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25th Anniversary UK MHD Meeting

Thursday 15th and Friday 16th May 2003
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
University of Cambridge

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On arrival please go the Pavilion F Common Room at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Directions to CMS can be found here on the university webpages. Pavilon F is the building closest to the Isaac Newton Institute (labelled 40 on the map). Registration will be in the common room on the ground floor on the north side of the Pavilion. There will be signs - we hope you won't be able to miss it.

There will be a limited number of sessions during which there will be contributed talks, each lasting 20 minutes (including questions). These will be held in Meeting Room 2 of CMS. There will also be poster presentations. Posters will be on display throughout the meeting, in Meeting Room 15, with a dedicated poster session on Friday for more formal viewing and discussions. These contributed presentations will be supplemented with three longer talks by invited speakers.

Poster details: One landscape A0 board will be provided per poster, along with adhesive velcro fixings. Posters that are taller than the height of the board can be displayed - part of the poster will then hang freely below the board.

The conference dinner will be held in Trinity college. The cost will be £30.

Thursday 15th May

9:30 - 10:30 UK MHD Consortium Meeting - MR14, Pavilion F
10:30 - 11:00 Arrive and COFFEE - Pavilion F Common Room
11:00 - 11:45 Chair - Mike Proctor
Invited talk 1
Paul Roberts (UCLA) - Turbulence in the Earth's Core
11:50 - 12:50 John Brooke (Manchester) - Using Carrington's legacy: the analysis of the spatio-temporal structure of the solar cycle from 1853 to 2003
Paul Bushby (Cambridge) - Modelling dynamos in rapidly rotating late-type stars
Robert Taylor (Leeds) - Turbulent Diffusion in a Sphere
13:00 - 15:00 LUNCH
15:00 - 15:45 Chair - Anvar Shukurov
Invited talk 2
Eric Priest (St Andrews) - 3D Magnetic Reconnection
15:50 - 16:30 Robert Erdelyi (Sheffield) - Resonant coupling of global solar oscillations to the solar atmosphere
Maya Paczuski (Imperial College) - Solar flares as cascades of reconnecting magnetic loops
16:30 - 17:00 TEA
17:00 - 18:00 Chair - Andrew Soward
Sergei Fedotov (UMIST) - Non-normal and Stochastic Amplification of Magnetic Field in Subcritical Case
Konstantin Iilin (Hull) - Ideal stability of current-vortex sheets
Yuri Trakhinin (Hull) - A complete 2D stability analysis of fast MHD shocks in an ideal gas
19:30 onwards DINNER - Meet from 19:30 in Trinity College Bar, I staircase, Great Court
Dine at 20:00 in Old Kitchens, Great Court, Trinity College.

Friday 16th May

9:00 - 9:45 Chair - David Hughes
Invited talk 3
Pat Diamond (UCSD) - Turbulent Transport of Magnetic Fields in Two and Three Dimensions
9:50 - 10:50 Graeme Sarson (Newcastle) - Magnetic fields in simulations of the multi-phase interstellar medium
Alexander Schekochihin (Imperial College) - From Small-Scale Dynamo to Isotropic MHD Turbulence
Rob Sturman (Leeds) - Intermittent behaviour in a dipole/quadrupole dynamo model
11:00 - 11:30 Poster session and COFFEE - Meeting Room 15
Click here for full details of the posters being presented.
11:30 - 12:30 Chair - Alan Hood
Catherine Gerrard (St Andrews) - Numerical simulations of coronal loops
David Pontin (St Andrews) - On the Nature of 3D Magnetic Reconnection
David Tsiklauri (Warwick) - Phase mixing of 3D Alfven waves in the compressive regime
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 16:00 Chair - Nigel Weiss
Kumar Chitre (Mumbai) - Rapid dissipation of cosmic magnetic fields
Steve Houghton (Cambridge) - Localised solutions in magnetoconvection
Sergei Molokov (Coventry) - Three-dimensional buoyant convection in a rectangular box in a strong, horizontal magnetic field
Michael Tildesley (Warwick) - Modelling filamentary structure in sunspots
16:00 - 16:30 TEA and departure


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