The London Mathematical Society Spitalfields Days are an opportunity for recent developments in specialist topics to be made known to the general mathematical community. This Spitalfields Day is concerned with modelling the complex behaviour of magnetic fields in ionized gases (or plasmas), whether in laboratory experiments, or in the interior and at the surface of stars like the Sun, or in galaxies like our own Milky Way.
- 10:30 – 11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00 – 11:45
- S.C. Cowley (University of California, Los Angeles) Plasmas in the laboratory and in astrophysics
- 12:00 – 12:45
- D.O. Gough (IoA, University of Cambridge) Helioseismology, rotation and magnetic fields in the Sun
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:15
- J.H. Thomas (University of Rochester, NY) The strange properties of sunspots
- 15:30 – 16:15
- P.S. Cally (Monash University, Melbourne) Magneto-shear instabilities in stars
- 16:15 – 16:45
- Tea
- 16:45 – 17:30
- A. Shukurov (University of Newcastle)Magnetic fields in galaxies
- 17:30 – 18:30
- Wine and Beer Reception
These lectures are linked to the Isaac Newton Institute programme on Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors (6 September - 17 December 2004). Anyone interested is welcome to attend; talks will be aimed at a general mathematical audience. Please let Tracey Andrew at the Institute know by 19 November 2004 if you intend to come, to help us plan for lunch: telephone (01223) 335984; fax: (01223) 330508; e-mail: t.andrew@newton.ac.uk
There are limited funds available to assist research students to attend, please apply by 19 November 2004 to Tracey Andrew by email or post at the Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH.
Scientific enquiries may be addressed to Nigel Weiss