20-25 September 2010 in Cargese, Corsica

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MONDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 09h25-09h50 Registration 09h50-09h55 Opening Remarks 09h55-10h45 Keith Moffatt, Some topological aspects of dynamo theory 10h45-11h05 Coffee 11h05-11h55 Jonathan Mestel, A fully nonlinear, pressure-driven laminar dynamo 11h55-12h20 Konrad Bajer, Decaying quantum turbulence 12h20-15h30 Lunch and scientific discussion 15h30-16h00 Coffee and Poster Session 16h00-16h50 Dave Galloway, ABC flows then and now 16h50-17h15 Nic Brummell, Essentially nonlinear dynamos 17h15-17h40 Franck Plunian, Fully turbulent Roberts dynamo at low Pm 17h40-17h55 Poster previews 18h00- Welcome cocktail TUESDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 09h00-09h50 Jean-François Donati, Magnetic fields of low mass stars: the many faces of the dynamo 09h50-10h15 Douglas Gough, Pattern formation in rapidly oscillating peculiar A stars 10h15-10h40 Michel Rieutord, Turbulence at the solar surface 10h40-11h00 Coffee 11h00-11h50 Nigel Weiss, Reflections on magnetoconvection 11h50-12h15 Neal Hurlburt, New views of solar magnetoconvection 12h20-15h30 Lunch and scientific discussion 15h30-16h00 Coffee and Poster Session 16h00-16h50 Stephan Fauve, Field reversals 16h50-17h15 Caroline Nore, Nonlinear MHD problems in heterogeneous domains 17h15-17h40 Rainer Hollerbach, Magnetorotational instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow 17h40-18h05 François Rincon, Nonlinear dynamics of the MRI WEDNESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 09h00-09h50 Laurette Tuckerman, Codimension-two points in hydrodynamics à la Proctor 09h50-10h15 Jon Dawes, Localised patterns in continuum and coupled-cell systems 10h15-10h40 Steve Houghton, Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in finite domains - transient chaos 10h40-11h00 Coffee 11h00-11h25 Marie Farge, Wavelets to study 3D homogeneous MHD turbulence 11h25-11h50 Geoff Vasil, Dynamic bifurcations in melting boundary convection 11h50-12h15 François Pétrélis, Effects of multiplicative noise on instabilities: applications to the dynamo instability 12h20-14h00 Lunch Boat trip (time to be confirmed) THURSDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 09h00-09h50 Keith Julien, The non-hydrostatic balanced geostrophic equation 09h50-10h15 Andrew Soward, Localised rotating convection 10h15-10h40 Chris Jones, Compressible anelastic dynamos 10h40-11h00 Coffee 11h00-11h25 Peter Frick, Secondary flows and large-scale structures in turbulent convection 11h25-11h50 Dan Moore, Salt fingers 11h50-12h15 Pascale Garaud, Double-diffusive behaviour at high and low Prandtl number 12h20-15h30 Lunch and scientific discussion 15h30-15h55 Coffee and Poster Session 16h20-16h45 Dave Gubbins, Influence of buoyancy profile on the geomagnetic field 16h45-17h10 Andy Jackson, Towards an inviscid treatment of the Earth's core 17h10-18h00 Mike Proctor, Dynamos and magnetoconvection - past, present and future 19h30- Conference Barbecue FRIDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 09h00-9h25 Axel Brandenburg, From Malkus-Proctor to Galloway-Proctor 09h25-09h50 Paul Bushby, Convectively driven dynamos in a compressible layer 09h50-10h15 David Cébron, Tide induced magnetic fields and tide driven dynamos 10h15-10h40 Rodion Stepanov, Magnetic and cross-helicity effect on the small-scale dynamo 10h40-11h00 Coffee 11h00-11h25 Martin Schrinner, Oscillatory dynamo models and implications for the solar dynamo 11h25-11h50 Igor Rogachevskii, Effect of stratified turbulence on magnetic flux concentrations 11h50-12h15 Laurène Jouve, Magnetic buoyancy and solar dynamo models 12h20-14h00 Lunch 14h00-14h25 Krzysztof Mizerski, Convective dynamo in a stratified plane layer 14h25-14h50 Sacha Brun, New steps towards a global MHD model of the Sun 14h50-15h15 Anvar Shukurov, On the nonlinear state of the fluctuation dynamo     POSTERS Alexandros Alexakis, Dynamo bifurcations at infinite Prandtl number Sebastien Aumaitre, Impact of the Boundary Conditions on the VKS experimental dynamo Nicolas Bessolaz, Hunting down giant cells in deep stellar convective zones Basile Gallet, Accretion can destabilize Taylor-Couette flow Peter Mann, A Modified Buoyancy Algorithm for a Flux Transport Dynamo Model Rui Pinto, 3D MHD transition from the convection zone to the chromosphere Katy Richardson, Effects of alpha-effect fluctuations on simple nonlinear dynamo models Antoine Strugarek, Title TBA Jinendrika Weliwita, Skew-varicose instability of 2D generalized SH model equations