OXFORD PLASMA THEORY GROUP
THE LEVERHULME TRUST INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON MAGNETISED PLASMA TURBULENCE

PLASMA SEMINARS AND GROUP MEETINGS

The style of the 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; the seminars are also announced via the department's seminar server (group meetings are not). 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.

"Group meetings to discuss current affairs" will discuss current affairs (ongoing projects, new litearture etc.). They are open to all members of the Oxford Plasma Theory Group (which is easy to join). While some expected contributions are pre-announced, everything is TBC and people wishing their work to be discussed can volunteer contributions without prior notice. Unlike for the seminars, there will not be full-spam-list email reminders of the group meetings.

Past seminar database:
Autumn 2007; Winter-Spring 2008; Summer 2008; Autumn 2008; HT 2009; TT 2009; Summer 2009; MT 2009; HT 2009; TT 2010; Summer 2010; MT 2010; HT 2011; TT 2011; Summer 2011; MT 2011

 
Hilary Term 2012

The seminars/group meetings 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
(see schedule below)

Thu 5 Jan
No seminar

0
Tue 10 Jan
12:30pm
BIPAC
Astrophysics Brown Bag Seminar:
Tony Bell (ALP/Oxford) --- TBA

Thu 13 Jan
No seminar
I

Tue 17 Jan
2:15pm
Dobson Rm,
AOPP
AOPP Seminar:
Steve Tobias (Leeds) --- Direct statistical simulation of jets and instabilities
Steve Tobias
(Leeds)
Thu 19 Jan
2:00pm
Culham
K1/0/85
The 32nd UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Sarah Newton for further info/access to site).
Joseph Parker (Oxford) --- Accurate representation of velocity space using truncated Hermite expansions
Yueqiang Liu (CCFE) --- Toroidal modelling of plasma response to external 3D magnetic fields
II
Thu 26 Jan
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
Edmund Highcock --- Update on the zero-turbulence manifold in differentially rotating plasma
Greg Colyer --- Update on ETG simulations
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]

arXiv:1111.4929

III
Thu 2 Feb
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Richard Kerswell (Bristol) --- Tutorial on the transition to turbulence in shear flows
PRL 105, 154502 (2010)
PRL 99, 034502 (2007)
Nonlinearity 18 R17 (2005)
(see also Woods Hole lectures
linked from his website)
Richard Kerswell
(Bristol)
Sergey Komarov
(MIPT, Moscow)
IV
Mon 6 Feb
2:15pm
Sciama LT,
DWB
Astrophysics Colloquium:
Eugene Churazov (MPA, Garching) --- Gas density fluctuations in galaxy clusters
Eugene Churazov
(MPA, Garching)
Sergey Komarov
(MIPT, Moscow)
Mateusz Ruszkowski
(Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Tue 7 Feb
12:30pm
BIPAC
Conf Rm,
DWP
Astrophysics Theory Brown Bag Seminar:
Mateusz Ruszkowski (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor) --- The Flying Spaghetti Monster: the impact of magnetic fields on ram pressure stripping in galaxies

Thu 9 Feb
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
Edmund Highcock & Joe Parker --- Update on new methods for numerical GK
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]

JFM 664, 407 (2010)
V
Thu 16 Feb
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
Alfred Mallet --- Update on the numerical implementation and plans for low-beta gyrokinetics
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]

PoP 18, 102309 (2011)
Steve Balbus
(ENS, Paris)
VI
Thu 23 Feb
2:00pm
Culham
K1/0/85
The 33rd UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Sarah Newton for further info/access to site).
Colin Roach (CCFE) --- Pushing gyrokinetics to the limit
Clarisse Bourdelle (CEA, Cadarache) --- Gyrokinetic quasi-linear modelling of turbulent transport in tokamaks

VII
Thu 1 Mar
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Hyeon Park (POSTECH, Korea) --- 2D/3D Visualization of MHD instabilites and turbulence in KSTAR

Hyeon Park (POSTECH, Korea)
VIII
Thu 8 Mar
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
Young-chul Ghim --- Calculating the spatial correlations in plasma turbulence from MAST BES measurements
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]


9
Thu 15 Mar
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
we should perhaps discuss plans for Vienna + whatever else
Young-chul Ghim --- Some new data for discussion
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]



19-30 Mar
4th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna


Trinity Term 2012