Home Practical information Programme Important dates Registration deadline: 15/08/2011 Workshop: 12-17/09/2011

MONDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 09h45 – 10h00  Emmanuel Dormy,  Opening Remarks 10h00 – 11h00  Frank Stefani, DRESDYN - a new liquid sodium facility for experimental studies of dynamo action and related instabilities 11h00 – 11h20  Coffee 11h20 – 11h50  Martin Seilmayer, Laboratory experiment on the Tayler instability 11h50 – 12h20  Christophe Gissinger, Numerical and experimental study of the MRI 12h20 – 15h30  Lunch and scientific discussions 15h30 – 16h00  Coffee 16h00 – 17h00  Cary Forest, Recent experiments on dynamos at the University of Wisconsin 17h00 – 17h30  Michael Berhanu, Damping of a turbulent gallium flow by an external magnetic field 17h30 – 18h00 François Pétrélis, Recent results from the VKS dynamo experiment TUESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 9h30 – 10h30  Dan Lathrop, Laboratory models of the Earth's core 10h30 – 10h50  Coffee 10h50 – 11h20  Jérome Noir, Libration driven flows in planetary cores and subsurface oceans 11h20 – 12h20  Round table on experiments 12h20 – 15h30  Lunch and scientific discussions 15h30 – 16h00  Coffee 16h00 – 17h00  Michael Proctor, Influence of shear on dynamo action due to turbulent flows 17h00 – 17h40  Poster previews (5min each, max 2 slides) 17h40 – 19h00  Poster session 19h00 –  Welcome cocktail WEDNESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 9h30 – 10h30  Alexander Schekochihin, Dynamo and reconnection meet at last 10h30 – 10h50  Coffee 10h50 – 11h20  Andre Giesecke, Axisymmetric magnetic field modes in heterogeneous domains 11h20 – 11h50  Basile Gallet, Spatial variations of magnetic permeability as a source of dynamo action 11h50 – 12h20  Wietze Herreman, Kinematic dynamo action by fluctuation flows at high Rm: the unexpected role of the stokes drift 12h20  Lunch Afternoon:  Boat trip THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 9h30 – 10h30  Andrew Soward, The onset of strongly localised thermal convection in rotating spherical shells 10h30 – 10h50  Coffee 10h50 – 11h20  Wieland Dietrich, A hemispherical dynamo model: implications for the martian crustal magnetization 11h20 – 11h50  Laurène Jouve, Assimilating data into an αΩ dynamo model of the Sun 11h50 – 12h20  Ludovic Petitdemange, Oscillatory dynamos for a conducting Boussinesq fluid in a spherical shell 12h20 – 15h30  Lunch and scientific discussions 15h30 – 16h00  Coffee and Poster Session 16h00 – 17h00  Steve Tobias, Direct statistical simulation: jets and magnetic instabilities 17h00 – 17h30  Thomas Gastine, Effects of density stratification in driving zonal winds in gas giants 19h00  Conference Barbecue FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 10h00 – 11h00  Henri-Claude Nataf, Alfven waves in the Earth's core and in the lab 11h00 – 11h20  Coffee 11h20 – 11h50  Eric King, (M)HD: the surprisingly weak role of Lorentz forces in planetary dynamo models 11h50 – 12h20  Martin Schrinner, How does rotation influence the field strength in numerical dynamo models? 12h20 – 15h30  Lunch and scientific discussions 15h30 – 16h00  Coffee and Poster Session 16h00 – 17h00  Pablo Mininni, Multi-scale interactions and magnetic field generation 17h00 – 17h30  Alexandros Alexakis, Linear and non-linear laminar dynamos 17h30 – 18h00  Yannick Ponty, Large-scale to small-scale dynamo 18h00 – 18h10  Concluding remarks Poster session -       Lucia Duarte, Anelastic dynamo models with radially varying conductivity - an application to the gas giants -       Wiliam Edmunds, Magnetic buoyancy instabilities in inhomogeneous flux structures -       Konstantin Finke, Simulation of the kinematic dynamo onset of spherical Couette flows -       Johann Herault, Reversals of a large scale flow generated over a turbulent background -       Domenico Meduri, A statistical analysis of reversal sequences: geomagnetic field and numerical dynamo models -       Andrey Sheyko, Equatorial dynamics and secular variation in rapidly rotating convection-driven numerical dynamo -       Stijn Vantieghem, Towards an unstructured finite-volume code for massively parallel simulations of planetary dynamos