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



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