Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week (see schedule below) |
Thu 5 Jan |
No seminar |
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0 |
Tue 10 Jan |
12:30pm BIPAC |
Astrophysics Brown Bag Seminar: Tony Bell (ALP/Oxford) --- TBA |
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Thu 13 Jan |
No seminar |
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I |
Tue 17 Jan |
2:15pm Dobson Rm, AOPP |
AOPP Seminar: Steve Tobias (Leeds) --- Direct statistical simulation of jets and instabilities |
Steve Tobias (Leeds) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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] |
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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] |
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19-30 Mar |
4th
Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna |