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) |
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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 |
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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] |
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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) |
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Thu 8 July |
No seminar | Francesco
Califano (Pisa) [July 4-7] Troy Carter (UCLA) Paolo De Pietro (Pisa) |
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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) |
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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 |
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19 July-13 Aug |
Newton
Institute Programme on Gyrokinetics in Cambridge |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |