GYP Seminar List
for period 19 July to 13 August 2010
| Monday 19 July | ||
| 09:45-10:30 | Cowley, S (Imperial College, London) | |
| Multiscale turbulence in Fusion and Gyrokinetics | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Horbury, T (Imperial College, London) | |
| Observational evidence for anisotropic solar wind turbulence on fluid and kinetic scales | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:30 | White, A (Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology) | |
| Measurements of electron temperature fluctuations on DIII-D | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | McKee, G (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| Long-wavelength turbulence characteristics, dynamics and flows in tokamak plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Schmitz, L (University of California, LA) | |
| Multi-scale turbulence, electron transport, and zonal flows in DIII-D | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Rhodes, T (University of California, LA) | |
| Multi-scale/multi-field turbulence measurements to test gyrokinetic simulation predictions on the DIII-D tokamak | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 20 July | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Hammett, G (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) | |
| Measurements and gyrokinetic simulations of electron transport in NSTX | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Garbet, X (CEA, Cadarche) | |
| Measurements and modelling of turbulent transport on Tore Supra | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Maksimovic, M (Observatoire de Paris) | |
| Solar wind electrons: basic properties and physics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Jenko, F (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik) | |
| Grasping plasma turbulence fundamentals: Where do we stand? | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Carter, T (UCLA) | |
| Experimentalists are from Mars, theoreticians are from Venus: what ones want from the others | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 21 July | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Bale, S (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Waves and fluctuations associated with local instabilities in the solar wind | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Kasper, J (Harvard Smithsonian) | |
| Solar wind ion and electron distribution functions and the transition from fluid to kinetic behaviour | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Passot, T (Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur) | |
| Dispersive Alfvén-wave turbulence and the role of self-generated temperature anisotropy | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Dorland, W (University of Maryland) | |
| Gyrokinetics outside of tokamaks | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Zonca, F (ENEA C.R. Frascati) | |
| Alfvénic turbulence in tokamaks: from micro- to meso-scale fluctuations | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Califano, F (Pisa) | |
| Entropy cascade in 2D-2V Vlasov-hybrid electrostatic model | Sem 1 | |
| 17:10-17:30 | Dorland, B (Maryland) | |
| Fluid models of free energy cascade dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 22 July | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | de Vries, P (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy) | |
| Internal transport barriers in JET and the impact of magnetic ripple and plasma rotation | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Hutchinson, I (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Spontaneous tokamak rotation: observations turbulent momentum transport has to explain | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Balbus, S A (École Normale Supérieure) | |
| Transport in Disks and Stars | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Peeters, A (Universität Bayreuth) | |
| Toroidal momentum transport | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Smolyakov, A (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Momentum balance in toroidal plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Barnes, M (University of Oxford) | |
| Rotational shear in tokamak plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Parra, F I (University of Oxford) | |
| Transport bifurcations in rotating tokamak plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 23 July | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Carter, T (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Studies of waves, turbulence, and transport in the Large Plasma Device | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Fasoli, A (EPFL) | |
| Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in simple magnetised plasma | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Helander, P | |
| Rotation and zonal flows in stellarators | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Sugama, H (National Institute for Fusion Science) | |
| Effects of three-dimensional geometry and radial electric field on ITG turbulence and zonal flows | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Helander, P, Bale, S | |
| Workshop Summary | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 26 July | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Daughton, B (Los Alamos) | |
| Recent progress and future outlook for kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection | Sem 2 | |
| 10:00-10:40 | Drake, J (Maryland) | |
| Particle acceleration and the role of pressure anisotropy in a multi-island reconnection | Sem 2 | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Egedal, J (MIT) | |
| The equations of state in collisionless reconnection and their implications for the electron diffusion region | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Rogers, B (Dartmouth) | |
| Gyrokinetic simulations of reconnection - an update | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 27 July | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Nazarenko, S (Warwick) | |
| Inverse cascades, zonal jets and turbulence/transport suppression in CHM model | Sem 2 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Howes, G (Iowa) | |
