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2025
DPhil projects in plasma physics and
astrophysics (including "laboratory
astrophysics" a.k.a. laser plasmas)---under
construction!
PUBLICATIONS (see also Google
Scholar, NASA
ADS)
JOURNAL OF PLASMA
PHYSICS
Oxford Plasma Theory
Seminars TT-2025
The
Occam Lecture @Merton
TEACHING/LECTURE
NOTES
- My classes and
tutes @Merton TT-2025
- Ordinary
Differential Equations, 1st year (Paper CP3),
2018-22
- The Oxford MMathPhys
course:
- Oxford
Plasma Physics Study Group (en lieu of PG
course) 2012-13
- Statistical
Physics, 2nd year (Paper A1), Oxford
2011-18, 22-present
- Dimensional
Analysis, UNIQ
Summer School, Oxford, 2011-present: webpage,
notes (pdf,
480 kb; R.
Fern's typed version)
- Advanced Plasma
Theory, PG course, Imperial College, Spring 2008
- Plasma
Physics,
PG lectures, Imperial College 2006-11: improved
version of the original notes (see sec 3)
- 3 Lectures
on KMHD and Pressure-Anisotropy-Driven
Instabilities, SWIFF
School, Abbazia di Spineto, 6-7.06.12: notes
- Les Houches
Schools on Plasma (Astro)Physics:
- 5 Lectures
on Turbulence, 2nd
International Conference (School) on Advanced
Computing and Simulation, Cambridge,
25-29.06.07: notes
- CMPD/CMSO
Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA:
- 2005
(Alfven-wave turbulence: see this
paper, pdf, 1.6 Mb),
- 2006
(magnetic stochasticity: notes, pdf, 2
Mb),
- 2007
(GK turbulence: see this
paper),
- 2008
(firehose and mirror instabilities: see these notes or these
notes for a much improved version of the
2008 lecture),
- 2009
(dynamo: notes, pdf, 728 kb)
- MHD and Turbulence, Maths Part III, Cambridge,
2005L, 2005M, 2006M; the lecture notes are here;
improved version of the original MHD lectures is here
- Some classic but
hard to get plasma papers
- NRL Plasma Formulary
"ANY
PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY"
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RESEARCH
GROUP & COLLABORATORS:
- DPhil
students:
- Aikya Banerjee
(starting in 2025, Merton; co-supervisor Dr
Archie Bott)
- Will
Clarke (Univ; co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes
& Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)
- Riju Dutta
(Worcester; co-supervisor Dr Daniel Kennedy, UKAEA)
- James
Edmiston (Magdalen; co-supervisors Prof Dmitri
Uzdensky & Dr Michael Fitzgerald, UKAEA)
- Michael
Nastac (St John's; co-supervisor Prof Michael
Barnes)
- Leonard-Petru
Turica (Univ; co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, UKAEA)
- Agi Wierzchucka (Merton;
co-supervisor Prof Dmitri Uzdensky)
- Yujia
Zhang (St Edmund's Hall; co-supervisor Prof
Michael Barnes)
- MMathPhys
and undergraduate students:
- Zheyuan Chen
(Pembroke)
- Surui Li
(Cambridge NatSci; co-supervisor Dr Archie Bott)
- Shuzhe Ren (St
Edmund Hall; co-supervisor Dr Patrick
Reichherzer)
- Postdocs:
- Other
Oxford collaborators:
- Current/recent
external collaborators:
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SEMINARS
& CONFERENCES
Recent (past year)
- Synergistic
approaches to particle transport in magnetized
turbulence: from the laboratory to
astrophysics, PCTS, Princeton, 15-17 Apr 2024
- JPP Board
Meeting, Lisbon Academy of Sciences, 11-12 May
2024
- Physics
Department Colloquium, University of Bath, 7
June 2024
- 7th
ICM Theory & Computation Workshop, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, 24-28 June 2024
- Interconnections
between the Physics of Plasmas and
Self-gravitating Systems, KITP, Santa Barbara,
9-24 July 2024
- Making
waves and instabilities: The excellent
adventures of Steve Balbus in space, Oxford,
29 July - 1 Aug 2024
- 15th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
WPI, Vienna, 5-9 Aug 2024
- Joint
Varenna-Lausanne
International Workshop on
Theory of Fusion Plasmas,
Villa Monastero, Varenna,
2-6 Sept 2024
- 66th
Annual APS DPP Meeting, Atlanta, 7-11
Oct 2024
- PPPL
Theory seminar, 15 Oct 2024
- 2024
MPS Annual Meeting, Simons Foundation,
New York, 17-18 Oct 2024
- SCEECS
Annual Meeting, Simons
Foundation, New York, 27-28
Feb 2025
- The
2025 Sherwood
Fusion Theory
Conference,
New York, 7-9
Apr 2025
Upcoming
- JPP Board Meeting, EPFL, Lausanne,
3-4 May 2025
- 2nd
Simons Symposium on Multi-Scale
Physics, Schloss Elmau, Kruen,
Germany, 9-15 June 2025
- 16th
Plasma Kinetics Working
Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 21 July-1 Aug 2025
- Magnetic
Fields and Cosmic Rays
across Diverse Scales:
What's Next? CfA, Harvard
& Smithsonian,
Camridge, MA 8-12 Sept
2025
- New
Directions in Theoretical
Physics, Higgs Centre, U of
Edinburgh, 6-9 Jan 2026
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Some
memorable workshops at Wolfgang Pauli
Institute in Vienna and other places (including downloads of
talks):
- Minicourse
"Turbulence: Concepts and Methods," WPI, Vienna,
8-10 Oct 2007 and Workshop "Conceptual
Aspects of Turbulence: Weak vs. Strong," WPI,
Vienna, 10-12 Oct 2007
- Workshop/minicourse
"Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence: Mean Fields
vs. Fluctuations," WPI, Vienna, 11-15 Feb 2008
- (1st)
Workshop/minicourse "Kinetic Equations,
Numerical Approaches and Fluid Models for
Plasma Turbulence," WPI, Vienna, 15-19 Sept
2008
- (2nd) Working group
meeting "Kinetic Instabilities, Plasma
Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection," WPI,
Vienna, 16-20 Feb 2009
- (3rd)
Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER,"
WPI, Vienna, 15-26 March 2010
- Programme
on Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical
Plasmas, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 19
July - 13 Aug 2010
- 4th
Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 3-17 April 2011
- 5th
Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 19-31 March 2012
- 6th
Gyrokinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 18-29 March 2013
- 7th
(Astro)Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
WPI, Vienna, 24 March - 6 April 2014
- 8th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 20 July-2 Aug 2015
- 9th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 24 July-5 Aug 2016
- 1st
JPP Frontiers in Plasma Physics Conference,
Spineto, Tuscany, 24-26 May 2017
- 10th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 17-28 July 2017
- 11th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 23 July-3 Aug 2018
- Simons
Program on Plasma Physics and Astrophysics,
NBIA, Copenhagen, 20 Aug-15 Sept 2018
- 12th Plasma Kinetics
Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, 29 July-9
Aug 2019
- 13th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 25 July-5 Aug 2022
- 14th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 24 July-4 Aug 2023
- 15th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
WPI, Vienna, 5-9 Aug 2024
- 16th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
WPI, Vienna, 21 July-1 Aug 2025
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