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Program on Astrophysical Turbulence (April 3, 2000 - June 16, 2000)
Coordinators: Eve Ostriker & Ellen Zweibel

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Astrophysical Turbulence
        May 8-12, 2000
               Organizers:  E. Ostriker and E. Zweibel

SCHEDULE

            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
 
   May 8, 2000:
Time:
Speaker: Title:
8:00 am
Registration  ITP Lobby
8:45
David Gross Welcome to the ITP
  Ellen Zweibel Welcome to the Conference
   
Observations of Astrophysical
 Turbulence
 
9:00 
Tom Berger
(LMAL )
The Solar Photosphere[Audio]
9:45
Bill Coles
(Univ. California, San Diego)
Interplanetary Turbulence[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
Phil Myers
(CfA, Harvard)
Molecular Clouds[Audio]
11:45
Jim Cordes
(CRSR, Cornell)
Diffuse and Ionized Interstellar Gas[Audio]
12:30 
Lunch  ITP Front Patio
Basic Processes in Astrophysical
 Turbulence
2:00
Jens Niemeyer
(MPI-Garching)
Turbulent Burning Fronts[Audio]
2:45
Russell Kulsrud
(Princeton Univ.)
Magnetic Reconnection[Audio]
3:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:00
Ben Chandran
(Univ. Iowa)
Thermal Conduction[Audio]
4:45
Jon Arons
(Univ. California, Berkeley)
Radiative Fluids[Audio]
5:30
End of Session
 May 9, 2000
Large Scale 
 Numerical Models
 
9:00 am
Nic Brummell
(JILA, Colorado)
Highly Turbulent Local Models of Solar Magnetoconvection[Audio]
9:45
Juri Toomre
(JILA, Colorado
Global Models of Turbulent Convection[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
Eve Ostriker
(Univ. Maryland)
MHD Models of Molecular Clouds[Audio]
11:45
John Hawley
(Univ. Virginia)
Global Models of Accretion Flows[Audio]
12:30 pm
 Lunch ITP Front Patio
2:00
Discussion Leaders: Alyssa Goodman, Carl Heiles, Barney Rickett Discussion on Analyzing Galactic Turbulence[Audio]
3:30
Refreshment Break ITP Center Patio
4:00
Discussion Leaders: Mordecai MacLow,
Enrique Vasquez-Semadini
Discussion on Turbulence and Star Formation[Audio]
5:30
Special Event:
     Pre-dinner Reception: 5:30pm
     Buffet Dinner:  6:15pm
ITP Front Patio
 May 10, 2000
Turbulent Transport of
Angular Momentum 
 
9:00 am
Jean-Paul Zahn
(Obs. Paris)
Tidal Dissipation[Audio]
9:45
Sarbani Basu
(Yale)
Solar Differential Rotation[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
Steve Balbus
(Univ. Virginia)
Angular Momentum Transport in Disks[Audio]
11:45 
Poster Session ITP Main Seminar Room
1:00 pm
Special Event:
     Beach Barbeque: 1:00 pm
Goleta Beach (see map)
May 11, 2000
Boundary
 Layers
 
9:00 am
Paul Charbonneau
(HAO)
Rotation & Turbulence in the Solar Radiative Core[Audio]
9:45
Peter Gilman
(HAO/NCAR)
Shear Flow Instabilities[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
Michael Shay
(Univ. Maryland)
Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection[Audio]
11:45
Dana Longcope
(Montana State Univ.)
Current Sheets[Audio]
12:30
Lunch ITP Front Patio
2:00
Discussion Leaders: Axel Brandenburg, Charles Gammie, Jim Stone Discussion on Accretion Disk Turbulence[Audio]
3:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
 4:00
Discussion Leaders: 
Paul Charbonneau, Ed Spiegel
Discussion on The Angular Momentum Distribution in the Sun:  Rotation, Turbulence, and Magnetic Fields[Audio]
5:30
Special Event:
     Reception: Hors d'oeuvres  and
                      wine -- 5:30-7:00 pm
ITP Front Patio
May 12, 2000
Dynamos 
Reservoir
 
9:00 am
George Field
(Harvard-Smithsonian)
Nonlinearity in Dynamo Theory[Audio]
9:45
Steve Childress
(Courant Inst. of Math Sciences)
Fast Dynamos[Audio]
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
Steve Cowley
(Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Dynamos in Galaxies[Audio]
11:45
Steve Tobias
(Univ. Cambridge) 
Saturation of Dynamos for Simple Driven Flows[Audio]
12:30 pm
Lunch ITP Front Patio
2:00
Discussion Leader: S. Sridhar Discussion on Turbulent Cascades and Dissipation[Audio]
3:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:00
Discussion Leaders: 
Keith Moffatt, Ellen Zweibel
Discussion on Dynamos and Magnetic Reconnection[Audio]
5:30
End of Conference


Poster A. Brandenburg The inverse cascade and nonlinear alpha-effect in simulations of isotropic helical hydromagnetic turbulence
Poster A. Gazol
E. Vázquez-Semadeni & J. Scalo
Is Thermal Instability Significant in Turbulent Galactic Gas?
Poster M. Lyutikov & E. Blackman Particle Acceleration and Emission in Relativistic Electro-Magnetic Turbulence of GRBs
Poster M. Mac Low
V. Ossenkopf, M. Smith, J. Zuev, F. Heitsch
Characterization of Supersonic MHD Turbulence in Models of Molecular Clouds
Poster L.I. Rudakov Magnetic sound wave in a molecular cloud in presence of grains
Poster T. Sano The Saturated Turbulent State of Magnetorotational Instability in Weakly Ionized Accretion Disks
Poster J. Ballesteros-Paredes
E. Vázquez-Semadeni, J. Scalo
Clouds as Turbulent Density Fluctuations

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