GTP Workshop - Agenda

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updated 6/20/06

Workshop will be held at the NCAR Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room located at 1850 Table Mesa Drive.

Agenda

(updated: June 20, 2006)

Tuesday, 27 June 2006

8:15	University of Colordado (CU) bus will depart promptly to transport participants from the Best Western Golden Buff Lodge to NCAR
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:40	Magnetic turbulence in the Riga Dynamo experiment. PRESENTATION (pdf form) Agris Gailitis, University of Latvia
9:40-10:20	Experimental and numerical studies of the role of turbulence on current generation and magnetic field self-excitation in the Madison Dynamo experiment Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Induction measurements in the VKS2 experiment (Volk et. al.) PRESENTATION (pdf form) Jean-Françios Pinton, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
11:20-12:00	Building laboratory models of planetary cores Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland
12:00-1:00	Discussion
1:00-2:30	Lunch
2:30-2:45	Relation between time spectrum of geomagnetic dipole moment and turbulent state in the Earth's core Ataru Sakuraba, University of Tokyo
2:45-3:00	Fluctuations of magnetic induction in von Kármán swirling flows, applications to unconstrained dynamo effect PRESENTATION (pdf form) Philippe Odier, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
3:00-3:20	Break
3:20-4:00	MHD turbulence in a rotating spherical Couette flow of sodium with an imposed dipolar magnetic field (Alboussière et. al.) Daniel Brito, Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique
4:00-5:00	Discussion
5:00-6:30	Reception
6:30	CU bus back to the Golden Buff Lodge

Wednesday, 28 June 2006

8:40	Bus will departs promptly from the Golden Buff Lodge to NCAR
9:00-9:40	Rapidly rotating convection and the geodynamo PRESENTATION (pdf form) Chris Jones, University of Leeds
9:40-10:20	Scaling laws for dynamos in rotating spherical shells and application to planetary magnetic fields PRESENTATION (pdf form) Ulrich Christensen, Max-Planck Institute für Aeronomie
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Magnetic dynamo calculations inside a sphere David Montgomery, Dartmouth College
11:20-11:35	Scale-similar models for large eddy simulations of a rotating convection-driven dynamo Qiaoning Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
11:35-12:30	Discussion
12:30-1:45	Lunch
1:45-2:30	The VAPOR Project at NCAR Alan Norton and John Clyne, NCAR
2:30-3:10	Lagrangian evolution, non-Gaussianity, and statistical geometry in intermittent hydrodynamic turbulence PRESENTATION (pdf form) Charles Meneveau, Johns Hopkins University
3:10-3:50	Reducing or eliminating turbulent viscosity on the large resolved scales Gary Glatzmaier, University of California at Santa Cruz
3:50-4:10	Break
4:10-4:25	Dynamic sub-grid scale modeling of drift wave turbulence within magnetohydrodynamics PRESENTATION Chris McDevitt, University of California at San Diego
4:25-5:05	Turbulent dynamos at low magnetic Prandtl number Pablo Mininni, NCAR
5:05-6:00	Discussion
6:00	Bus back to the Golden Buff Lodge

Thursday, 29 June 2006

8:40	Bus will departs promptly from the Golden Buff Lodge to NCAR
9:00-9:40	Euler-Lagrangian means in rotating, magnetohydrodynamic flows Andrew Soward, University of Exeter
9:40-10:20	Vorticity alignment dynamics in fluids & MHD PRESENTATION (pdf form) Darryl Holm, Imperial College
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Energy transfers in anisotropic MHD turbulence Daniele Carati, Université Libre de Bruxelles
11:20-11:35	Turbulent cascades in MHD Alexandros Alexakis, NCAR
11:35-11:50	Intermittent magnetic field excitation by a turbulent flow of liquid sodium PRESENTATION (pdf form) Mark Nornberg, University of Wisconsin at Madison
11:50-12:05	Intermittency in MHD turbulence: DNS and Lagrangian averaged modeling PRESENTATION (pdf form) Jonathan Pietarila Graham, NCAR
12:05-12:45	Discussion
12:45-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:40	Spherical shell studies of differential rotation and magnetic dynamo action in the solar convection zone Juri Toomre, University of Colorado at Boulder
2:40-3:20	Global solar dynamo models: Application to cyclic photospheric and nearly steady interior fields Mausumi Dikpati, NCAR
3:20-3:40	Break
3:40-4:20	Sunspots; a challenging test bed for MHD simulations Aake Nordlund, Niels Bohr Institute
4:20-5:00	Discussion
5:00	Bus back to Golden Buff Lodge
6:00	Dinner in town

Friday, 30 June 2006

8:40	Bus will departs promptly from the Golden Buff Lodget to NCAR
9:00-9:40	Turbulence throughout the heliosphere William Matthaeus, Bartol Research Institute
9:40-10:20	Large-scale dynamos and magnetic helicity: Principles and relevance to coronae, outflows, and laboratory plasmas Eric Blackman, University of Rochester
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Critical issues to get right about stellar dynamos PRESENTATION (pdf form) Axel Brandenburg, NORDITA
11:20-12:00	Linear regime of dynamo action at low magnetic Prandtl number: Role of the mean flow and the velocity fluctuations Yannick Ponty, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
12:00-1:00	Discussion
1:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:15	A high order WENO finite difference scheme for incompressible fluids and magnetohydrodynamics Cheng-Chin Wu, University of California at Los Angeles
2:15-2:30	Spatially global & local scale-interaction analyses for nonconforming spectral-element simulations Aimé Fournier, NCAR
2:30-2:45	Preliminary results from a new incompressible spectral element MHD solver in the Geophysical- astrophysical spectral-element adaptive mesh (GASpAR) codes Duane Rosenberg, NCAR
2:45-3:15	Discussion
3:15-5:15	Hike to Mallory Cave directed by Jack Herring
5:30	Bus back to Golden Buff Lodge