MSI Seminar List
for period 6 September to 17 December 2004
| Monday 06 September | ||
| 11:30-12:35 | Rosner, R (Chicago) | |
| Stellar magnetic activity (overview) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Moffatt, HK (Cambridge) | |
| Introduction to MHD and dynamo theory I | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Kleeorin, N (Beer Sheva) | |
| Universal mechanism of dynamo saturation:dynamics of magnetic helicity | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Busse, FH (Bayreuth) | |
| Finite amplitude convection in rotating spherical fluid shells and its Prandtl number dependence | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 07 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Moffatt, HK (Cambridge) | |
| Introduction to MHD and dynamo theory II | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Rogachevskii, I (Beer Sheva) | |
| Effect of differential rotation on nonlinear mean electromotive force and stellar dynamos | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Arlt, R (AIP, Potsdam) | |
| Magneto-rotational instability in the solar core and Ap star envelopes | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:30 | Gough, DO (Cambridge) | |
| What we know about stellar interiors (overview) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Title, AM (LMSAL, Palo Alto) | |
| Observations of magnetic fields on the Sun I | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Voegler, A (MPS, Katlinburg-Lindau) | |
| Decay of a simulated bipolar magnetic field in the solar surface layers | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Dumin, YV (IZMIRAN, Troitsk) | |
| Heating the stellar plasma in the transitional region from the inductive to drift freezing of magnetic field | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 08 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Cameron, AC (St Andrews) | |
| Magnetic activity in rapidly rotating stars I | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Ferriz-Mas, A (Vigo) | |
| Influence of external flows on the stability of magnetic flux tubes in a stellar convection zone | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Steiner, O (KISP, Freiburg) | |
| Connecting solar irradiance variability to the solar dynamo using the virial theorem | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Title , AM (LMSAL, Palo Alto) | |
| Observations of magnetic fields on the Sun II | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 09 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Cameron, AC (St Andrews) | |
| Magnetic activity in rapidly rotating stars II | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Tavakol, R (QMUL) | |
| Dynamo models and differential rotation in sun and stars | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Galloway, DJ (Sydney) | |
| Different limiting mechanisms for nonlinear dynamos | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Proctor, MRE (Cambridge) | |
| Magnetoconvection I | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Hartmann, LW (CFA, Cambridge, Mass) | |
| Young stars I | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Matthews, PC (Nottingham) | |
| Localised states in magnetoconvection | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Rincon, F (Toulouse) | |
| Large scale simulations of compressible convection | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 10 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Proctor, MRE (Cambridge) | |
| Magnetoconvection II | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-10:35 | Bushby, PJ (Cambridge) | |
| Modelling photospheric magnetoconvection in the weak field regime | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Nordlund, A (Copenhagen) | |
| Current status of facular region and sunspot models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Hartmann, LW (CFA, Cambridge, Mass) | |
| Young stars II | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Thomas, JH (Rochester) | |
| Sunspots I | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Birch, AC (Colorado Research Associates) | |
| Forward modeling for local helioseismology | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 13 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Scharmer, GB (Stockholm) | |
| Fine structure of solar magnetic fields | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Moreno-Insertis, F (IAC, Tenerife) | |
| Emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere: three dimensional experiments | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Brummell, NH (Boulder, CO) | |
| What is a magnetic flux tube? | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Thomas, JH (Rochester NY) | |
| Sunspots II | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Cattaneo, F (Chicago) | |
| Small-scale dynamos I | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Kosovichev, AG (Stanford) | |
| Helioseismic observations of magnetohydrodynamics of the solar interior | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 14 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Spruit, HC (MPA, Garching) | |
| Magnetohydrodynamics of stably stratified stars | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Cameron, R (MPS, Katlinburg-Lindau) | |
| Photospheric MHD simulations of solar pores | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Brandenburg, A (Nordita, Copenhagen) | |
| Catastrophic alpha quenching alleviated by helicity flux and shear | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Cattaneo, F (Chicago) | |
| Small-scale dynamos II | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Thompson, MJ (Sheffield) | |
| Internal rotation of the Sun I: Results from helioseismology | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Haugen, NEL (Trondheim/Cambridge) | |
| Numerical simulations of small scale dynamo activity; spectra and critical magnetic Reynolds numbers | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 15 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Thompson, MJ (Sheffield) | |
| Internal rotation of the Sun II | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Schekochihin, AA (Camrbridge) | |
| Magnetic-field generation in low-magnetic-Prandtl-number plasmas | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Brun, AS (Saclay) | |
| Dynamo action in turbulent convective shells with or without rotation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Tobias, SM (Leeds) | |
| Solar and stellar dynamos I | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 16 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Tobias, SM (Leeds) | |
| Solar and stellar dynamos II | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Ruzmaikin, AA (JPL, Pasadena) | |
| Non-axisymmetric solar magnetic fields | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Zhang, KK (Exeter) | |
| Non-axisymmetric solar interface dynamos | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Fauve, S (ENS, Paris) | |
