| Date | Time | Topic | Background Reading | Main Speaker(s) | Visitors Expected |
| 3-20 Jan | All activities are transferred to Los Angeles. | ||||
| Tue 22 Jan | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 29 Jan | 1pm | Alpha particles and Alfven waves (continued from Nov 6). | Posted after the fact: these are the papers Ian mentioned in the meeting PRL 34, 1428 (1975) Phys Fluids 24, 1508 (1981) Phys Fluids B 1, 1949 (1989) |
Ian Abel | |
| Tue 5 Feb | 1pm | Tearing instability of long current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains (continued from Oct 16). | PoP 14. 100703 (2007) | Nuno Loureiro | Ravi Samtaney (PPPL) NB: Dr Samtaney is giving a seminar in Culham on Friday, 8 Feb @11am |
| 2:30pm | Adaptive mesh refinement methods for MHD (with examples from magnetic reconnection simulations). This part of the meeting is open to the public. | Dr Samtaney's course notes | Ravi Samtaney | ||
| 10-15 Feb | Minicourse and workshop in Vienna. | ||||
| Tue 19 Feb | 1pm | Turbulence measurements in the solar wind. | PPCF 47, B705 (2005) Posted after the meeting: Kareem's paper ApJ 654, L103 (2007) |
Chris Chen | |
| Tue 26 Feb | 1pm | Gyrokinetics in a sheared slab (continued from Nov 20). | see the readings for Nov 20 | Edmund Highcock and Nuno Loureiro | |
| Tue 4 Mar | 1pm | Nonlinear theory of the parallel firehose instability with FLR effects. | PRL 100, 081301 (2008) (our earlier work on the subject; there is more progress now!) | Mark Rosin | François Rincon (Toulouse) |
| Tue 11 Mar | 1pm | Nonlinear theory of the parallel firehose instability with FLR effects (continued from Mar 4). | see the readings for Mar 4 | Mark Rosin and Francois Rincon | François Rincon (Toulouse) |
| Tue 18 Mar | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 25 Mar | 1pm | Model collision operators for numerical gyrokinetics. | some background material can be found in Appendix B of arXiv:0704.0044 | Ian Abel and Michael Barnes | Michael Barnes (Maryland) |
| 1-4 Apr | IOP Plasma Meeting | ||||
| Tue 8 Apr | 1pm | Shear dynamo. | arXiv:0710.3359 | Tarek Yousef | Geoffroy Lesur (Cambridge), François Rincon (via skype from Toulouse) |
| Density waves in accretion discs (and how we might use these techniques to solve the shear dynamo problem). | A&A 443, 1067 (2005) | Tobi Heinemann | |||
| Tue 15 Apr | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 22 Apr | No group meeting. | ||||
| Tue 29 Apr | 1pm | Shearing box, MRI turbulence etc. --- a tutorial | Steve Balbus's review ARA&A 41, 555 (2003) (read the sections on MHD) | Geoffroy Lesur | Geoffroy Lesur (Cambridge) |
| Tue 6 May | 1pm | Fast-particle diagnostics, hybrid fluid-kinetic models for coupling MHD activity to fast particle kinetics, fast particle orbits in a real tokamak and why we care (continued from Jan 29). | On gamma-ray diagnostics, read Nucl. Fusion 42, 999 (2002) Nucl. Fusion 45, L21 (2005) | Ian Abel | |
| Tue 13 May | 2:30pm | Implicit methods for MHD. This part of the meeting is open to the public. | Dr Samtaney's course notes | Ravi Samtaney | François
Rincon (Toulouse), Ravi Samtaney (PPPL) |
| Tue 20 May | 1pm | Transport modelling for tokamaks: TGLF model and applications to MAST. | PoP 14, 055909 (2007) | Greg Colyer | François Rincon (Toulouse) |
| Tue 27 May | No group meeting. |