 and August 22, when we will have our informal Leverhulme Network workshop. Some of it will be in London at Imperial: see below.

Date	Time & Place	Topic(s)	Background Reading	Speaker(s)	Visitors During the Week
21-26 June	SolarWind-12 Conference in Saint-Malo.
Thu 2 July	3:00pm, Fisher Rm, DWB (map)	Hubble, bubbles, toil and troubles: making sense of cluster cooling flows.	ApJ 681, L65 (2008) ApJ 673, 758 (2008)	Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris)	Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris) Andrei Smolyakov (Saskatoon, Canada)
Thu 9 July	No group meeting.				Igor Rogachevskii (Ben Gurion)
Thu 16 July	3:30pm, Fisher Rm, DWB (map)	Equilibria and instabilities in accretion discs.	AIP Conf. Proc. 1084, 1067 (2008) AIP Conf. Proc. 1084, 1072 (2008)	Claudio Cremaschini (SISSA)	Claudio Cremaschini (SISSA)
18-20 July	Plasmas, Computation & Mathematics Conference in Ambleside
Our Leverhulme Network informal workshop starts on July 23. There will be talks (almost) every day, normally at 11am. Activities will be divided between Oxford and Culham --- see below where we are when.
Fri 24 July OXFORD	11:00am, Fisher Rm, DWB (map)	Gyrokinetics at low beta --- towards a minimal kinetic model of collisionless reconnection and electron heating.	PoP 1, 2843 (1994) JPP 59, 727 (1998) ApJS 182, 310 (2009)	Alessandro Zocco (Culham)	Troy Carter (UCLA) [till Aug 4] Peter Catto (MIT) [from July 29] Claudio Cremaschini (SISSA) Bill Dorland (Maryland) [from July 29] Joachim Hein (Edinburgh) [Aug 4-6] Tobi Heinemann (Cambridge) [July 25-Aug 2] Gabe Plunk (Maryland) François Rincon (Toulouse) [from Aug 2]
Mon 27 July CULHAM	2:00pm, Culham, Pease Rm	Joint seminar with MAST: Suppression of drift-wave turbulence and transport using biasing and Alfven beat waves in LAPD.	PoP 16, 012304 (2009)	Troy Carter (UCLA)
Tue 28 July OXFORD	No group meeting.
Wed 29 July CULHAM	11:00am, Culham, Adams Rm	Joint seminar with TURBSIM: Dual cascade in 2D gyrokinetic turbulence.	PRL 103, 015003 arXiv:0904.0243	Gabe Plunk (Maryland)
Thu 30 July OXFORD	11:00am, Fisher Rm, DWB (map)	MAST: Open physics problems.		Steve Cowley (Culham)
Fri 31 July CULHAM	11:00am, Culham, Robinson Rm	Actual and planned BES turbulence measurements on MAST and comparisons with theory.	Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 10F110 (2006)	Young-chul Kim (Oxford)
Mon 3 Aug CULHAM	2:00pm, Culham, Adams Rm	Thermodynamics of high-flow gyrokinetics.	Phys. Fluids 30, 2784 (1987) PoP 4, 405 (1997) PoP 5, 2560 (1998)	Ian Abel (Oxford)
		Discussion on "intrinsic rotation" in tokamaks.	PPCF 50, 124042 (2008) Nucl. Fusion 47, 1618 (2007)	Troy Carter (UCLA)
Tue 4 Aug OXFORD	2:00pm, Fisher Rm, DWB (map)	ITG instability in the presence of velocity shear.	Phys Fluids B 5, 1581 (1993)	Edmund Highcock (Oxford)
		Instabilities triggered by velocity shear.	PRL 85, 5336 (2000) PoP 12, 062511 (2005)	Bill Dorland (Maryland)
Wed 5 Aug CULHAM	11:00am, Culham, Adams Rm	Joint seminar with TURBSIM: GS2 development meeting.		Joachim Hein (Edinburgh)
Thu 6 Aug CULHAM	2:00pm, Culham	The 11th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Peter Catto (MIT) --- "Kinetic effects in a tokamak pedestal." A. Thyagaraja (Culham) --- "Plasma physics in noninertial frames."
