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) |
Mon
23 Mar |
13:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Alex Schekochihin --- Update on ITG turbulence in phase space [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Antoine Cerfon (NYU) |
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Thu 2 Apr |
No group meeting |
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Mon
6 Apr |
11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but I won't be there. Please self-organise! | |||
Wed 8 Apr |
11:00 Culham Adams Rm |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Ferdinand van Wyk & Michael Fox --- MAST GS2 simulations and BES comparisons |
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Thu 16 Apr |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Michael Fox & Ferdinand van Wyk --- MAST GS2 simulations and BES comparisons cont'd [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Lorenzo Stipani (U di Pisa) joins the group as visting MSc student (adviser A. Schekochihin) |
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0 |
Thu 23 Apr |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Edmund Highcock --- Update on ITER/JET transport modeling [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
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I |
Thu 30 Apr |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Filomena Nave --- Lower-hybrid effects on plasma rotation Justin Ball --- Summary of TCV shaping experiments [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
for Justin's talk: NF 37, 1741 (1997) |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
II |
Tue 5 May |
14:30 Fisher Rm |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Gianluca Gregori (Oxford ALP) --- Planned plasma dynamo experiments on Omega and NIF ...followed by discussion (S. Balbus, A. Bell, S. Cowley, C. Forest, M. Kunz, S. Sarkar, A. Schekochihin) [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Nature Phys. 10, 520 (2014) preprint of another paper available from GG on request |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) Matt Kunz (Princeton) Chris Chen, Lorenzo Matteini (Imperial) |
Thu 7 May |
11:30 501 DWB |
Plasma Seminar: Cary Forest (UW Madison) --- Prospects for observing the magnetorotational instability in the Plasma Couette Experiment |
arXiv:1409.8233 published JPP version |
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III |
Thu 14 May |
11:30 501 DWB |
Room is booked, but nothing is planned. Please self-organise! | Matt Kunz (Princeton) |
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IV |
Thu 21 May |
11:30 501 DWB |
Plasma Seminar: Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley) --- Electron heat flux in the solar wind: transition from classical to collisionless |
ApjL 769, L22 (2013) |
Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley) Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
V |
Thu 28 May |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
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Fri 29 May |
16:15 M. Wood LT |
Physics Colloquium: Cary Forest (UW Madison) --- Chasing fast dynamos in the plasma lab |
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VI |
Thu 4 June |
11:30 501 DWB |
Plasma Seminar: Justin Ball (Oxford) --- Scaling of up-down asymmetric momentum flux with poloidal effects in tokamaks |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) Marek Strumik joins the group as M. Curie Fellow |
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VII |
Thu 11 June |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Marek Strumik will introduce himself and talk about past work and future plans [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
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VIII |
Thu 18 June |
11:30 501 DWB |
Plasma Seminar: Cary Forest (UW Madison) --- Instability, turbulence, and 3D magnetic reconnection in a line-tied, zero net current screw pinch |
PRL 114, 145001 (2015) | Cary Forest (UW Madison) |
9 |
22-26 June |
42nd EPS Plasma Conference, Lisbon |
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Thu 25 June |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Thu 2 July |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Felix Parra and Justin Ball --- News and views from the EPS Lisbon Meeting ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Thu 9 July |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
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Tue 14th July |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Sergey Nazarenko (Wawick) --- Tutorial on mean-field theory for zonal flows ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Phys. Fluids 6, 1158 (1994) |
Bill Dorland (Maryland) Sergey Nazarenko (Warwick) Matias Janvin joins the group as summer intern (advisers M. Barnes & F. Parra) |
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20-31 July |
8th Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting, Vienna |
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Thu 6 Aug |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: Ferdinand van Wyk --- Simulated MAST ion-scale turbulence: update [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Bill Dorland (Maryland) |
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Thu 13 Aug |
No seminar |
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Thu 20 Aug |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |
Bill Dorland (Maryland) |
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Thu 27 Aug |
11:30 501 DWB |
Group
meeting to discuss current affairs: ... [everything TBC; unannounced contributions welcome] |