| Dynamo experiments I | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Glatzmaier, GA (Santa Cruz) | |
| Direct simulation of planetary and stellar dynamos I: methods and results | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Gilbert, AD (Exeter) | |
| Nonlinear dynamo action in rotating convection and shear | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-18:15 | Fauve, S (ENS, Paris) | |
| Dynamo experiments II | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 17 September | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Glatzmaier, GA (Santa Cruz) | |
| Direct simulation of planetary and stellar dynamos II: future challenges | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Rogers, TM (UC, Santa Cruz) | |
| Numerical simulations of the solar tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Schrinner, M (MPS, Katlinburg-Lindau) | |
| Comparison of three-dimensional geodynamo calculations with mean-field models | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 21 September | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Busse, FH (Bayreuth) | |
| Parameter dependence of convection in spherical shells and its dynamo action | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 23 September | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Jones, CA (Exeter) | |
| Planetary dynamos | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 28 September | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Shibata, K (Kyoto) | |
| Modelling magnetic activity in the sun, stars and accretion discs | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 30 September | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Galloway, D (Sydney) | |
| Different limiting mechanisms for nonlinear dynamos: a more detailed account. | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 05 October | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Rosner, R (Chicago) | |
| Validating astrophysical simulations | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 07 October | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Hurlburt, N (Lockheed-Martin, California) | |
| Modeling Magnetoconvection in active regions | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 11 October | ||
| 11:25-12:35 | Schnack, D (San Diego) | |
| Computational MHD: A model problem for widely separated time and space scales (Chair: R Rosner) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Hollerbach, R (Glasgow) | |
| Planetary convection and dynamos (Chair: N Weiss) | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Lanotte, AS (Lecce) | |
| DNS of anisotropic MHD flows (Chair: N Weiss) | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Rubini, F (Florence) | |
| Convective instabilities in pre-runaway white dwarfs (Chair: N Weiss) | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 12 October | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Nordlund, A (Copenhagen) | |
| Staggered mesh approaches to MHD- and charged-particle simulations of astrophysical turbulence (Chair: DJ Galloway) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Brummell , NH (JILA, Boulder) | |
| Magnetic field transport in turbulent compressible convection (Chair: DJ Galloway) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Mignone, A (Turin) | |
| PLUTO: a modular code for computational astrophysics (Chair: DJ Galloway) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Cattaneo, F (Chicago) | |
| Astrophysical dynamos (Chair: DJ Galloway) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Toomre, J (JILA, Boulder) | |
| Global modelling of solar convection, differential rotation and magnetism (Chair: MRE Proctor) | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Browning, M (JILA, Boulder) | |
| Simulations of core convection and resulting dynamo action rotating A-type stars (Chair: MRE Proctor) | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Haugen, NEL (Trondheim) | |
| Mach number dependence of the onset of dynamo action (Chair: MRE Proctor) | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 13 October | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Klein, R (Berkeley) | |
| Verification and validation of astrophysical radiation-hydrodynamics (Chair: JM Stone) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Kommissarov, S (Leeds) | |
| Modelling of relativistic magnetically dominated plasmas (Chair: JM Stone) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Schekochihin, AA (Cambridge) | |
| Turbulence in magnetized plasma: do we understand and can we simulate Braginskii viscosity? (Chair: JM Stone) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Mueller, E (Garching) | |
| Supernovae and numerical (R)MHD: challenges and developments (Chair: JM Stone) | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 14 October | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Drake, J (Maryland) | |
| Kinetic modeling of magnetic reconnection in space and astrophysical systems (Chair: PH Diamond) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Isobe, H (Kyoto) | |
| 3D simulation of emerging flux and magnetic reconnection using the Earth Simulator (Chair: PH Diamond) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Keppens, R (Rijnhuizen) | |
| Grid-adaptive simulations of magnetized jet flows (Chair: PH Diamond) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Brandenburg, A (Nordita) | |
| Large scale simulations of astrophysical turbulence (Chair: PH Diamond) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:40 | Linde, T (Chicago) | |
| Non-ideal MHD and beyond (Chair: NE Hurlburt) | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:05 | Falle, S (Leeds) | |
| A numerical scheme for multi-fluid MHD (Chair: NE Hurlburt) | Sem 1 | |
| 17:05-17:30 | Gardiner, T (Princeton) | |
| A new CT-Godunov MHD algorithm with application to the MRI (Chair: NE Hurlburt) | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-17:55 | Balsara, DS (Notre Dame) | |
| Amplification of interstellar magnetic fields by supernova-driven turbulence (Chair: NE Hurlburt) | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 15 October | ||
| 09:00-10:10 | Bodo, G (Turin) | |
| Simulations of astrophysical jets (Chair: A Ruzmaikin) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Aloy, MA (MPA, Garching) | |
| Short and long term simulations of relativistic magnetized jets (Chair: A Ruzmaikin) | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Ferrari, A (Turin) | |
| AMR simulations of supersonic magnetized jet acceleration from accretion discs (Chair: A Ruzmaikin) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:35 | Hawley, J (Virginia) | |
| The magneto-rotational instability (Chair: A Ruzmaikin) | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 19 October | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Ogilvie, GI (Cambridge) | |
