Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna
Thematic Programme
GYROKINETIC PLASMA TURBULENCE
Responsible Organiser: A. Schekochihin
SOC: C. Bourdelle, Y. Brenier, S. Cowley, W. Dorland, N. Mauser, S. Nazarenko, A. Tsinober
Working Group Meeting
"Kinetic Instabilities, Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection"
16-20 February 2009
| THEMES |
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| FORMAT | This
is a working meeting: there will be a reduced schedule of seminars and
plenty of time for discussions and collaborative work. The
aim is to make concrete progress rather than passively listen to talks. |
Invited Participants
List updated as invitations are issued and confirmations arrive
ProgrammeList updated as invitations are issued and confirmations arrive
| Name | Affiliation | Contribution | Notes | Dates | |
| 1 | Ian Abel | U of Oxford & UKAEA Culham | 15(eve)-20(eve) | ||
| 2 | Michael Barnes | U of Oxford & UKAEA Culham | Resolving velocity space dynamics in gyrokinetic turbulence simulations (poster) | pdf, 2.1 Mb | 15(eve)-20(eve) |
| 3 | Francesco Califano | U di Pisa | The role of the magnetic field in the interaction of the solar wind with a magnetosphere (talk) | part 1: pdf, 6 Mb part 2: pdf, 9.7 Mb part 3: pdf, 4.1 Mb | 17(mor)-20(eve) |
| 4 | Troy Carter | UCLA | 1) Studies of nonlinear Alfven waves and drift-Alfven wave turbulence in a laboratory plasma (talk) | pdf, 3.1 Mb | 15(mor)-21(mor) |
| 2) Workshop summary and a review of laboratory efforts (present and future) to solve all these problems | pdf, 2.7 Mb | ||||
| 5 | Christopher Chen | Imperial College London | Solar wind measurements: turbulence, instabilities and reconnection (poster) | pdf, 224 kb | 15(aft)-20(eve) |
| 6 | Yeontaek Choi | NIMS, S. Korea | |||
| 7 | Steven Cowley | UKAEA Culham & Imperial College London | Flux freezing in plasma turbulence (talk) | pdf, 5.4 Mb | 15(eve)-18(eve) |
| 8 | William Dorland | U of Maryland | What next? (concluding talk + mediated discussion) | 18(aft)-21(aft) | |
| 9 | Uriel Frisch | Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice | Turbulence: scaling laws, singularities and asymptotic extrapolation (review) | pdf, 1.8 Mb | 15-19(mor) |
| 10 | Petr Hellinger | IAP/AIAS, Prague | 1) Temperature anisotropy in the solar wind (review) | pdf, 1.6 Mb | 15-20 |
| 2) Proton firehose instabilities in the expanding solar wind (poster) | pdf, 1.4 Mb | ||||
| 11 | Alexander Kendl | U of Innsbruck | 2D turbulence in magnetised plasmas (review) | pdf, 1.4 Mb | 17(mor)-19(eve) |
| 12 | Nuno Loureiro | UKAEA Culham | 1) Instability of current sheets and generation of plasmoid chains (talk) | PRL 103, 105004 | 15(eve)-20(eve) |
| 2) Sweet-Parker reconnection in the presence of turbulence in 2D (poster) | MNRAS 399, L146 | ||||
| 13 | Dhrubaditya Mitra | Queen Mary U of London | Oscillatory migrating magnetic fields in helically forced turbulence (poster) | slides: pdf, 356 kb poster: pdf, 444 kb | 16(mor)-20(aft) |
| 14 | Sergei Nazarenko | Warwick U | MHD turbulence in a box (review) | pdf, 1.7 Mb | 18(aft)-20(aft) |
| 15 | Ryusuke Numata | U of Maryland | Collisionless and collisional tearing mode in gyrokinetics (poster) | pdf, 288 kb | 15-21(mor) |
