MAGNETIC FIELDS IN
THE UNIVERSE: FROM LABORATORY AND STARS TO THE PRIMORDIAL STRUCTURES
Angra dos Reis,
Brazil,
November 28 – December 3, 2004
Program
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28/11: Sunday
16:30-19:30 Registration
19:30 Cocktail and Conference Opening
29/11: Monday Morning
08:15 Conference
Opening
08:30-09:00 E. Vishniac (John Hopkins University): The nonlinear Alpha-Omega dynamo
09:00-09:30 M. Yamada (Princeton University): Laboratory study of magnetic reconnection:
Recent progress
09:30-10:00 A. Lazarian (University of Wisconsin): Magnetic Reconnection
10:00-10:30 F. Porcelli (University of Torino): Collisionless magnetic reconnection
10:30 Coffee
Break and Poster Session
II. Basic Plasma Processes and Numerical Methods (cont.) - Chair: A. Chian
11:00-11:30 S. Inutsuka (Kyoto University): Thermal instabilities in plasmas
11:30-12:00 T. Passot (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur): Fluid description for
dispersive MHD waves in a collisionless plasma
12:00-12:15 G. Vekstein (University of Manchester): Energetics of forced magnetic reconnection
12:15-12:30 T. Gardiner (Princeton University): Athena - A new CT-Godunov MHD code
12:30-13:00 Discussion
29/11: Monday Afternoon
15:30-16:00 A.
Chian (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais): Alfvén intermittent turbulence
in
space
plasmas
16:00-16:15 K. Stasiewicz (Swedish Institute of Space Physics): Dispersive and nonlinear Alfvén
waves in space plasmas
16:15-16:45 A. Silva (Universidade Mackenzie): Solar radio astronomy
16:45-17:15 C. Mandrini (Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio): Solar coronal loops
and coronal heating: What can observations tell us about coronal heating?
17:15-17:30 M. Goossens (Centre for Plasma Astrophysics K.U. Leuven): Solar coronal loop
oscillations: Theory of resonantly damped oscillations and comparison with observations
18:00-18:30 K. Shibata (Kyoto University ): MHD flares and jets in the Sun, stars, and accretion
disks
18:30-18:45 C.G. Giménez de Castro
(Universidade Mackenzie): The relationship between
synchrotron
and Bremsstrahlung emission of nonthermal electrons during a solar flare
18:45-19:00 M. Wardle (Macquarie University): Magnetic fields in protoplanetary disks
19:00-19:15 S. Boldyrev (University of Chicago): Radio wave propagation in the non-Gaussian
interstellar medium
19:15-19:30 A. Kandus (Universidade de
Santa Cruz): Self-consistent mean field dynamo with Hall
effect
19:30-20:00 Discussion
30/11: Tuesday Morning
08:30-09:15 F. Shu (National Tsing Hua University): The role of magnetic fields in star formation
09:15-09:45 D. Crutcher (University of Illinois): Observations of magnetic fields in star formation
regions
09:45-10:00 T. Lery (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies): Star formation histories
10:00-10:15 S. Hubrig (European Southern Observatory): Evolution of magnetic fields in stars
across the upper main sequence
10:15-10:30 F. Herpin (Observatoire de Bordeaux): SiO maser polarization in evolved stars:
magnetic field
10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00-11:45 A. King
(University of Leicester): Accretion physics
11:45-12:15 J. Stone (Princeton University): Simulations of accretion disks with a new Godunov
scheme for MHD
12:15:12:30 T. Sano (Osaka University): Local behavior of magneto-rotational instability in
accretion disks
12:30-12:45 H. Goedbloed (FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics): Transonic instabilities in accretion
disks
12:45-13:00 R. Baptista (Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina): Mapping the disk flickering and
viscosity
parameter in the dwarf nova V2051 Ophiuchi
30/11: Tuesday Afternoon
15:30-16:15 T. Piran (Hebrew University): Gamma ray bursts
16:15-16:45 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (Universidade de São Paulo):
Astrophysical jets and
outflows
16:45-17:15 A. Raga (Universidad Autononoma de Mexico): The connection between laboratory
and astrophysical jets
17:15-17:30 S. Cabrit (Observatoire de Paris): The origin of MHD jets in T Tauri stars
18:00-18:30 A. Frank (University of Rochester): Magnetic "springs" and the creation of collimated
outflows: simulations and laboratory experiments
18:30-19:00 G. García Segura (Universidad Autonoma
de Mexico): The structuring of
planetary
nebulae
19:00-19:15 S. Owocki (University of Delaware): MHD simulations of radiatively driven stellar
winds from magnetic hot stars
19:15-19:30 F. Hansen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): Laboratory simulations of
supernova shockwave propagation
19:30-19:45 A. Ibrahim (Cairo University): The highest magnetic field in the universe: evidence,
