Program for the RädlerFest: Alpha Effect and Beyond (14-18 February 2011)
Venue: Wenner Gren Center, Sveavägen 164, 11346 Stockholm (walking distance to Nordita)
For talks scheduled during the week before, see:
http://agenda.albanova.se/categoryDisplay.py?categId=295
Visa större karta
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M O N D A Y, 14 February
8:30 Registration
Session 1. Chair: Axel Brandenburg
9:30 Opening remarks, and phone call to Fritz Krause
10:00 Paul Roberts: Translation of the α effect to the West
10:30 Coffee
Session 2. Chair: Maarit Mantere
11:00 Eugene Parker: Understanding the origin of astrophysical magnetic fields
12:00 Oliver Gressel: The Rädler-effect in supernova-driven turbulence
12:30 Lunch
Session 3. Chair: Andrew Soward
14:00 Frank Stefani: Recent and future liquid metal experiments on cosmic magnetic fields
14:45 Peter Frick: Experimental measurement of turbulent magnetic diffusivity
15:30 Coffee
Session 4. Chair: Alfio Bonanno
16:00 Marcus Gellert: Helicity generation and α-effect in MHD Taylor-Couette flows
16:30 Piyali Chatterjee: α effect from buoyancy instability [pdf]
17:00 Marie Farge: What wavelets can bring to study MHD flows?
17:30 informal reception at Wenner Gren
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T U E S D A Y, 15 February
Session 5. Chair: Piyali Chatterjee
9:00 Anvar Shukurov: Galactic dynamos need galactic outflows to survive
9:30 Maarit Mantere: Dynamo action in thermally unstable interstellar flows
10:00 Giuseppina Nigro: A Shell Model for Turbulent Magnetic Dynamo
10:30 Coffee
Session 6. Chair: Steve Tobias
11:00 Paul Roberts: Coupling of the Earth's core and mantle
12:00 Dmitry Sokoloff: α-fluctuations and simple model of geomagnetic inversions
12:30 Lunch
Session 7. Chair: Oliver Gressel
14:00 Koen Kemel: The negative magnetic pressure effect in stratified turbulence
14:20 Simon Candelaresi: Magnetic helicity and its effect on the solar dynamo [pdf]
14:40 Hidetomo Sawai: Effects of magnetic dissipation in a collapse of massive star
15:00 Rainer Arlt: Tayler instability in incompressible and compressible domains
15:30 Coffee
Session 8. Chair: Peter Frick
16:00 Matthias Rheinhardt: Test methods for hydro and MHD turbulence [pdf]
17:00 Franck Plunian: Transition from large-scale to small-scale dynamo
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W E D N E S D A Y, 16 February
Session 9. Chair: Rainer Arlt
9:00 Andre Giesecke: Oscillating α2 dynamos
9:30 Dhrubaditya Mitra: α2 dynamo with oscillations and migrations [pdf]
10:00 Martin Schrinner: Oscillatory dynamo models and implications for the solar dynamo
10:30 Coffee
Session 10. Chair: Franck Plunian
11:00 Andrew Soward: The onset of strongly localized thermal convection in rotating spherical shells
11:30 Petri Käpylä: α-effect and large-scale dynamos from convection simulations [pdf]
12:00 Gustavo Guerrero: Dynamo action and magnetic buoyancy in convection with vertical shear
12:30 Lunch
Session 11. Chair: Igor Rogachevskii
14:00 Karl-Heinz Rädler: Passive scalar and magnetic field transport in potential flows
14:30 Nathan Kleeorin: Compressibility effects on turbulent MHD and passive scalar transport
15:00 Steven Tobias: Direct statistical simulation of astrophysical flows
15:30 Coffee
Session 12. Chair: Petri Käpylä
16:00 Alexander Hubbard: α effect and helicity fluxes in shearing systems [pdf]
16:30 Discussion
17:30 end of discussion
19:00 Conference Dinner
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T H U R S D A Y, 17 February
Session 13. Chair: Frank Stefani
9:00 Eugene Parker: Spontaneous discontinuities in magnetic fields with untidy topologies
10:00 Nobumitsu Yokoi: Turbulent cross helicity: Effects and its generation [pdf]
10:30 Coffee
Session 14. Chair: Anvar Shukurov
11:00 Uriel Frisch: Tyger phenomenon for the Galerkin-truncated Burgers and Euler equations
12:00 Chi-kwan Chan: Local anisotropy in MHD turbulence [pdf]
12:30 Lunch
Session 15. Chair: Alexander Hubbard
14:00 Kirill Kuzanyan: Proxies of mean magnetic field and α-effect from solar vector magnetic fields
14:30 Jörn Warnecke: Dynamo-driven plasmoid ejections above a spherical surface [pptx]
14:50 Rodion Stepanov: Multiscale α2 dynamo model
15:10 Federico Stasyszyn: α2 dynamo with SPH
15:30 Coffee
Session 16. Chair: Matthias Rheinhardt
16:00 Alfio Bonanno: Advection dominated dynamo in solar-type stars: cycle periods and parity selection problem
16:30 Thomas Hackman: Photometric time series analysis and Doppler imaging of late type stars
17:00 end of the day
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F R I D A Y, 18 February
Session 17. Chair: Martin Schrinner
9:00 Luiz Garcia: Galactic dynamos from torsion modes of Lorentz violation
9:20 Fabio Del Sordo: Vorticity production from potentially forced flows [pdf]
9:40 Axel Brandenburg: Nonlocal turbulent transport [ppt]
10:00 Shiva Kumar Malapaka: A study of magnetic helicity in forced and decaying 3D-MHD turbulence
10:30 Coffee
Session 18. Chair: Dmitry Sokoloff
11:00 Igor Rogachevskii: Future of mean-field dynamo theory
12:00 Ulrich v. Kusserow: K.-H. Rädler for popular sciences
12:30 Lunch
Session 19. Chair: Paul Roberts
14:00 Anvar Shukurov: Conference summary
15:00 end of the meeting