Dr Roderick (Roddy) G. L. Vann

Lecturer in the Theory of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas at the University of York

Physics Department
University of York
York YO10 5DD
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432296
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 432214
Email: rglv500@york.ac.uk

News

NEW MASTER'S COURSE IN FUSION ENERGY The University of York is pleased to announce that it will be running a taught Master's (MSc) course in Fusion Energy from October 2009. Applications are now being welcomed. For more details please refer to http://www.york.ac.uk/physics/fusion.
Stamford Bridge go top of the Premiership in the York Senior Cricket League by way of a winning draw at Pickering.
Article published in Nuclear Fusion on the subject of Alfven eigenmodes in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak.
Electron Bernstein Wave PhD studentship proposal available online. (The studentship has now been filled.)
Article published in Physical Review Letters: R. G. L. Vann, H. L. Berk and A. R. Soto-Chavez, "Strongly Driven Frequency-Sweeping Events in Plasmas" Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 025003 (2007).
Jorge Cham, author of Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, gave a talk in P/X001 at 6:15pm on Tuesday 23 October (followed by a book signing with refreshments).

I obtained my bachelor's degree and Part III (both in Mathematics) in the period 1995-1999 from the University of Cambridge, where I was a member of the College of St. John the Evangelist. I took my PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick in 2003. I held an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at the Universities of Warwick and York from 1 May 2003 until 30 April 2006. I am now a Lecturer (roughly equivalent to "Assistant Professor" in the US) in the Theory of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas. My principal research interest is the modelling of nonlinear phenomena that occur in the plasmas of magnetic confinement fusion devices.

Dr Roderick (Roddy) G. L. Vann

Lecturer in the Theory of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas at the University of York

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3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on the Theory of Plasma Instabilities, to be held 26 - 28 March 2007 at the University of York

University of York Science and Society Group

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