| Agenda General Meeting 2008 Princeton NJ |
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| Tuesday, July 8 |
Happy Birthday Russell! |
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| 8:50-8:55 |
Announcement |
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| 8:55-9:00 |
CMSO updates |
Stewart Prager |
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Russell Kulsrud Birthday Session I |
Masaaki Yamada (Chair) |
| 9:00-9:40 |
Conversations on Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos |
Gene Parker |
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| 9:40-10:20 |
Frozen Fields Lines in Turbulence |
Steve Cowley |
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| 10:20-10:45 |
Magnetic Topology and Tangential Discontinuities in Changing Magnetic Volumes |
Boon-Chye Low |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Break |
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Momentum Transport in Turbulent Hydro Jets and Extragalactic Radio Source Morphologies |
Attilio Ferrari |
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| 11:45-12:15 |
Turbulence, Plasma Instabilities and the Transport Properties of the Intracluster Medium |
Alex Schekochihin |
| 12:15-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
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Russell Kulsrud Birthday Session II |
Hantao Ji (Chair) |
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| 1:30-2:00 |
Reconnection of Line Tied Magnetic Fields |
Ellen Zweibel |
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| 2:00-2:30 |
The Electron Diffusion Region: Forces and Currents |
Michael Hesse |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Reconnection, from Slow to Fast: Current Understanding and Open Issues |
Dmitri Uzdensky |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Two-dimensional two-fluid MHD Reconnection |
Leonid Malyshkin |
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Break and Poster Viewing |
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| 4:30-5:00 |
Basic Idea of Magnetic Reconnection |
Russell Kulsrud |
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| 5:00-5:30 |
Progress in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection Through MRX |
Masaaki Yamada |
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| Wednesday, July 9 |
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Turbulence in the Solar Wind and Interstellar Medium |
Paul Terry (Chair) |
| 9:00-9:40 |
The Solar Wind as a Turbulent Magnetofluid: Observations and Simulations |
Mel Goldstein |
| 9:40-10:20 |
Short Wavelength Fluctuations in Solar Wind Turbulence |
Stuart Bale |
| 10:20-10:45 |
Break |
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| 10:45-11:15 |
Scaling of Energy Spectra and Implications for Ion Heating in the Turbulent Solar Wind |
Amitava Bhattacharjee |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Simulations of Decaying Kinetic Alfven Wave Turbulence: Coherent and Intermittent Structures |
Kurt Smith |
| 11:45 -12:00 |
Discussion |
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch Break |
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Laboratory Turbulence: Observations and Modeling |
Leonid Malyshkin (Chair) |
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| 1:15-1:45 |
Observation of MHD Instability in the Princeton MRI Experiment |
Mark Nornberg |
| 1:45-2:15 |
MHD Turbulence in the Madison Dynamo Experiment |
Cary Forest |
| 2:15-2:45 |
Experimental Study of High Frequency Magnetic Fluctuations in MST |
Yang Ren |
| 2:45-3:15 |
Analytical Modeling of the Magnetic Turbulence Spectrum in MST |
Paul Terry |
| 3:14-4:15 |
Break and poster viewing |
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Numerical Simulation of MHD and Astrophysical Turbulence |
John Sarff (Chair) |
| 4:15-4:45 |
Numerical Simulations of the Spectrum of Alfvenic Turbulence |
Jean Perez |
| 4:45-5:15 |
MHD Turbulence: Collisionless Effects and Imbalance |
Andrey Beresnyiak |
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Magnetic Reconnection I |
John Sarff (Chair) |
| 5:15-5:45 |
Impulsive reconnection: 3D onset and stagnation |
Tom Intrator |
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| Thursday, July 10 |
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Magnetic Reconnection II |
Dmitri Uzdensky (Chair) |
| 9:00-9:30 |
3D Turbulent Reconnecton: Theory and Simulations |
Alex Lazarian |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Evidence for Fast Reconnection Within MHD |
Zoran Mikic |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Reconnection Onset and Self-Organization in Solar and Stellar Coronae |
Paul Cassak |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Spheromak Merging and Reconnection in an Oblate Geometry |
Mike Brown |
| 11:30 12:00 |
The Role of Trapped Electrons in Guidefield Reconnection |
Jan Egedal |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Global Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in an Experimental Geometry |
Nick Murphy |
| 12:20-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30-2:00 |
Physics of Line Tying |
John Finn |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Internal and External Kink Modes in the Rotating Wall Machine |
Cary Forest |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Discussion |
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