Scientific Programme

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Monday 1 September

 

 8:30 –  9:50      Registration at CMS

 

 9:50 – 10:20     INVITED

Mean Field MHD: Some New Twists

D.W. Hughes

10:20 – 10:40    Magnetic field amplification by the magnetorotational instability

in core collapse supernovae

J. Guilet

10:40 – 11:00    Dissipative effects on the sustainment of MRI dynamo in Keplerian shear flow

A. Riols

 

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

11:30 – 11:50    Azimuthal MRI as a dissipation-induced instability

O. Kirillov

11:50 – 12:10    Experimental Results on The Azimuthal MRI - Confirmations and Surprises

M. Seilmayer

12:10 – 12:30    The Tayler instability at low magnetic Prandtl numbers

F. Stefani

 

12:30 – 14:00    Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:20    Instability of induction-type electromagnetically forced flow

C. Gissinger

14:20 – 14:40    Hall MHD in neutron star crusts

T. Wood          

14:40 – 15:00    Electron-MHD Evolution in Neutron Star Crusts

K.N. Gourgouliatos

 

15:00 – 15:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

15:30 – 16:00 INVITED

                       Interactions in Dynamos at High Rm

S. Tobias

16:00 – 16:20    Influence of the Mass Distribution on the Magnetic Field Topology

R. Raynaud

16:20 – 16:40    Anelastic dynamo models with variable conductivity - a mean field dynamo?

W. Dietrich

16:40 – 17:00 A Dynamo Model of Jupiter's Magnetic Field

C.A. Jones

17:00 – 17:20    Magnetism in hot Jupiter Atmospheres

T. Rogers

17:20 – 17:40    A wave turbulence theory for rotating MHD and planetary dynamos

S. Galtier

 

 

 

Tuesday 2 September

 

9:30 – 10:00      INVITED

                       Energy transfers in large-scale and small-scale dynamos

M. Verma

10:00 – 10:20    Planetary dynamos driven by inertial waves

P.A. Davidson

10:20 – 10:40    Transition between viscous dipolar and inertial multipolar dynamos

L. Oruba

10:40 – 11:00    Ultra low viscosity dynamos

A.   Jackson

 

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

11:30 – 11:50     Variational data assimilation for a forced, inertia-free magnetohydrodynamic dynamo model

K. Li

11:50 – 12:10    Thermal convection in rotating spherical shells: From travelling waves

to chaotic flows.

Ferran Garcia Gonzalez

12:10 – 12:30    Interactions between large-scale vortices and magnetic field

in rotating convection

C. Guervilly

 

12:30 – 14:00    Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:20    Turbulence and dynamo in a librating ellipsoid

B. Favier

14:20 – 14:40    Ellipsoidal Dynamos

D. Ivers

14:40 – 15:00    Inertial modes & Latitudinal libration in a triaxial ellipsoid

S. Vantieghem

 

15:00 – 15:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

15:30 – 16:00 INVITED

                       Some effects of fluctuations on the dynamo effect

F. Petrelis

16:00 – 16:20 Optimal perturbations to trigger kinematic dynamo in 1D shear flows

W. Herreman

 

16:30 – 17:30 POSTER SESSION

Compressible Convection and Dissipation

 T. Alboussiere

Precession driven dynamos in a full sphere

Y. Lin

Optimization of the Magnetic Dynamo in a Cube

L.C. Long

Numerical studies of the kinematic evolution of magnetic fields

in the Earth's outer core subject to quasi-geostrophic flows

S. Maffei

Toward a multiscale approach for geodynamo models

F. Marcotte

SpiNaCH, the upcoming ETH rapidly rotating liquid sodium experiment.

J. Noir

Towards a von Karman plasma experiment

N. Plihon

Low frequency and double supply frequency pulsations in annular induction electromagnetic pumps

P. Rodriguez Imazio

 

Wednesday 3 September

 

 9:30 – 10:00     INVITED

Dynamos experiments: some results, several open problems

S. Fauve

10:00 – 10:20    Numerical study of impeller-driven von Karman flows and dynamo action

via a penalization method

S. Kreuzahler

10:20 – 10:40    Instability of electrically-driven MHD flow in a modified cylindrical annulus

Z. Stelzer

10:40 – 11:00    Tayler instability in liquid metal columns and in liquid metal batteries

C. Nore

 

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

11:30 – 12:00    INVITED

Plasma-Based Dynamo Experiments

C.B. Forest

12:00 – 12:30    INVITED

The self-sustaining process in Taylor-Couette flow

L. Tuckerman

 

12:30 – 14:00    Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:20    A spherical Couette experiment to observe inductionless MHD instabilities

at medium Reynolds numbers

E.J. Kaplan

14:20 – 14:40    Crystallization processes in turbulent background flows

S. Miralles

14:40 – 15:00    Multiphase flow computations with MHD-code SFEMaNS

L. Cappanera

 

15:00 – 15:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

15:30 – 16:00    INVITED

                       Large and Small Scales in Field-Guided MHD Turbulence

J. Mason

16:00 – 16:20 Mean flow generation in rotating two-dimensional magnetoconvection

L. Currie

16:20 – 16:40    Self-organisation in forced MHD turbulence

V. Dallas

16:40 – 17:00    1/f spectrum in MHD turbulence

J. Herault

 

Thursday 4 September

 

10:00 – 10:20    Structures and Lagrangian statistics of the Taylor-Green Dynamo

Y. Ponty

10:20 – 10:40     Exact two-dimensionalization of turbulent flows subject to a strong external magnetic field

B. Gallet

10:40 – 11:00    Dynamo action driven by a periodically perturbed Beltrami-flow

A. Giesecke

 

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee/tea (refreshments)

 

11:30 – 12:00 INVITED

                       Hybrid Euler-Lagrange methods for the Braginsky dynamo; glm versus GLM

A.M. Soward

12:00 – 12:20    Formation of magnetic bipolar structures: state of the art

I. Rogachevskii

 

12:20 – 12:30    Closing remarks

 

12:30 – 14:00    Lunch