Talks will take place in room C14 in the Pope Building (see maps). This room has good facilities, including OHP, slides, video, and a networked PC.
Please aim to make your talk 15 minutes long, to allow time for questions after each talk.
9:30 | MHD Consortium Meeting | ||
11:00 | Alastair Rucklidge | Cambridge | A heteroclinic model of the geodynamo |
11:20 | Jon Rotvig | Exeter | Plane layer MHD models with reference to the geodynamo |
11:40 | Keke Zhang | Exeter | Spherical oscillatory alpha^2 dynamo induced by magnetic inner-core coupling |
12:00 | David Fearn | Glasgow | The role of inertia in geodynamo models |
12:20 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Robert Erdelyi | Sheffield | Micro-scale heating blocks in the solar atmosphere: simulations of explosive events |
14:20 | Michael Ruderman | St Andrews | Slow solitary waves in multiple-layer magnetic structures |
14:40 | Catherine Gerrard | St Andrews | Non-linear kink instabilities in line-tied coronal loops |
15:00 | Philippa Browning | UMIST | Numerical simulations of nonlinear forced magnetic reconnection |
15:20 | Valery Nakariakov | Warwick | MHD waves in the solar corona |
15:40 | Tea | ||
16:10 | Nigel Weiss | Cambridge | Convection, flux separation and small-scale dynamos |
16:30 | Jon Dawes | Cambridge | Rapidly rotating convection at low Prandtl number |
16:50 | Chris Jones | Exeter | Large wavenumber convection in the rotating annulus |
19:30 | Dinner |
9:30 | Brigitta Von Rekowski | Newcastle | Dynamos from accretion disks with vertical winds |
9:50 | Gordon Ogilvie | Cambridge | Launching astrophysical jets from accretion discs |
10:10 | Anvar Shukurov | Newcastle | Magnetic field in the Milky Way: structures on the RM sky |
10:30 | Coffee | ||
11:00 | Discussion on representation of MHD in EPSRC | ||
11:20 | Gert Botha | Belfast | Alfven wave phase mixing as a source of magnetosonic waves |
11:40 | Sam Falle | Leeds | MHD shock structures with multiscale relaxation |
12:00 | Richard Dendy | Culham | Sawtooth evolution during JET ICRH pulses |
12:20 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Andrew Gilbert | Exeter | Slow dynamos on stream surfaces |
14:20 | David Hughes | Leeds | Large- and small-scale dynamo action |
14:40 | John Brooke | Manchester | Physical and numerical constraints on solar dynamo models |
15:00 | Andrew Phillips | Manchester | A comparison between the asymptotic and no-z approximations for thin disc galactic dynamos |
15:20 | Andrew Soward | Exeter | Alpha^2 omega-dynamos with fronts in stellar shells |
15:40 |