| Dynamical tides and wave attractors in rotating fluid bodies | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 21 October | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Hollerbach, R (Glasgow) | |
| Dynamics associated with the inner core tangent cylinder | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 26 October | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Knobloch, E (Leeds) | |
| Long dynamo waves | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 28 October | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Subramanian, K (Pune) | |
| Helicity and helicity fluxes in turbulent dynamos | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 02 November | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Rieutord, M (Toulouse) | |
| Towards two-dimensional stellar models: a non-perturbative approach to rapidly rotating stars | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 04 November | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Gilbert, AD (Exeter) | |
| Passive scalar decay in simple mappings | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 08 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Gough, DO (IoA, Cambridge) | |
| Review of observational results | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-12:45 | ||
| Panel discussion of the observations led by J Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aarhus) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Zahn, JP (Meudon) | |
| Theoretical issues raised by the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | ||
| Discussion led by MJ Thompson (Sheffield) Interactions between theory and observations | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 09 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Garaud, P (Cambridge/UCSC) | |
| Magnetic confinement of the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | McIntyre, ME (DAMTP) | |
| Solar tachocline dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Petrovay, K, Forgacs-Dajka, E (Budapest) | |
| Dynamics of the fast solar tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:45 | ||
| Discussion led by NO Weiss (DAMTP, Cambridge) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Haynes, PH (DAMTP, Cambridge) | |
| Shellular turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Miesch, MS (HAO) | |
| Turbulence in the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-17:45 | ||
| Discussion led by HC Spruit (MPA, Garching) | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 10 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Gilman, PA (HAO, Boulder) | |
| Hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Hughes, DW (Leeds) | |
| Magnetic buoyancy instabilities and shear in the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:45 | ||
| Discussion led by PS Cally (Monash, Melbourne) | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 11 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Ogilvie, GI (IoA, Cambridge) | |
| Angular momentum transport by magnetohydrodynamic turbulence | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | ||
| Discussion led by PH Diamond (UCSD) Transport and transport barriers in the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Ruediger, G (Potsdam) | |
| The solar dynamo and the tachocline | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-17:30 | ||
| Discussion led by SM Tobias (Leeds) | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 12 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Rosner, R (Chicago) | |
| What have we learnt? Where do we go from here? | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 16 November | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Choudhuri, AR (Bangalore) | |
| The solar dynamo as a model of the solar cycle | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 18 November | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Cally, PS (Monash) | |
| Acoustics of surface magnetic fields | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 23 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Hughes, D (Leeds) | |
| Aspects of mean field dynamo theory | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Guicciardini, N (Sienna) | |
| The role of mathematics in Newton's natural philosophy | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 25 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Diamond, P (UCSD) | |
| Transport barriers | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 30 November | ||
| 10:00-11.30 | Ferriz Mas, A (Vigo) | |
| Some comments on the use of Chandrasekhar's adiabatic exponents in compressible hydrodynamics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 02 December | ||
| 10:00-11.15 | Beer, J (EAWAG, Zurich) | |
| Long-term solar variability derived from cosmogenic radionuclides | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12.45 | Weiss, NO (Cambridge) | |
| Modulation of cyclic activity in the Sun | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 06 December | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Cowley, SC (California) | |
| Plasmas in the laboratory and in astrophysics | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Gough, DO (Cambridge) | |
| Helioseismology and the rotation of the sun | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:15 | Thomas, JH ( Rochester) | |
| The strange properties of sunspots | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Cally, PS (Monash ) | |
| Magneto-shear instabilities in stars | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Shukurov, A ( Newcastle) | |
| Magnetic fields in galaxies | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 07 December | ||
| 10:00-10:40 | Haynes, P (Cambridge) | |
| Shear barriers | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-10:55 | Chernyshenko, S (Southampton) | |
| Near-wall structures | Sem 1 | |
| 10:55-11:10 | Kerr, B (Warwick) | |
| Non-linear models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:25-11:40 | Kevlahan, N (McMaster) | |
| RDT of near-wall turbulence | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:40 | Blackman, E (Rochester) | |
| Mean-field MHD | Sem 1 | |
| 12:40-13:00 | Brandenburg, A (Nordita) | |
| Passive scalar diffusion | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Schekochihin, A (Cambridge) | |
| Scaling in MHD turbulence | Sem 1 | |
| 14:40-15:20 | Vassilicos, C (Imperial) | |
| Two-particle diffusion | Sem 1 | |
| 15:40-15:55 | Gilbert, A (Exeter) | |
| Passive scalars and coherent structures | Sem 1 | |
| 15:55-16:10 | Pavliotis, G (Imperial) | |
| Diffusion of inertial particles | Sem 1 | |
| 16:10-16:25 | Mastorakos, N (Cambridge) | |
| Scalar dissipation rates | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 09 December | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Cameron, R (MPI) | |
| The structure of small-scale magnetic flux tubes | Sem 1 | |
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