Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Visitors in town during the week (see schedule below) |
2-5 Apr |
St Hugh's |
IOP Plasma Conference |
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Thu 5 Apr |
No seminar | ||||
Wed 11 Apr |
11:00am Culham Adams Rm |
TURBSIM Seminar (contact Greg Colyer for
further info/access to site). Jonathan Citrin (CEA Cadarache) --- Nonlinear turbulence characteristics at low magnetic shear |
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Thu 12 Apr |
2:00pm Culham K1/0/85 |
The 34th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Robert Kingham (Imperial College) --- A magneto-thermal instability in laser-plasma interactions Alex Schekochihin (Oxford) --- Subcritical GK turbulence and how to kill it |
arXiv:1111.4929 |
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0 |
Thu 19 Apr |
No seminar |
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I |
Thu
26 Apr |
No seminar |
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II |
Thu 3 May |
No seminar |
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III |
Thu 10 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Edmund Highcock --- Sherwood conference report, update on Maryland activities Andrey Beresnyak (LANL) --- Update on MHD turbulence and dynamo Young-chul Ghim --- Highcock's manifold and Barne's scaling in MAST? ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
arXiv:1111.5329 arXiv:1203.6455 PRL 107, 115003 (2011) |
Andrey Beresnyak (LANL) |
IV |
Mon 14 May |
11:30am A. Wood |
Atomic and Laser Physics Seminar: Francesco Miniati (ETH, Zuerich) --- Magnetic field in cosmic structure |
Troy Carter (UCLA) Cary Forest (Wisconsin) Koen Kemel (NORDITA) Francesco Miniati (ETH, Zuerich) |
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Tue 15 May |
12:30pm BIPAC |
Astrophysics Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Koen Kemel (NORDITA) --- Negative effective magnetic pressure effect and instability |
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Wed 16 May |
Culham |
Culham Colloquium (contact Anthony Webster for further info/access to site). Cary Forest (Wisconsin) --- Magnetic dynamos in the lab: progressing from liquid metal to plasmas |
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Thu 17 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Troy Carter (UCLA)
--- Plasma turbulence experiments at UCLA (nonlinear dynamics; modification of turbulent transport with flow shear) Cary Forest (Wisconsin) --- Stirring unmagnetized plasma and measuring Braginskii viscosity (current and future experiments at UW Madison) |
arXiv:1205.2337 arXiv:1205.3325 PRL 108, 115001 (2012) |
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V |
Thu 24 May |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Alex Schekochihin --- Hermite transforms, Landau damping and gyrofluid closures ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] | PoP 18, 102309 (2011) (sec V) ApJS 182, 310 (2009) (sec 6.2) |
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VI |
Thu 31 May |
2:00pm Culham Pease Rm |
The 35th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact
Sarah Newton for
further info/access to site). Bogdan Teaca (EPFL) --- Locality of nonlinear couplings in gyrokinetic turbulence, implications for the universality of interactions Sergey Dudarev (Culham) --- Coupling of scales in models for fusion materials |
arXiv:1202.6160 |
Bogdan Teaca (EPFL) |
VII |
4-9 June |
First
European School on Fundamental Processes in Space Weather, Spineto,
Tuscany |
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VIII |
Thu
14 June |
2:30pm 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Young-chul Ghim --- Turbulence in DIIID and MAST: a comparative study Anthony Field --- k-resolved analysis technique; synthetic BES analysis of GYRO MTM simulations Greg Colyer --- Update on ETG turbulence ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 107, 115003 (2011) Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 10E702 (2008) (a longer unpublished preprint available from A. Field on request) |
Kunihito Ioka (KEK Tsukuba) |
Fri 15 June |
2:00pm 501 DWB (map) |
Special Plasma Astrophysics Seminar (contact Brian Reville for
further info/arrangements to meet the speaker) Kunihito Ioka (KEK Tsukuba) --- Gamma-ray bursts, cosmic-ray origins, and plasma physics |
arXiv:1011.6350 arXiv:1011.4405 arXiv:1009.1142 arXiv:0903.5298 |
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17-30 June |
Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid |