TOPICS FUSION: Cross-scale (i-e) interactions in tokamak turbulence Drift-wave turbulence: zonal-flows, coherent structures, shear and all that Plasma physics at (and in) the Edge 3D and EM (or not) GK numerical algorithms ASTRO: (Kinetic) turbulence, reconnection, dynamo, pressure anisotropies, microinstabilities and all that Exteme astrophysics: same as above, but at higher energies

If you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the point of doing it? Pablo Picasso Every line in your calculations ends with "=0". You are not making much progress! Kate Hammett We don't do the calculation because we don't know the answer, we do it because we have a conscience. Bryan Taylor Let's change the resolution on the Unknown. Gabe Plunk Let me put it differently: suppose we had a reactor... Per Helander Working together takes more than one person. Bill Dorland We can't do ultraviolence to that square bracket. Ian Abel Field lines are forever. Bryan Taylor This is not really an ill-posed problem, this is not a problem at all. Paul Dellar I am just doing mathematics at the moment, but it is mathematics that has some point. Bryan Taylor The equivalent of God in MAST is MHD, which is global and all powerful. Anthony Field I've got a fishbone coming up. Tim Horbury We have crossed all the i's and dotted all the t's. Job's a good'un. Ian Abel Let us not jump in front of the bandwagon! Alex Schekochihin It's not the triviality, it's the emptiness of it that bothers me. Bryan Taylor Never take 0 for an answer. Alex Schekochihin This is a very inefficient way of achieving nothing. François Rincon We Hankel all the way in and then Hankel all the way out. Joseph Parker For the sake of fairness, let me mention that some people have objections to this, none of which are particularly valid. Chris Chen Yes, Steve, you have always known what we have only just figured out. Alfred Mallet This is more or less right. Perhaps less. Alfred Mallet You go ahead with your argument. I'll think. Steve Cowley Too simple? At the end of my talk, you will beg for simplicity! Andrey Beresnyak The point is not the point! Anonymous This is why I am presenting this here and nowhere else: nothing is solved! Ian Abel

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Maynard Keynes  This calculation is not intellectual masturbation: there's no orgasm. Anonymous Previous studies of this problem have been either unsatisfactory or limited in scope.---What  is the difference between these?---This means either wrong or irrelevant. Anatoly Spitkovsky, Michael Medvedev and Steve Cowley (in conversation) I don't give a damn about astrophysics, explain to me what is going on. Anatoly Spitkovsky Have you subtracted the baby with the bathwater? Steve Balbus   This is not rigour, unless you mean rigor mortis. Ian Abel I wouldn't say these are theoretical arguments... Let's just call them arguments. François Rincon You can never be too happy with the state of your closure. Amitava Bhattacharjee For this plot, 1 is 6.--- Weeell, not even. Steve Cowley and Steve Balbus Это качественное объяснение недостаточно качественное. Eugene Churazov If you mean it seriously, this is actually a very good question. Minhyong Kim This paper is a tour de farce. Ian Abel What is modelling? You run a simulation, you compare. If it coincides, great! If it doesn't coincide, fuck! Felix Parra We are stuck at x=0. Felix Parra I have seen papers where the student wasn't the problem. Michael Hardman There has been a lot of fascinating work on this subject, most of it kind of boring. Philipp Kempski These simulations show more or less exactly the same thing. Francesco Califano So now you want us to drop everything we are doing and start worrying about what the big questions are?! Ian Abel Oh dear, I thought I had some conclusions. Nuno Loureiro I've got my little fingers inside this plasma. Steve Cowley Words will play a big role in this talk. Dmitri Uzdensky Everything that can be done should be done---and that's the astrophysical attitude. Michael Medvedev What I will talk about is not low-hanging fruit. A lot of people have looked at this. There is no fruit here at all.---Is it sour grapes? Michael Medvedev and Nuno Loureiro

Timetable

WEEK 1

Monday 29 July	Tuesday 30 July	Wednesday 31 July	Thursday 1 August	Friday 2 August
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
10:00 chair: F. Parra ITG Ivanov CROSS-SCALE Hardman	10:00 ETG Parisi GK NUMERICS Hammett	10:00 ITG Peeters CROSS-SCALE Dodin	10:00 GK NUMERICS Ball	10:00 PHASE SPACE Schekochihin-1
Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play Dorland-2 1st meeting	Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee
GK NUMERICS 16:45 Hakim Dorland-2 announcement	ALPHAS 16:00 Tolman Catto	FUSION 16:00 Abel	PHASE SPACE 16:00 Nastac Dorland-1

JPP-CUP Best Student Talk Prize: Michael Hardman (Oxford)

WEEK 2

Monday 5 August	Tuesday 6 August	Wednesday 7 Aug	Thursday 8 Aug	Friday 9 Aug
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
10:00 RECONNECTION Zhou Loureiro	10:00 HIGH BETA Arzamasskiy Bott	10:00 SOLAR WIND Klein KINETIC TURBULENCE Groselj	10:00 BRAGINSKII++ Squire Kempski DYNAMO Kunz	10:00 THERMAL CONDUCTION Komarov
Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play	Lunch/work/play	Close at noon
			14:00 PAULI COLLOQUIUM (in Sky Lounge) Dorland-3
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee
16:00 RECONNECTION Cowley EXTREME ASTRO Uzdensky-1	16:00 EXTREME ASTRO Zhdankin Medvedev	16:00 EXTREME ASTRO Philippov DYNAMO Schekochihin-2	16:00 SUN Rincon

JPP-CUP Best Student Talk Prize: Muni Zhou (MIT)

Logistics

City-airport train
Vienna information
COFFEE

Previous WPI workshops in this series: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, (2008), (2007), (2007)