Alexander Russell's Homepage

Welcome to my homepage. I am a postgraduate student working on my Ph.D. at the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group of the University of St. Andrews. I am being supervised by Dr Andrew Wright. This page gives some information on who I am and what I do. Hope you find it useful! If you are interested in my work then please find my contact details at the bottom of the page.
A photo of me.

Curriculum Vitae

To view a pdf of my CV please click here (updated 7th Jan 2010).

Research Interests
  • Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves.
  • Resonant absorption / field line resonance.
  • Decay of coronal loop oscillations.
  • Magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions.
  • Electron inertial effects.
  • Decay of coronal oscillations.
  • Solar surface magnetic fields (quiet Sun and active regions).
  • Forward modelling.
  • Astrophysical plasmas.
Publications

For a list with brief summaries and citation count, please click here.

Published:
  • Canfield, R. C. and Russell, A. J. B.
    "Solar Active Region Flux Fragmentation, Subphotospheric Flows, and Flaring,"
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 662, Issue 1, pp. L39-L42, 2007.
    ADS ApJ ePrint
In press:
  • Russell, A. J. B., Wright, A. N. and Hood, A. W.
    "Self-Consistent Ionospheric Density Modifications by Field Aligned Currents: Steady State Solutions,"
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, in press, 2009.
    JGR in press
  • Russell, A. J. B. and Wright, A. N.
    "Resonant Absorption With 2D Variation of Field Line Eigenfrequencies,"
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press, 2009.
In preparation:
  • Regnier, S., Russell, A. J. B., Hood, A. W., and Priest, E. R.
    "Coronal Alfven Speeds in an Isothermal Atmosphere:
       II. Alfven Speed Profiles and Fundamental Modes,"
    In preparation, 2009.
Conferences and Meetings
  • STFC Astronomy Summer School, 23rd-29th August 2009.
  • Solaire SODAS, 1st-5th June 2009.
  • JENAM09 (with UKSP and MIST meetings), 20th-23rd April 2009.
  • BUKS2009 Workshop, 6th-8th April 2009.
  • Solaire Network Meeting, 12th-15th January 2009.
  • ASSSP08, 1st-5th September 2008.
  • UKMHD 2008, 5th-6th June 2008.
  • NAM08 (with UKSP and MIST meetings), 31st March-4th April 2008.
  • STFC Introductory Course on Solar Physics, 9th-14th September 2007.
  • STFC Advanced Summer School 2007 (Solar Physics), 2nd-7th September 2007.
  • International Flux Emergence Workshop, 12th-15th June 2007.
External Talks
Internal Talks
Education
  • 2007-pres: Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Applied Mathematics
  • 2003-2007: M.Phys., University of St. Andrews, Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (1st Class)
  • 1997-2003: Hermitage Academy, Helensburgh
Teaching
  • 2007-pres: Tutoring for MT2001, a core pre-honours mathematics module, normally taught to 2nd year undergraduates.
Personal
  • Fiona and I were married on 6th July 2009.
  • Interests and Activities:
    Climbing/walking/mountaineering - mainly Scottish but all seasons and wherever I happen to be. Many exhausting but happy days were spent with STAUMC.
    Red Cross and first aid - have been a member of the British Red Cross Society since 2004 and do first aid duties for them whenever I can.


Contact Details
Mathematical Institute,
University of St. Andrews,
North Haugh,
St. Andrews,
Fife,
Scotland,
KY16 9SS.



alexr 'at' mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Room 225
Phone: +44 (0)1334 463730