Fri 7 Aug OXFORD	No group meeting.
All activities will be in London (Imperial) from 8 to 21 Aug; the week of Aug 10-14 will be mostly devoted to space plasmas.
Mon 10 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Turbulence anisotropy --- latest single spacecraft observations.	PRL 101, 175005 (2008) ApJ 698, 986 (2009)	Robert Wicks (Imperial)	Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris) [Aug 14] Stuart Bale (Berkeley) Peter Catto (MIT) Bill Dorland (Maryland) Miriam Forman (Stony Brook) Greg Hammett (Princeton) [from Aug 11] Khurom Kiyani (Warwick) Nuno Loureiro (IST, Lisbon) Ryusuke Numata (Maryland) Gabe Plunk (Maryland) François Rincon (Toulouse) Jim Stone (Princeton) [Aug 14] Tomo Tatsuno (Maryalnd)
		Turbulence anisotropy --- geometry and interpretation.		Miriam Forman (Stony Brook)
Tue 11 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Temperature anisotropy instabilities generate magnetic fluctuation power at short wavelengths.	arXiv:0908.1274	Stuart Bale (Berkeley)
	4:00pm 741 Blackett	ITER ordering and electron equations.	Steve's Vienna-08 notes (unfinished) Steve's Vienna-09 talk	Steve Cowley (Culham)
Wed 12 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Dissipation-range turbulence: spectra and anisotropy.	request preprints from Chris	Chris Chen (Imperial)
	4:00pm 741 Blackett	Gyrokinetic simulations of the tearing mode reconnection.	Ryusuke's Vienna poster	Ryusuke Numata (Maryland)
Thu 13 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Global scale-invariance of small-scale magnetic fluctuations in collisionless plasma turbulence as seen by CLUSTER.	arXiv:0906.2830	Khurom Kiyani (Warwick)
Fri 14 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Electron heating in hot accretion flows. (Greg's slides from this talk are here.)	ApJ 667, 714 (2007) Greg's CMSO poster	Greg Hammett (Princeton)
Mon 17 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Update on the Trinity results: modeling of transport in JET and MAST.	arXiv:0901.2868	Michael Barnes (Oxford) Greg Colyer (Culham)	Bill Dorland (Maryland) [till Aug 19] Miriam Forman (Stony Brook) Greg Hammett (Princeton) [till Aug 25] Gabe Plunk (Maryland) Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland) Matt Kunz joins the group this week
	3:00pm 741 Blackett	GS2 development meeting.	Edmund's GS2 wiki	Bill Dorland (Maryland)
Tue 18 Aug CULHAM	11:00am Culham, Adams Rm	Joint seminar with TURBSIM: LES for gyrokinetics. NOTE: last train from Paddington to Culham is at 8:51am!	J. Atmos. Sci. 33, 1521 (1976) PoP 4, 978 (1997) S. Smith's thesis PRL 101, 144501 (2008)	Greg Hammett (Princeton)
Wed 19 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Update on entropy cascades in 2D GK.	PRL 103, 015003 (2009) arXiv:0904.0243	Tomo Tatsuno (Maryland)
Thu 20 Aug LONDON	11:00am 741 Blackett	Third-order moments and local heating rates in the solar wind.		Miriam Forman (Stony Brook)
Fri 21 Aug LONDON	No group meeting.
Back to Oxford...
Thu 27 Aug	No group meeting.
Thu 3 Sept	No group meeting.				Sandor Zoletnik (KFKI, Budapest)
Thu 10 Sept	No group meeting.				Sandor Zoletnik (KFKI, Budapest)

Michaelmas Term 2009