Program

Sunday 13th July


17.00-19.00 – Registration : Congress Centre




Monday 14th July

08.30-09.00 - Registration : Congress Centre (Late Arrivals)

09.00-09.10 - Welcome – S้bastien Fromang and Caroline Terquem

 

MRI, MHD, Turbulence (Chair: Phil Armitage)

 

9.10-9.50 – John Hawley (Review): The Physics of the MRI

9.50-10.30 – Jim Stone (Review): Numerical models of the MRI: Past, present, and future

10.30-11.00 – Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 – Henrik Latter: Revisiting the linear MRI in quasi-global geometries

11.30-12.00 – Fran็ois Rincon: The dark side of the accretion disk dynamo


12.00-13.45 – Lunch Break

 

Protostellar Disks (Chair: Charles Gammie)

 

13.45-14.25 – Phil Armitage (Review): Protostellar Disks

14.25-14.45 – Xuening Bai: Non-linear evolution of the MRI in the presence of net vertical magnetic flux

14.45-15.15 – Geoffroy Lesur: Thanatology in Protoplanetary Discs: The combined influence of Ohmic, Hall, and ambipolar diffusion on dead zones

15.15-15.55 – Coffee Break  

15.55-16.35 – Richard Nelson (Review): Planetesimal and planet migration and growth in turbulent disks

16.35-16.55 – Jake Simon: Observational Signatures of MRI-driven Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks: Connecting Numerical Simulations with ALMA

16.55-17.15 – Mario Flock: Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics In Global Simulations Of Protoplanetary Disks
17.15-17.35 – Julien Faure: Thermodynamics of the dead zone inner edge in protoplanetary disks




Tuesday 15th July

 

Disk Physics (Chair: John Hawley)

 

09.00-09.40 – John Papaloizou (Review): S curves, CV outbursts and the MRI

09.40-10.10 – Gordon Ogilvie: Dynamics and instability of eccentric discs

10.10-10.40 – Hantao Ji: Angular Momentum Transport in the Lab

10.40-11.10 – Coffee Break

11.10-11.40 – Ludovic Petitdemange: Topology and magnetic field strength in spherical anelastic dynamo simulations


Plasmas and Clusters (Chair: Christopher McKee) 

11.40-12.20 – Eliot Quataert (Review): (1) Convection in Galaxy Cluster Plasmas -  (2) Accretion in (Initially) Unmagnetized Collisionless Plasmas


12.20-13.50 – Lunch Break

 

13.50-14.10 – Matthew Kunz: How to tap free-energy gradients with anisotropic diffusion

14.10-14.30 – Ian Parrish: New Forms of Convection & Turbulence: The MTI & HBI in Galaxy Clusters

14.30-15.10 – Chris Reynolds: The Physics of the Intracluster Medium and AGN feedback in galaxy clusters

15.10-15.30 – Coffee Break

15.30 -16.00 – Alex Schekochihin: Stratified turbulence in galaxy cluster cores

16.00-16.30 – Amitava Bhattacharjee: Nonmodal growth of the magnetorotational instability and the dynamo effect

16.30-17.00 – Greg Hammett: Kinetic effects and sheared rotation in accretion flows and fusion devices


    **EVENING: Conference dinner (meeting at 18h45 at the "Planpraz" cable car) **

 

 

Wednesday 16th July

 

ISM & Star Formation (Chair: Julian Krolik)

 

09.00-09.40 – Christopher McKee (Review): The role of magnetic fields in star formation

09.40-10.20 – Bruce Draine (Review): Heating and cooling processes in the ISM

10.20-10.50 – Edith Falgarone: Intermittency of interstellar turbulence: a new playground for theorists, numericists and observers

10.50-11.10 – Coffee Break

11.10-11.40 – Mark Wardle: Magnetic drift in molecular cloud cores, protoplanetary discs, and the solar chromosphere

11.40-12.10 – Patrick Hennebelle: The issue of early disk formation: is catastrophic braking a catastrophe?

12.10- 12.40 – Mathieu Gounelle: Meteorite evidence for sequential star formation in a hierarchical ISM

12.40-13.00 - Emmanuel Jacquet: Chondrules: our eyes in protoplanetary discs


 ** FREE AFTERNOON**

 

 

Thursday 17th July

 

The Sun (Chair: Eliot Quataert)

 

09.00-0940 – Juri Toomre (Review): Magnetic Wreaths and Dynamo Cycles in Sun-like Stars

09.40-10.10 – Matthew Browning: Instability, magnetism, and differential rotation in fully convective stars

10.10-10.40 – Coffee Break  

10.40-11.10 – Mark Miesch: As the Sun Turns: Differential Rotation and Meridional Circulation in Stellar Convection Zones

11.10-11.40 – James Cho: The Solar Tachocline: a Shallow-Water Perspective

11.40-12.10 – Geoff Vasil: A connection between the MRI and Elastodynamics


12.10-13.40 – Lunch Break

 


Black Hole Accretion (Chair: Jim Stone)

 

13.40-14.20 – Charles Gammie (Review): Recent progress in numerical modeling of accretion flows

14.20-14.50 – Julian Krolik: From MRI Turbulence to Photons

14.50-15.20 – Katherine Blundell: Three modes of mass-loss from the microquasar SS433

15.20-15.45 – Coffee Break 

15.45-16.15 – Omer Blaes: Visualizing MRI turbulence through Compton scattering

16.15-16.35 – Will Potter: An accretion disc instability induced by a temperature sensitive alpha parameter

16.35-17.05 – Mitch Begelman: Hysteresis in Black Hole Binary State Transitions

17.05-17.35 – Marek Abramowicz: Accretion flows very near black holes - slim accretion disks




Friday 18th July

 

Hydrodynamics and Turbulence (Chair: John Papaloizou)

 

08.45-09.15 – Hubert Klahr: Hydrodynamic Stability of Disks

09.15-09.45 – Laurette Tuckerman: Transition to turbulence in Couette and Poiseuille flows

09.45-10.15 – Coffee Break 

10.15-11.00 – Closing remarks – Steven Balbus

 

** Shuttle to Geneva leaves at 12.00 Noon from the conference center **

 

 

 



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