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 |
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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) |
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Thu 15 Apr | 2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
John Magorrian (Oxford, ThPhys) --- Tutorial on galactic kinetics. | |||
0 |
Thu 22 Apr |
No seminar |
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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 |
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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. |
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III |
Thu 13 May |
No
seminar |
Gabriel Plunk (Maryland) [arrives May 14] |
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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] |
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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) |
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Thu 27 May |
No seminar |
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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 |
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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. |