Scientific Programme
The meeting will
be on the central campus of the University of Warwick, Dept. of Physics in the
Physical Sciences Bulding. This is the two storey building attached to the main
physics building by a walkway and is labelled as 22 on the Central Campus Map.
All talks are in Seminar Room 128 on the first floor of the Physical Science
Building.
Thursday, 23 May 2002
09:00 MHD Consortium Meeting (chair Alan
Hood)
10:00 COFFEE & REGISTRATION (Physics
Concourse)
10:25 Welcome Address
Session: MHD Waves (Chair - Bernie Roberts)
10:30 Michael Ruderman Propogation of solitons
of the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation
10:45 Fenwick Cooper MHD wave
self-organisation
11:00 Alex Lukyanov Instability of
MHD-modified interfacial gravity waves revisted
11:15 Youra Taroyan Surface waves and
instabilities in finite beta plasmas
11:30 Robert Erdelyi Resonant
absorption
11:45 David Tsiklauri A 3D phase-mixed
Alfvenic pulse in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma
12:00 Istvan Ballai Viscous damping of
non-linear waves in Hall MHD
12:15 - 13:15 LUNCH
Session: Solar MHD (Chair - Alan Hood)
13:15 Eric Priest The nature of 3D
reconnection
13:30 Cesar Mendoza Randomly impulsive
heating in solar coronal loops
13:45 Stewart James Solar spicules
14:00 Daniel Marik What are
blinkers?
14:15 Reza Tovakol Torsional oscillations in
the solar convection zone
14:30 Michael Tildesley Filament structure in
sunspot penumbrae
14:45 Valentina Zharkova Fast magnetic
field variations associated with solar flares
15:00 - 15:30 TEA & REGISTRATION (Physics
Concourse)
Session: MHD Turbulence (Chair - David
Hughes)
15:30 P. Davidson MHD Turbulence
15:45 Alban Potherat Attractor dimension, small scales and
anisotropy in MHD turbulence
16:00 Alexander Schekochihin The small-scale structure of MHD
turbulence in large Prandtl number plasmas
16:15 Lara Wilkinson Dynamic effects of a magnetic field on
diffusion in chaotic flows
Session: Dynamos I (Chair - Anvar Shukurov)
16:30 Axel Brandenburg Explicitly time-dependent
alpha-quenching
16:45 Paul Bushby Asymmetry in mean-field dynamo models
17:00 Chris Jones Mac balance in planetary dynamos
17:15 Joanne Mason Competition in the solar dynamo between the
surface alpha effect and the deep seated alpha effect
19:30 Conference dinner (Scarman House, Main Campus)
Friday, 24 May 2002
Session: Dynamos II (Chair - Chris Jones)
09:30 Mohammad Rahman Non-linear instability
of alpha squared dynamos
09:45 Anvar Shukarov Faraday
Ghosts
10:00 Fernando Siso-Nadal Low Rm
Motion in the fluid core of the earth
10:15 Keke Zhang A non-linear 3D spheric
dynamo using a finite element method
10:30 Steve Tobias Vortex dynamos
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE (Physics Concourse)
Session: MHD Flows and convection (Chair - Valery
Nakariakov)
11:15 Sergei Molokov 2D free surface
flows in a strong magnetic field
11:30 Micheal Proctor Oscillatory magnetoconvection and rotating
convection at small aspect ratio
11:45 Thierry Alboussiere Comparison between asymptotic structures
with strong rotation and with strong magnetic field
12:00 Svetlana Aleksandrova Asymmetry in 3D
bouyant convection
12:15 Gennady El Hypersonic flow past bodies
in dispersive MHD
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
Session: Instabilities and Numerical Techniques
(Chair - Tony Arber)
13:30 Carlo Barenghi Magnetorotational
instability and dynamo action in MHD Taylor-Couette flow
13:45 Evy Kersale Global properties of
magnetorotational instabilities and non-linear dynamo in accretion
disks
14:00 David Hughes The influence of shear on
magnetic bouyancy instabilities
14:15 Miguel Homen Absolute and convective
instabilities on shear flows
14:30 Pablo Moresco Stability of Hartmann
layers: experiments and analysis
14:45 Gordon Oglvie On the relation between
viscoelestic and MHD flows and their instabilities
15:00 Gregory Howes Gradient particle
magnetohydrodynamics: A new lagrangian MHD code
15:15 TEA (Physics Concourse)