GYP
19 July 2010 to 13 August 2010
Perhaps the greatest challenge in plasma science is to understand the multiscale interaction between small-scale fluctuations and large-scale plasma dynamics. This is crucial both in fundamental astrophysical and space physics research (e.g., turbulence in the solar wind) and in more practical terrestrial contexts (e.g., the performance of the international fusion reactor, ITER, will be limited by the transport caused by small-scale fluctuations). Multiscale plasma dynamics also represent a formidable and fascinating mathematical challenge, as new analytical and numerical methods have to be developed in order for major breakthroughs to become possible.
In the last 25 years, a new mathematical approach, gyrokinetics, has been developed to treat low-frequency fluctuations in plasmas. In this approach, the fast orbital "gyromotion" is averaged to produce kinetic equations for rings of charge. This is a mathematically rigorous description that is far more tractable than the full kinetic theory. Despite some practical successes in code-building and simulations, the mathematical properties and physical implications of gyrokinetics are insufficiently well understood. In space and astrophysics, the wide applicability and power of the gyrokinetic theory has yet to be fully recognised and exploited. To realise the benefits of this approach, it is essential that gyrokinetics be put on a firm mathematical and physical footing.
Gyrokinetics is a nonlinear theory in a 5D phase space. When the collisionality is low, the ring distribution develops a broad range of scales in this phase space. This gives rise to a kinetic turbulent system that is richer and more complex than fluid turbulence. Some of the fundamental questions are:
In the process of addressing these questions, many nontrivial methodological challenges arise:
The programme, while addressing these questions, will aim to step beyond the traditional focus on gyrokinetics for fusion plasmas: to confront a broader group of applied mathematicians and numericists with the practical challenges posed by gyrokinetics; to explore applications to space and astrophysical plasmas; and thus to help forge a cross-disciplinary and versatile community of physicists, astrophysicists and mathematicians, diverse in expertise and background, aware of the spectrum of problems, methods and applications in each other's areas, and dedicated to tackling the grand challenge of understanding kinetic plasma turbulence and transport via a broad collaborative effort.
Unofficial webpage for the event is here.
The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Gyrokinetics in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/F005431/1.
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19 July 2010 to 23 July 2010
The Organisers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the event:
Monday 26th July 2010 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Bill Daughton Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Room 2 | |
09:40 to 10:00 | Room 2 | ||
10:00 to 10:40 |
James Drake University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 2 | |
10:40 to 11:00 | Room 2 | ||
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:10 |
Jan Egedal Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 2 | |
12:10 to 12:30 | Room 2 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Barrett Rogers Dartmouth College |
Room 2 | |
14:40 to 15:00 | Room 2 | ||
15:00 to 16:00 |
Dmitri Uzdensky University of Colorado |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 18:45 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 27th July 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:30 |
Sergey Nazarenko University of Warwick |
Room 2 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Greg Howes University of Iowa |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Peter Catto Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 15:15 | Room 2 | ||
15:15 to 15:45 |
Per Helander Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik |
Room 2 | |
15:45 to 16:00 | Room 2 | ||
16:00 to 16:30 | No Room Required | ||
16:30 to 17:00 |
Felix I Parra University of Oxford |
Room 2 | |
17:00 to 17:15 | Room 2 | ||
17:15 to 17:45 |
Frank Jenko Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik |
Room 2 | |
17:45 to 18:45 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 28th July 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:30 |
James Drake University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Howard Wilson University of York |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Bill Dorland University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 16:30 | No Room Required |
Thursday 29th July 2010 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
David Schaffner University of California, Los Angeles |
Room 2 | |
09:40 to 10:00 | Room 2 | ||
10:00 to 10:40 |
Barrett Rogers Dartmouth College |
Room 2 | |
10:40 to 11:00 | Room 2 | ||
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:10 |
Greg Howes University of Iowa |
Room 2 | |
12:10 to 12:30 | Room 2 | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Jan Egedal Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 2 | |
14:40 to 15:00 | Room 2 | ||
15:00 to 15:40 |
Paolo Ricci |
Room 2 | |
15:40 to 16:00 | Room 2 | ||
16:00 to 16:30 | No Room Required | ||
16:30 to 16:50 |
Michael Barnes University of Oxford |
Room 2 | |
16:50 to 17:00 | Room 2 | ||
17:00 to 17:40 |
Bill Daughton Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Room 2 | |
17:40 to 18:45 | Room 2 |
Friday 30th July 2010 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Jonathan Eastwood Imperial College London |
Room 2 |
Monday 2nd August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Alain Brizard Saint Michael's College, Vermont |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 14:45 |
Tomohiko Watanabe National Institute for Fusion Science |
Room 1 | |
14:45 to 15:00 | Room 1 | ||
15:00 to 15:45 |
Gabe Plunk University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 1 | |
15:45 to 16:00 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 16:30 | No Room Required | ||
16:30 to 18:45 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Ian Abel University of Oxford |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Edmund Highcock University of Oxford |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 4th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Tom Antonsen University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Alexey Mishchenko Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik |
Room 1 |
Thursday 5th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Steven Balbus CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Matthew Kunz University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
15:30 to 16:30 |
Alain Brizard Saint Michael's College, Vermont |
Room 1 |
Friday 6th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Greg Hammett Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Room 1 |
Monday 9th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Steven Cowley Imperial College London |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Paul Dellar University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 10th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Andris Dimits Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:00 to 11:40 |
Susan Leerink Aalto University School of Science and Technology (TKK) |
Room 1 | |
11:40 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 14:40 |
Ivan Calvo CIEMAT, Madrid |
Room 1 | |
14:40 to 15:00 | Room 1 | ||
15:00 to 15:40 |
Felix I Parra University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
15:40 to 16:00 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 11th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Michel Vittot Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Alex Schekochihin University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
Thursday 12th August 2010 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Alexey Mishchenko Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
John Krommes Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Room 1 |
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