If
you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the point of doing
it? Pablo
Picasso
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Maynard Keynes
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Wk | Date |
Time & place |
Speaker & Topic |
Background reading |
Comings and goings (incl. visitors in town) |
Thu 27 Mar |
No seminar (Vienna
workshop) |
Peter
Catto leaves Oxford |
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Thu 3 Apr |
No seminar (Vienna workshop) | ||||
Fri 4 Apr |
2:00pm K1/0/85 Culham |
The 49th UK Fusion
Theory
Seminar (contact Eva Havlickova for
further info/access to site). Fulvio Militello (CCFE) --- The challenge of the perpendicular transport in the scrape-off layer, a theoretician's perspective John Omotani (CCFE) --- Kinetic physics in fluid models: non-local closures and sheath boundary conditions |
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Thu
10 Apr |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: 1) Michael Fox --- BES update 2) Ferdinand van Wyk --- MAST turbulence update ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
1) RSI 81, 10D713 (2010) PRL 110, 145002 (2013) NF 54, 042003 (2014) 2) PRL 109, 265001 (2012) PRL 106, 175004 (2011) PRL 105, 215003 (2010) |
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Thu 17 Apr |
No seminar (IoP Plasma Physics Conference) |
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0. |
Thu
24 Apr |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Eurofusion progress meeting: E. Highcock, A. Schekochihin, A. Field, F. Parra, J. Hillesheim, G. Colyer ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
paper drafts available on request from E. Highcock, M. Fox, J. Ball, J. Hillesheim, G. Colyer |
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I |
Thu
1 May |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Plasma Seminar: Francesco Califano (Pisa) --- Models and simulations in plasmas: from fluid to kinetic ("Dannato accoppiamento fluido cinetico") |
PoP 20 , 112112 (2013) ApJ 781, L27 (2014) PoP 20 , 102118 (2013) |
Francesco Califano (Pisa) Ian Abel (Princeton) Bill Dorland (Maryland) |
Fri 2 May |
14:00 Sciama LT |
Theoretical Physics Colloquium: Steve Cowley (UKAEA) --- Erupting plasmas: a challenge for theory and fusion power |
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II |
Thu
8 May |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Joseph Parker (Oxford Maths) --- Update on the Vlasov-Poisson problem in Hermite space ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Sat 10 May |
10:00am D. Sciama LT, DWB (map) |
"Saturday
Mornings of Theoretical Physics": Plasmas: the normal form of matter and the key to unlimited energy 1. Felix Parra (Oxford) --- Plasma: what it is, how to make it and how to hold it 2. Alex Schekochihin (Oxford) --- Turbulence: plasma unleashed 3. Steve Cowley (UKAEA) --- Fusion energy: plasma tamed |
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III |
Thu
15 May |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Anthony Field (CCFE) --- Zonal flow measurements with BES and DBS Greg Colyer (CCFE) --- Zonal flows in ETG ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Francesco Califano (Pisa) |
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IV |
Thu
22 May |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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V |
Thu
29 May |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Plasma Seminar: Tomos David (AOPP, Oxford) --- Application of statistical mechanics to geostrophic (Hasegawa-Mima) turbulence? |
JFM 554, 433 (2006) |
Francesco Califano (Pisa) |
VI |
Thu
5 June |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Updates from everyone who has an update to give ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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VII |
Mon 9 June |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Plasma Seminar: Eliot Quataert (Berkeley) --- The plasma physics of galaxy clusters and (or) accretion disks |
MNRAS 413, 1295 (2011) MNRAS 432, 404 (2013) |
Francesco Califano (Pisa) Eliot Quataert (Berkeley) |
Tue 10 June |
5:00pm M. Wood LT |
Halley Lecture: Eliot Quataert (Berkeley) --- How the Universe Evolved from Smooth to Lumpy: the Physics of Galaxy Formation |
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June 12-13 |
Culham |
Culham PhD Mini-Symposium (details to
follow) |
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VIII |
Thu
19 June |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Fox --- Update on BES reconstruction schemes Greg Colyer --- Update on ETG turbulence ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Michael Barnes arrives to join plasma group as Associate Professor. All rejoice. |
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Thu 26 June |
No seminar (EPS Conference) |
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Thu 3 July |
No seminar (Madrid workshop) |
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Thu 10 July |
No seminar (Madrid workshop) |
Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu
17 July |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Room is booked if someone wants to organise a meeting, but I won't be there |
Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu
24 July |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: 1) Michael Barnes --- What I have been up to in Texas and what I am up to in Oxford 2) Alex Schekochihin --- Update on EUROfusion-2015 ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu
31 July |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Room is booked if someone wants to organise a meeting, but I won't be there | Anjor Kanekar (Maryland) |
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Thu 7 Aug |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: 1) George Wilkie (Maryland) --- Update on GK with alphas 2) AOB ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Anjor Kanekar, George Wilkie (Maryland) |
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Thu 14 Aug |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Room is booked if someone wants to organise a meeting, but I won't be there | George Wilkie (Maryland) |
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Thu 21 Aug |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Joseph Parker --- Phase-space dynamics in ITG turbulence ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
PRL 111, 175001 (2013) |
George Wilkie (Maryland) |
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Thu 28 Aug |
11:30am 501 DWB (map) |
Plasma Seminar: Francois Rincon (Toulouse) --- Nonlinear mirror instability |
arXiv:1407.4707 |
Francois Rincon (Toulouse) |