2023
DPhil projects in plasma physics and
astrophysics (including "laboratory
astrophysics" a.k.a. laser plasmas)
PUBLICATIONS (see also Google
Scholar, NASA
ADS)
JOURNAL
OF PLASMA PHYSICS
Oxford Plasma Theory
Seminars MT-2023
The
Occam Lecture @Merton
TEACHING/LECTURE
NOTES
- My classes and
tutes @Merton HT-2023
- 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
"ANY
PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY"
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RESEARCH
GROUP & COLLABORATORS:
- DPhil
students:
- Will
Clarke (Univ; co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes
& Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)
- Robbie
Ewart (Balliol)
- Michael
Nastac (St John's; co-supervisor Prof Michael
Barnes)
- Leonard-Petru
Turica (Univ; co-supervisor Dr Anthony Field, UKAEA)
- Yujia
Zhang (St Edmund's Hall; co-supervisor Prof
Michael Barnes)
- MMathPhys
and summer students:
- Aneesh Agrawal
(Cambridge; co-supervisor Archie Bott)
- Param Luhadiya
(Merton; co-supervisors Plamen Ivanov & Toby
Adkins)
- Agi Wierzchucka
(Merton; MMathPhys dissertation from Oct 2023)
- Postdocs:
- Dr Barry
Ginat (Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow from Oct 2023)
- Dr
Plamen Ivanov (EPSRC PDRA; co-supervisor Prof
Michael Barnes)
- Dr
Nicolas Lopez (co-supervisor Prof Gianluca
Gregori)
- Dr
Patrick Reichherzer (co-supervisor Prof
Gianluca Gregori)
- Dr Juan
Ruiz Ruiz (EPSRC Fellow)
- Other
Oxford collaborators:
- Prof
Michael Barnes (Univ; TP)
- Dr Archie
Bott (Trinity; ALP & TP)
- Prof
Gianluca Gregori (LMH; ALP)
- Dr Anthony
Field, Dr Daniel Kennedy, Dr Michael Fitzgerald,
Dr Bhavin Patel, Dr Colin Roach (UKAEA)
- Dr
Michael Hardman, Dr Alsu Sladkomedova (Tokamak
Energy Ltd)
- Prof
Dmitri Uzdensky (TP, from September 2024)
- Current/recent
external collaborators:
- Dr Toby
Adkins, Dr Romain Meyrand, Dr Jonathan Squire
(U of Otago)
- Prof Steve
Cowley, Dr David Hosking, Prof Matt Kunz, Prof
Felix Parra, Prof Eliot Quataert (Princeton)
- Prof Ben
Chandran (U of New Hampshire)
- Dr Eugene
Churazov (MPA, Garching)
- Prof Bill
Dorland (U of Maryland)
- Prof Yohei
Kawazura (Tohoku U)
- Prof Nuno
Loureiro (MIT)
- Dr
Francois Rincon (U de Toulouse)
- Prof Luis
Silva (IST Lisbon)
- Prof Irina
Zhuravleva (Chicago)
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SEMINARS
& CONFERENCES
Recent
- 6th
ICM Theory and Computation Workshop, NBIA,
Copenhagen, 15-19 Aug 2022
- High-Energy
Astronomy Seminar, MPA, Garching, 2 Sept 2022
- IAS/Princeton
Joint Astrophysics Colloquium, Princeton,
4 Oct 2022
- 2022
MPS Annual Meeting, Simons Foundation,
New York, 13-14 Oct 2022
- Working
across scales in complex systems, Atlanta, 12-14
April 2023
- Plasmas
in Extreme Environments: from Astrophysics to
the Laboratory, Les Houches, France, 1-12 May
2023
- 14th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 24 July-4 Aug 2023
Upcoming
- Simons Symposium on
Multi-Scale Physics, Schloss Elmau, Kruen,
Germany, 27 Aug-2 Sept 2023
- Colloque
de l'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 22 Sept
2023
- Cosmic
Turbulence and Magnetic Fields: Physics of
Baryonic Matter Across Time and Scales, IESC,
Cargese, Corsica, 25-29 Sept 2023
- Interconnections
between the Physics of Plasmas and
Self-gravitating Systems, KITP, Santa Barbara,
3 June - 26 July 2024
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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, TBA 2024
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