| 16 | Thierry Passot | Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice | Turbulence in driven dispersive MHD models (talk) | pdf, 2.2 Mb | 15-20(aft) |
| 17 | Gabriel Plunk | U of Maryland | Direct and inverse cascades in 2D gyrokinetic turbulence (joint review with Tatsuno) | pdf, 2.5 Mb | 14-21(mor) |
| 18 | François Rincon | U de Toulouse | Nonlinear evolution of parallel firehose instability in weakly collisional plasma (poster) | pdf, 516 kb | 15-22 |
| 19 | Alexander Schekochihin | U of Oxford | 1) Weak Alfvenic turbulence revisited (poster) | 15(eve)-20(eve) | |
| 2) Mean-field theory for the shear dynamo effect (poster) | arXiv:0810.2225 | ||||
| 20 | Pierre-Louis Sulem | Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice | Simulation and modeling of nonlinear mirror modes (review) | pdf, 3.6 Mb | 15-20(aft) |
| 21 | Tomoya Tatsuno | U of Maryland | Direct and inverse cascades in 2D gyrokinetic turbulence (joint review with Plunk) | pdf, 2.5 Mb | 15-21(mor) |
| 22 | Arkady Tsinober | Imperial College London & Tel Aviv U | Is cascade in turbulence a well posed concept? (review) | pdf, 7.1 Mb | 15(eve)-16(aft) |
| 23 | Dmitri Uzdensky | Princeton U | Magnetic reconnection in collisional and collisionless regimes (review) | pdf, 1 Mb | 15(eve)-20(eve) |
| 24 | Alessandro Zocco | Politecnico di Torino & WPI | Inertial regimes in fast nonlinear magnetic reconnection (poster) | pdf, 1.7 Mb | 15(eve)-20(eve) |
| Monday, 16 February | Tuesday, 17 February | Wednesday, 18 February | Thursday, 19 February | Friday, 20 February |
| 9:30-9:45 Welcome TURBULENCE 9:45-10:15 Frisch | INSTABILITIES 10:00-11:00 Hellinger-1,2 | PLASMA TURBULENCE 9:30-10:00 Cowley | MHD TURBULENCE 9:30-10:15 Nazarenko 10:30-10:45 Posters: Mitra, Schekochihin-1,2 | LABORATORY (+Workshop Summary) 10:00-10:45 Carter-2 |
| 10:30-11:15 Coffee/Posters | 11:15-11:45 Coffee/Posters | 10:15-11:00 Coffee/Posters | 10:45-11:30 Coffee/Posters | 11:00-11:45 Coffee/Posters |
| TURBULENCE 11:15-12:00 Tsinober | INSTABILITIES 11:45-12:30 Sulem 12:45-13:00 Posters: Rincon | 2D PLASMA TURBULENCE 11:00-11:30 Kendl 11:45-12:30 Plunk & Tatsuno 12:45-13:00 Posters: Barnes | RECONNECTION 11:30-12:00 Califano 12:15-12:45 Loureiro-1 | FUTURE DIRECTIONS (+General Discussion) 11:45-12:15 Dorland |
| 12:00-13:30 Lunch | 13:00-14:30 Lunch | 13:00-14:30 Lunch | 13:00-14:30 Lunch | 12:30-14:00 Lunch |
| MHD TURBULENCE 13:30-14:15 Passot 14:30-15:00 Carter-1 15:15-15:30 Posters: Chen | RECONNECTION 14:30-15:15 Uzdensky 15:30-15:45 Posters: Loureiro-2, Numata, Zocco | 14:30-15:00 Coffee/Posters (a chance to reassemble and form working groups) | 14:30-15:00 Coffee/Posters (a chance to reassemble and form working groups) | 14:00-14:30 Coffee/Posters (a chance to reassemble and form working groups) |
| 15:30-... Working groups | 16:00-... Working groups | 15:00-... Working groups | 15:00-... Working groups | 14:30-... Working groups |
Logistics
The workshop will be held in Nodrbergstr. 15 (follow directions to WPI), room C207 (coffee breaks and posters in C209)
Please contact Ms Doris Obermaier (doris.obermaier at univie dot ac dot at) to arrange accommodation
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