MR2012
Program with Links to Slides and Recorded Videos
WEDNESDAY, MAY
23, 2012
|
Astrophysical
Reconnection (E. Zweibel, U.
Wisconsin) (Recorded
Video) |
|
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8:30am |
M.
Hoshino (U.
Tokyo): Magnetic
Reconnection and Particle Acceleration during Kinetic
Magneto-Rotational Instability in an Accretion Disk |
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8:55am |
R.
Matsumoto (Chiba
U.): Three-dimensional,
Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations
of Disk Dynamos |
|
9:10am |
J.
McKinney
(Stanford): Reconnection
near Black Holes |
|
9:35am |
H. Takahashi (NAOJ): Radiative MHD Simulation of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection |
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10:00am |
Break |
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Reconnection
in Lab (Y. Ono, U. Tokyo) (Recorded
Video) |
|
|
10:20am |
P.
Bellan
(Caltech): Dynamics
of Open-field-line MHD Configurations |
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10:45am |
M.
Brown
(Swarthmore): Spectroscopic observation of
simultaneous bi-directional reconnection outflows in SSX |
|
11:00am |
T.
Gray (Swarthmore):
Turbulence, selective decay,
and merging in the SSX plasma wind tunnel |
|
11:15am |
H.
Tanabe (U. Tokyo):
Ion
and Electron Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in TS-3,
TS-4 and MAST Torus Plasma Merging Experiments |
|
11:30am |
M.
Gryaznevich
(Culham): Magnetic reconnection studies on MAST |
|
11:45am |
M.
Brookhart
(U. Wisconsin): Stability
of hollow and reversed current channels in a Line-Tied Screw
Pinch |
|
12:00pm |
Lunch |
|
Reconnection
Theory and Reconnection in Space (M. Hesse,
NASA-GSFC) (Recorded
Video) |
|
|
1:30pm |
W.
Daughton
(LANL): Influence
of Magnetic Shear and Profile Asymmetry on Reconnection at
the Magnetopause |
|
1:55pm |
P.
Pritchett (UCLA):
Three-Dimensional Effects,
or the Lack Thereof, in Asymmetric Collisionless
Magnetic Reconnection |
|
2:10pm |
P.
Cassak
(West Virginia U.): Guide
Field Dependence of X-line Spreading in Three-Dimensional
Magnetic Reconnection |
|
2:25pm |
T.
Nakamura (LANL): Kinetic aspects of the
vortex-induced reconnection in collisonless
plasmas: 2D and 3D PIC simulations |
|
2:40pm |
H.
Che
(NASA-GSFC): Anomalous
Momentum Transport in Fast Electron Heating Process and the
role in Magnetic Reconnection |
|
2:55pm |
M.
Goldstein (NASA-GSFC):
Dissipation
of magnetofluid turbulence as
observed on the scale of the Larmor
radius |
|
3:10pm |
P.
Wyper (U.
Sheffield): Spine-Fan
Reconnection |
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3:25pm |
Discussion
(E. Zweibel, U. Wisconsin) |
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3:45am |
Break |
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4:00pm |
Poster
Session (18 Posters) M.
Adran: Bursty, Broadband Electromagnetic Waves
Associated with Three-Dimensional Nulls Observed in Turbulent
Magnetosheath Reconnection
(cancelled) L.-J.
Chen: Electric
fields in the electron layer and secondary plasmoids
during collisionless reconnection
with negligible guide field Y.-M. Huang: Distribution of Plasmoids
in Large Scale Magnetic Reconnection A. Kuwahata:Magnetic Fluctuations with Ion Cyclotron
Range of Frequency during Fast Reconnection in Plasma Merging
Experiment J. Lin:
Impact of Density and Gas Pressure on the Rate of Magnetic
Reconnection Y.-H. Liu: The tearing instability and
reconnection with force-free Harris geometry in 3D PIC
simulations Y. Matsui:
MHD simulation of solar chromospheric
evaporation jets in the oblique coronal magnetic field C.
Myers: Solar-relevant
magnetic flux ropes in the laboratory: initial results and
experimental plans V.
Roytershteyn: Fluctuation signatures of
reconnection sites A.
Stanier: Particle Acceleration by Reconnection
at 3D Null Points T.
Tharp: Quantitative
Study of Guide Field Effects on Hall Reconnection in a
Laboratory Plasma S.
Usami: Multi-Hierarchy Simulation with
Domain Dynamic Conversion for Magnetic Reconnection Studies D.A.
Uzdensky: Magnetic
Reconnection with Optically Thin Radiative
Cooling D.
Wendel: Cluster observations of non-ideal
behavior at three-dimensional magnetic nulls in the turbulent
magnetosheath J.
Yoo: Measurement of the Hall electric
field and its effects on ion dynamics S.
Zenitani: Magnetohydrodynamic structure of a plasmoid
in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas T.
Zhang: Magnetic
reconnection in near venusian Magnetotail |
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5:30pm |
Adjourn |
THURSDAY, MAY
24, 2012
FRIDAY,
MAY 25, 2012