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Scientific Program ( PDF)
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Session 1 Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas
IR: Manuel Collados “Overview of multi-fluid equations and transport effects”
IR: Nikolai Pogorelov “Partially Ionized Plasma in the Solar Wind and Its Interaction ..”
IR: Antonius Otto “Ionospheric Electrodynamics”
IR: Eberhard Möbius “Observational evidence of the heliosphere-interstellar medium interaction obtained from neutral atom imaging with IBEX and pickup ion observations”
ST: Gary Zank “Dynamics of heliospheric plasma”
Session 2 Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations
IR: Roberto Soler “Waves and instabilities propagation in solar plasmas”
IR: Mark Wardle “Instabilities in Accretion Disks”
ST: Vytenis Vasyliūnas “Role of waves in dynamics of planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres”
Session 3 Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes
IR: Turlough Downes “Turbulence in Weakly Ionised Astrophysical Plasmas”
IR: Oliver Gressel “Dynamo in Turbulent Accretion Disks”
Session 4 Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas
IR: Juan Martinez-Sykora “Magneto convection and partial ionization”
IR: Alexandre Lazarian "Turbulent magnetic reconnection and its implications"
ST: Vyacheslav Lukin "Reconnection in partially ionised plasmas and its application to solar physics"
Programme
MONDAY, 29 August
8:00 – 9:00 REGISTRATION (NIVARIA HOTEL)
Session 1 Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas (chair E. Khomenko)
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
9:10 – 9: 45 IT: Nikolai Pogorelov Partially Ionized Plasma in the Solar Wind and Its Interaction with the Local Interstellar Medium
9:45 – 10:15 ST: Gary Zank Multi-component Plasma Modeling and Dynamics in the Presence of a Suprathermal Non-equilibrated Ion Population
10:15 – 10:40 Donna Rodgers-Lee Angular momentum transport in weakly ionised protoplanetary disks (S3)
10:40 -11: 30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:05 IT: Manuel Collados Overview of multi-fluid equations and transport effects
12:05 – 12:30 Wargnier Quentin Transport properties for magnetized sun chromosphere based on the Chapman-Enskog expansion
12:30 – 12:55 Sven Van Loo Ambipolar diffusion regulated collapse of filaments threaded by perpendicular magnetic fields
12:55- 15: 00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 1 Fundamental physical processes in partially ionised plasmas (chair M. Wardle)
15:00 – 15:35 IT: Eberhard Möbius Observational evidence of the heliosphere-interstellar medium interaction obtained from neutral atom imaging with IBEX and pickup ion observations
15:35 – 16:00 Kris Murawski Godunov-type numerical methods for magnetohydrodynamics
16:00 -16: 30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 17:05 IT: Antonius Otto Ionospheric Electrodynamics - Basic Physics and Field-Aligned Currents
17:05 – 17:30 Izmodenov Vladislav Charge exchange reactions at interfaces between neutral gas and plasma: Dynamical effects and X-ray emission
TUESDAY 30 August
Session 2 Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations (p1) Chair: I. Ballai
9:00 – 9:35 IT: Roberto Soler Waves and instabilities propagation in solar plasmas
9:35 – 10:05 ST: Vytenis Vasyliunas Role of waves in the dynamics of planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres
10:05 – 10:30 Irantzu Santamaria High frequency waves in the presence of a null point: resonant cavity?
10:30 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:05 IT: Mark Wardle Instabilities in Accretion Disks
12:05 – 12:30 Sam Falle Numerical Simulations of the Wardle Instability
12:30 – 12:55 Michael Ruderman Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities with sheared magnetic fields in partially ionised plasmas: High-beta approximation
12:55 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 2 Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations (p1) Chair: P. Song
15:00 – 15:25 Wojciech Miloch Kinetic plasma instabilities in weakly collisional ionospheric plasmas
15:25 – 15:50 David Martínez Gómez Onset of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in partially ionized magnetic flux tubes
15:50 – 16:15 Manuel Luna Large-Amplitude Oscillations in Prominences
16:15 – 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 – 17:10 Alejandro Alvarez Laguna Computational Multi-Fluid Model for Partially Ionized and Magnetized Plasma (S4)
WEDNESDAY, 31 August: Conference excursion to Teide Observatory and Teide National Park
Lunch will be provided at the residence of the Teide Observatory. The price of the excursion and lunch are included in the registration fee.
09:00 – 10:00 bus Nivaria Hotel – Observatorio del Teide (OT)
10:00 – 13:00 Visit to the Observatorio del Teide
13:00 – 15:00 lunch at the OT
15:00 – 17:00 visit to the Teide National Park
17:00 – 18:00 bus from Teide National Park to Nivaria hotel
THURSDAY 1 September
Session 2 Waves and instabilities in partially ionised plasmas: theory and observations (p2) Chair: S. Falle
9:00 – 9:25 Ramon Oliver The role of Alfvén wave heating in solar prominences
9:25 – 9:50 Jo Raes Observations of apparent superslow wave propagation
9:50 – 10:15 Istvan Ballai Shock waves in partially ionised plasmas
10:15 – 10:40 Yana Maneva Multifluid simulations of driven slow and fast magnetosonic waves in the solar chromosphere
10:40 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 11:55 Paul Song The Physical Processes in the Chromosphere: From a View of Partially Ionized Plasma Physics
11:55 – 12:20 Elena Khomenko Mode conversion and wave heating in solar partially ionized atmosphere
12:20 – 12:45 James Mather TBD
12:55 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3 Turbulence, dynamo and non-linear processes (Chair: M. Goodman)
15:00 – 15:35 IT: Turlough Downes Turbulence in Weakly Ionised Astrophysical Plasmas
15:35 – 16:00 Sergei Khaibrakhmanov Ionization state and MHD effects in accretion disks of young stars
16:00 – 16:25 Pedro Gonzalez-Morales Introducing a new explicit scheme into Mancha3D code for overcoming the time step limitations in simulations of partially ionised solar plasma
16:25 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 -17:35 IT: Oliver Gressel Dynamos in Turbulent Accretion Disks
17:35 – 18:00 Beatrice Popescu Two-fluid simulations of waves and reconnection with Mancha code
20:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY, 2 September
09:30 – 10:30 free excursion to La Laguna
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4 Magneto-convection, flux emergence and reconnection in partially ionised plasmas (Chair: T. Downes)
11:00 – 11:35 IT: Juan Martinez-Sykora Magneto convection and partial ionization
11:35 – 12:05 ST: Vyacheslav Lukin Reconnection in partially ionised plasmas and its application to solar physics
12:05 – 12:30 Michael Goodman Photospheric Current Spikes as Possible Predictors of Flares
12:30 – 13:05 IT: Alexandre Lazarian Star formation mediated by reconnection diffusion
13:05 – 13:30 Nikola Vitas Realistic 3D simulations of the solar photosphere with the MANCHA code