Magnetic Field Generation in Experiments, Geophysics and Astrophysics (Conference)Coordinators: Chris Jones, Daniel Lathrop, Steven Tobias, Ellen ZweibelJuly 14, 2008 - July 18, 2008 |
Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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Disk Dynamos and Galactic Dynamos
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| 9:00am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome from the Director and Organizers |
| 9:25am | Jim Stone (Princeton) |
Magnetic Field Amplification in MRI-driven Turbulence |
| 10:15am | Martin Pessah (IAS) |
Viscous, Resistive Magnetorotational Modes |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:10am | Chi-kwan Chan (CfA, Harvard) |
A Multi-Scale Approach to Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion Disks |
| 11:35am | Sergey Moiseenko (Space Research Inst., Moscow) |
Magnetorotational Supernovae and Magnetorotational Instability |
| 12:00pm | Axel Brandenburg (Nordita) |
Nonlinear Magnetic Diffusivity and Alpha Tensors |
| 12:25pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Stas Boldyrev (UW-Madison)
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| 2:00pm | Katia Ferriere (LAOMP, Toulouse) |
Galactic Dynamos |
| 2:50pm | Anvar Shukurov (Newcastle Univ.) |
Turbulence and Dynamo Action in Galaxy Clusters |
| 3:15pm | Geoffroy Lesur (DAMTP/CMS) |
Self Sustaining Cycles in Accretion Discs MHD |
| 3:40pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:10pm | Patrick Diamond (UCSD) |
Potential Vorticity Homogenization and Zonal Structures in MHD |
| 4:35pm | Bruce Buffett (Univ. Chicago) |
Subgrid-Scale Modeling for Numerical Dynamo Simulations |
| 5:00pm | Jozef Brestensky (Comenius Univ.) |
Rotating Hydromagnetic Instabilities with Anisotropic Diffusivities at Large Prandtl Number |
| 5:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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Solar and Stellar Dynamos
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| 9:00am | Sasha Brun (CEA Saclay) |
Solar and Stellar Dynamo Action |
| 9:50am | David John Galloway (Univ. Sydney) |
A Strong-Field Dynamo in the Solar Tachocline |
| 10:15am | Nic Brummell (UCSC) |
Constraints on the Solar Omega Effect from Models of Shear-Generated Magnetic Buoyancy Instabilities |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:10am | Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford) |
Helioseismic Constraints on the Solar Dynamo |
| 11:35am | Michael Thompson (Univ. Sheffield) |
Helioseismic Observations and the Solar Dynamo |
| 12:00pm | Valentina Zharkova (Univ. Bradford) |
The Observational Properties of Solar Activity Deduced from the Sunspot and Background Magnetic Fields in Cycles 21-23 |
| 12:25pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Dave Galloway (Univ. Sydney)
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| 2:00pm | Matthias Rempel (NCAR) |
Energetics of the Large Scale Solar Dynamo |
| 2:25pm | Evy Kersale (Univ. Leeds) |
Magnetic Buoyancy Instabilities and the Formation of Coherent Structures |
| 2:50pm | Juri Toomre (JILA/Univ. Colorado) |
Building Global Magnetism Amidst Solar Turbulence |
| 3:15pm | Nicholas Featherstone (JILA/Univ. Colorado) |
Convective Core Dynamos of A-type Stars in the Presence of a Fossil Magnetic Field |
| 3:40pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:10pm | Steve Tobias (Univ. Leeds) |
Momentum Transport and Dynamos in Stably Stratified Domains |
| 4:35pm | DISCUSSION | |
| 5:15pm | POSTER SESSION | RECEPTION IN KITP COURTYARD |
| 6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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Experiments (Part 1)
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| 9:00am | Stephan Fauve (Given by Francios Daviaud, ENS, Paris) |
Oscillations and Reversals of the Magnetic Field Generated by a Turbulent Flow of Liquid Sodium |
| 9:50am | Agris Gailitis (Univ. Latvia) |
Last Results from Riga Dynamo Experiment |
| 10:15am | Henri-Claude Nataf (LGIT, Grenoble) |
Mean Flow and Fluctuations in a Quasi-Taylor State MHD Flow : Recent Results of the DTS Experiment |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:10am | Dan Lathrop (Univ. Maryland/IREAP) |
Inertial Waves in Sodium, the Velikov (magnetorotational) Instability in Sodium, and Quantum Vortices in Helium |
| 12:00pm | Stewart Prager (Given by Cary Forest, UW-Madison) |
Flux-Conversion Dynamo in a Laboratory Plasma |
| 12:25pm | Karl-Heinz Raedler (AIP) |
Mean-Field Magnetohydrodynamics: Test-Field Method for Calculating the Coefficients that Determine the Mean Electromotive Force |
| 12:50pm | BEACH PICNIC LUNCH | Area D, Goleta Beach |
