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; the seminars are also announced via the department's seminar server (group meetings are not). 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, new litearture 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.

Past seminar database:
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; TT 2011; Summer 2011; MT 2011; HT 2012

 
Trinity Term 2012

The seminars/group meetings 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)

2-5 Apr
St Hugh's
IOP Plasma Conference

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

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
0
Thu 19 Apr
No seminar

I
Thu 26 Apr
No seminar

II
Thu 3 May
No seminar

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)
Tue 15 May
12:30pm
BIPAC
Astrophysics Brown Bag Lunch Seminar:
Koen Kemel (NORDITA) --- Negative effective magnetic pressure effect and instability
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
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)
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)

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

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

17-30 June
Gyrokinetic Theory Working Group Meeting, CIEMAT, Madrid

Seminars Summer 2012