Euro MHD flag  EURO MHD 2008  (Nice : 23th - 26th September 2008)

 



      For all talk 20 min (include questions)      booklet_program_and_abstracts.pdf 

Tuesday 23th September :

13h50 : Welcome and informations

14h00       Experimental Dynamo session (Charmain : F. Daviaud)

P. Roberts -- Numerical simulation of a spherical dynamo excited by a flow of von Karman type
C. Gissinger
-- Modelisation and simulations of dynamo experiments
C. 
Guervilly -- Numerical simulations of spherical Couette dynamos
15h00 :
C. Nore
-- Impact of impellers in the VKS2 dynamo experiment
A. Giesecke
-- Kinematic dynamos in cylindrical geometry
J. Léorat
-- MHD problems in heterogeneous domains with conducting and permeability jumps
16h00  coffee break 
16h30 :      

F. Petrelis
-- Excitability in the vicinity of a saddle-node bifurcation: a mechanism for reversals
G. Verhille
-- Velocity Measurement in a Screw Flow
N. Plihon
-- The synthetic Bullard-Von Karman dynamo

N. Leprovost -- Dynamo quenching due to Shear

18h00 :  Welcome “ aperitif ”

Dinner in town 




Wednesday 24th September :

9h30 :       Rotating Fluid and MRI session (Chairman : P. Cardin)
W. Herreman
-- Kinematic dynamo of inertial waves
D. Schmitt
-- Magneto-inertial waves in a rotating fluid sphere
L. Petitdemange
-- Magnetostrophic MRI in the Earth's Outer Core
10h30 coffee break
11h00 :
C. Forest
-- Numerical Simulations of a Plasma Dynamo and MRI Experiment
F. Cattaneo -- MRI driven turbulence and dynamo action
G. Ruediger
-- MRI and Tayler instability in the laboratory

12h00 Lunch (Maison du seminaire)

13h30 : Poster session

14h00 :     Turbulence MHD (Chairman : H. Politano )
A. Newton
-- Numerical Investigation into sheared MHD turbulence
T. Yousef
-- New results on dynamo action in sheared and rotating turbulence
I. Rogachevskii -- Nonhelical mean-field dynamos in sheared turbulence
15h00 :
A. Alexakis
-- Modeling anisotropic MHD turbulence
J. Baerenzung
-- Spectral modeling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows
A. Schekochihin
-- Saturation of small-scale dynamo and spontaneous formation of current sheets
16h00 Coffee Break
16h30 :

D. Hughes
-- Dynamos driven by Shear and Turbulent Convection
A. Pouquet
-- Waves and turbulence in MHD
17h30 :

Dinner in town


 Thursday 25th September :

9h00 : Astrophysics session (Chairman : A. Pouquet)
S. Mathis
-- Magneto-Gravito-Inertial waves in strongly stratified stellar interiors
T. Rogers
-- The interaction of Internal Gravity Waves and Magnetic Fields
P. Garaud
-- The solar tachocline
W. Kuang
-- Variation of the Dynamo domain and sudden termination of Mars Dynamo

10h30 coffee break 
11h00 :
C. Jones
-- Zonal flows and Jupiter's dynamo
K. Kuzanyan
-- Compressible convection in rapidly rotating spherical atmospheres of giant planets
L. Goudard
-- Dynamo-Region Geometry Controlling Stars and Planets Magnetic Behavior

12h00 Lunch (Maison du seminaire)

13h30 : Poster session

14h00 : Fairly Mathematical session (Chairman : S. Childress )
R.L. Ricca
-- On the groundstate energy of knotted magnetic flux tubes
S. Tobias
-- How do dynamos saturate?
F. Plunian
-- Oscillating Ponomarenko dynamo in the highly conducting limit
15h00 :
K.H. Radler -- Mean-field effects in the Galloway-Proctor flow
A. Shukurov -- Flux rope dynamos
D. Sokoloff
-- Magnetic field in fluctuating ABC flow

16h00 Coffee Break
16h30 :
M. Proctor
-- Interactions Of An Unstable Shear Flow With A Convectively Unstable Region
A. M. Soward
-- Shear-layers in magnetohydrodynamic spherical Couette flow with conducting walls (40 min)

                        18h30 Social event : Conference Dinner : Aston Hotel


Friday 26th September :


9h00 :  Geophysics session + misc (Chairman : C. Jones)

V. Morin -- Numerical investigation of the dynamo bifurcation in Geodynamo Models
D. Jault -- Quasi-geostrophic modelling of the geomagnetic secular variation
P. Cardin -- Experimental measurements of Alfven waves in a liquid metal
B. Bigot -- Development of anisotropy in incompressible MHD turbulence

10h30 : Coffee break 
11h00 :

H. Homann -- Clustering of passive impurities in MHD-turbulence
E. Dormy --  Time scales separation for dynamo action
Y. Ponty -- Dynamo simulations inside Pseudo-Penalisation Boundaries
Conclusion and end of the conference

12h00 Lunch (Maison du seminaire)



 Posters :

R. Avalos-Zuniga --  Oscillating homopolar disk-dynamo
M. Berhanu -- Oscillations to reversals in the Von Karman Sodium dynamo.
A. Courvoisier --The influence of spatial coherence on mean induction and diffusion.
N. Gagnière --
The modified Taylor's state with turbulent Ekman layers and comparison with experimental results.
S. Galtier --
Extension of the Kolmogorov 4/5's Theorem to Hall-MHD.
L. Garcia de Andrade -- Stretching dynamos in compact curved Riemannian spaces.
C. Gissinger -- Numerical simulation of galactic dynamo.
A. Jackson -
- Simple 3-D Taylor State Models of Earth's Core.
W. Mouhali -- Cyclonic vortex regime in a precessing cylinder flow.
C. Normand -- Modal versus energetic stability of cylindrical kinematic dynamos.
R.L. Ricca -- A simple kinematical model for Stretch-Twist-Fold dynamo.
L. Silvers -- Long-term nonlinear behaviour of the magnetorotational instability in a localized model of an accretion disc.
T. Wood --
Magnetic confinement in the Solar Interior