|
WOPA 2010 |
Workshop
on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics January
18 - 21, 2010 Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Workshop
Program and Talks
Monday,
January 18
8:00
am – Registration
8:30
am – Welcome, Purpose, Format, and Expected
Outcome (S. Prager and H.
Ji, PPPL)
9:00
am – Magnetic Reconnection (Chair:
James Drake, U. Maryland)
James
Drake, U. Maryland: Introduction
– 15 min.
Masaaki
Yamada, PPPL: The Rate of Reconnection
– 15 min.
Jan
Egedal, MIT: The Onset Problem – 15 min.
William
Daughton, LANL: Cross Scale Coupling in Large
Systems – 15 min.
Dmitri
Uzdensky, U. Colorado: Reconnection in Extreme Environments
– 15 min.
James
Drake, U. Maryland: Heating and Particle Acceleration
– 15 min.
James
Drake and Masaaki Yamada: Moderated Discussions Including A
Possible National
Reconnection Experiment – 30 min.
11:00
am Break
and Registration
11:30
pm – Waves and Turbulence (Chair: Amitava
Bhattacharjee,
U. New Hampshire)
Amitava Bhattacharjee, U. New Hampshire:
Introduction and Overview
– 10 min.
Stanislav
Boldyrev, U. Wisconsin – Madison: Nature and
Properties of
Turbulence Cascades – 20 min.
William
Matthaeus, U. Delaware: Dissipation and
Particle Acceleration and Heating –
20 min.
12:20
pm Lunch
– PPPL
Cafeteria
1:20
pm – Waves and Turbulence (Continued)
Troy
Carter, UCLA: Roles of
Laboratory Experiments and Observations –
15 min.
Amitava
Bhattacharjee, U. New Hampshire: Turbulence in
Inhomogeneous Plasmas
– 15 min.
Amitava
Bhattacharjee, U. New Hampshire: Connections to
Other Topics –
10 min.
Amitava
Bhattacharjee, U. New Hampshire: Moderated
Discussions – 30
min.
2:30
am – Collisionless Shock and Particle
Acceleration (Chair: Martin Lee,
U. New
Hampshire)
Martin
Lee, U. New Hampshire: Introduction
– 12 min.
Randy
Jokipii, U. Arizona: Heliospheric
Shocks – 12 min.
Robert
Lin, UC Berkeley: Shocks in Corona
and Solar Energetic Particles – 12
min.
Anatoly
Spitkovsky, Princeton U.: Supernova Remnant
and Other Shocks – 12
min.
Ramanath
Cowsik, Washington U. St. Louis: Acceleration and
Propagation of
Galactic Cosmic Rays – 12 min.
3:30
pm Break
4:00
pm – Collisionless Shock and Particle
Acceleration (continued)
David
Burgess, Queen Mary U. London: Shock Simulations
–
15
min.
Christoph
Niemann, UCLA: Laboratory Shock
Experiments – 15 min.
Martin
Lee, U. New Hampshire: Moderated
Discussions – 30 min.
5:00
pm –
Public
Comments (Chair: Masaaki Yamada, PPPL)
Tuesday,
January 19
8:00
am –
Magnetic
Dynamo (Chair: Ellen Zweibel, U. Wisconsin
– Madison)
Ellen Zweibel, U. Wisconsin –
Madison: Introduction and
Observations – 30 min.
Cary
Forest, U.
Wisconsin – Madison: Laboratory
Experiments – 20 min.
Fausto Cattaneo, U. Chicago: Theory and
Numerical Simulations – 20 min.
Eric
Blackman, U. Rochester: Broader Impacts
– 20 min.
Ellen Zweibel, U. Wisconsin –
Madison: Moderated Discussions – 30 min.
10:00
am Break
10:30
am –
Interface and Shear
Instabilities (Dmitri Ryutov, LLNL)
Ian
Mann, U. Alberta: Space Plasma
Prospective – 20 min.
Marc
Pound, U. Maryland: Astrophysical
Prospective – 20 min.
Aaron Miles, LLNL: Supernovae
and Supernova Remnants – 10 min.
Carolyn
Kuraz, U. Michigan: High-Energy-Density
Laboratory Experiments – 20
min.
Uri
Shumlak, U. Washington: Astrophysical
Connections from Magnetic Confinement
Research – 20 min.
Dmitri
Ryutov, LLNL: Moderated
Discussions – 30 min.