| 2:30pm | FREE AFTERNOON | Shuttle Available to BWSCI |
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Experiments (Part 2)
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| 9:00am | Cary Forest (Univ. Wisconsin) |
Beyond Liquid Metal Dynamos |
| 9:50am | Aleksander Obabko (Univ. Chicago) |
Dynamo Action in MRI-Driven Turbulence in a Cylindrical Annulus |
| 10:15am | Andreas Tilgner (Univ. Goettingen) |
Dynamo Action with Waves |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
Fundamental Dynamo Theory |
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| 11:10am | Fausto Cattaneo (Univ. Chicago) |
Large and Small-Scale Dynamo Action |
| 12:00pm | Stanislav Boldyrev (UW-Madison) |
Kinematic Dynamo at Large and Small Magnetic Prandtl Number |
| 12:25pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Paul Roberts (UCLA)
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| 2:00pm | Eric Blackman (Univ. Rochester) |
Conceptual Progress in Helical Dynamos |
| 2:50pm | Radostin Simitev (Univ. Glasgow) |
Two Types of Dipolar Spherical Dynamos Driven by Turbulent Convection |
| 3:15pm | Berengere Dubrulle (CEA Saclay) |
Turbulence and the Dynamo |
| 3:40pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:10pm | Paul Bushby (Newcastle Univ.) |
Small-Scale Dynamo Action in Compressible Convection |
| 4:35pm | DISCUSSION | |
| 5:15pm | POSTER SESSION | RECEPTION IN KITP COURTYARD |
| 6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 |
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Geodynamo and Other Planetary Dynamos
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| 9:00am | David Stevenson (Caltech) |
What Planets tell us about Dynamos |
| 9:50am | Gary Glatzmaier (UCSC) |
Planetary Dynamos and the Effects of Density and Electrical Conductivity Stratifications |
| 10:15am | C. Wu and Paul Roberts (UCLA) |
Precessionally-driven Dynamo in a Spheroid |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:10am | Uli Christensen (MPI, Katlenburg-Lindau) |
Scaling Laws for Dynamos: From Planets to Low-mass Stars |
| 12:00pm | Philip Livermore (UCSD) |
The Construction of Exact Taylor States for the Geodynamo |
| 12:25pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Gary Glatzmaier (UCSC)
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| 2:00pm | Peter Olson (JHU) |
Saturation and Reversal Mechanisms in Numerical Dynamos |
| 2:50pm | Peter Hoyng (SRON, Netherlands) |
Computation of the Mean Reversal Rate of Numerical Geodynamo Models |
| 3:15pm | Graeme Sarson (Newcastle Univ.) |
Geomagnetic Reversals from Low Order/Turbulent Shell Models |
| 3:40pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:10pm | Binod Sreenivasan (Univ. Leeds) |
Vortex Asymmetries in Rotating, Convective Dynamos |
| 4:35pm | Dave Gubbins (Univ. Leeds) |
Influence of Inhomogeneous Thermal Boundary Conditions on the Geodynamo |
| 5:00pm | Chris Jones (Univ. Leeds) |
Zonal Flow and Jupiter's Dynamo |
| 5:25pm | CONFERENCE END | Shuttle Available to BWSCI, SB Airport, SB Airbus *See Jocelyn to Sign Up |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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| Daniel Brito (OMP, Toulouse) |
Observation of Solar Granulation and Supergranulation | |
| Doug Kelley (UMD) |
Integrating Numerical and Experimental Geodynamo Models [abstract] | |
| Eric King (UCLA) |
Boundary Layer Control of Rotating Convection Systems: The Transition to 3D Turbulence | |
| Irina Kitiashvili (Stanford) |
Non-linear Dynamical Models of Solar Dynamo with Variable Magnetic Helicity | |
| Kirill Kuzanyan (Univ. Leeds) |
Compressible Convection in the Giant Planets | |
| Hiroaki Matsui and Bruce A. Buffett (Univ. Chicago) |
A Dynamic Model for Dynamo Simulations in a Rotating Spherical Shell | |
| Nicholas Nelson (Univ. Colorado) |
Global Magnetic Oscillations in a Rapidly Rotating Sun [abstract] | |
| Katy Richardson (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
Effects of Fluctuations on Alpha-Omega Dynamo Models: Spatial and Temporal Variation | |
| Jon Rotvig (ETH Zurich) |
Optimizing Extended 2.5D Models of Magnetic/Non-magnetic Thermal Convection | |
| Roman Shcherbakov (CfA, Harvard) |
Self-consistent Modeling of Accretion with Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence [abstract] | |
| Lara Silvers (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
Long-term Nonlinear Behaviour of the Magnetorotational Instability in a Localized Model of an Accretion Disc | |
| Jan Simkanin (GFU) |
Control Volume Methods for Hydromagnetic Dynamos in Rotating Spherical Shells | |
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