Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week (see schedule below) |
April 3-17 |
Vienna Working Group Meeting | ||||
April 18-20 | 478th Heraeus Seminar (Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas) | ||||
Thu 21 Apr | 2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Filomena Nave (IST, Lisbon) ---
Intrinsic rotation in JET. |
|||
0 |
Thu 28 Apr | 2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
François
Rincon (Toulouse) --- MHD turbulence and dynamo action in accretion disks. |
François
Rincon (Toulouse) |
|
I |
Wed 4 May |
2:00pm Culham HOW Rm |
Special seminar at Culham (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site) Martin Rieke (Bochum) --- Plasma simulations with CUDA |
Martin Rieke (Bochum) |
|
Thu 5 May | 2:00pm Culham |
The 25th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Philippa Browning (Manchester) --- Relaxation and heating triggered by nonlinear kink instabilities in the solar corona. Ben McMillan (Warwick) --- Interaction of large scale flow structures with gyrokinetic turbulence. |
|||
II |
Thu 12 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Report from the Sherwood Meeting by Bryan Taylor, Michael Barnes, Felix Parra and Alessandro Zocco. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
||
III |
Thu 19 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Tim Horbury
(Imperial) --- Future prospects for plasma astrophysics in the solar system. |
Tim Horbury (Imperial) [18-20] |
|
IV |
Thu 26 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Felix Parra and Alessandro Zocco --- Review of magnetic field line stochastisation, what we think about it and what we might want to do. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 106, 155003 (2011) PRL 106, 155004 (2011) Ian's draft paper available from him |
Mark Rosin (UCLA) |
V |
Thu 2 June |
No seminar |
|||
VI |
Thu 9 June |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Alessandro Zocco --- Nonlinear magnetic reconnection in the kinetic regime. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 99, 235001 (2007) Phys. Plasmas 17, 060701 (2010) arXiv:1104.4622 | |
VII |
Thu 16 June |
2:30pm Video Conf Room, DWB (map) |
Group meeting to discuss current affairs: Edmund Highcock --- New results on PVG turbulence. ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1104.4514 |
|
VIII |
Thu 23 June |
2:00pm Culham K1/0/85 | The 26th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Roddy Vann (York) --- A pick'n'mix discussion of phenomena driven by wave-particle resonance. Ken McClements (CCFE) --- Axisymmetric two-fluid plasma equilibria with momentum sources and sinks. |