Alex Schekochihin

Plasma (astro)physics/#fusionenergy/Oxford donnery/@CUP_Plasma/opinions are my own

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...Colloquium to launch the ARC Physics Basis papers at 16:00 Oxford/11:00 Boston today: https://t.co/r48Vxgfb9s

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https://t.co/A3xxAovKD3 ARC Physics Basis papers published by JPP today.

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https://t.co/QPDsd7q0CR

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(5) "Fast and lossless" in the vastness of space --- that's electrons speeding down the cosmic filamentary highways, and Eugene Churazov knows their number https://t.co/vyE8qN0Up4

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(4) Cosmic rays multi-diffuse in multi-phase media (no, condensed-matter folk don't really know how to solve such problems either, but Robbie Ewart might 🤓) https://t.co/wPbaJ47IPj

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(3) Kolmogorov and Batchelor go walkabout in phase space with @MichaelNastac: https://t.co/yjuK7sTvHX

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(2) Pair beams in the lab, strong and stable:
https://t.co/Umwn1bxNTr
https://t.co/ochIhQomyO

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I have neglected posting new papers for a while, so here are some from this year. Joining the ML craze and ML-ling the pedestals: https://t.co/LrXoeLVUSd ...and here is Leo Turica speaking about his work: https://t.co/UvJZ9yAYKn

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Remember, remember 13 of November --- deadline for this: https://t.co/DALBaP1i6S Apply to be a free radical at Oxford (perfect place for that, 900 years of experience overturning dominant paradigms).

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Congratulations to Robbie Ewart! (and what a good run Oxford is having lately) https://t.co/RSXN51WEjV

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Big event today @typeoneenergy

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Chris Hegna, TypeOne Energy
Chair: Alex Schekochihin, JPP Editor
March 27 1500 GMT / 1100 EST
The Infinity Two Stellarator Fusion Pilot Plant baseline plasma physics design
@CUP_Plasma #JPPtalk
Sign up to join: https://t.co/Q0abHVT41f
More info: https://t.co/mjSgGFlTY8

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Gravitational turbulence: just like plasmas yet different. The difference is that cold dark matter is cold, while plasmas --- well, some like it hot... The outcome is quite cool though: https://t.co/bYzQyFgmLB

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@MichaelNastac has done for Vlasov-Poisson what Kolmogorov did for Navier-Stokes: https://t.co/yjuK7sU3xv ...well, if you want to be erudite and technical, it's bit more like Batchelor than like Kolmogorov. Either way, stuff of (future) textbooks, folks, catch up!

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Good curvature, what good curvature? This is the world we live in, even good-curvature regions are going unstable, or so says @photon113_ (aka Plamen Ivanov): https://t.co/Exv4SOrY1F

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Alfvénic stuff can couple to low-frequency stuff, and that's an experimental fact: Juan Ruiz Ruiz in PRL https://t.co/M8WsRixhwm

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Catching up on posting new papers... Patrick Reichherzer's paper on CR transport in micromirror-infested plasma made the cover of Nature of Astronomy last week. What happens in high-beta plasma, stays in high-beta plasma... https://t.co/MUDKizroCh

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Our March issue is here to read: https://t.co/GtEevRMhF7 The dynamic-looking cover image represents cosmic rays in galaxy clusters, and is linked to the Reichherzer et al. paper within the issue.

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@Robert_S25 This is our main MSc offering (1 year), but there are, alas, extremely few scholarships just for this. However, our DPhil students (for whom there is more funding) usually take some of these courses during their first year.

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If you know anyone (incl. yourself) interested in a DPhil at Oxford in plasma/astro, here are the projects for 10/2025 start. We have quite a few this year, and a fair amount of funding, so not only is this the opportunity of a lifetime but it's also real. https://t.co/AGsoWcyuiz

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We were deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Bill Dorland on 22 September 2024. As a co-Editor of the JPP, he will be sorely missed by his colleagues and the plasma physics community.

His colleagues and friends heartfelt tributes can be found at: https://t.co/UHOsiBWf3f