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The University of Sheffield

26 - 27 April 2001

UK MHD 2001
MHD at the Dawn of the New Millennium

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Annual UK MHD Metting 2001
MHD at the Dawn of the New Millennium

26 - 27 April 2001
The University of Sheffield, UK




SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME


The meeting will be on the main campus of the University of Sheffield, Dept. of Applied Mathematics in the Hicks Bulding at Hounsfield Road, S3 7RH, Sheffield. (Tel.: 0114-2223731; Fax.: 0114-2223739).

All talks are in Lecture Theatre 6 on the first floor (called the Floor E) of the Hicks Building. Click here for a map.

Upon arrival please come to the Common Room (room number 15 on the 5th floor, called the Floor I) of the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the Hicks Bulding. Coffee, tea will be offered.

Thursday, 26 April 2001

  • 09.30: MHD Consortium Meeting (Lead by Alan Hood)

    10.30: COFFEE (Common Room, in I15 [5th Floor])

  • 10.55 Welcome Address

    Session: MHD Flows
    Chairperson: Alan Hood

  • 11.00: David Hughes, The instability of MHD shear flow
  • 11.15: Andrew Soward, MHD shear layers in spherical Couette flow
  • 11.30: Ashley Willis, Nonlinear hydromagnetic Taylor-Couette flow
  • 11.45: Ken McClements, MHD and two-fluid equilibria with flow and anisotropic pressure
  • 12.00: Andrew Gilbert, Stretch, twist and fold: helicity, twist and writhe

    12.15: LUNCH

    Session: MHD Oscillations and Waves
    Chairperson: Robert Erdelyi

  • 13.30: Youra Taroyan, Solar global oscillations in steady states
  • 13.45: Balazs Pinter, Effects of equilibrium flows on damped solar magneto-acoustic oscillations
  • 14.00: Sam Falle, Fragmentation by MHD Waves
  • 14.15: Alan Hood, The propagation of Alfvenic pulses in an inhomogeneous coronal hole
  • 14.30: Michael Ruderman, Soliton propagation in high-beta Hall plasmas
  • 14.45: Istvan Ballai, Generation of mean flow by nonlinear resonant absorption of MHD waves
  • 15.00: Catherine Gerrard, Non-linear kink instabilities in coronal loops
  • 15.15: Klaus Galsgaard, A simple model of 3D flux interaction
  • 15.30: Cesar Mendoza, A numerical model of cooling of solar flare plasma

    15.45: TEA (Common Room, in I15 [5th Floor])

    Session: MHD Turbulence
    Chairperson: Sean Oughton

  • 16.15: David Hochberg, Asymptotic properties of turbulent MHD - Theory
  • 16.30: Arjun Berera, Asymptotic properties of turbulent MHD - Results
  • 16.45: Jean-Claude Thelen , On the turbulent magnetic diffusivity in three dimensions

    Session: MHD Dynamos
    Chairperson: Andrew Soward

  • 17.00: Steve Cowley, Dynamos at high magnetic Prantl number
  • 17.15: Axel Brandenburg, Large scale dynamos in a box
  • 17.30: David Moss, Modelling magnetic fields in barred galaxies

    19.00: Conference Dinner for UKMHD 2001

Friday, 27 April 2001
  • 09.30: Jon Rotvig, Rotating convection driven dynamos at low Ekman number
  • 09.45: Yannick Ponty, Dynamo action in the Ekman layer instability
  • 10.00: Anvar Shukurov, Systematic bias in magnetic field estimates from Faraday rotation
  • 10.15: Andy Phillips, Low magnetic Prandtl number investigations for a cartesian model of the solar dynamo

    10.30: COFFEE (Common Room, in I15 [5th Floor])

  • 11.00: Steve Tobias, Asymptotic methods for magnetoconvection in the presence of strong oblique fields
  • 11.15: Wolfgang Dobler, Large scale dynamos with helicity loss through boundaries
  • 11.30: Serguei Startchenko, Almost rigidly rotating planetary MHD flows driven by composition-heat convection
  • 11.45: Michael Tildesley , Varying boundary conditions in convection problems
  • 12.00: Daniel Marik, Numerical investigation of the lower overshoot layer
  • 12.15: Joanne Mason, A model of the Solar Dynamo with Magnetic Pumping

    12.30: LUNCH

    Session: MHD in Astrophysics
    Chairperson: Sam Falle

  • 13.30: Brigitta v. Rekowski, Astrophysical significance of the anisotropic kinetic alpha-effect
  • 13.45: Grigory Vekstein, Magnetic reconnection and Alfven resonances
  • 14.00: Richard Dendy, MHD experiments simulating supernova remnant physics using the VULCAN laser
  • 14.15: Serguei Komissarov, Magnetospheres of black holes. Direct numerical simulations of the Blandford-Znajek effect
  • 14.30: Andrew Fletcher, Magnetic field structure of galaxies revealed by radio polarization observations

    14.45: TEA (Board Room, in G12 [3rd Floor])

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