Alfvén 2004 Workshop on Space Environment Turbulence
Beaulieu, France, 19-23 Avril 2004
 

Program (revised)

 

Monday 19
9:00-9:50 Registration and Coffee
9:50-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00 R. Pottelette
Small scale particle acceleration processes in the auroral upward current region: remote sensing and in situ measurements
11:00-11:30 G. Marklund 
Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Acceleration Structures in the Auroral Return Current Region 
11:30-12:00  V.T. Tikhonchuk
Trapped Alfvén waves and localized density structures in field line resonances 

12:00-12:30

J.P. St-Maurice

 

Nonlinear  theories of small scale ionospheric irregularities
12:30-14:00  Lunch
14:00-15:00  J. Pickett
Cluster observations of coherent electric field structures 
15:00-16:00  A. Mangeney
``Landau'' type closures for low frequency waves: a numerical study using Vlasov simulations
16:00-16:30  Coffee break
16:30-17:30  B. Tsurutani 
Phase-Steepened Alfvén Waves, Particle Perpendicular Energization and the Creation of Magnetic Holes in Interplanetary Space:  Ulysses and Cluster 
17:30-18:00 K. Stasiewicz 
Magnetosonic solitons and shocklets at  magnetospheric boundaries and the bow shock
   
Tuesday 20
9:00-10:00  A. Roux
Stability of the geomagnetic tail; Cluster observations 
10:00-10:30  M. Volwerk 
Fast flows in the current sheet: wave activity and turbulence 
10:30-11:00  Coffee break
11:00-12:00  A. Bhattacharjee 
Roles of collisionless reconnection and  ballooning instabilities at substorm onset:  theory, simulations and observations.
12:00-12:30  O. Lecontel 
Kinetic description of low-frequency and quasi-static electromagnetic perturbations in magnetic-mirror  confined plasmas 
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00  J. Buechner
 Theory and simulation of current sheet instabilities
15:00-15:30  F. Pegoraro 
Developments in the theory of collisionless reconnection in magnetic configurations with a  strong guide field 
15:30-16:00  Coffee break
16:00-16:30 F. Verheest
  Large amplitude parallel electromagnetic modes in multispecies plasmas.

16:30-17:00

K. Sauer

 

Solitons and oscillitons in multi-ion plasmas - origin of large-amplitude coherent waves
17:00-17:30 K. Ferrière
A mixed MHD-kinetic theory of low-frequency waves and instabilities in gyrotropic plasmas 
18:15 Reception
   
Wednesday 21
9:00-10:00  M. Goldstein
Simulating solar wind turbulence 
10:00-10:30  N. Watkins
Fluctuations in Total Quantities as a Probe of Complex Behaviour 
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 L. Nocera
Organization in integrable and non-integrable Taylor constrained turbulence 
11:30-12:30 T. Hada
Nonlinear Alfvén waves in the Earth's foreshock: theory, observation, and numerical simulations
12:30 Lunch
  Free afternoon
Thursday 22
9:00-10:00  V. Krishan 
Hall-MHD turbulence in solar atmosphere
10:00-10:30  P. Shukla
Nonlinear phenomena caused by shear Alfvén waves in space and laboratory plasmas
10:30-11:00  Coffee break
11:00-11:30  L. Rezeau 
Analysis of the magnetosheath turbulence by CLUSTER II measurements.
11:30-12:00 P.L. Sulem
  A Landau fluid model for dispersive MHD waves in collisionless plasmas 
12:00-12:30  D. Gomez
Numerical simulations of turbulent astrophysical dynamos 
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 S. Chapman
Scaling and statistical intermittency- the Fokker Planck approach to solar wind turbulence. 
15:00-15:30 M. Maksimovic
Non-thermal velocity distribution functions in the interplanetary medium : on their origin and consequences for the Solar Wind acceleration
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 M. P. Leubner
A non-extensive entropy path to interplanetary core-halo velocity space characteristics and scale dependent probability distributions 
17:00-17:30 F. Califano
  Generation of electron suprathermal tails in the solar wind
   
Friday 23
9:00-9:30  E. Marsch
Waves and turbulence in the solar corona 
9:30-10:00  Y. Voitenko
Excitation of kinetic Alfvén turbulence by MHD waves and energization of space plasmas 
10:00-10:30 J. Araneda
Constraints on the ion-beam magnetosonic instability in the fast solar wind
10:30-11:00  Coffee break
11:00-11:30  P.L. Veltri
Intermittency in MHD Turbulence and Coronal Nanoflares Modelling 
11:30-12:00  F. Malara
Dissipation of Alfvén waves in complex coronal magnetic fields
12:00-12:30  A. Chian
Intermittent chaos driven by nonlinear Alfvén waves 
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 G. Belmont
  Weak turbulence in Hall-MHD: toward a theory 
14:30-15:00 S. Galtier
  Whistler wave turbulence in electron MHD
15:00-15:30 C. Mazelle
  Coherent low frequency waves and gyrating ions upstream from the terrestrial and Martian bow shocks: observations and theory
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 B. Lembege
Small and large scale nonstationarity of collisionless shock  front: recent results
16:30-17:00 Y. Kuramitsu
Particle acceleration by elliptically and linearly polarized waves in the vicinity of the quasi-parallel shock 

17:00

Closing remarks