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Durham Cathedral

London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics
Monday 29th July - Thursday 8th August 2002

Programme

All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.

Monday 29th July
14:00Registration - closes at Dinner
19:00Dinner
Tuesday 30th July
09:00Opening remarks
09:05-:09:50RD Blandford
09:50-10:35 RE Pudritz 3-D Simulations of Jets from Accretion Disks: Self-Regulatory Stability
10:35-10:55E KersaleGlobal properties of magnetorotational instabilities in accretion discs
10:55Coffee
11:25-12:00R Rosner
12:00-12:25D Moss The origin of magnetic spots in close binary systems
12:25-12:50A Nordlund Solar coronal heating and loop formation
12:50-13:15L Mestel
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
16:00-16:30U MullerThe non-linear behaviour of the Karlsruhe experimental dynamo
16:30-17:00S FauveNonlinear effects in high Rm MHD flows
17:00-17:30K-H RadlerThe Karlsruhe dynamo experiment: on the theory of the nonlinear regime
18:30Wine Reception
19:00Dinner
Wednesday 31st July
Chair: A Pouquet
CattaneoOn the generation of magnetic fields by turbulence.
Diamondn Why Magnetic Diffusivity and Alpha Are Quenched in MHD Turbulence
NunezLimitations of mean-field magnetohydrodynamics
10:55Coffee
Chair: U Muller
Lathrop
12:00-13:00S AumaitreEffect of a horizontal magnetic field on turbulent convection in mercury
CharbonneauStochasticity and intermittency in reduced Babcock-Leighton models of the solar cycle
13:15Lunch
14:30Poster Session
15:30Tea
GilbertStretching and folding of magnetic field in maps
16:45-17:20A PouquetIs there universality in the presence of waves? The case of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (joint work with H. Politano)
KimEddy viscosity and laminarization of sheared flow in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
DavidsonMHD Turbulence
19:00Dinner
Thursday 1st August
TBAA ShukurovMagnetic fields in barred galaxies: observations and modelling
10:25-10:45SAEG FalleRarefaction shocks and shock errors in ZEUS
11:00Coffee
Chair: DJ Galloway
11:30-12:15PC MatthewsFlux separation in magnetoconvection
13:15Lunch
14:00Conference Photograph & Cathedral Visit
15:30Tea
19:00Dinner
Friday 2nd August
10:35-10:55JR ListerThe energy requirements of a convectively-driven geodynamo
10:55Coffee
11:25-12:00A ChulliatLinear, steady, buoyancy-driven perturbations in a homogeneous, rapidly rotating, electrically conducting fluid
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
17:05-17:40NO WeissProblems raised by solar and stellar dynamos
19:00Dinner
Saturday 3rd August
I RogachevskiiPopulation genetic inference in bacterial pathogens
10:55Coffee
Chair: GI Ogilvie
11:25-12:00EN ParkerSolar, stellar, and galactic dynamos in the presence of strong mean fields
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
Chair: GA Glatzmaier
16:00-16:45K ZhangA new generation of 3D spherical dynamos using a finite element method
17:20-18:20G R SarsonHyperdiffusivity in planetary dynamo simulations
19:00Dinner
Sunday 4th August
09:00Day trip to Hadrian's Wall & Housesteads Fort and Hexham
19:00Dinner
Monday 5th August
09:00-10:00GA GlatzmaierCurrent challenges in dynamo modeling
E DormyTo come
10:55Coffee
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
19:00Dinner
Tuesday 6th August
09:00-10:00SA BalbusDynamical structure and stability of nonradiative accretion flows
10:55Coffee
Chair: SA Balbus
12:15-13:00GI OgilvieDynamics of distorted discs
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
17:15-17:35A Ferriz MasHow much magnetic flux can be stored in the solar overshoot region?
19:00Wine reception followed by Conference Dinner
Wednesday 7th August
Chair: K Zhang
09:45-10:05D IversA numerical investigation of the asymptotic behaviour of spherical roll dynamos
10:25-11:00DJ GallowayGeneration of twisted magnetic fields in the solar convection zone (joint work with R Cameron, Y Uchida and N Weiss)
11:00Coffee
13:15Lunch
15:30Tea
Chair: EN Parker
16:00-16:20P HoyngComputation of the mean reversal time of a mean field geodynamo model from first principles (joint work with J Wiersma)
19:00Dinner
Thursday 8th August
Departure after breakfast