Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week (see schedule below) |
Thu 22 Sept |
4:00pm 501 DWB (map) |
1) Greg Howes (Iowa)
--- Kinetic turbulence in space and astrophysical plasmas: theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations 2) Russell Kulsrud (Princeton) --- Petschek reconnection |
PRL 107, 035004 (2011) PoP 17, 022105 (2010) arXiv:1106.4327 |
Greg Howes, Jason TenBarge (Iowa) Russell Kulsrud (Princeton) |
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Thu 29 Sept |
2:00pm Culham |
The 29th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Per Helander (IPP Greifswald) --- On optimised stellarators Steve Fitzgerald (CCFE) --- Modelling dislocations in anisotropic crystals |
Per Helander (Greifswald) |
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0 |
Thu 6 Oct |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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I |
10-12 Oct |
JET, Culham |
13th H-Mode Workshop at JET |
Paola
Mantica (IFP-CNR, Milan) Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
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Mon 10 Oct |
11:30am |
Atomic and Laser Physics Seminar: Don Lamb (FLASH) --- FLASH code and its applications to high-energy-density plasmas |
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Thu
13 Oct |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Paola
Mantica (IFP-CNR, Milan) --- Ion heat transport studies in JET |
PRL 107, 135004 (2011) + preprint (pdf, 1.4Mb) |
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II |
Thu 20 Oct |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Chris Ridgers (Oxford/ALP) --- QED effects in laser-solid interactions |
PRL 101, 200403 (2008) PRL 106, 035001 (2011) PPCF 51, 085008 (2009) |
Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
III |
Thu 27 Oct |
4:30pm 501 DWB (map) | Young-chul Ghim (Oxford/TP) --- Measurements of toroidal and poloidal plasma flow velocity with 2D BES on MAST. |
preprint from author, on request |
Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
IV |
Tue 1 Nov |
3:30pm Sciama LT, DWB |
Special Astrophysics Colloquium: Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris) --- Unravelling the problem of solar rotation |
Steve Balbus (ENS, Paris) Emmanuel Dormy (ENS, Paris) Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
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Thu 3 Nov |
2:00pm Culham |
The 30th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). John Lonnroth (JET) --- Predictive modelling of the sensitivity of edge transport barrier performance Raoul Trines (RAL) --- Channelling, filamentation and bubble formation in laser-driven nuclear fusion |
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V |
Thu 10 Nov |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Brian Reville (Oxford/ALP) --- A filamentation instability for streaming cosmic rays |
arXiv:1109.5690 |
Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
VI |
Thu 17 Nov |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Paola
Mantica (IFP-CNR, Milan) Jan Weiland (Chalmers) |
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VII |
Thu 24 Nov |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Edmund Highock --- Update on critical thresholds for PVG turbulence ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1111.4929 |
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VIII |
Thu 1 Dec |
2:00pm Culham |
The 31st UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Alexey Mishchenko (IPP Greifswald) --- Gyrokinetic PIC simulations of global MHD instabilities Nathalie Tronko (Warwick) --- Higher-order Hamiltonian guiding center theory |
Alexey Mishchenko (IPP Greifswald) |
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9 |
Fri 9 Dec |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) | Peter Davidson (Cambridge) --- Energy decay laws in rotating, stratified and MHD turbulence |
JFM 564, 455 (2006) JFM 632, 329 (2009) JFM 651, 295 (2010) JFM 663, 268 (2010) |
Peter Davidson (Cambridge) |
10 |
Thu 15 Dec |
No seminar |
Chris Chen (Berkeley) |
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Thu 22 Dec |
Chris Chen (Berkeley) |
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Thu 29 Dec |
No seminar |
Chris Chen (Berkeley) |
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Fri 6 Jan |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Fri 13 Jan |
3:30pm 501 DWB (map) | ||||
I |
Tue 17 Jan |
2:15pm Dobson Rm, AOPP |
AOPP Seminar: Steve Tobias (Leeds) --- TBA |
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). Yueqiang Liu (CCFE) --- TBA Joseph Parker (Oxford) --- TBA |
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II |
Thu 26 Jan |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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III |
Thu 2 Feb |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Richard Kerswell (Bristol) --- <Tutorial on subcritical turbulence in shear flows>, TBC |
Richard Kerswell (Bristol) Sergey Komarov (MIPT, Moscow) |
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IV |
Mon 6 Feb |
2:15pm Sciama LT, DWB |
Astrophysics Colloquium: Eugene Churazov (MPA, Garching) --- TBC |
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) --- TBC |
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Thu 9 Feb |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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V |
Thu 16 Feb |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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VI |
Thu 23 Feb |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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VII |
Thu 1 Mar |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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VIII |
Thu 8 Mar |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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9 |
Thu 15 Mar |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
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19-30 Mar |
4th Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting, WPI, Vienna 19-31 March 2012 | ||||
31 Mar-3 Apr |
Sherwood Meeting |