The programme framework for the conference is given below. There will be four prizes given for: the best PhD student poster; the best PhD student talk; the best Post Doc poster; and the best Post Doc talk. The prizes are sponsored by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.


THURSDAY ( 14 MAY 2015 )

09:00 – 10:30 Arrival and registration; poster setup; tea, coffee and refreshments available.
10:30 – 10:35 Welcome message
10:35 – 11:15 Invited Talk
Alan Hood (St Andrews): MHD in the solar atmosphere

Session 1: Magnetic Reconnection

11:15 – 11:30 Julie Stevenson (St Andrews): Spontaneous reconnection at a separator current layer
11:30 – 11:45 Alexander Russell (Dundee): A new theory of magnetic relaxation
11:45 – 12:00 Simon Candelaresi (Dundee): Magnetic field relaxation in ideal environments and formation of
current concentrations
12:00 – 12:15 James Threlfall (St Andrews): Characteristics of solar particle acceleration in non-flaring active regions
12:15 – 12:30 Mykola Gordovskyy (Manchester): Forward modelling of unresolved plasma motions in flaring twisted
coronal loops

Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00 (and posters)

14:00 – 14:40 Invited Talk
Andrew Hillier (Cambridge): The magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability and its role in solar prominences

Session 2: Magnetic Topology

14:40 – 14:55 Christopher Prior (Durham): Creating flux ropes with arbitrary internal structure
14:55 – 15:10 David Pontin (Dundee): The structure of current layers and degree of field line braiding in coronal
loops
15:10 – 15:25 Sarah Edwards (Durham): Non-potential coronal magnetic field topology and its influence on solar
wind predictions

Tea Break 15:25 - 16:00 (and posters)

Session 3: Coupling in the solar atmosphere

16:00 – 16:15 Eon Jui Lee (St Andrews): Dynamic coupling between eruptions and jets emerging in flux regions
16:15 – 16:30 David MacTaggart (Glasgow): Topological flux emergence
16:30 – 16:45 Zoe Sturrock (St Andrews): Sunspot rotation as a consequence of flux emergence
16:45 – 17:00 Ben Snow (Northumbria): Chromospheric seismology above sunspot umbra
17:00 – 17:15 Christopher Brady (Warwick): Alfvén wave heating of the solar chromosphere

18:00 – 20:00 Drinks reception in the main gallery at The Biscuit Factory
20:00 – onwards Conference dinner at The Biscuit Factory

FRIDAY ( 15 MAY 2015 )

09:00 – 09:40 Invited Talk
Joanne Mason (Exeter): The large and small scales of field-guided MHD turbulence

Session 4: Dynamos

09:40 – 09:55 Celine Guervilly (Leeds): Generation of magnetic fields by large-scale vortices in rotating convection
09:55 – 10:10 Radostin Simitev (Glasgow): Magnetic effects and differential rotation near transition from solar to
anti-solar profiles
10:10 – 10:25 Wieland Dietrich (Leeds): Flows and magnetic fields in convective interiors of tidally locked
exoplanets
10:25 – 10:40 Julian Mak (Edinburgh): Vortex disruption by MHD effects

Tea Break 10:40 - 11:10 (and posters)

Session 5: Turbulence

11:10 – 11:25 Konstantinos Gourgouliatos (Leeds): Numerical study of the density shearing instability in Hall MHD
11:25 – 11:40 Moritz Linkmann (Edinburgh): Finite dissipation of isotropic MHD turbulence
11:40 – 11:55 Vassilios Dallas (Leeds): Condensates and self-organisation in driven MHD turbulence
11:55 – 12:10 Nicolas Bian (Glasgow): Turbulent suppression of parallel transport in magnetised plasmas
12:10 – 12:25 Mouloud Kessar (Leeds): The effect of subgrid-scale models on grid-scales/subgrid-scale energy
transfer in large eddy simulations of MHD turbulence
12:25 – 12:40 Yue-Kin Tsang (Exeter): How dynamic alignment influences particle diffusion in MHD turbulence
Lunch Break 12:40 - 14:00 (and posters)

14:00 – 14:40 Invited Talk
Ken McClements (CCFE, Culham) - Reconnection and wave propagation at magnetic X points in
fusion and solar plasmas

Session 6: Particles

14:40 – 14:55 Amit Seta (Newcastle): Cosmic ray propagation in turbulent magnetic fields
14:55 – 15:10 David Tsiklauri (Queen Mary): Magnetic field aligned electric field generation by kinetic-scale Alfvén
waves in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma

Panel Discussion 15:10-16:10 Discussion about research and impact with Met Office Space Weather Operations
centre, the Science and Technologies Facilities Council and the Knowledge Transfer Network.

Coffee and departure 16:10-