| Gyrokinetic Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence and its Dissipation: Importance of Nonlocal Effects on the Energy Cascade | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Catto, P (MIT) | |
| Some things (we think) we have learned about pedestals | Sem 2 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Helander, P (Max-Planck) | |
| Electric field effects in stellarators | Sem 2 | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Parra, F (Felix I) | |
| Gyrokinetics in the pedestal | Sem 2 | |
| 17:15-17:45 | Jenko, F (Max-Planck) | |
| What sets the residual electron heat transport in an edge transport barrier? | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 28 July | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Drake, J (Maryland) | |
| Breaking field lines during reconnection: it's anomalous viscosity not anomalous resistivity | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Wilson, H (York) | |
| Non-linear kinetic theory of drift-tearing modes in magnetised plasmas | Sem 2 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Dorland, P (Maryland) | |
| Mediated round-table discussion on microtearing challenges | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 29 July | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Schaffner, D (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Turbulence and flow in the Large Plasma Device | Sem 2 | |
| 10:00-10:40 | Rogers, B (Dartmouth) | |
| Pinch regimes in gyrokinetic simulations of closed fieldline systems and turbulent transport in LAPD | Sem 2 | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Howes, G (Iowa) | |
| Gyrokinetic modeling for basic turbulence experiments on the LAPD | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Egedal, J (MIT) | |
| Experiments on the Propagation of Plasma Filaments in VTF | Sem 2 | |
| 15:00-15:40 | Ricci, P (Lausanne) | |
| The simulation effort for the basic plasma physics experiment TORPEX | Sem 2 | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Barnes, M (Oxford) | |
| Theory and modeling in simplified magnetic configurations | Sem 2 | |
| 17:00-17:40 | Daughton, W (Los Alamos) | |
| 2D and 3D kinetic simulations of the MRX reconnection experiment | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 30 July | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Eastwood, J (ICL) | |
| The diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection: New results from in-situ space observations in the Earth's magnetotail | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 02 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Brizard, A (Saint Michael's College, Vermont) | |
| Gyrokinetic energy conservation laws | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Watanabe, T (National Institute for Fusion Science) | |
| Entropy transfer processes in kinetic plasma turbulence and zonal flows | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Plunk, G (Maryland) | |
| Gyrokinetic Phase-space Turbulence and Energy Flows: Review, Progress and Open Problems | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 03 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Abel, I (Oxford) | |
| Energy flows and entropy balance in multiscale gyrokinetics | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Highcock, E (Oxford) | |
| An Introduction to CodeRunner | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 04 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Antonsen, T (Maryland) | |
| Lagrangian chaos and the evolution of advected fields | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Mishchenko, A (Max-Planck) | |
| Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of Alfvenic modes | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 05 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Balbus, S (Ecole Normale Superieure) | |
| MHD instabilites in dilute astrophysical plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Kunz, M (Oxford) | |
| Viscous instabilities in weakly collisional astrophysical discs | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Brizard, A (Saint Michael's College, Vermont) | |
| Gyrofluid momentum conservation law | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 06 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Hammett, G (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) | |
| Gyrokinetic statistical absolute equilibrium and turbulence | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 09 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Cowley, S (Imperial College London) | |
| Shape matters | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Dellar, P (Oxford) | |
| Lattice Boltzmann approaches for magnetohydrodynamics and related models | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 10 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Dimits, A (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | |
| Global Gyrokinetic Equations: Extended Orderings and Second Order Terms | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:40 | Leerink, S (TKK) | |
| Full f Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak Plasma Turbulence using ELMFIRE | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Calvo, I (CIEMAT) | |
| Lagrangian formulation of gyrokinetic theory with a single expansion parameter | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:40 | Parra, F (Oxford) | |
| Radial electric field in full-f gyrokinetic simulations | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 11 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Vittot, M (Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille) | |
| Intrinsic guiding-center dynamics: towards gyro-center reduction in Maxwell-Vlasov algebra | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Schekochihin, A (Oxford) | |
| Subcritical fluctuations in a differentially rotating gyrokinetic plasma: linear theory | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 12 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Mishchenko, A (Max-Planck) | |
| Non-linear correction to the gyrokinetic polarization density | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Krommes, J (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab) | |
| Programme summary and mediated discussion of the outstanding questions/future directions | Sem 1 | |
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