| Workshop : | Simulations of magnetohydrodynamic |
| turbulence in astrophysics: | |
| recent achievements and perspectives | |
| Paris, France, July 2-6, 2001 | |
| Program | |
| Monday | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Registration |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break and welcoming announcement |
| 11:00-11:50 | C. McKee |
| The Role of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds | |
| 11:50-12:10 | T. Troland |
| Surprising results from studies of magnetic fields in the | |
| Galactic cold neutral medium | |
| 12:10-12:30 | P. Hennebelle |
| Formation of structures dynamically induced in the | |
| interstellar medium | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:50 | R. Walder |
| Turbulence in shock bounded slabs | |
| 14:50-15:10 | D. Biskamp |
| On the Alfvén wave effect in MHD turbulence | |
| 15:10-15:30 | O. Steiner |
| Maintaining solenoidity on a staggered mesh in | |
| conjunction with adaptive mesh refinement | |
| 15:30-15:50 | H. Strauss |
| M3D: An Unstructured Mesh Extended MHD Code | |
| 15:50-16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20-17:10 | W. Matthaeus |
| MHD turbulence driven by low frequency waves and | |
| reflection from inhomogeneities: Theory, Simulation | |
| and Application to Coronal Heating | |
| 17:10-17:30 | S. Oughton |
| Weak Turbulence and Anisotropy in Compressible MHD | |
| with a mean magnetic field | |
| 17:30-17:50 | R. Grappin |
| Changing the global structure of the solar wind by | |
| injecting large amplitude Alfvén waves into the corona | |
| Tuesday | |
| 9:00-9:50 | R. Crutcher |
| Observations of Magnetic Fields in the Interstellar Medium | |
| 9:50-10:10 | F. Heitsch |
| Magnetic Field Diagnostics Based on Far-Infrared | |
| Polarimetry: Tests Using Numerical Simulations | |
| 10:10-10:30 | M. Houde |
| The Detection of the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:50 | A. Nordlund |
| Star formation and the Initial Mass Function | |
| 11:50-12:10 | R. Pudritz |
| Star Formation Thresholds and the Initial Mass Function | |
| in Turbulent, Magnetized Clouds | |
| 12:10-12:30 | P. Padoan |
| Molecular Clouds as a Laboratory for Super-Sonic MHD | |
| Turbulence | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:20 | C. Heiles |
| Temperatures and magnetic fields of diffuse interstellar gas | |
| 14:20-14:40 | J. Kim |
| Turbulent Interstellar Medium Driven by Supernova: | |
| Field Strength and Dynamo Action | |
| 14:40-15:30 | R. Grauer |
| Adaptive mesh refinement for singular structures in | |
| plasma flows | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:50 | A. Bhattacharjee |
| Recent Developments in Collisionless Reconnection | |
| Theory | |
| 16:50-17:10 | M. Franqueira |
| Numerical simulation of the ambipolar filamentation | |
| Process | |
| 17:10-17:30 | D. Laveder |
| MHD turbulence driven by Alfvén-wave transverse | |
| instabilities | |
| Wednesday | |
| 9:00-9:50 | S. Balbus |
| Simulations of MHD Turbulence in Accretion Disks | |
| 9:50-10:10 | J. Papaloizou |
| Non linear MHD simulations of an accretion disk with | |
| star-disk boundary layer | |
| 10:10-10:30 | P.Y. Longaretti |
| Shear instabilities in Keplerian flows revisited | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:50 | E. Zweibel |
| Simulations of the Evolution of Magnetic Fields | |
| 11:50-12:10 | P. Varniere |
| MHD Simulation of the Accretion-Ejection Instability | |
| in Magnetized Disk | |
| Free lunch and afternoon | |
| Conference dinner | |
| Thursday | |
| 9:00-9:50 | E. Vishniac |
| Turbulent Dynamos and Numerical Simulations | |
| 9:50-10:10 | E. Blackman |
| Perspectives on Testing Mean Field Dynamo Theory | |
| With Numerical Simulations | |
| 10:10-10:30 | S. Kida |
| Thermally Driven MHD Dynamo in a Rotating Spherical | |
| Shell - Magnetic Field Intensification by | |
