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

PLASMA SEMINARS/DISCUSSION 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

  Trinity
Term 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

15-27 Mar Working group meeting "Gyrokinetics for ITER" at WPI, Vienna

Thu 1 Apr No seminar (enjoy your Easter break!)

Thu 8 Apr 2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Alfred Mallet (Oxford, ThPhys) --- Balanced and imbalanced MHD turbulence. arXiv:1002.2428
PRL 102, 025003 (2009)
ApJ 685, 646 (2008)
ApJ 655, 269 (2007)
Chris Chen
Tim Horbury
Rob Wicks
(Imperial)

Thu 15 Apr 2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
John Magorrian (Oxford, ThPhys) --- Tutorial on galactic kinetics.

0
Thu 22 Apr
No seminar

I
Thu 29 Apr
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Paul Dellar (Oxford, Maths) --- Boundary layers in Braginskii MHD, an asymptotic analysis.
preprint of paper
on request

II
Thu 6 May
10:40am-3:40pm
JET-K1/0/85
Culham
The 17th UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info/access to site).
Peter de Vries, Thijs Versloot (FOM), Ken McClements, Anthony Field (CCFE), Michael Barnes (Oxford) --- Sources, diffusion and pinches of momentum in tokamaks.

III
Thu 13 May
No seminar
Gabriel Plunk
(Maryland)
[arrives May 14]
IV
17-21 May
9:30am-5:30pm
HOW Room
Culham
GOTiT Transport Course at Culham (contact Michele Romanelli for further info/access to site)
Gabriel Plunk
(Maryland)
[leaves May 20]
Thu 20 May
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Michael Barnes, Edmund Highcock, Felix Parra (Oxford, ThPhys) --- Rotation, transport, ITBs in tokamaks: report on the latest numerical, experimental, and theoretical results.
V
24-28 May
9:30am-5:30pm
HOW Room
Culham
GOTiT Transport Course at Culham (contact Michele Romanelli for further info/access to site) Frank Jenko
(IPP Garching)
Thu 27 May
No seminar
VI
Thu 3 June
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Henrik Latter (ENS, Paris) --- The magnetorotational instability and the structure of protoplanetary disks. MNRAS 396, 779 (2009)
arXiv:0906.0854
Henrik Latter
(ENS, Paris)
VII
Tue 8 June
12:30pm
Beecroft
Seminar Rm
Astrophysics Theory Brown Bag Seminar:
Chris Chen (Imperial) --- Anisotropy of solar wind turbulence.
arXiv:1002.2539
Chris Chen (Imperial)
Thu 10 June
2:30pm
501 DWB
(map)
Tony Bell (Oxford, ALP) --- Intergalactic cosmic rays and magnetic field in the early universe. arXiv:1001.2011
VIII
Thu 17 June
2:00pm
Culham
K1/0/38
The 18th UK Fusion Theory Seminar (contact Chris Ham for further info/access to site).
Wojtek Fundamenski (CCFE) --- Interpretation of recent divertor heat load measurements on JET.
Tim Horbury (Imperial) --- Plasma turbulence: anisotropy and implications for transport.


Summer 2010