Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week |
Thu 30 Sept |
No seminar |
Jim Stone (Princeton) |
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Thu 7 Oct |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Felix Parra --- Optimal momentum injection. Edmund Highcock --- Update on subcritical turbulence. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1009.0733 |
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I |
Thu 14 Oct | 2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Alfred Mallet --- KAW turbulence at sub-Larmor scales: scalings, anisotropy, etc. in AstroGK simulations by Greg Howes. Edmund Highcock --- Update on subcritical turbulence. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 100, 065004 (2008) arXiv:1004.0279 |
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4:30pm (coffee 4pm wine 5:30) L2 Maths Institute |
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Julian Hunt (UCL) --- Thin shear layers: the key to turbulence structure. |
JHER 4, 75 (2010) |
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II |
Tue 19 Oct |
12:00pm 501 DWB |
Astrophysics Theory Brown Bag Seminar: Alex Schekochihin (Oxford, ThPhys) --- Fast magnetic reconnection in unstable current sheets. |
arXiv:1008.3330 | |
Wed 20 Oct |
2:00pm Culham HOW Rm |
CCFE Colloquium (contact Anthony Webster for
further info/access to site). Sandra Chapman (Warwick) --- Plasma turbulence in the solar wind. |
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Thu 21 Oct | 2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Barnes & Felix Parra --- Report from the IAEA conference. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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III |
Thu 28 Oct |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Klara Schure (Oxford, ALP) --- Spectra and energies of cosmic rays in young supernova remnants. |
MNRAS 406, 2633 (2010) |
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Fri 29 Oct |
11:45am Dartington House |
OCIAM Industrial & Interdisciplinary Workshops: John Allen (Oxford, OCIAM) --- The Bennett pinch revisited. |
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IV |
Thu 4 Nov |
2:00pm Culham K1/0/38 |
The 20th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact Chris Ham for
further info/access to site). Howard Wilson (York) --- The theory of small scale tearing modes in magnetised plasmas: an overview. Koki Imada (York) --- Collision frequency dependence of NTM threshold. |
Daniel Dunai (RMKI Budapest) |
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Thu 5 Nov |
10:00am Culham Pease Rm |
Special meeting to discuss upcoming BES measurements of turbulence on MAST: physics, strategy, modelling (contact Anthony Field for
further info/access to site). |
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V |
Thu 11 Nov |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Gianluca Gregori (Oxford, ALP) --- Laboratory experiments on magnetic field generation in collisionless shocks. | Daniel Dunai (RMKI Budapest) |
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VI |
Thu 18 Nov | No seminar |
Daniel Dunai (RMKI Budapest) |
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VII |
Wed 24 Nov |
2:00pm Culham HOW Rm |
CCFE Colloquium (contact Anthony Webster for
further info/access to site). Peter Davidson (Cambridge) --- Structure formation in rapidly rotating turbulence. |
Daniel Dunai (RMKI Budapest) |
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Thu 25 Nov |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Barnes & Edmund Highcock --- Report from the APS DPP Meeting. Greg Colyer --- MAST transport simulations update. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Fri 26 Nov |
2:15pm D Sciama LT |
Theoretical Physics Colloquium: Felix Parra (Oxford ThPhys) --- Rotation in nuclear fusion devices. |
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VIII |
Wed 1 & Thu 2 Dec |
All day Culham |
MAST Research Forum-2010 |
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9 |
Thu 9 Dec | 1:30pm Culham Zeta Rm |
The 21th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact Chris Ham for
further info/access to site).
Dr Rob Akers (CCFE) --- Compute Unified Device Architecture (or how not to be driven up the wall). Dr Ruth Bamford (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) --- Small scale natural and artificial cavities in space and laboratory plasmas. |
Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley) [at Imperial] |
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Thu 16 Dec | No seminar |
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Thu 23 Dec |
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Thu 30 Dec |
No seminar |