12:30
pm Lunch
– PPPL
Cafeteria
1:30
pm –
Momentum
Transport (Chair: Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley)
Eliot
Quataert, UC Berkeley: Introduction and
Overview – 25 min.
James
Stone, Princeton U.: Scientific
Opportunities on Accretion Disks – 20
min.
Matthew
Browning, Canadian Inst. Theoretical Astrophysics: Scientific
Opportunities on Stars – 20 min.
Mark
Nornberg, U. Wisconsin – Madison: Laboratory
Opportunities
– 15 min.
Eliot
Quataert, UC Berkeley: Relations to Other
Topics and Broader Impacts – 10
min.
3:30
pm Break
4:00
pm –
Dusty
Plasmas (Chair: Edward Thomas, Auburn U.)
Introduction
– 15 min.
Astrophysical
Issues – 20 min.
Opportunities
and Summary – 15 min.
Moderate
discussions – 30 min.
5:30
pm –
Breakout
Discussions
Wednesday,
January 20
8:00
am –
Radiative
Hydrodynamics (Chair: Bruce Remington, LLNL)
Julian
Krolik, John Hopkins U.: Theory and
Astrophysical Relevance – 30 min.
Patrick
Hartigan, Rice U.: Observational
Relevance – 30 min.
Bruce
Remington, LLNL: Experimental
Relevance – 30 min.
Bruce
Remington, LLNL: Moderated
Discussions – 30 min.
10:00
pm Break
10:30
am –
Relativistic, Ultra-strongly
Magnetized, and Pair Plasmas (Edison Liang, Rice U.)
Edison
Liang, Rice U.: Introuduction and
Overview – 12
min.
Luis
Silva, Lisbon U.: Relativistic
Beams: Generation, Dissipation and
Connection to Shock Physics – 15 min.
Masahiro
Hoshino, U. Tokyo: Reconnection in
Relativistic and Strongly Magnetized
Plasmas and Their Radiation – 15 min.
Anatoly Spitkovsky,
Princeton U.: Numerical
Simulations of Collisionless Shocks – 12
min.
Igor Kaganovich, PPPL:
Weibel Instability and
Collisionless Shocks – 12 min.
Andrey Timokhin, UC
Berkeley: Numerical
Models of Pulsar Magnetosphere – 12
min.
Patric Muggli, USC:
High Brightness Particle Beams
– 12 min.
Edison
Liang, Rice U.: Moderated
Discussions – 30 min.
12:30
pm Lunch
– PPPL
Cafeteria
1:30
pm –
Jets
and
Outflows Including Structure Formation (Chair: Hui Li, LANL)
Phil
Kronberg, LANL: Observations of
AGN Jets – 15
min.
Richard
Lovelace, Connell U.: Theory and
Simulations Black Hole Jets – 15
min.
Sean
Matt, U. Virginia, Dilivered by Patric Hartigan, Rice U.: Jets from Young
Stellar Objects – 20
min.
Paul Bellan,
Caltech: Jet
Experiments – 20 min.
Hui Li, LANL: Jet Impact on
Structure
Formation, Key Issues and Connections to Other Topics
– 20 min.
Hui
Li, LANL: Moderated
Discussions – 30 min.
3:30
pm Break
4:00
pm –
Public
Comments (Chair: Jay Johnson, PPPL)
4:30 pm – Breakout Discussions
Thursday,
January 21
8:00
am –
Updates from Each Topic (Chair:
Jeremy Goodman, Princeton U.)
James
Drake, U. Maryland: Magnetic
Reconnection – 15 min.
Martin
Lee, U. New Hampshire: Collisionless
Shock and Particle Acceleration – 15
min.
Amitava Bhattacharjee, U. New Hampshire:
Waves and Turbulence –
15 min.
Ellen Zweibel, U. Wisconsin –
Madison: Magnetic Dynamo
– 15 min.
Dmitri
Ryutov, LLNL: Interface and
Shear Instability – 15 min.
Eliot
Quataert, UC Berkeley: Momentum Transport
– 15 min.
Edward
Thomas, Auburn U.: Dusty Plasmas
– 15 min.
Bruce
Remington, LLNL: Radiative
Hydrodynamics – 15 min.
Edison
Liang, Rice U.: Relativistic,
Ultra-strongly Magnetized,
and
Pair
Plasmas – 15 min.
Hui
Li, LANL: Jets and Outflows Including Structure
Formation – 15
min.
10:30
pm Break
11:00
am –
Discussions on Next Steps (Chair:
Stewart Prager, PPPL)
12:00
pm Lunch
– PPPL
Cafeteria