Dr Antonia Wilmot-Smith

Name:

Antonia Wilmot-Smith

Position:

Research Fellow

Address:

Department of Mathematics

University of Dundee

Dundee DD1 4HN

Room:

2.47

E-mail:

antoniamaths.dundee.ac.uk

Phone:

+44 (0)1382 384482

Fax:

+44 (0)1382 385516

Research Interests:

• 3D Magnetic Reconnection.
• Coronal heating.
• Solar Physics.

Publications:

• Yeates, A.R., Hornig, G., Wilmot-Smith, A.L., `Topological Constraints on Magnetic Relaxation', PRL, in press (2010) astro-ph
• Pontin, D.I., Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Galsgaard, K., `Dynamics of braided coronal loops - II. Cascade to multiple small-scale reconnection events', submitted to A&A (2010) astro-ph
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Pontin, D.I., Hornig, G., `Dynamics of braided coronal loops - I. Onset of magnetic reconnection', A&A, 516, A5 (2010) astro-ph pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Pontin, D.I., `Magnetic Braiding and Quasi-Separatrix Layers', ApJ, 704, pp. 1288 (2009) astro-ph pdf
• Pontin, D.I., Hornig, G., Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Craig, I.J.D., `Lagrangian Relaxation Schemes for Calculating Force-Free Magnetic Fields, and their Limitations', ApJ , 700, pp. 1449 (2009) astro-ph pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Pontin, D.I., `Magnetic Braiding and Parallel Electric Fields', ApJ, 696, pp.1339 (2009) astro-ph pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Priest, E.R., `Dynamic non-null magnetic reconnection in three-dimensions - II. Composite Solutions', Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 103 (6), 515 - 534 (2009) astro-ph pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., `The origin and dynamic interaction of solar magnetic fields', Ph.D. Thesis, University of St Andrews (2007) pdf .
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Priest, E.R., `Flux tube disconnection - An example of 3D reconnection'. Physics of Plasmas, 14 102903 (2007) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., De Moortel, I. `Magnetic reconnection in flux-tubes undergoing spinning footpoint motions' A & A, 473 pp.615 (2007) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Nandy, D., Hornig, G., Martens, P.C.H., `A Time-Delay Model for Solar and Stellar Dynamos'. ApJ, 652, pp.696 (2006) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Priest, E.R., `Dynamic non-null magnetic reconnection in three-dimensions - I. Particular Solutions', Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 462 (2074) pp. 2877 (2006) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Martens, P.C.H., Nandy, D., Priest, E.R., Tobias, S.M., `Low-order stellar dynamo models', MNRAS, 363 , pp. 1167 (2005) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Priest, E.R., Hornig, G., `Magnetic Diffusion and the Motion of Field Lines', Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 99, No. 2, pp. 177 (2005) pdf

Recent Conferences & Talks

• October 2009:   Invited Seminar, University of Glasgow (UK)
• August 2009:   Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA).
• April 2009:   Contributed talk, UKMHD, Coventry University (UK) pdf .
• February 2009:   Invited seminar, University of St Andrews (UK).
• August 2008:   Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Bad Honnef, Germany pdf .
• April 2008:   NAM/UKSP, Belfast (UK).
• September 2007:   Invited lectures, STFC Introductory Solar Physics Summer School, Armagh (UK):   MHD pdf (12MB), Magnetic Reconnection pdf (32MB).
• October 2006:   Contributed talk, RAS meeting, Solar Terrestrial Fields and Reconnection, London (UK) pdf .