implications & prospects
19:45-20:00 Discussion
01/12: Wednesday Morning
08:30-09:00 M. Mendez (SRON - National Institute for Space Research): X-ray observations of
isolated neutron stars and neutron stars in binary systems
09:00-09:30 A. Reisenegger (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile): Neutron star magnetic fields
09:30-10:00 G. Lugones (University of Pisa): Pulsar dynamics: the magnetic dipole model revisited
10:00:10:30 D. Melrose (School of Physics of Sydney): Pulsar magnetospheres: models with non-
stationary pair production
10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00-11:30 .J. Cho & A. Lazarian (University of Wisconsin): MHD turbulence
11:30-12:00 Å. Nordlund (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics, and Geophysics):
Super-Alfvenic turbulence in the ISM
12:00-12:30 D. Pogosian (University of Alberta): Statistics of turbulence from self-absorbing
interstellar gas
12:30-13:00 A. Shalchi (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum ): Linear and nonlinear theories of cosmic ray transport
13:00-13:15 M. Haverkorn (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): Turbulence in different
regimes of the ionized interstellar medium
13:15-13:30 R. J. Cohen (University of Manchester): Magnetic fields in maser regions
01/12: Wednesday Afternoon: Free
Boat trip to the
islands of Angra dos Reis, visit to the tropical forest, or visit to the old
village of Paraty
02/12: Thursday Morning
XI. Magnetized ISM and the Galactic Center - Chair: A. Nordlund
08:30-09:00 F. Aharonian (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik): Probing magnetic fields in
supernova remnants and pulsar-driven nebulae with hard x-rays and high energy
gamma-rays
09:00-09:30 E. Falgarone (Observatoire de Paris): Intermittency of interstellar turbulence
09:30-10:00 G. Novak (Northwestern University): Magnetic fields in the galactic center
10:00-10:30 B. Gaensler (Harvard University): Magnetic fields and turbulence in the inner
Milky Way
11:00-11:45 R. Beck (Max Planck Institut fuer
Radioastronomie): Observations of magnetic
fields
in
galaxies
11:45-12:15 R.-J. Dettmar (Ruhr-University Bochum): Extraplanar gas in galaxies
12:15-12:45 G. Bicknell (Australian National University): Magnetic fields on different scales in
active galaxies
12:45-13:00 Z. Abraham (Universidade de São Paulo): Variable orientation of the magnetic field in pc-scale jets of AGNs: evidences of precession?
13:00-15:30 Lunch break
02/12: Thursday
Afternoon
XIII. Magnetic Fields in Galaxies and the IGM (cont.) - Chair: G.
Bicknell
15:30-16:00 P. Biermann (Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy): Particle acceleration: from
galaxies to large scale structures
16:00-16:30 A. Olinto (University of Chicago): Magnetic fields and ultra high energy cosmic rays
16:30-17:00 P. Blasi (Observatory of Arcetri): Acceleration and propagation of UHECRs
17:00-17:15 D. Harari (Centro Atomico Bariloche): Magnetic lensing and clustering of ultra high
energy cosmic rays
17:15-17:30 C. Melioli (Universidade de
São Paulo): Evolution of the ISM of starburst galaxies and
the formation of galactic superwinds
XIV. Magnetic Fields in Galaxies and the IGM (cont.) - Chair: E. Telles
18:00-18:30 M. Martos (University of California
& Universidad Autonoma de Mexico): MHD gas
flow in the galaxy: modeling the bar and the spiral patterns
18:30-19:00 A. Santillán (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico): Collisions of high velocity clouds
with a magnetized galactic disk
19:00-19:15 F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern University): Detection of numerous linear filaments in
the galactic center
19:15-19:30 A. M. Magalhães (Universidade
de São Paulo): The Southern optical/infrared survey of the interstellar polarization in the Galaxy
19:30-19:45 J. Lépine (Universidade de São Paulo): Star formation in the local spiral arm
19:45-20:00 Discussion
21:00 Conference Dinner: Luau at the beach
03/12: Friday Morning
08:30-09:00 M. Shaposhnikov (Inst. Theor. Phys., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology):
Primordial magnetic fields
09:00-09:30 H. J. De Vega (LPTHE-University of Paris VI): Primordial magnetic fields from
cosmological phase transitions
09:30-10:00 R. Opher (Universidade de São Paulo): Magnetic fileds and the first objects
10:00-10:15 E. Battaner (University of Granada): Magnetic fields and CMB anisotropies
10:15-10:30 H. Mosquera Cuesta (Centro Brasileiro de
Pesquisas Fisicas-ICRA): Gravitational
waves driven by Bardeen-Petterson effect and suspended accretion in AGN as targets
for LISA