Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna

7th (Astro)Plasma Kinetics Working Group Meeting
  24 March - 4 April 2014

Responsible Organisers: M. Kunz (Princeton) & A. Schekochihin (Oxford)

TOPICS:

PA: Pressure anisotropies (weeks 1, 2) FM: Firehose, mirror and other instabilities (week 1) PD: Plasma dynamo (week 1) KT: Kinetic turbulence and phase mixing (weeks 1, 2) KR: Kinetic reconnection (week 2) GK: Astrophysical gyrokinetics (weeks 1, 2) HE: Ion and electron heating (weeks 1, 2) AOB        Note: All topics to be discussed at all times, but the distribution between        weeks 1 & 2 shown above corresponds to the periods of likely        concentration of effort (and also reflects the interests of those planning        to attend during those weeks).

If you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the point of doing it? Pablo Picasso It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Maynard Keynes Every line in your calculations ends with "=0". You are not making much progress! Kate Hammett We don't do the calculation because we don't know the answer, we do it because we have a conscience. Bryan Taylor Let's change the resolution on the Unknown. Gabe Plunk Working together takes more than one person. Bill Dorland We can't do ultraviolence to that square bracket. Ian Abel Field lines are forever. Bryan Taylor This is not really an ill-posed problem, it is not a problem at all. Paul Dellar I am just doing mathematics at the moment, but it is mathematics that has some point. Bryan Taylor We have crossed all the i's and dotted all the t's. Ian Abel Let's not jump in front of the bandwagon! Anonymous It's not the triviality, it's the emptiness of it that bothers me. Bryan Taylor This is a very inefficient way of achieving nothing. François Rincon For fairness' sake, let me mention that some people have objections to this, none of which is particularly valid. Chris Chen Yes, Steve, you have always known what we have only just figured out. Alfred Mallet This is more or less right. Perhaps less. Alfred Mallet

Timetable

WEEK 1

Monday 24.03	Tuesday 25.03	Wednesday 26.03	Thursday 27.03	Friday 28.03	Saturday 29.03
9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
EXPERIMENTS 10:00 Carter 10:45 Forest	LANDAU FLUIDS 10:00 Passot 10:45 Dorland	INSTABILITIES 10:00 Kunz-1,2 10:45 Rincon-2	KINETIC TURBULENCE 10:00 Jenko 10:45 Califano	KINETIC TURBULENCE 10:00 Komarov 10:45 Chen 11:30 Kunz-3
12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch
PLASMA DYNAMO 14:00 Rincon-1	PLASMA DYNAMO 14:00 Schekochihin-1	INSTABILITIES 14:00 Matteini	KINETIC TURBULENCE 14:00 Bale	PLASMA DYNAMO 14:00 Melville
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee

WEEK 2

Sunday 30.03	Monday 31.03	Tuesday 1.04	Wednesday 2.04	Thursday 3.04	Friday 4.04
	9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee	9:30 Coffee
	RECONNECTION 10:00 Daughton 10:45 TenBarge	MHD TURBULENCE 10:00 Howes-1 10:45 Mallet	RECONNECTION 10:00 Howes-2 10:45 Loureiro MHD/KINETICS 11:30 Parra	KINETIC TURBULENCE 10:00 Told 10:45 Schoeffler	KINETIC TURBULENCE 10:00 Barnes 10:45 Kanekar
	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	13:00 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch
	MHD 14:00 Cowley	RECONNECTION 14:00 Egedal
	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee

Logistics

City-airport train
Vienna information
COFFEE

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