Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Division: Seminars
This seminar covers topics in fusion energy research and plasma physics. The seminar is run by Antoine Cerfon. The seminar meets, usually, on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. in room 905 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York.
SPRING 2013
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the numerical simulation of equations modeling reflectometry for fusion plasmas
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, UPMC (Paris 6)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Intrinsic rotation in tokamak plasmas
Felix Parra, MIT
TUESDAY, MARCH 5
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Relativistic helicity and linkage in Minkowski space-time
Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo
TUESDAY, MARCH 12
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
A 3-D parallel solver in an electromagnetic wave code for tokamak plasmas
Jungpyo Lee, MIT
TUESDAY, APRIL 2
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
The Structure of the Ion-Acoustic Shock in Hall-MHD with Isothermal Electrons
George Hagstrom, CIMS
TUESDAY, APRIL 9
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Ertel's vorticity theorem and new confining surfaces in fusion plasmas
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
TUESDAY, APRIL 23
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Zonal Flow as Pattern Formation
Jeffrey Parker, Princeton University/PPPL
TUESDAY, MAY 7
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulation of Coulomb Collisions using Relative Entropy
Lee Ricketson, UCLA
TUESDAY, MAY 14
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 905
Interaction of a C^1 wave with elementary waves of the Riemann problem for Euler equations of gas dynamics
V.D. Sharma, IIT Bombay
SPRING 2011
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 412
Equilibrium and Time-Dependent Simulations of Two-Dimensional Magneto-Hydrodynamic Tokamak Plasmas with Flow
Luca Guazzotto, University of Rochester
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 412
Bounds on Transport in Surface Stress Driven Turbulent Flows
George Hagstrom, University of Texas
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:35 P.M., WWH 412
Vortex/Magnetic Field: The Cosmological Origin
Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo
FALL 2010
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 202
Title tba
J.J. Ramos, MIT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:45 P.M., WWH 202
Turbulent Convection, Dynamo Action, and MHD Wave Propagation in the Solar Interior
Shravan Hanasoge, CIMS
SPRING 2010
FRIDAY, MAY 10
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Are Fusion Plasmas Compressible?
Antoine Cerfon, MIT
TUESDAY, MAY 3
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
title TBA
Enrico Camporeale, Queen Mary University of London, UK
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Wall Force Produced in ITER Disruptions
Henry R. Strauss, CIMS
TUESDAY, MARCH 9
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Visualization and Analysis of Particles and Magnetic Field Topology
Allen Sanderson, University of Utah
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Fluid Simulations of Interchange Turbulence
Bo Li, Dartmouth College
TUESDAY, MARCH 2
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Towards a New Generation of PIC Modeling Tools for Maxwell-Vlasov Problems
Jan S. Hesthaven, Director of Center for Computation and Visualizaton, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Methods for Numerical Simulations: Noise Reduction, Projective Integration, and Data Compression
Diego del-Castillo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
A Quasi-Linear Gyrokinetic Transport Model for Tokamak Plasmas
Alessandro Casati, CEA, IRFM, Institute of Research on Magnetic Fusion, France
2009 Seminars
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 512
Free Boundary Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria with Flow
Ron Schmitt, CIMS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 412
BOUT++ Simulations of ELMs and RMPs
Ben Dudson, Dept. of Physics, University of York
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Shocks and Instabilities in Hall-MHD Fluids, where Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions Do Not Apply
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 512
Modeling ITER Operation Scenario
Vassili Parail, Head, JET Theory Division, UKAEA, Culham
2008 Seminars
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 312
3D Effects of the Boundary on Linear Growth Rates of MHD Unstable Modes in the Reversed Field Pinch
Roberto Paccagnella, Instituto di Gas Ionizzati del C.N.R., Padua, Italy
MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ion Temperature Effects in Electromagnetic, Transcollisional Gyrokinetic Computations of Edge Turbulence
Bruce Scott, Max-Planck-IPP, EURATOM Association
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Gyrokinetic Limitations and Extensions
Peter Catto, MIT
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Integrated Predictive Modelling of ITER Scenarios in EU
Vassili Parail, Culham Science Centre, UKAEA
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 317
High Order Integrators and Fully Lagrangian Methods in Plasma Simulations
Andrew J. Christian, Dept. of Mathematics, Michigan State University
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008
JOINT CAOS-MFD SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Geophysical Wave Interactions in Turbulent Magnetofluids
Shane Keating, UCSD
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Gyrokinetic Equations for Strongly Inhomogeneous Plasmas
T.S. Hahm, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Gyrokinetic Full-f Simulations of Plasma Transport
Salomon Janhunen, Helsinki University of Technology
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Inverting the Biot-Savart Integral in the Context of Stellarator Coil Determination
Ron Schmitt, CIMS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Weight Growth Due to Resonant Simulation Particles and a Modified delta-f Algorithm with Smooth Switching between delta-f and total-f Methods
Hong Qin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Nonlinear Saturation of Trapped Elactron Modes via Perpendicular Particle Diffusion
Frank Jenko, IPP-Garching
2007 Seminars
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Mode Control Theory and Experimental Results in RFX-MOD
Roberto Paccagnella, Instituto di Gas Ionizzati del C.N.R., Padua, Italy
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Edge Plasma Observations in NSTX Experiment and Opportunities for Computational Studies
Rajesh Maingi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 813
DIII-D Edge Transport During ELM Control by Resonance Magnetic Perturbations
Ilon Joseph, UCSD/GA
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Theory of Stellarators and Tokamaks
Paul Garabedian, CIMS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 613
National Spherical Torus Experiment at Princeton University
Jonathan Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 613
Planning of DOE SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) Fusion Simulation Projects
Arnold Kritz, Lehigh University
2006 Seminars
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2006
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
How to Analyze a Numerical Turbulence Spectrum?
W. Nevins, LLNL
2005 Seminars
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2005
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., Room 813
Near-term Stellarator Research Problems
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