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2022
DPhil projects in plasma physics and
astrophysics (incl. lab astro)
PUBLICATIONS (see also Google
Scholar, NASA
ADS)
JOURNAL
OF PLASMA PHYSICS
PLASMA
PHYSICS @ OXFORD
MERTON PHYSICS
TEACHING/LECTURE
NOTES
- Ordinary Differential
Equations (Paper CP3), 2018-present
- 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
- 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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These selected papers reflect my current
preoccupations:
(complete list)
- Plasma
dynamo: speculations,
simulations
- MHD
dynamo: theoretical,
experimental
- High-beta
collisionless plasma dynamics: turbulence,
waves,
heat
transport
- Galaxy
clusters: turbulence
and heating
- Kinetic
plasma turbulence in phase space: numerical,
theoretical,
and even
more theoretical
- ITG
turbulence, ETG
turbulence, and sheared
turbulence in tokamaks: gyrokinetic
theory, simulations
and experimental
measurements
- MHD
turbulence: weak,
critically
balanced, intermittent,
reconnecting,
decaying,
imbalanced
- Low-beta
collisionles plasma turbulence: models
of, reconnecting,
imbalanced
- Energy
partition (heating) by plasma turbulence: numerics,
theory
- Collisionless
relaxation and statistical mechanics of
collisionless plasma: still
learning the ropes
RESEARCH
GROUP & COLLABORATORS:
- DPhil
students:
- Will
Clarke (Univ, co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes
& Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)
- Michael
Nastac (St John's; co-supervisor Prof Michael
Barnes)
- Robbie
Ewart (Balliol)
- Toby
Adkins (Merton; co-supervisor Dr Colin Roach, UKAEA)
- David
Hosking (Merton; co-supervisor Prof Steve
Balbus)
- MMathPhys
student:
- Postdocs:
- Michael
Hardman (co-supervisor Prof Michael Barnes)
- Juan Ruiz
Ruiz (co-supervisors Prof Michael Barnes &
Dr Jon Hillesheim, UKAEA)
- Denis
St-Onge (co-supervisor Prof Michael Barnes)
- Other
current Oxford collaborators:
- Prof Steve
Balbus (New/Astro)
- Prof
Michael Barnes (Univ/TP)
- Dr Anthony
Field, Dr Plamen Ivanov, Dr Colin Roach (UKAEA)
- Prof
Gianluca Gregori (LMH/ALP)
- Current/recent
external collaborators:
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SEMINARS
& CONFERENCES
Recent
- 12th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 29 July-9 Aug, 2019
- Multiscale
Phenomena in Plasma Astrophysics, KITP, Santa
Barbara, 12 Aug -18 Oct 2019
- Plasma
Seminar, Colorado University, Boulder, 27 Sept
2019
- Russian
National Festival of Science, Moscow, 11 Oct
2020 [virtual] --- streamed here
- International
Workshop on Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense
Lasers, IIT, Hyderabad, India, 7-8 Dec 2020
[virtual]
- Virtual
Nordic Dynamo Seminar, 2 Feb 2021
Upcoming
- High-Energy
Plasma Phenomena in Astrophysics, MIAPP, Munich,
19-30 July 2021 [virtual]
- MIT
Astrophysics Colloquium, 21 Sept 2021 [virtual]
- Magnetohydrodynamics:
Physics for the 21st Century 2021, Lorentz
Center, Leiden, 11-15 Oct 2021 [virtual]
- 63rd
APS DPP Meeting, Pittsburgh 8-12 Nov 2021
- NORDITA
Winter School on MHD, Plasma and Gravitational
Waves, Stockhom 3-14 Jan 2022
- 13th Plasma
Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna, TBA
2022
- Simons
Symposium on Multi-Scale Physics, TBA
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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
- Gyrokinetic
Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid,
18-29 June 2012 (organised by F. Parra and I.
Calvo)
- 6th
Gyrokinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 18-29 March 2013
- Stability,
Energetics and Turbulent Transport in
Astrophysical, Fusion and Solar Plasmas,
Princeton, 8-12 April 2013 (organised by M.
Kunz)
- 7th
(Astro)Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting,
WPI, Vienna, 24 March - 6 April 2014
- 2nd
Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting,
CIEMAT, Madrid, 30 June-11 July 2014 (organised
by I. Calvo and F. Parra)
- 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
- 3rd
Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting,
CIEMAT, Madrid, 26-30 Sept 2016 (organised by I.
Calvo, F. Parra et al.)
- 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
- 4th
Kinetic Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT,
Madrid 17-21 Sept 2018 (organised by I. Calvo,
F. Parra et al.)
- 12th
Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, WPI,
Vienna, 29 July-9 Aug 2019
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