| Anti-Cyclonic Vortices | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:50 | A. Brandenburg |
| The helicity issue in large scale dynamos | |
| 11:50-12:10 | C. Nore |
| Saturation of dynamo action in the Taylor--Green vortex | |
| 12:10-12:30 | J. Maron |
| The Nonlinear Turbulent Dynamo | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:20 | Y. Lithwick |
| Compressible Turbulence in Interstellar Plasmas | |
| 14:20-14:40 | A. Chiffaudel |
| MHD in the von Karman sodium (VKS) dynamo experiment | |
| 14:40-15:00 | M. Ossendrijver |
| Solar magnetoconvection and dynamo coefficients | |
| 15:00-15:20 | S. Tobias |
| Nonlinear Magnetoconvection in the Presence of Strong | |
| Oblique Fields | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break |
| 15:50-16:40 | D. Clarke |
| Total Intensity Filaments in Extragalactic Radio Objects | |
| and the Instigation of MHD Turbulence | |
| 16:40-17:10 | A. Lazarian |
| MHD of turbulent fluid | |
| 17:10-17:40 | E. Vazquez-Semadeni |
| Thermal Instability in a Turbulent Medium | |
| Friday | |
| 9:00-9:50 | U. Ziegler |
| NIRVANA: A general-purpose MHD code with AMR | |
| 9:50-10:10 | D. Folini |
| Alfvén-wave support and filamentation of molecular | |
| clouds in 1D | |
| 10:10-10:30 | V. Carbone |
| To what extent can simplified dynamical models mimic | |
| turbulence? | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:50 | M. Mac Low |
| MHD Turbulence in Star-Forming Regions and the | |
| Interstellar Medium | |
| 11:50-12:10 | M. Lyutikov |
| Effects of toroidal magnetic field on the formation | |
| and turbulence generation in molecular clouds | |
| 12:10-12:30 | J. Fiege |
| Current-Driven Formation of Filamentary Molecular | |
| Clouds in the Turbulent ISM | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:50 | E. Ostriker |
| The internal structure, kinematics, and magnetization | |
| of turbulent molecular clouds: developing | |
| diagnostics using numerical models | |
| 14:50-15:10 | G.F. Gahm |
| Molecular Filamentary Clouds | |
| 15:10-15:40 | D. Balsara |
| Powers of Ten : A Multi-Scale, Physics-Rich View of | |
| Computational Astrophysics | |
| Closing Discussions | |
| POSTERS | |
| A. Bhattacharjee | Random Scattering and Anisotropic Turbulence of |
| Shear-Alfvén Wave Packets | |
| S. Boldyrev | A Solvable Model for Nonlinear Mean Field Dynamo |
| D. Clarke | Planar Splitting an MHD Computer Algorithm |
| A. Dudorov | Types of Turbulence in Interstellar Clouds |
| S. Galtier | On weak/wave turbulence in MHD |
| A. Gazol | The Temperature Distribution in Turbulent Interstellar Gas |
| A. Gazol | Influence of Alfvén waves on the gravitational instability |
| P. Kapyla | Numerical study of Balbus - Hawley instability |
| in magnetized accretion disks | |
| J. Mason | A model of the Solar Interface Dynamo with |
| Magnetic Pumping | |
| W.H. Matthaeus | Local anisotropy in incompressible MHD turbulence |
| M.A. Miville- | Statistical properties of the CNM velocity and |
| Deschenes | density fields |
| W.C. Muller | Large-Eddy simulation of magnetohydrodynamic |
| turbulence | |
| Y. Ponty | Kinematic dynamo action in flows driven by shear and |
| convection | |
| L. Primavera | A POD analysis of the vertical photospheric flow |
| observed by THEMIS | |
| F.J. Sanchez- | Global simulations of starless galactic discs. |
| Salcedo | |
| A. Santillan | 3D--MHD numerical simulations of the collisions |
| of HVC with a galactic disk | |
| L. Sorriso-Valvo | Analysis of the Cancellation Exponent in MHD Turbulence |
| From 2D Numerical Simulations | |
| S. Tobias | Vortex Dynamos |
| J. Wadsley | Simulations of MHD Turbulence in the ISM |
| L.J. Wilkinson | The Decay of a Weak Large-scale Field in Convection |
| Only speakers' names are listed for oral presentations | |
| Refer to abstract book for full authors' lists |