MRT Seminar List

for period 2 to 27 August

Tuesday 03 August
09:30-10:30	Priest, E (St Andrews)
	Problems in MHD Reconnection ??	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Drake, J (Maryland)
	Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection	Sem 1
14:00-15:00	Forbes, T (New Hampshire)
	Flares/CMEs	Sem 1
16:00-17:00	Birn, J (Los Alamos)
	Magnetosphere	Sem 1

Wednesday 04 August
10:00-11:00	Hornig, G (St Andrews)
	Three tutorial lectures on the basic concepts of reconnection (flux, reconnection versus dissipation, 3D reconnection)	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Hesse, M (NASA)
	Three tutorial lectures on collisionless reconnection Diffusion region physics	Sem 1

Thursday 05 August
10:00-11:00	Hornig, G (St Andrews)
	Three tutorial lectures on the basic concepts of reconnection (flux, reconnection versus dissipation, 3D reconnection)	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Pritchett, P (UCLA)
	Three tutorial lectures on the basic concepts of reconnection Onset of magnetic reconnection	Sem 1

Friday 06 August
10:00-11:00	Hornig, G (St Andrews)
	Three tutorial lectures on the basic concepts of reconnection (flux, reconnection versus dissipation, 3D reconnection)	Sem 1

Monday 09 August
09:00-09:30	Hornig, G (Bochum)
	The topology of three-dimensional reconnection	Sem 1
09:30-10:00	Gibbon, JD (Imperial College)
	Singularities in 3D-Euler \& MHD	Sem 1
10:00-10:15	Pontin, D (St Andrews)
	Kinematic 3D reconnection at nulls	Sem 1
10:15-10:30	McLaughlin, J (St Andrews)
	MHD wave propagation in the neighbourhood of 2D null point	Sem 1
10:30-10:45	Abel, G (British Antarctic Survey)
	Fractal reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause \& associated ionospheric convection	Sem 1
11:30-12:00	Pritchett, PL (UCLA)
	Overview of collisionless reconnection theory	Sem 1
12:00-12:30	Hesse, M (NASA, Goddard)
	The physics of the reconnection diffusion region	Sem 1
12:45-13:00	Huba, J (Washington)
	Hall magnetic reconnection in 2D \& 3D	Sem 1
14:30-15:00	Pegoraro, F (Pisa)
	The role of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in magnetic reconnection	Sem 1
15:00-15:30	Shimavoggi, BK (Central Florida)
	Critical exponents and universality in fully developed turbulence	Sem 1
16:00-16:15	Watt, C (Alberta)
	Parameter study of ion acoustic resistivity in collisionless plasmas	Sem 1
16:15-16:30	Petkaki, P (British Antarctic Survey)
	Nonlinear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability	Sem 1
16:30-17:00	Bhattacharjee, A (New Hampshire)
	Impulsive reconnection dynamics	Sem 1

Tuesday 10 August
09:00-09:30	Culhane, L (MSSL)
	Observational evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar corona	Sem 1
09:30-10:00	Parnell, C (St Andrews)
	Reconnection \& coronal heating	Sem 1
10:00-10:15	Higgins, S (Lancashire)
	Space- and time-dependent heating of solar coronal loops	Sem 1
10:15-10:30	Coleman, I (British Antarctic Survey)
	A critical test of reconnection theories on the magnetopause	Sem 1
10:30-10:45	Kuznetsova, M (Washington)
	Anti-parallel merging \& component reconnection: role in magnetospheric dynamics	Sem 1
11:30-12:00	Kliem, B (Potsdam)
	Some open problems for magnetic reconnection in solar flares	Sem 1
12:00-12:30	Hudson, H (Berkeley)
	Active-region magnetic structures \& their perturbations by flares	Sem 1
12:30-12:45	Maclean, R (St Andrews)
	Topology of magnetic breakout	Sem 1
14:30-15:00	Alexander, D (Rice)
	Exploring the nature of magnetic reconnection in solar transients	Sem 1
15:00-15:30	Trattner, K (Lockheed Martin)
	Anti-parallel versus component reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause	Sem 1
16:00-16:30	Dorelli, J (New Hampshire)
	Magnetic reconnection at the Dayside Terrestrial Magnetopause	Sem 1
16:30-17:00	Baumjohann, W (Graz)
	Bifurcated \& thin current sheets: CLUSTER results	Sem 1
17:00-17:15	Eriksson, S (Boulder)
	Walen & slow-mode shock analyses applied to high-speed flows of the near-Earth magnetotail	Sem 1
17:15-17:30	Moretto, T (Washington)
	Plasma depletion at the high latitude dayside magnetopause: Cluster observations	Sem 1

Wednesday 11 August
10:00-11:00	Daughton, B (Los Alamos)
	Role of the lower-hybrid drift instability in the onset of magnetic reconnection	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Schindler, K (Bochum)
	MHD stability of magnetotail equilibria	Sem 1

Thursday 12 August
10:00-11:00	Scholer, M (MPI Garching)
	Kinetic structure of the reconnection layer- are there slow mode shocks?	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Kusano, K (Hiroshima)
	A new trigger mechanism for solar flares	Sem 1

Friday 13 August
10:00-11:00	Huba, J (Washington)
	Hall MHD reconnection	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Hoshino, M (Tokyo)
	Nonthermal particle acceleration	Sem 1

Monday 16 August
10:00-11:00	Longcope, D (Bozemann)
	Observations of coronal loops formed by separator reconnection to an emerging active region	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Linton, M (Washington)
	Three-dimensional MHD reconnection of magnetic flux tubes	Sem 1

Tuesday 17 August
10:00-10:45	Pontin, D (St Andrews)
	Analytical and numerical models of field line behaviour in 3D reconnection	Sem 1
10:45-11:30	Freeman, M (British Antarctic Survey)
	Remote sensing of reconnection rates in the Magnetosphere	Sem 1

Wednesday 18 August
10:00-10:45	Titov, S (San Diego)
	Structure, equilibrium and pinching of coronal magnetic fields	Sem 1
10:45-11:30	Fletcher, L (Glasgow)
	Fast particles in solar flares: the view from RHESSI	Sem 1

Thursday 19 August
10:00-10:45	Bhattacharjee, A (New Hampshire)
	Reconnection: Geometry \& dynamics	Sem 1
10:45-11:30	Shay, M (Maryland)
	Three species collisionless reconnection: Effect of O+ on magnetotail reconnection	Sem 1

Friday 20 August
10:00-10:45	Buchner, J (Max Plank Institute)
	Consequences of LHDI for three-dimensional collisionless reconnection through thin current sheets	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Galsgaard, K (St Andrews)
	Reconnection in flux emergence	Sem 1

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