From January 3-7, more than 30 graduate students and post-docs from the US and Europe gathered at UCLA for a full week of advanced lectures in plasma physics, followed by a week-long workshop on multiscale plasma physics at IPAM. Here are a few pictures from the first week.

Winter School lectures were held in the seminar room on the fourth floor of UCLA's new Physics and Astronomy Building (shown above).

Monday, January 3

• 8:30 AM Coffee
• 9:00 - 10:00 AM Bill Dorland - Introduction, aims
• 10:00 - 10:15 AM More coffee
• 10:15 - 11:15 AM Steve Cowley Introduction to Gyrokinetics I
• 11:15 - 12:15 Jim Drake Introduction to Reconnection theory I
• 12:15 - 1:30 PM Lunch
• 1:30 - 5:30 PM Reconnection research discussion Leader: Miklos Porkolab
• Jan Egedal -- VTF experiments directions and questions (There is a second version of this talk posted, too.)
• Jim Drake/Mike Shay Theory development
• Walter Gekelman Reconnection experiments at UCLA
• Ferd Coroniti and Phil Pritchett -- Simulations
• 5:30 PM Refreshments

Tuesday, January 4

• 8:30 AM Coffee
• 9:00 - 10:00 AM Steve Cowley Introduction to Gyrokinetics II
• 10:00 - 10:15 AM More coffee
• 10:15 - 11:15 AM Jim Drake Introduction to Reconnection theory II
• 11:15 - 12:15 AM Richard Fitzpatrick Island theory I
• 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 - 5:30 PM Fusion reconnection discussion Leader: Miklos Porkolab
• Rob Le Haye -- NTMs on DIII-D
• Ed Lazarus -- Sawteeth on DIII-D
• Dylan Brennan -- Issues of tearing modes
• Richard Fitzpatrick -- NTM theory issues
• Francois Waelbroeck and Jim Drake Sawtooth theory issues
• 5:30 PM Refreshments

Wednesday, January 5

• 8:30 AM Coffee
• 9:00 - 10:00 AM Greg Hammett -- Introduction to Turbulence in Tokamaks I
• 10:00 - 10:15 AM More coffee
• 10:15 - 11:15 AM Richard Fitzpatrick Island theory II
• 11:15 - 12:15 Bill Dorland Numerical gyrokinetics I
• 12:15 - 1:30 PM Lunch
• 1:30 - 5:30 PM Transport research discussion Leader -- Tony Peebles (APS talk, CMPD talk) )
• Ed Doyle and Terry Rhodes, DIII-D measurements Doyle, Rhodes
• Miklos Porkolab, PCI and RF
• Liang Lin, PCI and turbulence on C-Mod
• Jim Dorris, PCI and turbulence on DIII-D
• 5:30 PM Refreshments

Thursday, January 6

• 8:30 AM Coffee
• 9:00 - 10:00 AM Greg Hammett Introduction to Turbulence in Tokamaks II
• 10:00 - 10:15 AM More coffee
• 10:15 - 11:15 AM Jeff Candy Numerical gyrokinetics II
• 11:15 - 12:15 Alex Schekochihin -- Alfven wave cascades
• 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 - 5:30 PM Alfven wave cascade research discussion Leader Troy Carter
  • Brian Brugman -- LAPD measurements of Alfven wave interaction
  • Greg Howes -- Simulations of Alfven cascade
  • Miklos Porkolab, Alfven chirps in Alcator C-Mod, etc.
  • Bill Dorland -- Recent Advances in the Theory of Magnetized Plasma Turbulence (UCLA Physics Dept Colloquium)
• 5:30 PM Refreshments

Friday, January 7

• 8:30 AM Coffee
• 9:00 - 10:00 AM Steve Cowley - Review of neoclassical tearing mode problem
• 10:00 - 10:45 AM Jim Drake - Review of sawtooth problem
• 10:45 - 11:00 AM Bill Dorland - Experimental comparisons, algorithm development
• 11:00 - 12:00 Mike Shay - Projective integration of an ion acoustic wave
• 12:00 - 12:30 PM Discussion
• 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch, wrap-up