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SUMMARY:Heavenly turbulence
DESCRIPTION:To register for your free place at this talk please email Katie
  Weeks (k.weeks@imperial.ac.uk). Tea and cakes will be served from 16.45 i
 n the Physics Common Room\, level 8 Blackett Laboratory.\nSpace is not a t
 otal vacuum: everywhere we look\, there are small numbers of protons and e
 lectrons. These charged particles interact with the magnetic fields around
  them to produce a plasma\, with behaviour far more complex than that foun
 d in the fluids like air and water that we know on Earth.\nOne of the most
  poorly understood phenomena in fluids is turbulence. On Earth\, it causes
  drag on vehicles\, but also helps us stir milk into our tea. In space\, t
 urbulence controls the paths of cosmic rays and heats the plasma.\nSpacecr
 aft in orbit around the Sun are making remarkably precise measurements of 
 plasma turbulence. Using these satellites\, dramatic progress is being mad
 e in understanding this important fluid process.\nBiography\nFollowing an 
 undergraduate degree at Imperial\, Tim Horbury stayed there to undertake a
  PhD in the Department of Physics analysing data from the Ulysses spacecra
 ft exploring the polar regions of the solar system. He then received a Pos
 tdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial from the then Particle Physics and Astron
 omy Research Council.\nAfter a postdoctoral position at Queen Mary\, Unive
 rsity of London\, Tim returned to Imperial in 2000 as a Science and Techno
 logy Facilities Council Advanced Fellow and was appointed to a lectureship
  in 2005. He was promoted to Reader in 2006 and Professor in 2010.\nTim’
 s research interests cover several aspects of space plasma physics\, parti
 cularly turbulence. He is Principal Investigator of the magnetometer instr
 ument being built at Imperial for launch in 2017 on the European Space Age
 ncy’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/108515/heavenly-turbulence/
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