Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

Thematic Programme
GYROKINETIC PLASMA TURBULENCE
Responsible Organiser: A. Schekochihin
SOC: C. Bourdelle, Y. Brenier, S. Cowley, W. Dorland, N. Mauser, S. Nazarenko, A. Tsinober

Workshop and Minicourse
"Kinetic Equations, Numerical Approaches and Fluid Models for Plasma Turbulence"
15-19 September 2008

Workshop Themes

Grand Physics Problems:

Energy cascade in gyrokinetic plasma turbulence Particle heating Turbulent transport Gyrokinetic turbulence in sheared and rotating plasmas

Numerical and Mathematical Methods:

Mathematical properties of the gyrokinetic description of plasma Reduced fluid, gyrofluid and hybrid fluid-kinetic models; their physical and mathematical validity Numerical solvers for gyrokinetics: Eulerian vs. Lagrangian, grid vs. PIC, flux-tube vs. global Collisions in weakly-collisional gyrokinetic plasma: their physical role, mathematical properties of collision operators and effective numerical modeling Mean-field formalism for transport and flows in gyrokinetic turbulent plasms; interface between gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and transport codes

Information for PhD Students and Postdocs

The workshop will contain a minicourse (12 lectures), meant to be accesible to PhD students and postdocs, but open and, hopefully, interesting to everyone.
If you would like to attend please email Alex Schekochihin (please include a short CV and a one-sentence description of your research subject; if you are a PhD student, please give the name of your adviser and the title of your PhD project; if you would like to present a poster, please give the title). There is no deadline, but the numbers we can accommodate are limited. Early expressions of interest are encouraged and will significantly increase your chances of admission.
There is no fee for this course. No financial support is available.

Minicourse Participants
PDF files of posters linked as they arrive

	Name	Affiliation	PhD or postdoc superviser (if applicable)	Thesis topic or research area	Poster title
1	Ian Abel	Imperial College London, UK	Alex Schekochihin & Sergei Sharapov	Alpha particles and Alfven waves in fusion devices
2	Michael Barnes	U of Maryland, USA	Bill Dorland	Velocity-space structure in gyrokinetic turbulence; hierarchical modeling of turbulent transport in gyrokinetic fusion plasmas	A framework for first-principles simulations of coupled turbulent transport (pdf, 2.8 Mb)
3	Nicolas Besse	U Nancy I, France	N/A
4	Francis Casson	U of Warwick, UK	Arthur Peeters	Nonlinear kinetic simulation of turbulence in a tokamak plasma
5	Greg Colyer	UKAEA Culham, UK	Alex Schekochihin & Jack Connor	Turbulent transport in MAST
6	Tünde Fülöp	Chalmers U of Tech, Göteborg, Sweden	N/A	Transport fluxes driven by microinstabilities
7	Tobias Görler	IPP Garching, Germany	Frank Jenko	Multi-scale effects in plasma turbulence (by means of linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations with the plasma turbulence code GENE)	From electron to ion scales - nonlinear gyrokinetic multiscale simulations (pdf, 2.4 Mb)
8	Kyle Gustafson	U of Maryland, USA	Bill Dorland	Particle tracking in gyrokinetic turbulence in search of nondiffusive transport and nonlocal effects	Particle tracking in the entropy mode of a Z pinch with gyrokinetic simulations (pdf, 3.4 Mb)
9	Daniel Han-Kwan	ENS, Paris	Laure Saint-Raymond	Gyrokinetic approximations of Vlasov equations	A rigorous mathematical justification of the 3D Larmor radius approximation (pdf, 212 kb)
10	Edmund Highcock	Imperial College London, UK	Alex Schekochihin & Colin Roach	ITG turbulence in rotating tokamak plasmas
11	Sever Hirstoaga	U of Toulouse, France	Pierre Degond & Eric Sonnendrucker
12	William Hornsby	U of Warwick, UK	Arthur Peeters	Development of gyrokinetic simulations; simulation of turbulent transport in magnetic confinement fusion devices.
13	Grigory Kagan	MIT, USA	Peter Catto	Zonal flows and clasical transport near the plasma edge	Finite drift orbit effects in a tokamak pedestal (pdf, 702 kb)
14	Xavier Lapillonne	CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland	Laurent Villard & Stephan Brunner	Effect of geometry on gyrokinetic simulations	Effects of geometry on linear and non-linear gyrokinetic simulations and development of a global version of the GENE code (pdf, 324 kb)
15	Susan Leerink	Helsinki U of Technology, Finland	J. A. Heikkinen	Plasma edge model for the gyrokinetic full f code ELMFIRE	The full f gyrokinetic code ELMFIRE (pdf, 112 kb)
16	Nuno Loureiro	UKAEA Culham, UK	N/A	Magnetic reconnection, ITG turbulence in rotating tokamak plasmas
17	Ryusuke Numata	U of Maryland, USA	Bill Dorland	Gyrokinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection
18	Florian Merz	IPP Garching, Germany	Frank Jenko	Subdominant microinstabilities in linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations	Coexistence and transitions in TEM/ITG turbulence (pdf, 932 kb)
19	Sarah Newton	UKAEA Culham, UK	N/A	Fishbone activity in fusion plasmas
20	Ruth Nicol	U of Warwick, UK	Sandra Chapman	Turbulence and nonlinear phenomena in natural and laboratory plasmas
21	Felix Parra	MIT, USA	Peter Catto	Extension of electrostatic gyrokinetics to transport time scales	Extension of gyrokinetics to transport time scales (pdf, 192 kb)
22	Gabriel Plunk	UCLA, USA & WPI, Vienna, Austria	Steve Cowley	Gyrokinetic turbulence and transport	2D gyrokinetic turbulence in phase space (arXiv:0904.0243)
23	Benjamin Texier	U Paris VII, France	N/A
24	Alessandro Zocco	Politecnico di Torino, Italy	Luis Chacon & Franco Porcelli	Fast driven reconnection in electron MHD	Electron inertia effects in 2D driven reconnection in electron MHD (pdf, 628 kb)

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