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

  Trinity Term 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)

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.

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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.


Summer 2011