OXFORD PLASMA THEORY GROUP
THE LEVERHULME TRUST INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON MAGNETISED PLASMA TURBULENCE IN ASTROPHYSICAL AND FUSION PLASMAS

PLASMA SEMINARS/GROUP MEETINGS

The style of these 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.

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.

Autumn 2007; Winter-Spring 2008; Summer 2008;
Autumn 2008; HT 2009; TT 2009; Summer 2009;
MT 2009; HT 2009; TT 2010

Summer 2010

We will normally go to lunch at ~13:00 and the seminars 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

Mon 21 June
Culham
MAST Physics Meeting (contact Jes Christiansen for further info/access to site)
Troy Carter (UCLA)--- Control of pressure gradient driven instabilities through nonlinear
interaction with shear Alfven waves.
Troy Carter
(UCLA)
Bill Dorland
(Maryland)
[June 25-30]
Anvar Shukurov
(Newcastle)
Thu 24 June 2:30pm
Beecroft
Seminar Rm
(map)
Anvar Shukurov (Newcastle) --- What we do not know about galactic magnetic fields, and why.
review-2008
review-2005
review-2004:
astro-ph/0411739


Wed 30 June
12:30pm
IoP in London
(76 Portland Pl)
MAST Upgrade: A User Facility for UK Plasma Physicists
A gala event. Speakers Steve Cowley et al., chair Richard Dendy (CCFE)
Troy Carter
(UCLA)
Bill Dorland
(Maryland)
[June 25-30]
Thu 1 July
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Simon Hooker (Oxford, ALP) --- Laser-driven plasma accelerators.
Physics Today 62, 3, 44 (2009)
Rev Mod Phys 81, 1229 (2009)

Thu 8 July
No seminar Francesco Califano
(Pisa)
[July 4-7]
Troy Carter
(UCLA)
Paolo De Pietro
(Pisa)

Mon 12 July
2:15pm
Culham
MAST Physics Meeting (contact Jes Christiansen for further info/access to site)
George McKee (GA/UW Madison) --- Turbulence dynamics during transport barrier formation via 2D BES measurements on DIII-D.
Troy Carter
(UCLA)
George McKee
(GA/UW Madison)
Thu 15 July
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
George McKee (GA/UW Madison) --- Turbulence properties and dynamics in a high-temperature tokamak plasma.
https://fusion.gat.com/
global/BES

19 July-13 Aug
Newton Institute Programme on Gyrokinetics in Cambridge

Thu 19 Aug
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Young-chul Kim --- Synthetic turbulence with GAMs etc.
Alex Schekochihin --- Subcritical PVG fluctuations.
Michael Barnes & Felix Parra --- 1D ITB formation model.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]


arXiv:1008.2305
arXiv:1007.3390


NB DATE
CHANGE!
Fri 27 Aug

2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Michael Barnes --- The Varenna talk (overview) + current state of the 1D ITB modelling with Trinity.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]

arXiv:1008.2305
arXiv:1007.3390


Thu 2 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Edmund Highcock --- Parallel resolution issues.
Felix Parra --- The intrinsic rotation bifurcation and the 1D ITB/ETB model.
Alex Schekochihin --- Further news on subcritical ITG-PVG fluctuations.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]

arXiv:1008.2305
Cambridge talk
Draft preprint on
subcritical ITG-PVG
available on request


Thu 9 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Yohan Dubois --- Plans for saturated magnetic field in a cluster simulation.
Alex Schekochihin --- Notes from the Ann Arbor conference: will turbulence help prevent the cooling catastrophe?
Matt Kunz --- 1D cluster heating model.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]

arXiv:1004.1851
A&A 482, L13 (2008)
ApJ 712, L194 (2010)
arXiv:1008.5016
arXiv:1003.2719


NB DATE
CHANGE!
Fri 17 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Edmund Highcock --- Report on the Cordoba conference; parallel resolution update.
Michael Barnes --- Report on the Varenna conference.
Felix Parra --- Criterion for the transport bifuraction in a 0D model.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]

arXiv:1007.3390
arXiv:1008.2305
arXiv:1009.0733



Thu 23 Sept
2:00pm
Culham
K1/0/85
The 19th UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info/access to site).
David Dickinson (York) --- The structure of drift micro-instabilities.
Jong-Kyu Park (Princeton) --- Ideal perturbed equilibrium code and its applications to tokamaks.

NB DATE
CHANGE!
Fri 24 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss ongoing projects:
Young-chul Kim --- TEXTOR primer; schemes for measuring perpendicular and parallel turbulence correlations with BES.
Edmund Highcock --- Parallel resolution and PVG spectra update.
Matt Kunz --- 1D cluster heating model: first results.
Greg Colyer --- Update on Trinity simulations of MAST transport.
...
[everything TBC; unannounced/impromptu contributions welcome]


arXiv:1008.2305
arXiv:1003.2719
PoP 17, 56109 (2010)

Michaelmas Term 2010