UKAEA Fusion Theory Colloquia at Culham

2006

2007

2008

Culham Colloquia
2007

The colloquia are primarily for an internal scientific audience at Culham. However, it is usually possible for visitors to attend, by prior arrangement - please contact us by e-mail to colloquia@fusion.org.uk.

Unless otherwise indicated, the talks start at 2pm in either the Pease Room, first floor, building D3, or the Hans Otto-Wüster (HOW) room, building K1, Culham Science Centre.

10 January HOW Room	Quantum Computing Dr. Simon Benjamin University of Oxford
17 January HOW Room	Coal Power Technologies Dr. Mike Farley Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd
24 January	NO COLLOQUIUM
30 January (Tuesday) HOW Room	Reaction Engines Mr. Richard Varvil Reaction Engines
7 February HOW Room	Anomalous Diffusion and Dislocation Dynamics Dr. Steve Fitzgerald UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association
14 February HOW Room	Anti-Hydrogen Dr. Neils Madsen University of Wales, Swansea
21 February HOW Room	Substorms - Earthquakes in Space Dr. Mervyn Freeman Natural Complexity Programme, British Antarctic Survey
28 February HOW Room	Will Coral Reefs be the First Ecosystem to be Eliminated by Global Warming? Caspar Henderson Environmental journalist and Author
7 March HOW Room	Electron Acceleration and los in the earth's Van Allen's radiation belts by wave-particle interactions Dr. Richard B. Horne British Antarctic Survey, Principal Investigator, Sun Earth Connections Programme
14 March HOW Room	Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from a plasma accelerator Dr. Zulfikar Najmudin Imperial College
21 March HOW Room	Carbon Free Electricity - Can Technology Beat Global Warming? Dr. Brendon McNamara Leabrook Computing
28 March HOW Room	Middle World: The restless heart of matter and life Dr. Mark Haw Nottingham University
4 April	Easter Week - No Colloquia
11 April Pease Room	Title to be announced Dr. Charles Wang University of Aberdeen
18 April HOW Room	Hydrodynamics at Ultralow Surface Tension Dr. Dir Aarts University of Oxford
25 April HOW Room	Anti-Hydrogen Dr. Neils Madsen University of Wales, Swansea
2 May HOW Room	PIC Simulations of Reforming Perpendicular Shocks - Implications for Particle Acceleration Prof. Sandra Chapman University of Warwick
8 May (Tuesday) HOW Room	Energy, Sustainability and Development Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association
9 May HOW Room	Large Neutron Pulses from Imploding Deuterium Z-pinches - Experimental Results, 3D MHD Modelling and Extrapolation to Possible Ignition Dr. Jeremy Chittenden Imperial College, London
16 May HOW Room	Rigid and Semi-Rigid Origami Dr Zhong Yu University of Oxford
25 May HOW Room	Runaway Electron Generation during Killer Pellet Injection Dr Hakan Smith University of Warwick
6 June John Adams Lecture Theatre	Prof. Sir Roger Penrose Postponed to 12th September 2007
13 June HOW Room	The role of technology in sporting performance Dr Claire Davis University of Birmingham
20 June HOW Room	Biomimetics, Robots and Intelligence Dr. Jonathan Rossiter University of Birmingham
27 June HOW Room	Making Regulatory Sanctions Effective Prof. Richard Macrory University College London
4 July	No talk - EPS Conference
9 July Monday Pease Room	Helical magnetic field at the sun Dr. David Alexander Rice University, Houston
11 July HOW Room	Gyro-kinetic theory of toroidal momentum transport in a tokamak Dr. Arthur Peters University of Warwick
18 July HOW Room	Probing planck scale physics using matter wave interferometry Dr. Charles Wang University of Warrick
5 September	No Seminar
12 September HOW Room	TBA Prof Sir Roger Penrose Oxford University
19 September	No Seminar
26 September HOW Room	Analytic Theory of Momentum Transport & Shear Flow in Plasmas Dr. Johan Anderson University of Sheffield
3 October HOW Room	TBA Prof Rex Godby The University of York
10 October HOW Room	The Reality of Alternative Energy Prof Nick Jelley University of Oxford
17 October	The Aerodynamics of Carved Stone Balls Tom Todd UKAEA Fusion
24 October HOW Room	SCORE Project: A Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity Dr. Artur Jaworski University of Manchester
31 October HOW Room	TBA Dr Jack Connor UKAEA Fusion
7 November HOW Room	The Physics Behind Shields for the Starship Enterprise? Dr Ruth Bamford Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
14 November HOW Room	Climate Stability, is it necessary for life? Dr David Waltham Royal Holloway, University of London
21 November How Room	Elementary Particles and their Interactions Prof Alan Martin University of Durham
28 November HOW Room	The Future of PhotoChemistry Prof Anthony Harriman Newcastle University
5 December	Co-arrays for efficient parallel programming in Fortran Dr John Reid Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
12 December HOW Room	Antikythera, the 150 BC Greek Astronomical Calculator Prof Mike Edmunds Cardiff University
19 December	No Seminar

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