Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

15th Plasma Kinetics Working Meeting
  5-9 August, 2024

Organised by A. Schekochihin (Oxford)

Name	Affiliation		h	$	Seminar Title	Background Reading	Download
Ian Abel	Maryland	4-11	D	N	A comprehensive gyrokinetic framework for energetic particles	preprint from author on request	on request
Claude Bardos	Paris VII	31-10	F	N	Comparison of different qualitative behaviours of the solution of the Vlasov equation in term of Penrose stability criteria		pdf (1.1Mb)
Michael Barnes	Oxford	4-7		N	Dimits transition in the EM regime [with Y. Zhang et al.]	preprint from author on request	pdf (5.5Mb)
Nicolas Besse	OCA Nice	31-10	F	Y	Lagrangian regularity of the electron magnetohydrodynamics flow on a bounded domain	JMAA 511, 126076 (2022)---reprint	pdf (2.1Mb)
Yann Brenier	Paris-Saclay	2-8
Peter Catto	MIT	3-10	H	N	Beyond quasilinear theory, or What can happen when quasilinear theory fails in a stellarator	preprint from author on request	pdf (1.3Mb)
Gyungjin Choi	Seoul Nat'l U	4-11	D	N	Issues on simple modeling of fast ion effect on zonal flow self-generation		pdf (2.4Mb)
Steve Cowley	Princeton	2-9	H	N	A route to early pilot plants		on request
Bruno Despres	Sorbonne	4-9	F	N	Stabilisation of a discrete Vlasov-Poisson system based on new results for asymmetric Hermite functions	arXiv:2405.07811	pdf (6.2Mb)
Alessandro Di Siena	IPP Garching	4-9	D	N	Assessing the impact of energetic particles and alphas on plasma confinement and performance in JET D-T plasmas and ASDEX Upgrade via Global GENE-Tango simulations	NF 64, 066020 (2024) arXiv:2406.07130	pdf (7.5Mb)
Michael Fitzgerald	UKAEA	4-9		N	Nonlinear Alfven-wave behaviour in tokamaks	PoP 4, 1559 (1997) NF 50, 084016 (2010) PoP 20, 055402 (2013)	pdf (4.4Mb)
Thomas Foster	Princeton	4-10	D	N	Energetic particle orbits near rational surfaces in stellarators		pdf (6.1Mb)
Jeronimo Garcia	CEA	4-9	D	Y	A historical overview of the impact of fast ions and EM effects on turbulence		pdf (2.8Mb)
Maurizio Giacomin	U of Padua	4-9	D	Y	A new quasi-linear transport model for electromagnetic turbulence in high-beta spherical tokamaks and its application to STEP	arXiv:2404.17453 PPCF 66, 055101 (2024)	pdf (1.9Mb)
Francois Golse	Ecole Polytechnique	2-8
Michael Hardman	Tokamak Energy	4-9	D	N	Full-f collision operator for alphas including self-collisions	preprint	on request
Per Helander	IPP Greifswald	4-10		N	Designing stellarators with a transport barrier	arXiv:2405.07085	pdf (1.5Mb)
David Hosking	Princeton/Cambridge	4-8	D	Y	Forced reconnection in 3D fields	preprint from author on request	on request
Plamen Ivanov	Oxford-->EPFL	4-9	D	N	Growing magnetic drift modes in good-curvature plasma	preprint from author on request	pdf (1.2Mb)
Daniel Kennedy	UKAEA	4-9		N	Modelling EM turbulence in STEP		pdf (8.9Mb)
Nuno Loureiro	MIT	4-8	H	N		arXiv:2407.06020
Florian Rath	Bayreuth	4-9	F	N	Transport hysteresis in electromagnetic microturbulence caused by mesoscale zonal flow pattern-induced mitigation of high beta turbulence runaways	PoP 29, 042305 (2022)	pdf (4.1Mb)
Juan Ruiz Ruiz	Oxford	4-9	D	N	Measurement of zero-frequency fluctuations generated by coupling between Alfven modes in the JET tokamak	arXiv:2407.01255	pdf (26Mb)
Alex Schekochihin	Oxford	2-9	H	N	Magnetic interchange turbulence: "Dimits" transition and spontaneous imbalance [with W. Clarke et al.]	preprint on request	blackboard

Monday 5 August	Tuesday 6 August	Wednesday 7 August	Thursday 8 August	Friday 9 August
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome/self-intros	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
10:00 ALPHAS+TURBULENCE Garcia Ruiz	10:00 EM TURBULENCE Rath Kennedy Giacomin	10:00 RECONNECTION Hosking ALFVEN WAVES Fitzgerald	10:00 STELLARATORS Catto Helander Foster	10:00 THE FUTURE Cowley +Summary & Discussion
13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...	13:00 Lunch/work/play Some options: Riva, Scala, ...
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee
16:15 ALPHAS+TURBULENCE Abel Di Siena Choi	16:15 EM TURBULENCE Barnes Ivanov Schekochihin	16:15 MATHS/METHODS Despres Besse Bardos	16:15 ALPHA TRANSPORT Hardman
20:00 Dinner at Qero After dinner drinks: Needle Vinyl Bar	20:00 Dinner at Fischerie After dinner drinks: Das LOFT	19:00 WPI Social Dinner at Die Schankwirtschaft im Augarten After dinner drinks: Krypt	20:00 Dinner at Delicatessen Vienna After dinner drinks: this is also a bar

Logistics

City-airport train
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COFFEE

Previous WPI workshops in this series: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, (2008), (2007), (2007)