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Astrophysical Turbulence
May 8-12,
2000
Organizers: E. Ostriker and E. Zweibel
SCHEDULE
All
sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
May 8, 2000: | ||
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Speaker: | Title: |
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Registration | ITP Lobby |
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David Gross | Welcome to the ITP |
Ellen Zweibel | Welcome to the Conference | |
Observations of Astrophysical
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Turbulence | |
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Tom Berger
(LMAL ) |
The Solar Photosphere[Audio] |
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Bill Coles
(Univ. California, San Diego) |
Interplanetary Turbulence[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Phil Myers
(CfA, Harvard) |
Molecular Clouds[Audio] |
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Jim Cordes
(CRSR, Cornell) |
Diffuse and Ionized Interstellar Gas[Audio] |
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
Basic Processes in Astrophysical
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Turbulence | |
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Jens Niemeyer
(MPI-Garching) |
Turbulent Burning Fronts[Audio] |
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Russell Kulsrud
(Princeton Univ.) |
Magnetic Reconnection[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Ben Chandran
(Univ. Iowa) |
Thermal Conduction[Audio] |
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Jon Arons
(Univ. California, Berkeley) |
Radiative Fluids[Audio] |
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End of Session | |
May 9, 2000 | ||
Large Scale
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Numerical Models | |
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Nic Brummell
(JILA, Colorado) |
Highly Turbulent Local Models of Solar Magnetoconvection[Audio] |
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Juri Toomre
(JILA, Colorado |
Global Models of Turbulent Convection[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Eve Ostriker
(Univ. Maryland) |
MHD Models of Molecular Clouds[Audio] |
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John Hawley
(Univ. Virginia) |
Global Models of Accretion Flows[Audio] |
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
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Discussion Leaders: Alyssa Goodman, Carl Heiles, Barney Rickett | Discussion on Analyzing Galactic Turbulence[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
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Discussion Leaders: Mordecai MacLow,
Enrique Vasquez-Semadini |
Discussion on Turbulence and Star Formation[Audio] |
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Special Event:
Pre-dinner Reception: 5:30pm Buffet Dinner: 6:15pm |
ITP Front Patio |
May 10, 2000 | ||
Turbulent Transport of
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Angular Momentum | |
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Jean-Paul Zahn
(Obs. Paris) |
Tidal Dissipation[Audio] |
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Sarbani Basu
(Yale) |
Solar Differential Rotation[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Steve Balbus
(Univ. Virginia) |
Angular Momentum Transport in Disks[Audio] |
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Poster Session | ITP Main Seminar Room |
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Special Event:
Beach Barbeque: 1:00 pm |
Goleta Beach (see map) |
May 11, 2000 | ||
Boundary
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Layers | |
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Paul Charbonneau
(HAO) |
Rotation & Turbulence in the Solar Radiative Core[Audio] |
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Peter Gilman
(HAO/NCAR) |
Shear Flow Instabilities[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Michael Shay
(Univ. Maryland) |
Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection[Audio] |
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Dana Longcope
(Montana State Univ.) |
Current Sheets[Audio] |
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
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Discussion Leaders: Axel Brandenburg, Charles Gammie, Jim Stone | Discussion on Accretion Disk Turbulence[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Discussion Leaders:
Paul Charbonneau, Ed Spiegel |
Discussion on The Angular Momentum Distribution in the Sun: Rotation, Turbulence, and Magnetic Fields[Audio] |
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Special Event:
Reception: Hors d'oeuvres and wine -- 5:30-7:00 pm |
ITP Front Patio |
May 12, 2000 | ||
Dynamos
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Reservoir | |
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George Field
(Harvard-Smithsonian) |
Nonlinearity in Dynamo Theory[Audio] |
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Steve Childress
(Courant Inst. of Math Sciences) |
Fast Dynamos[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Steve Cowley
(Univ. California, Los Angeles) |
Dynamos in Galaxies[Audio] |
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Steve Tobias
(Univ. Cambridge) |
Saturation of Dynamos for Simple Driven Flows[Audio] |
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
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Discussion Leader: S. Sridhar | Discussion on Turbulent Cascades and Dissipation[Audio] |
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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Discussion Leaders:
Keith Moffatt, Ellen Zweibel |
Discussion on Dynamos and Magnetic Reconnection[Audio] |
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End of Conference |
Poster | A. Brandenburg | The inverse cascade and nonlinear alpha-effect in simulations of isotropic helical hydromagnetic turbulence |
Poster | A. Gazol E. Vázquez-Semadeni & J. Scalo |
Is Thermal Instability Significant in Turbulent Galactic Gas? |
Poster | M. Lyutikov & E. Blackman | Particle Acceleration and Emission in Relativistic Electro-Magnetic Turbulence of GRBs |
Poster | M. Mac Low V. Ossenkopf, M. Smith, J. Zuev, F. Heitsch |
Characterization of Supersonic MHD Turbulence in Models of Molecular Clouds |
Poster | L.I. Rudakov | Magnetic sound wave in a molecular cloud in presence of grains |
Poster | T. Sano | The Saturated Turbulent State of Magnetorotational Instability in Weakly Ionized Accretion Disks |
Poster | J. Ballesteros-Paredes E. Vázquez-Semadeni, J. Scalo |
Clouds as Turbulent Density Fluctuations |
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