OXFORD PLASMA THEORY GROUP
THE LEVERHULME TRUST INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON MAGNETISED PLASMA TURBULENCE

PLASMA SEMINARS AND GROUP MEETINGS

The style of the 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.

"Group meetings to discuss current affairs" will discuss current affairs (ongoing projects, etc.). They are open to all members of the Oxford Plasma Theory Group (which is easy to join). While some expected contributions are pre-announced, everything is TBC and people wishing their work to be discussed can volunteer contributions without prior notice. Unlike for the seminars, there will not be full-spam-list email reminders of the group meetings.

Autumn 2007; Winter-Spring 2008; Summer 2008;
Autumn 2008; HT 2009; TT 2009; Summer 2009;
MT 2009; HT 2009; TT 2010; Summer 2010;
MT 2010; HT 2011; TT 2011

  Summer 2011

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
(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]
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)
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.)

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)
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


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)
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]


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)
Thu 4 Aug
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Grigol Gogoberidze (Warwick) --- Lagrangian frequency spectrum of MHD turbulence
PRL 105, 235005 (2010)

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)
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)

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)
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

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)

Thu 1 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]

Greg Hammett
(Princeton)

Thu 8 Sept
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Group meeting to discuss current affairs:
...
[everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome]



Thu 15 Sept
No seminar


Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2011

4th Rolling Summer Workshop of the Leverhulme Network
and related visitors

Participants
(locals in straight font, visitors in italic, confirmed in bold)
July
August
September
 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
Ian Abel
Merton













Stuart Bale
Berkeley

6-9











Michael Barnes
Oxford













Andrey Beresnyak
LANL






8-14






Chris Chen
Berkeley
Ldn












Greg Colyer
Oxford













Jack Connor
Culham













Steve Cowley
Culham













Paul Dellar
Oxford













Bill Dorland Maryland



arr19



lv19





Daniel Dunai
RMKI Budapest













Anthony Field
Culham













Miriam Forman
Stony Brook






arr10






Greg Hammett Princeton







arr16

lv31



Tobi Heinemann
IAS







arr21
lv28




Edmund Highcock Oxford













Tim Horbury Imperial













Greg Howes
Iowa












20-23
Rob Jeffrey
Merton













Anjor Kanekar
Maryland



arr24



lv19





Young-chul Kim
Oxford













Matt Kunz
Oxford








lv22




Henrik Latter
Cambridge






8-9






Jungpyo Lee MIT













Nuno Loureiro
IST Lisbon






arr10

lv25




Alfred Mallet
Oxford













George McKee
Madison













Filomena Nave
IST Lisbon













Joseph Parker
Oxford













Felix Parra
Oxford













Antoine Riols
Toulouse






arr10

lv25




Colin Roach
Culham













Ravi Samtaney
KAUST

7-9




arr14
lv18





Alex Schekochihin
Oxford













Bryan Taylor
Culham













Jason TenBarge
Iowa












20-23
Robert Wicks Imperial













Alessandro Zocco
Culham

arr6