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