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UK MHD Meeting 2004 

Thursday 6th and Friday 7th May 2004
Nice - Cote D'Azur

 Laboratory Cassiopée UMR6202 CNRS 
  Observatory of the Cote d'Azur
 

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Thursday 6th May

9:00 - 10:00  REGISTRATION 
10:00 - 11:00  Turbulence Session : Chairman   Jacques Léorat
Chris Jones                        :   Turbulence models and plane layer dynamos
Alexander Schekochihin   :   Is there a small-scale dynamo in low-Pm MHD?
Nicolas Leprovost             :   Statistical mechanics of axisymmetric MHD flow     
11:00 - 11:30  Coffee Break   (Poster session) 
11:30 - 12:30  Geodynamo  Session : Chairman    Emmanuel Dormy
Philip Livermore      :  Transient Magnetic Energy Growth in Kinematic Geodynamo Models
Nathanael Schaeffer :  Quasi-geostrophic dynamos
Berangere Deleplace :  Magnetic and viscous torques at the core mantle boundary
12:30 - 14:15  BUFFET-LUNCH 
14:15 - 16:00  1er Solar  Plasma session : Chairman   Eric Priest
Valentina Zharkova : Magnetic field dissipation during the solar flare 23rd July 2002
Alan Hood               : Coronal Heating by Coronal Tectonics
Stephen Thompson  : Magnetoconvection in the penumbra of a sunspot
Allan Sacha Brun    :  Magnetic Dynamo Action in the Solar Envelope
Erwin Verwichte     :  Transverse oscillations in a coronal loop arcade
16:00 - 16:30   Tea Break   (Poster session) 
16:30 - 18:00  Numerical session : Chairman    Laurette Tuckman
Keke Zhang             :  A three-dimensional, spherical, nonlinear interface dynamo
Emmanuel Dormy   :  Magnetic induction in bounded domains.
Caroline Nore          : A new Finite Element Method for magnetodynamical problems : two-dimensional results
Graeme Sarson        : Dynamo Simulations Using a High Order Cartesian Magnetohydrodynamics Code
Axel Brandenburg   : Does hyperviscosity spoil the inertial range ?
19:30 onward   APERITIF - CONFERENCE DINNER 

Friday 7th May

8:30 - 9:30   UK MHD Consortium Meeting  (Chair by :  Alan Hood )
9:30 - 11:00   Experimental session : Chairman   Francois Daviaud
Nicolas Gillet            :  Experimental and Numerical study of Rotating Magneto-Convection
Jacques Léorat          :  What limit magnetic Reynolds number may be experimentally achieved ?
Daniel Brito              :  Measurement of apparent viscosity in rapidly rotating fluid
Francois Petrelis       :  Diffusion of sound by a magnetic field
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break   (Poster session)
11:30 - 12:30   MHD session : Chairman   Andrew Gilbert
Alastair  Rucklidge : Mean flow instabilities of two-dimensional convection in strong magnetic fields
David Fearn            : Nonlinear magnetic instability
David Hughes         : Dynamo Action in Rotating Convection
12:30 - 14:15 BUFFET - LUNCH 
14:15 - 16:30   2nd  Solar Plasma session : Chairman   Bernie Roberts
Pu Zhang                : Dynamo action driven by three dimensional convective flow with an Ekman layer
Maria Dymova       :  Non-axisymmetric oscillations of thin inhomogeneous magnetic tube
Paul Bushby           : Torsional oscillations in a non-linear solar dynamo model
Adam Kelly            : Acoustic Oscillations in Solar and Stellar Flaring Loops
James McLaughlin  : MHD Wave Propagation in the Neighbourhood of Coronal Null Points.
16:00 - 16:30 
Tea Break   (Poster session)
16:30 - 18:10   MHD Plasma session : Chairman   David Hughes
Michael Ruderman  : Stability of solitons in Hall plasmas
David Simpson        : Absolute and convective instabilities of circularly polarized Alfvén waves:  Decay instability
Guenther Ruediger   :  MHD Taylor-Couette flow, also  with Hall effect
Manuel Baptista       : Stability of thermoconvective MHD steady states in a layer to large-scale
Raul Avalos-Zuniga : Mean electromotrice force for a ring of helical vortices

 
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