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

DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS IN OXFORD

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 reference is 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

Trinity Term 2009

Thursdays, 3:00pm (coffee at 2:45pm), in the Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre, 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).

For the interested Culhamites: note that there is a train from Culham at 14:01, arriving to Oxford at 14:14.

Date	Time & Place	Topic(s)	Background Reading	Speaker(s)	Visitors During the Week
Thu 16 Apr	No group meeting.
Thu 23 Apr	No group meeting.
Thu 30 Apr	2:00pm, Culham, K1/0/85	The 8th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Nuno Loureiro for further info). Fulvio Militello (Culham) --- "Penetration of external magnetic fields in an inhomogeneous plasma" Richard Dendy (Culham/Warwick) --- "Using mutual information to quantify nonlinear plasma phenomena that are causally linked and spatiotemporally separated"
Thu 7 May	2:30pm, D. Sciama LT, DWB (map)	Cosmological magnetic fields: what do we learn from numerical simulations?	A&A 482, L13 (2008) (precursor to the work to be reported)	Yohan Dubois (Oxford Astro)	Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Thu 14 May	3:00pm, D. Sciama LT, DWB (map)	Plasma and particle transport in drift-wave edge turbulence.	PRL 59, 1581 (1987) PoP 6, 4575 (1999)	Bogdan Hnat (Warwick CFSA)	Bogdan Hnat (Warwick CFSA)
Thu 21 May	2:00pm, Culham	The 9th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Nuno Loureiro  (Culham) --- "Current sheet instability and formation of plasmoid chains" Ben Dudson (York) ---  "Modelling of Edge Localised Modes and RMPs"			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Thu 28 May	3:00pm, D. Sciama LT, DWB (map)	Kinetic simulations of plasma turbulence in the solar wind.	PRL 101, 025006 (2008)	Francesco Califano (U de Pisa)	Francesco Califano (U de Pisa) Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Tue 2 June	12:30pm, BIPAC Seminar Rm, DWB	"Brown-Bag" Astrophysics Seminar by Tobi Heinemann (Cambridge) "The dynamics of spiral density waves in turbulent accretion discs"			Tobi Heinemann (Cambridge) Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
Thu 4 June	3:00pm, D. Sciama LT, DWB (map)	Working group meeting on gyrokinetic simulations of spherical tokamaks: effects of velocity shear, ETG, etc.	Dong & Horton, Phys Fluids B 5, 1581 (1993) (all relevant references on ITG with shear are there!) Draft of Colin's EPS paper available on request.	Colin Roach (Culham)
Thu 11 June	3:00pm, D. Sciama LT, DWB (map)	The plasma boundary in a magnetic field.	Contrib Plasma Phys 48, 400 (2008)	John Allen (Oxford Maths)	Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)
		Extended Ohm's laws in discrete kinetic theory.	J Stat Mech P06003 (2009) JCP 179, 95 (2002)	Paul Dellar (Oxford Maths)
Thu 18 June	2:00pm, Culham	The 10th Culham Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info). Boris Breizman (IFS, Texas) --- "Collisionless expansion of plasma into vacuum" Vladimir Drozdov ---  "Hidden invariants in ideal MHD"			Alessandro Zocco (Politecnico di Torino)

Summer 2009