Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week (see schedule below) |
9 |
Thu 30 June |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Filomena Nave and Felix Parra --- New results on intrinsic rotation (the alpha scaling works!) ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Chris
Chen (Berkeley) [in London] |
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10 |
Thu 7 July |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Stuart
Bale (UC Berkeley) --- Signatures of instabilities associated with solar wind heat flux |
Rob
Jeffrey joins plasma group Stuart Bale [6-9], Chris Chen (UC Berkeley) [4,6] Tim Horbury (Imperial) [6-7] George McKee (UW Madison/GA) Ravi Samtaney (KAUST) |
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Fri 8 July |
9:30am Culham |
Physics Meeting at Culham, including first report on the BES data (A. Field, Y. Ghim) and a talk by George McKee (UW Madison/GA) on BES results from DIIID and NSTX (contact William Morris for further info/access to site). | |||
Fri 15 July |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Martin Pessah (Nils Bohr
Inst.) --- Parasitic instabilities feeding off the magnetorotational
instability |
ApJ 716, 1012
(2010) |
Martin Pessah (Nils Bohr Inst.) |
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Wed 20 July |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Bill Dorland --- Long-wavelength behaviour of ITG turbulence and related issues ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1104.4514 |
Bill
Dorland (Maryland) Jungpyo Lee (MIT) |
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Thu 21 July |
2:00pm Culham K1/0/85 |
The 27th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Samuli Saarelma (CCFE) --- Global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations of MAST plasmas Michael Barnes (Oxford) --- Transport scalings for critically-balanced ITG turbulence in tokamaks |
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Mon 25 July |
11:00am 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Alfred Mallet --- 3D anisotropy of MHD turbulence (in solar wind and in a numerical box) ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 96, 115002 (2006) arXiv:1009.0662 |
Bill
Dorland, Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu 28 July |
11:00am 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Greg Colyer --- Update on ETG turbulence Young-chul Kim --- Update on MAST BES turbulence measurements ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Tue 2 Aug |
12:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Edmund Highcock --- Subcritical turbulence ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1105.5750 |
Grigol Gogoberidze (Warwick), Bill Dorland, Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu 4 Aug |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Grigol Gogoberidze (Warwick) --- Lagrangian frequency spectrum of MHD turbulence |
PRL 105, 235005 (2010) |
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Thu 11 Aug |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Andrey Beresnyak (LANL) --- Basic MHD turbulence |
PRL 106, 075001 (2011) ApJ 702, 460 (2009) |
Andrey
Beresnyak (LANL) [10-12], Bill Dorland, Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) Miriam Forman (Stony Brook) Tim Horbury, Robert Wicks (Imperial) Henrik Latter (Cambridge) [8] Nuno Loureiro (IST, Lisbon) Antoine Riols (Toulouse) |
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Fri 12 Aug |
11:00am 501 DWB (map) |
Andrey Beresnyak (LANL) --- Magnetic field amplification in the supernova shock precursor |
ApJ 728, 60 (2011) ApJ, 707, 1541 (2009) |
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Tue 16 Aug |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Nuno Loureiro (IST, Lisbon) --- Electron heating in collisionless reconnection Antoine Riols (Toulouse) --- Test particle acceleration in 3D plasmoid-dominated reconnection sites ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1104.4622 Nature 443, 553 (2006) |
Bill
Dorland, Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) Greg Hammett (Princeton) Nuno Loureiro (IST, Lisbon) Antoine Riols (Toulouse) Ravi Samtaney (KAUST) |
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Thu 18 Aug |
2:00pm Culham |
The 28th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Bill Dorland (Maryland) --- Turbulent heating in gyrokinetics Greg Hammett (Princeton) --- Assorted thoughts on ETG transport scalings, momentum ordering issues, and algorithms for transport-turbulence coupling |
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Mon 22 Aug |
11:00am 501 DWB (map) |
Tobias Heinemann (IAS, Princeton) --- Large-scale magnetic field generation by randomly forced shearing waves |
arXiv:0810.2225 |
Greg
Hammett (Princeton) Tobi Heinemann (IAS) Nuno Loureiro (IST, Lisbon) Antoine Riols (Toulouse) |
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Thu 1 Sept |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Greg
Hammett (Princeton) |
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Thu 8 Sept |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Thu 15 Sept |
No seminar |
Participants (locals in straight font, visitors in italic, confirmed in bold) |
July |
August |
September |
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27-3 |
4-10 |
11-17 |
18-24 |
25-31 |
1-7 |
8-14 |
15-21 |
22-28 |
29-4 |
5-11 |
12-18 |
19-25 |
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Ian Abel |
Merton |
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Stuart
Bale |
Berkeley |
6-9 |
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Michael
Barnes |
Oxford |
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Andrey
Beresnyak |
LANL |
8-14 |
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Chris
Chen |
Berkeley |
Ldn |
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Greg
Colyer |
Oxford |
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Jack Connor |
Culham |
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Steve Cowley |
Culham |
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Paul Dellar |
Oxford |
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Bill Dorland | Maryland |
arr19 |
lv19 |
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Daniel Dunai |
RMKI Budapest |
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Anthony Field |
Culham |
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Miriam Forman |
Stony Brook |
arr10 |
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Greg Hammett | Princeton |
arr16 |
lv31 |
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Tobi Heinemann |
IAS |
arr21 |
lv28 |
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Edmund Highcock | Oxford |
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Tim Horbury | Imperial |
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Greg Howes |
Iowa |
20-23 |
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Rob Jeffrey |
Merton |
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Anjor Kanekar |
Maryland |
arr24 |
lv19 |
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Young-chul
Kim |
Oxford |
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Matt Kunz |
Oxford |
lv22 |
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Henrik Latter |
Cambridge |
8-9 |
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Jungpyo Lee | MIT |
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Nuno Loureiro |
IST
Lisbon |
arr10 |
lv25 |
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Alfred Mallet |
Oxford |
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George McKee |
Madison |
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Filomena Nave |
IST Lisbon |
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Joseph Parker |
Oxford |
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Felix
Parra |
Oxford |
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Antoine Riols |
Toulouse |
arr10 |
lv25 |
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Colin Roach |
Culham |
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Ravi Samtaney |
KAUST |
7-9 |
arr14 |
lv18 |
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Alex
Schekochihin |
Oxford |
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Bryan Taylor |
Culham |
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Jason
TenBarge |
Iowa |
20-23 |
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Robert Wicks | Imperial |
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Alessandro
Zocco |
Culham |
arr6 |