If
you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the point of doing
it? Pablo
Picasso
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Maynard Keynes
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Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Comings and goings (incl. visitors in town) |
1-4 Sept |
AOPP Dobson Rm |
Leverhulme workshop in Oxford on Waves and
Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified and Electrically Conducting Fluids (organised by Peter Read and Peter Davidson) Sept 1: Stratified Flows Sept 2: Zonal Flows Sept 3: MHD/Astro Sept 4: Oceans/Waves/Turbulence Here is the full programme |
Peter
Davidson (Cambridge) |
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Thu 10 Sept |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Alessandro Geraldini --- Solving the ion problem in the collisionless magnetic presheath [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
J.
Phys D 24, 493 (1991) Phys. Fluids 25, 1628 (1982) |
Peter
Davidson (Cambridge) |
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1-11 Sept |
Conference
at Imperial on mathematics of kinetic systems |
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Thu 17 Sept |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Charles
Gammie (Illinois) on sabbatical at All Souls till end of MT |
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Thu 24 Sept |
11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but I won't be there. Please self-organise! | |||
Thu 1 Oct |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Justin Ball --- Intrinsic momentum transport in tokamaks with tilted elliptical flux surfaces (EFTC invited talk dry run) [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1403.3293 |
Michael
Hardman (adviser M. Barnes) and Archie Bott (advisers G. Gregori and A. Schekochihin) join the group as DPhil students |
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5-8 Oct |
16th European Fusion Theory Conference,
Lisbon |
Christopher
McKee (UC Berkeley) |
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I |
Thu 15 Oct |
11:30 501 DWB |
Plasma Seminar: Charles Gammie (Illinois) --- Extended MHD models for black hole accretion |
ApJ 810, 162
(2015) |
Christopher
McKee (UC Berkeley) |
II |
Mon 19 Oct |
14:00 Sciama LT |
Astrophysics Colloquium: Christopher McKee (UC Berkeley) --- Magnetic fields in star formation |
Christopher
McKee (UC Berkeley) |
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Thu 22 Oct | 11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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III |
Mon 26 Oct |
9:30 Culham |
Special seminar: Jim Callen (UW Madison) --- Effects of resonant 3-D magnetic fields on pedestals followed by discussion on New opportunity for gyrokinetics — unify with tokamak extended MHD and transport modeling? |
Jim
Callen (UW Madison) Christopher McKee (UC Berkeley) |
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Thu 29 Oct | 11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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IV |
Thu 5 Nov |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Fox --- MAST turbulence through the eye of Beam Emission Spectroscopy (Princeton seminar dry run) [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
preprint available from the author |
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V |
Thu 12 Nov | 11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Alex Schekochihin --- Pressure-anisotropy-driven microturbulence and magnetic-field evolution in shearing, collisionless plasma (informal summary) [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
preprint available from the author see also PRL 112, 205003 (2014) MNRAS 440, 3226 (2014) |
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VI |
Thu 19 Nov | 11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but I won't be there. Please self-organise! | ||
16-20 Nov |
APS DPP Meeting in Savannah |
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VII |
Mon 23 Nov |
14:00 D. Sciama |
Astrophysics
Colloquium: Lorenzo Sironi (Harvard/Columbia) --- The journey of high-energy photons in blazar jets |
John
Papaloizou (DAMTP, Cambridge) Lorenzo Sironi (Harvard/Columbia) |
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Thu 26 Nov |
11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but I won't be there. Please self-organise! | |||
Fri 27 Nov |
13:00 Culham K1/0/85 |
UK Fusion Theory
Meeting: Michael Barnes (Oxford) --- Intrinsic rotation driven by turbulence in tokamaks |
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VIII |
Thu 3 Dec |
11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but I won't be there. Please self-organise! | ||
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Tue 8 Dec |
14:00 Audrey Wood Rm |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Alessandro Geraldini --- Gyrokinetic treatment of a grazing angle magnetic presheath |
preprint available from the author |
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Thu 10 Dec |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: 1. Alex Schekochihin --- Numerical dynamo in a collisionless plasma: at last! (briefing on F. Rincon's just-submitted instant-classic paper) 2. Michael Fox --- News from the Savannah APS DPP Meeting [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
F. Rincon's preprint available on request |
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10 |
Thu 17 Dec |
11:30 501 DWB | Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Fox --- Update on MAST turbulence measurements: technique and results ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
preprint available from the author |
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Thu 24 Dec |
Merry Xmas! |
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Thu 31 Dec |
Happy NY! |