Seminars Hilary Term 2010

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

PLASMA SEMINARS/DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS

The style of these seminars 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 references are 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 receive email updates on these seminars.

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; TT 2009; Summer 2009;
MT 2009

Hilary Term 2010

We will normally go to lunch at ~13:00 and the seminars will start at 14:30 in 501 DWB ("the Seminar Room"), unless otherwise specified below.

For the Culhamites: there is a train from Culham to Oxford at 14:01.

Related series: TURBSIM seminars at Culham

Wk	Date	Time & place	Speaker & Topic	Background reading	Visitors in town during the week
	4-8 Jan	6th Winter School on Plasma Physics, UCLA
0	Thu 14 Jan	No seminar.			Alexey Iskakov (IPU RAN, Moscow) Maya Ross joins the group this week as an MPhys student
I	Mon 18 Jan	3:00pm M. Wood LT	Joint symposium of ALP, CMP and TP: Light for measurement and control (organised by A. Turberfield) Speakers A. Kuhn (ALP), R. Berry (CMP), A. Schekochihin & Y. Kim (TP)		Alexey Iskakov (IPU RAN, Moscow) Jeremy Sanders (IoA, Cambridge)
I	Thu 21 Jan	2:30pm 501 DWB (map)	Jeremy Sanders (IoA, Cambridge) --- The nature of the intracluster medium: what we can learn from X-ray observations.	arXiv:0911.0763 arXiv:0910.3793 MNRAS 393, 71 (2009) MNRAS 381, 1381 (2007)
II	Thu 28 Jan	2:00pm Culham	The 15th UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info/access to site). Ian Chapman (CCFE) --- Saturated ideal modes in advanced tokamak plasmas Wayne Arter (CCFE) --- Classical fluid dynamical analogues of tokamak behaviour?		Alexey Iskakov (IPU RAN, Moscow) [leaving Jan 26]
III	Thu 4 Feb	2:30pm 501 DWB (map)	Olaf Davis (Oxford, Astro) --- Relativistic electron conduction in cosmic plasmas (an introductory tutorial).	AJ 119, 1111 (2000) ApJ 520, 204 (1999)
IV	Tue 9 Feb	12:30pm BIPAC Conf. Rm.	Astrophysics Brown Bag Seminar: Matt Kunz (Oxford, ThPhys) --- A new, thermally stable, heating mechanism for galaxy cluster cores.	preprint available from Matt on request	Walter Guttenfelder (Warwick) Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
IV	Thu 11 Feb	2:30pm 501 DWB (map)	Walter Guttenfelder (Warwick) --- Gyrokinetic analysis of MAST transport scaling with collisionality.	Slides on MAST collisionality scan Microtearing sim-s: PPCF 49, 1113 (2007)	Walter Guttenfelder (Warwick) Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
V	15-17 Feb	HOW Rm Culham	JET Transport Taskforce Meeting at Culham		Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
V	Thu 18 Feb	2:30pm 501 DWB (map)	Peter de Vries (JET) --- Internal transport barriers and rotational shear in tokamaks. slides, ppt, 2.3Mb	Nucl Fusion 49, 075007 (2009) PRL 102, 175002 (2009)	Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
VI	Thu 25 Feb	2:00pm Culham	The 16th UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info/access to site). Young-chul Kim (Oxford) --- Generating synthetic 2D BES data. Felix Parra (Oxford) --- Sources of intrinsic rotation in the low flow ordering.		Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
VII	Thu 4 Mar	No seminar			Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
VIII	Thu 11 Mar	No seminar			Mark Rosin (Cambridge)
	15-27 Mar	Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER" at WPI, Vienna

Trinity Term 2010