Programme
All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.
| Monday 29th July |
| 14:00 | Registration - closes at Dinner |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 30th July |
| 09:00 | Opening remarks |
| 09:05-:09:50 | RD Blandford | |
| 09:50-10:35 | RE Pudritz | 3-D Simulations of Jets from Accretion Disks:
Self-Regulatory Stability |
| 10:35-10:55 | E Kersale | Global properties of magnetorotational instabilities in accretion discs |
| 10:55 | Coffee |
| 11:25-12:00 | R Rosner
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| 12:00-12:25 | D Moss | The origin of magnetic spots in close binary systems |
| 12:25-12:50 | A Nordlund | Solar coronal heating and loop formation |
| 12:50-13:15 | L Mestel | |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-16:30 | U Muller | The non-linear behaviour of the Karlsruhe experimental dynamo |
| 16:30-17:00 | S Fauve | Nonlinear effects in high Rm MHD flows |
| 17:00-17:30 | K-H Radler | The Karlsruhe dynamo experiment: on the theory of the nonlinear regime |
| 18:30 | Wine Reception |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 31st July |
| Chair: A Pouquet |
| Cattaneo | On the generation of magnetic fields by turbulence. |
| Diamond | n Why Magnetic Diffusivity and Alpha Are Quenched in MHD Turbulence |
| Nunez | Limitations of mean-field magnetohydrodynamics |
| 10:55 | Coffee |
| Chair: U Muller |
| Lathrop | |
| 12:00-13:00 | S Aumaitre | Effect of a horizontal magnetic field on turbulent convection in mercury |
| Charbonneau | Stochasticity and intermittency in reduced Babcock-Leighton models of
the solar cycle |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Poster Session |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| Gilbert | Stretching and folding of magnetic field in maps |
| 16:45-17:20 | A Pouquet | Is there universality in the presence of waves?
The case of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (joint work with H. Politano) |
| Kim | Eddy viscosity and laminarization of sheared flow in
magnetohydrodynamic turbulence |
| Davidson | MHD Turbulence |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday 1st August |
| TBA | A Shukurov | Magnetic fields in barred galaxies: observations and modelling |
| 10:25-10:45 | SAEG Falle | Rarefaction shocks and shock errors in ZEUS |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: DJ Galloway |
| 11:30-12:15 | PC Matthews | Flux separation in magnetoconvection |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Conference Photograph & Cathedral Visit |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Friday 2nd August |
| 10:35-10:55 | JR Lister | The energy requirements of a convectively-driven geodynamo
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| 10:55 | Coffee |
| 11:25-12:00 | A Chulliat | Linear, steady, buoyancy-driven perturbations in a homogeneous, rapidly
rotating, electrically conducting fluid |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 17:05-17:40 | NO Weiss | Problems raised by solar and stellar dynamos |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Saturday 3rd August |
| I Rogachevskii | Population genetic inference in bacterial pathogens |
| 10:55 | Coffee |
| Chair: GI Ogilvie |
| 11:25-12:00 | EN Parker | Solar, stellar, and galactic dynamos in the presence of strong mean fields |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| Chair: GA Glatzmaier |
| 16:00-16:45 | K Zhang | A new generation of 3D spherical dynamos using a finite element method |
| 17:20-18:20 | G R Sarson | Hyperdiffusivity in planetary dynamo simulations |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Sunday 4th August |
| 09:00 | Day trip to Hadrian's Wall & Housesteads Fort and Hexham |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Monday 5th August |
| 09:00-10:00 | GA Glatzmaier | Current challenges in dynamo modeling |
| E Dormy | To come |
| 10:55 | Coffee |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 6th August |
| 09:00-10:00 | SA Balbus | Dynamical structure and stability of nonradiative accretion flows |
| 10:55 | Coffee |
| Chair: SA Balbus |
| 12:15-13:00 | GI Ogilvie | Dynamics of distorted discs |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 17:15-17:35 | A Ferriz Mas | How much magnetic flux can be stored
in the solar overshoot region?
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| 19:00 | Wine reception followed by Conference Dinner |
| Wednesday 7th August |
| Chair: K Zhang |
| 09:45-10:05 | D Ivers | A numerical investigation of the asymptotic behaviour of spherical roll dynamos |
| 10:25-11:00 | DJ Galloway | Generation of twisted magnetic fields in the solar convection zone (joint work with
R Cameron, Y Uchida and N Weiss) |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| Chair: EN Parker |
| 16:00-16:20 | P Hoyng | Computation of the mean reversal time of a mean
field geodynamo model from first principles
(joint work with J Wiersma) |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday 8th August |
| Departure after breakfast |
