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KITP Program: Dynamo Theory (May 5 - July 18, 2008)
Coordinators: Chris Jones, Daniel Lathrop, Steven Tobias, Ellen Zweibel

Time Speaker Title
5/05, 2:00 p.m. Dynamo Theory Organizational Meeting
5/08, 2:00 p.m. Participants Discussion: What are the outstanding questions? What do we hope to achieve?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/12, 11:15 a.m. Dynamo Theory Organizational Meeting
5/13, 11:30 a.m. Karl-Heinz Rädler
(AIP & KITP)
Alice Courvoisier
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Eun-jin Kim
(Univ. Sheffield & KITP)
Discussion: Determination of Transport Coefficients[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/15, 11:00 a.m. Paul Roberts
(UCLA & KITP)
Andrew Soward
(University of Exeter & KITP)
On the Navier-Stokes Alpha-Equations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/16, 11:30 a.m. Keith Moffatt
(Trinity College & KITP)
Pat Diamond
(UCSD & KITP)
Graeme Sarson
(Newcastle Univ. & KITP)
Discussion: Magnetostrophic Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/19, 12:15 p.m. Steve Tobias
University of Leeds & KITP
Dynamo Theory from Experiments to Galaxy Clusters (via planets and stars)[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
5/20, 11:30 a.m. David Galloway
(Univ. Sydney & KITP)
Annick Pouquet
(NCAR & KITP)
Joanne Mason
(Univ. of Chicago & KITP)
Discussion: Alignment and Cross-Helicity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/22, 2:00 p.m. Ellen Zweibel
(UW-Madison & KITP)
Edgar Knobloch
(UCB & KITP)
Pat Diamond
(UCSD & KITP)
Ethan Vishniac
(McMaster Univ. & KITP)
Fausto Cattaneo
(Univ. of Chicago & KITP)
David Hughes
(Univ. Leeds & KITP)
Discussion: Aspects of MRI Physics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/23, 11:30 a.m. Keith Moffatt
Cambridge Univ. & KITP
Rattleback Reversals: A Prototype of Chiral Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/27, 11:30 a.m. Kandaswamy Subramanian
(IUCAA & KITP)
Ethan Vishniac
(McMaster Univ. & KITP)
Shane Keating
(UCSD & KITP)
Magnetic Helicity and Alpha-Suppressions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/29, 2:00 p.m. Junjun Liu
(Caltech)
Friedrich Busse
(Univ. of Bayreuth & KITP)
Gary Glatzmaier
(LANL & KITP)
Zonal Flows in Jupiter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/30, 11:30 a.m. David Gubbins
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Friedrich Busse
(University of Bayreuth & KITP)
Graeme Sarson
(Newcastle University & KITP)
Geomagnetic Reversals[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/03, 11:30 a.m. Matthew Browning
(University of Chicago & KITP)
Benjamin Brown
(University of Colorado & KITP)
Juri Toomre
(JILA/Univ. Colorado & KITP)
Stellar Dynamos: Elements that work[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/05, 2:00 p.m. Tomomasa Tatsumi
Kyoto University
A New Approach for Turbulence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/06, 11:30 a.m. Ellen Zweibel
UW-Madison & KITP
A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Galactic Dynamos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/10, 11:30 a.m. Jean-Francois Pinton
(ENS & KITP)
Cary Forest
(Univ. Wisconsin & KITP)
Franck Plunian
(LGIT & KITP)
Sodium Dynamo Experiments on Two Continents: History and Current Successes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/11, 2:00 p.m. Mitch Berger
Univ. Exeter
Self Organization of Braided Magnetic Fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/13, 11:30 a.m. Dan Lathrop
(Univ. of Maryland & KITP)
Dominique Jault
(LGIT & KITP)
Dynamo Experiments, Planets, Rotation and the Disconnect Between Theory and Experiment[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/17, 11:30 a.m. Igor Rogachevskii
Ben-Gurion Univ. & KITP
Large-Scale Dynamos with No Helicity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/19, 2:00 p.m. Allan Sacha Brun
(CEA & KITP)
Peter Ditlevsen
(Univ. of Copenhagen)
Joan Feynman
(Caltech)
Alexander Ruzmaikin
(Caltech/ JPL)
Steve Tobias
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Solar Variability and Possible Effects on Climate[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/20, 11:30 a.m. Axel Brandenburg
(Nordita & KITP)
Nathan Kleeorin
(Ben Gurion Univ. & KITP)
Mike Proctor
(Cambridge, DAMTP & KITP)
The Role of Shear in Dynamos[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
6/23, 11:30 a.m. Dynamo Theory Organizational Meeting
6/24, 11:30 a.m. Chris Jones
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Gary Glatzmaier
(LANL & KITP)
Stratification, Convection and Dynamos in the Giant Planets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/25, 12:00 p.m. Pat Diamond
UCSD
Zonal Flow Generation Mechanisms -- Wave Number and Configuration Space Perspectives[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/25, 12:00 p.m. Sasha Balk
University of Utah & KITP
Zonal Jets: The Extra Invariant for Rossby Wave Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/26, 2:00 p.m. Paul Bushby
(Newcastle University & KITP)
Francois Rincon
(OMP & KITP)
Nathan Kleeorin
(Ben Gurion University & KITP)
Turbulent Convection and Convective Dynamos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/01, 11:30 a.m. Uli Christensen
(Max Planck & KITP)
Chris Jones
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Scaling Laws in Dynamos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/02, 2:00 p.m. David Galloway
(Univ. Sydney & KITP)
Mark Miesch
(HAO/NCAR & KITP)
Matthias Rempel
(NCAR & KITP)
Tamara Rogers
(NCAR & KITP)
Convection, Differential Rotation, Meridional Flows, Stable Layers and Dynamos![Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/03, 2:00 p.m. Nicholas Brummell
(UCSC & KITP)
Allan Sacha Brun
(CEA & KITP)
Chris Jones
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Steve Tobias
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
The Tachocline: Angular Momentum Transport and Instability[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/08, 11:30 a.m. David Gubbins
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Andy Jackson
(ETH Zurich & KITP)
Henri-Claude Nataf
(LGIT & KITP)
The Core and the Mantle[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/10, 2:00 p.m. Axel Brandenburg
(Nordita & KITP)
Nicholas Brummell
(UCSC & KITP)
Gordon Ogilvie
(Univ. of Cambridge & KITP)
Lara Silvers
(Univ. of Cambridge & KITP)
Dynamos Driven by Instabilities[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/11, 11:00 a.m. Stanislav Boldyrev
(UW-Madison & KITP)
Uli Christensen
(Max Planck & KITP)
David Galloway
(Univ. Sydney & KITP)
Henri-Claude Nataf
(LGIT & KITP)
Steve Tobias
(Univ. of Leeds & KITP)
Dynamos at Low Pm[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/14-18 Conference: Magnetic Field Generation in Experiments, Geophysics and Astrophysics

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